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Section A

Directions:In this section,there is a passage with ten blanks.You are required to 0select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage.Read the passage through carefully before making your choices.Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter.Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.

Theres no question that the Earth is getting hotter. The real questions are: How much of the warming is our fault, and are we 47 to slow the devastation by controlling our insatiable 48 for fossil fuels?

Global warming can seem too 49 to worry about, or too uncertain¡ªsomething projected by the same computer 50 that often cant get next weeks weather right. On a raw winter day you might think that a few degrees of warming wouldnt be such a bad thing anyway. And no doubt about it: Warnings about 51 change can sound like an environmentalist scare tactic, meant to force us out of our cars and restrict our lifestyles.

Comforting thoughts, perhaps. Unfortunately, however, the Earth has some discomforting news.

From Alaska to the snowy peaks of the Andes the world is heating up right now, and fast. Globally, the 52 is up 1¡ãF over the past century, but some of the coldest, most remote spots have warmed much more. The results arent pretty. Ice is 53 , rivers are running dry, and coasts are 54 , threatening communities.

The 55 are happening largely out of sight. But they shouldnt be out of mind, because they are omens of whats in store for the56 of the planet.

A. remote B. techniques C. consisting D. restE. willing

F. climate G. skill H. appetite I. melting J. vanishing

K. eroding L. temperature M. curiosity N. changes O. skillful

Section B

Directions:There are 2 passages in this section.Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements.For each of them there are four choices marked A£©,B£©,C£© and D£© .You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.

Passage One

Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.

My fathers reaction to the bank building at 43rd Street and Fifth Avenue in New York city was immediate and definite: ¡°You won¬ðt catch me putting my money in there!¡± he declared, ¡°Not in that glass box!¡±

Of course, my father is a gentleman of the old school, a member of the generation to whom a good deal of modern architecture is upsetting, but I am convinced that his negative response was not so much to the architecture as to a violation of his concept of the nature of money.

In his generation money was thought of as a real commodity£¨ÊµÎ that could be carried, or stolen. Consequently, to attract the cust

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