were coated with PMMA and cycled through charges 200，000 times．The PMMA-coated nanowires showed no evidence of damage．The results suggest that batteries could last forever，without losing charging ability．
Thai hopes to continue her research to understand why this gel wors so well and to see if any other gel could create better results and she is enjoying the publicity about her discovery．She said she never epected her research to get media coverage．“It’s ind of cool,”she said．“I'm really glad people are showing interest in my wor and not just in the wor itself，but also in technology and energy．” 32．Why did Mya Le Thai wor on lithium-ion batteries? A．She dislied the batteries for her laptop． B．Her team were assigned to invent a new battery． C．Many people thought batteries were too epensive．
D．The batteries would soon lose the function to charge fully． 33．What can we infer about nanowires?
A．They last only 7,000 charging cycles． B．They are too wea to carry electricity． C．They are not suitable to use in batteries． D．Their thinness is a cause of batteries degrade．
34．What might be Thai and her team’s breathrough? A．Coating nanowires in gel． C．New materials for batteries．
B．A new ind of battery．
D．A new way of charging batteries．
35．What may be the best title for the passage?
A．The options of batteries for wireless devices B．A woman invents a life—long battery.
C．Mya Le Thai discovered Nanowires degrading
第二节 (共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 The modern competitive sport of weightlifting originated in 19-century Europe and was
th
D．The reasons for batteries
included in the first modern Olympic Games in 1896. 36 At that time, simple competitions were held to see who could lift the heaviest weight.
The first worldwide weightlifting championships were held in London in 1891. At that time, there were no female competitors. Today, the World Weightlifting Championships, organied by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), are held every year. 37 .
Weightlifting as an Olympic event got off to an unsmooth start. It was not held as a separate event in the first games held in 1896, but as a field event. 38 The sport returned to the Olympics again in 1904, this time as part of the athletics program. Not until 1920 did weightlifting mae its real Olympic comebac. The 1920 Olympic Games, held in Antwerp, Belgium, mared weightlifting’s debut（首次露面）as a separate event. 39 Previously, weightlifters in the Olympics were all required to compete against each other, regardless of their sie. One-hand lifting was dropped from the sport in 1928. Various weightlifting eercises were added and later removed over many years until 1972. 40 The 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney saw the introduction of the women’s competition, although the IWF has held the World Weightlifting Championships for women since 1987. A. The 1940 and 1944 Games were canceled.
B. It is a sport in which barbells are lifted competitively. C. The 1900 Games had no weightlifting presence at all.
D. The championships include 15 separate weight types for both men and women. E. The 1972 Olympic Games finally presented the weightlifting program in its present form.
F. The sport, however, dates bac to ancient civiliations including China, Egypt and Greece.
G. The Antwerp Games also introduced one-hand lifting and weight divisions to the new event.
第三部分 英语知识运用 （共两节，满分45）
第一节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
Sherry is in her internship now. Last month, she bought a lipstic which she really lied. This lipstic 41 her more than 50 dollars. It's not 42 , but it made her happy, because it was the one that she had been 43 for a long time.
Every morning, when she 44 her maeup, everything seems brand new due to this lipstic. It feels lie that the whole day is full of 45 .
Sherry has long been accustomed to 46 herself through shopping.
And this desire for 47 possession drives her to wor hard. She feels good about this. Her life eeps getting better all because of this ind of 48 .
But her mother thins quite 49 .
Several days ago, Sherry went bac to live with her parents for a while. 50 her mother came to now the price of the lipstic, they ept quarreling for almost a whole day. Her mother thought that it was completely 51 to spend money lie this, while Sherry thought her mother was totally 52 reasoning.
What Sherry didn't now was that this woman standing in front of her had once been a little girl who had grown up in poverty and 53 .That little girl could not find enough clothes to wear in winter. And those little desserts you see 54 the shop windows were 55 from another world for her. That girl needed to learn how to spend every penny 56 it were two so that she could 57 .
It's just natural that two people can't understand each other, even for mother and daughter, because everybody's eperience is different.
Try to be 58 to the people around you. Try to get to now them. Try to stand in their 59 . If you cannot listen to people, how can you 60 them to listen to you?
41. A. too B. spent 42. A. cheap B. epensive
C. cost
D. afford
D. cosy
D. begging
C. handy
43. A. asing for B. longing for for
44. A. puts up B. puts out 45. A. hope B. joy
C. waiting for
C. puts down C. happiness
D. puts on
D. love
46. A. rewarding B. praising C. acnowledging D. admiring C. spirit C. desire C. difficultly
D. treasure D. habit D.
47. A. health B. material 48. A. possession B. lipstic 49. A. apparently B. deliberately differently
50. A. While B. Although
C. After D. Because
51. A. impossible B. immoral C. unpleasant 52. A. about B. beneath C. beyond 53. A. hardship B. comfort starvation
54. A. through B. across 55. A. everything B. anything
D. uncomfortable D. within
D.
C. relief
C. over C. nothing
D. into
D. something
D. even if D. continue
56. A. now that B. as if 57. A. tolerate B. survive 58. A. honest B. loyal 59. A. socs 60. A. epect
C. ever since C. escape C. patient
D. sincere
D. shoes D. as
B. boats B. force
C. sides C. persuade
第II卷（非选择题50分）
第三部分 语言知识运用(共两节;满分45分) 第二节(共10小题;每小题1. 5分, 满分15 分)
阅读下面短文, 在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
From the first day I arrived in unming, I had my understanding of China 61 (change). Far from being narrow-minded and hostile to 62 (foreign) ，people came up to tal to me the first time I went out on the street. It happened to be all in Chinese, so I didn’t understand much, 63 it did cause me to rethin my assumptions.
As my Chinese improved, this continued throughout my stay, from my landlord introducing me to people who could help us learn Chinese, to 64 (get)to now the couple who ran a noodle restaurant nearby.
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