A. Drying the olives under the sun. B. Separating the oil from the water. C. Separating the liquid from the solids. D. Pressing the whole olives into pieces.
49. Which use of olive oil is NOT mentioned in the passage? A. Paint.
B. Medicine.
C. Money.
D. Soap.
50. Why does the author include information about several studies of olive oil? A. To give reasons why olive oil is similar to medicine. B. To show how the biology of Mediterranean people is special. C. To explain the growing interest in olive oil around the world. D. To prove that olive oil is more important for women than for men. 51. What is the passage mainly about?
A. Discussing olive oil production outside the Mediterranean area. B. Explaining the history, production, benefits, and use of olive oil. C. Showing why olive oil is produced around the Mediterranean Sea. D. Comparing Mediterranean olive oil with that produced in other places.
D
Recently some articles state that the word ‘‘selfie” has become one of the most annoying words. But I’d like to offer that maybe it is not so bad. The “selfie” is used to describe the self-taken photo, often from a smartphone. Women and men decorate their Facebook, Twitter, and
selfie
Instagram accounts with these pictures, sometimes with puckered (翘起) lips or large smiles. In fact, the selfie has become so widely known that over 31 million photos on Instagram are taken with the selfie.
Let’s think about it. Someone takes about 10 selfies each time they do, and they only end up posting one or two of those. They pick the one that makes them look the best. Isn’t that beautiful? In that one picture, someone has given himself or herself confidence. Self-image is important. In society today, we are so often consumed with what society tells us is perfect. But maybe, with that one selfie, we feel that we fit that bill. We feel handsome, beautiful, confident, smart, happy and content. For that moment, everything bad or terrible that has ever happened to us is erased,
because that smile or that pucker is what gives us the determination to love ourselves.
I saw a spoken word poem recently and the young man said: If I ask you what you love, the answers will most likely roll off your tongue. You love to read. You love to write. You love birds, music, your mom, your brother, your sister, your daughter, your best friend, your dog. How long do you think you could go on and on before you said “I love myself”?
That statement hit me like a ton of bricks. I’ve struggled with confidence all of my life. I still do. And in no way am I saying that taking a selfie is a gateway to that confidence. However, the selfie does deserve some credit for allowing individuals to express themselves. Pamela Rutledge agrees, stating, “There are many more photographs available now of real people than models.” 52. According to the author, selfie ______. A. is an annoying habit for people C. gives a person a sense of confidence
B. becomes a fashion among teenagers D. makes a person become self-centered
53. The author mentions a poem in the passage to stress ______. A. the power of true love C. the kinds of love we have
B. the endless love we get D. the need to love ourselves
54. What Pamela Rutledge said in the last paragraph suggests that ______. A. selfie causes models to be out of work B. selfie gets models to take more photos C. selfie helps more people look like models D. selfie provides more photos of real people 55. The best title for the passage is ______. A. The Value of Selfie C. Selfie Causes Bad Effects
第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，共10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的七个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。
Driving with GPS Can Cause Difficulties
Global Positioning System (GPS) is now a part of everyday driving in many countries. It is a space-based system that provides position and time information in all weather conditions. GPS can
B. The Origin of Selfie D. Selfie Creates Beauty
help people get to where they want to go. ___56___ When this happens, the driver is often to blame. Sometimes a GPS error is responsible. Most often, it is a combination of the two.
___57___ Barry Brown, a GPS technologist, took an incident as an example. His friend once flew to an airport in the eastern United States. There he borrowed a GPS-equipped car to use. He wrongly plugged in the home address in the west. It wasn’t until he was driving for thirty minutes that he realized it. Mr. Brown says this is a common human error. But he says, “One problem is that GPS has a very small screen and it can just tell you the next turn. ___58___”
“The Normal and Natural Troubles of Driving with GPS” lists several areas where GPS can cause difficulties. They include maps that are outdated, incorrect or difficult to understand. ___59___ GPS may fail due to these reasons and then lead to confusion for the drivers.
Although GPS sometimes causes difficulties when people are driving, the most attractive point of this system is its 100% coverage on the planet. It is important for you to have to know what you are doing when you use GPS. You need to have the “ability” to be able to use GPS because it sometimes goes wrong. ___60___
A. There are quite a few situations showing the problems of using GPS. B. That means that it is not really telling you about going to the wrong place. C. This space-based system is an important tool for civil and commercial users. D. But sometimes it sends you to the wrong place or leaves you completely lost. E. They also contain timing problems related to when GPS commands are given. F. Advances in technology play an active role in modernizing GPS in many ways. G. To make GPS well used, you need a good understanding of how drivers and GPS work. 第三节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，共15分）
Read the following passage and then answer the questions. 阅读文章并回答问题。
Space Tourists
Saturday 28 April, 2001: Dennis Tito was setting off on his holiday. “So what?” you might think. Well, Mr. Tito’s journey was certainly unusual! So was the transport he chose, and the price of his trip.
The 60-year-old millionaire from New York was sitting on board a Russian spaceship. He was on a journey to the International Space Station. It might have been a routine trip for the two Russian astronauts who were travelling with him, but for him it was certainly no ordinary journey.
Dennis Tito was the first tourist ever in space, and he had paid $20 million to go there. As the spacecraft left the earth’s atmosphere, Tito drank a glass of fruit juice to celebrate and looked down at the earth’s blue-green surface. Two minutes later, he was sick. Luckily it was only a minor problem. He soon recovered, and from then on enjoyed a smooth journey. When he arrived at the space station, there was a big smile on his face. “A great trip!” he commented. “I love space.”
For a long time space travel was something for heroes. But if some people are right, all this is going to change. One of them is Charles Miller, Director of a company called ProSpace. They are investing1 large amounts of money in space travel. “Tito’s adventure was just the beginning. We’re going to see exciting new things in the next twenty years!” Charles Miller says.
Companies like ProSpace want space and space travel to belong to the public, not just governments. There are other future plans, like cruises2 through space from one side of the world to the other. Maybe we will be able to leave from New York at nine o’clock in the morning, and arrive in Tokyo an hour later! Such a schedule would allow the business traveller to return to New York on the same day, and still have eight hours for a meeting! How’s that for speed?
1. invest: to spend money in order to make something succeed 2. cruise: journey
Questions 61 to 65. Judge if the following statements agree with the information given in the passage. Choose A for TRUE if the statements agree with it; choose B for FALSE if the statements don’t agree with it; choose C for NOT GIVEN if the information the statements carry is not mentioned anywhere in the passage．根据文章内容判断下列表述。如果表述与文章内容一致，选A项；表述与文章内容不一致，选B项；文章中未提及表述的信息，则选C项。 61. Mr. Tito started an ordinary journey in April, 2001. 62. It cost Mr. Tito a lot of money to go to the space station.
63. Mr. Tito really enjoyed his journey although he had a health problem at first. 64. Many tourists have been to space since 2001.
65. ProSpace doesn’t want space travel to belong to governments.
Questions 66 to 69. Match the following words with their meanings in the passage. Note that there are two choices more than you need. 判断下列词汇在文章中的含义，并从表格中选择恰
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