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  • ID:9121-12429

    Parkour participators ______.
    A. aim to exploit their potential strength B. move the longest distance they can endure
    C. practice prescriptive movements D. choose different paths to the What can we learn from the passage?
    A. Participators believe long-term effective practice can help avoid injuries.
    B. Beginners should train their endurance above all.
    C. To parkour participators, speed is much more important than safety.
    D. Large drops is the most difficult techniques of parkour.

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  • ID:9121-13206
    Passage 1
    Scientists have identified the elephants that live on the island of Borneo in Malaysia as separate from other Asian elephants. The group Worldwide Fund for Nature, or W-W-F, announced the finding. This follows genetic tests on waste from Borneo's Pygmy Elephants(婆罗州矮象), as they are called.
    The Sabah Wildlife Department in Malaysia permitted researchers to collect droppings from forests on Borneo. They sent the material to Columbia University in New York City. There, the Department of Evolution and Environmental Biology carried out the tests.
    Scientists compared the DNA to the genes of elephants that live in mainland Malaysia and in Sri Lanka, India and other Asian countries. The research shows that Borneo elephants were separated from other Asian elephants about three-hundred-thousand years ago. Some differences are easy to see. The Borneo elephants are smaller than other elephants. Their ears and tails make up a larger part of their bodies. And their tusks (象牙) are straighter. Also, the chairman of the W-W-F program in Malaysia says the Borneo elephants are gentler compared to other Asian elephants.
    The group says the test results mean that the pygmy elephants of Borneo should be treated as their own kind. It says the elephants should not be permitted to reproduce with other Asian elephants. It says there should also be research into the reproductive rates of the Borneo elephants and survival of their young. The nature group notes a long-standing dispute about where the Borneo elephants came from. One theory is that their ancestors were gifts from the British East India Company to the Sultan of Sulu in the seventeenth century. The scientists, however, say the new findings reject the argument that humans brought the elephants to the island.
    The other theory is that the elephants could remain from a native population that traveled between Borneo and Sumatra. During the ice ages, more than ten-thousand years ago, sea levels were much lower. Land sometimes linked the two islands. The elephants could have been trapped on Borneo after the water rose again.

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  • ID:9121-12423


    TEXT B
    Cultural norms so completely surround people, so permeate thought and action that we never recognize the assumptions on which their lives and their sanity rest. As one observer put it, if birds were suddenly endowed with scientific curiosity they might examine many things, but the sky itself would be overlooked as a suitable subject; if fish were to become curious about the world, it would never occur to them to begin by investigating water. For birds and fish would take the sky and sea for granted, unaware of their profound influence because they comprise the medium for every fact. Human beings, in a similarly way, occupy a symbolic universe governed by codes that are unconsciously acquired and automatically employed. So much so that they rarely notice that the ways they interpret and talk about events are distinctively different from the ways people conduct their affairs in other cultures.
    As long as people remain blind to the sources of their meanings, they are imprisoned within them. These cultural frames of reference are no less confining simply because they cannot be seen or touched. Whether it is an individual neurosis that keeps an individual out of contact with his neighbors, or a collective neurosis that separates neighbors of different cultures, both are forms of blindness that limit what can be experienced and what can be learned from others.
    It would seem that everywhere people would desire to break out of the boundaries of their own experiential worlds. Their ability to react sensitively to a wider spectrum of events and peoples requires an overcoming of such cultural parochialism. But, in fact, few attain this broader vision. Some, of course, have little opportunity for wider cultural experience, though this condition should change as the movement of people accelerates. Others do not try to widen their experience because they prefer the old and familiar, seek from their affairs only further confirmation of the correctness of their own values. Still others recoil from such experiences because they feel it dangerous to probe too deeply into the personal or cultural unconscious. Exposure may reveal how tenuous and arbitrary many cultural norms are; such exposure might force people to acquire new bases for interpreting events. And even for the many who do seek actively to enlarge the variety of human beings with whom they are capable of communicating there are still difficulties.
    Cultural myopia persists not merely because of inertia and habit, but chiefly because it is so difficult to overcome. One acquires a personality and a culture in childhood, long before he is capable of comprehending either of them. To survive, each person masters the perceptual orientations, cognitive biases, and communicative habits of his own culture. But once mastered, objective assessment of these same processes is awkward, since the same mechanisms that are being evaluated must be used in making the evaluations.




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  • ID:9121-12843
    Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select 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 select the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
    Are we fated to repeat the past because our memories are too short? Wasn’t World War II supposed to provide a(n) (51) ______ that would end all wars? Why are we still fighting? As people around the world (52) ________ the agonies of war, is it possible to even hope for a brighter tomorrow?
    A recent study revealed that the (53) ______ of wars in the world is actually decreasing. I hardly believe this means we (54) ________ historic praise for greater understanding of our fellow men. While the number of traditional wars may have (55) _______ slightly, acts of violence around the globe are on the increase.
    The end of World War II left us with an opportunity (56) _______ seen throughout history—to start over. But, instead of seizing that opportunity and (57) ______ the safety and well-being of all peoples, rich nations took advantage of the poor. We cannot continue with the (58) _______ that our actions in other parts of the world are without (59) _______ at home. If we do so, the (60) _______ efforts of the soldiers of World War II will have been a waste. We will simply repeat the wars of the past.

    Word Bank

    A. assumption B. accepting C. guaranteeing D. assure E. heroic

    F. consequences G. rarely H. endure I. persisted J. deserve

    K. decline L. shrink M. quantity N. desire O. resolution

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  • ID:9121-12202
    Wherever they are now, black people are descended from Africans, but over the centuries their genetic heritage has become diversified and complicated because of various reasons.

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  • ID:9121-13122
    _________ through a telescope (望远镜), the most prominent parts of the Martian surface are the white polar (极地的) caps.

    A. Seeing B. When seeing C. Seen D. Having seen



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