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Thirty years ago, when the movie version of my novel Jaw was published, few people including me knew very much about great white sharks. For hundreds of generations, we humans have been taught to fear and hate sharks, and the movie touched a nerve of horror.
Now something long thought impossible has happened. A great white shark was successfully held in capacity for several months. In August last year a very young female great white shark was caught accidentally in a fisherman's net off Huntington Beach, California, and then kept in an ocean pen (欄柵) for 25 days. After being moved to the Monterey Bay Aquarium (水族館), she grew well in the million-gallon Outer Bay Exhibit. She was so lovely that people all liked her very much. Perhaps she was too young to understand that the big tank was not her natural environment, because she didn't hit her head against the walls in an attempt to swim away as others of her kind have done. And she began to feed almost immediately on small fish offered to her on a pole. In the months that followed, the shark suffered no serious injuries, caught no diseases, and grew noticeably larger, breaking all records for great white sharks in capacity. The longest that any other great white shark had been held was 16 days.
Until February 23, that is, when she hit and killed a soup fin shark (翅鯊) , as she grew bigger and her behavior grew more aggressive, officials at the Aquarium knew the time had come. On March 31, after 198 days in the aquarium, the great white shark was released into the Pacific.
Scientists still have a lot to learn about sharks, especially great white sharks which are now considered to be in danger. Scientists do know that sharks are necessary to ocean health. Remove any significant animal from the sea food chain and you will risk destroying the balance of nature.
72. We can see that in the film Jaw the shark was once described as______.
A. a pet of children       B. a horror to human beings
C. a friend of the aged D. a guard of its owner
73. Different from the others of her kind, the young female great white shark was somewhat _____in the beginning.
A. terrible and dangerous      B. fierce and cruel  C. loyal and friendly    D. gentle and lovely
74. By saying that "officials at the aquarium knew the time had come", the writer probably means that the female great white shark______.
A. had to be killed    B. escaped from the big tank
C. had to be set free         D. began to hit and kill other animals
75. What conclusion can be drawn from the text?
A. We should protect great white sharks as well as other ocean animals.
B. The female great white shark will be attacked by some other animals.
C. Great white sharks are becoming more and more
D. We should kill the enemies of white sharks in the oceans.
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27. A. problem          B. doubt         C. trouble            D. mistake
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38. A. came          B. going         C. moving           D. coming
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46. A. tightly         B. closely          C tight            D. close
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37. A. happenings          B. hearings            C. experiences        D. affairs
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39. A. job                            B. problem            C. pleasure            D. duty
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45. A. Since                  B. Until                 C. After                 D. As
46. A. attitude               B. decision            C. chance                 D. opinion
47. A. position                 B. reason               C. right                 D. time
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Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He stopped by the fence in front of the house where he lived with his aunt Polly. He looked at it, and all joy left him. The fence was long and high. He put the brush into the whitewash and moved it along the top of the fence. He repeated the operation. He felt he could not continue and sat down.
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Tom went on whitewashing. He did not look at Ben. Ben stared a moment and then said: "Hello! I’m going swimming, but you can’t go, can you?”
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Ben said, "Hello, old fellow, you’ve got to work, hey?"
Tom turned suddenly and said, "Why, it's you, Ben! I wasn't noticing."
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Tom looked at the boy a bit, and said "What do you call work?"
"Why, isn't that work?"
Tom went back to his whitewashing, and answered casually,
"Well, maybe it is, and maybe it isn't. All I know is, it suits Tom Sawyer."
"Oh come, now, you don't mean to say that you like it?"
The brush continued to move.
"Like it? Well, I don't see why I shouldn’t like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?" Ben stopped eating his apple. Tom moved his brush back and forth, stepped back to look at the result, added a touch here and there, and stepped back again. Ben watched every move and got more and more interested. Soon he said,
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"No — is that so? Oh come, now —let me just try. Only just a little."
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"Oh, I'll be careful. Now let me try. Say -- I'll give you the core(核心)of my apple."
"Well, here — No, Ben, now don't. I'm afraid —"
"I'll give you all of it."
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B. Tom had a lot of friends who are ready to help others.
C. Tom was unwilling to whitewash the fence, but he managed to let other boys do it for him
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B.He has set up the charity with his wife Melinda.
C.He has decided to step down from his post.
D.More than 90 percent of computers in the world run on Microsoft Windows.
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A.Bill Gates.                    B.Melinda Gates.
C.Bill Gates and his wife.        D.Bill Gates and Steve Balmer.
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On Christmas morning,we were excited for Almie to open the little heart-shaped package with the beautiful red and white clay bike and the note.Finally,she opened it and read the note aloud.“Does this mean that I trade in this bike that Daddy made me for a real one?”Beaming,I said,“Yes.”Almie had tears in her eyes when she replied.“I could never trade in this beautiful bicycle that Daddy made me.I’d rather keep this than get a real bike.”At that moment,we would have moved heaven and earth to buy her every bicycle on the planet!
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b.The girl opened the little heart-shaped package.   
c.The parents bought the girl a modern and popular doll.   
d.The father made the girl a bike with clay.
e.The girl would rather keep the clay bike than get a real one.
A  a, b, c ,e d  B a, c, d, b, e  C.a(chǎn),c,b,d,e    D.a(chǎn),b,d,e,e
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A.The parents wanted the girl to have the clay bike forever.
B.Tears were in the girl’s eyes because she didn’t like the present at all.
C.The girl never lost her desire for a bike.
D.The parents paid little attention to the daughter’s desire for a bike.
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B.Because he didn’t want to disappoint his daughter.
C.Because he thought his daughter would like it.
D.Because he wanted to give his daughter a surprise.
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A.The parents were happy and encouraged.
    B.The parents felt comfortable and relaxed.
C.The parents were moved and felt proud of the girl.   
D.The parents felt disappointed and sorry for the girl.

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51.You run a billboard advertising business you inherited(繼承) from your father, and you are looking to expand in new directions. What do you do ?
52. You are a successful talk-show host, and have just achieved national recognition(認可). You want more control over your show, and a greater share of its profits. What do you do?
53. You are still in college, but together with a friend you have established a software company that deals with major corporations. What do you do?
54. You are a successful business analyst(分析師), and come to think that the mail-order business model could be adapted to online book sales. What do you do?
55. You own several highly profitable waste-collection routes. The government has recently issued the Solid Waste Disposal Act, increasing standards of hygiene(衛(wèi)生) in waste disposal. What do you do?

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