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In the United States, engineering is a profession that has been dominated（支配）historically by men. Even today, it's still true that few women become civil or chemical or mechanical（機械的） engineers, but that's something www.EngineerGirl.org aims to change. Young women who visit the web site can find out about a great career choice they might not have considered.
"Women are very much underrepresented in engineering and in engineering education programs and then of course, down the road, in the engineering workforce. So only about 20 percent of engineering undergraduate degrees go to women, and then only about nine percent of working engineers are women."
Mary Mattis is the National Academy of Engineering, says the EngineerGirl website aims to reach young women around ages 11 through 14, when they are just getting old enough to start thinking about their futures.
"We know from the research that middle-school girls are at a critical（關(guān)鍵的）point in their lives, and that it's a time when we need to reach them, both with an understanding, increasing their awareness of interesting fields in engineering, what a wonderful productive and exciting career you can have as an engineer. But we also need to reach them at that time because you have to take certain courses, and you can't start thinking about taking those courses when you're a junior in high school."
Engineering is a demanding course of study ---there is a lot of science and mathematics, for many girls and even boys, that can be challenging. But Ms. Mattis says that the EngineerGirl website stresses that engineering can also be fun and exciting.
"It's about designing things. It's about changing the world for people. It's about making a difference. And, in addition, you can make a good living, you can be independent economically by becoming an engineer. All of those things are messages that girls need to get."
While most engineers go into traditional fields such as mechanical and electrical engineering, the EngineerGirl site also highlights unusual engineering careers in fields such as sports engineering and --- believe it or not --- chocolate engineering.
"There's a section called 'why be an engineer,' and that talks about the many opportunities and increasingly different opportunities like with bio-engineering and environmental engineering, some fields that might appeal to girls who want to make a difference or have a meaning for their careers beyond earning an income."
Even if you are not a girl in the target age group, there’s a lot of interesting information on the site, including biographies（傳記）of some notable（顯著的）women engineers.
Title : Website（1）______ Girls to learn Engineering

Present （2）_____ for the engineering profession in the USA	The majority of men take up the profession throughout（3） ______, while only a small number of women work as engineers.
（4）_____ of the website	To  make  young  women （5）_____ of interesting  fields  in engineering and what productivity and（6）_____ the career of being engineers can bring them.
（7）_____ of being engineers	* It can be fun and exciting. * It can（8）_____ the world for people. * You can make a good living. * You can gain economic（9）_____ by becoming an            engineer.
Other fields concerning engineering	Various opportunities are talked about like bio-engineering and engineering (10) _____ to sports, and even chocolate

There was a park near my home. But I didn’t go there very often. Many people said there was nothing special. One afternoon I went into the park and found it was really small. I walked quickly because there wasn’t much to see. I walked for some time and found myself standing in front of two paths. 71  I found that the two paths were different from each other.
The left one was wide and clean. There were lots of flowers on both sides of the path. Though the flowers weren’t very beautiful, they made me feel good. I decided to take this path. But wait! I looked at the right one. The path didn’t look nice.  72  Grass grew everywhere. For a long time I couldn’t make up my mind.
  73  It wasn’t nice , but I didn’t want to give up. At last, I came to the end of the path. Ah! There was a small garden there. It was beautiful, perhaps the most beautiful garden I had ever seen.  74  
Many people told me that there was nothing much to see in the park. Now I’d like to tell them that if they had followed the right way, they would have felt differently. But when I told them about what I had seen in the park, they just smiled at me without saying a word. I knew they didn’t believe me. They couldn’t even remember that path because it was so small.
  75  Don’t be afraid to choose a different path. You may get a big surprise!

A．There is nothing that I want to see.

B．It looked like it had not been cleaned for months.

C．After a while a strange feeling made me follow the dirty path.

D．“ Which way should I go?” I asked myself. I looked at one way, then the other.

E. I told them what happened.
F. My trip to the park that day made me understand something about life.
G. There were trees, flowers and chairs. I thought it was the nicest part of the park.

Time spent in a bookshop can be most enjoyable, whether you are a book-lover or merely you are there to buy a book as a present. You may even have entered the shop just to find shelter from a sudden shower. Whatever the reason, you can soon become totally unaware of your surroundings. You soon become engrossed in some book or other, and usually it is only much later that you realise you have spent far too much time there and must dash off to keep some forgotten appointment—without buying a book, of course.
This opportunity to escape the realities of everyday life is, I think, the main attraction of a bookshop. There are not many places where it is possible to do this. You can wander round such places to your heart's content. If it is a good shop, no assistant will disturb you with usual greetings, "Can I help you, sir?" Of course you may want to find out where a particular section is. Then, and only then, are his services necessary. However, when he has led you there, the assistant should retire carefully and look as if he is not interested in selling a single book.
You have to be careful not to be attracted by the variety of books in a bookshop. It is very easy to enter the shop looking for a book on ancient coins and to come out carrying a copy of the latest best-selling novel. This sort of thing can be very dangerous. Apart from running up a huge account, you can waste a great deal of time wandering from section to section.
小題1:.
. Which may not be included in the writer's experiences while he is in a bookshop?

A．Getting relaxed without buying a book.

B．Quarrelling with the shop assistant.

C．Buying other books instead of those he wanted.

D．Forgetting some important appointment.

小題2:.
. What does the writer mean by saying "time spent in a bookshop can be most enjoyable"?

A．You may free yourself from the real life.

B．Reading is free of charge there.

C．There is nobody disturbing you there.

D．You can enter without any certain reason.

小題3:.
What does the underlined wordengrossed most probably mean in the first paragraph?

A．Lost.

B．Forbidden.

C．Puzzled.

D．Impressed.

小題4:.
. The writer wrote the passage in order to ________.

A．suggest a good way of running a bookshop

B．encourage people to do some reading in bookshops

C．share his experience in bookshops

D．give some advice on buying books in a bookshop

One of the most widely accepted, commonly repeated assumptions (假設(shè)) in our culture is that if you exercise, you will lose weight. I exercise all the time, but I still have got fat that hangs over my belt when I sit. Why isn’t all the exercise getting rid of it?
It’s a question many of us could ask. More than 45 million Americans now belong to a health club, up from 23 million in 1993. We spend some $19 billion a year on gym memberships. Of course, some people join and never go. Still, as one major study — the Minnesota Heart Survey — found, more of us at least say we exercise regularly.
And yet obesity (肥胖) figures have risen sharply in the same period: a third of Americans are obese, and another third count as overweight by the Federal Government’s definition. Yes, it’s entirely possible that those of us who regularly go to the gym would weigh even more if we exercised less. But like many other people, I get hungry after I exercise, so I often eat more on the days I work out than on the days I don’t. Could exercise actually be keeping me from losing weight?
The popular belief that exercise is essential for weight control is actually fairly new. As recently as the 1960s, doctors routinely advised against too much exercise, particularly for older adults who could injure themselves. Today doctors encourage even their oldest patients to exercise, which is sound advice for many reasons: People who regularly exercise are at significantly lower risk for all manner of diseases — those of the heart in particular. They less often develop cancer and many other illnesses. But the past few years of obesity research show that the role of exercise in weight loss has been wildly over-evaluated.
“In general, for weight loss, exercise is pretty useless,” says Eric Ravussin, exercise researcher at Louisiana State University. Many recent studies have found that exercise isn’t as important in helping people lose weight as you hear so regularly in gym advertisements or on shows like The Biggest Loser — or from magazines like this one.
小題1: From the passage we learn that ____.

A．some Americans join a health club but never go there

B．the number of overweight people has doubled since 1993

C．more than 45 million Americans now go to the gym regularly

D．Americans waste too much money each year on sports

小題2: According to the passage, exercise ____.

A．has long been believed to be good for older adults

B．is not properly advertised as an effective way to lose weight

C．was first recognized as an effective way to lose weight in the 1960s

D．is less effective in preventing heart disease than what doctors believe

小題3: According to the writer, people might gain weight because ____.

A．they have the habit of going to the gym regularly

B．they eat the same food when they do not exercise

C．they exercise less than required by doctors

D．they eat more after they exercise

小題4: What may be the best title for this passage?

A．Overweight Is Not Good for Your Health

B．Exercise Won’t Make You Thin

C．Gym Is Part of American Lifestyle

D．Obesity Is a Social Problem in America

While drunken driving may be on the decline, traffic safety experts remain puzzled over how to deal with another alcohol related danger: drunken pedestrains.
Pedestrians struck and killed by cars often are extremely drunk. In fact, they are intoxicated(喝醉的) more frequently and with higher blood alcohol levels than drunken drivers who are killed in accidents, various studies have shown. Forty percent of adult pedestrians involved in fatal crashes have a blood alcohol level of at least 0.10 which by law in most states signifies intoxication compared to only 25 percent of drivers in deadly accidents, according to recent federal data.
Some types of pedestrain accidents have been declining nationally, especially those involving children, but the number of adult pedestrians who are drunk when killed in traffic has remained relatively steady at 2500 a year. The total number of pedestrians killed annually in U.S. traffic accidents is at least 7000, or one of every seven highway accidents resulting in death.
“We’re dealing here, we think, with a very severe drinking problem that leads to a severe highway safety problem,” said Richard Blomberg, president of Dunlap and Associates Inc, in Norwalk, Coon.
Blomberg, whose consulting company found a very high rate of alcohol involvement in a controlled study of pedestrian accidents in New Orleans, was among several researchers who spoke on the topic at the annual meeting of the Research council’s Transportation Research Board(TRB)  in Washington in January.
Pedestrian accidents have not received enough attention in the past, according to Kay Colpitts, who chairs the board’s committee on pedestrians. Few methods exist to monitor walking habits, she said, and researchers have been mystified（迷惑不解） about how to prevent disasters.
小題1:Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A．Traffic Safety.	B．Drunken Drivers
C．Drunken Pedestrian Accidents.	D．A Severe Highway Safety Problem.

小題2:Among the causes of walkers’ accidents, the most serious problem is .      

A．long delays in traffic signals that may make people cross streets ignoring traffic rules

B．a(chǎn)lcohol

C．a(chǎn) lack of adult keeping eyes on many children involved in accidents

D．former drunken drivers whose licenses are not allowed to use for a time

小題3:According to recent federal data, drunken drivers with an over 0.10 blood alcohol level in deadly accidents .      

A．a(chǎn)re 15 percent less than drunken adult walkers with the same level

B．a(chǎn)re 2500 a year

C．a(chǎn)re at least 7000 in US traffic accidents

D．make up one seventh of highway accidents

小題4:According to the passage, what is Blomberg?

A．A researcher.

B．A specialist in traffic safety.

C．A clerk of a consulting company.

D．A government official

On the day Apple debuted the often-delayed white-colored iPhone 4, the company's marketing department gave a nod to the product's troubled history．
"Finally．" read the big headline Thursday above a picture of the white phone on the homepage of Apple．com．
The white model was supposed to ship alongside the black one at the iPhone 4's launch（推出） last June．But design and manufacturing complications delayed the process by 10 months, catching Apple off guard, executives say．
As CNN reported last month, earlier test models of the white iPhone 4 produced unclear photos, especially when the flash（閃光燈） was used．Its whiteness confused the proximity sensor （距離傳感器） , which detects when the phone is held next to someone's head and turns off the touch screen to save battery life．
These problems weren't present in older iPhones that came in white because they didn't have flash photography; the proximity sensor was unaffected because the front side of previous models was black．
"We thought we were there a year ago, or less than that, when we launched the iPhone 4, and we weren't," Philip Schiller, Apple's chief marketing executive, said in an interview．"It's not as simple as making something white．There's a lot more that goes into both the material science of it —how it holds up over time…but also in how it all works with the sensors．"
Ticonderoga Securities analyst Brian White predicts that the white model could help drive sales of Apple's phones．He says Apple could sell 1 million to 1．5 million every three months until the next iPhone model is unveiled, which is expected to be this fall．
Forty-five people were lined up at Apple's flagship New York store Thursday morning to buy white iPhones, according to a CNN Money report．
小題1:The reason why white-colored iPhone 4 was delayed by 10 months is that _______．

A．it's always sold out due to its popularity

B．it met some problems concerning design and manufacture

C．it lacked white manufacturing materials

D．its proximity sensor can't save battery life

小題2:According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?

A．There are multi-colored models of iPhone 4．

B．The same design problems were also found in older white iPhones．

C．IPhone4 will be launched this fall．

D．Originally designers thought they could solve the problems before iPhone 4 was launched．

小題3:What would be the best title for this passage?

A．Why the White iPhone 4 Took So Long

B．The History of iPhone 4

C．The Attraction of White iPhone 4

D．The Design and Manufacture of iPhone 4

It is commonly believed that school is where people go to get education.  21 , it has been said that today children  22 their education to go to school. The   23 between schooling and education suggested by this is important.
Education is   24 , compared with schooling. Education has no  25 . It can take place  26 , whether in the shower or on the bus, whether in a kitchen or on a tractor. It includes both the  27 learning that takes place in schools and the whole universe of learning out of class.
  28 the experience of schooling can be known in advance, education quite often produces  29 . A chance talk with a   30  may lead to a person to discover how  31 he knows of another country. People obtain education from  32 on. Education,  33 ,is a very  34 and unlimited term. It is lifelong experience that starts long  35 the start of school, and one that should be a necessary part of one’s entire life.
Schooling, on the other hand, is a   36 experience, whose style changes  37 from one way to the next. Throughout a country, children arrive at school at the same time, take  38 seats, use similar textbooks, do homework ,and    39 ,and so on. Schooling has usually been  40 by the edges of the subjects being taught.
小題1:..

A．Then

B．However

C．Thus

D．Therefore

小題2:.

A．understand

B．need

C．enjoy

D．interrupt

小題3:.

A．difference

B．importance

C．use

D．problem

小題4:.

A．unexpected

B．endless

C．countless

D．simple

小題5:.

A．a(chǎn)nswers

B．ways

C．edges

D．meanings

小題6:.

A．a(chǎn)nywhere

B．a(chǎn)nywhere else

C．some where

D．somewhere else

小題7:..

A．part-time

B．public

C．standard

D．strict

小題8:.

A．If

B．Because

C．So

D．Though

小題9:..

A．pride

B．surprises

C．knowledge

D．progress

小題10:..

A．neighbor

B．friend

C．foreigner

D．teacher

小題11:.

A．wonderfully

B．well

C．greatly

D．little

小題12:..

A．babies

B．grown-ups

C．women

D．men

小題13:..

A．still

B．next

C．then

D．yet

小題14:..

A．long

B．broad

C．narrow

D．short

小題15:..

A．that

B．when

C．a(chǎn)fter

D．before

小題16:..

A．basic

B．strict

C．final

D．irregular

小題17:..

A．unusually

B．differently

C．little

D．frequently

小題18:.

A．large

B．new

C．fixed

D．small

小題19:.

A．take exams

B．hold exams

C．mark papers

D．read papers

小題20:.

A．changed

B．limited

C．chosen

D．controlled

Water and its importance to human life were the centre of the world’s attention last week. March 22 was World Water Day and   36   the theme “Water for Life”.
There are more than one billion people in the world who live without   37  drinking water. The United Nations   38   to cut this number in half by 2015.
Solving such a big problem seems like a(n)   39  challenge. But everyone,   40    teenagers, can do something to help. A teenage girl in the US has set an example to the   41 of her age around the world.
Rene Haggerty, 13, was awarded the 2004 Gloria Barron Prize for her work—   42    discarded(廢棄的) batteries（電池）which pollute water.
In 2003, Haggerty went on a field trip to the Great Lakes Science Centre in Ohio. There she saw an exhibit about how   43  in old batteries harm the water of Lake Erie.
Haggerty learnt that   44   the batteries was an easy solution. “I think everybody can do it, because everyone     45     batteries, and it can make a big difference.” With these words, she began to   46     awareness in her area.
She   47   her county government and school board. She got permission to start a recycling programme in schools   48   the public library, hospital, and churches. With the help from her family, friends and local waste-management  49  , she gathered containers, arranged transportation, and made a(n)   50  video.
Over the past two years, she collected four tons of batteries and drew the attention of officials, who were in charge of a battery recycling programme but had made   51   progress.
When asked   52   she feels like a hero, Haggerty is quite __53 . “Not really. Well, maybe for the fish I saved!”
Every year the Gloria Barron Prize is   54  to young Americans aged 8 to 18 who have shown leadership and courage in   55   the public and the planet. Each year ten winners receive US $ 2,000 each, to help with their education costs or their public service work.
小題1:..

A．had

B．gave

C．wrote

D．discussed

小題2:.

A．enough

B．safe

C．much

D．polluted

小題3:..

A．a(chǎn)sks

B．orders

C．hopes

D．ensures

小題4:..

A．good

B．strong

C．important

D．unreal

小題5:.

A．especially

B．sometimes

C．even

D．seldom

小題6:.

A．boys

B．others

C．students

D．grown-ups

小題7:.

A．collecting

B．selling

C．buying

D．using

小題8:.

A．things

B．chemicals

C．water

D．a(chǎn)ir

小題9:.

A．making

B．recycling

C．reducing

D．handling

小題10:..

A．uses

B．has

C．throws

D．needs

小題11:..

A．tell

B．increase

C．spread

D．inform

小題12:..

A．talked to

B．listened to

C．heard from

D．thought about

小題13:..

A．a(chǎn)nd

B．besides

C．a(chǎn)s well as

D．a(chǎn)s good as

小題14:..

A．officials

B．workers

C．clerks

D．experts

小題15:.

A．industrial

B．a(chǎn)gricultural

C．scientific

D．educational

小題16:..

A．much

B．no

C．some

D．little

小題17:.

A．if

B．how

C．when

D．why

小題18:.

A．proud

B．glad

C．modest

D．worried

小題19:.

A．praises

B．helps

C．supports

D．honors

小題20:.

A．a(chǎn)warding

B．saving

C．serving

D．favoring

  Annealing is a way of making metal softer by heating it and then letting it cool very slowly. If metal is heated and then cooled very quickly, for example by dipping (浸) it in water, it will be very hard but also very brittle (脆) —that is , it will break easily. Metal that has been annealed is soft but does not break as easily. It is possible to make metal as hard or as soft as is wished, by annealing it. The metal is heated, and allowed to cool slowly for a certain length of time. The longer the heated metal takes to cool slowly, the softer it becomes. Annealing can also be used on other materials, such as glass.
小題1: Annealing can make metal      

A．hard and tough (韌).	B．hard but brittle.
C．soft but tough.	D．soft and brittle.

小題2:Why do people put hot metal in water?

A．To make it hard.	B．To make it soft.
C．To make it cool.	D．To make it brittle.

小題3:As suggested by the text, how can glass be made less brittle?

A．It can be heated and then cooled quickly.

B．It can be cooled and then heated slowly.

C．It can be heated and then cooled slowly.

D．It can be cooled and then heated quickly.

Temperature is measured by means of a thermometer (溫度計). One general form of thermometer depends upon the fact that most solids and liquids expand as their temperature rises. There are one or two exceptions. There is, for instance, a kind of steel called invar (from “invariable”) which does not change its dimensions as temperature changes; it is valuable for making pendulums (鐘擺), since, if the length of a pendulum changes, its time of vibration changes. It is also used for making very accurate measuring scales. In both cases, then, changes of atmospheric temperature have no effect if invar is used.
Another exception is that very odd liquid, water, which has many strange properties (特性). As water gets colder it contracts (收縮), which is ordinary behavior, until it reaches the temperature of 30℃. above freezing point. After that, as it gets colder, it expands. This is fortunate---for considering the freezing of a pond. As the water on top gets colder, it shrinks; and so, volume for volume, it becomes heavier and sinks. This goes on until all the pond is at 30℃, but after that, as the water becomes colder it expands. Therefore the colder water stays on top and freezes, covering the pond with ice. If the water went on contracting down to the freezing point, the pond would become a solid block of ice in the end. This would not worry people who live in hot climates, but it would be very serious for those who live in cold climates, especially for those who want to break the ice and catch fish which live in the cold water beneath.
小題1: Invar is valuable for making pendulums because _______.

A．it can hardly change its shape or size as temperature changes.

B．it will change its dimensions without the change of temperature.

C．its time of vibration doesn’t change if its length changes.

D．its time of vibration does not change if its length changes.

小題2: As water gets colder after reaching the temperature of 30℃. it will _______.

A．contract

B．shrink

C．expand

D．freeze

小題3: Which of the following statements is true, according to this passage?

A．Only invar can be used to make a thermometer.

B．Only water can be used to make a thermometer.

C．Both invar and water can be used to make a thermometer.

D．Neither invar nor water can be used to make a thermometer.

小題4:The best title of this passage is most likely to be  _____.

A．Temperature Measurement	B．Two Exceptions
C．Uses of Invar	D．Properties of Water