The chemical structure of water makes an excellent medium for life.

All that are needed for life on board comes from the ocean.

By taking the scientific developments of his day one step further, Jules Verne lay the foundation of modern science fiction.

 They all share the spirit of creativity and scientific skill that have make Zhongguancun success.

There are three types of student visas: F-1 (Student Visa), J-1 (Exchange Visitor Visa), M-1( Nonacademic Trade Schools).

Of these, the F-1 and the J-1 are the most common for international students. The J-1 visa obligates (強制) the student to return to their hime country for a minimun of two years after the end of their studied in the US.

The B-2 visa(Tourist Visa) is not considered a student visa for full time study. As a general rule, if you intend to enter the US as a student, you should get a F-1 or J-1 visa.

To get a visa approved, you will need to show that you have enough funds to pay for the first year of study and that you have resources available to cover the rest of your educational program. The information you provide on the I-20 form (F-1) or IAP-66 form (J-1) will be examined very carefully by both the foreign student adviser at the school and the INS. If you don't have the resources necessary for study in the US, you will not get a visa.

If the foreign student adviser believes you have the resources necessary for study in the US, he or she will send you a Form I-20 (Certificate of Eligibility for Non-immigrant (F-1) Student Status). You will need to submit (遞交) this form with your application for a student visa to the American embassy (大使館).

If your education will be sponsored （贊助）by a US citizen (e.g., a relative), the relative will need to fill out a Form I-134 (Affidavit of Support) .This form requires them to pay your expenses if you can not. A form I-134 filled by someone who is not a relative does not count as much as a Form I-134 filled by a relative.

76. What is the best title for the passage?

       A. Easy to Get your Visa            

       B. Visa Information

C. Enough Funds for Visa Application

D. Importance to Get a Relative in the US

77. If you want to get F-1 visa, you have to fill out ________.

       A. the IAP -66 Form            B. the I-134 Form

C. the I-20 Form                 D. none of the above

78. If you want to pay a short visit to the States, you should get a ________.

       A. F-1 visa                  B. M-1 visa           C. B-2 visa           D.J-1 visa

79. To get a student visa approved, you have to prove that ________.

       A. you have enough money for your study

B. you have the ability to work there

C. you have enough funds for one year

D. your sponsor will support your study for one year

80. From the last sentence, we can infer that ________.

       A. The person applying for the visa can also fill out the sponsor form

B. Non-relatives are more important in getting a visa.

C. The government thinks relatives are more reliable to act as a guarantee

D. relatives are not allowed to ask someone else to fill out the form

The journey two naval (海軍的) officers made some time ago to the very deepest point on the earth makes us realize how much of the world still remains to be explored. The two men went down seven miles to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean inside a small steel ball called a “bathyscaphe” (探海球) to find out if there are any ocean currents or sings of life.

It was necessary to set out early, so that the “bathyscaphe” would come to the surface in daylight, and so be easily found by the mother ship which would be waiting for it. The drivers began preparations at dawn and soon afterwards, when all was ready, the steel ball disappeared under the surface of the water.

In time, the temperature dropped to freezing-point and the men trembled (顫抖) inside the ball. They kept in touch with the mother ship by telephone describing how they felt. Then, at a depth of 3,000 feet, the men were surprised by a sudden, loud noise, even the smallest hole in the ball would have meant instant （立即的）death. Luckily, though, it was only one of the outer windows that had broken. Soon afterwards, the “bathyscaphe” touched the soft ocean floor raising a big cloud of “dust” made up of different kinds of small, dead sea animals. Here, powerful lights lit up the dark water and the men were surprised to see fish swimming just above them quite uncontrolled by the very large water-pressure. But they did not dare to leave the lights on for long, as the heat from them made the water boil. Quite unexpectedly, the telephone began working again and the weak but clear voices of the officers wre heard on the mother ship. After a stay of thirty minutes the men began their journey up, arriving three hours later, cold and wet through, but none the worse for their experience.

71. The officers started their journey at dawn ________.

       A. because they could return in 24 hours

B. because the sea was calm then

C. when the sun was not strong

D. so that they could return before dark

72. What did the officers find out at the bottom of the sea?

       A. Different dead sea animals .           B. Signs of life.

C. Nothing but a big cloud                 D. Only dust.

73. The journey to the bottom of the sea helped us to realize that ________.

       A. much of the world hasn't yet been explored

B. there are not any sings of life at the bottom of the sea

C. strong water-pressure has great effect on fish

D. powerful lights cannot be turned on at the ocean floor

74. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined part?

A. They were cold and wet through ,which was the worst thing at all.

B. They were even worse than cold and wet through at the bottom of the sea.

C. Considering what they had just experienced, being cold and wet through was even better.

D. For such an experience, being cold and wet through was not bad for them at all.

75. The best title for his passage might be ________.

       A. The invention of a “bathyscaphe”

B. Two naval officers should be awarded

C. The adventure to the bottom of the ocean

D. The ocean floor is soft and dusty

Since the beginning of time, man has been interested in the moon. The Romans designed a special day to show admiration and respect to the moon. They called it “Moonday”, or “Monday”, as we know it today. Later, the great mind of Leonardo da Vinci studied the moon and designed a machine to carry a human to the moon. Leonardo said that one day a great machine bird would take a person to the moon and bring great honour to the home where it was born.

Four and a half centuries later, Leonardo’s idea was realized. Apollo II took three Americans―Collins, Aldrin, and Armstrong―to the moon. The mission (任務(wù)) did fill the whole world with great surprise, as Leonardo had said it would. A lot of essays, articles, and books were written about man’s first moon mission. But perhaps the most interesting story was one written before the event――over 100 years before.

In 1865, French author Jules Verne wrote a story about the first journey to the moon. His story was very similar to the 1969 Apollo II mission.

Verne’s spacecraft also contained three men―two Americans and a Frenchman. The spacecraft was described as being almost the same size as Apollo II. The launch site in Verne’s story was also in Florida. The spacecraft in Verne’s story was named the “Columbiad”. The Apollo II command ship was called “Columbia”. His account of sending the spacecraft into the space could easily have been written about how Apollo II was sent into the space.

Verne’s story was the same as the actual event in several other respects. The speed of Verne’s spacecraft was 36,000 feet per second; Apollo’s was 35,533 feet per second. Verne’s spacecraft took 97 hours to reach the moon; Apollo’s time was 103 hours. Like Apollo’s spacemen, Verne’s spacemen took pictures of the moon’s surface, relaxed on their seats, cooked with gas, and experienced weightlessness. They too came down in the Pacific and were picked up by an American warship.

What were the reasons for Jules Verne’s extreme accuracy (準確性) in describing an event 100 years or more before it actually occurred? He based his writings on the law of physics and astronomy (天文學(xué)). Nineteenth-century science and the vivid Verne’s imagination gave people an unbelievably accurate preview of one of the greatest events of the 20^th century.

66. Leonardo da Vinci said that a great machine bird would ________.

       A. bring great honor to the moon                 B . fly toward the sun

C. explore the heavens                                D. take people to the moon

67. Jules Verne wrote his story of a man’s visit to the moon about ________.

       A. 100 years before the Apollo II mission

B. 10 years before the Apollo II mission

C. four and a half centuries ago

D. 100 years ago

68. Verne’s story is very similar to ________.

       A. the first U.S space misison

B. the Apollo II mission

C.Leonardo da Vinci’s story

D. a lot of other books on the same subject

69. The passage suggests that Jules Verne ________.

       A. developed the laws of physics

B. based his writings on the works of Leonardo da Vinci

C. was very lucky in what he had described about the future

D. knew a great deal about the laws of physics and astronomy

70. The passage mainly describes ________.

       A. the rapid progress of mankind       

B. Verne’s accurate preview of the future

C. the 1969 Apollo II moon mission

D. the 19^th-century science and technology

Jame Cleveland Owens was the son of a farmer and the grandson of black slaves. His family moved to Cleveland when he was 9. There, a school teacher asked the youth his name.

“J.C,”he replied.

She thought he had said “Jesse”, and he had a new name.

Owens ran his first race at age 13. After high school,he went to Ohio State University. He had to work part time so as to pay for his education. As a second-year student, in the Big Ten games in 1935, he set even more records than he would in the Olympic Games a year later.

A week before the Big Ten meet, Owens accidentally fell down a flight of stairs. His back hurt so much that he could not exercise all week, and he had to be helped in and out of the car that drove him to the meet. He refused to listen to the suggestions that he give up and said he would try, event by event. He did try, and the results are in the record book.

The stage was set for Owens’ victory at the Olympic Games in Berlin the next year, and his success would come to be regarded as not only athletic but also political. Hitler did not congratulate any of the African-American winners.

“It was all right with me, ” he said years later. “I didn't go to Berlin to shake hands with him, anyway.”

Having returned from Berlin, he received no telephone calls from the president of his own country, either. In fact, he was not honored by the United States until 1976 , four years before his death.

Owens’ Olympic victories made little difference to him. He earned his living by looking after a school playground, and accepted money to race against cars, trucks, motorcycles, and dogs.

“Sure, it bothered me,” he said later. “But at least it was an honest living. I had to eat.”

In time, however, his gold medals changed his life. “They have kept me alive over the years,” he once said. “Time has stood still for me. That goden moment dies hard.”

61. Owens got his other name “Jesse” when ________.

       A. he went to Ohio State University

B. his teacher made fun of him

C. his teacher took “J.C.” for “Jesse”

D. he won gold medals in the Big Ten meet

62. In the Big Ten meet, Owens________.

       A. hurt himself in the back

B. succeeded in setting many records

C. tried every sports event but failed

D. had to give up some events

63. We can infer from the text that Owens was treated unfairly in the US at that time because ________.

       A. he was not of the right race

B. he was the son of a poor farmer

C. he didn't shake hands with Hitler

D. he didn't talk to the US president on the phone

64. When Owens says “They have kept me alive over the years,” he means that the medals ________.

       A. have been changed for money to help him live on

B. have made him famous in the US

C. have encouraged him to overcome difficulties in life

D. have kept him busy with all kinds of jobs

65. Which of the following is a suitable title for the text?

       A. Jesse Owens, a Great American Athlete

B. Golden Moment ―a Life-time Struggle

C. Making a Living as a Sportsman

D. How to Be Successful Athlete?

My work keeps me in Hong Kong most of the year, but I do try to get _41_for a month in  42  ―usually July. Now as you probably know that’s the main  43  season in Europe, the favourite places for holiday and the famous cities are usually very  44 . But I’m not seeking the sun ― I get plenty of 45 in Hong Kong―and I’m certainly not seeking the  46 !

So when I go on holiday I buy a Train Pass (a sort of train ticket) that 47 me first class travel on most of the 48 of Western Europe. First class compartments(車廂) are  49  crowded and they are very comfortable. If you’re going on an overnight  50  you can take a sleeping train for some extra money. There are usually dining cars in the train. I find that  51  travel is restful and  52 . There’s always something to see.

I particularly enjoy  53  through Switzerland and Italy. You can get a very good  54  of what a country is like from a train; you don’t go too fast and you stop quite often.  55  rail travel is very safe and I am never sick on a train      56  I am on a ship! Then there are always people to  57  if you feel like a chat.

The  58  that I seldom travel by plane is quite simple:as train stations are usually built in the city centre, I don’t have to 59  transport; transport can be a problem when arriving by  60 .