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A “l(fā)ost tribe” that reached America from Australia may have been the first Native Americans, according to a new theory.
If proved by DNA evidence, the theory will break long established beliefs about the southerly migration of people who entered America across the Bering Strait, found it empty and occupied it.
On this theory rests the belief of Native Americans to have been the first true Americans. They would be classified to the ranks of escapee, beaten to the New World by Aboriginals (土著人) in boats.
To a European, this may seem like an academic argument, but to Americans it is a philosophical question about identity, Silvia Gonzales, of Liverpool University said .
Her claims are based on skeletons found in the California Peninsula of Mexico that have skulls quite unlike the broad Mongolian features of Native Americans. These narrow-skulled people have more in common with southern Asians, Aboriginal Australians and people of the South Pacific Region.
The bones, stored at the National Museum of Anthropology (人類學(xué)) in Mexico City, have been carbon-dated and one is 12,700 years old, which places it several thousand years before the arrival of people from the North. “We think there were several migration waves into the Americas at different times by different human groups,” Dr. Gonzales said. “The timing, route and point of origin of the first colonization of the Americas remains a most contentious topic in human evolution.”
But comparisons based on skull shape are not considered conclusive by anthropologists, so a team of Mexican and British scientists, backed by the Natural Environment Research Council, has also attempted to take out DNA from the bones. Dr. Gonzales declined yesterday to say exactly what the results were, as they need to be checked, but indicated that they were consistent(一致) with an Australian origin.

  1. 1.

    It is generally considered that the first Native Americans came from ________.

    1. A.
      North Asia
    2. B.
      Australia
    3. C.
      South Pacific
    4. D.
      South Asia
  2. 2.

    The skeletons found in the California Peninsula of Mexico have ________.

    1. A.
      the broad skull shape
    2. B.
      the narrow skull shape
    3. C.
      different features of Aboriginal Australians
    4. D.
      the same features of Native Americans
  3. 3.

    The underlined “contentious” is similar in meaning to “________”.

    1. A.
      likely to cause great interest
    2. B.
      difficult to solve
    3. C.
      well-known to all
    4. D.
      likely to cause argument
  4. 4.

    Which of the following statements is true according to the text?

    1. A.
      Research on skulls can draw an exact conclusion.
    2. B.
      DNA tests have proved the fact that the first Native Americans came from Australian.
    3. C.
      Scientists are still not sure about the origin of the Native Americans.
    4. D.
      People began to enter America across the Bering Strait about 12,700 years ago.

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China's government has issued a severe weather warning after the heaviest snowfalls in decades. The country is experiencing transport delays and power cuts as millions of people prepare to make long journeys home for the Chinese New Year. This report from Quentin Summerville: China hasn't experienced weather this bad in decades. And as the country prepares for Chinese New Year, the disruption couldn't come at a worse time. Over 100,000 people are stranded(擱淺) in Guangzhou railway station in the south. It may climb to as many as 600,000 as more people arrive to make their journeys home for the Spring Festival. Travellers have been evacuated to nearby sports stadiums and exhibition centres.
Across China around nineteen airports have shut because of the weather. Around half the provinces in the country have had to start rationing power(定量供電), according to the state media. The government has suspended（暫停） coal exports in favour of home consumption. At least a dozen people died over the weekend because of heavy rains and the snowfall.
The Spring Festival is China's most important holiday when people journey home to be with their families. For millions of the country's migrant workers it's their only holiday. Some two billion journeys were made during the festival last year, making it the largest migration of people on the planet. And even without the severe weather, conditions on overcrowded trains and buses are terrible. The holiday stretches China's transport system to its very limits

  1. 1.

    Choose the best title for this passage.

    1. A.
      Heavy snow hits China
    2. B.
      Chinese New Year in snow
    3. C.
      China’s terrible translation system.
    4. D.
      An accident
  2. 2.

    Which is not true according to the passage?

    1. A.
      The heavy snow is the worst disaster in decades in China.
    2. B.
      No other cities in the world have more travellers in festivals than in China.
    3. C.
      The government doesn’t care for people’s life in disaster areas.
    4. D.
      The country’s migrant workers have more than one holidays to celebrate, according to the passage

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Observer 2007-03-28 13:54
Nothing could be more shameful for McDonald’s and KFC. They are violating labour’s rights. The government must immediately bring the guilty to justice. A stricter government inspection system must be enforced to protect the workers.
Nathan 2007-03-28 21:39
It is known that McDonald’s and KFC and other fast-food restaurants pay the lowest wage they possibly can to get their employees. I think it’s kind of funny that these two restaurants have not yet set up unions. It is also known that they also take every possible measure e(legal, and sometimes illegal) to prevent their employees from forming or joining unions. I think it is high time that government enforced the law that they have made.
Cushman 2007-03-28 22:32
The deepest reason is that China has a large population. If you complain that the pay is very low, the boss will tell you that can go to other places and that there are a lot of people waiting for the job. Today finding a job is not very easy, so you don’t have many choices, and you have to face the reality.
Chip 2007-03-29 20:33
If wages were too low, people wouldn’t work for them, but they do, so it proves the wages are reasonable. Sure, they could raise the wages, but why should they? The workers are still working, still willing to show up on time, and it keeps costs lower. Were they to raise wages, they would have to FIRE more workers, and the price of burgers would go up. Then people wouldn’t buy them, then McDonald’s would once again FIRE more workers because of a reduced demand, and you’d be back in the same boat, just with less people working.

  1. 1.

    What are they debating about?

    1. A.
      McDonald’s and KFC pay too low a salary to their employees.
    2. B.
      Setting up a social security system.
    3. C.
      Fast-food restaurants have no rights to fire workers.
    4. D.
      McDonald’s and KFC will be punished for their behaviour.
  2. 2.

    According to Chip, it is____for McDonald’s and KFC to give employees a low salary.

    1. A.
      unacceptable
    2. B.
      shameful
    3. C.
      acceptable
    4. D.
      illegal
  3. 3.

    In the opinion of Cushman, the key to the problem is that____.

    1. A.
      the social security net has not been set up
    2. B.
      China has too large a population
    3. C.
      the government has not taken stronger steps to protect workers
    4. D.
      the unions have not played an important part to raise the wages.
  4. 4.

    The underlined word “they” in Nathan’s words refers to____.

    1. A.
      the employees
    2. B.
      governments
    3. C.
      all the restaurants
    4. D.
      fast-food restaurants

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The evidence for harmony may not be obvious in some families. But it seems that four out of five young people now get on with their parents, which is the opposite of the popularly-held image(形象) of unhappy teenagers locked in their room after endless family quarrels.
An important new study into teenage attitudes surprisingly shows that their family life is more harmonious than it has ever been in the past. "We were surprised by just how positive today's young people seem to be about their families," said one member of the research team. "They're expected to be rebellious(叛逆的) and selfish but actually they have other things on their minds; they want a car and material goods, and they worry about whether school is serving them well. There's more negotiation(商議) and discussion between parents and children, and children expect to take part in the family decision-making process. They don't want to rock the boat."
So it seems that this generation of parents is much more likely than parents of 30 years ago to treat their children as friends. "My parents are happy to discuss things with me and willing to listen to me," says 17-years-old Daniel Lazall. " I always tell them when I'm going out clubbing. As long as they know what I'm doing, they're fine with it." Susan Crome, who is now 21, agrees. "Looking back on the last 10 years, there was a lot of what you could call negotiation. For example, as long as I'd done all my homework, I could go out on a Saturday night. But I think my grandparents were a lot stricter with my parents than that."
Maybe this positive view of family life should not be unexpected. It is possible that the idea of teenage rebellion is not rooted in real facts. A researcher comments, "Our surprise that teenagers say they get along well with their parents comes because of a brief period in our social history when teenagers were regarded as different beings. But that idea of rebelling and breaking away from their parents really only happened during that one time in the 1960s when everyone rebelled. The normal situation throughout history has been a smooth change from helping out with the family business to taking it over."

  1. 1.

    According to the author, teenage rebellion ________

    1. A.
      resulted from changes in families
    2. B.
      may be a false belief
    3. C.
      is common nowadays
    4. D.
      existed only in the 1960s
  2. 2.

    What is the passage mainly about?

    1. A.
      Education in family
    2. B.
      Negotiation in family
    3. C.
      Teenage trouble in family
    4. D.
      Harmony in family
  3. 3.

    The study shows that teenagers don't want to ________

    1. A.
      go boating with their family
    2. B.
      share family responsibility
    3. C.
      make family decisions
    4. D.
      cause trouble in their families
  4. 4.

    What is the popular images of teenagers today?

    1. A.
      They dislike living with their parents
    2. B.
      They quarrel a lot with other family members
    3. C.
      They worry about school
    4. D.
      They have to be locked in to avoid troubles
  5. 5.

    Compared with parents of 30 years ago, today's parents ________

    1. A.
      care less about their children's life
    2. B.
      give their children more freedom
    3. C.
      go to clubs more often with their children
    4. D.
      are much stricter with their children

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A new law helps people with disabilities. The law says that people with disabilities must be able to get into and out of all public buildings. It also says that business must offer special services to people who have special needs. Companies can not refuse to hire disabled workers. Many businesses may have to change their buildings and services.
—Ramps (坡道) must be built so people can get into buildings.
—Movie theatres must have space for people in wheelchairs and seats for their friends to sit near them.
—Elevators (電梯) must have floor number in Braille.
This law will help millions of people. One woman who has been in a wheelchair for many years said,“It is like a dream.”

  1. 1.

    According to the passage we can see that     .

    1. A.
      it will be difficult for the normal persons to get into the public buildings
    2. B.
      the buildings of all the businesses will have to be changed
    3. C.
      Most businesses used to offer special services to people who have special needs
    4. D.
      it was difficult for the disabled workers to find jobs in the past
  2. 2.

    Ramps can help people     .

    1. A.
      with hearing problems
    2. B.
      who have difficulty in using their hands
    3. C.
      who have difficulty in using their legs or feet
    4. D.
      who don’t like stairs
  3. 3.

    The fact that the new law has been passed shows that______.

    1. A.
      the government has paid no attention to the disabilities
    2. B.
      the government wants to help these disabilities
    3. C.
      normal people show mercy to the disabilities
    4. D.
      companies will hire millions of disabled people

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The blue tits(山雀) have been inspecting the nest-box again this year. The male is the house-hunter but the female will make the final choice. He lands at the hole and turns his head to expose his white cheeks as a signal to attract the female from where she has been feeding.
Among many birds that nest in holes, the male has a light-coloured patch on its plumage(鳥羽) which acts as signal for drawing the female’s attention to a suitable nesting-place. Unlike the blue tit, the redstart(紅尾鴝) may be only the male that strikingly coloured and the female is not beautiful.
A few years ago I was lucky enough to spot a pair of redstarts in action in a Walsh wood. The male was leading an interested female to holes that he had previously(先前) checked out. He sat at the entrance of each hole and put his head on to show off his white forehead, or his head in to reveal(顯露) his tail.
If the female failed to react to his visual signals, the male sometimes sang for extra effect, while gliding towards her on spread wings and tail. Once the female accepts by following the male through the hole the displays stop, you must be at the right place at the right time to watch them.

  1. 1.

    How do the blue tits choose their nest?

    1. A.
      They choose their nest together.
    2. B.
      The male chooses their nest.
    3. C.
      The house-hunter chooses their nest.
    4. D.
      The female chooses their nest.
  2. 2.

    The writer was lucky to see ________.

    1. A.
      how the male made his tricks
    2. B.
      how an interested female played with the male happily
    3. C.
      what the male displayed and won the female
    4. D.
      that the male tried his best but failed to attract the female
  3. 3.

    You can spot a pair of redstarts in a Walsh wood ________.

    1. A.
      at any time
    2. B.
      regularly
    3. C.
      in April
    4. D.
      occasionally
  4. 4.

    The writer is probably ________.

    1. A.
      a bird expert
    2. B.
      a bird-hunter
    3. C.
      a bird raiser
    4. D.
      a scientist

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I have no doubt ________ he will get the first place in the competition．


  1. A.
    whether
  2. B.
    if
  3. C.
    that
  4. D.
    about

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Put everything ________to you in your bag, not others.


  1. A.
    belongs
  2. B.
    belonged
  3. C.
    belonging
  4. D.
    to belong

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Now that he is out of work, Jerry ________ going back to the countryside, but he hasn't decided yet．


  1. A.
    had considered
  2. B.
    has been considering
  3. C.
    considered
  4. D.
    is going to consider

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________ it is to read a story on a rainy day!


  1. A.
    What a fun
  2. B.
    How a fun
  3. C.
    What fun
  4. D.
    How fun

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