【正文】 for the Arts and Fine can design your perfect summer here,with our guidance and in 1969,Long Lake Camp for the Arts is the perfect place to pursue your creative dreams and make lifelong friends. Campers choose Long Lake Camp for its perfect size and unique creative will be supported by our 145 members of staff to ensure you get everything you provide a nurturing environment where you can improve your skills and learn pletely new ones at your own are exciting and challenging classes,numerous stage performances each week,and unlimited studio time. The camp is located in New York State in Adirondack camp lasts for seven days,from Monday through to Sunday,9 am to 2 pm Each week is limited to 30 Long Lake Camp for the Arts,every day is perfect,because you can bine the activities that you love with making friends that will last a 8007677111 to book your place,NOW! do campers choose Long Lake Camp? of its unique creative programs. of its location. of its good services. 答案 :A many staff members are there at the camp? . . . 答案 :C is NOT provided at the camp? classes. performances. meals. 答案 :C 第二部分 閱讀理解 (共兩節(jié) ,滿(mǎn)分 40分 ) 第一節(jié) (共 15小題 。每小題 2分 ,滿(mǎn)分 30分 ) 閱讀下列短文 ,從每題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng) (A、 B、 C和 D)中 ,選出最佳選項(xiàng)。 A Botany,the study of plants,occupies a special position in the history of human many thousands of years it was a field about which humans had a great deal to is impossible to know today just what our Stone Age ancestors knew about plants,but from what we can observe of preindustrial societies that still exist,a detailed learning of plants and their properties must be extremely is logical. Plants are the basis of the food pyramid for all living things,even for other have always been important to the benefit of people,not only for food,but also for clothing,weapons,tools,dyes,medicines,shelters,and a great many other living today in the jungles of the Amazon recognize hundreds of plants and know many properties of them,botany has no name and is probably not even recognized as a special branch of “knowledge”at all. Unfortunately,the more industrialized we bee the farther away we move from direct contact with plants,and the less definite our knowledge,and few people will fail to recognize a rose,an apple,or an orchid. When our ancestors,living in the Middle East about 10,000 years ago,discovered that certain grasses could be harvested and their seeds planted for richer harvests the next season,the first great step in a new association(聯(lián)系 )of plants and humans was were discovered and from them flowed the wonder of agriculture:cultivated then on,humans would increasingly take their living from the controlled production of a few plants,rather than getting a little here and a little there from many varieties that grew wild— and the accumulated(積累 )knowledge of tens of thousands of years of experience and close contact with plants in the wild would begin to fade away. of the following statements is TRUE? humans knew nothing about plants. humans probably had extensive knowledge of plants. humans had little knowledge of plants. humans did not enjoy the study of botany. 答案 :B 解析 :細(xì)節(jié)理解題。第一段倒數(shù)第二句作者認(rèn)為 “a detailed learning of plants and their properties must be extremely ancient”, 并且認(rèn)為這個(gè)結(jié)論是符合邏輯的 (logical),故選 B項(xiàng)。 Paragraph 1 the underlined word “properties” refers to . belongings of early humans wealth of ancient people characteristics or qualities of plants and buildings 答案 :C 解析 :詞義猜測(cè)題。全文出現(xiàn) property 的地方有兩處 ,除了第一段之外 ,在第二段倒數(shù)第二句話(huà)還能找到。觀察其搭配 ,可發(fā)現(xiàn)這個(gè)詞兩處都與 plants 有關(guān) ,可猜出其意思與人類(lèi)無(wú)關(guān) ,故選 C項(xiàng)。 living today in the jungle of the Amazon . ’t know anything abo ut plants botany as a branch of science give the name of botany experts of plants 答案 :D 解析 :細(xì)節(jié)理解題。從第二段可以看出 ,住在亞馬遜叢林中的部落人能認(rèn)識(shí)數(shù)百種植物 ,并熟悉它們的屬性。故選 D項(xiàng)。 B For thousands of years humans have used herbs,roots and other things from nature to cure looking for new cures often visit traditional find out what plants are used in they look at what the plant find the active ingredient,which is the chemical in the plant that works to of the drugs we use,including aspirin,have e from these natural medicines. In recent years,many people in the USA have been taking what are legally known as dietary may be vitamins or may be herbs that help with health problems,such as of them are are capsules or are sold in natural food stores,drug stores,and people think that because these products are natural and they are also is not always are many plants that are are others that have bad side effects. The New England Journal of Medicine publishes medical recent edition called for the government to regulate dietary doctors wrote to the journal and told of bad experiences people have had with dietary supplements. Dietary supplements aren’t tested in the same way as is not always proof that the supplement really does what it is supposed to is also a problem with purity of the have been found to contain things that are bad for the example,the California Department of Public Health found that of 260 herbs grown in China,onethird contained heavy are minerals such as lead and are very poisonous,even in tiny amounts. scientists study the cures from the healers in order to . out if the plant is poisonous out what in the plant works to cure disease for aspirin in the plants sure that the plants can cure disease 答案 :B 解析 :細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由第一段可知 ,科學(xué)家們拜訪傳統(tǒng)醫(yī)生的目的是找到哪些植物可以用來(lái)治愈疾病 ,然后弄清楚這些植物中到底含有什么成分 ,選 B項(xiàng)。 can infer f