【正文】 al director David Blythe said. Both beat well in step for four days until half solid blood formed in a man made valve （瓣膜） fixed in Scott‘s own heart last year, Blythe said. MOSCOW（ Agencies via Xinhua） A Russian Ilyushin62 airliner left for West Africa suddenly fell down shortly after take off here, killing everyone on board. It is not known how many passagers the 182 seat aircraft was carrying when it went downward quickly to the ground just 10 kilometres from Sheremetyevo Airport. But west African newspapers said the plane, which was heading for Sierra Leone, was about half full. An official from Moscow‘s Botkin Institute Hospital said, ―No one could have been still alive in the accident. ‖ ―The accident was so serious, so horrible, that we did not need to give medical attention to anyone.‖ West African officials have plained that the Russian government failed to inform them of the air accident, in which many Africans may have been killed. Stavanger, Norway, March 28（ AFP） At least 28 oil workers died and 69 were missing today after the overturning of the 10, 000 ton Norwegian ―Floating Hotel‖ Alexander Kiellan, in strong winds last night. Another 128 workers have reportedly been rescued from the icy, storm thrown North Sea waters midway between northeast England and Denmark in continuing search operations by British and Norwegian helicopters, planes and ships. The disaster, called―the worst in our recent history‖ by Norwegian Premier Odvar Nordli, struck late yesterday when the four level platform, used as a rest area for workers in the Nor the Seas Ekofisk Oil Field, overturned in a storm after one of its five huge legs gave way for unknown reasons. Yet the quality of construction was the last, Ken Harris, Chief Engineer said. In Stavanger, Prime Minister Nordli thanked neighboring countries, with England heading the list, for their aid and in the rescue effort. The Ekofick field has the heaviest oil platforms of all of shore sites in the world, with 1, 850 oil workers on them, including three other rest platforms. 56． What do you guess the word―piggy back‖ means in the first item of news? A. Greedy. B. Large. C. Dependent. D. Fragile. 57． How many persons were killed in the air accident near Sheremtyevo Airport? A. About 90. B. About 180. C. About 60. D. About 120. 58． One of the legs of the four level platform in the North Seas Elofisk Oil Field broke. Why? A. Because of very strong winds. B. Because the― Floating Hotel‖was turned over. C. Because the quality of construction was bad. D. The report doesn‘t mention. 59． What do you learn from the news reports? A. In the rescue effort for the Norwegian oil workers, England led some other countries. B. Soon after the air accident doctors in Botkin Institute Hospital gave aids to the injured passengers. C. Peter Scott was still in danger because half solid blood formed. D. The plat forms of North Seas Elko fish Oil Field are the heaviest in the world. B Four hundred and three babies are crying loudly. Do you know how to make them quiet in 41 seconds? There is an amazing new product on sale in Japan which does exactly this. It is an LP （ a long playing record） of sounds from inside a mo her‘s body, which a hospital doctor recorded. In tests with the record she played the LP to 403 crying babies. After 41 seconds not one baby was crying and 161 of them were sleeping. The record began as an experiment by Professor Hajime Minooka of the Nippon Medical University near Tokyo. He was looking for something natural that helps new born babies go to sleep. The sound of the mother‘s heart beat and other body sounds are the things the babies heard inside their mothers. They feel safe and happy when they hear these sounds again. And they go to sleep. Hospitals in Osaka and Tokyo are using the LP. 10, 000 young couples are using it too. Toshiba Music Company who make and sell the records are very happy. One and a half million couples marry every year in Japan. Many will have babies, so the LP will definitely be a hit! 60． ―Many will have babies, so the LP will definitely be a hit!‖ The word ―hit‖ means―________‖ A. popularity B. amazement C. strike D. experiment 61． What is true according to the passage? A. About 55% of the crying babies fall asleep after 41 seconds hearing the LP. B. The LP sounds were first recorded by Professor Hajime Minooka . C. The LP is produced and sold by Toshiba Music Company. D. One million and a half babies are born it Japan every year. 62． Babies feel ________when they hear these LP sounds. A. the sounds to be their mothers‘ voices B. as ff they were inside their mothers C. the music natural and soft D. themselves sleeping together with their mothers C In many countries today, laws protect wildlife. In India the need for such protection was realized centuries ago. About 300 . an Indian writer described forests that were somewhat like national parks today. The killing of game animals was carefully governed. Some animals were fully protected. Within the forest, nobody was allowed to cut trees, burn wood, or trap animals for their furs. Animals that became dangerous to human visitors were trapped or killed outside the park, so that other animals would not bee uneasy. The need for wildlife protection is greater now than ever before. About a thousand sorts of animals are in danger of extinction, and the speed at which they are being destroyed has been putting on. With mammals（哺乳 i類(lèi)動(dòng)物） , for example, the speed of extinction is now about one sort every year。 that D. it。 where B. it。 will have been putting up D. have moved。 are to be built B. have been moved。 besides C. but。 that C. to