【正文】 For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the news items are read for the third time, you should check what you have written. You should put your answers on Answer Sheet Two.News One This is the VOA Special English Development Report.This Saturday night at eight thirty, all the lights will be (31)_________ at the Tokyo Tower in Japan. The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin and the Eiffel Tower in Paris are also (32)_________off to go dark. So is the Empire State Building in New York and buildings in other cities around the world.The lights will stay off for one hour for an event called Earth Hour. The observance is organized by a (33)_____________ group, the World Wide Fund for Nature, also known as the World Wildlife Fund.For the fourth year, people are being (34)_________ to turn off their lights for one hour to call attention to the (35)________ of climate change. The group says climate change is one of the greatest (36)_________ facing wildlife and nature.(37)_____________________________________________________________. Organizers said more than two thousand businesses and two million people took part.Since then, Earth Hour has grown into an international event. People in more than four thousand cities in eightyeight countries took part last year.(38)_______________________________________________________________________. This will be the first Earth Hour for countries including Kuwait, Qatar, Kosovo, Madagascar, Nepal, Cambodia and Panama.News TwoOn April twentysecond, some American children stayed out of school but they were not punished. They were with their parents. As Faith Lapidus tells us, it was Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day.FAITH LAPIDUS: The Ms. Foundation for Women started the (39)_________ seventeen years ago, in nineteen ninetythree. At first it was just called Take Our Daughters to Work.Gloria Steinem and other foundation leaders pointed to studies showing that self(40)______ suffers as girls bee teenagers. They can lose trust in their abilities and (41)____________, especially in areas like science, math and technology.So the Ms. Foundation planned a day for parents in New York City to show girls all the possibilities for them in the (42)__________ world. But there was so much interest, the organizers decided to make it (43)________.At first, girls mostly followed their mom or dad around at work to learn about their jobs. Later, employers and schools began to offer (44)_________ activities.(45)_____________________________________________________________________________________. So in two thousand three the day was renamed Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work.Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension （50 minutes。 45 points）Section 1: True/False/Not Given and Multiple Choice Questions (30 points)Directions: There are two passages in this part. Each passage has ten questions or unfinished statements. The first five statements in each passage are True/False/Not given statements. You should mark “A)”, for True, “B)”, for False and “C)” for Not Given。s problems, and we were trying to work out which one to dedicate our lives to helping solve, he told CNN. 5 Then it hit me, at the root of it all was money, which creates a kind of disconnection between us and our actions, whether that39。s remarkable journey is relayed in his new book, The Moneyless Man, which along with detailing the practical challenges on the rocky road towards his new world, also explains the philosophy that drives him that human society is fairer, happier and more secure when relationships are not mediated (以…為媒介) by money. 16 Any profits from the book will be invested in buying land to create a Freeconomy munity, where people can experiment living together without money. 17 Public interest in his project has been divided. While a huge number of people are very supportive, there has been harsh criticism of him, particularly on Internet forums.18 People tend to be either very positive about what I39。 it’s early days and we live in a very money orientated world. 19 Of course not everyone can, or is ready to, live like Mark a point he is happy to concede. But he does believe people can live more like him, and be happier as a result. 20 There39。m just trying to take life as it es and enjoy it along the way. (803 words)For questions 4650, choose A) (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage。 sporting vacations in Montana and Wyoming。s lean (清晰的，簡潔的), disciplined style made the writing and the living seem simple. He focused on one point and wrote very clearly about that point. But if we put all the stories together, all the pieces, a very plex picture emerges. Neither the living nor the writing was easy. There39。 (The marriage lasted.)5 In 1933 Pauline39。 nor a shooter。s in December 1936, Hemingway met a lovely young novelist and journalist from St. Louis—Martha Gellhorns divorce from Hemingway became final.10 After their marriage, with assignments for Martha from Collier39。C) (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage.56. One of the sons of Ernest Hemingway was born in June 1928 in Kansas City. 57. Lt Frederick Henry is one of the close friends of Ernest Hemingway and a famous literature critic. 58. In 1923, Ernest Hemingway saw bullfighting for the first time in a city of Spain. 59. In 1932, Ernest Hemingway signed treaties of bullfighting. 60. Ernest Hemingway went to Spain in the year of the breakout of the Spanish Civil War. For questions 6165, choose the one that best pletes the sentence or answers the question.61. The following are the themes described in the novel “A Farewell to Arms” EXCEPT ____. A) CourageB) FriendshipsC) family relationshipD) the beauty of literature62. Hemingway’s writing enjoys the characteristics of ____.