【正文】 zes are to be found, from the celebrated one which boasts of being “the biggest bookshop in the world” to the tiny, dusty little places which seem to have been left over from Dickens’ of these shops stock, or will obtain, any kind of book, but many of them specialize in secondhand books, in art books, in foreign books, in books on philosophy, politics or any other of the countless subjects about which books may be shop in this area specializes only in books about ballet!Although it may be the most convenient place for Londoners to buy books, Charring Cross Road is not the the really cheap secondhand books, the collector must venture off the beaten track, to Farringdon Road, for example, in the East Central district of there is nothing so impressive as booksellers e along each morning and pour out their sacks of books onto small hand the collectors, some professionals and some amateurs, have been waiting for places like this they can still, occasionally, pick up for a few pence an old one that may be worth many .“Londoners are great readers” means that read a lot are a great number of readers in London are readers who read only great books are great because they read a lot to this passage, Charring Cross Road famous for its bookshops in the suburbs of London various kinds of shops the busiest street in London this passage, what does the underlined part “venture off the beaten track” mean? books in a most busy street a risk of losing one’s life time looking for books away from a busy street Farringdon Road, can find fine bookshops for the latest books can see book sellers selling books on handcarts are only small bookshops for the secondhand books same books as the ones in the bookshops of Charring Cross Road are soldB The scene in the Hollywood movie The Day After Tomorrow, where global warming could soon turn the global climate into a new ice age may never occur, according to new next ice age could be 15,000 years away, say European scientists who last month announced a continuous record of 740,000 years of climate data obtained from the Antarctic（南極） from 10 nations have now almost pletely drilled through a 3000meter depth of ice high in the Antarctic figure out that the area where summer temperatures can fall to40℃,has at least 900, 000 years of snowfalls, kept as neatly as the growth rings of a the ice and air caught in each layer have begun to answer questions about the climates in the results show that there have been eight ice ages in the past 740 000 years and eight warmer by paring the pattern of global condition today with those of the past, the researchers reported in Nature that the present warm period could last another 15 000 suggests that there is a very close connection between greenhouse gas levels and global average also shows that carbon dioxide levels are the highest for at least 440 000 years.“If people say to you: the greenhouse effect is a good thing because we would go into ice age otherwise, our data say no, a new ice age is not hanging over our heads,” said Eric Wolff from the British Antarctic Survey.“Now we have eight examples of how the climate goes in and out of ice ages...and you can learn what the rules are that go into the climate models that tell us about the future.”Scientists found that whenever temperatures rose in the frozen record, so did carbon dioxide level.“In 440 000 years we have never seen greenhouse gas get as thick as it is today,” said Dr drilling through the ice in Antarctica, scientists have found lowest temperature there is40℃ depth of ice is 3000 meters are kept in certain patterns ice has existed for 15,000 years information of the global climate conditions in the past can be obtained through carbon dioxide from the air the growth rings of trees temperatures in different areas the ice and air caught in each layer can infer from Eric Wolff39。__31__ Many things can bee distractions(分散注意力的事).Your ability to focus your mind, emotions and physical movements will directly influence your focused on the task at hand can be easier said than are some powerful techniques that can help you improve your ability to physical control, it helps to have a constant exercise Exercising helps you gain better mand of your body, and even goes beyond the body, giving you more flexibility not just physically but also emotionally and you feel more fortable in your body, you increase your selfconfidence, which helps you feel more mental control, meditation(沉思；冥想)does the It’s easy to get distracted by things in your background, but in order to perform well you have to maintain a high degree of you relax your thoughts it trains your mind to deal effectively with outside distractions so you can stay centered on what matters most at the It prevents you from overreaction and also from your emotions settle down, you gain greater awareness of the environment you’re in, and feel calm and in The good thing is that selfcontrol can be exercising frequently, get yourself into meditation, and start to feel positive changes in your career and your life in are many benefits of short, focus requires are still some disadvantages of is an important part of success and achievement in emotions are well served by meditation as helps block out all the noise and activities that are going on around meditation, people sit quietly and focus their attention on their 、完形填空(共20小題；，滿分30分)閱讀下面短文，從短文后所給各題的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)(A、B、C和D)中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。 up Changbaishan left the tourists feeling _________(breathe)and (shoot)by mistake in the hunt, the hunter was taken to hospital would appreciate ________ if you could teach me how to appreciate those abstract paintings on I had had enough money on me, I ______________(sponsor)your project that to music is a good way to lower your level of __________(anxious). tell me ________ it is that you bought the copy of Tagore’s poem will go and buy one, with SARS patients