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e TestFor each numbered blank in the following passage there are four choices labeled [A], [B], [C] and [D].Choose the best one and put your choice in the ANSWER the whole passage before making your choice.(10 points)①One day drought may be a thing of the past at least in coastal cities.②Vast areas of desert throughout the world may for the first timeand provide millions of hectares of land where now nothing grows.③By the end of this century this may not be mere2.④Scientists are already looking into the possibility of using some of the available ice in the Arctic and Antarctic.⑤In these regions there are vast icecaps formed by snow that has fallen over the past 50,000 years.⑥Layerlayer of deep snow means that, when melted, the snow water would be pure, not salty as seaice would be.⑦There is so muchpure water here that it would need only a fraction of it to turn much of the desert or poorly irrigated parts of the world into rich farmland.⑧And what useful packages it would e in!⑨It should be possible to cut off a bit of ice and11They are always transport it!⑩Alternatively perhaps a passing iceberg could be.○breaking away from the main caps and floating around, pushed by currents, until they eventually melt and are icebergs are, of course, far too small to be toweddistance, and would melt ○13It would be necessary to locate one before they reached a country that needed them anywhere.○14that wasand that was big enough to provide a good supply of ice when it reached us.○Engineers think that an iceberg up to seven miles long and one and a half miles wide could be15Even then they would cover only transported if the tug pulling it was as big as a supertanker!○the iceberg was at its destination, more that 7,000 twenty miles every day.○17That would probably be more than million cubic metres of water could be taken from it!○18But no doubt a use could be enough for any mediumsized city even in the hottest summer!○19○20found for it.○21This is The larger the iceberg, the slower it melts, even if it is towed through the tropics.○because when the sun has a bigger area to warm , less heat actually gets into the vast frozen centre would be unaffected.[394 words] ○1.[A] e to life[B] e into existence[C] e into activity[D] e round2.[A] speculation [B] imagination[C] putation[D] expectation3.[A] above[B] of[C] upon[D] over4.[A] essential[B] potential[C] claimable[D] obtainable5.[A] seized[B] snatched[C] grabbed[D] captured6.[A] much[B] any[C] some[D] certain7.[A] manageable [B] manipulative [C] operable[D] controllable8.[A] after[B] while[C] since[D] once9.[A] Apparently [B] Noticeably[C] Distinctly[D] Notably10.[A] round[B] over[C] up[D] through第二篇:2018考研英語歷年閱讀真題溯源2018考研英語歷年閱讀真題溯源來源:智閱網(wǎng)人們都說,考研真題很重要,可是我們做了好久的題,看了那么多的技巧和方法,可閱讀題的正確率,依舊沒有提升。但我們一味的逃避也不是辦法啊,早晚得直面考研真題的考驗(yàn)。建議考生們在平時(shí)多閱讀國外雜志,了解考研英語閱讀的文章特點(diǎn),培養(yǎng)語感,提升自我英語表達(dá)閱讀能力,如果考生們覺得讀英文的雜志有些難度,并且不知該如何選擇閱讀,可以參考何凱文編寫的2018《考研英語閱讀同源外刊時(shí)文精析》。*3)1新聞要素2信息娛樂(infotainment)3《二十世紀(jì)之支那》二、簡答(1239。*4)1新聞價(jià)值和新聞?wù)叩年P(guān)系2網(wǎng)絡(luò)媒體對傳統(tǒng)媒體新聞的加工有哪些手段3新聞?dòng)浾邞?yīng)該如何妥善運(yùn)用自己的實(shí)名微博4采寫批評性報(bào)道的注意事項(xiàng)二、論述(2539。2根據(jù)給出材料寫500左右的評論,需要有評論標(biāo)題。協(xié)議書第三章第二十七條共列舉了5種由學(xué)生承擔(dān)責(zé)任的情況,其中第5項(xiàng)協(xié)議規(guī)定,學(xué)生本人對自殺、自傷引起的后果承擔(dān)責(zé)任。為此,協(xié)議書引起了新生的議論。大學(xué)生過了18周歲就成年了,有對自己負(fù)責(zé)的義務(wù)。該負(fù)責(zé)人告訴記者,協(xié)議的意義類似“溫馨提示”,是對學(xué)生的文明約定,目的是告知新生在宿舍需要注意的事項(xiàng),從而實(shí)現(xiàn)要求自律的目的。此類條款是無效的21世紀(jì)教育研究院副院長熊丙奇告