【正文】 (注意：短文中不得出現(xiàn)考生姓名、校名及其他相關(guān)信息，否則不予評(píng)分 。 more than anything else, they speak of the nature that many people value most dearly. The 38 to leave the subject of such images untouched is strong, and the danger exploitation brings to such landscapes is real. Some of these wildernesses also perform 39 that humans need— the rainforests, for example, store carbon in vast quantities. Lee Lane, a 40 fellow at the Hudson Institute, takes the opposing view. He acknowledges that wildernesses do provide useful services, such as water conservation. But that is not, he argues, a reason to avoid all human presence, or indeed mercial and 41 exploitation. There are ever more people on the Earth, and they reasonably and rightfully want to have better lives, rather than merely struggle for 42 . While the ways of using resources have improved, there is still a growing need for raw materials, and some wildernesses contain them in abundance. If they can be tapped without reducing the services those wildernesses provide, the argument goes, there is no 43 reason not to do so. Being untouched is not, in itself, a characteristic worth valuing above all others. I look forward to seeing these views taken further, and to their being 44 by the other participants. One opinion is that both cases need to take on the question of spiritual value a little more directly. And there is a practical question as to whether wildernesses can be exploited without harm. This is a 45 that calls for not only free expression of feelings, but also the guidance of reason. What position wilderness should enjoy in the preservation of the world obviously deserves much more serious thinking. III. Reading prehension (30%) Section A Directions: For each blank in the following passage, there are four words marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context. Winston Churchill began his love affair with painting in his 40s, under disastrous circumstances. _____46____ First Lord of the Admiralty (海軍 ) in 1915, he was deeply involved in a campaign in Dardanelles that could have _____47____the course of a bloody world war. _____48____when the mission failed, with great loss of life, he paid price both publicly and privately. He was _____49_____from the admiralty. “ Defeated by the failure, I thought he would _____50_____grief,” said his wife， Clementine. He retired with his family to Hoe Farm. There, as Churchill later recalled, “ The inspiration of painting came to my _____51_____!” After the war, painting would offer deep _____52_____when, in 1921, the death of mother was followed two months later by the _____53____of his beloved daughter, Marigold. Hit by grief, Churchill stayed at the home of friends in Scotland, finding fort in his painting. He wrote to Clementine: “ I went out and painted a beautiful river in the afternoon light with golden hills in the _____54_____. I keep feeling the hurt of losing Marigold” . Historians have called the decade after 1929, when the Conservative government fell and Churchill was _____55_____, his wilderness years. Politically he may have been wandering in waste places, a lonely fighter trying to awaken Britain to the threat of Hitler, but artistically that wilderness bore great fruit. 46. A. For B. As C. With D. To 47. A. delayed B. advanced C. improved D. shortened 48. A. Because B. For C. But D. Since 49. A. removed B. moved C. appointed D. obtained 50. A. persist in B. hold on C. put up D. die of 51. A. rescue B. view C. grief D. belief 52. A. passion B. fort C. emotion D. confidence 53. A. loss B. recovery C. failure D. success 54. A. book B. background C. back D. album 55. A. out of date B. in office C. in power D. out of office Section B Directions: Read the following four passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read. (A) The owner of an Alabama Chinese restaurant named “Good Friend” shot at a customer who plained about a bug in her egg roll Thursday night. The bullet narrowly missed 20yearold Birmingham resident Jatari Walker who told the Daily News she is scarred by the entire experience. “I can’t sleep,” she said