【正文】 Which food is NOT fit for breakfast?A Fat meatC Who Came First，the Chicken or the Egg？I just mailed the chicken and the egg, each in its own separate packaging, and kept careful track of when each shipment was sent from a post office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and when it later arrived at its intended destination in New York mailing the chicken, I was careful to adhere to the restrictions described in the American Postal Service39。s Domestic Mail Manual 57, as updated on April 3, , the most recent, version of the Manual states that: ”Adult chickens must be sent by Express containers used must pass the standards in International Safe Transit Association Test Procedure IA。be strong enough to endure normal handling。and ensure enough air for the chickens in number of birds must not be more than the container39。s limit.“ I mailed the chicken in a wooden box got from a colleague who does research with , I mailed the egg in standard packaging obtained through an industrial 39。s quite posted both the chicken and the egg at 9:40 am, on a Monday morning, from the Harvard Square post office, in Cambridge, staff there told me that this was the first chicken anyone had mailed from there in recent memory, and perhaps handled both the chicken and the egg skillfully and intended destination for both packages was the James General Post Office, which is located in Manhattan right next to the Penn Station train took the subway from the Harvard Square to the Boston train station, and from there boarded a train to New York City, a distance of about 320 kilometers, arriving that afternoon at Penn immediately went to the post office, to await the arrivals of the chicken and the James General Post Office is open 24 hours a day, so I was able to wait there until both items inquired once per hour for both the chicken and the day, Monday, neither the chicken nor the egg next day, Tuesday, neither the chicken nor the egg chicken arrived at 10:31 am, staff at the post office told me that this was the first chicken anyone had mailed to the post office in recent memory, and perhaps egg arrived that same day, at 9:37pm, 11 hours after the on experiment data, it39。s now quite clear that the chicken came first, the egg Which of the following is NOT required of a container?A It should be It should be made of It should be sufficiently It should be Why did the author go to New York City?A Because he had never been there Because he wanted to show that he could arrive before both the chicken and the Because he had sent the chicken and the egg to Because he wanted to check which of the two items would arrive How did he go to New York City?A By By By tube and By When did the chicken arrive?A On At 9：37 pm， On Eleven hours before the eggWhat did he do all this for?A To amuse the reader with an unlikely answer to the chickenoregg To know if animals like chickens could be To know if eggs would break on the way to their To show that he was highly ：補(bǔ)全短文（第46～50題，每題2分，共10分）下面的短文有5處空白，短文后有6個(gè)句子，其中5個(gè)取自短文，請根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容將其分別放回原有位置，以恢復(fù)文章原貌。How Did She Conquer the Americans?AfricanAmerican talk show queen Oprah Winfrey is the world39。s most powerful celebrity，according to Forbes magazine.（46）Winfrey, 51, draws 30 million viewers weekly in the United talk show reaches 112 earned US$225 million over the past 12 months to rank second in celebrity annual Forbes list gives most weight to annual earnings.（47）”After 21 years, her exciting chat show still rules the created new celebrities and hundreds of millions of dollars in profits,“ the magazine is most popular with her popular talk show ”The Oprah Winfrey Show“.She can always attract the superstars and let them open up to her intimate interviewing month, American actor Tom Cruise, 42, surprised fans when he celebrated his new romance with 26yearold actress Katie jumped up and down, shouting ”I39。m in love.“ Only a few years ago, Cruise and his exwife Nicole Kidman appeared separately on the same show telling the news of their divorce.(48)Winfrey39。s approach appears to be is in pursuit of selfimprovement and selfempowerment（自強(qiáng)）。This has proved to be just what people，especially women， often talks about her personal secrets on her pulls in example, she revealed that she had been sexually abused as a child, and has spoken freely of her struggle with her was born to a poor family in Mississippi in 1954（49）At the age of 19，she became the youngest person and the first AfricanAmerican woman to anchor（主持）a news success has not just been on the media group includes a women39。s TV network and websites for 39。s work has extended to social change.（50）She testified before the US Senate to establish a national database of dangerous child Bill Clinton later signed ”O(jiān)prah Bill“ into lawA In 1991，she did a lot of work for the National Child Protection ActB She was not a very successful womanC She began broadcasting while still at high schoolD it placed Winfrey at the top of its annual ranking of the 100 people last The couple had been tightlipped about their breakupF But it also looks at the celebrity39。s presence on the Internet and in the media第6部分：完形填空（第51～65題，每題1分，共15分）下面的短文有15處空白，請根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容為每處空白確定1個(gè)最佳選項(xiàng)。Pretty GoodWhen Spanish football club Barcelona paid US$35 million for Ronaldinho last summer，they weren39。t buying a pretty face.”I am（51），“ admits the Brazilian superstar（超級明星）?！盉ut everyone has got a different kind of I（52）have is charm.“Indeed he buck teeth（齙牙），flowing hair，big smile，and of course his（53）skills are always eyecatching on the 23year=old striker（中鋒）scored two goals in a 32 win over Deportivo La Coruna on March was Barcelona39。s sixth win in a row and，thanks to their Brazilian39。s 10goal contribution，（54）looked like a poor season could now end a name Ronaldo De Assis Moreirais one of many South Americans who learned their skills playing in the backstreets before(55)them off on the world things w