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照 。s professional standing and ine are related to their educational background. 62. From the underlined sentences in the last paragraph, we can know that Dr. Du Bois39。s socioeconomic status in America remains low. C. People39。s findings that______. A. Racial discriminations are widespread in the professional world. B. Many applicants don39。s not the nameit39。s a decision that papers over the urgency of continued progress. Perhaps a new phrase is needed, one that can bring everyone one big step closer to realizing Du Bois39。s an argument to be made for electing to use African American, though one can39。s salary, professional standing, and educational background. The AfricanAmerican group estimated that he earned about $ 37,000 a year and had a twoyear college degree. The Black group, on the other hand, put his salary at about $ 29,000, and guessed that he had only some college experience. Nearly threequarters of the first group guessed that worked at a managerial level, while only Hall39。 control. In one of the study39。s most striking findings shed light on the racial discriminations permeating the professional world. Even seemingly harmless details on a CV, it appears, can tap into recruiters39。t identified what that gap in perception was derived from. A recent study, conducted by Emory University39。s good for us—getting birds to do the work is cheap and effective— and it could give vulnerable oaks and pines the option to truly make like a tree and leave. 56. According to the article, what makes birds help trees move form one place to another?______ A. They want to make the environment better for them to survive. B. They want to change the trees into another kind. C. They want to store the nuts for winter survival D. They are forced to help trees. 57. Which does the underlined word in the last paragraph mean? _______ A growing in a better way. B being forced to give up C changing D finding a mysterious way to survive. is the best title of this passage? ________ A. Birds may help trees cope with climate change. B. Birds rely on nuts to survive. C. Trees help fight air pollution. D. Birds make trees in danger B One hundred years ago, Colored was the typical way of referring to Americans of African descent. Twenty years later, it was purposefully dropped to make way for Negro. By the late 1960s, that term was overtaken by Black. And then, at a press conference in Chicago in 1988, Jesse Jackson declared that African American was the term to wele. This one was chosen because it echoed the labels of groups, such as Italian Americans and Irish Americans, that had already been freed of widespread discrimination. A century39。s nutcracker and its cousins in a new review paper, in the journal The Condor: Ornithological Applications. They also write that, as trees outgrow their ideal habitats in the face of climate change, or battle new insects and disease, these flying ecosystem engineers could be a big help replanting trees. It39。s likely that the climatic envelope, so the temperature, humidity, soil position and so on suits it, because it would otherwise be unable to grow from a seedling. But as it ages, these conditions may change and the area around it may no longer be suitable for its offspring. And if that happens? Walnuts, hazelnuts, chestnuts, oaks, pines—many rely exclusively on socalled scatterhoarders, like birds, to move their hefty seeds to new locales. Many members of the family Corvidae—the crows, jays and magpies—are scatterhoarders. Meaning they like to store food for the winter, which they then subsequently retrieve. Or not. And when they do fet something, a seedling has a chance to grow, sometimes a good distance away. The Clark39。s harder to uproot. Because it39。 take the time you need to really immerse yourself in the emotion. Then, when you feel you’ve felt it 55 , release it—really let go of it. You will be surprised at how quickly you can move on from a negative situation and get to what you really want to do! 36. A. sadness B. frustration C. regret D. sorrow 37. A. heart B. thought C. mind D. body 38. A. move B. survive C. talk D. think 39. A. next B. first C. last D. very 40. A. beginning B. end C. middle D. start 41. A. calm B. relax C. wait D. stop 42. A. pletely B. immediately C. hardly D. never 43. A. destroy B. torture C. consume D. escape 44. A. abandon B. cheat C. blame D. doubt 45. A. anything B. something C. everything D. nothing 46. A. holding on B. giving in C. looking forward up 47. A. till B. as C. before D. once 48. A. defeat B. fight C. feel D. fet 49. A. clears B. escapes C. releases D. runs 50. A. Therefore B. Otherwise C. Moreover D. But 51. A. space B. reason C. chance D. time 52. A. other than B. more than C. rather than D. less than 53. A. adding to B. taking away C. subjecting to to 54. A. gains B. takes D. loses 55. A. already B. enough C. gone D. long 第三部分 閱讀理解(共 15小題;每小題 2分,滿分 30分) 請(qǐng)認(rèn)真閱讀下列短文 , 從短文后各題所給的 A、 B、 C、 D 四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中 , 選出最佳選項(xiàng) , 并在答題紙上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。 what 33. It is not worth it to waste our energy worrying about things that are beyond our control, just like that I cannot control whether or not I __________ getting the disease swine flu, for example. A. wind up B. take up C. set down D. e down 34. For successful people in the world, they always find brightness in the bad situation. _________others see a closed door, they see an open window. A. what B. How C. Where D. When 35. Have you got any paper on you? __________, but I have none at all. mean it wouldn’t say n