【正文】 ing C. demanding D. convincing 49. A. found B. touched C. noticed D. grasped 50. A. away B. aboard C. apart D. aside 51. A. safety B. relief C. aid D. fort 52. A. health B. mood C. condition D. identity 53. A. at work B. at ease C. at service D. at hand 54. A. plained B. reported C. admitted D. argued 55. A. experience B. excuse C. reputation D. memory 第三部分 閱讀理解 (共 15 小題；每小題 2 分，滿分 30 分 ) A In the ing months, we are bringing together artists from all over the globe, to enjoy speaking Shakespeare’s plays in their own language, in our Globe, within the architecture Shakespeare wrote for. Please e and join us. National Theatre of China Beijing|Chinese This great occasion will be the national theatre of china’s first visit to the UK. The pany’s productions show the new face of 21st century Chinese theatre. This production of Shakespeare’s Richard III will be directed by the National’s Associate Director, Wang Xiaoying. Date amp。 Sunday 29 April, 1:30pm amp。 Time: Friday 18 May, 2:30pm amp。 Time: Tuesday 22 May, 2:30pm amp。 Time: Monday 28 May, 7:30 amp。s never too early to bee an entrepreneur. Just ask 13yearold David Moore. The eighthgrader has launched a pany last October to develop lowcost machines to print Braille (布萊葉盲文 ). David built a Braille printer with a Lego Mindstorms EV3 kit as a school science fair project last year after he asked his parents a simple question: How do blind people read? Google it, they told him. David then did some online research and was shocked to learn that Braille printers cost at least $2,000 — too expensive for most blind readers. I just thought that price should not be there. I know that there is a simpler way to do this, said David, who demonstrated how his printer works at the kitchen table where he spent many late nights building it. David wants to improve the “Braigo”—a name that bines Braille and Lego—and develop a desktop Braille printer that costs around $350 and weighs just a few pounds, pared with current models that can weigh more than 20 pounds. My end goal would probably be having most of the blind people ... using my Braille printer, said David, who lives in the Silicon Valley suburb of Santa Clara, just minutes away from Intel headquarters. After the Braigo won numerous awards and enthusiastic support from the blind munity, David started Braigo Labs last summer with an initial $35,000 investment from his dad. We as parents started to get involved more, thinking that he39。s printer that in November they invested an undisclosed sum in his startup. They believe he39。s solving a real problem, and he wants to go off and challenge an existing industry, said Edward Ross, director of Inventor Platforms at Intel. Now the pany is using the money to hire professional engineers and advisers to help design and build Braille printers based on David’s ideas. It aims to have a prototype (樣機 ) ready for blind anizations to test this summer and have a Braigo printer on the market later this year. 58. Which of the followings is Not the description of Braigo? A. The name Braigo es from Braille and Lego. B. The blind are in favor of the new type of printer. C. It costs less money and weighs just a few pounds. D. David planned to improve Braigo and make it lighter but easier to use. 59. Which of the following words can best describe David’s personalities? A. Adventurous and enthusiastic. B. Trustworthy and active. C. Childish and outgoing. D. Creative and independent. 60. Which of the following is the correct order? ① Intel officials invested money in David’s startup. ② David launched a pany. ③ David got an initial $35,000 investment from his dad. ④ David created a new Braille printer model called Braigo. ⑤ Braigo Labs hired professional engineers and advisers to help design and build Braille Printers. A. ④③②①⑤ B. ④②⑤①③ C. ③⑤④②① D. ②①④⑤③ C It is believed that a period of mass extinction, which happened between 234 and 232 million years ago during the Triassic period, enabled the booming of dinosaurs. This extinction is thought to have been caused by a period of unstable climate called the Carnian Pluvial Episode (CPE), in which the climate went from dry, to wet, to dry again four times over the course of 2m years. The earliest fossil remains that are widely agreed to be those of a dinosaur e from Tanzania and date from about 245m years ago. For the next 10m years or so, however, dinosaurs are nothing special. In collections of the bones of land animals they form about 5% of the total. But then the percentage starts to rise and within 5m years or less they dominate (處于首要位置 ) such collections, while other groups of creatures decrease and eventually disappear. The bones show a huge turnover of species, and that this coincides with the CPE. The bone evidence, however, is restricted mainly to what are now Argentina and Brazil. Massimo Bernardi of the Museum of Sciences in Trento, Italy sought to prove it elsewhere, and with a different type of evidence—the tracks they left behind. Dr Bernardi and his colleagues identified more than 20 sets of such tracks, called ichnoassociations, in Dolomite rocks laid down during the relevant part of the Triassic. The Dolomite ichnoassociations, they found, fall into three groups. The oldest show no signs of dinosaur tracks. In those of middling age, about 40% of the tracks have been laid down by dinosaurs. In the most recent, that proportion is 90%. The relative ages of rock layers are easy to see. Unless a rock formation has been turned upside down by movement of Earth’s crust, young layers will be at the top and old ones at the bottom. That is how Dr Bernardi knew which tracks were older and which younger. Working out absolute ages, though, is harder. The Dolomites’