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tation D. The amount of water the machine produces is roughly a mouthful. is the main idea of the fifth paragraph ? A. How the machine works. B. Who developed the machine. C. How the machine was invented. D. Why the machine was invented.. does Mattias Ronge think of the machine?____ A. The machine can solve the severe water shortage in the world. B. People do not like the water the machine processes C. The machine should be used in rather hot areas in summer. D. The machine is not worth popularizing. D Scientists at Harvard University have recycled a kidney(‘ 腎 )in a rat. The researchers removed a kidney from a dead rat. Later, the renewed kidney was put into a living rat. It wasn39。s really beautiful work, Edward Ross, a kidney researcher at the University of Florida in Gainesville, told Science News. He didn39。s kidneys filter(過濾 ) enough blood to fill a bathtub half full. Along the way, they produce eight cups of urine(尿 ) from that waste and water. When a person39。s team at Harvard started with a used kidney. Scientists added kidney cells from rats and blood vessel cells from people to the matrix(母體) . These cells attached themselves and began to multiply. Before long, they formed new kidney tissue. The scientists placed this renewed kidney into another rat. There it produced a small amount of urine. This experiment shows that the labgrown kidney can do at least some of the work performed by a healthy kidney. The results are a promising first step toward helping people with serious kidney problems. This is still very early, but they39。s hard to put the rebuilt kidney into the rat. C. Kidneys are very important to our life. D. A used kidney may be recycled for new life. 33. What does Paragraph 3 mainly talk about? A. The relationship between kidneys and health. B. The difficulty of curing serious kidney diseases. C. The function and importance of kidneys. D. The methods of curing kidneys diseases. 34. For what purpose does the author use the figure 100,000 in Paragraph 4? A. To stress used kidneys are hard to get. B. To show the great need for healthy kidneys. C. To explain many American people get kidney diseases. D. To call on people to donate kidneys. 35. Which of the following is true according to the text? A. The scientists are satisfied with the result of the experiment. B. Ross is a kidney expert who is involved in the experiment. C. The function of the renewed kidney is the same as a healthy kidney. D. The renewed kidney produced a great deal of urine. 第二節(jié)(共 5小題;每小題 2分,滿分 10分) 根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容,從短文后的選項中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項。 Although problems are a part of our lives, it certainly doesn’t mean that we let them rule our lives forever. One day or the other, you’ll have to sta nd up and say – problem, I don’t want you in my life. 36 Problems with friends, parents, girlfriends, husbands, and children – the list goes on. Apart from these, the inner conflicts within ourselves work, too. These keep adding to our problems. Problems e in different shapes and colors and feelings. But good news is that all problems can be dealt with. Now read on to know how to solve your problems. Talk, it really helps. What most of us think is that our problem can be understood only by us and that no talking is going to help. 37 Talking helps you move on and let go. Write your problems. 38 When you write down your problems, you are setting free all the tension from your system. You can try throwing away the paper on which you wrote your problems. By doing this, imagine yourself throwing away the problems from your life. Don’t lose faith and hope. No matter what you lose in life, don’t lose faith and hope. Even if you lose all your money, family? you should still have faith. 39 Your problems aren’t the worst. No matter what problem you get in life, there’re another one million people whose problems are huger than yours. 40 Your problems might just seem big and worse, but in reality they can be removed. Go about and solve your problems because every problem, however big or small, always has a way out. A. But the truth is that when you talk about it, you’re setting free the negative energies that have been gathering within you. B. When we have a problem, a pressing, critical, urgent, lifethreatening problem, how do we try and solve it? C. We can often overe the problem and achieve the goal by making a direct attack. D. Having a personal diary can also be of huge help if you don’t want a real person to talk with. E. With faith and hope, you can rebuild everything that you lose. F. Of course, we’ve been fight ing troubles ever since we were born. G. Tell yourself: when they can deal with them, why can’t I? 笫三部分 英語知識運用(共 三 節(jié),滿分 45分) 第一節(jié) 完形填空(共 20小題;每小題 1分,滿分 20 分) 閱讀下面短文,從短文后各題所給的四個選項( A、 B、 C和 D)中,選出可以填入空白處 Every time I passed boys who were playing basketball, I stopped to silently watch them. I really 41 them. But as a girl, I once thought that I could never play basketball. I like playing basketball though I39。ve had a basketball 42 I was a child. At first, I could play freely because no one 43 when I was just a kid. But as I grew up it seemed harder and harder for me to enjoy basketball. At school, it was always t