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Although Australia has a large area,（）of the continent is desert or semi-desert.
A . one third
B . two thirds
C . half
D . more than half
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It is a type of desert bush that can（）extremes of temperature.
A、adapt
B、withdraw
C、withstand
D、shade
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In the fifties last century many new cities（）in the desert
A . bring up
B . make up
C . grew up
D . build u
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The wild flowers looked like a soft orange blanket（）the desert.
A . covering
B . covered
C . cover
D . tocover
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荒漠（desert）
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18. A desert island is a sort of paradise. There the sun always shines. We sometimes imagine so.
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'The huge cake in the desert' refers to ( )in the centre of Australia.
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Deserts and high mountains have always been a ______ to the movement of people from place to place.
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Our city has many buildings which __________ those found in the West.
A.possess
B.resemble
C.accumulate
D.locate
E.are being made of
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We stood still, gazing out over the limitless_____of the desert.
A．space
B．expanse
C．stretch
D．land
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听力原文：W: Oh．no…．some TV channels have been rerunning a lot of comedies from the sixties．What do you think Of those old shows？
M: Not much．But then，the new ones aren't so great either.
Q: What does the man mean？
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A．He no longer watches much television.
B．He prefers comedies from the sixties.
C．He thinks comedies haven't improved for years.
D．He hasn't seen many of the old shows.
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__________they who did the thorough clening to the clssroom yesterdy．These w__________they who did the thorough clening to the clssroom yesterdy．These were B．Tht ws C．It ws D．Those were
A．These were
B．That was
C．It was
D．Those were
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听力原文：W: They are going to tear down our apartment building. I've got to move out before next weekend. But I just don't have any clue about housing.
M: Well, my brother is a real estate agent. I know he can help you out. Why don't you and I go to see him？
Q: What do we learn about the woman？
(6)
A．Someone is going to break into her house.
B．She has nowhere to go next weekend.
C．She can't find a real estate agent.
D．She's worried about finding a new place to live in.
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听力原文：Had you looked hard enough in the deserted room, you might have come upon the valuables yourself.
What does the speaker imply？
A．There is still something valuable in the deserted room.
B．Someone else has discovered something valuable before.
C．There was nothing valuable in the deserted room before.
D．You should come to the deserted room looking hard.
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So far, George W.Bush, as US President, has been building a future of______for all Americans.
A．ownership, riches, and possibility
B．more money, less work, and no tax
C．safety, wealth, and chance
D．education, employment, and opportunity
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听力原文：W: I've just read a curious fact. Did you know that people who spend less than 10 minutes in a drug store are five times more likely to make a purchase than those who spend half an hour there？
M: I saw that article, too. But think, if someone runs into a drug store for 10 minutes, he is usually there to make a specific purchase.
W: And someone who spends more time there may be just looking？
M: Exactly. Haven't you ever gone into a store thinking that you'll buy something and then talk yourself out of it？
W: Yes, I have. Especially when I thought I could get it for less elsewhere, or I really didn't need it after all.
M: Exactly, but, if you run in to buy something specific and have very little time, you pick it up, pay for it immediately, and then leave.
W: That's true. Maybe we should learn a lesson from that. Take your time end you'll spend less money.
M: I doubt if that would be true in all stores though. In a department store, for instance, you may see a sweater or some thing you never intend to buy, and buy it because you have time to look around.
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A．A druggist's suggestion.
B．An advertisement.
C．An article.
D．A salesclerk's comment.
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听力原文： The old house-allotting policy had at least two disadvantages. First, the government spent a lot of money building some houses, but these houses were allotted to people free of charge. Thus. the government would have no money to build more houses for people who badly needed them. Second, the persons who were in power could get more houses than those who were powerless. This was quite unfair. On the contrary, the new system of house allotment may bring about many new things. For example, the government will have more money which can be used in house construction. So, the housing industry can develop more quickly. Besides, because houses will be sold to people, the chances they get will be equal.
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Every street had a story, every building a memory. Those blessed with wonderful childhoods can drive the streets of their hometowns and happily roll back the years. The rest are pulled home by duty and leave as soon as possible. After Ray Atlee had been in Clanton (his hometown) for fifteen minutes he was anxious to get out.
The town had changed, but then it hadn't. On the highways leading in, the cheap metal buildings and mobile homes were gathering as tightly as possible next to the roads for maximum visibility. This town had no zoning whatsoever. A landowner could build anything with no permit, no inspection, no notice to adjoining landowners, nothing. Only hog farms and nuclear reactors required approvals and paperwork. The result was a slash-and-build clutter that got uglier by the year.
But in the older sections, nearer the square, the town had not changed at all. The long shaded streets were as clean and neat as when Ray roamed them on his bike. Most of the houses were still owned by people he knew, or if those folks had passed on the new owners kept the lawns clipped and the shutters painted. Only a few were being neglected. A handful had been abandoned.
This deep in Bible country, it was still an unwritten rule in the town that little was done on Sundays except go to church, sit on porches, visit neighbors, rest and relax the way God intended.
It was cloudy, quite cool for May, and as he toured his old turf, killing time until the appointed hour for the family meeting, he tried to dwell on the good memories from Clanton. There was Dizzy Dean Park where he had played little League for the Pirates, and there was the public pool he'd swum in every summer except 1969 when the city closed it rather than admit black children. There were the churches—Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian—facing each other at the intersection of Second and Elm like wary sentries, their steeples competing for height. They were empty now, but in an hour or so the more faithful would gather for evening services.
The square was as lifeless as the streets leading to it. With eight thousand people, Clanton was just large enough to have attracted the discount stores that had wiped out so many small towns. But here the people had been faithful to their downtown merchants, and there wasn't a single empty or boarded-up building around the square—no small miracle. The retail shops were mixed in with the banks and law offices and cafes, all closed for the Sabbath.
He inched through the cemetery and surveyed the Atlee section in the old part, where the tombstones were grander. Some of his ancestors had built monuments for their dead. Ray had always assumed that the family money he'd never seen must have been buried in those graves. He parked and walked to his mother's grave, something he hadn't done in years. She was buried among the Atlees, at the far edge of the family plot because she had barely belonged.
Soon, in less than an hour, he would be sitting in his father's study, sipping bad instant tea and receiving instructions on exactly how his father would be laid to rest. Many orders were about to be given, many decrees and directions, because his father (who used to be a judge) was a great man and cared deeply about how he was to be remembered.
Moving again, Ray passed the water tower he'd climbed twice, the second time with the police waiting below. He grimaced at his old high school, a place he'd never visited since he'd left it. Behind it was the football field where his brother Forrest had romped over opponents and almost became famous before getting bounced off the team.
It was twenty minutes before five, Sunday, May 7.Time for the family meeting.
From the first paragraph, we get the impression that ______.
A．Ray cherished his childhood memories.
B．Ray had something urgent to take care of.
C．Ray may not have a happy childhood.
D．Ray cannot remember his childhood days.
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Last year, America's Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA, thought it would be a good idea to organize a robot race across the Nevada desert. The idea of the Grand Challenge, as DARPA dubbed it, was for autonomous robot vehicles to steer a 227 km(142 mile) course and claim a $1 m jackpot. This would be a first step towards DARPA's ultimate goal of being able to build unmanned self-driving military vehicles and thus keep American troops out of harm's way on the battlefield.
This year's crop of 23 entrants were offered an even greater incentive—a $2m prize for the winner. That, plus the intervening 18 months, seems to have done the trick. This time, five vehicles finished the 211 km course. The winner, a modified Volkswagen Touareg dubbed Stanley by its makers, a team from Stanford University, did it in a mere six hours and 54 minutes.
Stanley was, of course, specially hardened by its designers for the rough terrain of the Nevada desert. The clever bit, however, was the vehicle's brain. This was designed and built by the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL).
Stanley's brain consists of six top-of-the-range Pentium chips wired collaboratively together. It is programmed with special software that is able to learn from its mistakes. This software mastered the tricks of collision-avoidance in a series of desert test runs conducted before the race started.
Like all brains, Stanley's has a range of sensory inputs to process. A global positioning system (GPS) receiver tells it where on the Earth's surface it is. Television cameras, radar and four laser based distance monitors tell it what its surroundings are like. By comparing its GPS location with its pre-programmed destination (announced only a few hours before the race began), it knew which way it wanted to go. And, by studying its surroundings, it could work out what looked like the safest route that was also in approximately the right direction.
Although Stanley carried off the laurels, the other four finishers did respectably. Sandstorm managed a time just ten minutes behind the winner while her sister vehicle Highlander came in ten minutes after that. GrayBot and TerraMax, the other two course-completers, came in at seven hours 30 minutes and 12 hours 51 minutes, respectively.
So smart, autonomous vehicles can, indeed, find their way across several hundred kilometres of desert. The question is, what next？ DARPA's answer, of course, will be to go down the military route. But this sort of technology has obvious civilian applications as well, as Sebastian Thrun, the head of both SAIL and the Stanford racing team, is keen to emphasize.
Dr. Thrun thinks that it could lead to self-driving road vehicles within 30 years and—more immediately—to greatly improved collision-avoidance systems. Whether the freeways of California will prove as easy to navigate as the gulches of Nevada, though, remains to be seen.
The purpose of holding a robot race is to
A．adventure through the Nevada desert.
B．delevop unpiloted vehicles for military use.
C．win a $lm jackpot.
D．keep American troops unharmed.
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Those who are in favor of artistic and cultural projects advocate that cultural environment will attract more tourists, which will bring huge profits to local residents.Some people even equate the building of such projects with the improving of economic construction.
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For miles around us there was nothing but a desert, without a single plant_____.
A、on earth.
B、at a distance.
C、in sight.
D、in place.
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Louln City is nottll__________ trveler who hs never seen the desert before cn expect.th9.Louln City is nottll__________ trveler who hs never seen the desert before cn expect.tht B．wht C．which D．Where
A．that
B．what
C．which
D．Where
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desert（）
A．描述
B．沙漠
C．欲望
此题为多项选择题。
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Some travelers passed through the desert.
