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V
. Reading
Comprehension (15%)
A
It was 3.21 a. m. when nine
-
year
-
old Glenn Kreamer awoke to the smell of burning.
Except for the crackling
（爆裂声）
of flames somewhere
below there was not a sound
in the two
-
storey
house at Baldwin, Long Island.
With his father away on night duty at a
local factory, Glenn was worried about the
safety of his mother, his
sister Karen, 14 and his 12
-
year
-
old brother Todd. He
ran
downstairs through the
smoke
-
filled house to push
and pull at Karen and Todd until
they sat up. Then he helped each on
through the house to the safety of the garden.
There, his sister and
brother, taking short and quick breaths and
coughing, collapsed
on the
lawn.
The nine
-<
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year
-
old raced
back into the house and upstairs to his mother's
room. He
found it
impossible to wake her up. Mrs. Kreamer, a victim
of the smoke, was
unconscious, and there was nobody to
help Glenn carry her to the garden. But the boy
remained calm and, as a
fireman said later, acted with all the
self
-
control of a trained
adult.
On the bedroom telephone, luckily still
working, Glenn called his father and, leaving
Mr. Kreamer to telephone
the fire brigade and ambulance service, got on
with the task
of saving his
mother.
First he filled a
bucket with water from the bathroom and threw
water over his mother
and
her bed. Then, with a wet cloth around his head he
went back to the garden.
He
could hear the fire engine coming up, but how
would the firemen find his mother in
the smoke
-
filled
house where flames had almost swallowed up the
ground floor?
Grasping
firmly a ball of string from the garage, Glenn
raced back into the house and
dashed upstairs to his mother's room.
Tying one end of the string to her hand he ran
back, laying out the string
as he went, through the hall and back out into the
garden.
Minutes later he
was telling fire chief John Coughlan :The string
will lead you to
mother.
Mrs. Kreamer was carried to safety as the flames
were breaking through her
bedroom floor.
71
．
Why did Glenn
run downstairs first?
A
．
He wanted to
find out what was happening.
B
．
He was worried about his
mother's
safety.
C
．
He
wanted to save his sister and brother.
D
．
He went to see
if his father had come
back.
72
．
Who called the
fire brigade and ambulance service?
A
．
Glenn.
B
．
Glenn's father.
C
．
Glenn's sister.
D
．
Glenn's neighbor.
73
．
What did Glenn
do to protect himself?
A
．
He put a wet
cloth around his head.
B
．
He threw water
all over himself.
C
．
He hid himself
in the bathroom.
D
．
He rushed out
to the lawn.
74
．
Glenn saved
his family because __________.
A
．
his father had
taught him to do so on the phone
B
．
he had learned
something about
first aid
C
．
he
had dealt with the emergency calmly and wisely
D
．
he had followed his
mother's
instruction
B
There are three separate sources of
danger in supplying energy by nuclear power
(
原子能
).
First, the radioactive material must
travel from its place of production to the power
station.
Although the power stations themselves
are strongly built, the containers used for the
transport of the materials
are not. Normally, only two methods of transport
are in use,
namely road or
rail, Unfortunately, both of these may have an
effect on the general
public, since they are sure to pass
near, or even through, heavily populated areas.
Second, there is the
problem of waste. All nuclear power stations
produce wastes that
in most
cases will remain radioactive for thousands of
years. It is impossible to make
these wastes nonradioactive, and so
they must be stored in one of the inconvenient
ways that scientists have
invented. For example, they may be buried under
the ground,
or dropped into
deserted mines, or sunk in the sea. However, these
methods do not
solve the
problem, since an earthquake could easily break
the containers.
Third,
there may occur the danger of a leak
(
泄漏
) or an explosion at the
power station.
As with the
other two dangers, this is not very likely, so it
does not provide a serious
objection to the nuclear program.
However, it can happen.
Separately, these three types of
dangers are not a great cause for worry. Taken
together, though, the
probability of disaster (
灾难
)
is extremely high.
75.
Which of the following if FALSE?
A. It is possible that a leak or an
explosion occurs at a power station.
B. It is unusual for radioactive
materials to be transported across land.
C. The containers are
likely to be broken by an earthquake.
D. Nuclear wastes remain dangerous in
most cases for many years.
76. The author thinks that the ways to
store nuclear wastes are
.
A. easy
B. impossible
C.
reasonable
D. ineffective
77. What do we learn from the last
paragraph?
A. The power
station is a safe place.
B.
The dangers of nuclear energy can be prevented.
C. The general public are
strongly against the nuclear program.
D. By itself, none of the three dangers
is very likely to cause much worry.
78. What is this passage about?
A. Uses of nuclear power.
B. Dangers from
nuclear power.
C. Public
anger at nuclear power.
D.
Accidents caused by nuclear power.
C
There is one
foreign product the Japanese are buying faster
faster than others
，
and its
popularity has caused an
uneasy feeling among many Japanese.
That product is foreign words.
Gairaigo
-
words
that comefrom outside have been part of the
Japanese language for
centuries. Mostly borrowed from English
and terms are often changed
into forms
no
longer understood by native speakers.
But in the last few years the
trickle(
涓涓细流
)of foreign
words has become a