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Passage1（共4句）1. Among his first efforts in this area was ―Tommy Tucker’s Tooth‖ (1922), a short combining live action and animation made on assignment for a local dentist.2. A 1945 Look magazine article, titled ―Walt Disney: Teacher of Tomorrow,‖ described Disney as ―revolutionizing an educational system‖ and cited how the Donald Duck short ―The New Spirit,‖ made for the United States Treasury Department, affected 37 percent of Americans regarding their willingness to pay taxes3. This film contributed to Disney’s being presented with an award of merit, for his contribution to public safety, by the Automobile Club of Southern California.4. I’m not an educator. My primary purpose is to entertain – though if people want to read education into my work, that’s fine with me.Passage 2（共3句）1. Diffusion is the process by which molecules or ions scatter or spread from regions where they are in higher concentrations towards regions where they are in lower concentrations.2. Such motion is haphazard, but it accounts for the mixing of molecules that commonly occurs when different kinds of substances are put together.3. Osmosis is a special kind of diffusion. It occurs whenever water molecules diffuse from a region of higher concentration through a selectively permeable membrane, such as a cell membrane.Passage3（共2句）1. One of the problems of watching weather forecasts on TV is that by the time they have reached your region, you have tuned out and missed the vital information you have been waiting for. But it is not a problem in the United States because they have a weather channel devoted entirely to weather. Set up in 1982, the Weather Channel was given just weeks to survive by its critics, but such is the interest in the vagaries of the climate that it has thrived.2. Weather is big business in the United States. The country has 750 weather zones, including eight in the New York metropolitan area alone.Passage 4（共2句）1. The Julian calendar devised by Julius Caesar and based on the phases of the moon, had trouble pinning down that date.2.Aside from setting the first year of the Lord around Jesus’ fourth birthday, it does not had not account for a year 0.The concept of a whole number between minus-one and one had not yet made the journey from the Arab world to Western Europe.Passage5（共7句）1. Do you think it is possible to defeat an opponent so fierce that a glance at her turns one to stone ? This was the fate of anyone who looked upon the Medusa , a dreaded monster whose hair was made of hissing serpents.2. The brave Perseus undertook to fight the Medusa , but he was compelled to do battle in a most awkward manner .To help Perseus in his venture ,the goddess Minerva had lent him her bright shield ,and the god Mercury had given him winged shoes .3. Cautiously he approached the awesome monster .Using the image of the Medusa in his shield as a guide , he succeeded in cutting off her head and fixing it to the center of Minerva’s shield4. Perseus then flew to the realm of King Atlas whose chief pride was his garden filled with golden fruit . Thirsty and near collapse , he pleaded with the King for water to quench his thirst and for a place to rest .5. But Atlas feared that he would be betrayed into losing his golden apples . He uttered just one word ,―Begone!‖Perseus ,finding that he could not pacify Atlas , responded by beckoning him to look upon Medusa’s head .Atlas was changed immediately into stone6. His head and hair became forests , his body increased in bulk and became cliffs , and the gods ruled that the heaven with all its stars should rest upon his shoulders . Can there be a worse calamity than that which befell Atlas ?7. Using the image of the Medusa in his shield as a guide, he succeeded in cutting off her head and fixing it to the center of Minerva’s shield.Passage6（共4句）1. The key to achieving this seemingly unbelievable feat lies in knowing how to make the most of a very natural sleep phenomenon – dreaming.2. Your dream can provide you with realistic options, spicy subplots, and believable complications for your story.3. Let the images that filled your mind during the dream return.4. To prepare for the dream, write a description in your notebook of the character’s persona lity, physical traits, tastes in music and art---whatever unique characteristics you intend to give her.Passage 7（共4句）1. After some months, the choice was made and work was about to begin when one of the companies which had not been successful complained to the Minister.2. They said that the official who had been responsible for advising him on the choice of a company to do the work had accepted bribes.3. The Minister at once ordered an inquiry into the whole matter, and after a month has proof that the official had indeed taken bribes.4. I did not just take on from the company to which I recommended that you should give the work. I took a bribe from each company to favour it in my choice of the one to recommend.Passage 8（共8句）1. The prototypes are frozen solid in huge refrigerators, flooded in artificial rainstorms, driven through mud and water and up hills as steep as the steepest hill in San Francisco.2. Attempts to limit female mobility by hampering locomotion are ancient and almost universal.3. They are twisted screeching around sharp corners, jolted over cobblestones, and lifted off the ground and suddenly dropped.4. A special machine opens and slams a prototype’s doors 80,000 times, and other instruments test the brakes and the amount of gasoline and oil the engine uses.5. Since the same type cars will be sold to customers in Maine as well as Arizona, and Montana as well as Florida, the engineers want to be sure that they will stand up under all kinds of weather and road conditions.6. Among the most severe tests is a head-on collision with another car.7. This shows them whether the car is wearing as well as they had expected, or if changes are necessary.8. Through such tests, engineers designed a collapsing steering column and controlled crush front end and frame to protect drivers from serious injury in case of accident.Passage 9（共5句）1. The cliché in legal circles is that ―where there’s a will there are relatives‖2. Countless millions of families have been torn apart and caused immeasurable pain and expense because the income producer neglected to write a will.3. There even have been cases in which families have split apart over a set of soup bowls or a couple of clay pots-because a will failed to spell out how the crockery should be divided.4. They didn’t know the groom well enough to be sure of him, and they had no use for his father, a widower.5. Most people will take just about any advice on how to expand their wealth – but these same people will fail utterly to explore the most economical ways of passing on their assets to their survivors.Passage 10（共5句）1. What’s so frightening about this so-called silent killer is that it often does not produce symptoms for years,secretly damaging arteries and organs throughout the body until it erupts in the form of (stroke,heart attack,congestive heart failure or kidney disease).2. If left untreated, even mild hypertension can reduce the life expectancy of a 35-year-old by several years.3. Evaluating the results of a 13-year survey undertaken by the National Center for Health Statistics, James H. Dwyer, associate professor of preventive medicine at the University of Southern California School of Medicine, found that people who consumed 1300 milligrams of calcium a day were 12 percent less likely to develop hypertension than those consuming only 300 mg a day.4. Our studies shows that people who try the low-soddium approach don’t stay with it very long.5. Soon doctors may urge some hypertension patients to increase their calcium intake, much the way they now advise sodium restriction.Passage11（共3句）1. If a foreign film is captivating – say the Chinese drama Raise the Red Lantern– within a few minutes the subtitles melt away2. One forgets that the characters are speaking a different language, and the message of the film, its plot, its humor, come through.3. On his song My Heart, My Life, he also experiments with phrasing that is more direct than the unworldly style of his qawwali work.Passag12（共4句）1. Is hunting, as Oscar Wilde said, ―the unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable,‖ or is it a countryside tradition, misunderstood and defamed by over-sentimental city dwellers?2. They use guerrilla tactics to disrupt hunts and end up in violent struggles with the riders , much to the delight of television crews3. They see hunting as cruel, elitist and an inefficient way of controlling animals that may not to be controlled anyway.4. They accuse hunters of abusing not only the foxes , deer and hares that they chase, but also of cruelty to the hounds and sometimes to their horses.Passage13（共2句）1. Unmarked and trackless though the ocean may seem to us, its surface is divided into definite zones, and the patternof the surface water controls the distribution of its life.(P1,L1)2. Seasonal abundance of certain forms containing reddish or brown pigments may cause the ―red water‖ known from ancient time in many parts of the world, and so common is this condition in some enclosed seas that they owe their names to it—the Red Sea is an example.(P4,L3)Passage 14（共7句）1. Currently, rules on using these devices are left up to individual airlines.2. And although some airlines prohibit passengers from using such equipment during take-off and landing, most are reluctant to enforce a total ban, given that many passengers want to work during flights.3. The source of this interference remains unconfirmed, but increasingly, experts are pointing the blame at portable electronic devices such as laptops, mobile phones, radio and cassette players and game machines.4. Some experts have gone further, calling for a total ban during all flights. calling for5. And although some airlines prohibit passengers from using such equipment during take-off and landing, most are reluctant to enforce a total ban, given that many passengers want to work during flights.6. Experts know that portable devices emit radiation which affects those wavelengths which aircraft use for navigation and communication.7.The fact that aircraft may be vulnerable to interference raises（增加，引发）the risk that terrorists may deliberately tamper with radio systems in order to sabotage navigation equipment.Passage 15（共5句）1.The foot-binding of upper-class Chinese girls and the Nigerian custom of loading women’s legs with pounds of heavy brass wire are extreme examples, but all over the world similar stratagems have been employed to make surethat once you have caught a woman she cannot run away, and even if she stays around she cannot keep up with you.2. The lotus foot, which seems to us a deformity, was passionately admired in China for centuries, and today most people in Western society see nothing ugly in the severely compressed toes produced by modern footwear.3.The high –heeled, narrow-toed shoes that for most of this century have been an essential part of woman’s costume are considered sexually attractive, partly because they make the legs look longer—an extended leg is the biological sign of sexual availability in several animal species—and because they produce what anthropologists call a ―courtship strut.‖4. Worst of all, if they are worn continually from adolescence on, they deform the muscles of the feet and legs so that it becomes even more painful and difficult to walk in flat soles.5. The halting, tiptoe gait they produce is thought provocative—perhaps because it guarantees that no woman wearing them can outrun a man who is chasing her.Passage 16（共3句）1. Students and faculty at many colleges now have access to email—electronic mail— which combines the capabilities of the computer with those of the phone line.2. No matter how many messages you send or how far you send them, your college or university does not pay anything beyond the fixed amount required to maintain its own proportion of the Internet.3. As important as speed is the fact that documents traveling directly from computer to computer remain as computer files rather than as a fixed printed page.Passage 17（共1句）1. It says if the cause is medicine the person may be using , then he or she should ask the doctor for a similar medicine that does not produce dry mouth.Passage 18（共4句）1. Although this may have been true for some Arctic region Eskimos, it was not indicative of the life of most Alaskan Eskimos.2. This kind of life-style that a particular group of Alaskan Eskimos followed at the time of the first European exploration of their homeland largely depended on the environment.3. In the center of the community was a large structure known as a men’s club or communal house.4. This clubhouse was used by the men for various activities in their leisure time. Also included in most communities were drying racks for meat and fish and storage pits where supplies for use during the winter months might be kept.Passage 19（共4句）1. Such migrations optimize the environment for the organisms, as they move to areas where food is plentiful, breeding is safest or temperatures are optimal.2. There is little experimental evidence for celestial navigation in animals other than humans, since the organism must localize itself on the earth’s surface as well as maintain compass heading.3. They seem to be due not to genetic or inborn traits, but rather to a sort of environmental imparting.4. In other words, the animal has learned some recognizable aspect of its environment, and navigation consists of a search pattern followed until some environmental feature is recognized.Passage 20（共4句）1. Now they’re doi ng well in school. But should you be taking credit?2. In the wake of the controversy that book stirred，The Wall Street Journal published a statement signed by 52 researchers saying studies ― indicate that genetics plays a bigger role than does environme nt in creating I.Q. differences‖.3. Are efforts to improve their kids’ academic skills just time down the drain.4. Indeed, a growing number of research shows that, especially in the early years of life when the brain is still taking shape, parental attention – even such a simple activity as playing peekaboo – helps to construct the complex brain circuitry essential to intellectual development.。