第1部分：词汇选项(第1～15题，每题1分，共15分)
下面每个句子中均有1个词或短语划有底横线，请为每处划线部分确定1个意义最为接近的选项。
1. She exhibited great powers of endurance during the climb.
A. play B. send C. show D. tell
2. The eternal motion of the stars fascinated him.
A. long B. never-ending C. boring D. extensive
3. She could not answer, it was an immense load off her heart.
A. natural B. fatal C. tiny D.enormous
4. The book made a great impact on its readers.
A. force B. influence C. surprise D. power
5. Accompanied by cheerful music, we began to dance.
A. pleasant B. colorful C. fashionable D. different
6. He was not eligible for the examination because he was over age.
A. competitive B. diligent C. qualified D. competent
7. Her novel depicts an ambitious Chinese.
A. writes B. sketches C. describes D. indicates
8. Don't irritate her, she's on a short fuse today.
A. tease B. attract C. annoy D. protect
9. It is absurd to go out in such terrible weather
A. ridiculous B. funny C. odd D. interesting
10. I notified him that that my address had changed.
A. informed B. observed C. mocked D. misled
11. The manager allocate duties to the clerks.
A. assign B. persuade C. ask D. order
12. The once barren hillsides are now good farmland.
A. hairless B. bare C. empty D. bald
13. It is postulated that a cure for the disease will have been found by the year 2000.
A. challenged B. assumed C. deducted D. decreed
14. We must abide by the rules.
A. stick to B. persist in C. safeguard D. apply
15. From my standpoint, you know, this thing is just funny.
A. position B. point of view C. knowledge D. opinion
第2部分：阅读判断(第16～22题，每题1分，共7分)
下面的短文后列出了7个句子，请根据短文的内容对每个句子做出判断：如果该句提供的是正确信息，请选择A;如果该句提供的是错误信息，请选择B;如果该句的信息文中没有提及，请选择C。
The Northern Lights
The Sun is stormy and has its own kind of weather. It is so hot and active that even the Sun’s gravity cannot hold its atmosphere in check! Energy flows away from the Sun toward the Earth in a stream of electrified particles that move at speeds around a million miles per hour. These particles are called plasma, and the stream of plasma coming from the Sun is called the solar wind. The more active the Sun, the stronger the solar wind.
The solar wind constantly streams toward the Earth, but don’t worry because a protective magnetic field surrounds our planet. The same magnetic field that makes your compass point north also steers the particles from the Sun to the north and south poles. The charged particles become trapped in magnetic belts around the Earth. When a large blast of solar wind crashes into the Earth’s magnetic field, the magnetic field first gets squeezed and then the magnetic field lines break and reconnect.
The breaking and reconnecting of the magnetic field lines can cause atomic particles called electrons trapped in the belts to fall into the Earth’ s atmosphere at the poles. As the electrons fall to the Earth, they collide with gas molecules in the atmosphere, creating flashes of light in the sky. Each atmospheric gas glows a different color. Oxygen and nitrogen glows red and green and nitrogen glows violet-purple. As these various colors glow and dance in the night sky, they create the Northern Lights and the Southern Lights.
Watching auroras is fun and exciting, but normally you can only see them in places far north like Alaska and Canada. The movement of the aurora across the sky is usually slow enough to easily follow with your eyes but they can also pulsate, flicker, or even move like waves. During solar maximum, auroras are seen as far south as Florida, even Mexico!
Auroras often seem to be very close to the ground, but the lowest aurora is still about 100 kilometers above the ground, a distance much higher than clouds are formed or airplanes can fly. A typical aurora band can be thousands of kilometers long, a few hundred kilometers high, but only a few hundred meters thick.
We hope you are able to travel to far-north places like the Arctic Circle and see the Northern Lights at least once during your lifetime. We know you will never forget it!
16. The Sun’s gravity is too weak to keep its plasma from flowing to the Earth.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
17. The Earth is quite safe with a magnetic field surrounding it to protect it from the attack by the solar wind.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
18. Some scientists are worrying about the possible disappearance of the Earth’s protective magnetic field in the future.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
19. The auroras are formed when the electrons falling into the Earth’s atmosphere at the poles and colliding with gas molecules in the atmosphere.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
20. You cannot sec the Northern Lights unless you are in Alaska or Canada.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
21. Tens of thousands of tourists take special trips to Norway and Sweden every year to watch the Northern Lights.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
22. An aurora is generally close to the ground and is very long and thick.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
