People from Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales like to be addressed_.

A.they wanted to increase its control over Ireland

B.they had too many people and didn’t have enough space for them to five in Britain

C.they intended to expand their investment

D.they believed that Ireland was the best place for them

Passage Five

The Northern Pike is a very bad fish. It is a big, hungry fish, and swallows little fish such as trout and perch. Many Northern Pikes live in Lake Davis. They are killing all the smaller fish in the lake. The Northern Pike are a serious threat to the lake because they eat all the smaller fish. Soon, all other species of fish in the lake will be killed off. This is not healthy for the environment.

Experts are afraid that the Northern Pike will swim out of Lake Davis through many smaller rivers that feed into the lake. They could spread all over the country and damage many other water environments. If that happens, it would be too late to stop the Northern Pike.

For ten years, officials have been trying to remove the Northern Pike from Lake Davis. They haw. tried using nets, explosives and poisons. However, the Northern Pike population is still doing well in Lake Davis. Many people do not like the idea of using poison to kill the fish. They worry that the poi- sons are bad for humans who use the water. No trace of the poisons has ever been found in local wells, however.

Scientists are going to try the poison again. This time, they will drain the lake before they add the poison to the water. A public hearing will be held to talk about the problem.

52. Why are some people against the use of poisons to kill Northern Pike？

A. Fishermen will be poisoned too.

B. The poisons are expensive.

C. They think that wells will be polluted.

D. The lake will become unsafe.

Even in England there are many (5)_____ in regional character and speech. The chief (6)_____ is between southern England and northern England. South of a (7)_____ going from Bristol to London, people speak the type of English usually learnt by foreign students, (8)_____ there are local variations.

Further north regional speech is usually " (9)_____ " than that of southern Britain. Northerners are (10)_____ to claim that they work harder than Southerners, and are more (11)_____ They are open-hearted and hospitable; foreigners often find that they make friends with them (12)_____ Northerners generally have hearty (13)_____: the visitor to Lancashire or Yorkshire, for instance, may look forward to receiving generous (14)_____ at meal times.

In accent and character the people of the Midlands (15)_____ a gradual change from the southern to the northern type of Englishman.

In Scotland the sound (16)_____ by the letter "R" is generally a strong sound, and "R" is often pronounced in words in which it would be (17)_____ in southern English. The Scots are said to be a serious, cautious, thrifty people, (18)_____ inventive and somewhat mystical. All the Celtic peoples of Britain (the Welsh, the Irish, the Scots) are frequently (19)_____ as being more "fiery" than the English. They are (20)_____ a race that is quite distinct from the English. (289 words)

Notes: fiery 暴躁的，易怒的。

A．In consequence

B．In brief

C．In general

D．In fact

【B1】

The first English window was just a slit in the wall. (29) It was cut long, so that it would let in as much light as possible, and narrow, to keep out the bad weather. However, the slit let in more wind than light. This is why it was called "the wind's eye". The word window itself comes from two Old Norse words for wind and eye.

Before windows were used, the ancient halls and castles of northern Europe and Britain were dark and smoky. Their great rooms were high, with only a hole in the roof to let out the smoke from torches and cooking fires.

As time went on, people wanted more light and air in their homes. They made the wind's eyes wider so as to admit air and light. They stretched canvas across them to keep out the weather.

The first window was a______.

A．large hole in the roof

B．hole with canvas stretched across it

C．long and narrow slit in the wall

D．slit to let out the smoke from fires

While the timber trade wasrapidly developing, economic conditions in Ireland became disastrous.Agriculture prices, inflated during the Napoleonic war, dropped heavily afterWaterloo, and Ireland became a country in which, with the exception ofnortheast Ulster, employment for wages virtually ceased to exist. Theextraordinary increase in population continued and standards of life becamealmost unbearably low.

46.In the eighteenth century people left Ireland because______.

A. they wanted to getricher

B. their skill in farmingwas in demand abroad

C. they were desperatelypoor

D. they were religiousrefugees

47. The writer saystraveling overseas was difficult for eighteenth century Irishmen because______.

A. the ships captainshad strong religious prejudices

B. there was no organizedroutine

C. passengers became thecaptains legal property

D. captains took most ofthe emigrants savings

48.The Napoleonic war led to ______.

A. Britain not beingallowed to import wood from northern Europe

B. wood produced inRussia being sold to Napoleon

C. the Britishauthorities putting a stop to Irish travelers arrangements with captains

D. the Russians feelingmuch larger numbers of trees for their own use

49.Timber was taxed in order to ______.

A. maintain good pricesfor European timber

B. encourage Americansales in Britain

C. protect North Americanindustry from overseas imports

D. encourage Britishsales in America

50.Irish people became very poor after the Napoleonic war because______.

A. food prices became solow

B. living standards sankdrastically

C. food prices became sohigh

D. there waspractically no work to do

听力原文： On June 17, 1744, the officials from Maryland and Virginia held a talk with the Indians of the Six Nations. The Indians were invited to send boys to William and Mary College. In a letter the next day they refused the offer as follows:

We know that you have a high opinion of the kind of learning taught in your colleges, and that the costs of living of our young men, while with you, would be very expensive to you. We are convinced that you mean to do us good by your proposal; and we thank you heartily. But you must know that different nations have different ways of looking at things, and you will therefore not be offended if our ideas of this kind of education happen not to be the same as yours. We have had some experience of it. Several of our young people were formerly brought up at the colleges of the northern provinces; they were taught all your sciences; but when they came back to us they were bad runners, ignorant of every means of living in the woods, they were totally good for nothing.

We are, however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we refuse to accept it, and to show our grateful sense of it. If the gentlemen of Virginia will send us a dozen of their sons, we will take care of their education, teach them in all we know and make men of them.

(33)

A．The educational values of the Indians.

B．The colleges of the northern provinces.

C．The talk between the Indians and the officials.

D．The problems of the Americans in the mid-eighteenth century.

The International Language: English

There is no denying that English is a useful language．The people who speak English today make up the largest speech ．______1 in the world with the exception of speakers of Mandarin Chinese． Originally they were small tribes of people living in northern Europe who left their homeland and _______2 in England． Isolated in their island community, the various tribes used languages which became more and more similar to each other and less and less like the other languages of Europe．Eventually, the language had _______3 uniformity to be used by all speakers in England． The people united into a speech community through their_______4 language．In time, people moved from the small island to many parts of the _______5 , taking their language with them and thus still remaining members of the English speech community_______6 they settled.

We may say that anyone who speaks English_______7 to the English community. _______8convenience, we may _______9the speakers into two groups: one in which the speakers use English as their native_______10 , the other in which the speakers learn English as a second language for the purpose of education, commerce, and so on．In the _______11 group we, obviously, would include England, Canada, the U．S．, Australia and New Zealand． Naturally, not all people in these countries speak English_______12 , but a large majority_______13 ．In the latter group we would include, among many others, India, Denmark, Burma, Turkey, Ethiopia, and the Philippines． Not all these countries use English for the same purpose or_______14 the same extent, but_______15 uses English for important social and commerce activities.

第 51 题 请选择（1）处的最佳答案．

A．community

B．society

C．world

D．group