Chinese Calligraphy
1.The history of Chinese calligraphy is as long as that of China itself.
2.Calligraphy is a special category in China's world of fine arts and one of the most challenging Chinese art forms for a foreigner to appreciate or master.
3.Calligraphy, orshufa, is one of the four basic skills and disciplines of the Chinese literati, together with painting (hua), stringed musical instruments (qin) and board games (qi).
4.Studying Chinese calligraphy one must learn something about the origins of Chinese characters, which can be traced to inscriptions on bones, tortoise shells and bronzeware of which the earliest identifiable characters belonged to the Shang Dynasty (16th-11th century BC).
5.Through the centuries Chinese characters have changed constantly and are mainly divided into five categories today: the seal script (zhuan shu), official script (li shu), regular script (kai shu), running script (xing shu) and cursive script (cao shu).
6.Chinese calligraphy, like script itself, has developed the above-mentioned styles according to various schools.
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A food bank is the center of food collection and distribution in a community. This food usually 61 from grocery stores or manufacturers that have thousands of pounds of food to give 62 . Food banks operate intricate and advanced warehousing operations, 63 food is collected, 64 and re-distributed to the community. Traditionally, a food bank does not distribute food 65 to those in 66 . 67 ,food banks serve an 68 network of organizations in their 69 communities. These organizations serve one part of the 70 and know the needs of the people there. 71 ,working together, the food bank and the community organization can serve a greater 72 of people in the most efficient way. Many food banks provide 73 services. They 74 from after school feeding programs, 75 Kids Cafe,to community agriculture projects. In the aftermath (其后的一段时期) of welfare reform, food banks throughout the country are raising private 76 to operate innovative programs and to 77 those who are hungry. Every food bank strives to be a hunger advocate,producing 78 studies and tracking statistics, while lending their hands-on expertise to get legislation passed and ensuring that the 79 of domestic hunger is not lost in the shadow of an “ 80 boom”.
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61. A) results B) collects C) comes D) gathers 62. A) away B) out C) over D) off 63. A) which B) where C) what D) how 64. A) accepted B) offered C) processed D) sorted 65. A) instantly B) directly C) voluntarily D) readily 66. A) need B) haste C) debt D) order 67. A) However B) Otherwise C) Instead D) Certainly 68. A) abnormal B) optional C) imaginary D) extensive 69. A) individual B) respective C) special D) widespread 70. A) organization B) bank C) operation D) community 71. A) Therefore B) Nevertheless C) Still D) Conversely 72. A) amount B) deal C) number D) quantity 73. A) regular B) other C) daily D) depositing 74. A) change B) alter C) differ D) range 75. A) including B) providing C) managing D) distributing 76. A) demands B) properties C) funds D) plans 77. A) shelter B) feed C) clothe D) finance 78. A) poverty B) welfare C) hunger D) food 79. A) issue B) policy C) reform D) project 80. A) economical B) economics C) economy D) economic
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We have learned a great deal about how physical traits(特征)are passed from generation to generation.Scientists know that DNA molecules(分子) in human cells carry inherited physical traits in a sort of chemical code.
Some day we may learn how to change these DNA molecules so as to change the physical traits they carry.Eventually, parents may be able to choose what traits their children will inherit(遗传)；blue eyes or brown, tall bodies or short.
Most children of today are taller than their parents,but this may be due to better nutrition（营养）rather than to an inherited change.In some population groups,height is increasing one inch per generation.
Is it a good thing for people to get taller than taller? No,say certain experts.The human skeleton（骨骼）would be strained carrying the weight of a very tall body.(In a world where workers use power tools for heavy work,there is no special advantage in great height or strenghth.)It might be better,some say,if people got smaller.
Smaller humans would need less food and could live in smaller houses.They would fit more comfortably into cramped spacecraft.They would drive smaller cars on narrower roads.Smaller people would make the world seem large and less crowded.The world's natural resources would last longer.So it is possible that if scientists learn to control inherited physical traits,they might speak out for a reduction in human size.
Anthropologists（人类学家）have estimated the heights of ancient（古代的）people from fossil（化石）bones.They have compared these heights with the heights of people now living in all parts of the world.The evidence appears that most people are getting taller.The human of tomorrow may be still taller-unless he or she decides to be smaller.
72．Which may be one reason for that children today are taller than their parents?
A.Better nutrition B.Ancestors C.Chemical code D.Smaller house
73．From the massage ,we can know that .
A.tall people must drive smaller cars
B.the taller people would make the world seem larger
C.there are advantages to being small
D.smaller humans would need more food
74．In the future,scientists may learn how to change .
A.DNA molecules B.fossil bones C.nutrition D.all people's traits
75．What's the main idea of this passage?
A.People today are becoming taller
B.Human height today and in the future
C.People can study fossil bones
D.Physical traits from generation to generation
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Every morning, Pushpa Basnet awakened to the sounds of 40 children in the two-story home she 36_____ with them. All of these children once lived in Nepal’s prisons. Nepal is one of the poorest countries in the world. No local guardiap (监护机构）is 37_____ ； an arrested parent often must 38_____ between bringing their children to prison with them or letting them live on the streets. Basnet was 39_____ to discover children living behind bars when she visited a women’s 40_____ as part of her studies in college. “It’s not 41_____ for these children to live in the prison 42_____ they haven’t done anything wrong, ” said Basnet，who started a non-governmental organization to 43 _____ Basnet decided to start a day care to get children out of prisons. Her parents were 44_____ the idea at first-eventually they supported her. But prison officials，government workers and 45_____ some of the imprisoned (监禁)mothers she approached 46_____ that someone her age could handle such a(n) 47_____ “When I started, nobody believed in me，” Basnet said. People thought I was 48_____ They laughed at me. ” But Basnet didn’t 49_____ . She got friends to donate, and she 50_____ a building to house her new organization, the Early Childhood Development Center. Just two months after her first 51_____ to the prison, Basnet began to care for five children. She 52_____ them up at the prison every weekday morning，brought them to her center and then 53 _____them to their parents in the afternoon. Basnets program was the first of its 54_____ in Kathmandu ； when she started，some of the children in her 55 _____had never been outside a prison. Two years later，Basnet set up the Butterfly Home, a children’s home where she herself has lived for five years.
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36. A. builds B. shares C. works D. invests 37. A. available B. merciful C. considerate D. responsible 38. A. discover B. discuss C. apply D. choose 39. A. discouraged B. embarrassed C. shocked D. disappointed 40. A. organization B. prison C. department D. school 41. A. innocent B. practical C. fair D. hopeful 42. A. though B. where C. because D. if 43. A. help B. educate C. argue D. respond 44. A. for B. beyond C. against D. with 45. A. still B. even C. yet D. only 46. A. confirmed B. doubted C. declared D. hoped 47. A. problem B. idea C. event D. project 48. A. crazy B. energetic C. negative D. anxious 49. A. put up B. give out C. put out D. give up 50. A. rented B. removed C. sold D. examined 51. A. invitation B. visit C. call D. reaction 52. A. set B. turned C. picked D. looked 53. A. related B. referred c. connected D. returned 54. A. work B. kind c. plan D. visit 55. A. possession / B. demand c. hope D. care
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阅读：A C A B
36. B 37. A 38. D 39. C 40. B
41. C 42.C 43. A 44. C 45. B 46.B 47. D 48. A 49. D 50. A
51. B 52.C 53. D 54. B 55. D
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