international station project valuable experience in long-term flight and multinational operations.
A debate continues over Mir's contributions to science. During its existence, Mir was the laboratory for 23,000 experiments and earned scientific equipment, estimated to be worth $80 million, from many Experiments on Mir arc credited with a range of findings, from the first solid measurement of the ration of heavy helium atoms in space to how to grow wheat in space. But for those favouring human space exploration, Mir showed that people could live and work in space long enough for a trip to Mars. The longest single stay in space is the days that Russian astronaut Valery Polyakov spent on Mir from 1994 to 1995. And Sergie Avdeyev accumulated days in space in three trips to the space station. The longest American stay was that of Shannon Lucid4, who spent 188 days aboard Mir in 1996.
Despite the many firsts Mir accomplished, 1997 was a bad year out of 15 for Mir, In 1997, an oxygen generator caught fire. Later, the main computer system broke down, causing the station to drift several times and there were power failures.
Most of these problems were repaired, with American help and suppliers, but Mir's reputation as a space station was ruined.
Mir's setbacks arc nothing, though5, when we compare them with its accomplishments. Mir was a tremendous success, which will be remembered as a milestone in space exploration and the space station that showed long-term human habitation in space was possible. But it's time to move on to the next generation. The International Space Station being built will be better, but it owes a great debt to Mir.
36. We can learn from the passage that the Mir Space Station
A. was designed to last over 5 years. B. played host to 7 astronauts from different countries.
C. was visited only by Americans. D. was built by Russians. 37. One of the contributions Mir makes to science is that, it
A. help astronauts get close to Mars. B. enables scientists to develop new scientific equipment.
C. sets a record of the longest single human stay in space.
D. shows that multinational operations in space are less expensive. 38. What happened to Mir in 1997?
A. it ran out its fund. B. it was completely damaged by fire.
C. its reputation was ruined due to power failures. D. its main computer system broke out.
39. It can be inferred from the last paragraph that
A. space exploration will not experience setbacks. B. it is difficult for other space stations exceed Mir's success.
C. Mir is the best long-term human habitation in space in history. D. multinational space operation are getting more accomplishments.
40. What is the author's attitude toward Mir?
A. Indifferent. B. Ironic. C. Favorable. D. negative 答案：36. D 37. C 38. D 39. D
40. C
第三篇 Approaches to Understanding Intelligences
It bays to be smart, but we are not all smart in the same may be a talented musician, but you might not be a good reader. Each of us is different.
Psychologists disagree about what is intelligence and what are talents or personal have two different views on believe there is one general believe there are many different intelligences.
Some psychologists say there is one type of intelligence that can be measured with IQ psychologists support their view with research that concludes that people who do well on one kind of test for mental ability do well on other do well on tests using words, numbers or pictures. They do well on individual or group tests, and written or oral who do poorly on one test, do the same on all tests.
Studies of the brain show that there is a biological basis for general brain of intelligence people use less energy during problem brain waves of people with higher intelligence show a quicker researchers conclude that differences in intelligence result from differences in the speed and effectiveness of information processing by the brain.
Howard Gardner, a psychologist at the Harvard School of Education, has four believes that all children are different and shouldn't be tested by one intelligence
Gardner believes general intelligence exists, he doesn't think it tells much about the talents of a person outside of formal think that the human mind has different intelligences allow us to solve the kinds of problems we are presented with in of us has different abilities within these believes that the purpose of school should be to encourage development of all of our intelligences.
Gardner says that his theory is based on example,when one part of the Brain is injured,other parts of the brain still who cannot talk because of Brain damage can still ,there is not just one intelligence to has Identified 8 different kinds of intelligence; linguistic, mathematical, spatial, musical, Interpersonal, intrapersonal, body-kinesthetic(身体动觉的),and naturalistic.
41. What is the main idea of this passage?
A. How to understand intelligence. B. The importance of intelligence. C. The development of intelligence tests. D. How to become intelligent. 42. Which of the following statements is true concerning general intelligence?
A. Most intelligent people do well on some intelligence tests.
B. People doing well on one type of intelligence test do well on other tests. C. Intelligent people do not do well on group tests.
D. Intelligent people do better on written tests than on oral tests. 43. Gardner believes that ________.
A. children have different intelligences. B. all children are alike. C. children should take one intelligence test. D. there is no general intelligence.
44. According to Gardner, schools should ________.
A. test students' IQs. B. train students who do poorly on tests.
C. focus on finding the most intelligent students. D. promote development of all intelligences.
45. Gardner thinks that his theory has a ________.
A. musical foundation. B. biological foundation. C. intrapersonal foundation. D. linguistic foundation.
答案：41. A 42. B 43. A 44. D 45. B 第5部分：补全短文（第46～50题，每题2分，共10分）
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The Day a Language Died
When Carios Westez died at the age of 76, a language died, too. Westez, more commonly known as Red Thunder Cloud, was the last speaker of the Native American language Catawba. Anyone who wants to hear the songs of the Catawba can contact the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, ., where, back in the 1940s, Red Thunder Cloud
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