75. By writing the 3^rd paragraph, the author intends to ________.

       A. analyze a problem                      B. find out the cause of a problem

       C. present a problem                       D. cause readers’ attention to a problem

第二部分 （非選擇題，共38分）

第一節(jié)，短文改錯（共10小題；每小題1分，滿分10分）

以下標有題號的每一行均有一個錯誤，請找出，并按下列情況改正：此行多一個詞；把多余的詞用斜線（\）劃掉，在該行右邊橫線上寫出該詞，并也用斜線劃掉。此行缺一個詞：在缺詞處加一個漏字符號（Λ），在該行右邊橫線上寫出該加的詞。此行錯一詞：在錯的詞下劃一橫線，在該行右邊橫線上寫出改正后的詞。

　注意：請在答題卡上作答。

Today on my way home from school, I discovered a fire.

74. In the author’s opinion, people of different races hate each other ________.

       A. because they are born of different colors

       B. because they started to do so in the childhood

       C. because of their DNA

       D. because of the social environment

C. a music group                                          D. a white man
73. According to the author, racism in America ________.

A.    is not likely to remove                             B. still exists but is getting better

C. dated back to the 1860s                           D. is due to cultural differences

72. According to the text, Jena is most probably ________.

A. a small village                                          B. a black boy

71. The text mainly talks about ________.

       A. a village in danger                             B. a headmaster in trouble

       C. a ruinous changing climate                D. a serious social problem

E

Racism hasn’t died down in America, as much as we hope to think otherwise. When slavery ended in the 1860’s, many people would hope that the narrow-mindedness of racism would end as well. Obviously, this is not so. Jena has shown that racism still exists, even if we ignore it, and that extreme measures are still taken to exclude certain people. As children we all loved each other, we all played together in the sandbox at the local playground. So what went wrong? Hate exists in this world not because of our DNA or where we’re raised. Hate such as this exists because it’s taught to us.
    Thankfully, although racism isn’t completely gone, it has faded slightly throughout the years. Honor and pride still exist in our world. It’s sad that the world has been hurt by all the bad things in it, but there is still love and laughter. The Ford Foundation, a foundation that helps reduce poverty and discrimination, also helps fight racism. Even if there are ugly things like this in the world, all they do is make good things seem more beautiful.
    So when you think, ‘Well, why should I care, Jena is thousand miles away from me,’ remember the pain of everyone involved. Jena may be far away, but it is a small town that we live in. The Jena 6, six young boys standing up for what they believed in, stood up for their culture by means of music, charged because they’re black, and they displayed what the jury(陪審團) considered as improper behavior towards the white youth of Louisiana. The court passed fairness onto these boys, but was it worth it? These are the questions passing through a million people’s minds. The answers have proven difficult to find, and hard to understand.

70. The changing climate has caused ________.

       A. later storms and earlier ice formation

B. higher temperature and earlier storms

       C. later ice formation and lower temperature     

D. longer winter and higher temperature

69. The underlined word “swells” probably means ________.

       A. running waves                                   B. falling earth   

       C. flowing sand                                     D. melting ice

D.    who thinks the seawall cost about $ 2.5 million

After the same hair-raising pattern of events occurred the following year, the state government set about building a ten-foot-tall protective seawall. On the day of its scheduled completion, a celebratory dinner was planned. The appointed day, however, brought a gray sky and a restless ocean. As swells began to ran against the wall, a powerful one pulled the sand out from underneath. Within a month, the $2.5 million "sand castle," in Pickner's estimation（估計）-was destroyed by the sea.
    Kivalina's serious situation has been worsened by a changing climate. Historically, the Chukchi Sea had turned solid by early winter, with a snow cushion forming along the shore in the fall, which protected the island from autumn storms. Over the past half century, however, the average annual temperature here has risen more than three degrees. As a result, sea ice forms later in the year, while storms occur earlier.
    Kivalinans know they have to move. In the 1990s, even before global warming was widely recognized, they targeted a pair of possible relocation sites to the east and south, but the government department found geological problems with both. Now the village is fast running out of time. "Before, leaving was of our choice, " Swan says. "Now it's an emergency situation."
68. Pickner is someone  ________.

A.    who works as headmaster of a school

B.     whose house was damaged in a storm

C.     who has made the island smaller by 20 acres

       C. A new Centro phone and two years’ service are worth $99.

       D. Not every smart phone has functions like MobiTV or GPS.

D

The village of Kivalina has never been very safe. Just off the northwestern coast of Alaska, it's truly a town on the edge. For most of the year, Kivalina is surrounded by ice; when it melts (融化)during the brief summer, waves bite the shore from the west and rivers attack it from the east.

Erosion(腐蝕), which has made the island by nearly 20 acres smaller over the past 50 years, is something former school headmaster Pickner has spotted firsthand. As the first big fall storm approached in 2004, the ground behind his tractor broke. Where there had once been a broad beach between the town and the ocean, the earth behind the buildings now dropped directly into the water.