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　　学生姓名 家长意见
　　第I卷
　　第一部分  阅读理解  (共两节，满分40分)
　　第一节   (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)
　　阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项 (A、B、C和D) 中，选出最佳选项。
　　A
　　The easy way out isn’t always easiest. I learned that lesson when I decided to treat Doug, my husband of one month, to a special meal. I glanced through my cook book and chose a menu which included homemade bread. Knowing the bread would take time. I started on it as soon as Doug left for work. As I was not experienced in cooking, I thought if a dozen was good, two dozen would be better, so I doubled everything. As Doug loved oranges, I also opened a can of orange and poured it all into the bowl. Soon there was a sticgh covered with ugly yellowish marks. Realizing I had been defeated, I put the dough in the rubbish bin outside so I wouldn’t have to face Doug laughing at my work. I went on preparing the rest of the meal, and, when Doug got home, we sat down to Cornish chicken with rice. He tried to enjoy the meal but seemed disturbed. Twice he got up and went outside, saying he thought he heard a noise. The third time he left, I went to the windows to see what he was doing. Loot, I saw Doug standing about three feet from the rubbish bin, holding the lid up with a stick and looking into the container. When I came out of the house, he dropped the stick and explained that there was something alive in out rubbish bin. Picp the stick again, he held the lid up enough for me to see. I felt cold. But I stepped closer and looked harder. Without doubt it was my work. The hot sun had caused the dough to double in size and the fermenting yeast (酵母) made the surface shake and sigh as though it were breathing. I had to admit what the living thing was and why it was there. I don’t know who was more embarrassed (尴尬) by the whole thing—Doug or me.
　　21. The writer’s purpose in writing this story is ________.
　　A. to tell an interesting experience
　　B. to show the easiest  way out of a difficulty
　　C. to describe the trouble facing a newly married woman
　　D. to explain the difficulty of learning to cook from books
　　22. Why did the woman’s attempt at making the bread turn out to be unsuccessful?
　　A. The canned orange had gone bad.
　　B. She didn’t use the right kind of flour.
　　C. The cookbook was hard to understand.
　　D. She did not follow the directions closely.
　　23. What made the dough in the bin looks frightening?
　　A. The rising and falling movement. B. The strange-looking marks.
　　C. Its shape. D. Its size.
　　B
　　When Geoff Marcy was 14, his parents bought him a telescope. Every night, he would go onto the roof outside his window to see the wonders of the sky.
　　“What excited me most was whether there were planets in other solar systems where life might exist,” he says. “I decided to try to find planets orbiting (沿…轨道运行) other stars lir Sun.”
　　And he did. “My fellow researcher, Paul Butler, and I found our first planet in 1995,” Dr. Marcy says. “We worked for ten years without finding anything! But we stuck with it, and our patience paid off. ”
　　Since then, the two scientists have discovered 65 of the more than 100 planets found orbiting other stars. Dr. Marcy and Dr. Butler also spotted the first “family” of three planets. In June 2002 they announced another discovery: a Jupiter-like (像木星一样的) planet orbiting star 55 Cancri.
　　At first, the two researchers found only planets that orbit  close to stars. Recently, the scientists found planets farther out. The planet orbiting 55 Cancri is a major breagh: it is the first sighting of a large gas planet about the same distance from the star as Jupiter is from the Sun.
　　Why is this important?  Scientists think that life on Earth may exist because of two special features in our solar system. The first is Jupiter.
　　“Because it’s so big, Jupiter pulls comets and asteroids (小行星), or they all come and hit the Earth.” Dr. Marcy explains. “Without Jupiter, life on Earth would likely have been destroyed.”
　　A second feature is that Earth is a rocky planet where liquid water, which is necessary for life, can exist. Unlike gas planets, rocky planets like Earth have surfaces where water can gather in pools and seas, which may support life. A huge space exists between the Jupiter-like planet and two other planets that lie close to 55 Cancri. Is there an Earth-like planet in the space, too small for us to notice? If so, says Dr. Marcy, “We would have two striking similarities to our solar system: a Jupiter-like planet and an Earth-like planet. And there may be life! ”
　　24. What can we learn about Dr. Marcy from the passage?
　　A. He is fond of watching Jupiter