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36、根据下列材料回答第36-55题： Passage One Toronto:A 300-pound adult Siberian tiger escaped from its four-meter high chain-link pen（圈）at the Toronto Zoo yesterday, on one of the busiest days of the year. Though no one was hurt, the dangerous animal was separated from the public for a time by noting more than a four-foot fence. The escape occurred after one of the animal’s handlers left the pen gate open. It promoted a swift response from officials. Staff were sent immediately to arrest the runaway tiger. General Manager Calvin White told reporters that staff were preparing for the worst. “ I ordered a tranquilizer（麻醉剂）gun so we would have tranquilized her, but thankfully we didn’t have to”, Mr. White said. The tiger was successfully led back into its cage after the brave escape.
The incident occurred during the Toronto Zoo’s 28th annual Christmas Treats Walk, where admission is free in return for donation of food that does not easily go bad. Thousands of people attend each Boxing Day to see the animals fed by their handlers.The tiger escape happened_____.
A．owning to the lack of food
B．due to its separation from the public
C．because of the handler’s neglect of duty
D．as a result of the damaged chain and fence

37、Who is Calvin White?
A．A managerial staff of the zoo
B．A journalist from National Post
C．A witness of the incident
D．A zoo animal handler

38、We know from the passage that____.
A．the tiger escape lasted a whole day
B．the zoo workers panned to shoot the tiger dead
C．the tiger wasn’t kept securely enough from the public
D．the incident took place on the zoo’s anniversary day

39、The best title for the news report is ____.
A．Pen-Animal Prison
B．Zoo Tiger-Wandering Free
C．Siberian Tiger-Dangerous Animal
D．Zoo-Dangerous Site

40、根据下列材料回答第40-59题： Passage Two One day in January, my uncle, my cousin and I decided to go hunting. We left by car in the afternoon. It was a Range Rover with four-wheel drive. It took us three hours to get there. After we arrived at 5:15 p.m., we fixed the tent, then made coffee and had a short rest. After that, we went hunting, using a falcon（猎鹰）. We spent two hours without finding anything. On our way back to the camp, my cousin saw a rabbit. I removed the falcon’s bead cover and let go of the aggressive falcon. When the rabbit saw the falcon, it ran fast, but my falcon was a professional hunter. He flew up and came down to trick the rabbit. After two minutes, the rabbit was caught. We took back it to the camp to cook our dinner. We ate the delicious food, drank Arabic coffee, and sat around the fire talking until 10:30 p.m. We left the camp the next day at 7 o’clock in the morning. We went north. However, around 10:00 a.m. our car got stuck in the sand! We spent about three hours trying to pull out the car without any progress. Finally, we decided to walk. As it was hard for an old man or a young boy to walk more than 40km in the desert, I decided to get help myself. I took a bottle of water with me and started to walk south alone. I knew the way well, but it was a long way in the sand. I walked more than four hours without stopping. When I felt so tired and thirsty, I stopped to rest. I drank all the water and slept for around two hours. When I got up, it was dark. I continued to walk south. I was worried about my uncle and cousin. Suddenly, I met a Bedouin man who was riding his camel. He took me to his house. When I had had enough rest, I asked him to take me to the road where I found a car. it took me to the city to get help. I had one day to get back to my uncle and cousin. When I got back to them, they were so happy because I had gotten help and they were able to see me again.Which word can best describe the first evening of their hunting trip?
A．Disappointed
B．Enjoyable
C．Comfortable
D．Exhausted

41、Why didn’t the three walk back together after the car got stuck in the sand?
A．They didn’t have enough food and wate
B．The writer knew where to get a camel or a ca
C．The writer knew a Bedouin who lived nearby would give hel
D．The long desert walk was too hard for the young and the ol

42、How did the writer finally get out of the desert?
A．He was picked up by a ca
B．A camel took him to the roa
C．A passer-by Bedouin helped hi
D．His uncle and cousin found and rescued hi

43、What can be inferred from the story?
A．It’s an easy job to walk 40km in the deser
B．The author loved to go hunting with his famil
C．The hunting trip is much longer than expecte
D．To hunt in the desert one must train a falcon wel

44、根据下列材料回答第44-63题： Passage Three There’s a professor at the University of Toronto in Canada who has come up with a term to describe the way a lot of North American interact these days. And now a big research study confirms it. Professor Barry Wellman’s term is “networked individualism”. It’s not the easiest concept to grasp. In fact, the words seem to contradict each other. How can we be individualistic and networked at the same time? You need other people for network. Here’s what he means. Until the internet and e-mail came along, our social network involved flesh-and-blood relatives, friends, neighbors, and colleagues. Some of the interaction was by phone, but it was still voice to voice, person to person in real life. But the latest study confirms that for a lot of people, electronic interaction through the computer has replaced a great deal of social activities and person-to-person interaction. Some people worry that the Internet is turning us into isolated people who shut out other people in favor of a false world on computer screens To the contrary, the study discovered that the Internet connects us with more real people than expected- helpful people who can give advice on careers, medical problems, raising children, and choosing a school or college. About 60 million Americans told the researchers that the Internet plays an important or crucial role in helping them deal with major life decisions. So we network individuals are pretty tricky: we’re keeping more to ourselves, while at the same time reaching out to more people, all with just the click of a computer mouse!The term “networked individualism” is used to refer to ________.
A．the way that modern people communicate on the Internet
B．a social activity popular with North Americans
C．the contradiction within network communication
D．a newly invented Internet software

45、With the wide use of Internet, some people fear that____.
A．people will become isolated
B．interpersonal relation will disappear
C．people will be controlled by network
D．there will be too many social activities