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TOKYO, JAPAN – What do you do when you see a cockroach (蟑螂)? Do you hit it with a newspaper? Do you step on it?
When researchers at Tokyo University see a cockroach, they take the remote control and make the cockroach turn around, run left or right, or go forward. These scientists are changing the cockroaches into robots（机器人）. Each cockroach has a very small packet that has in it a microprocessor (微处理器). Then researchers can send signals (信号) from the remote control to the packet. The signals control the movements of the cockroaches.
Why does anyone want to control a cockroach? “Insects can do many things that people can’t,” says Isao Shimoyama, head of robot research at Tokyo University. In a few years, he says, these robot insects will carry very small cameras. They will be able to move through earthquake rubble (瓦砾) to look for people or move under doors to find information about someone.
This may seem strange, but the Japanese government thinks the research is very important. The government is giving the scientists $ 5 million for this research.
First, the research keeps hundreds of cockroaches. They use only the American cockroach because it is bigger and stronger than other cockroaches. Then they choose the best cockroaches and remove their wings and antennae (触须). They put small packets where the antennae were. The packets weigh about three grams, or about two times the weight of the cockroaches themselves. “Cockroaches are very strong,” says Ralph Holzer, who is a researcher at Tokyo University. “They can lift 20 times their own weight.”
With a remote control, the scientists send signals to the packets. When a cockroach gets the signal, it moves. The problem is that the cockroaches don’t always move in the right direction.
52. The scientists are changing the cockroaches into robots because ______________________.
A. they want cockroaches to do things people can’t in the future
B. they want to control the movements of the cockroaches
C. they want cockroaches to take photos of the earthquakes
D. they want to send signals to the packets on the cockroaches
53. Scientists control cockroaches’ movements _________________________.
A. by removing their wings          B. by sending signals from the remote control
C. by using very small cameras   D. by removing their antennae
54. What can cockroaches do to help people?
A. They can lift 20 times their own weight.
B. They can help people to carry very small cameras.
C. They can keep hundreds of cockroaches.
D. They can search for those people in rubble after an earthquake.
55. What problem do the cockroaches meet with?
A. The cockroaches sometimes don’t move.
B. The cockroaches are too big to move through earthquake rubble.
C. The cockroaches sometimes move in the wrong direction.
D. The cockroaches can only lift 20 times their own weight.

第Ⅱ卷（主观题共40分）
五、词汇运用 （本大题共8小题，每小题1分，共8分）
(A) 根据句意和汉语注释，写出单词的正确形式。
1. There’s little                    (对话) in Tom and Jerry, but it is many children’s favourite.
2. Now many students                   (几乎不) have enough sleep because of too much homework.
3. The teacher often                  (鼓励) us to learn English well.
4. Ann can’t answer the phone now, for she’s                      (连接) the keyboard to the computer.
(B) 根据句意，写出括号内所给单词的适当形式。
5. Can you use the word to                      (creative) a sentence now?
6. He is the                    (wealth) person I have ever met, but he never shows off.
7. All the students                      (success) in getting to the top of the mountain at last.
8. In 1955, Einstein’s life ended                    (peace) at the age of seventy-six.

六、动词填空  用括号内所给动词的适当形式填空。（本大题共8小题，每小题1分，共8分）
1. When I was young, I was told that Singapore                      (lie) in South East Asia.
2. --- Do you know why he left that job? 
--- It seems that he                    (offer) a better job at IBM.   
3. My dictionary is missing. Please find out who                    (take) it.
4. He’s decided to get a look at the house and see if it might be worth                   (buy).
5. The little boy promised his teacher                   (not be) late again.
6. The novel he has devoted most of his time to                   (finish) next month.
7. Did you realize how much stress you                    (face) at that moment?
8. We can never catch up with the fashion because it                     (change) all the time.

七、任务型阅读  根据短文内容完成表格中所缺信息，在答题卷上相应的横线上填写答案，每空限填一个单词。（本大题共5空，每空1分，共5分）
Country music is a kind of modern-day pop music, originated (起源) in the southern United States and Appalachia mountains. The singers usually play the guitar, and in the 1920s they started using electric guitars. Nowadays people use the violin, banjo, and slide-guitar as well.
The music at the very beginning was generally very smooth, beautiful and the phrasing structure (句法结构) also was simple. In the 1950s, American country music was about other things, for example, love and money. In the 1960s, songs were often full of anger, and some of them made fun of the political (政治的) leaders. During the 1990s, American country music became more and more popular. Song writers were no longer writing about the modern values of the USA—money, success or expensive things to buy. Instead they were writing once more about things that were usual for everyone.
Today country music has become a big business. It brings in a lot of money. Now, it has reached all parts of the States, from Los Angeles in the west to New York in the east. It remains much the same as before. One subject is “the good old days”. In “the good old days” people praised each other. They believed that the best things in life were free: sunshine, laughing, walks in the beauty of the country, friends and music.

Country music