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29．A．regulation B．basis C．function D．ground
30．A．job B．work C．mission D．wish
第二节：语法填空
In many countries, ___31___ is not unusual for families of different backgrounds to live together in the shared space．___32___, in the United States, this idea may still be considered odd．
But this type of housing, ___33___（call） co-housing, is gaining ___34___ （popular） in the United States, too．Co-housing complexes are popping up across the country．For many people, this way of life is a relief to the busy modern lifestyle．A co-housing community has ___35___ （private） owned houses and shared land．There is often a “common house” with a kitchen and dining room, meeting room, and maybe a workshop of library or music room．About 25 co-housing communities ___36___ （build） in recent years, and 150 more are planned．
A co-housing complex is a place ___37___ residents shop, cook, and eat together．Residents of a co-housing complex like its sense of shared community．Children have other kids to play ___38___, ___39___ many families like．Other residents like the feeling of living in a “ village”．Residents also say that they can live in co-housing for ___40 ___ money than they would pay for nearby apartments．
第三部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）
第一节：阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分为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
Americans wear black for mourning Chinese wear white．Westerners think of dragons as monsters．Chinese honor them as symbols of God．Chinese civilization has often shown such polarities （极性） with the West, as though each stands at extreme ends of a global string．Now in the University of California, Berkeley, psychologist has discovered deeper polarities between Chinese and American cultures — polarities that go to the heart of how we reason and discover truth．
His findings go far toward explaining why American cultures seem to
contentious and Chinese cultures so passive, when compared to each other．More importantly, the research opens the way for the peoples of the East and the West to learn from each other in fundamental ways．The Chinese could learn much from Western methods for determining scientific truth, said Kaiping Peng, a former Beijing Scholar, who is now a UC Berkeley assistant professor of psychology．And Americans could profit enormously from the Chinese tolerance for accepting contradictions in social and personal life, he said．
“Americans have a terrible need to find out who is right in an argument,” said Peng．“The problem is that at the interpersonal level you really don’t need to find the truth, or maybe there isn’t any．” Chinese people, said Peng, are far more content to think that both sides have flaws and virtues, because they have a holistic awareness that life is full of contradictions．They do far less blaming of the individual than do Americans, he added．
In studies of interpersonal argument, for example, when subjects were asked to deal with contradictory information stemming from conflict between a mother and a daughter or a student and a school, Peng found that Americans were “non-compromising, blaming one side — usually the mother — for the causes of the problems, demanding changes from one side to attain a solution and offering no compromise” in dealing with the conflict．Compared to this angry, blaming American stance, the Chinese were paragons （模范） of compromise, finding fault on both sides and looking for solutions that moved both sides to the middle．
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41．In Paragraph 1, the author sets examples in order to _____．
A．expose the contradiction between Chinese and Americans
B．show the differences between Chinese culture and American culture
C．find the reason for the differences
D．generalize the main idea of the passage
42．The underlined word “contentious” in Paragraph 2 probably means _____．
A．conservative
B．aggressive
C．objective
D．optimistic
43．Compared with Americans, Chinese are _____．
A．likely to find the truth in life
B．reluctant to admit their own failure
C．reluctant to have a general idea of things
D．likely to know advantages and disadvantages of things
44．The studies show that _____．
A．an American treats his or her mother badly
B．different ideas of treating the aged
C．different personality of Chinese and American
D．different conflicts of Americans and Chinese
45．The main idea of the passage is _____．
A．polarities between American and Chinese culture
B．priorities of American culture to Chinese
C．different attitudes towards the aged
D．different manners in social occasions
B
The earth’s most rich resource — water has become one of the most precious resources in the United States as rivers, lakes, and freshwater reservoirs are increasingly exploited for human use．Consequently, using precise farming techniques to refine “irrigation scheduling” is a research area of particular interest to Susan Moran, a researcher with the US department of Agriculture．She explains that in the southwest, irrigation is both difficult and expensive．There, she says, farmers have a tendency to over irrigate, spending both more time and money than is necessary．
“I’m trying to provide new information that could be used by farmers to schedule irrigations to improve their profitability and use less water,” Moran says．“Farmers often look at weather changes and then schedule irrigation based on that information．But if they had better information, they could use scientific models to compute more precisely how much water their crop is using．”
Rather than guessing their crop’s potential need for water based upon weather changes, farmers can use remote sensors to measure how much water their crop is actually using．This would give them a more accurate measure of how much more water it needs．
Moran believes that if farmers are getting good and timely measurements of plant and air temperature, then they can program when and how much water to give each crop through an irrigation system．No more water would be used than needed, thus saving cost and conserving water．
Moran introduces one study she conducted in Arizona to investigate the use of remote sensing data for scheduling cotton irrigations．Typically, those farmers irrigate ten times per growing season, but evidence showed that some of those farmers could achieve basically the same harvest with only nine irrigations．
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