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25 people were killed and 50 injured on Wednesday in a train accident in Cairo, which surprised local people. According to the BBC, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli visited the scene and he said 1. cause was not yet known, but Egypt's police were conducting an investigation (进行调查) 2. (find) the reason of the accident. Egypt had one of the 3. (old) and largest rail networks, and crashes and other accidents were common.

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On Wednesday, two things happened. In Syria, 80 people were killed by government airstrikes. Meanwhile, in Florida, Elon Musk’s SpaceX successfully launched and fired a sports car into space. Guess which story has dominated mainstream news sites?

The launch of Musk’s Falcon Heavy rocket, the most powerful ever launched by a private company, went off successfully. Musk sent his cherry-red Tesla roadster running toward Mars, launching “a new space age”. The event attracted phenomenal publicity and made the rocket launch a masterstroke of advertising for Tesla.

Meanwhile, in Syria, where hundreds of thousands of refugees may be forced to return to unsafe homes, a UN human rights coordinator for Syria said despondently(沮丧地) that he was no longer sure why he bothers to videotape the effects of bombing, since nobody ever pays attention. He wondered what level of violence it would take to make the world care.

There is, perhaps, no better way to appreciate the tragedy of 21st-century global inequality than by watching a billionaire spend $90m launching a $100,000 car into space.

Musk said he wanted to participate in a space race because “races are exciting” and that while strapping his car to a rocket may be “silly and fun … silly and fun things are important”. Thus, anyone who mentions the huge waste the project involves, or the various social uses to which these resources could be put, can be dismissed as a killjoy.

But one doesn’t have to hate fun to question the justification for pursuing a costly new space race at exactly this moment. If we examine the situation honestly, it becomes hard to defend a project like this.

A mission to Mars does indeed sound exciting, but it’s important to have our priorities straight. First, perhaps we could make it so that a child no longer dies of malaria every two minutes. Or we could try to address the level of poverty in Alabama which has become so extreme that the UN investigator did not believe it could occur in a first-world country. Perhaps when violence, poverty and disease are solved, then we can head for the stars.

Many might think that what Elon Musk chooses to do with his billions is Elon　 Musk’s business alone. If he wanted to spend all his money on medicine for children, that would be nice, but if he’d like to spend it making big explosions and sending his convertible on a million-mile space voyage, that’s his right.

But Musk is only rich enough to afford these money-consuming projects because we have allowed social inequalities to arise in the first place. If wealth were actually distributed fairly in this country, nobody would be in a position to fund his own private space program.

Elon Musk is right: silly and fun things are important. But some of them are an indefensible waste of resources. While there are still humanitarian crises such as that in Syria, nobody can justify vast spending on rocketry experiments.

1.Why does the writer mention the two pieces of news at the beginning of the passage?

A.To highlight the significance of SpaceX’s successful launch of a rocket and a car into space.

B.To illustrate the inequality of wealth distribution and the consequent inequality of attention distribution.

C.To appeal to the government for more attention to the air strikes and refugee crisis in Syria.

D.To find out which news dominated the mainstream news sites.

2.Why did the UN human rights coordinator for Syria feel disappointed?

A.Because nobody appreciated his work and all the efforts he made.

B.Because the violence in Syria is not serious enough to make the world care.

C.Because however hard he tried, nobody seemed to care about the situation in Syria.

D.Because he had great difficulty videotaping the effects of bombing.

3.What is implied in paragraph in 6 and 7?

A.The space project of SpaceX cost the government too much money.

B.Addressing problems of violence, poverty and diseases should be our top priority.

C.Space programs are a waste of money that cannot be justified.

D.It kills the fun to question the justification of the pursuit of space programs.

4.What does the writer mainly want to tell us?

A.We should pay equal attention to space projects and solving social problems.

B.No private companies should be allowed to spend money in rocketry experiments.

C.The successful launch of SpaceX has distracted the world from more important things.

D.The money and resources used in space projects could have been used to deal with various social problems.

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At least 371people were killed and over 750 others injured Saturday in two earthquakes that hit Pakistan’s southwest Balochistan Province , officials said.

Saif-ur-Rehman, spokesperson of Provincial Disaster Management Authority said that a total of 359 people were killed and 750 others injured up till Saturday in the 7.7-magnitude(震级) earthquake that hit the province on Thursday, while the second earthquake measuring 7.2 at the Richter scale, which struck the area on Saturday afternoon, killed 12 people.

He said that the Thursday 's quake affected six districts with Awaran as the worst hit area, where 312 people were killed and 525 others injured when thousands of houses collapsed（坍塌）in various towns and villages of the district.

The spokesman said that Kech area of the province was also badly affected, where 46 people died and 240 injured in various villages.

The Saturday's earthquake hit Nokjo area of Awaran, killing 12 people, injuring dozens others and destroying many houses.

The spokesperson said that the condition of the injured and affected people is not yet known, as it happened in a far area where it would take several hours for the rescue teams to reach.

Overall the two quakes affected a population of 185,000 and 37, 000 families, said the spokesperson.

The Chinese government has sent three flights carrying relief assistance, including medicines, emergency medical equipment, water purifiers, blankets, tents weighing 260 tons in total.

It is said that the Chinese government will also be handing over cash grant worth 1.5 million U.S. dollars to Pakistan's Economic Affairs Division on Sept.30 for the quake victims.

1.According to the text, up till Saturday, the deaths in the earthquake that hit the province on Thursday reached ________.

A. 371       B. 359       C. 383      D.312

2. Which of the following is NOT true according to the text?

A. More than 750 people were injured on Saturday in the two earthquakes.

B. Five hundred and twenty-five people were injured in Awaran in the Thursday 's quake.

C. Six districts were affected by the 7.7-magnitude earthquake in Pakistan.

D. No more than one of the two earthquakes struck Awaran, Balochistan Province.

3. We can know from the text that ________.

A. the condition of the injured people in the two earthquakes was not known on Saturday

B. the two quakes affected a population of 37, 000 and a total of 185,000 families

C. the Chinese government would send 260-ton relief materials to Pakistan on Sept.30

D. the Chinese government showed great concern for the earthquake-hit areas

4.What can be the best title for the text?

A. Earthquakes Hit Pakistan

B. Balochistan Province Manages Disasters

C. More Relief Assistance is Needed

D. Pakistan Faces Great Loss

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According to the report, an Iranian nuclear scientist was killed and two people were injured when a bomb ______ to a car exploded in its capital city.

A．attaching          B．attached          C．to be attached      D．having attached

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A volcano in Indonesia erupted on November the 16th, 2013, and _____, hundreds of people were killed.

A. consequently                  B. continuously          C. constantly     D. consistently

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At least 36 people have been killed and another 42 people have been injured in a stampede that broke out during a New Year Eve celebration in downtown Shanghai, which may have been caused by the crowd rushing to grab fake money thrown from the balcony of a building．

Survivors described the stampede as "horrible and hellish．"

A woman said she covered two kids in front of her with her arms in the chaos．Her son followed her．Dirty shoe prints covered her son's clothes when the 12 year old boy came to safety．

"The crowd was in a panic．We stood in the crowd, feeling squeezed and almost out of breath," a boy said．"Some yelled for help, but the noise was too loud．"

Other survivors said police rushed to the scene and tried to pull out people who were stuck, but without much success．

The local authorities said that one of the victims was a female student from the Shanghai based Fudan University．The student, surnamed Du from Yunnan Province, was fatally injured during the incident and died later in the hospital．

"The chaos lasted several minutes, and then some of the injured were seen being carried out of the crowd," Yu said．

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday demanded an immediate investigation into the cause of the stampede and urged prevention of such incidents in the future．

The city has set up a working team for rescue operations to deal with the aftermath．

Fatal incidents like this one were not rare in China, the world's most populous country．Stampedes in the past were mainly due to safety measures．

In September 2014, six students were killed in a stampede at a primary school in Yunnan Province after a stairway was blocked．In January 2014, a mosque(清真寺) stampede killed 14 people and injured another 10 in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region．In 2004, a stampede on a bridge in suburban Beijing killed 37 during a local lantern festival．

1.How did the boy feel in the crowd? (No more than 12 words) (3 marks)

___________________________________________________________________

2.What happened to the college student in the passage?(No more than 11 words) (2 marks)

___________________________________________________________________

3.How many people were killed altogether in the stampedes mentioned in the passage?(No more than 2 words)　 (2 marks)

___________________________________________________________________

4.What’s the news mainly about? (No more than 14 words) (3marks)

___________________________________________________________________

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At least 36 people have been killed and another 42 people have been injured in a stampede that broke out during a New Year Eve celebration in downtown Shanghai, which may have been caused by the crowd rushing to grab fake money thrown from the balcony of a building.

Survivors described the stampede as "horrible and hellish."

A woman said she covered two kids in front of her with her arms in the chaos. Her son followed her. Dirty shoe prints covered her son's clothes when the 12-year-old boy came to safety.

"The crowd was in a panic. We stood in the crowd, feeling squeezed and almost out of breath," a boy said. "Some yelled for help, but the noise was too loud."

Other survivors said police rushed to the scene and tried to pull out people who were stuck, but without much success.

The local authorities said that one of the victims was a female student from the Shanghai-based Fudan University. The student, surnamed Du from Yunnan Province, was fatally injured during the incident and died later in the hospital.

"The chaos lasted several minutes, and then some of the injured were seen being carried out of the crowd," Yu said.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday demanded an immediate investigation into the cause of the stampede and urged prevention of such incidents in the future.

The city has set up a working team for rescue operations to deal with the aftermath.

Fatal incidents like this one were not rare in China, the world's most populous country. Stampedes in the past were mainly due to safety measures.

In September 2014, six students were killed in a stampede at a primary school in Yunnan Province after a stairway was blocked. In January 2014, a mosque(清真寺) stampede killed 14 people and injured another 10 in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. In 2004, a stampede on a bridge in suburban Beijing killed 37 during a local lantern festival.

1.How did the boy feel in the crowd? (No more than 12 words) (3 marks)

___________________________________________________________________

2. What happened to the college student in the passage?　　 (No more than 11 words) (2 marks)

___________________________________________________________________

3.How many people were killed altogether in the stampedes mentioned in the passage?

(No more than 2 words)　 (2 marks)

___________________________________________________________________

4.What’s the news mainly about? (No more than 14 words) (3marks)

___________________________________________________________________

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At least 36 people have been killed and another 42 people have been injured in a stampede that broke out during a New Year Eve celebration in downtown Shanghai, which may have been caused by the crowd rushing to grab fake money thrown from the balcony of a building．

Survivors described the stampede as "horrible and hellish．"

A woman said she covered two kids in front of her with her arms in the chaos．Her son followed her．Dirty shoe prints covered her son's clothes when the 12 year old boy came to safety．

"The crowd was in a panic． We stood in the crowd, feeling squeezed and almost out of breath," a boy said． "Some yelled for help, but the noise was too loud． "

Other survivors said police rushed to the scene and tried to pull out people who were stuck, but without much success．

The local authorities said that one of the victims was a female student from the Shanghai based Fudan University．The student, surnamed Du from Yunnan Province, was fatally injured during the incident and died later in the hospital．

"The chaos lasted several minutes, and then some of the injured were seen being carried out of the crowd," Yu said．

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday demanded an immediate investigation into the cause of the stampede and urged prevention of such incidents in the future．

The city has set up a working team for rescue operations to deal with the aftermath．

Fatal incidents like this one were not rare in China, the world's most populous country．Stampedes in the past were mainly due to safety measures．

In September 2014, six students were killed in a stampede at a primary school in Yunnan Province after a stairway was blocked． In January 2014, a mosque(清真寺) stampede killed 14 people and injured another 10 in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region．In 2004, a stampede on a bridge in suburban Beijing killed 37 during a local lantern festival．

1.How did the boy feel in the crowd? (No more than 12 words) (3 marks)

___________________________________________________________________

2.What happened to the college student in the passage?(No more than 11 words) (2 marks)

___________________________________________________________________

3.How many people were killed altogether in the stampedes mentioned in the passage?(No more than 2 words)　 (2 marks)

___________________________________________________________________

4.What’s the news mainly about? (No more than 14 words) (3marks)

___________________________________________________________________

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At least 36 people have been killed and another 42 people have been injured in a stampede that broke out during a New Year Eve celebration in downtown Shanghai, which may have been caused by the crowd rushing to grab fake money thrown from the balcony of a building．

Survivors described the stampede as "horrible and hellish．"

A woman said she covered two kids in front of her with her arms in the chaos．Her son followed her．Dirty shoe prints covered her son's clothes when the 12-year-old boy came to safety．

"The crowd was in a panic． We stood in the crowd, feeling squeezed and almost out of breath," a boy said． "Some yelled for help, but the noise was too loud． "

Other survivors said police rushed to the scene and tried to pull out people who were stuck, but without much success．

The local authorities said that one of the victims was a female student from the Shanghai-based Fudan University．The student, surnamed Du from Yunnan Province, was fatally injured during the incident and died later in the hospital．

"The chaos lasted several minutes, and then some of the injured were seen being carried out of the crowd," Yu said．

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday demanded an immediate investigation into the cause of the stampede and urged prevention of such incidents in the future．

The city has set up a working team for rescue operations to deal with the aftermath．

Fatal incidents like this one were not rare in China, the world's most populous country．Stampedes in the past were mainly due to safety measures．

In September 2014, six students were killed in a stampede at a primary school in Yunnan Province after a stairway was blocked． In January 2014, a mosque(清真寺) stampede killed 14 people and injured another 10 in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region．In 2004, a stampede on a bridge in suburban Beijing killed 37 during a local lantern festival．

1.How did the boy feel in the crowd? (No more than 12 words) (3 marks)

2.What happened to the college student in the passage?(No more than 11 words) (2 marks)

3.How many people were killed altogether in the stampedes mentioned in the passage?(No more than 2 words)　 (2 marks)

4.What’s the news mainly about? (No more than 14 words) (3marks)

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Fireworks explosions killed many people and injured hundreds more in China as the 2006 traditional Lunar New Year celebrations led to much disorder as well as joy across the nation.

At a temple fair in Henan, 36 people were killed on New Year's Day when a nearby storeroom full of fireworks exploded. The accident, caused by 3 children who threw burning fireworks into the storeroom, injured up to 48 people.

In the capital, Beijing, where a 12-year ban on Lunar New Year fireworks had just been lifted, the government reported 112 people were treated at hospital emergency rooms over the weekend for fireworks-related injuries.

"On New Year's Eve alone, we had more than 40 injuries and among them there were around a dozen people with serious injuries," hospital assistant director，Tian Jian said. In China's south-western city, Chongqing, where the fireworks ban was also lifted after 12 years, firefighters rushed to put out nearly 200 fires caused by fireworks on New Year's Eve.

A ban on fireworks, which are traditionally believed to ward off evil spirits and ghosts trying to enter New Year, was put in place across 200 cities in China due to safety and environmental pollution concerns. The ban was lifted in Beijing and many other cities in 2006.

However, despite the fireworks disorder, China's 1.3 billion people were largely enjoying the festival, with celebrations to continue throughout all of this week-long public holiday.

46. In which year were fireworks forbidden in Beijing and Chongqing?

A. In 1990                     B. In 1992                    C. In 1994                    D. In 1995

47. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?

A. The origin of fireworks during the Spring Festival

B. The cause of lifting the ban on fireworks.

C. The direct cause of the fireworks explosion in Henan.

D. The number of injuries caused by fireworks in Chongqing.

48. The underlined phrase" ward off" in the fifth paragraph means ________.

A. prevent              B. set off                     C. allow                D. burn down

49. Which of the following is the very reason why fireworks were banned in China?

A. Noise pollution                                       B. Waste of money

C. Air pollution                                                 D. Possible injury and death

50. The purpose of writing the passage is to ________.

A. warn people of the great danger of fireworks

B. report the number of fireworks deaths and injuries during the festival

C. report that fireworks cause more fires and injuries than deaths

D. Advise people to keep away from fireworks

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