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Saving a City's Public Art
Avoiding traffic jams in Los Angeles may be impossible, but the city's colorful freeway murals ( 壁画 ) can brighten even the worst commute. Paintings that depict (描述) famous people and historical scenes cover office buildings and freeway walls all access the city. With a collection of more than 2,000 murals, Los Angeles is the unofficial mural capital of the world.
But the combination of graffiti (涂鸦), pollution, and hot sun has left many L.A. murals in terrible condition. __________ (46) in the past, experts say, little attention was given to caring for public art. Artists were even expected to maintain their own works, not an easy task with cars racing by along the freeway.
__________ (47) The work started in 2003. So far,16 walls have been selected and more may be added later. Until about 1960, public murals in Los Angeles were rare. But in the 1960s and 1970s, young L.A. artists began to study early 20th-century Mexican mural painting. __________ (48)
The most famous mural in the city is Judith Baca's "The Great Wall", a 13-foot-high(4-meter-high) painting that runs for half a mile (0.8 kilometer) in North Hollywood.__________ (49) it took eight years to complete--400 underprivileged teenagers painted the designs--and is probably the longest mural in the world.
One of the murals that will be restored now is Kent Twitchell's "Seventh Street Altarpiece" which he painted for the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984. __________ (50) Twitchell said, "it was meant as a kind of gateway through which the traveler to L.A. must drive. The open hands represent peace."
Artists often call murals the people's art. Along a busy freeway or hidden in a quiet neighborhood, murals can teach people who would never pay money to see fine art in a museum,"Murals give a voice to the silent majority," said one artist.
A. The city trying to stop the spread of graffiti, has painted over some of the murals complete.
B. This striking work depicts two people facing each other on opposite sides of the freeway near downtown Los Angeles.
C. Artists like murals because they like the work of Mexican artitsts.
D. Now the city is beginning a huge project to restore the city's murals.
E. The mural represents the history of ethnic proups in California.
F. Soon their murals became a symbol of the city's cultural expressions and a showcase for LA's cultural diversity.
46.A。空位于段中，所以与前后的句子都有语义上的衔接。从空格前的句子看，谈论的是涂鸦、污染和炽热的阳光造成了壁画的糟糕状态，空格后谈论的是专家认为公共艺术没有得到足够的重视，所以推断空格处应该谈论的是壁画的糟糕情况或者如何解决，故A(城市试图阻止涂鸦的蔓延，所以在那些壁画上涂上了油漆。)为最佳选项，其中A项中的graffiti与空格前句子中的graffiti有词语衔接的一致性。重复词的出现是体现语义衔接的重要标志。
47.D。空格位于段落的首旬，空格后的句子谈论的是这项工作开始于2003年，已经选择了16堵墙的壁画，随后会加入更多的墙壁，尤其可推断D(现在城市开始实施修复城市壁画的巨大工程。)是正确答案，谈论的是墙壁壁画修复工作，the project与空格后句子中的the work也有语义上的衔接。
48.C。空格位于段落的尾句，因而与前面的句子有语义上的衔接。空格前提到洛杉矶那些年轻的艺术家开始研究20世纪早期的墨西哥壁画，因而空格处话题应与此有关，其中Mexican artists和Mexican mural painting体现出语义的衔接，故C(艺术家们喜欢壁画是因为他们喜欢墨西哥艺术家的作品。)是正确答案，
49.E。空位于段中，所以与前后的句子都有语义上的衔接。从空格前的句子看，谈论的是The most famous mural，从空格后的代词“it”可以判断，谈论的对象是个单数，由此可知空格所在的句子谈论的还是The most famous mural…，故E(壁画代表了加州地区种族群体的历史。)是正确答案。主语的一致性是体现语义衔接的重要标志。
50.B。空位于段中，所以与前后的句子都有语义上的衔接。从空格前的句子看，谈论的是Kent Twitchell所创作的该幅壁画是为1984年洛杉矶奥运会所做，空格是创作者Kent Twitchell对其含义的解释，因而空格处谈论的还是这幅画，再结合复现词汇Los Angeles可推断空格处所填的句子为选项B或者选项F，但是选项F中的their murals为复数形式，由此可知B(这幅引人注目的作品刻画了两个人相互面对，分别立于洛杉矶市中心快车道的两侧的情况)为最佳答案。谈论对象的单复数的一致性也是判断语义衔接的重要标志。
The Tough Grass that Sweetens Our Lives
Sugar cane was once a wild grass that grew in New Guinea and was used by local people for roofing their houses and fencing their gardens. Gradually a different variety evolved which contained sucrose (蔗糖) and was chewed on for its sweet taste. Over time, sugar cane became a highly valuable commercial plant, grown throughout the world. __________ (46)
Sugar became a vital ingredient in all kinds of things, from confectionery (糖果点心 ) to medicine, and, as the demand for sugar grew, the industry became larger and more profitable.
__________ (47) Many crops withered( 枯萎)and died, despite growers' attempts to save them, and there were fears that the health of the plant would continue to deteriorate.
In the 1960s, scientists working in Barbodos looked for ways to make the commercial species stronger and more able to resist disease. They experimented with breeding programmes, mixing genes from the more delicate, commercial type. __________(48) This sugar cane is not yet ready to be sold commercially, but when this happens, it is expected to be incredibly profitable for the industry.
__________(49) Brazil, which produces one quarter of the world's sugar, has coordinated an international project under Professor Paulo Arrudo of the Universidade Estaudual de Campinas in Sao Paulo. Teams of experts have worked with him to discover more about which parts of the genetic structure of the plant are important for the production of sugar and its overall health.
Despite all the research, however, we still do not fully understand how the genes function in sugar cane __________ (50) This gene is particularly exciting because it makes the plant resistant to rust, a disease which probably originated in India, but is now capable of infecting sugar cane across the world. Scientist believes they will eventually be able to grow a plant which cannot be destroyed by rust.
A. Eventually, a commercial plant was developed which was 5 percent sweeter than before,but also much stronger and less likely to die from disease.
B. One major gene has been identified by Dr Angelique D'Hont and her team in Montpelier,France.
C. Sugar cane is now much more vigorous and the supply of sugar is therefore more guaranteed.
D. Since the 1960s, scientists have been analyzing the mysteries of the sugar cane's genetic code.
E. The majority of the world's sugar now comes from this particular commercial species.
F. Unfortunately, however, the plant started to become weaker and more prone to disease.
46.E。空格前一句甘蔗成了一种极具价值的商业作物，在全世界种植。空白处应继续谈论其价值，故E选项(现在世界上大部分糖都是产自这个特殊的商业作物)符合文意。
47.F。空格前提到对糖的需求增加，这个行业开始获利，而空格后提到植物枯萎并死掉。前后具有转折关系，所有选项中只有F含有转折词however，故F(然而不幸的是这种植物开始变弱，变得容易得病)是正确答案。
48.A。空格前提到了科学家进行不同植物基因混合的实验来培育新品种，空格后提到现在这种甘蔗植物还不准备用作商业用途。由此可知，空白处讲的应该是关于新的甘蔗品种，故A(最终，一种新的商业甘蔗被培养出来，比之前的甜度增加5%，而且比之前的作物要更强壮，发病的可能性更小)是正确答案。
49.D。空格后列举了巴西的例子，指出科学家试图发现更多的影响含糖量和产量的基因结构，故D项(自20世纪60年代起，科学家一直在研究甘蔗基因代码的秘密)是正确答案。
50.B。空格前提到研究者们仍然无法完全了解甘蔗的基因，空格后提到这个基因尤其令人兴奋，其中的this gene应该指代空白处提到的某个基因，故B选项(一个主要的基因已经由Angellique D’Hont博士及其团队鉴别出来了)符合文意。
The Day a Language Died
When Carios Westez died at the age of 76, a language died, too. Westez, more commonly
known as Red Thunder Cloud, was the last speaker of the Native American language Catawba.
Anyone who wants to hear the songs of the Catawba can contact the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., where, back in the 1940s, Red Thunder Cloud recorded a series of songs for future generations. __________ (46) They are all that is left of the Catawba language. The language that people used to speak is gone forever.
We are all aware of the danger that modem industry can cause the world's ecology (生态).
However, few people are aware of the impact widely spoken languages have on other languages and ways of life. English has spread all over the word. Chinese, Spanish, Russian, and Hindi have become powerful languages as well. __________ (47) When this happens, hundreds of languages that are spoken by only a few die out.
Scholars believe there are around 6,000 languages around the world, but more than half of them could die out within the next 100 years. There are many examples, Araki is a native language of the island of Vanuatu, located in the Pacific Ocean. It is spoken by only a few older adults, so like Catawba, Araki will soon disappear. Many languages of Ethiopia will have the same fate because each one has only a few speakers. __________(48) In the Americas,100 languages, each of which has fewer than 300 speakers, are dying out.
Red Thunder Cloud was one of the first to recognize the danger of language death and to try to do something about it. He was not actually born into the Catawba tribe, and the language was not his mother tongue.__________ (49) The songs he sang for the Smithsonian Institution helped to make Native American music popular. Now he is gone, and the language is dead.
What does it mean for the rest of us when a language disappears? When a plant insect or animal species dies, it is easy to understand what has been lost and to for the balance of the natural word. However, language is only a product of the mind. To be the last remaining speaker of a language, like Red Thunder, must be a peculiarly lonely destiny, almost as strange and terrible as being the last surviving member of a dying species. __________ (50)
A. Some people might want to learn some of these songs by hearts.
B. Papua New Guinea is an extremely rich source of different language, but more than 100of them are in danger of extinction ( 灭绝 ) .
C. However, he was a frequent visitor to the Catawba reservation in South Carcinoma where he learned the language.
D. These languages don't have many native speakers.
E. For the rest of us, when a language dies, we lose the possibility of a unique way of seeing and describing the world.
F. As these languages become more powerful, their use as tools of business and culture increase.
46.A。空位于段中，所以与前后的句子都有语义上的衔接。从空格前的句子看，谈论的是涂鸦、污染和炽热的阳光造成了壁画的糟糕状态，空格后谈论的是专家认为公共艺术没有得到足够的重视，所以推断空格处应该谈论的是壁画的糟糕情况或者如何解决，故A(城市试图阻止涂鸦的蔓延，所以在那些壁画上涂上了油漆。)为最佳选项，其中A项中的graffiti与空格前句子中的graffiti有词语衔接的一致性。重复词的出现是体现语义衔接的重要标志。
47.D。空格位于段落的首旬，空格后的句子谈论的是这项工作开始于2003年，已经选择了16堵墙的壁画，随后会加入更多的墙壁，尤其可推断D(现在城市开始实施修复城市壁画的巨大工程。)是正确答案，谈论的是墙壁壁画修复工作，the project与空格后句子中的the work也有语义上的衔接。
48.C。空格位于段落的尾句，因而与前面的句子有语义上的衔接。空格前提到洛杉矶那些年轻的艺术家开始研究20世纪早期的墨西哥壁画，因而空格处话题应与此有关，其中Mexican artists和Mexican mural painting体现出语义的衔接，故C(艺术家们喜欢壁画是因为他们喜欢墨西哥艺术家的作品。)是正确答案，
49.E。空位于段中，所以与前后的句子都有语义上的衔接。从空格前的句子看，谈论的是The most famous mural，从空格后的代词“it”可以判断，谈论的对象是个单数，由此可知空格所在的句子谈论的还是The most famous mural…，故E(壁画代表了加州地区种族群体的历史。)是正确答案。主语的一致性是体现语义衔接的重要标志。
50.B。空位于段中，所以与前后的句子都有语义上的衔接。从空格前的句子看，谈论的是Kent Twitchell所创作的该幅壁画是为1984年洛杉矶奥运会所做，空格是创作者Kent Twitchell对其含义的解释，因而空格处谈论的还是这幅画，再结合复现词汇Los Angeles可推断空格处所填的句子为选项B或者选项F，但是选项F中的their murals为复数形式，由此可知B(这幅引人注目的作品刻画了两个人相互面对，分别立于洛杉矶市中心快车道的两侧的情况)为最佳答案。谈论对象的单复数的一致性也是判断语义衔接的重要标志。