2006年高考英语福建卷试题及答案(5)

福建英语高考卷

Most of my foreign friends here work full-time for big English conversation schools. The salary is fine to live on. But whether you can save money depends on how much going out and traveling you do here.

The schools are reluctant to take time off –even teachers with tickets for the England-Argentina game had trouble getting the day off.

56.From the passage we know in Japan the write likes to jive in_______.

A.Tokyo B.a small town

C.a city of middle site D.a big city

57.According to the writer, one had better ________first to do private teaching better.

A.take a TEFL course B.decide his or her own lessons

C.find students D.build up a full schedule

58.The underlined sentence in the second paragraph implies that_______.

A.there are many foreigners in Japan

B.Japan is good for nightlife

C.they can teach English privately in Japan

D.Japan has something more attractive than expected

59.The underlined word“reluctant”in the passage may probably mean_____.

A.kind B.unwilling C.free D.careless

B

As skies are filled with millions of migrating(迁徙)birds, European scientists say the seasonal wonder appears to be strange; the fatter that bird, the better it flies.

The results of their study led to a theory opposite to a central one of aerodynamics (空气动力学), which says that the power needed to fly increases with weight.

For birds, obviously, the cost of flying with heavy fat is much smaller than we used to think. Researchers found that red knoll wading birds double their normal body weight of 100 grams before making their twice-a-year nonstop flight between the British Isles and the Russian Arctic. Distance: 5, 000 kilometers.

Another study in the magazine Nature measured the advantage of flying in an aerodynamic group which allows birds to save energy by flying smoothly and quietly in the lead bird’s air stream.

Flying in groups, their heart rates were 14.5 percent lower than flying alone, according to Henri, a French scientist. The findings help explain how birds complete difficult migrations. Researchers had thought that thinner, stronger birds would have the best chance to survive.

The first study suggests that building up fat to be burnt as fuel during the migration is worth more than the energy it takes to carry the additional weight.

In the study, researchers said their learn studied the birds flown at different body weights during 28 simulated(模拟的)flights. They forced a small amount of special water into the birds’ bodies so that they could measure the amount of energy burnt during the flight.