The underlined word “inevitable” in the last but one paragraph means ______.

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• 1According to his statement in Paragraph 4, Prof Martienssen thought they should  ______.

  A.expand the plantation of oil palms

  B.plant more other trees instead of oil palms

  C.make full use of less land to plant oil palms

  D.only grow the more sustainable type of oil palms

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• 2What difficulty are the oil palm growers faced with、

  A.The more oily palms easily died of bad weather.

  B.The more oily palms can change to the less oily ones.

  C.They don’t have enough land to grow oil palms.

  D.They are unable to predict exactly what sort of fruit the trees they are planting will produ c

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• 3What can we infer from the passage、

  A.The plantation of oil palms has decreased in recent years.

  B.The Dura produces less oil than other two types of palm fruit.

  C.It takes less time to produce fruit, Pisifera, than other two types of fruit.

  D.The researchers are trying to produce more palms with the fruit, Tenera.

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• 4Section B (18 marks)Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.Peter was a US Navy fighter pilot in Vietnam. On his 75th mission, his fighter was  36  and he was forced to eject（弹射出去）. The only thing between him and imminent（逼近的）death was his parachute（降落伞）that he prayed would open. The parachute did open and Peter made it down to the ground alive, but he was  37  alive and spent 6 years in a Vietnamese prison camp.One day, many years after returning to his homeland, Peter and his wife were sitting in a little restaurant in Kansas City  38  he noticed a guy who kept looking at him.Peter looked back but didn’t recognize him, but he kept catching this guy  39  him. Finally the guy stood up and walked over to Peter’s  40 and said, “You’re Peter.” Peter looked up at him and said, “Yes.” The guy said, “You’re a  41  pilot, part of that ‘Top Gun ”outfit. You launched from the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk, you parachuted into enem y territory and you spent six years as a  42  of war.” 43    surprised, Peter looked up at the guy and asked, “How in the world did you know all that、” The man laughed and said, “Because I  44  your parachute.”Peter was  45  . The man grabbed Peter’s hand and pumped his arm and said, “I guess it worked,” and walked off.Think about this for yourself. How many times in life do you  46  the people who help you out the most、 The people who come out of the far  47  of your life just when you need them the most and pack your parachutes for you、

  A.hurt

  B.spoiled

  C.injured

  D.destroyed

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• 5I’m still wondering            put the Christmas gift under my pillow．

  A.whom it is that

  B.it is whom that

  C.it is who that

  D.who it is that

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• 6Over which issue Adam Harrison showed his concern、

  A.The oil palm is not a good replacement of the forest.

  B.The palm oil the researchers are testing is unsustainable.

  C.There is not enough land for the plantation of oil palms.

  D.The plantation of oil palms will affect the native environment.

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• 7What can we learn about Ramesh、

  A.He didn’t like the job of salesman.

  B.He was confident in his first task.

  C.His customers were mainly the local laundry owners.

  D.He accomplished his sales task perfectly within 10 days.

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• 8The laundry owners asked Ramesh to come later, because  ___________.

  A.they felt embarrassed about refusing Ramesh directly

  B.they didn’t want to pay Ramesh back at all

  C.they had to wait for the sun to come out to dry clothes

  D.they had to save up money to pay for the products they bought

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• 9Which of the following best describes Ramesh、

  A.Hard-working and patient.

  B.Patient and generous.

  C.Generous and hard-working.

  D.Confident and persuasiv

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• 10According to the passage, which of the foll owing is TRUE、

  A.June is the start of the rainy season in the southern part of India.

  B.To sell products, Ramesh helped his customers to wash clothes.

  C.Ramesh became the “star performer ” for the next three months.

  D.A minority of customers paid for the products using the money from Ramesh.

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