Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word
for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage
through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter.
Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through
the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.
As an Alaskan fisherman .Timothy June,54 , used to think that he was safe from industrial
pollutants (污染物)at his home in Haines – a town with a population of 2,400 people and 4,000
eagles, with 8 million acres of protected wild land nearby. But in early 2007, June agreed to take
part in a
people’s blood and urine(尿)were tested for
Potentially dangerous classes of compounds found in common household 38
tin cans, and shower curtains. The results--- 39 in November in a report called “Is It in Us?” by
an environmental group –were rather worrying . Every one of the participants, 40
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of 35 Americans from seven states. It was a biomonitoring project, in which
of chemicals – in this case, three
like face cream,
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from
an Illinois State senator to a Massachusetts minister, tested positive for all three classes of
pollutants. And while the 41 presence of these chemicals does not 42 indicate a health risk ,
the fact that typical Americans carry these chemicals at all 43 June and his fellow participants.
Clearly , there are chemicals in our bodies that don’t 44 there, A large ongoing study conducted
by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found 148 chemicals in Americans of all
ages. And in 2005, the Environmental Working Group found an 45 of 200 chemicals in
the blood of 10 new-borns. “ Our babies are being born pre-polluted.” says Sharyle Patton of
Commonweal, which cosponsored “ Is it in Us?” “ This is going to be the next big environmental
issue after climate change
