Questions 16-20 are based on the following passage:

　　The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has announced plans to return people to the moon by 2018. “And this time,” according to a NASA press release, “we’re going to stay.”

　　NASA wants to make a new spaceship for the missions using parts from the Apollo program, which first took people to the moon in 1969, and the space shuttle. NASA says the new Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) will be “affordable, reliable, and sage.”

　　The CEV will be able to hold four astronauts. The plan is to have the CEV dock (對接) in space with the lunar lander---the vehicle astronauts will use to land on the moon---which will be launched separately into space. The CEV will then travel to the moon and all four astronauts will walk on the moon.

　　The first moon missions are expected to last up to seven days. Exploration and construction of a moon base will be the astronauts’ top priorities (最優先考慮的事). NASA hopes to have a minimum of two moon missions a year stating in 2018. This will allow for quick moon base construction, constant scientific study, and training for future missions to Mars.

16. What is new in NASA’s plan to return to the moon by 2018?

A. People will land and remain on the moon.

B. Equipment will be carried and installed there.

C. More CEVs will be made regularly.

D. A special device will be used in landing.

17. How will NASA make its new spaceship?

A. It will base its design on that of the Apollo program.

B. It will use parts only from the Apollo program.

C. It will make use of the Apollo program and the space shuttle.

D. It will develop new designs and make new components.

18. How will CEV and the moon lander be launched?

A. They will be launched separately.

B. CEV will dock with the moon lander.

C. They will be launched together.

D. The moon lander will hold four astronauts.

19. What will be the astronauts’ top priorities?

A. Entering the orbit and landing on the moon.

B. Landing and walking on the moon surface.

C. Exploration and researches into the moon composition.

D. Exploration and construction of a moon base.

20. The reason why NASA hopes to carry out at least two moon missions a year stating in 2018 is to ____.

A. ensure the moon traveling and the moon base construction

B. speed up the moon base construction and other activities

C. guarantee the quality of the researchers’ scientific study

D. set up new training laboratories for future missions to Mars

Questions 21-25 are based on the following passage:

At the end of the U.S. Civil War, about 4 million slaves were freed. Now, people around the world can hear some of the former slaves’ stories for the first time ever, as told in their own voices.

“That was in slavery time,” says Charlie Smith in one interview. “They sold the colored people. And they were bringing them from Africa. They brought me from Africa. I was a child.”

The Library of Congress released the collection of recordings, Voices from the Days of Slavery, in January. The recordings were made between 1932 and 1975. Speaking at least 60 years after their emancipation (解放), the strorytellers discuss their experiences as slaves. They also tell about their lives as free men and women.

Isom Moseley was just a by at the time of emancipation, but he recalls that things were slow to change. “It was a year before the folks knowed they was free,” he says.

Michael Taft, the head of the library’s archive of folk culture, says the recordings reveal something that written stories cannot. “The power of hearing someone speak is so much greater than reading something from the page,” Taft says. “It’s how something is said---the dialect, the low pitches, the pauses---that helps tell the story.”

21. What is new about the slaves’ stories?

A. They are told in the slaves’ own voices.

B. People travel around the world to hear them.

C. Colored people were sold.

D. They happened in the slavery time.

22. What is the title of the collection of recordings?

A. The End of the U.S. Civil War.

B. The Library of Congress

C. Voices from the Days of Slavery.

D. The Recordings of Written Stories.

23. How many years did it take to complete the collection of recordings?

A. 26 years.                               B. 33 years

C. 44 years                                D. 57 years.

24. What do the storytellers tell us about?

A. How they were brought to the United States from Africa.

B. The release of the collection of recordings.

C. What happened 60 years after their emancipation.

D. Their experiences as slaves and their lives as free men and women.

25. The recordings differ from written stories in that ____.

A. the tellers and the government are contributing together

B. the dialect, the low pitches, and the pauses are more revealing

C. the hearing and reading both help tell the stories

D. the power of watching someone write is more engaging.

Questions 26-30 are based on the following announcement:

THE SOCIETY FOR BIOMATERIALS

Takes Pleasure in Announcing

its

STUDENT AWARD

FOR

OUTSTANDING RESEARCH

Which will be awarded to student researchers

Who have shown outstanding achievement in

biomaterial research

Applications may be made in one of the following categories:

1.       Hospital intern （實習醫生）, resident or clinical fellow

2.       Undergraduate, Master or Health Science degree candidate

3.       Ph.D.degree candidate or equivalent

Recipient will present their paper at the Society for Biomaterials meeting in Clemson, South Carolina, and be the guest of the Society during its meeting, April 28 to May 1, 2007.

Each recipient will receive:

1.       Travel and living expenses up to $300

2.       Certificate of Award

3.       Registration for the Scientific Session

4.       Tickets to all official functions

5.       Publication of abstract in the Transactions of the Society for Biomaterials

6.       Publication of paper in Journal of Biomedical Materials Research

Recipient will be selected on the basis of submitted papers which must be received along with completed application forms no later than November 30, 2006.

For application, write to

Student Awards

Society for Biomaterials

c/o Robert A. James, Doctor of Dental Science

Loma Linda University SD

Loma Linda, California 92354
 

26. In order to be chosen, applicants must send in ____ before Nov. 30, 2006.

A. their papers and application forms

B. their papers and degree certificates

C. their application forms and diplomas

D. their applications and registrations

27. The number 92354 is the ____ of Loma Linda University SD.

A. fax code                              B. phone number

C. zip code                              D. street number

28. The qualifications for the application for the award include all of the following EXCEPT ____.

A. hospital interns, resident or clinical fellows

B. undergraduates, masters or Health Science degree candidates

C. doctorial degree candidates or equivalents

D. Ph. D supervisors or former student award winners

29. Journal of Biomaterials Research will publish ____.

A. the abstract of the paper of the applicant chosen

B. the presented paper of the applicant chosen

C. the abstract and paper of the applicant selected

D. the application form and paper of the applicant

30. It can be inferred that the criterion/criteria for the selection of qualified candidates is/are ____.

A. the qualification of the applicants

B. the quality of the applicants’ papers

C. the number of the papers presented

D. the abstract of the papers submitted