When I was a college student, I did a lot of traveling abroad. That was because a professor   (1)  me to do so. She said, “Now it is the time for you to travel around the world,  (2)  your knowledge through actual experiences and have fun?” I   (3)  her.
Since I started to work for a   (4)  company, however, I have done most of my traveling through the Internet. By using the Internet, I have seen the   (5)  of many cities on my computer screen. And I have really made business   (6)  , too. With the help of the Internet, I have also got   (7)  about food in different countries.
    Therefore, I was beginning to feel that actual trips were   (8)   necessary when I happened to read a famous chef's (厨师) comment on the Internet. He said, “It is very difficult to have real Italian food in a foreign country, because we enjoy food and the
  (9)  around us at the same time. So why don't you fly over to Italy and enjoy real Italian   (10)  ? “Those words reminded me of my   (11)  advice. As information technology   (12)  , you might be able to do without making some real trips. But this also means that you will miss the various   (13)   you can get from traveling.
    Today there are people who   (14)  direct communication with others and spend much of their time on the Internet. It is not surprising to see a group of people  (15)  not with each other but into their micro phones. It seems as if such people are   (16)  by an invisible wall. They seem to be losing out on a good chance to  (17)  and talk with other people. I do not think that they are taking good advantage of information technology. We should use information technology as a tool to make our daily   (18)   more fruitful. However, we should never let it   (19)   our time for face to -face communication. Let's make use of information technology more   (20)  , and have great fun in experiencing the actual world.

第一节    完形填空（共20 小题；每小题目1.5分，满分30分）41-60

    Every year, almost 2 million Americans are injured while they're   (1)   work. Every day, 240 are killed on the job. The  (2)   job is cutting down trees. Being a policeman is safer than many jobs, including driving a truck, collecting garbage and   (3)   airplanes. One of the safest jobs is being a librarian.

    The government inspects(检查) most factories and offices.   (4)   have to   (5)   fines if their factories or offices are unsafe. In California, employers often go to prison if one of their workers is   (6)  because a factory didn't   (7)   safety measures. But President Bush cut down the number of government inspectors   (8)   15 percent. Many people say working is less safe   (9)  .

    For women workers, the greatest danger so far is murder. Forty--two percent of all   (10)  who die at work were killed. Many of them work   (11)   clerks in stores   (12)   they are by themselves at night. Experts say they can protect themselves by putting the cash desk in full   (13)  of the street.

     The numbers of deaths and accidents at work don't take into   (14)   people who become sick from   (15)   that they are exposed to at work. Doctors don't know   (16)   some chemicals cause illness.

     There are no government rules for many new chemicals.

     Inspectors say employers  (17)  their backs on safety problems because they don't want to pay the bill for fixing them. They also say some workers don't want to complain about dangers because they may   (18)   their jobs.

     The government should force business to improve safety. There's no  (19)  for workers dying or  (20)  in an accident that could have been prevented.

Recently a Russian friend came to visit me. It was one of her lifelong dreams to visit London. She 41____ at lunchtime and we 42____ a tiring afternoon going round the Tower of London.43___, by 5 o’clock I couldn’t help 44____ that she didn’t seem as enthusiastic as she had been 45___. I asked if 46___  was wrong and she said, “This is all very interesting but where is the 47___  and where are the men in bowler hats (圆顶礼帽)? Why did everyone 48___ to get on the bus at the bus stop instead of making a queue? It’s very 49___  from the books I’ve read about England.”
    Her50___ made me think. It’s true that people don’t 51____ much any more: nowadays you often find that everyone just jumps on the bus. Or maybe this is only in London. Also the idea of a man standing up and offering his52___ to a woman on a train or bus is 53___ these days, although my father still does it!
Speaking of the54___: well, we all know that a hundred years ago there used to be fog all year round in London, but we55___ have much fog; nowadays we have pollution from all the cars! Over the last few years in56__ London had been one of the hottest places in Europe, although we still get more than enough rain in the season.
    What about the city men in their working “uniform”? Well, you can still see some city gentlemen in their smart 57___ , but men hardly ever58___  bowler hats. A few things don’t 59___, though. If you try to60___ a conversation with an English person on the underground in London, she or he will probably look at you as if you were mad!

When people think of tigers, they think them strong and   (1)    . But now, the big animal is calling for our   (2)    .
There were once eight kinds of   (3)   in the world, but three    (4)   during the 20th century. In the last 70 years, the  (5)   of Siberian tigers (东北虎) has  (6)  from as many as 300 to less than 22 somewhere. The Siberian tiger has been   (7)   dying out completely.    (8)  the government doesn’t make any efforts, it’s quite   (9)  that there will be no more Siberian tigers in China in ten   (10)    twenty years.
In order to   (11)    the number of wild tigers in the  (12)   ten years, the World Wildlife Fund has started a   (13)    recently. It aims to save wild tigers and put an end to tiger   (14)   and killing. China, together with twelve other   (15)    , has joined in.
Wild animals,    (16)    red deer and wild pigs, are the main   (17)   of tigers. The hunting of these animals is the greatest threat (威胁) to tigers. So the most important thing is to   (18)    the animals that tigers    (19)   . To protect wild tigers, we need to call on   (20)    people to stop eating and hunting wild animals.