The mayor supports lawful gun use for hunting, target practice and other sports activities. But he scoffs at those who claim that (20)_________________ are unconstitutional.

Script: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg was joined at a press conference on Monday by family members and friends of gunshot victims, and by gun control activists. Family members and friends of gun violence victims gathered at the New York City Hall rotunda to explain their support for Mayor Michael Bloomberg in calling for more funding and rigorous enforcement of federal laws that require background checks on anyone attempting to purchase a gun.

\Bert, on December 4, 2010 to gun violence. I am part of a group of mothers of murdered children and I am here to find a solution so my group can become extinct,\guns. The first major federal gun control legislation (法律) in the United States was passed in 1968 in the wake of the assassinations (谋杀) of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and U.S. Senator Robert Kennedy.

In 1993, President Bill Clinton signed into law the so-called Brady Bill that requires background checks for those wishing to buy a gun. But critics charge that the law has been weakly enforced.

The mayor supports lawful gun use for hunting, target practice and other sports activities. But he scoffs at those who claim that gun control measures are unconstitutional.

正确答案： conference

正确答案： gunshot

正确答案： activists

正确答案： rigorous

正确答案： federal

正确答案： attempting

正确答案： murdered

正确答案： civil rights leader

正确答案： signed into law

正确答案： gun control measures

Part II Reading Comprehension ( 25 minutes )

Section A

Directions: In this section, there is a passage with several 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. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

All this is being done in the name of \are fearful, and so we 21 ways to lock the fear out, and that, we decide, is what security means.

But no; with all this \we are perhaps the most 22 nation in the history of 23 man. What better word to 24 the way in which we have been forced to live? What sadder 25 on all that we have become in this new and puzzling time?

We trust no one. 26 housewives wear rape whistles on their station wagon key chains. We have become so smart about self-protection that, in the end, we have all 27 ourselves. We may have locked the evils out, but in so doing we have locked ourselves in. That may be the 28 we remember best when we 29 this age: In dealing with the 30 horrors among us, we became prisoners of ourselves. All of us prisoners, in this time of our troubles.

A) describe B) cultivated C) design D) Suburban E) look back on F) legacy G) outsmarted H) unseen I) civilized J) reflection K) unforeseen L) prescribe M) secure N) devise O) insecure

21. ______________________

正确答案： N

22. ______________________

正确答案： O

23. ______________________

正确答案： B

24. ______________________

正确答案： A

25. ______________________

正确答案： J

26. ______________________

正确答案： D

27. ______________________

正确答案： G

28. ______________________

正确答案： F

29. ______________________

正确答案： E

30. ______________________

正确答案： H

Section B

Directions: There are several passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice.

Passage One

Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.

It was the worst tragedy in maritime (航海的) history, six times more deadly than the Titanic. When the German cruise ship Wilhelm Gustloff was hit by torpedoes (鱼雷) fired from a Russian submarine in the final winter of World War II, more than 10,000 people — mostly women, children and old people fleeing the final Red Army push into Nazi Germany — were packed aboard. An ice storm had turned the decks into frozen sheets that sent hundreds of families sliding into the sea as the ship tilted and began to go down. Others desperately tried to put

lifeboats down. Some who succeeded fought off those in the water who had the strength to try to claw their way aboard. Most people froze immediately. I’ll never forget the screams,\Ntitzmann, 87, one of the 1,200 survivors. She recalls watching the ship, brightly lit, slipping into its dark grave — and into seeming nothingness, rarely mentioned for more than half a century. Now Germany’s Nobel Prize-winning author Gtinter Grass has revived the memory of the 9,000 dead, including more than 4,000 children — with his latest novel Crab Walk, published last month. The book, which will be out in English next year, doesn’t dwell on the sinking; its heroine is a pregnant young woman who survives the catastrophe only to say later: \in the East.\The reason was obvious.

As Grass put it in a recent interview with the weekly Die Woche: \the crimes we Germans are responsible for were and are so dominant, we didn’t have the energy left to tell of our own sufferings.\

The long silence about the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff was probably unavoidable — and necessary. By unreservedly owning up to their country’s monstrous crimes in the Second World War, Germans have managed to win acceptance abroad, marginalize (使……不得势) the neo-Nazis at home and make peace with their neighbors. Today’s unified Germany is more prosperous and stable than at any time in its long, troubled history. For that, a half century of willful forgetting about painful memories like the German Titanic was perhaps a reasonable price to pay. But even the most politically correct Germans believe that they’ve now earned the right to discuss the full historical record. Not to equate German suffering with that of its victims, but simply to acknowledge a terrible tragedy.

31.

Why does the author say the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff was the worst tragedy in maritime history?

A) It happened in the final winter of World War II. B) It caused the largest number of casualties. C) Most of its passengers were frozen to death.

D) Its victims were mostly women, children and old people.

正确答案： B 32.

Hundreds of families dropped into the sea when ________. A) the badly damaged ship leaned toward one side B) the deck was frozen by an ice storm

C) the cruise ship was attacked by Russian torpedoes D) the frightened passengers fought desperately for lifeboats

正确答案： A 33.