C. taken up D. taken away

答案与解析：C　考查动词短语的辨析。take in欺骗；take up占去；take away取走；take down写下，拆下。句意：我的生物学习占去了我大部分业余时间，但是它给了我大量的乐趣。

11. Jenny said she was ________ by the programme in the TV, so she turned it off.

A. disgusted B. attracted

C. disgusting D. attracting

答案与解析：A　disgusted厌恶的，失望的。句意：Jenny说她对电视节目感到厌恶，所以把电视关了。由于是被动关系，排除C、D两项。attract"吸引"，不符合语题境。故选A项。

12. In that martial arts film, the character ________ by Li Xiaolong split a brick(砖)into several pieces with his hand, which made the audiences ________.

A. playing; surprised B. played; surprised

C. playing; surprising D. played; surprising

答案与解析：B　考查分词的用法。此句中played是过去分词短语作后置定语。the character played by Li Xiaolong意为"由李小龙扮演的角色"；surprise过去分词形式表示"吃惊的"，而现在分词表示"令人吃惊的"。根据句意，答案为B项。

13. As is known, it was Hu Jintao, ________president of our nation, who gave ________ lecture at the opening ceremony of Beijing Olympics.

A. the；a B. the；/

C. a；the D. /；a

答案与解析：D　考查冠词。president表官衔，作同位语时，前不加冠词；give a lecture作演讲。

14. What he said sounded ________，so I felt frightened when I heard it.

A. terror B. terrifying

C. terrified D. terrify

答案与解析：B　sound属于系动词，后面接形容词作表语，所以先排除A、D两项。他说的话应是令人害怕，故用terrifying。而C项为感到害怕的。

15. ________contrast to Yao Ming, I'm short.

A. In B. By

C. From D. Of

答案与解析：A　in contrast to和......相比，是固定搭配，by contrast后接with。

Ⅲ. 翻译句子

1．我工作了两年，只有一个目的，赋予一个无生命的身体以生命。(give life to)

答案：I had worked two years with one aim only, to give life to a lifeless body.

2．一定是有人疏忽，忘了关门。(by mistake)

答案：Someone must have left the door open by mistake.

3．我们绝对不可能按时完成这项工作。(get...finished)

答案：There's no way we're going to get this job finished on time.

4．政府采用了好几种有力方法来控制人们，目的是使人幸福，从而没有更多的战争或暴力。

答案：The government uses several powerful methods to control people, with its aim for people to be happy, so that there are no more wars or violence.

5．The only reason why scientists haven't created thousands of identical clones is that they haven't learned how to do this.

答案：科学家们还没有制造出成千上万个克隆个体的唯一原因是他们没有研究出怎么去做。

Ⅳ.阅读理解