AN UNUSUAL SWIMMING CLUB

Members of a special club in Britain cheerfully leave the warmth CHEER

of their beds, while most sensible people are still fast 【C1】__ for SLEEP

an 【C2】__ swim in water with a temperature of only seven degrees ENERGY

centigrade. This may sound like 【C3】__ to you, but these swimmers MAD

firmly believe that it is 【C4】__ to do this, even in mid-winter. HEALTH

【C5】__ of the club requires daily swimming outdoors. However, MEMBER

for people net used to large 【C6】__ in temperature, DIFFERENT

it may net be such a good idea. While there is an 【C7】__ in IMPROVE

the blood circulation of people who swim 【C8】__ in icy water, REGULAR

it can be 【C9】__ to others. But when members are asked why they HARM

do it, the common 【C10】__ is that it makes them feel wonderful! RESPOND

【C1】__

SECTION 1 Compulsory Translation (30 points)

For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death. In the less than two decades of their use, the synthetic pesticides have been so thoroughly distributed throughout the animate and inanimate world that they occur virtually everywhere. They have been recovered from most of the major river systems and even from streams of groundwater flowing unseen through the earth. Residues of these chemicals linger in soil to which they may have been applied a dozen years before. They have entered and lodged in the bodies of fish, birds, reptiles, and domestic and wild animals so universally that scientists carrying on animal experiments find it almost impossible to locate subjects free from such contamination. They have been found in fish in remote mountain lakes, in earthworms burrowing in soil, in the eggs of birds—and in man himself. For these chemicals are now stored in the bodies of the vast majority of human beings, regardless of age. They occur in the mother's milk, and probably in the tissues of the unborn child.

All this has come about because of the sudden rise and prodigious growth of an industry for the production of man-made or synthetic chemicals with insecticidal properties. This industry is a child of the Second World War. In the course of developing agents of chemical warfare, some of the chemicals created in the laboratory were found to be lethal to insects. The discovery did not come by chance: insects were widely used to test chemicals as agents of death for man.

The result has been a seemingly endless stream of synthetic insecticides.

What sets the new synthetic insecticides apart is their enormous biological potency. They have immense power not merely to poison but to enter into the most vital processes of the body and change them in sinister and often deadly ways. Thus, as we shall see, they destroy the very enzymes whose function is to protect the body from harm, they block the oxidation processes from which the body receives its energy, they prevent the normal functioning of various organs, and they may initiate in certain cells the slow and irreversible change that leads to malignancy.

The university of California, founded in 1868, is ____ (由校长和24名董事管理).

Some businessmen have found it______by putting users into video -game -like virtual worlds.

Yannis has two sons of 8 and 10. He would like to take them to see some animals in the countryside. He wants to be able to buy some refreshments.

听力原文：Collecting waste, food or materials that can cause fires creates serious health risks. In the United States, it violates laws that were created to protect public safety and property.

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