1、- -Your iron is designed to function using tap water. However, it will last longer if you use distilled water.Temperature and stoam controlYour Moulex iron has two buttons which control the intensity of heat produced by the iron. You can, therefore, adjust the temperature of the iron and the amount

2、of steam being given off depending upon the type of fabric being ironed.-Turn the steam control to the desired intensity.-Turn the thermostat control to the desired temperaturePressing buttonImportant： bo not use this more than five successive timesSuits crease erasingIt is possible to use this iron

3、 in a vertical position so that you can remove creases from clothes on coathangers or from curtains. Turning the thermostat control and the steam button to maximum, hold the iron in a vertical position close to the fabric but without touching it. Hold down the pressing button for a maximum of one se

4、conds. The steam produced is not always visible but is still able to remove creasesAut。.cleanIn order that your iron does not become furred up.Moulex have integrated an auto clean system and we advise you to use it very regularly (1-2 times pr month.)Turn the steam control to the off position.Fill t

5、he reservoir and turn the thermostat control to maximumAs soon as the indicator light goes out, unplug the iron and, holding it over the sink, turn the steam control to autoclean. Any calcium deposits will be washed out by the steam. Continue the procedure until the reservoir is empty.If your iron p

6、roduces droplets of water instead of giving off steam, your temperature control is set too low.Always unplug th iron before filling the reservoir.Always empty the reservoir after use.Til is button activates a super shot of steam which momentarily gives you an additional 4Og of steam, when needed.Thi

7、s button activates a jet of cold water which allows you to iron out any unintentional creases. Press the button for one second.Hold the iron at a sufficient distance from silk and wool to avoid all risk of scorching, bo not attempt to remove creases from an item of clothing that is being worn, ays u

8、se a coathanger.排序題Passage 1Directions： The following paragraphs are given in a wrong order. For Questions 4145, you are required t reorganize these paragraphs into a coherent article by choosing from thelist AE to fill in each numbered box. The first and the last paragraphs have been placed for you

9、 in Boxes. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)Most governments are responding pragmatically. After years in which AIM was denounced as a social evil, Vietnams communist rulers have begun to attend AIDSawareness functions and promote AIDSprevention schemes. In neighboufing Laos, soldiers

10、 are taught about AIDS as part of their training. Indonesia is running needle exchanges and handing out methadone to heroin users, although only at a handful of clinics.Until recently, South-East Asia was considered a beacon of hope in the fight against AlbS. Thailand and Cambodia, where the epidemi

11、c took hold in the 1990s, have managed to reduce the incidence of the disease through vigorous and well funded public-health campaigns. In Cambodia, the proportion of adults infected by HIV, the virus that causes AlbS, fell from 3%in 1 997 to a still high 1.9%in 2003. In Thailand, the number of new

12、cases has fallen each year for the past decade.MBOOAM That, in a word, is how one epidemiologist describes ttepread of AIDS in Vietnam. Infection rates may be higher in Africa, but AIDS is growing faster in Souf*ast Asia than in any other part of the world. What is more, in populous countries like V

13、ietnam and Indonesia, even small increases in the proportion infeted means millions of new cases.b) AIDS is spreading so quickly because those most in danger are still taking risks. A recent survey of injecting drug users in three Indonesian cities found that 88%had used unsterilised needles in the

14、previous week. No wonder, then, that half of all drug users in Jakarta and Bali have HIV. By the same token, repeated surveys find that relatively few prostitutes use condoms in Indonesia. Infection rates among them have risen as high as 17% in some parts of the country. In Ho Chi Minh City, inVietn

15、am, overdl lirdofprostitutesir|ctdrugs, and half of those are HIV positiveBut when Malaysian authorities announced that they would start similar programmers earlier this year, religious leaders reacted with horror. The government of the state of Perak said it would distribute condoms only to married

16、 men. In 2003 the Philip.pinesCatholic bishops succeeded in blocking a proposal to spend government money on condom distribution. The military regime in Myanmar has not yet allowed any prevention campaigns on radio or television. Even Thailand, which mounted a much-imitated* 100% condomMcampaign in

17、the 1990s, is uncomfortable with any policies that imply forbearance in the face of drug use.People in the region remain worryingly ignorant about AIDS. Last year, the World Health Organization reported that prevention programmers had reached only of Prostitutes in Asia and the Pacific, % of drug us

18、ers and 必of gay men. People in risky situations use condoms onlyfiof the time, it reckoned. Only %of Indonesian women have ever been tested for HIV.Even as Thailand and Cambodia get to grips with AlbS, however, the disease has been taking hold in other countries in the region. Myanmar and Papua New

19、Guinea, with estimated infection rates of 1. 2%and 1. 7% respectively, face what the United Nations AI05 programmer call generalized epidemics. Several others, including Indonesia and Vietnam, are witnessing skyrocketing infection rates among drug users, from whom the disease might soon start spread

20、ing to the wider population - In East Asia as a whole, the number of people living with HIV rose by 2%in 2004 alone, according to a UNAIDS report, to be released on July 1st at a regional AIDS conference in Kobe, Japan.Order5.Passage 2Directions： The following parogrophs are given in a wrong order.

21、For Questions 41-45, you are required t reorganize these paragraphs into a coherent article by choosing from the list AE to fill in each numbered box. The first and the last paragraphs have been placed for you in Boxes. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)Geography doesnthelp; traffic ha

22、s to besqueezed between mountains and sea alonf handful of narrow corridors. But the real bugbear is the regions conflicting or overlapping t ransport plans. Each local authority wants to control its own administration, engineers and schedule planners; and all compete for passengers and funds.The mo

23、norail was approved by voters in 2002 as a populist alternative to Sound Transit, at the time besetby cost overruns and questions over its management. It seemed cool to vote for a train system no other big city is using no such a large scale. To add to its antielitist luster, the monorail was design

24、ed to serve middleincome districts that Sound Transit neglected.Now Seattle City Council must approve the monorails financing plan before letting building go ahead. Weeks ago, approval seemed certain, but not any more.This, in a way, is unfair. For though the monorail scheme has flaws aplenty, the r

25、eal culprit is the political culture that allowed its creation in the first place.b) In King County, where Seattle sits, Metro Transits 1,300 buses work to ferry people between suburbs and the big city. A system called Sound Transit is building train and bus services throughout King County and next-

26、door Pierce and Snohomish Counties(which also have their own bus systems). The city of Seattle operates a trolley line. Now construction may soon start on a monorailan elevated, singletrack trainthat would wend its way for 14 miles(23km)from neighborhoods in north Seattle to those in the citys south

27、-west.That startling figurenearly five times the costhas caught the publics attention, to say the least. Michael Murphy, Washington states treasurer remaked in mid-June that the monorails financing plan wasNludicrousMand threatened to damage the credit-rating of the entire state. Monorail officials

28、have fired back, insisting that the systems cost is in line with what voters approved, and complaining thd they are being unfairly maligned for openly stating the full borrowing and operating costs.AAaybe.But monorail planners also over-estimated tax revenues, which have fallen about onethird short

29、of projections.The cost for the first stage was pegged at around$1.75 billion, paid for with a now unloved car tax. Since thenand this will shock noonethe costs have increased to about$1.9 billion. To pay for it. the monorails managers plan to borrow a whopping$9.3 billion, to be paid off over nearl

30、y 50 years.It is home to Boeing, Starbucks and Microsoft (as well as to Ichiro Suzuki, the hippest baseball player in the world). But Seattles other, lesser boast is that it probably has the worst transport planning in North America.Order1.42.44.Passage 3birections： The following paragraphs are give

31、n in a wrong order. For Questions 41-45, you are required t reorganize these paragraphs into a coherent article by choosing from the list AE to fill in each numbered box. The first and the last paragraphs have been placed for you in Boxes. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)Astronomers

32、are interested in comets because they are simpler and more primitive than planets. Both types of body formed 4 5 billion years ago from a cloud of gas and dust around the young sun.Comets, though, are believed to have changed little from those days while planets( being larger and thus more prone to

33、heating up and meltin9(the heat is generated by radioactive minerals, and trapped inside large bodies),have undergone significant alteration. A comet is therefore something of a cosmic time capsuleBy observing how the crater forms, and the shape of the debris cloud, NASAs scientists hope to be able

34、to tell something about the rigidity of the comets material and how porous it is. And by analyzing the spectrum of light from the debris, they will find out that materials chemical composition-dthough the comet has been giving up some of these secrets unprompted, with a series of natural outbursts i

35、n recent weeks.beep Impact itself is a actually composed of two smaller vehicles-a mother ship that will fly past the comet taking photographs and conducting other measurements, and a sophisticated,steerable copper bullet weighing 372kg that is intended to smash into the comet.b) beep Impacts scient

36、ists, though, are not just trying to create an expensive display of patriotic pyrotechnics. By observing what is ejected from the crater created when part of the probe hits the comet they also hope to catch a glimpse of the material from which the Earth and the other planets were formed.Amateur observers in the western United States should be able to see Tempel 1 light up during th