2006年高考第二轮复习专项强化—阅读理解
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Early one morning, more than a hundred years ago, an American inventor called Elias Howe finally fell asleep. He had been working all night on the design of a sewing machine but he had run into a very difficult problem: It seemed impossible to get the thread to run smoothly around the needle.
Though he was tired, Howe slept badly. He turned and turned. Then he had a dream. He dreamt that he had been caught by terrible savages whose king wanted to kill him and eat him unless he could build a perfect sewing machine. When he tried to do so, Howe ran into the same problem as before. The thread kept getting caught around the needle. The king flew into the cage and ordered his soldiers to kill Howe. They came up towards him with their spears raised. But suddenly the inventor noticed something. There was a hole in the tip of each spear. The inventor awoke from the dream, realizing that he had just found the answer to the problem. Instead of trying to get the thread to run around the needle, he should make it run through a small hole in the center of the needle. This was the simple idea that finally made Howe design and build the first really practised sewing machine.
Elias Howe was not the only one in finding the answer to his problem in this way.
Thomas Edison, the inventor of the electric light, said his best ideas came into him in dreams. So did the great physicist Albert Einstein. Charlotte Bronte also drew in her dreams in writing Jane Eyre.
To know the value of dreams, you have to understand what happens when you are asleep. Even then, a part of your mind is still working. This unconscious(无意识的), but still active part understands your experiences and goes to work on the problems you have had during the day. It stores all sorts of information that you may have forgotten or never have really noticed. It is only when you fall asleep that this part of the brain can send messages to the part you use when you are awake. However, the unconscious part acts in a special way. It uses strange images which the conscious part may not understand at first. This is why dreams are sometimes called “secret messages to ourselves”.
1..According to the passage, Elias Howe was________.
A. the first person we know of who solved problems in his sleep
B. much more hard-working than other inventors
C. the first person to design a sewing machine that really worked
D. the only person at the time who knew the value of dreams
2.The problem Howe was trying to solve was________.
A. what kind of thread to use
B. how to design a needle which would not break
C. where to put the needle
D. how to prevent the thread from getting caught around the needle
3.Thomas Edison is spoken of because________.
A. he also tried to invent a sewing machine
B. he got some of his ideas from dreams
C. he was one of Howe’s best friends
D. he also had difficulty in falling asleep
4.Dreams are sometimes called“secret messages to ourselves” because ________.
A. strange images are used to communicate ideas
B. images which have no meaning are used
C. we can never understand the real meaning
D. only specially trained people can understand them
B
Language learning begins with listening. Children are greatly different in the amount of listening they do before they start speaking, and later starters are often long listeners .Most children will“obey”spoken instructions some time before they can speak, though the word “obey” is hardly accurate as a description of the eager and delighted cooperation usually shown by the child .Before they can speak, many children will also ask questions by gesture and by making questioning noises.
Any attempt to study the development from the noises babies make to their first spoken words leads to considerable difficulties. It is agreed that they enjoy making noises, and that during the first few months one or two noises sort themselves as particularly expressive as delight, pain, friendliness, and so on. But since these can’t be said to show the baby’s intention to communicate ,they can hardly be regarded as early forms of language. It is agreed, too, that from about three months they play with sounds for enjoyment, and that by six months they are able to add new words to their store. This self-imitation（模仿）leads on to deliberate（有意的）imitation of sounds made or words spoken to them by other people. The problem then arises as to the point at which one can say that these imitations can be considered as speech.
It is a problem we need to get out teeth into. The meaning of a word depends on what a particular person means by it in a particular situation and it is clear that what a child means by a word will change as he gains more experience of the world .Thus the use at seven months of “mama” as a greeting for his mother cannot be dismissed as a meaningless sound simply because he also uses it at other times for his father, his dog, or anything else he likes. Playful and meaningless imitation of what other people say continues after the child has begun to speak for himself, I doubt, however whether anything is gained when parents take advantage of this ability in an attempt to teach new sounds .
5.Before children start speaking________.
A.they need equal amount of listening
B.they need different amounts of listening
C.they are all eager to cooperate with the adults by obeying spoken instructions
D.they can’t understand and obey the adult’s oral instructions
6.Children who start speaking late ________.
A.may have problems with their listening
B.probably do not hear enough language spoken around them
C.usually pay close attention to what they hear
D.often take a long time in learning to listen properly
7.A baby’s first noises are ________.
A.an expression of his moods and feelings
B.an early form of language
C.a sign that he means to tell you something
D.an imitation of the speech of adults
8.The problem of deciding at what point a baby’s imitations can be considered as speech________.
A.is important because words have different meanings for different people
B.is not especially important because the changeover takes place gradually
C.is one that should be properly understood because the meaning of words changes with age
D.is one that should be completely ignored（忽略）because children’s use of words is often meaningless
9.The speaker implies________.
A.parents can never hope to teach their children new sounds
B.children no longer imitate people after they begin to speak
C.children who are good at imitating learn new words more quickly
D.even after they have learnt to speak, children still enjoy imitating
C
The greatest recent changes have been in the lives of women. During the twentieth century there was an unusual shortening of the time of a woman’s life spent in caring for children. A woman marrying at the end of the 19th century would probably have been in her middle twenties, and would be likely to have seven or eight children, of whom four or five lived till they were five years old. By the time the youngest was fifteen, the mother would have been in her early fifties and would expect to live a further twenty years, during which custom, chance and health made it unusual for her to get paid work. Today women marry younger and have fewer children. Usually a woman’s youngest child will be fifteen when she is forty-five and is likely to take paid work until retirement at sixty. Even while she has the care of children ,her work is lightened by household appliances（家用电器）and convenience foods.
This important change in women’s way of life has only recently begun to have its full effect on women’ s economic position. Even a few years ago most girls left school at the first opportunity and most of them took a full-time job. However, when they married, they usually left work at once and never returned to it. Today the school-leaving age is sixteen, many girls stay at school after that age ,and though women tend to marry younger ,more married women stay at work at least until shortly before their first child is born. Many more after wads, return to full or part-time work.Such changes have led to a new relationship in marriage, with both husband and wife accepting a greater share of the duties and satisfaction of family life, and with both husband and wife sharing more equally in providing the money and running the home, according to the abilities and interest of each of them.
10.We are told that in an average family about 1990________.
A.many children died before they were five
B.the youngest child would be fifteen
C.seven of eight children lived to be more than five
D.four or five children died when they were five
11.When she was over fifty, the late 19th century mother________.
A.would expect to work until she died
B.was usually expected to take up paid employment
C.would be healthy enough to take up paid employment
D.was unlikely to find a job even if she is now likely
12.Many girls, the passage says, are now likely to ________.
A.marry so that they can get a job
B.leave school as soon as they can
C.give up their jobs for good after they are married
D.continue working until they are going to have a baby
13.According to the passage,it is now quite usual for women to ________.
A.stay at home after leaving school
B.marry men younger than themselves
C.start working again later in life
D.marry while still at school
D
Any mistake made in the printing of a stamp raises its value to stamp collectors. A mistake on one inexpensive postage stamp has made the stamp worth a million and a half times its original value.
The mistake was made more than a hundred years ago in the British colony of Mauritius, a small island in the Indian Ocean. In 1847 an order for stamps was sent to a London printer-Mauritius was to become the fourth country in the world to issue stamps.
Before the order was filled and delivered, a ball was planned at Mauritius’ Government House, and stamps were needed to send out the invitations. A local printer was instructed to copy the design for the stamps. He accidentally inscribed the words“Post Office” instead of“Post Paid” on the several hundred stamps that he printed.
Today there are only twenty-six of these misprinted stamps left fourteen One Penny Orange-Reds and twelve Two Penny Blues. Because of the Two Penny Blue’s rareness and age, collectors have paid as much as ＄16 800 for it.
14.Over a century ago, Mauritius ________.
A.was an independent country
B.belonged to India
C.was one of the British colonies
D.was a small island in the Pacific Ocean
15. The mistake on the stamps was made ________.
A.in Mauritius
B.at Mauritius Government House
C.in a post office
D.in London
16. Stamp collectors have paid 16 800 for ________.
A. fourteen One Penny Orange-Reds
B. twelve Two Penny Blues
C. one One Penny Orange-Red
D. one Two Penny Blue
E
Personal computers and the Internet give people new choices about how to spend their time.
Some may use this freedom to share less time with certain friends or family members, but new technology will also let them stay in closer touch with those they care most about. I know this from personal experience.
E-mail makes it easy to work at home, which is where I now spend most weekends and evenings. My working hours aren’t necessarily much shorter than they once were but I spend fewer of them at the office. This lets me share more time with my young daughter than I might have if she’d been born before electronic mail became such a practical tool.
The Internet also makes it easy to share thoughts with a group of friends. Say you do something fun see a great movie perhaps-and there are four or five friends who might want to hear about it. If you call each one, you may tire of telling the story.
With E-mail, you just write one note about your experience, at your convenience, and address it to all the friends you think might be interested. They can read your message when they have time, and read only as much as they want to. They can reply at their convenience, and you can read what they have to say at your convenience.
E-mail is also an inexpensive way stay in close touch with people who live far away. More than a few parents use E-mail to keep in touch, even daily touch, with their children off at college.
We just have to keep in mind that computers and the Internet offer another way of staying in touch. They don’t take the place of any of the old ways.
17. The purpose of this passage is to ________.
A. explain how to use the Internet
B. describe the writer’s joy of keeping up with the latest technology
C. tell the merits(价值) and usefulness of the Internet
D. introduce the reader to basic knowledge about personal computers and the Internet
18. The use of E-mail has made it possible for the writer to ________.
A. spend less time working
B. have more free time with his child
C. work at home on weekends
D. work at a speed comfortable to him
19. According to the writer, E-mail has an obvious advantage over the telephone because the former helps one ________.
A. reach a group of people at one time conveniently
B. keep one’s communication as personal as possible
C. pass on much more information than the later
D. get in touch with one’s friends faster than the later
20. The best title for this passage is ________.
A. Computer: New Technological Advances
B. Internet: New Tool to Maintain Good Friendship
C. Computers Have Made Life Easier
D. Internet: a Convenient Tool for Communication
参考答案: CDBAB DABDD DDCCA DCBAD
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“How can I learn English well?” This is a question many students ask. In my opinion, the most effective way is to learn lessons by heart. If you can recite the text and write it out, you’ve learned it fairly well. And if you can tell, in your own words, what the lesson says you’re a very successful learner indeed. Your English will be quite perfect.
This is a difficult task. However, if you try to learn by heart only part of each lesson, you’ll find it not half so hard as you might have thought.
Learning this way, you will make rapid progress. Of course, writing is also necessary. It helps you a lot on our way to success in English.
Equally important is to feel the language. You should be able to laugh at jokes and be shocked at bad news. When using English, try to forget your mother tongue. Instead of helping you, your own language gets in your way. So, never try to see English through translation.
56.In the writer’s opinion, the most effective way in learning English is ________.
A.to practise speaking, writing and feeling it
B.to forget your own native language
C.to translate everything into his own language
D.to memorize the English words and grammatical rules
57. “Instead of helping you, your own language gets in your way.”This sentence means that memorizing your own language can ________.
A.help you to study English well
B.stop you mastering English
C.make English easy to learn
D.help you notice mistakes
58.Equally important is to feel the language. “to feel the language” here means________.
A.to get a knowledge of English by touching
B. to be able to read and write English
C.to translate English into your own by imagining
D.to be able to experience the rich sensation of the language
B
When we can see well, we do not think about our eyes often. It is only when we can not see perfectly that we come to see how important our eyes are.
People who are nearsighted can only see things that are very close to their eyes. Many people who do a lot of close work, such as writing and reading, become nearsighted. Then they have to wear glasses in order to see distant things clearly.
People who are farsighted face just the opposite problem. They can see things that are far away, but they have difficulty reading a book unless they hold it at arm’s length. If they want to do much reading, they must get glasses too.
Other people do not see clearly because their eyes are not exactly the right shape. This, too, can be corrected by glasses. Some people’s eyes become cloudy because of cataracts. Long ago these people often became blind. Now, however, it is possible to operate on the cataracts and remove them.
When night falls, colors become fainter to the eyes and finally disappear. After your eyes have grown used to the dark, you can see better if you use the side of your eyes rather than the centers. Sometimes, after dark, you see a small thing to one side of you, which seems to disappear if you turn your head in its direction. This is because when you turn your head, you are looking at the thing too directly. Men on guard duty sometimes think they see something moving to one side of them. When they turn to look straight at it, they can not see it any more, and they believe they were mistaken. However, this mistake happens because the center of the eye, which is very sensitive in daylight, is not as sensitive as the sides of the eye after dark.
59.We don’t know that our eyes are of great importance until ________.
A. we think about our eyes
B. we cannot see clearly
C. we wear glasses
D. we have to do much reading
60.According to the passage, a ________ is more likely to be nearsighted.
A.tailor B. doctor C. guard D.painter
61.People who are farsighted ________ .
A.cannot do a lot of close work without glasses
B.can only see things that are very close to their eyes
C.have difficulty reading a book if they hold it at arm’s length
D.have the same problem as the nearsighted people
62.To see a small thing at night, it is better to look ________ .
A.with wide open eyes
B.with half shut or narrowed eyes
C.straight at it
D.in a slightly different direction
C
Trees are useful to man in three important ways: they give him wood and other useful things, they give him cool places, and they help to stop drought and flood.
Unluckily, in many parts of the world, man has not found that the third of these points is the most important. Man wants to make money from trees,so he has cut them down in large numbers, only to find that without them he has lost the best friends he had. And also, he is usually too careless to plant and look after new trees. So the forests slowly disappear.
This does not only mean that man will have fewer trees. The results are even worse: for where there are trees, their roots break up soil-make the rain in-and also bind the soil, thus stopping it from being washed away easily; but where there are no trees, the rain falls on hard ground and flows away, causing floods and carrying away the rich top-soil. When all the top-soil is gone, nothing is left but useless desert.
63.The most important points of trees to man is ________.
A.they help him to make money
B.they give him cool
C.they give him wood and other things
D.they help him to stop drought and floods
64.In many places forests slowly disappear because ________ .
A.many trees have been cut down by man
B.new trees are not well looked after
C.man has not paid enough attention to planting trees
D.all the above
65.Land becomes desert after all trees are cut down because ________ .
A. roots of trees break up the soil
B. there are too many rainfalls
C. strong winds bring a lot of sand
D. there are no longer trees to keep the rain and protect the top-soil.
66.Which title best fits the passage?
A.Trees and Man
B.The Function of Tree Wood
C.How do People do with Trees?
D.The Usage of Tree Roots
D
Laptop computers are popular all over the world. People use them on trains and airplanes, in airports and hotels. These laptops connect people to their workplace. In the United States today, laptops also connect students to their classrooms.
Westlake College in Virginia will start a laptop computer program that allows students to do schoolwork anywhere they want. Within five years, each of the 1500 students at the college will receive a laptop. The laptops are part of a ＄10 million computer program at Westlake, a 110-year-old college. The students with laptops will also have access to the Internet. In addition, they will be able to use e-mail to “speak” with their teachers, their classmates, and their families. However, the most important part of the laptop program is that students will be able to use computers without going to computer labs. They can work with it at home, in a fast-food restaurant or under the trees-anywhere at all!
Because of the many changes in computer technology , laptop use in higher education, such as colleges and universities, is workable. As laptops become more powerful, they become more similar to desktop computers. In addition, the portable computers can connect students to not only the Internet, but also libraries and other resources. State higher-education officials are studying how laptops can help students. State officials are also testing laptop programs at other universities, too.
At Westlake College, more than 60 percent of the staff use computers. The laptops will allow all teachers to use computers in their lessons. As one Westlake teacher said, “ Here we are in the middle of Virginia and we’re giving students a window on the world. They can see everything and do everything.”
67.The main purpose of the laptop program is to give each student a laptop to ________.
A.use for their schoolwork
B.access the Internet
C.work at home
D.connect them to libraries
68.Why is the word “speak” in the second paragraph in quotation marks(引号)?
A.They don’t really talk.
B.They use the computer language.
C.Laptops have speakers.
D.None of the above reasons is correct.
69.Which of the following is true about Westlake College?
A. All teachers use computers.
B.1500 students have laptops.
C.It is an old college in America.
D.Students there can do everything.
70.A window on the world in the last paragraph means that students can ________.
A.attend lectures on information technology
B.travel around the world
C.get information from around the world
D.have free laptops
71.What can we infer from the passage?
A.The program is successful.
B.The program is not workable.
C.The program is too expensive.
D.We don’t know the result yet.
E
Let children learn to judge their own work. A child learning to talk does not learn by being corrected all the time: if corrected too much, he will stop talking. He notices a thousand times a day the difference between the language he uses and the language those around him use. Bit by bit, he makes the necessary changes to make his language like other people’s. In the same way, children learning to do all the other things: they learn to do without being taught to walk, run, climb, whistle, ride a bicycle, compare their own performances with those of more skilled people, and slowly make the needed changes. But in school we never give a child a chance to find out his mistakes and correct them for himself. We do it all for him. We act as if we thought that he would never notice a mistake unless it was pointed out to him, or correct it unless he was made to. Let him work out, with the help of other children if he wants it, what this word says, what the answer is to that problem, whether this is a good way of saying or doing this or not.
If it is a matter of right answer, as it may be in mathematics or science, give him the answer book. Let him correct his own papers. Why should we teachers waste time on such routine(常规) work? Our job should be to help the child when he tells us that he can’t find the way to get the right answer. Let the children learn what all educated persons must some day learn, how to measure their own understanding, and how to know what they know or do not know.
72.According to the passage, the best way for children to learn things is by ________.
A.listening to skilled people’s advice
B.asking older people many questions
C.making mistakes and having them corrected
D.doing what other people do
73.Which of the following does the writer think teachers should NOT do?
A.Give children correct answers.
B.Allow children to make mistakes.
C.Point out children’s mistakes to them.
D.Let children mark their own work.
74.According to the writer, teachers in school should ________.
A.allow children to learn from each other
B.point out children’s mistakes whenever found
C.give children more book knowledge
D.correct children’s mistakes as soon as possible
75.The passage suggests that learning to speak and learning to ride a bicycle are ________.
A.different from learning other skills
B.the same as learning skills
C.more important than other skills
D.not really important skills
参考答案：56~60 ABDBA 61~65 DDDDD 66~70 AAACC 71~75 DDCAB
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This March is a busy month in Shanghai. There's a lot to do. Here are the
highlights.
Live Music - Late Night Jazz
Enjoy real American jazz from Herbie Davis, the famous trumpet player. He's coming with his new 7-piece band, Herbie' s Heroes. Herbie is known to play well into the early hours, so don't expect to get much sleep. This is Herbie' s third visit to Shanghai. The first two were sold out, so get your tickets quickly.
| PLACE: The Jazz Club DATES: 15-23 March PRICE: ￥80,120 TIME: 10:00p.m. till late! TEL: 6466-8736 |
Scottish dancing
Take your partners and get ready to dance till you drop. Scottish dancing is fun and easy to learn. Instructors will demonstrate the dances. The live band, Gordon Stroppie and the Weefrees, are also excellent.
| PLACE: Jack Stein's DATES: every Monday PRICE: Y60 including one drink TIME: 7:00 - ~0:00 p.m. TEL: 6402-1877 |
Exhibitions - Shanghai Museum
There are 120,000 pieces on show here. You can see the whole of Chinese history under one roof. It' s always interesting to visit, but doubly so at the moment with the Egyptian Tombs exhibition. There are lots of mummies and more gold than you've ever seen before. Let us know if you see a mummy move!
| PLACE: Shanghai Museum PRICE: ￥30 (￥ 15 for students) TEL: 6888-6888 DATES: daily TIME: Monday - Friday 9:00a.m. - 5:00p.m., Weekends 9:00a.m. - 9:00p.m. |
Dining - Sushi chef in town
Sushi is getting really big in Shanghai. In Japan, it' s become an art form. The most famous Sushi 'artist' is Yuki Kamura. She' s also one of the few female chefs in Japan. She' ll be at Sushi Scene all of this month.
| PLACE: Sushi Scene in the Shanghai Hotel DATES: all month PRICE: ￥200 TIME: lunchtime TEL: 6690-3211 |
For a full listing of events, see our website.
56. Suppose you are going to attend an activity at 8: 00p. m. on Saturday, which one can you
choose?
A. Live Music - Late Night Jazz B. Scottish dancing
C. Exhibitions - Shanghai Museum D. Dining - Sushi chef in town
57. Which of the following is true according to the advertisements?
A. Scottish dancing is so interesting and easy that it never tires you out.
B. The performance given by the American jazz band won't last long.
C. Sushi is not popular in Shanghai as it is a kind of Japanese traditional food.
D. It is more interesting to visit Shanghai Museum for the exhibits from Egypt.
58. From the text we may learn that Kamura is _______.
A. a cook B. a waitress C. an instructor D. an artist
B
Since we are social beings, the quality of our lives depends in large measure on our interpersonal relationships. One strength of the human condition is our possibility to give and receive support from one another under stressful (有压力的) conditions. Social support makes up of the exchange of resources among people based on their interpersonal ties. Those of us with strong support systems appear better able to deal with major life changes and daily problems. People with strong social ties live longer and have better health than those without such ties. Studies over types of illnesses, from depression to heart disease, show that the presence of social support helps people defend themselves against illness, and the absence of such support makes poor health more likely.
Social support cushions stress in a number of ways. First, friends, relatives and co-workers may let us know that they value us. Our self-respect is strengthened when we feel accepted by others in spite of our faults and difficulties. Second, other people often provide us with informational support. They help us to define and understand our problems and find solutions to them. Third, we typically find social companionship supportive. Taking part in free-time activities with others helps us to meet our social needs while at the same time distracting (转移注意力) us from our worries and troubles. Finally, other people may give us instrumental support money aid, material resources, and needed services - that reduces stress by helping us resolve and deal with our problems.
59. Interpersonal relationships are important because they can ________
A. make people live more easily
B. smooth away daily problems
C. deal with life changes
D. cure types of illnesses
60. The researches show that people's physical and mental health _______
A. lies in the social medical care systems which support them
B. has much to do with the amount of support they get from others
C. depends on their ability to deal with daily worries and troubles
D. is related to their courage for dealing with major life changes
61. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined word "cushions"?
A. takes place of B. makes up of
C. lessens the effect of D. gets rid of
62. Helping a sick neighbor with some repair work in spare time is an example of ________
A.instrumental support B. informational support
C.social companionship D. the strengthening of self-respect
63. What is the subject discussed in the text?
A. Interpersonal relationships.
B. Kinds of social support.
C. Ways to deal with stress.
D. Effects of stressful condition.
C
Many people are interested in family history, an area of study called genealogy (家谱学). Most genealogy experts have heard about the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Library claims to have the largest collection of genealogical records in the world. Shirley Griffith has more about this unusual research center.
The Family History Library has many records to help people search for information about their family histories. It has birth, marriage and death records from religious groups and governments. The collection includes official population, court and property records. It also includes burial records, ship passenger lists and published family histories.
The Family History Library has information from almost every area of the world. Most records are from 1550 through 1920. These records include the names of more than two thousand million people who have died. The library has few records of living persons.
The Family History Library is operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The church has been gathering family history records around the world for more than one hundred years. The group urges (催促) its members to study the lives of early family members as a religious requirement.
The Family History Library is open to the public every day except Sunday and some holidays. Visitors are invited to use its books and other materials. Library officials say it is one of the most popular places for visitors in Utah. About two thousand four hundred people use the library each day.
Individuals, families and private groups have given some of their records to the library. The library bought other records from governments. All the information is gathered with the approval (批准) of governments or officials who supervise (监督) the records.
The library copies many records to a kind of film that can be read with special equipment. It is known as microfilm. The collection is always expanding. Today, Church representatives are making copies of important records around the world.
Many people find it difficult to travel to Utah to use the Family History Library. So, the Church has set up more than three thousand Family History Centers in seventy-five countries around the world.
64. It is less likely that you can get _________ from the Family History Library.
A. dates of some people's births
B. names of some people who died at sea
C. records of certain judges or some laws
D. information about certain persons alive
65. Normally how many visitors does the library in Utah receive in a week?
A. 2,400. B. 3,000. C. 14,400. D. 16,800.
66. The text is mainly about ________
A.the history of genealogy B. the study of family history
C.the Family History Library D. the Church of Jesus Christ
D
Fred Michel is one of 7.2 million Americans who moonlight, or hold more than one job.
Once a week, after his day job as medical director of a mental health center, the 40-year-old psychiatrist (精神病大夫) heads to a part-time job at a treatment center for young people. Twice a month, he travels three hours to another teenage treatment center.
Last year, 5.4 percent of the American workforce held second jobs, according to the US Labor Department, and that looks set to increase this year.
Many workers like the safety that moonlighting provides, says Carl Hausamn, the writer of "Moonlighting: 148 Great Ways to Make Money to the Side."
The information from the US Labor Department shows that 40 percent of US moonlighters in 1997 took a second job to meet household expenses or pay off debts. Others save money or buy some special things.
People also take second jobs with an eye to the future - wanting to try out a new field or gain experience.
Michel started moonlighting when medical systems were unstable (不稳定的). He wanted to make sure he wasn't tied to one system that ended up failing.
Just as the purposes for moonlighting vary, the moonlighters cross all age and racial groups. And they work in a variety of industries - no longer just service, office and sale jobs.
“Technology just affects your ability to make money,” Hausman says. "That makes a frequent change in moonlighting."
As its name means, moonlighting still occurs mostly at night. And that results in some pressures. Chief among them is time.
Full-time employers could misunderstand, too. Some companies do not allow after-hour work because they fear it will affect their employees' 9-to-5 performance.
"The primary employer is saying, ‘Wait, I'm paying you for the sharp, fresh, energetic you,’” says Tom Gimbel, president and founder of LaSalle Staffing in Chicago. "If you' re burning yourself at both ends, it's going to show."
Still, the good done to the moonlighters can be great. Besides extra income, moonlighters enjoy variety, freedom and chance to do something new. They also may find their part-time jobs strengthen what they do full time.
Besides, "it's fun," Michel says. Not only do his part-time jobs offer a chance to network, stretch his professional skills and make more money, but they also give him the variety he wouldn't find just in a full-time job.
"It' s a way of pulling from the spice cabinet" he says, "and offering a little variety throughout the day."
67. What is the article mainly about?
A. The ways of moonlighting.
B. The reasons for moonlighting.
C. The problems with moonlighting.
D. The kinds of people who moonlight.
68. The reason why Fred Michel began to moonlight is that ________.
A. he found it exciting to do a part-time job
B. he needed to make ends meet with more money
C. he feared he would lose his present job one day
D. he felt more and more pressure from his employer
69. Some companies don't allow their workers to moonlight because they are afraid ________.
A. their workers can not do extra-hour work for them
B. their workers will be too tired to try their best at work
C. their workers will one day turn to some other different jobs
D. their workers will not get to work and be off work on time
70. The underlined sentence "It's a way of pulling from the spice cabinet." in the last paragraph means _________.
A. moonlighting gets you away from the job you don' t enjoy
B. moonlighting offers you freedom to make extra money
C. moonlighting strengthens your professional skills
D. moonlighting brings you chances to do something different
E
"I've changed my mind. I wanted to have a telescope, but now I want my daddy back." Lucien Lawrence' s letter to Father Christmas written after his schoolteacher father had been knifed to death outside his school gate, must have touched every heart. Lucien went on to say that without his father he couldn't see the stars in the sky. When those whom we love depart from us, we cannot see the stars for a while.
But Lucien, the stars are still there, and one day, when you are older and your tears have gone, you will see them again. And, in a strange way, I expect that you will find your father is there too, in your mind and in your heart. I find that my parents, long dead now, still figure in many of my dreams and that I think of them perhaps more than I ever did when they were alive. I still live to please them and I' m still surprised by their reactions. I remember that when I became a professor, I was so proud, or rather so pleased with myself, that I couldn't wait to cable my parents. The reply was a long time in coming, but when it did, all Mother said was "I hope this means that now you will have more time for the children!" I haven' t forgotten. The values of my parents still live on.
It makes me pause and think about how I will live on in the hearts and minds of my children and of those for whom I care. Would I have been as ready as Philip Lawrence have been to face the aggressors (挑衅者)，and to lay down my life for those in my care? How many people would want me back for Christmas? It's a serious thought, one to give me pause.
I pray silently, sometimes, in the dead of night, that ancient cry of a poet "Deliver my soul from the sword (剑), and my darling from the power of the dog." Yet I know the death comes to us all, and sometimes comes suddenly. We must therefore plan to live forever, but live as if we will die tomorrow. We live on, I'm sure, in the lives of those we loved, and therefore we ought to have a care for what they will remember and what they will treasure. If more parents knew this in their hearts to be true, there might be fewer knives on our streets today.
71. According to the whole text we can see that the first paragraph _________.
A. puts forward the subject of the text
B. shows the author's pity on the kid
C. acts as an introduction to the discussion
D. makes a clear statement of the author's views
72. In the second paragraph the author mainly wants to explain to us _________.
A. how much he misses his parents now
B. why his parents often appear in his dream
C. when Lucien will get over all his sadness
D. how proud he was when he succeeded in life
73. What feeling did the author's mother express in her reply?
A. Proud. B. Happy.
C. Disappointed. D. Worried
74. In the author's opinion, the value of a person's life is ________.
A. to leave behind a precious memory to the people related
B. to have a high sense of duty to the whole society
C. to care what others will remember and treasure
D. to share happiness and sadness with his family
75. What does the writer mean by the sentence taken from an old poem?
A. Call on criminals and murderers to lay down their guns.
B. Advise parents stay with their children safely at home.
C. Spend every day meaningfully in memory of the death.
D. Try to keep violence and murder far away from society.
56．C 57．D 58．A 59．A 60．B 61．C 62．C 63．A 64．D 65．C 66．C 67．B 68．C 69．B 70．D
71．C 72．B 73．D 74．A 75．D
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A
By LOS ANGELES TIMES
Published on 2002-02-10
Posted on 2002-01-18 10∶59∶54
Nervous uncertainty surrounds the fate(命运) of US journalist Daniel Pearl, with no clear communication from his kidnappers (绑匪) and no sign of his where abouts after three separate police searches for his body in the troublesome port city Karachi, Pakistan.
Pearl, a 38-year-old Wall Street Journal reporter, disappeared two weeks ago on his way to an interview in Karachi. An email allegedly from his kidnappers contained four photos of him and a variety of demands, including one for the release of Pakistani prisoners being held at the US naval base in Cuba.
The searches were started last Friday night by an email claiming that Pearl had been killed and his body thrown“in the graveyards of Karachi.”
Pearl has worked for The Wall Street journal for 12 years and is now their South Asia bureau chief. He was born in Princeton, New Jersey and graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor's degree in communications.
He joined The Wall Street Journal in November 1990, first as a reporter in the Atlanta bureau. In 1993 he moved to the Washington office to cover transportation before beginning a series of overseas postings.
The members of a radical(激进的) Islamic group in Pakistan who admit having kidnapped him say Pearl is a member of the Israeli intelligence service, Mossad. But Pearl's employers have angrily denied(否认) that he is the agent (代理) of any government.
Pearl's French wife, Marianne, is six months pregnant with their first child.
For the past few weeks the couple have been living in Karachi while Pearl tried to arrange an interview with Mubarak Ali Shah Gilani, head of the small miclitant Islamic group Tanzeem ul-Fuqra.
56.We can see from the text that .
APearl has been murdered BPearl has escaped from his kidnappers
CPearl is in danger DPearl's fate still remains in question
57According to the text, Pearl most probably disappeared .
Aon January 24,2002 B on January 26,2002
Con January 4,2002 D on January 11,2002
58Pearl's disappearance has something to do with .
ATanzeem ul-Fuqra Ba radical Islamic group in Pakistan
Cthe US naval base in Cuba Dthe Israeli intelligence service
B
Student participation(参与) in the classroom is not only accepted but also expected of the student in many courses. Some professors base part of the final grade on the student's oral participation. Although there are formal lectures during which the student has a passive role(i.e., listening and taking notes), many courses are organized around classroom discussions, student questions, and informal lectures. In graduate discussions the professor had a “manager” role and the students make presentations and lead discussions. The students do the actual teaching in these discussions.
A professor's teaching method is another factor (因素) that determines the degree and type of student participation. Some professors prefer to control discussion while others prefer to guide the class without controlling it. Many professors encourage students to question their ideas. Students who object to the professor's point of view should be prepared to prove their positions.
In the teaching of science and mathematics, the controlling mode of instruction is generally traditional, with teachers presenting formal lectures and students taking notes. However, new educational trends have turned up in the humanities and social sciences in the past twenty years. Students in edcuation, society, and history classes, for example, are often required to solve problems in groups, design projects, make pressentations, and examine case studies. Since some college or university courses are“practical” rather than theoretical, they pay more attention to “doing”for themselves.
59“Participation in the classroom is not only accepted but also expected of the student” in many courses except in .
Ascience and mathematics Bthe humanities and social sciences
Cinformal lecture courses Ddiscussion courses
60From the passage we know that education in the humanities and society.
Ahas not changed much Bpay attention to students' studying instead of teachers' teaching
Cis much more important than that of science and mathematics
Dhas become more practical than theoretical
61The reason why some professors ask students to make presentations and lead discussions is that .
Athese professors are often not well prepared before class
Bthese professors want to strees“doing”
Cthese professors want to test the students' abilities
Dthese professors are not willing to teach theory
62Which of the following sentences is true according to the passage?
AStudent participation is not common in the classroom in many courses like society.
BSome professors want to control the classroom discussion.
CSome professors usually want the students to take part in the teaching of science and mathematics.
DNew educational trends have turned up in teaching of natural sciences such as chemistry.
C
Scientists have tried to come up with biological explanations for the difference between boys and girls.
However, none were believable enough to explain the general picture. As one scientist points out,“There are slight genetic(遗传的) differences between the sexes at birth which may affect the subjects boys and girls choose. But the difficulty is that by the time children reach school age, there are so many other effects that it is almost impossible to tell whether girls are worse at science and maths, or whether they've been brought up to think of these subjects as boys'‘ territory’”.
Statistics(统计数据) show that in mathematics, at least, girls are equal to boys. A recent report suggests that girls only stop studying mathematics becuase of social attitudes. One of the reports' authors says,“While it is socially unacceptable for people not to be able to read and write, it is still acceptable for women to say that they are ‘hope-less’at maths. Our research shows that, although girls get marks which are as good as the boys', they have not been encouraged to do so.”
The explanation for the difference, which is very clear during the teenage years, goes as far back as early childhood experiences. From their first days in nursery school, girls are not encouraged to work on their own or to complete tasks, although boys are. For example, boys and not girls, are often asked to ‘help’ with repair work. This encouragement leads to a way of learning how to solve problems later on in life. Evidence(证据) shows that exceptional mathematicians and scientists did not have teachers who supplied answers; they had to find out for themselves.
A further report on maths teaching shows that teachers seem to give more attention to boys than to girls.
Most teachers who took part in the study admitted that they expect their male students to do better at mathematics and science subjects than their female students. All of this tends to encourage boys to work harder in these subjects, gives them confidence(信心) and makes them believe that they can succeed.
Interestingly, both boys and girls tend to regard such ‘male’subjects like mathematics and science as difficult. Yet it has been suggested that girls avoid mathematics courses, not because they are difficult, but for social reasons.
Mathematics and science are mainly male subjects, and therefore, as girls become teenagers, they are less likely to take them up. Girls do not seem to want to be in open competition with boys. Neither do they want to do better than boys because they are afraid to appear less female and so, less attractive.
63The underlined word“territory” in the second paragraph most probably means “”.
Ainterest Barea of land Cspecial field Ddistrict
64According to scientific studies, .
Amaths is not fit for girls to learn Bboys have a special sense of maths
Cgirls are poorer at maths because they are the weaker sex
Dgirls can learn maths as well as boys if given enough encouragement
65Those who made extraordinary contribution in mathematics and science.
Ausually had good teachers to help them
Bhad the abilities to solve problems by themselves
Cusually worked harder than others
Dwere encouraged to repair things when young
66Which of the following is not true according to the text?
AIt seems socially acceptable for a girl not to be able to read and write.
BIt is a social problem rather than a problem of brains that girls are poor at maths
CMathematics and science are no easy subjects to either girls or boys.
DThere is no connection between a girl's ability in maths and her appearance.
67What would be the best title for the text?
AWho's Afraind of Maths Anyway?
BAre Boys Cleverer than Girls?
CBoys Are Better at Maths than Girls by Birth
DMaths-A Difficult Subject
D
The next time you try for a high-ranking post, you could let your possible boss listen to a recommending(推荐) phone call“made ”by US President George W. Bush or British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Of course, neither of them could really do that for you-you would just“borrow” their voices.
AT&T labs will start selling speech software that it says is so good at reproducing the sounds of a human voice that it can recreate voices and even bring the voices of long-dead famous people back to life.
The software, which turns printed text into speech, makes it possible for a company to use recordings of a person's voice to say things that the person never actually said.
Possible customers for the software, which is priced in the thousands of dollars, include telephone call centres, companies that make software that reads digital(数学的) files aloud, and makers of automated voice devices(装置). The advances raise several problems. Who, for example, owns the rights to a famous person's voice?( Some experts even believe that new contracts(合同) will be drawn that include voice-licensing clauses.)
And although scientists say the technology is not yet good enough to commit fraud(假冒), would the synthesized(合成的) voices at last be able to trick people into thinking that they were getting phone calls or digital audio recordings from people they know?
Even Mr Fruchterman, one of AT&T lab's possible first customers, said he wondered what the new technology might bring.“Just like you can't trust a photograph any more.”he said,“you won't be able to trust a voice either.”
68With the help of the speech software, it is most possible .
Ato improve a famous person's speech Bto say what you want in another's voice
Cto make a speech much more easily Dto help you to find a better job
69If the speech software were widely used, .
Apeople would no longer believe each other
Bit would not be necessary to go for a speech by a famous person
Cno radio or TV broadcasters would be needed
Drecording of a voice alone would not be taken as a proof in the court
70According to the passage, you can infer that .
Athe software will turn out to be an immediate success in the market.
Bthe government will forbid the sale of the software in the market.
Cit's hard to decide whether the software will enjoy popularity.
Dthe software will soon prove to be nothing but rubbish.
71The passage mainly wants to .
Aintroduce a new software Bexplain the disadvantage of a new invention
Cadvertise a new kind of product Ddescribe the future market of a new product
E
Although they may not die from lack of love, adults also need a great amount of affection(友情) and companionship. In the past, many people spent their entire lives in the communities in which they were born and raised. Many more people continued to live with their parents, brothers and sisters after they were married and had children of their own. By remaining in familiar communities with relatives nearby, families had enough opportunities for friendly contact and for support in time of trouble.
Recent studies suggest that family arrangements in Western societies have not changed as much in the last few centuries as is generally believed. Yet most sociologists agree that in modern societies, there are fewer opportunities for friendship and support from relatives outside the immediate family. Parents and children often live apart from other relatives, and seldom visit them. Also, the family moves when a parent accepts a job in another place or when it decides to live in a better neighborhood. Together, loneliness and mobility(迁移) force immediate family members to depend heavily on one another for affection and companionship.
Because the family is one of the few ongoing sources of affection and companionship in modern societies, a high percentage of people continue to marry, even though it is possible for a single man and woman to live together without marrying. On the other hand, because affection and companionship have become so important, families are more likely to break up if the husband's or wife's emotional(情感的) needs are not met within the family circle-even if all other family functions (功能) are being satisfactorily performed, and in this sense, affection and companionship have become the touchstone of the modern family.
72It is generally believed that .
Amany people spend their lives in familiar communities
Ba person can easily get in touch with relatives in times of difficulty
Cthe organization of the family has changed a great deal
Dwestern societies have not changed much in the past few years
73Sociological studies show that .
Athe more the family moves, the less support it gets from its distant relatives
Bparents and children live together to make up for the lack of relatives outside the family
Cfamily arrangements have changed and so there is little need for companion of relatives
Dfamily members are separated from each other because of lack of support from relatives
74The word“touchstone”in the last paragraph may be replaced by .
Aresult Btrouble Cfunction Dstandard
75In the last paragraph, the writer mainly wants to say .
Aaffection and companionship are important for the family and they can be gained from nowhere but the family
Baffection and companionship can come from the family and at the same time safeguard the family
Cthere are few ways to gain affection and companionship but the best way to get them is from the family
Din modern societies a lot of families break up and it's just for a lack of affection and companionship
56. D 57. C 58. B 59. C 60. D 61. C 62. B 63. B 64. D 65. A 66. A 67. B 68. B 69. B 70. A 71. D 72. C 73. B 74. C 75. C
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A
Joan Chen is famous both in China, where she grew up, and in the United States，where she now lives. How did Joan become a famous actress in two countries? It’s an interesting story.
Joan Chen was born in Shanghai in 1961. When she was 14, some people from a film studio (制片厂) came to her school and chose her to study at the studio. She was happy about this chance, but mainly she liked the idea of getting out of school. Soon, however she discovered that she really liked acting. At age 18, she won the Golden Rooster, China's top film prize.
In the late 1970s, Joan's parents, who were doctors, moved to the United States. Joan joined them when she was 20 and went to college there. Her parents hoped she would study medicine. Instead, she majored in film and later looked for work as an actress. To work in the United States, Joan had to start all over again. She told Hollywood that she was an actress in China, but she only got some small parts in TV shows.
One day Joan went to speak to a director who was making a movie called Tai - pan. The interview didn't go well. As she walked away, a man in a car noticed her. The man was Dino DeLaurntiis, the film’s producer. He immediately offered her a leading part. A year later, she started in Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor and was on her way to worldwide fame.
56.What was turn about Joan Chen when she was 14?
A . Some people came to her school and chose her as an actress.
B. She liked to study at the studio just because she wanted to be famous.
C. The most important reason for her going to the studio was that she wouldn't like to stay at school.
D. She found she. was fond of acting even before she was 14.
57 When did she move to the States?
A. In the late 1970s.
B. After she graduated from college.
C. In the late 1980s.
D. In the early 1980s
58.The interview with a director ____.
A. made her on the way to being famous in the world
B. led to no immediate good result
C. made her play a leading part in Tai - pan
D. gave her a chance to act in The Last Emperor
B
A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a rule, to have it retold in almost the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as formal texts. It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce what, in the actual situation of the time and the child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better.
A charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or making him sad thinking. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy stories were more often sorry for cruelty than those who had not. As to fears, there are, I think, some cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises (出现) from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.
There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true, that giants, witches, two - headed dragons, magic carpets, etc. do not exist; and that, instead of being fond of the strange side in fairy tales, the child should be taught to learn the reality by studying history. I find such people, I must say so peculiar (奇怪的) that I do not know how to argue with them. If their case were sound, the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a stick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girl -friend.
No fairy story ever declared to be a description of the real world and no clever child has ever believed that it was.
59.The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when it is ____ .
A . repeated without any change B. treated as a joke
C. made some changes by the parent D. set in the present
60.According to the passage, great fear can take place in a child when the story is ____ .
A. in a realistic setting B. heard for the first time
C. repeated too often D. told in a different way
61.The advantage claimed (提出) for repeating fairy stories to young children is that it ____.
A. makes them less fearful
B. develops their power of memory
C. makes them believe there is nothing to be afraid of
D. encourages them not to have strange beliefs
62.The author’s mention of sticks and telephones is meant to suggest that ______.
A. fairy stories are still being made up
B. there is some misunderstanding about fairy tales
C. people try to modernize old fairy stories
D. there is more concern for children's fears nowadays
63. One of the reasons why some people are not in favor of fairy tales is that _______.
A. they are full of imagination
B. they just make up the stories which are far from the truth
C. they are not interesting
D. they make teachers of history difficult to teach
C
With the possible exception of equal rights, perhaps the most heated argument across the United States today is the death penalty (死刑). Many argue that it is an effective deterrent (威慑) to murder, while others think there is no enough proof that the death penalty reduces the number of murders.
The argument advanced by those opposed （反对） to the death penalty is that it is cruel and inhuman punishment, that it is tile mark of a bad society and finally that it is of questionable effectiveness as a deterrent to crime (罪行) anyway.
In our opinion, the death penalty is a necessary action. Throughout recorded history there have always been those peculiar persons in every society who made terrible crimes such as murder. But some are more dangerous than others.
For example, it is one thing to take the life of another in time of blind anger, but quite another to coldly plan and carry out the murder of one or more people in the style of a butcher. Thus, murder, like all other crimes, is a matter of different degree. While it could be argued with some reason that the criminal in the first instance should be merely kept from society, such should not be the fate of the latter type murderer.
The value of the death penalty as a deterrent to crime may be open to discussion. But the majority of people believe that the death penalty protects them. Their belief is proved by the fact that the death penalty prevents murder. For example, from 1954 to 1963, when the death penalty was carried out from time to time in California, the murder rate remained between three and four murders for each 100, 000 population. Since 1964 the death penalty has been done only once, and the muder rate has risen to10.4 murders for each 100, 000 population. The sharp climb in the state's murder rate, which began when killings stopped, does not happen by chance. It certainly shows that the death penalty does deter many murderers. If the law about death penalty is vetoed (否决), some people will be murdered- some whose lives may have been saved if the death penalty were in effect. This is really a life or death matter. The lives of thousands of people must be protected.
64.The main purpose of this passage is to _____.
A. speak for the majority B. support a veto
C. speak ill of the government D. argue for the value of the death penalty
65.Which of the following is among the heated arguments across the USA besides death penalty?
A. Air pollution. B. The war against Iraq.
C. Equal rights. D. Election of president.
66.The numbers in the last paragraph show that ______.
A. if they stick to death penalty, the number of murders will be reduced
B. death penalty almost stopped from 1954 to 1963
C. the population of California has risen
D. death penalty is of little value
67.It can be inferred that the writer thinks that ______.
A. the death penalty is the most important problem in the United States today
B. the second type of murderers (in Paragraph 4) should be sentenced to death
C. the veto of the law about death penalty is of little importance
D. the value of the death penalty as a deterrent to crime is not to be discussed
D
Technology has been an encouragement of historical change. It acted as such a force in England beginning in the eighteenth century, and across the entire Western World in the nineteenth. Rapid advances were made in the use of scientific findings in the manufacture (制造) of goods, which has changed ideas about work. One of the first changes was that other forms of energy have taken the place of human power. Along with this came the increased use of machines to manufacture products in less time. People also developed machines that could produce the same parts for a product: each nail was exactly like every other nail, meaning that each nail could be changed for every other nail. This means that goods could be mass production, although mass production required breaking production down into smaller and smaller tasks.
Once this was (lone, workers no longer started on the product and labored to complete it. Instead, they might work only one thousandth of it, other workers completing their own parts in certain order. There is nothing strange about this manufacturing work by today's standards. Highly skilled workers were unable to compare with the new production techniques, as mass production allowed goods of high standard to be produced in greater number than could ever be done by hand. But the skilled worker wasn't the only loser, the common workers lost too. Similar changes forced farmer away. The increased mechanization (机械化) of agriculture freed masses of workers from ploughing the land and harvesting its crops. They had little choice but to stream toward the rapidly developing industrial centers. Increasingly, standards were set by machines. Workers no longer owned their own tools, their skill was no longer valued, and pride in their work was no longer possible. Workers fed, looked after and repaired the machines that could work faster than humans at greatly reduced cost.
68. In this passage, which of the following is NOT considered as a change caused by the use of scientific findings in the production of goods?
A. Other forms of energy have taken the place of human power.
B. The increased exploitation of workers in the 19th century.
C. The increased use of machines to make products in less time.
D. The use of machines producing parts of the same standard.
69. The underlined word this in the first paragraph refers to ____
A. the use of scientific findings
B. the practice of producing the same parts for a product
C. the human power being replaced by other forms of energy
D. the technology becoming the encouragement of historical change
70.The underlined word this in the second paragraph refers to the change that ______
A. each nail could be taken the place of by every other nail
B. each nail was exactly like every other nail
C. producing tasks became smaller and smaller
D. goods could be mass produced
71.According to the writer, highly skilled workers ______
A. completely disappeared with the coming of the factory system
B. were dismissed by the boss
C. were unable to produce goods of high standard
D. were unable to produce fine goods at that same speed as machines
72.According to the passage, what did the farmers have to do with the coming of mechanization of agriculture?
A. Many of them had to leave their farmland for industrial centers.
B. They stuck to their farm work.
C. They refused to use machines.
D They did their best to learn how to use the machines.
E
Wind is the great maker of waves. There are exceptions, such as the tidal (潮汐的) waves sometimes produced by earthquakes under the sea. But the waves most of us know are produced by winds blowing over the sea .
Now before constructing an imaginary life history of a typical wave, we need to know certain
physical things about it. A wave has height, from trough ( low point) to crest ( high Point) . It has lengh-the distance from this crest to that of the following wave. The period of the wave means the time it takes for succeeding crests to pass a fixed point. None of these things stays the same--for all depend upon the wind, upon the depth of the water and many other matters.
The water that makes up a wave does not advance with it across the sea. Each drop of water turns around in a little circle with the passing of the wave, but returns very nearly to its original position. And it is fortunate that this is so. For if the huge masses of water that make up a wave actually moved across the sea, sailing would be impossible.
If we want to find the speed of a wave, we may use the following way :
Speed = wavelength × frequency
Here, wavelength is the distance between two high points (crests) , frequency means the number of cycles per second .
73.What causes waves?
A. Earthquakes and nothing else. B. Only wind.
C. Wind causes most waves. D. Wind causes some waves.
74.Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A. The water of a wave moves away across the sea.
B. The water of a wave remains almost at the same place.
C. The water of a wave goes with the passing of the wave.
D. The length of a wave means the distance from the top of a wave to the bottom.
75.The speed of Wave 1 is 100 cm/s, frequency 10. The frequency of Wave 2 is 300, while its speed is twice that of Wave 1. Which of the following is right?
A . The wavelengths of the two are equal.
B. The wavelength of Wave 1 is 10 times longer than that of Wave 2.
C. The wavelength of Wave 2 is longer than that of Wave 1.
D. The wavelength of Wave 1 is longer than that of Wave 2.
56-65 CDBCB，ABBDC 66-75 ABBCD，DACBD
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A
In 1939 two brothers,Mac and Dick McDonald,started a drive-in restaurant in San Bernadino,California.They carefully chose a busy corner for their location.They had run their own businesses for years,first a theater,then a barbecue（烤肉）restaurant,then another drive-in.But in their new operation,they offered a new,shortened menu:French fries,hamburgers,and sodas.To this small selection they added one new idea:quick service,no waiters or waitresses,and no tips.
Their hamburgers sold for fifteen cents.Cheese was another four cents.Their French fries and hamburgers had a remarkable uniformity（一致性）,for the brothers had developed a strict routine （程序）for the preparation of their food,and they insisted on their cooks’ sticking to their routine .Their new drive-in became surprisingly popular,particularly for lunch.People drove up by the hundreds during the busy noontime.The self-service restaurant was so popular that the brothers had allowed ten copies of their restaurant to be opened.They were content with this modest success until they met Ray Kroc.
Kroc was a salesman who met the McDonald brothers in 1954,when he was selling milkshake-mixing machines.He quickly saw the special attraction of the brothers’ fast-food restaurants and bought the right to franchise（特许经营）other copies of their restaurants.The agreement struck included the right to duplicate（复制）the menu,the equipment,even their red and white buildings with the golden arches（拱门）.
Today McDonald’s is really a household name.In 1976,McDonald’s had over $ l billion in total sales.Its first twenty-two years in one of the most surprising success stories in modern American business history.
56．This passage mainly talks about .
A．the development of fast food services
B．how McDonald’s became a billion-dollar business
C．the business careers of Mac and Dick McDonald
D．Ray Kroc’s business talent
57．Mac and Dick managed all of the following businesses except .
A．a drive-in B．a theater
C．a cinema D．a barbecue restaurant
58．We may infer from this passage that .
A．Mac and Dick McDonald never became wealthy for they sold their idea to Kroc.
B．the place the McDonalds chose was the only source of the great popularity of their drive-in
C．forty years ago there were lots of fast-food restaurants
D．Ray Kroc was a good businessman
59．The passage suggests that .
A．creativity is an important element of business success
B．Ray Kroc was the close partner of the McDonald brothers
C．Mac and Dick McDonald became broken after they sold their ideas to Ray Kroc
D．California is the best place to go into business
B
Maggie was very glad that James was not a frequent visitor to the house.In the children’s opinion,they had something that they couldn’t explain or understand about him and that excited their imagination.He stirred Maggie’s anger,however,so that she often said to her husband,“It’s a mercy that brother of yours doesn’t come oftener.”
In fact James came once a year,unexpectedly,around eight o’clock in the evening,and he stayed for six hours of close discussion with his brother.His arrival was a signal to the childreen that their bedtime would be delayed.Not that he ever spoke to them or played with them.He took no notice of them,as if he was unable to see children,at least until the time came for him to go.Indeed,after his first greeting and a careless kiss,James took no notice of Maggie either, except to add,“You’ll be getting on with the supper,Maggie.”Such was his regard for her.
Maggie paid him back in her own way.She kept the children up,the four of them,to keep her company,she said,but of course they sang and made a noise and broke the endless sound of James’voice.Very late,they dropped off to sleep in their chairs.Then,when James was about to go,Maggie woke them up and so more or less forced him to part with four shillings before he left.That gave her some satisfaction,for James,though rich,was unwilling to give or share what he had.He always went home by the last train,just after two o’clock.
Maggie’s children secretly stared at their uncle.They could not forget that he had,in their mother’s words,“lost two wives and taken a third.”They wondered about those two unfortunate,lost ladies.They asked each other what their fate（命运）had been,and if neither could ever be found again.James never brought his third wife with him nor ever mentioned her.The children decided that he must be so frightened of losing her that he never allowded her outside the door.
60．Maggie never prepared anything special for James because .
A．he was a man difficult to please
B．she never knew when he was coming
C．she was too busy looking after her children
D．he never stayed long enough for a meal
61．What do we know about James’ behaviour?
A．He was a kind man,with love for the family.
B．He was unselfish,especially towards his brother.
C．He was anxious to please the family,especially the children.
D．He was rude to his sister-in-law
62．Maggie felt pleased when .
A．she paid James the money that she owed him
B．James gave some money to the children
C．she had to wake James up to catch his train
D．James thanked her for the nice supper
63．The children did not realise that two of Jasmes’wives .
A．were dead B．suffered from loss of memory
C．had run away from him D．might reappear one day
C
Humans are social animals.They live in groups all over the world.As these groups of people live apart from other groups,over the years and centuries they develop their own habits and ideas,which from different cultures.One important particular side of every culture is how its people deal with time.
Time is not very important in nonindustrial societies.The Nuer people of East Africa,for example,do not even have a word TIME that is in agreement with the abstract thing we call time.The daily lives of the people of such nonindustrial societies are likely to be patterned around their physical needs and natural events rather than around a time schedule（时间表）based on the clock.They cook and eat when they are hungry and sleep when the sun goes down.They plant crops during the growing seasons and harvest them when the crops are ripe.They measure time not by a clock or calendar（日历）,but by saying that an event takes place before or after some other event Frequently such a society measures days in terms of “sleeps”or longer periods in terms of “moons.”Some cultures,such as the Eskimos of Greenland measure seasons according to the migration of certain animals.
Some cultures which do not have a written language or keep written records havce developed interesting ways of “telling time”.For example,when several Australian aborigines want to plan an event for a future time,one of them places a stone on a cliff or in a tree.Each day the angle of the sun changes slightly.In a few days,the rays of the sun strike the stone in a certain way.When this happens,the people see that the agreed-upon time has arrived and the event can take place.
In contrast（成对比）,exactly correct measurement of time is very important in modem,industrialized societies.This is because industrialized societies require the helpful efforts of many pople in order to work.For a factory to work efficiently （well,quickly and without waste），for example,all of the workers must work at the same time.Therefore,they must know what time to start work in the morning and what time they may go home in the afternoon.Passengers must know the exact time that an airplane will arrive or depart.Students and teachers need to know when a class starts and ends.Stores must open on time in order to serve their customers.Complicated（复杂的）societies need clocks and calendars.Thus,we can see that if each person worked according to his or her own schedule, a complicated society could hardly work at all.
64．By saying“Humans are social animals”,the author means .
A．they live all over the world
B．they are different from other animals
C．they live in one place, district or country, considered as a whole
D．they are divided into many groups
65．Time is not very important in nonindustrial societies. This is because people in those societies
A．don’t have the word TIME in their languages
B．don’t get used to using clocks and other timepieces
C．don’t measure time in their daily-lives around an exact time schedule
D．don’t need to plan their daily lives around an exact time schedule
66．The Australian aborigines’ way of“telling time”is based on .
A．the change of the sun rays
B．the movement of the earth in relation to the sun
C．the position of the stone
D．the position of the tree or the cliff
67．Which of the following might be the best title for this passage?
A．Time and Culture B．The Measurment of Time
C．Time Schedule and Daily Life D．Clock, Calendar and Society
D
COURSE: History 101“Introduction to American History”
INSTRUCTOR: Dr, Jane Klammer
OFFICE: 305 Marshall Hall
OFFICE HOURS: 11:15~12:30 M W F（Monday Wednesday Friday）
CLASS: 363 Marshall Hall 3:35~5:00T Th （Tuesday Thursday）
10:10~11:00M W F Other times by appointment
TELEPHONE: 255-4786
TEXTBOOK: Green,Robert P,The American Tradition:A History of the United States,Charles E.Merrill publishing Co.Columbus,Ohio 1984 which is available （可得到的）at the College Bookstore.
COURSE Requirements（必要条件）
mid-term exam: October 10 20% of the final grade
final exam: December 10 40% of the final grade
term paper due: December 15 40% of the final grade
Attendance（出席）is not required,but you are responsible for all the information given in the class lectures.In the lectures I will talk about the chapters in the textbook and other material that I choose to supplement（补充）the course.The exams will cover all this information.Therefore,I advise you to come to the class as much as possible.If you have to miss a class,be sure to get the class notes from another student.
Your homework assignments are listed on the next page.You are supposed to read the chapter about which I will be lecturing before you come to class.This is to make sure that you understand as much as possible while taking notes in my lectures.Be prepared when you come to class.If there are any changes in the assigned homework reading,I will announce in class.
The term paper is 40% of your final grade.It should not exceed（超前）fifteen pages.（Anyone thinking of majoring in history may write twenty-five pages.）Before the mid-term exam you will choose the topic for your paper.
Have a good term!
68．If a student wants to know what the homework assignments are, .
A．Pro.Klammer announces them in class
B．the student reads the list on the next page
C．Prof. Klammer gives a list every week
D．the student goes to the professor’s office
69．If a student cannot see Prof.Klammer during her office hours,he .
A．sees her after class
B．calls her at home
C．makes an appointment with her
D．asks another student
70．According to the passage,which of the following is true?
A．The textbook is written by Dr.Jane Klammer.
B．If you have to miss a class,be sure to say sorry to Prof.Klammer.
C．The students can buy“Introduction to American History”at the College Bookstore.
D．Prof.Klammer advises her students to take notes in her class.
71．If a freshman thinks that he might major in history,what is the maximum length of his paper
can be?
A．Fifteen pages. B．Twenty-five pages.
C．Ten pages. D．No maximum.
E
HOW TO QUIT（GIVE UP）SMOKING
When thinking about quitting……
List all the reasons why you want to quit.Every night before going to bed,repeat one of the reasons 10 times.
Decide positively that you want to quit.Try to avoid negative（消极的）thoughts about how difficult it might be.Develop strong personal reasons in addition to your health and obligations（责任）to others.For example,think of al the time you waste taking cigarette breaks,rushing out to buy a pack,hunting a light,etc.Set a date for quitting-perhaps a special day like your birthday, a holiday.If you smoke heavily at work,quit during your vacation.Make the date sacred seriously, and don’t let anything change it.Begin to condition.yourself physically;start a modest（适度的）exercise;drink more water;get plenty of rest.
Immediately after quitting……
The first few days after you quit,spend as much free time as possible in places where smoking is prohibited（forbidden）,e.g.libraries,museums,theatres,departments stores,etc.
Drink large quantities of water and fruit juice.Try to avoid wine,coffee,and other drinks which remind you of cigartte smoking.
Strike up a conversation with someone instead of a match for a cigarette.
If you miss the sensation（感觉）of having a cigarette in your hand,play with smething else-a pencil,a pen,a ruler.
If you miss having something in your mouth,try toothpicks or a fake（彷制的）cigarette.
72．Which of the following statements is best supported by the author?
A．Whenever you feel like a cigarette,try to forget it by starting a conversation with someone.
B．Try to be an ice-breaker before asking for a light.
C．If you miss the sensation of having a cigarette in your mouth,play with a pen.
D．Every night before going to bed, repeat the reasons 10 times.
73．From the passage,we know smokers .
A．spend a lot of time breaking the habit of smoking
B．have to stop to smoke from time to time
C．had better quit smoking during their holiday
D．start a modest exercise
74．The author suggested .
A．all kinds of drinks be avoided immediately after quitting
B．drinking water and fruit juice immediately after quitting
C．trying low-tar（低焦油）cigarettes immediately after quitting
D．spending as much free time as possible in public places
75．If the article is in a newspaper,which section it is in?
A．Sports. B．News. C．Health D．Culture.
56—60 BCDAB 61—65 DBACD 66—70 AABCD 71—75 BABBC
（7）
A
"Mummy, I don' t know what to play with." Steve interrupts his mother, who is talking to a friend, for the fourth time. "You've got a room full of toys!" his mother says, impatiently. In fact it is the jumble of toys which is to blame for four-year-old Steve's lack of interest in his dolls, cars and stuffed (packed) animals. Each morning he tips out three washing baskets of toys all over his floor, listlessly pulls out something and shortly after is standing at his mother's desk or following her into the kitchen saying: "Mummy, I am bored."
A family therapist (心理医生) explains why children lose interest when they have a whole "toy shop" at home: "According to their brain development, little children are not in a position to judge the quality of a variety of things at once. There is always just one favorite toy for the moment. All the rest is left lying about." What can parents do to stop their children from being oversupplied with toys? Under no conditions simply make something disappear without the child's knowledge. If he/she takes no more notice of a toy, a parent can ask if it can be stored or given away. Be warned though the child will always say he/she wants it then! A talk with relatives and friends may also help. Lyn is the mother of four-year-old Jessie, and we like her way. A small set of shelves in her child's room holds the toys and books that are the current (at present) favorites. When it seems to her that her daughter is tired of these toys, they put them away in a box together and select some other toys from a cupboard in another room. The box of "old" toys goes into the cupboard. When her child says she is "bored", they also get something from her cupboard - it may be something she has had for some time but because she hasn't seen it for a while it is almost like a new toy.
Some favorite toys stay out all the time, and there is collection of dolls which sits in the coner, but in this way Lyn has found that she has fewer toys to put away at the end of the day and her daughter always has something "fresh" to play with.
56. Steve interrupted his mother several times because ________.
A. he felt uninterested in his toys B. he disliked his mother's guest
C. he didn't have enough toys to play with D. he hoped his mother would play with him
57. According to the therapist, children often complain that they have nothing to play with because ________.
A. they can't play alone for a long time B. they are too young to play with so many toys
C. they are too lazy to pick out their favourites
D. they lack the ability to value too many things at a time
58. Which of the following can be used in place of "jumble"?
A. Simple choice. B. Mixture in disorder.
C. Ordinary appearance. D. Same shape.
59. Which is the advice given to parents in the text?
A. Buy fewer toys for their children. B. Form good habits for their children.
C. Spare some time to play with their children. D. Put some toys away without telling their children.
B
Attention Tim Hortons
Stainless Steel Travel Mug Owners
Lid Recall-15 oz Stainless Steel Travel Mug
A fault at the cup has been recognized. The fault may result in some lids lifting slightly from the body of the mug, and could probably cause injury from hot liquid leaking. Therefore, we have given an immediate lid recall notice.
This Recall notice is related only to Tim Hortons 15 oz Stainless Steel Travel Mugs sold between October 2002 and January 2003. The bottom of the mug is stamped with distributor's (经销商) name, "ThermoServ". There is no printing on the handle of the mug.
At Tim Hortons, we value our customers' safety above anything else. So, whether your lid is leaking or not, in the interest of your safety, we are requesting that you bring your mug to your nearest Tim Hortons (excluding Esso Tim Hortons), where they will exchange the lid for a new lid that fits safety. The new lids will be available February 1, 2003; please do not use your mug until you exchange the lid.
Here's what you do:
* Please do not use your mug until you have exchanged the lid for a new one.
* New lids will be available February 1, 2003.
* Return your travel mug to a Tim Hortons store (as of February 1, 2003).
* Your lid will he exchanged for a new lid.
If you prefer to return the entire mug, bring it back at any time for a full repayment.
If you have any questions regarding this recall, please contact us at:
Toll Free Number: 1-888-601-1616
8:30 am - 5:00 pm Eastern Standard Time
Tim Hortons
60. This advertisement is trying to ________.
A. introduce a new type of mugs B. persuade people to buy a new lid
C. inform people of exchanging a lid D. warn against the danger of using the mug
61. The advertisement is mainly aimed at those who ________.
A. often travel around B. have 15 oz Stainless mugs
C. want to buy 15 oz stainless mugs D. are selling the mugs
62. According to the advertisement, which of the following statements is NOT true?
A. People should stop using the mug immediately.
B. People can get the money back if they return the mug.
C. People with questions can call the company free of charge.
D. People can return the lid between October 2002 and January 2003.
63 - From the passage we can learn that Tim Hortons ________.
A. is a club for travelers B. wants to make more money
C. cares about the customers' safety D. is an organization helping customers
C
Zinc (锌) is one of about 20 elements necessary for good health. It is present in the body in a very small amount, but it makes it possible for important chemical actions to be carried out in cells. Scientists are just beginning to discover how zinc and other elements work.
Researchers first studied zinc as a way to speed recovery. Dr. Waltor Powys, formerly with the United States Air Force, noted that the laboratory animals recovered faster when some matters were added to their food. One of these matters was zinc. Dr. Powys later tested the zinc treatment on an American airman recovering from medical operations. The airman who received zinc sulphate (硫酸盐) recovered in half of the usual time. Other doctors studied persons who had a number of strange disorders. The doctors learned that all of these problems were caused by lack of zinc in the body. They treated these disorders successfully by giving the patients zinc sulphate.
The amount of zinc in the body can be found by examining blood and hair. A lack of this important element is not uncommon among people in both industrial and developing countries. Zinc is found in most high protein (蛋白质) foods, such as meat milk, fish and eggs. It is also found in whole grains. But many people do not eat enough of these foods. Food markets should add these elements so that more people could get needed amount of these necessary matters.
64. Which of the following statements is true?
A. Scientists found how zinc works a long time ago.
B. People need a large amount of zinc to be healthy.
C. Zinc allows important chemical actions to take place in cells.
D. Zinc must be used in the course of medical operation.
65. One of the results from the study of zinc is that _________.
A. there's only a little zinc in the human body
B. food rich in protein contains more zinc
C. some physical problems are caused by lack of zinc
D. any patient who receives zinc sulphate gets well immediately
66. The best title for the passage may be ________.
A. A New Discovery B. Zinc and Health
C. How Zinc Works D. Add Zinc to Your Food
D
In October, 1961. at Crowley Field in Cincinnati, Ohio, an old, deaf gentleman named William E Hey stood up to throw the first ball of the World Series. Most people at Crowley Field on that day probably did not remember Hoy because he had retired (退休) from professional baseball 58 years earlier, in 1903. However, he had been an outstanding player and the deaf people still talk about him and his years in baseball.
William E. Hoy was horn in Houckstown, Ohio, on May 23, 1862. He became deaf when he was two years old. He attended the Columbus Ohio School for the deaf. After graduation, he started playing baseball while working as a shoemaker.
Hoy began playing professional baseball in 1886 for Oshkosh (Wisconsin) of the Northwestern League. In 1888, he started as an outfielder (外场手) with the old Washington Senators. His small figure and speed made him an outstanding base runner. He was very good at stealing bases during his career. In the 1888 major league season, he stole 82 bases. He was also the Senators' leading hitter in 1888. Hoy was clever; he threw right-handed and batted left-handed. On June 19, 1889, he threw out three batters (击球手) at the plate from his outfield position.
The arm signals used by judges today to show balls and strikes began because of Hoy. The judge lifted his right arm to show that the pitch was a strike, and his left arm to signal that it was a ball.
For many years, people talked about Hoy's last ball game in 1903. He was playing for Los Angeles of the Pacific Coast Winter League. It was a memorable game because Hoy made a wonderful play which won the game. It was a very foggy night and, therefore, very hard to see the ball. In the ninth inning (棒球的一局), with two men out, Hoy managed to catch a fly ball to make the third out in spite of the fog. Ms Angeles defeated their opposition and won the game.
After he retired, Hoy stayed busy. He ran a dairy farm near Cincinnati for 20 years. He also became a public speaker and traveled giving speeches. Until a few years before his death, he took 4 and 10 mile walks several mornings a week. On December 15, 1961, William Hoy died at the age of 99
67. In which order did the following things happen in Hoy's life?
a. Hoy worked as a shoemaker.
b. Hoy began to run a diary farm.
c. Hoy played a memorable game in the heavy fog.
d. Hoy threw the first ball of the World Series.
e. Hoy became deaf.
A. d, e, a, c, b B. e, a, C. b, d
C. d, a, e, c, b D. e. a, b, c, d
68. We can infer from the last paragraph that Hoy ________in his late years.
A. became famous
B. led a relaxed life
C. traveled around the world
D. was in good physical condition
69. This passage is mainly about ________.
A. a deaf player devoted to the game of baseball
B. baseball game rules and important players
C. the rise in the social position of the deaf people
D. where the baseball judge hand signals came from
70. What can be inferred from this passage?
A. Hoy was the greatest baseball player in his time.
B. Speaking and listening are not necessary in baseball games.
C. The judge had to study the hand signals very seriously.
D. Hoy's family encouraged him to become a baseball player.
E
Americans are proud of their variety and individuality (个性), yet they love and respect few things more than a uniform, whether it is the uniform of a lift operator or the uniform of a five-star general. Why are uniforms so popular in the United States?
Among the arguments for uniforms, one of the first is that in the eyes of most people they look more professional than civilian (百姓的) clothes. People have become conditioned to expect higher quality from a man who wears a uniform. The television repairman who wears a uniform is likely to inspire more trust than one who appears in civilian clothes. Faith in the skill of a garage mechanic is increased by a uniform. What easier way is there for a nurse, a policeman, a hairdresser, or a waiter to lose professional identity (职业身份) than to step out of uniform?
Uniforms also have many practical good points. They are often more comfortable and more lasting than civilian clothes.
Primary among the argument against uniforms is their lack of variety and the loss of individuality experienced by people who must wear them. Though there are many types of uniforms, the wearer of any particular type is generally stuck with it, without change, until retirement. When people look alike, they are likely to think, speak, and act similarly on the job at least.
Uniforms also give rise to some practical problems. Though they are long-lasting, often their initial expense is greater than the cost of civilian clothes. Some uniforms are also expensive to maintain, requiring professional dry cleaning rather than the home laundering possible with many types of civilian clothes.
71. What surprises us is that Americans _______.
A. still judge a man by his clothes
B. think highly of uniforms
C. less prefer wearing civilian clothes
D. respect a lift operator in uniform
72. People are likely to think that a man in uniform ________.
A. suggests quality work
B. shows his social position
C. appears to he more practical
D. looks more fresh and attractive
73. Those who are against uniforms believe that people wearing uniforms ______.
A. are usually helpful B. have little freedom
C. lose personal character D. enjoy greater popularity
74. It can be concluded from the passage that ________.
A. people generally trust a person in uniform
B. people enjoy wearing comfortable uniform
C. the cost of the uniform is acceptable to people
D. people wear uniforms to show their professions
75. The underlined sentence tells us that ________.
A. it's impossible for people with jobs to lose their identity
B. people's identity can be recognized more easily by their uniforms
C. nurses and policemen must wear uniforms when working
D. people in those professions act in an easier way without uniforms
56.A 57.D 58.B 59.D 60.C 61.B 62.D 63.C 64.C 65.C 66.B 67.B 68.D 69.A 70.B 71.B 72.A
73.C 74.A 75.B
（8）
A
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We'll give you the support of a personal teacher, and the chance to meet your fellow students. You can take one-off courses, diplomas (毕业证), a degree or a postgraduate degree(文凭). Subjects available include: computing, business management, technology, modern languages, social sciences, English law, arts, science, mathematics, education and health﹠social welfare.
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Open University course materials are of the highest quality and come in a variety of forms, including video and audio tapes as well as texts. The OU leads the world in its use of new technology for learning. A number of courses provide source material on CD Rom. What else can the Open University offer you? The best way to find out is to use the coupon below or phone us today.
56. This is an advertisement of ___________.
A. inquiring (调查) English learning B. setting Open University
C. selling books D. attracting students
57. As a student of the Open University, you don't need to ________.
A. buy any course materials B. have lessons all the time at the university
C. choose which course to learn D. pay any money for your study
58. The Open University can supply you with _________.
A. a course for training you English B. a classroom and a library for study
C. different kinds of free instructions D. different jobs to choose from
59. We can learn from the text that ________.
A. OU courses are popular in Britain
B. money for learning must be paid off at one time
C. we can't telephone the university during the night
D. people can't be employed without finishing OU courses
B
ZHUHAI---China will soon put a person into space and become the third nation in the world to have manned spaceflight, a top Chinese aerospace (航空航天) official said on November 5.
A manned launch(发射) was not far off, Vice President Hu Hongfu China Aerospace Science Technology Corp (CASTC) told a news conference at the third Zhuhai Air Show . "It will not be long before Chinese astronauts can ride locally-made spaceships into space," Hu said. The official gave no timetable but said it would happen "at beginning of the 21st century."
The former Soviet Union and the United States have been putting people into orbit since the early 1960s, but other nations have not considered the challenge worth following.
China has already built and sent up its own satellites for communications and weather forecasting. The new communication satellites would help to encourage the country's broadcasting industry, Hu said.
But the company, which includes over 130 aerospace agencies, said the lifting ability and success rate of China's space-launches were almost equal in quality to those of other countries.
China would gradually close the distance between its country's space industry and that of other nations. He added that they were willing to send up commercial satellites for Taiwan.
On China's plan to send up manned spaceflights, Hu said China had made important development after the successful launch in November last year of the country's first experimental spaceship, Shenzhou. "The whole project is in the research stage and a lot of work needs to be done, " Hu said. "We need to have more tests of the unmanned spaceship."
China last year announced a four-step manned spaceflight plan with the aim of setting up a space-station served by a spaceship travelling between two places.
60.The underlined word "they" here probably refers to ____________.
A. the Soviet Union and the USA
B. over 130 aerospace agencies
C. Russia and China
D. Russia and the USA
61. The main idea of the 7th paragraph is ___________.
A. we haven't tested the manned spaceship
B. before we send a manned spaceship, we should carry out many tests
C. though we tried once, we need to do more tests of the unmanned spaceship
D. sending up a manned spaceship can show a country's scientific level
62. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined word "close"?
A. shut B. drop C. shorten D. widen
63.The writer wrote the passage to ___________.
A. tell us the present situation of China's aerospace technology
B. remind us what we should do compared to other countries
C. find out the reason why China falls behind
D. tell us that china will send up its manned spaceship soon
c
Festival activities programme
TIME AND PLACE
October 24~30
Oct.24~30:9:00 a.m.~4:00p.m
Oct.25~29:12:00 p.m~9:00 p.m.
at Kerry Centre Hotel
Classroom area
1) English Taster Lesson
2) Food health-keeping method presentation Computer area
3) E-Photography and TechnoMusic
4) Education Software Demonstration
Internet Training area
SINA and Capital On- Line will provide Internet training for the public. The focus(焦点) will be on browsing the Internet; how to find useful information on the web and how to design an elementary Web page.
Foyer activity area
5) The students from Beijing TV University for the Aged will provide a calligraphy (hard writing demonstration)
6) Children activities
Lectures
21st Century, the educational weekly of China Daily, will invite experts from English- speaking countries to hold lectures from 18:30 to 20:30 on October 27 to 29 and in the daytime on October 30.
64. A 70 -year- old teacher wants to see how to use writing brush well. he should go to ________.
A. Classroom area B. Computer area
C. Internet Training area D. Foyer Activity area
65. A person who is interested in internet can go to ____________.
A. Computer area at 9 .m. Oct. 30
B. Internet Training area at 11 a. m. Oct. 24
C. Classroom area at 8:00 p. M. Oct. 26
D. Lectures at 9:00 p. m. Oct. 29
66. The students of English Department have a chance to learn English at __________.
A. 9:00~9:45 a .m. Oct. 27 B. 15:00~15:45 Oct. 30
C. 17:15~18:00 Oct. 28 D. 12:00~12:45 Oct. 25
67. The word "browsing" in the passage probably means ____________.
A. seeing everywhere
B. going here and there
C. staring everywhere
D. reading here and there in book, etc
D
Advertising gives useful information about which products to buy. But modern advertising does more than gives news about products and services. Today's advertisements, or ads, try to get consumers(消费者) to buy certain brands(品牌) .Writers of advertising are so skillful that they can sometimes persuade a consumer to wear a certain kind of clothing, eat a special kind of cereal(麦片), or see a movie . Consumers might never even want a product if they did not see or hear advertisements for it.
For example, you probably do not need the newest cereal in the supermarket. There are probably many cereal brands on your kitchen shelves. You nay not have space on your shelf for another. But if you see ads about a new cereal that is your extra -tasty and has a free prize in the box, you may want it. Advertising must get attention. To be effective, it must be exciting, entertaining, or provide some pleasure. The secret of writing good advertising copy is to offer a good idea as well as a product. The idea is what the ad is really selling. One example is an ad that says eating a certain cereal will make a person do well in sports. That cereal brand may sell better if consumers think it offers strength and energy.
68. What is discussed in this passage?
A. The content of modern advertising.
B. The skills of modern advertising.
C. The results of modern advertising.
D. The writing of modern advertising.
69. According to the passage, a good advertisement should ________.
A. be both persuasive and effective
B. give people useful information
C. show people a product
D. show people a new idea of a product
70. From the passage, we can infer that _________
A. modern advertising has less effect on customers
B. once customers see ads about a new cereal, they are sure to buy it
C. cereal can make people strong
D. cereal is a kind of food which is popular among people
71. What can we infer from the passage?
A. Customers can easily be persuaded by advertisements.
B. Customers should be persuaded by advertisements.
C. It's impossible for customers to buy a product without advertisements.
D. Customers buy products according to their demands rather than the advertisements.
E
Taxes, Taxes and More Taxes
Americans often say that there are only two things a person can be sure of in life; death and taxes. Americans do not have a corner on the "death" market, but many people feel that the United States leads the world with the worst taxes.
Taxes consist of the money which people pay to support their government. There are generally three levels of government in the United States: federal (联邦), state, and city; therefore, there are three types of taxes.
Salaried people who earn more than a few thousand dollars must pay a certain percentage of their salaries to the federal government. The percentage varies (变化不同) form person to person. It depends on their salaries. The federal government has a graduated income tax, that is, the percentage of the tax (14 to 70 percent) increases as a person's income increases. With the high cost of taxes people are not very happy on April 15, when the federal taxes are due.
The second tax is for the state government: New York, California, North Dakota, or any of the other forty-seven states. Some states have an income tax similar to that of the federal government. Of course, the percentage for the state tax is lower. Other states have a sales tax, which is a percentage charged to any item(项目) which you buy in that state. For example, a person might want to buy a packet of cigarettes for twenty -five cents. If there is a sales tax of eight percent in that state, then the cost of the cigarettes is twenty -seven cents. This figure includes the sales tax. Some states use income tax in addition to sales tax to raise their revenues (收入) . The state tax laws are diverse (多样) and confusing (混淆).
The third tax is for the city. This tax comes in two forms: property tax (people who own a home have to pay taxes on it) and excise (国产) tax, which is charged on cars in a city. The cities use these funds (资金) for education, police and fire departments, public works and municipal (市政内) buildings.
Since Americans pay such high taxes, they often feel that they are working one day each week just to pay their taxes. People always complain about taxes. They often protest that the government uses their tax dollars in the wrong way. They say that it spends too much on useless and impractical programs. Although Americans have different views on many issues (问题) , they tend to agree on one subject: taxes are too high.
72. How do you understand the sentence "Americans do not have a corner on the 'death' market"?
A. It means that Americans, just like all other people, must die.
B. It means that Americans do not have a secret place to keep from death in their life.
C. It means that Americans are not good at doing business in the death market.
D. It means that there is no such place as a death market in the U. S .
73. Why should the American people usually pay three types of taxes?
A. There are three levels of government -federal, state and city -to support the United States.
B. There are three kinds of taxes to pay, They are graduated income tax, sales tax and property tax.
C. They earn different salaries: high, middle, and low
D. Tax laws in different states are different.
74. What does the title "Taxes, Taxes, and More Taxes" imply?
A. Americans are not satisfied with the three types of taxes.
B. The three levels of government do not use the taxes in a right way.
C. Americans complain that taxes are too high.
D. Americans' taxes are diverse and confusing.
56.D 57.B 58.C 59.A 60.B 61.C 62.C 63.D 64.D 65.B 66.B 67.D 68.B 69.A 70.D 71.A 72.A 73.A 74.A 75.C
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A
The majority of astronauts（宇航员）from America have been men. At the start of the space programme there was strong resistance from some people against having women in space. However, some women were very keen to become astronauts and in the end they were successful. In 1978, NASA began the first training programme for women astronauts.
Judy Resnick and Christa McAuliffe were both astronauts and they were both women, but in many other ways they were very different. Both of them were on Flight STS-5L-L. Judy Resnick was born in 1949 and studied engineering at university and went on to obtain a PhD in 1977. She was a member of the first group of women selected for astronaut training in 1978, and in 1984, she became the second woman in space. During that flight, she helped to launch three new satellites and she carried out a programme of research. She was, in many ways, a professional astronaut whose whole life was devoted to space travel.
Christa McAuliffe was born in 1948 and she was an astronaut almost by accident. In 1984, NASA decided to find a teacher who could accompany astronauts into space. They hoped that she would be able to communicate with students from space and encourage every one of them to be interested in space travel. Christa was a secondary teacher in history and social studies. She was a gifted teacher and she was selected from over 11,000 applicants to go on flight STS-51-L. She was also a very good communicator and she immediately established a very good relationship with the news media(radio, television and newspapers）. It was partly because of this that there was a great deal of interest and excitement about the flight. Thousands of students in schools and universities all around the country were looking forward to communicating with Christa in space. Millions of people were watching her flight with great interest. It is partly because of the excitement over McAuliffe's place in the flight that the disaster in 1986 had such an effect on people.
56. We can learn from the first two paragraphs that ___________.
A. Judy was against the idea of having women in space at first
B. Judy was the first woman selected for astronaut training
C. Judy helped to launch three new satellites at the age of 35
D. Judy carried out a programme during her second space travel
57. Christa McAuliffe was chosen for training because _______.
A. she was popular with the news media
B. she expected to give history lessons in space
C. she was an excellent teacher and communicator
D. she made the students in space very excited
58. The reason why there was great interest in Flight STS-51-L is that ________.
A. both Christa and Judy got PhD degrees in the same year
B. a young secondary school teacher was on the flight
C. students were going to learn more about space travel
D. it was the first time for women to travel in space
59. What would be the best title for the passage?
A. Two Astronauts B. Flight STS-51-L
C. Travelling in Space D. The Training Programme
B
What's on
Oscar Film Themes Symphony Concert
Film highlights accompanied by live performances of movie theme music by the China Opera and Dance Drama Theatre Symphony Orchestra, which has recorded the music for many films. Familiar tunes will come from such flicks as Titanic, Jurassic Park and Waterloo Bridge.
Where: Nationality Cultural Palace Theatre When: March 8, 7：30 pm Admission：80-380 yuan Tel：6528 7674 ext 508
Fantastic View All the Way
The mountains in this area are not very high, but the vistas are excellent. This walk is gentle and very interesting, going through valleys, over passes, along a ridge and through a few little tranquil villages that are located in amazing places. Many sites along the walk offer panoramic view of the surrounding mountains.
Where: Pinggu, northeast of Beijing When: March 9, meet 8：30 am outside Starbucks at Lido Hotel, or 9 am at Capital Paradise front gate, return 5 pm Admission: adults 150 yuan, children 100 yuan Tel: Email: fjhikers @ yahoo. co. uk
Spring Greetings
Paintings in bold colors in a traditional Chinese style by young artist Tian Xifeng are displayed to welcome the spring. Tian is a student of famous bird-and-flower painting artist Wang Qing. He has won several prizes at various national painting exhibitions and developed a style emphasizing vivid close-ups of natural scenes.
Where: Melodic Gallery, 14 Jianwai Dajie, opposite Friendship Store When：till March 31, 9 am- 5 pm Admission: free Tel:
Cala, My Dog
Directed by Lu Xuechang, starring Ge You. The story is about a middle- aged working man, known as Lao Er, whose chief source of stability and comfort in life is his dog, Cala . One day, when his wife is out walking Cala, a policeman confiscates the unregistered canine. As Lao Er endeavors to recover his dog , the difficult circumstances of his life are revealed. Chinese with English subtitle(字幕）.
Where: Dongchuang Theatre, 3 Xinzhongjie, Dongzhimenwai When: March 13 and 20, 8: 30 pm Admission: 20 yuan Tel:
60. If you are a music lover you can go to ________ on Women's Day.
A. Capital Paradise B. Dongchuang Theatre
C. Capital Gymnasium D. Nationality Cultural Palace Theatre
61. The exhibition held in Melodic Gallery ________.
A. is open to the public from 7:30 am - 5pm till April lst.
B. presents the works by Tian Xifeng and his teacher
C. is to display some bird-and-flower paintings
D. costs the art lovers much money to visit
62. Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A. Both adults and children can take part in the walk in Pinggu.
B. Even you don't know English you can enjoy Cala, My Dog.
C. You'll have to dial to book a ticket for the film.
D. You'll have a choice of two meeting places on March 9th.
63. All the advertisements in this passage are about ________.
A. music B. movies C. exhibitions D. entertainments
C
Most episodes（情况）of absent- mindedness- forgetting where you left something or wondering why you just entered a room-are caused by a simple lack of attention, says Schacter. "You're supposed to remember something, but you haven't encoded （译成密码）it deeply."
Encoding, Schacter explains, is a special way of paying attention to an event that has a major impact（影响）on recalling it later. Failure to encode properly can create annoying situations. If you put your mobile phone in a pocket, for example, and don't pay attention to what you did because you're involved in a conversation, you'll probably forget that the phone is in the jacket now hanging in your wardrobe（衣柜）. "Your memory itself isn't failing you,"says Schacter."Rather, you didn't give your memory system the information it needed."
Lack of interest can also lead to absent-mindedness."A man who can recite sports statistics from 30 years ago,"says Zelinski,"may not remember to drop a letter in the mailbox."Women have slightly better memories than men, possibly because they pay more attention to their environment, and memory depends on just that.
"Visual cues can help prevent absent -mindedness",says Schacter."But be sure the cue is clear and available,"he cautions. If you want to remember to take a medication（药物）with lunch, put the pill bottle on the kitchen table-don't leave it in the medicine chest and write yourself a note that you keep in a pocket.
Another common episode of absent-mindedness: walking into a room and wondering why you're there. Most likely, you were thinking about something else. "Everyone does this from time to time,"says Zelinski. The best thing to do is to return to where you were before entering the room, and you'll likely remember.
64. We can learn from the passage that encoding ________.
A. slows down the process of losing our memories
B. helps us understand our memory system better
C. gets us to recall something from our memories
D. helps us to find out the mobile phone in the pocket
65. Why do women have better memories than men?
A. They seldom use their mobile phones.
B. They are more nervous about the environment.
C. They are more interested in what's happening around them.
D. They usually take some special medicine to improve memories.
66. The sentence underlined in Paragraph 4 means that ___________.
A. a note in the pocket will easily get lost
B. putting something in sight can be a good reminder
C. taking medicine can get rid of absent-mindedness
D. people of absent-mindedness must take medicine with them
67. What is the passage mainly about?
A. The causes of absent-mindedness.
B. The environment and memory.
C. A way of encoding and recalling.
D. The process of gradual memory loss.
D
We are all interested in equality, but while some people try to protect the school and examination system in the name of equality, others, still in the name of equality, want only to destroy it.
Any society which is interested in equality of opportunity（机会）and standards of achievement must regularly test its pupils. The standards may be changed - no examination is perfect - but to have no external( 外部的 )tests or examinations would mean the end of equality and of standards. There are groups of people who oppose this view and who do not believe either in external examinations or in any controls in schools or on teachers. This would mean that everything would depend on luck since every pupil would depend on the efficiency（实力）,the ideal and the purpose of each teacher.
Without external examinations, employers will look for employees from the highly respected schools and from families known to them - a form of favoritism will replace equality. At the moment, the bright child from an ill - respected school can show certificates（证书）to prove he or she is suitable for a job, while the lack of a certificate shows the unsuitability of a dull child attending a well - respected school. This defence of excellence and opportunity would disappear if external examinations were taken away, and the bright child from a poor family would be a prisoner of his or her school's fame（名誉）,unable to compete for employment with the child from the favoured school.
The opponents（对手）of the examination system suggest that examinations are an evil force because they show differences between pupils. According to these people, there must be no special, different, academic class. They have even suggested that there should be no form of difference in sport or any other area: all jobs or posts should be filled by unsystematic selection. The selection would be made by people who themselves are probably selected by some computer.
These people are not just against school organisation, but are at war with the whole idea of modem competitive society and they are using children in schools for their destructive（破坏性的）purposes. There is no reason why we should allow such people to determine the way our schools are organised when it is to the obvious disadvantage of the pupils, of the schools and of our society as a whole.
68. According to the passage, the writer thinks that ________.
A. changing the standards could mean the end of equality
B. standards must keep changing in order to achieve equality
C. there would be no standards without external examinations
D. we cannot have standards because examinations are not perfect
69. In the writer's opinion, what would happen if external examinations were taken away?
A. There would be no more opportunities and no more excellence.
B. Children from poor families would not be able to change schools.
C. Going to a favoured school should be the only way to get a good job.
D. Schools for bright children would lose their fame.
70. The situation at the moment is that ________.
A. many children who are suitable for a job have no proof of their suitability
B. a school's fame is not important, as long as a child has a certificate.
C. children attending well - respected schools need not get certificates.
D. a bright child doesn't need a certificate a t all to get a good job.
71. Which of the following sentences is TRUE?
A. Most students from poor families can't get a good job.
B. Some people are using students to destroy our society.
C. The writer thinks it a good way to choose a job by computer.
D. The opponents of the examination want to reorganize schools.
72. The opponents would agree that _________.
A. computers should be selected to take over many jobs
B. particular people should not be chosen for particular jobs
C. well - respected schools should be got rid of as soon as possible
D. the students are not equally treated if they take external examinations
E
He works 10 hours a day, makes more than US $98000 a year, doesn't bother to take holidays, dresses as he pleases, he's never been happier and is looking for another job. This 33-year-old, white, university-educated person is the typical Internet worker, according to a study by the Internet Standard, a San Francisco news magazine.
There is also a reasonable chance that his employer will arrange his dry cleaning, allow him to bring his dog to work, offer him free massages（按摩） and give him stock options（股票自由买卖权）.And he still thinks people in other firms are doing better.
The typical worker, it appears, not only enjoys an income about three times the national average but also enjoys himself. At present 2. 5 million people are employed by Internet firms in the US. The results of the study give plenty of reasons why so many people think the grass is greener in Silicon Valley（硅谷）.
Even after tech stocks sharply went down in April, closing many star - ups, there is still a mood of enthusiasm（热情）and special advantage among those still employed. So what makes 52 percent of them "very happy"?"Demanding work"is given as the main reason and "salary"is unsurprisingly close behind. Those questioned in the study also listed working weekends and long holidays as signs of the pleasures of the workplaces.
Only 13 percent were paid for the extra hours worked while 14 percent put in more than 12 hours work on an average day. "It wasn't all about money"wrote Maryann Thompson in the introduction to the study,"It was fun. What other job could a college and graduate walk into at 10 a. m. wearing shorts and sandals?"And spend days with his dog at his feet, working on projects that required real brain power- then leave at 9 p. m. with a belly full of free food, a few happy - hour beers and a big fat check? The average income works out at $104000 with the average basic salary at $84700.
73. The job as an Internet worker ______.
A. calls for strict rules B. allows much freedom
C. leaves more time for housework D. requires shorter working hours
74. The phrase "a big fat check"in the last paragraph means ________.
A. tasty food B. beautiful clothes
C. good earnings D. healthy bodies
75. It can be inferred from the passage that ________.
A. employers try many ways to satisfy their Internet workers
B. youths prefer much more freedom in their work
C. Internet workers earn much more than an average worker
D. college graduates are greatly attracted by Internet work
56. C 57. C 58. B 59. A 60. D 61. C 62. C 63. D 64. C 65. C
66. B 67. A 68. C 69. A 70. B 71. D 72. D 73. B 74. C 75. D
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A
It was at least two months before Christmas when nineyear old Almie Rose told her father and me that she wanted a new bicycle. As Christmas drew nearer, her desire for a bicycle seemed to fade, or so we thought. We bought the latest rage, BabySitter's Club dolls, and a doll house. Then, much to our surprise, on December 23rd, she said that she “really wanted a bike more than anything else.” It was just too late , what with all the details of preparing Christmas dinner and buying lastminute gifts, to take the time to select the “right bike” for our little girl. So, here we were Christmas Eve around 9:00 p.m., with Almie and her six-year-old brother, Dylan, nestled snug in their beds. Now we could only think of the bicycle and the disappointment of our child.” What if I make a little bicycle out of clay (泥) and write a note that she could trade the clay model in for a real bike?” her dad asked. “This is an expensive item and she is ‘such a big girl,' it would be much better for her to pick it out.” So he spent the next four hours painstakingly working with clay to make a tiny bike. On Christmas morning, we were excited for Almie to open the little hear shaped package with the beautiful red and white clay bike and the note. Finally, she opened it and read the note aloud. “Does this mean that I trade in this bike that Daddy made me for a real one?” Beaming, I said, “Yes.” Almie had tears in her eyes when she replied, “I could never trade in this beautiful bicycle that Daddy made me. I'd rather keep this than get a real bike.” At that moment, we would have moved heaven and earth to buy her every bicycle on the planet!
56Choose the right time order of the following events.
aThe girl asked for a new bike.
bThe girl opened the little heartshaped package.
cThe parents bought the girl a modern and popular doll.
dThe father made the girl a bike with clay.
eThe girl would rather keep the clay bike than get a real one .
Aa, b, c, e, d
Ba, c, d, b, e
Ca, c, b, d, e
Da, b, d, c, e
57Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?
AThe parents wanted the girl to have the clay bike for ever.
BTears were in the girl's eyes because she didn't like the present at all.
CThe girl never lost her desire for a bike.
DThe parents paid little attention to the daughter's desire for a bike.
58Why did Dad make the clay bicycle?
AHe wanted his daughter to buy a real one .
BHe didn't want to disappoint his daughter.
CHe thought his daughter would like it .
DHe wanted to give his daughter a surprise.
59What can be inferred from the last sentence?
AThe parents were happy and encouraged.
BThe parents felt comfortable and relaxed.
CThe parents were moved and felt proud of the girl.
DThe parents felt disappointed and sorry for the girl.
B
Disposing (处理)of waste has been a problem since humans started producing it. As more and more people choose to live close together in cities, the wastedisposal problem becomes in-creasingly difficult. During the eighteenth century, it was usual for several neighboring towns to get together to select a faraway spot as a dump site. Residents or trash haulers(垃圾拖运者) would transport household rubbish, rotted wood, and old possessions to the site. Periodically some of the trash was burned and the rest was buried. The unpleasant sights and smells caused no problem because nobody lived close by. Factories, mills, and other industrial sites also had waste to be disposed of. Those located on rivers often just dumped the unwanted remains into the water. Others built huge burners with chimneys to deal with the problem. Several facts make these choices unacceptable to modern society. The first problem is space. Dumps, which are now called landfills, are most needed in heavily populated areas. Such areas rarely have empty land suitable for this purpose. Property is either too expensive or too close to residential neighborhoods. Longdistance trash hauling has been a common practice, but once farm areas are refusing to accept rubbish from elsewhere, cheap land within trucking distance of major city areas is almost nonexistent. Awareness (意识) of pollution dangers has resulted in more strict rules of waste disposal. Pollution of rivers, ground water, land and air is a price people cannot longer pay to get rid of waste. The amount of waste, however, continues to grow.
Recycling efforts have become commonplace, and many towns require their people to take part. Even the most efficient recycling programs, however, can hope to deal with only about 50 percent of a city's reusable waste.
60The most suitable title for this passage would be .
APlaces for Disposing Waste
BWaste Pollution Dangers
CWays of Getting Rid of Waste
DWaste Disposal Problem
61During the 18th century, people disposed their waste in many ways EXCEPT for .
Aburying it
Brecycling it
Cburning it
Dthrowing it into rivers
62What can be inferred from the fourth paragraph?
AFarm areas accept waste from the city in modern society.
BThere is cheap land to bury waste in modern society.
CIt is difficult to find space to bury waste in modern society.
DWays to deal with waste in modern society stay the same.
63The main purpose of writing this article is to .
Adraw people's attention to waste management
Bwarn people of the pollution dangers we are facing
Ccall on people to take part in recycling programs
Dtell people a better way to get rid of the waste
C
You are standing under the most famous neon lights in the centre of London, waiting to cross the road. Suddenly the traffic stops. You hear the distant sounds of cheering, clapping and shouting. Then, like a multi-colored train, 2, 000 people with wheels on their feet zoom past you .You have just witnessed the London Skate, a twiceweekly roller-skate event that attracts people in their hundreds and thousands London Skate is a completely free tour of the streets of London—the only condition is that you go along on roller-skates. It lasts between two and three hours and by the end of it you have skated between 10 and 12 miles.
The skate snakes sound the streets of London along several different routes. Many of the routes pass by tourist attractions such as Buckingham Palace and Big Ben.
Marshals(交通协调员)go ahead of the group, stopping the traffic so that people can skate as safely as possible. Everyone is welcome to take part and people from the age of 4 to 63 years old join the fun. “I love it very much, it is amazing. It feels just like a carnival(狂欢节)，” said Celeste Beverage regular skater.
Roller-skating is really taking off across Europe and America. It is a very good way to keep fit and can be practised anywhere there is a smooth surface. Many big cities in Western Europe and in the US now have a regular group skating event.
The biggest skates take place in Paris and Munich and tens of thousands of fans show up on warm evenings. “Roller-skating is taking over the world,” said Julian Grenoble, a 25-year-old ski shop employee from London. Grenoble went to the Paris-Roller(Paris skate) regularly until he moved to Britain.
“It's so exciting to skate in Pairs. Everyone skates so fast and puts in their best efforts!” he said. The ParisRoller is well known because of the huge attendance, the presence of marshals and the police protection. Paris is a great city for roller-skating because of its long wide streets and smooth surfaces. Roller-skating is also becoming more popular in China among young people and children. Skating fans' favorite places to practice in China are big squares.
64This article mainly talks about
Aplaces and streets for roller-skating
Broller-skating in big cities
CLondon Skate Event
Droller skaters in different countries
65The underlined phrase “taking off ”in the passage means
Arising from the ground
Bbecoming popular
Csetting out
Dgetting exciting
66We can infer from the passage that London Skate Event
Ais probably supported by the city government
Battracts a great many tourist from all over the world
Cusually causes a lot of traffic problems
Ddraws people of all ages into the sport
67Paris is regarded as one of the most suitable places for roller-skating because
Aa large under of roller players attend it
Bthe police protect the roller skaters
Cthe streets are safe, wide and smooth
Dthe event usually takes place on warm evenings
D
●Put sunscreen on before going out in the sun .
●Take it with you.
●Use it
—after a swim
—every hour or so while playing outdoors
—if you get sweaty.
●Cover up when the sun is overhead
—10 a.m.- 2 p.m.
—especially at lunch time.
●Get your suntan gradually and not too much.
●Controlled exposure to sunshine helps avoid skin cancer.
Ask your chemist to recommend a suitable sunscreen.
Queensland Cancer Fund
P.O.Box
Spring Hill,QLD.4000
Phone (07) 839 7077
Provided for community awareness by the Queensland Cancer
68This passage is most likely to be
Aan article from a student text book
Ba direction from a bottle of medicine
Can advertisement from a newspaper
Da suggestion from a chemist
69Which statement is true?
AThe more you get sunshine, the better your health will be.
BYou'll never have skin cancer with controlled exposure.
CYou mustn't stay outside from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
DYou should frequently put on sunscreen while playing outdoors.
70According to the passage we can see that Queensland Cancer Fund wants
to .
Asell sunscreen, shirt and hat
Bencourage people to play in the sun
Chelp people guard against skin cancer
Dmake money out of sunscreen
71If you want a sunscreen , you should ask for advice.
Athe seller
Bthe advertiser
Cyour parents
Dyour doctor
E
Shyness is the cause of much unhappiness for a great many people. Shy people are anxious and self-conscious; that is, they are over concerned with their own appearance and actions. Worrisome thoughts are constantly occurring in their minds: what kind of impression am I making? Do they like me? Do I sound stupid? Am I wearing unattractive clothes?
It is obvious that such uncomfortable feelings must affect people unfavorably. Adperson’s selfconcept is reflected in the way he or she behaves and the way a person behaves affects other people's reactions. In general, the way people think about themselves has a deep affect on all areas of their lives. Shy people ,have low self-esteem(自尊),are likely to be passive and easily influenced by others. They need reassurance that they are doing “the right thing”. Shy people are very sensitive to criticism. It makes them feel inferior(自卑).They also find it difficult to be pleased by praises because they believe they are unworthy of praise .A shy person may respond to a praise with a statement like this one:” You’re just saying that to make me feel good .I know it's not true.” It is clear that, while selfawareness is a healthy quality, overdoing it is harmful. Can shyness be completely got rid of ,or at least reduced? Fortunately, people can overcome shyness with determination. It is important for people to accept their weaknesses as well as their strengths, for example, not fair for them to label themselves inferior because they have to be realistic. Living on the impossible leads to absence of inferiority. Each one of us has his or her own characteristics. We are interested in our own personal ways. The better we understand ourselves. the easier it becomes to live up to our chances for a rich and fulfilling life.
72The first paragraph is mainly about
Athe thoughts of shy people
Bthe cause of shyness
Cthe effect of shyness on people
Dthe questions in the minds of shy people
73According to the wirter, selfawareness is
Aharmful to people
Ba wesk point of shy people
Cthe cause of unhappiness
Da good characteristic
74What is the shy people's reaction to praise?
AThey are pleased by it
BThey feel it is not true
CThey are very sensitive to it
DThey feel thty are worthy of it
75We can learn from the passage that shyness can
Ahelp us to live up to our full development
Benable us to understand ourselves better
Cblock our chances for a successful life
Dhave nothing to do with lack of self esteem
56～60BCBCD 61～65BCABB 66～70ACCDC 71～75DCDBC
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A
Foulsham House is a fine, stone house of the 1790s. It stands high above the River Byre, in twenty five hectares(公顷) of the best farmland in the south－west.Smithson built the house, and the story goes that George, the young Prince(王子)of Wales, fell in love with the beautiful lady Kitty Wake, at one of the first，Lord Foulsham's wild parties. Many great men have ridden on the hills about Foulsham House, and many fine ladies have taken tea in the Green Room.
The house has eight bedrooms, three bathrooms, two livingrooms and a dinning－room with a real Adam fireplace. The gentleman's library has a view over the park and the river that is quite without equal. All rooms are light and airy, with good, high windows and wood floors.
At the back of the house, in the buildings in which the third Lond－Foulsham kept the borses which made him famous, there is garage space for four cars. In many other ways, this house of the 1790s meets the needs of the 1970s.If you wish to know more about Foulsham House, write to : Harvery, Platt, Longford & Sons, 6, Castle Green, Gilham, Byreside.
56The library .
Ahas a fine view of the park and the river
Bis where great men and fine ladies took tea
Chas an Adam fireplace and a real wood floor
Dhas eight bedrooms, three bathrooms and two living rooms
57All the rooms in the house .
Ahave a view over the park and the river
Bare light, have good windows and wood floors
Chave high floors and good wood windows
Dare light, and have fireplaces and wood floors
58Foulsham House .
Ais an old house that meets many new needs
Bthough seventy－nine years old, meets new needs
Cis a new house that meets many old needs
Dis a house of the 1970s as good as new
B
American society is not nap(午睡)friendly. In fact, says David Dinges, a sleep specialist at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine,“There's even a prohibition(禁令) against admitting we need sleep.”Nobody wants to be caught napping or found asleep at work. To quote(引用)a proverb:“Some sleep five hours, nature requires seven, laziness nine and wickedness eleven.”Wrong. The way not to fall asleep at work is to take naps when you need them.“We have to totally change our attitude toward napping,”says Dr William Dement of Stanford University, the godfather of sleep research.Last year a national commission led by Dement identified an“American sleep debt” which one member said was as important as the national debt. The commission was concerned about the dangers of sleepiness: people causing industrial accidents of falling asleep while driving. This may be why we have a new
sleep policy in the White House. According to recent reports, President Clinton is trying to take a halfhour snooze(打瞌睡)every afternoon.
About 60 percent of American adults nap when given the opportunity. We seem to have “a mid-afternoon quiet phase(状态局面)”,also called “a secondary sleep gate”. Sleeping 15 minutes to two hours in the early afternoon can reduce stress and make us refreshed. Clearly, we were born to nap.
We Superstars of Snooze don't nap to replace lost shuteye or to prepare for a night shift. Rather, we snack on sleep, whenever, wherever and at whatever time we feel like it. I myself have napped in buses, cars, planes and on boats; on floors and beds; and in libraries, offices and museums.
59The purpose of this article is to .
Awarn us of the wickedness of napping
Bexplain the danger of sleepines
Cdiscuss the side effects of napping
Dconvince the readers of the necessity of napping
60The “American sleep debt”(Linel 2,Para.3)is the result of .
Athe traditional misconception the Americans have about sleep
Bthe sleep policy of the Clinton Administration
Cthe rapid development of American industry
Dthe Americans' worry about the danger of sleepiness
61The second sentence of the last paragraph tells us that it is .
Apreferable to have a sound sleep before a night shift
Bgood practice to eat something light before we go to bed
Cessential to make up for lost sleep
Dnatural to take a nap whenever we fee the need for it
C
Meet the new Volvo 460.Volvo with so much going for it, you'll find it very easy to get into the driving seat. You will love the feel of this car,even before you've turned the key. Standard features on all models include adjustable steering column(可调整方向盘支撑杆),heated seats ,electric sunroof. On the GLE and Turbo models there are electric windows, heated door mirrors and power assisted steering.
The level of comfort and equipment is extravagant(豪华的)even by Volvo's generous standards. More comforting still is the knowledge that all this luxury(奢移)is designed around Volvo's rigid adherence(严格确保)to safety.
But the real excitement starts when the engine starts. The 460 is a stylish performer. Smooth, responsive and very lively, particularly the Turbo version. This car drives like a dream. And while getting into the driving seat is easy, getting out is another matter. At the end of your test drive you won't want an open door.
62What's the purpose of this passage?
ATo invite you to meet the new Volvo 460.
BTo tell you how to drive a car.
CTo give you some information about Volvo 460.
DTo introduce the new Volvo 460 and invite you to buy it.
63What's the most important feature(特点)of the new Volvo 460?
AThe feel of this car.
BA stylish performer.
CRigid adherence to safety.
DThe level of comfort and equipment
64What do the last two sentences want to say?
AAn open road is more important than an open door.
BPeople don't want an open door but an open road.
CPeople don't want to leave the car after the test drive.
DPeople decide to buy the car after the test drive.
65What's the best title for this passage?
AThe New Volvo 460A Test Drive Isn't Enough
BThe New Volvo 460Your Best Choice
CThe New Volvo 460Drives Like a Dream
DThe New Volvo 460The Real Excitement
D
The World Trade Organization(WTO),founded on January 1, 1995,aims to encourage international trade to flow as possible, making sure that trade agreements are respected and that any disputes(争端)can be settled.
In the five years since its founding, the WTO has become wellknown as one of the world's most powerful economic organizations, taking its place alongside the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
The system of global rules for international trade, however, dates back half a century to 11948 when the Ceneral Agreement on Tariffs(关税)and Trade(GATT)was formed after World War Ⅱ.
As time went by, it became clear that the GATT had two major drawbacks——the limited areas of trade it covered, and the lack of an effective system to settle disputes.
After seven years of trade talks ending in 1994, the socalled Uruguay Round finally gave birth to the WTO, complete with an effective system to settle disputes and new rules covering trade in services and intellectual property(知识产权).
Even after seven years of talks and 22,500 pages of agreements there were still problems, especially the difficulttodealwith areas of agriculture and services, which the member nations agreed to revise in 2000.The WTO, with its head office in Geneva, has 135 members with 30 more waiting to join.
66From the passage we know that the GATT stopped working .
Asoon after World War Ⅱ ended
Ba little more than 50 years after World War Ⅱ
Cjust in the year 1994
Dseven years before the Uruguay Round talk
67Compared with the GATT, the WTO .
Adidn't pay enough attention to services and intellectual property
Bgot its members to sign the agreements more easily
Chas got too many areas of international trade to deal with to work effectively
Dcan do better to settle disputes in more areas of International trade
68In the new century the WTO will .
Atake the place of the World Bank and international Monetary Fund
Bhave more members and settle more problems
Cmake complete new rules in every area of international trade
Dhave new rules covering trade in services and intellectual property
69The underlined word“drawbacks”means .
Achanges
Bweak points
Cstrong points
Dimprovements
E
Convenience Foods
Instead of buying only fresh foods, Americans nowadays buy many more convenience foods. These are foods which are ready partly or completely prepared. Many of them are frozen ,such as frozen dinner, heatedserve French fries, and frozen pizzas. There are also many canned convenience foods, such as ready made spaghetti, soups, stews, and vegetables.
Convenience foods save time and trouble. They are popular with people who are busy or who don't like to cook or wash dishes. But they often cost more than fresh, unprepared foods and may contain manmade additives. Also, many people feel they don't taste as good as homecooked foods.
Health Food and Coops
In the 1960s, a “backtotheearth”movement was started by young people in the United States. The movement was a reaction against the harmful effects of technology. From the movement came a new understanding for food and health. Many people now prefer natural and organic(有机物)foods to the prepared foods sold in health food stores and in food coops, which are small stores where customers help manage the store. In coops, food is usually not packaged. Customers bring their own bags and jars and take their food out of boxes or basket.
The Diet Craze(节食热)
These days Americans are more and more concerned with their weight. Perhaps as many as 70 million Americans are on weightdollar business.
American supermarkets sell a variety of diet foods such as diet soft drinks, diet candy, and diet salad dressings. Dieters also spend money on diet pills, exercise machines, and jogging suits(健美服).Each year dozens of new diets are popularized. They have such names as the Miracle(奇效的)Diet, the Nine day Wonder Diet, and the East 24hour Diet. There is even one called the lce Cream Diet, which advises dieters to eat only ice cream for lunch and dinner! For dieters who can not lose weight on their own, there are many wellorganized diet groups, which offer help and encouragement.
70Generally speaking, convenience foods in America .
Aare shipped from foreign countries
Bare made by farmers on farms
Care popular with some people
Dare better than fresh ones
71From the fourth paragraph, we can find that .
Athe diet craze in the US is unnecessary
Brich American people should offer their money to the poor
Cbusinessmen are getting much money from the diet craze
Dfat Americans are too foolish to take too much food
72What's the writer's opinion on American diets?
AThey are all effective to people.
BThey are of no effect to people.
CThe Ice Cream Diet is the best.
DNot all of them are believable.
F
Most of the people who appear most often in the history books are great conquerors(征服者)and generals and soldiers, while the people who really helped civilization(文明)forward are often never mentioned at all.
We do not know who first set a broken leg, or made a seaworthy boat, or calculated(计算)the length of the year, but we know all about the killers and destroyers. People think a great deal of them, so much so that on all the highest pillars(柱子) in the great cities of the world you will find the figure of a conqueror or a general or a soldier. And I think most people believe that the greatest countries are those that have beaten in the battle the greatest number of other countries and ruled over them as conquerors.
It is just possible they are, but they are not the most civilized. Animals fight; so do savages(野蛮人); so to be good at fighting is to be good in the way in which an animal or a savage is good, but it is not to be civilized. Even being good at getting other people to fight for you and telling them how to do it most efficiently——this, after all, is what conquerors and generals have done——is not being civilized. People fight to settle quarrels. Fighting means killing, and civilized people ought to be able to find some way of settling their quarrels rather than by seeing which side can kill off the greater number of the other side, and then saying that the side which has killed most has won, and not only has won, but, because it has won, has been in the right. For that is what is going to mean in a war, it means saying that might is right.
73In the author's opinion, the countries that ruled over a large number
of other countries are .
Apossibly the most civilized but not the greatest
Bpossibly the greatest in some degree but not the most civilized
Ccertainly not the greatest in any way
Dneither the greatest nor the most civilized
74The author says that civilized people should .
Anot have any quarrels to settle
Bnot fight when there are no quarrels to settle
Csettle their quarrels without fighting
Dsettle their quarrels by seeing which side can kill off the greater number of the other side
75“Might is right”in the last sentence means that .
Athose who fight believe that the winner is right and the loser wrong
Bonly those who are powerful should go to war
Cthose who are right should fight against those who are wrong
Din a way only those who are powerful will win
56A 57B 58A 59D 60A 61D 62D 63C 64D 65A 66C 67D 68B 69B 70C 71C 72D 73B 74C 75A
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(A)
ANXIOUS parents in the areas around Washington, US, accompanied(陪伴) their children to school, or kept them at home, after a middle-school student became victim(受害者)No.8, in a series of shootings in The shootings started on October2.
The 13-year-old youth, an eighth-grader, was struck in the chest by a high-powered bullet on October7. He was hit as he was being dropped off in front of his school by his aunt on October7.
“I can't stop going to work, the children can't stop going to school,” said Henry Ollie,48.He led his12-year-old son, Charles, to the front door of the school, where the latest shooting happened. Ordinarily, Charles takes the bus. Some buses arrived at schools carrying fewer students than usual. And schools where parents usually line up their cars to drop off youngsters had no traffic problems because so many parents had kept their children at home. The middle school boy is still in bad condition after having abort two and a half hours of operation on the night of the shooting. He is the youngest of the nine victims, including one was shot dead on October9.
All the victims, seven dead and two wounded, were in public place doing ordinary things. They were working at grass, filling a gas tank or walking into a supermarket.
“All of our victims have been defenseless, but to kill children is one step too far. Our children don't deserve this,” said police Charles Moose.(From New York Times)
56How many victims had been killed in the series of shootings around Washington before October7th?
ASeven. BSix. CNine. DEight.
57Why did many parents keep their children at home?
ABecause the shooting made them frightened.
BBecause the school asked them to do so.
CBecause the children were afraid of the shooting.
DBecause the parents were worried abort the safety of their children.
58The phrase“drop off”in the passage means.
Afall off something Bget away from the driver
Csend sb. off a car or a bus Dsend the children to school
(B)
One of the qualities that most people admire in others is the willingness to ambit one's mistakes. It is extremely hard sometimes to say a simple thing like “I was wrong about that,” and it is even harder to say, “I was wrong, and you were right about that.” I had an experience recently with someone admitting to me that he had made a mistake fifteen years ago. He told me he had been the manager of a cartons(纸箱).Then he talked of an in cadent and I began to remember the incident he was describing.
I was about eight years old at the time, and I had gone into the store with my mother to do the weekly grocery shopping.On that particular day,I must have found my way to the food department where the incident took place.
There must have been a special sale on eggs that day because there was a big show of eggs in dozen and half-doxen cartons.The cartons were put three or four feet high.I must have stopped in front or them to admire the show.Just then a woman came by pushing her grocerty cart and knocked off the pile of cartons. For some reason, I decided it was up to to me to put the cartons back together, so I went to work.
The manager heard the noise and same pushing over to see what had happened.When he appeared,I was on my knees checking some of the cartons to see if any of the eggs were broken, but to him it looked as though I was the person who was to blame. He scolded me loud and wanted me to pay for any broken forgot the incident, but the manager did not.
59How old was the author when he wrote this article?
AAbout 8 years old. BAbout 18 years old.
CAbout 23 years old. DAbout 15 years old.
60Who was to blame for knocking off the pile of cartons?
AThe author. BThe manager. CA woman. DThe author's mother.
61Which of the following statements is NOT true?
AThe woman who knocked off the pile of cartons was seriously scolded by the manager.
BThe author was loudly scolded by the manager.
CA woman was loudly scolded by the manager.
DIt was the author who put the cartons back together.
62The tone of the article expresses the author's.
Aadmiration for the manager's willingness to admit mistakes
Banger to the manager for his wrong doing
Cdissatisfaction with the woman who knocked off the pile cartons
Dregret for the mistake he made in the store
(C)
It seems strange that while three-quarters of the world's surface is covered with water, getting an adequate (充足的)supply of it that's fresh, clean, and safe to use for drinking, cooking and washing, is one of the most important problems that faces humanity. Most of the earth’s water is salt water in the oceans, only three per cent is fresh and only a small part of that is possible. It may be trapped deep underground, and anyway unequally exist around the globe, so the happening of droughts and floods. Of the remaining fresh water, much is polluted and dangerous to use.
A large part of UNICEFs work is bringing safe water to people and educating them in basic health care. Some diseases spread by polluted water are the most common causes of death and illness in children under five in the developing world.
Although water gives life, it can also carry some kinds of disease- a leading cause of blindness among children. Mosquitoes, and flies that live near in water bring yellow fever, malaria(疟疾) and sleeping sickness, so good piped water supplies are needed to reduce the need for people to gather in such an area. In the country, women and children a major part of their time going out to collect water, often walk many miles each day to provide just the limited family needs for cooking, washing and drinking. And they can't carry much while walking over rough fields bearing a heavy bucket.
Because children have to play their part in family life, and that includes getting water, they may be unable to go to school, or be so tired when get there that have difficulty learning. They may even have to spend the whole day without a drink as may mot be any clean water there, either.
Last year, UNICEF(联合国儿童基金会) aimed to get almost 90,000 water systems setup, to benefit 20 million people, working where it is most badly needed, often just to ensure keeping alive. A well may woman the difference between life and death.
63What is the main reason for the inadequate supply of fresh water?
AMost of it is polluted.
BMost of it is almost impossible to get.
CMost of it is in the sea.
DFloods and droughts have taken place time and again.
64Which of the following statements is NOT true?
AWater can spread diseases.
BThere would be no life without water.
CWater has something to do with some children's death and illness.
DSome children become blind because of water.
65The purpose of this passage is to .
Ainform the reader Bcomfort the reader
Cpersuade the reader Dfrighten the reader
66Children help to collect water because.
Athey are not able to go to school
Bthey have to spend the whole day without a drink
Cthey have difficulty learning
Dthey must help their parents with housework
(D)
Why does cream go bad faster than butter? Some researchers think they have the answer, and it comes down to the structure(结构) of the food, not its chemical composition (成份)—a finding that could help break away from some chemicals. Cream and butter contain pretty much the same things, so why cream should go bad much faster has been a problem. Both are small globules(小球) of one liquid spread throughout another. The difference lies in what's in the globules and what's in the surrounding liquid, says Brocklehurst, who led the research. In careen, fatty globules drift about in a sea of water. In butter, globules of a watery road are locked away in a sea of fat. The bacteria(细菌) which make the food go bad prefer to live in the watery areas of the mixture. “This means that in cream, the
bacteria are free to grow throughout the mixture,” he says. When in butter, the bacteria are locked away in locked places buried deep in the sea of fat. Trapped in this way, those colonies cannot spread and rapidly run out. They also slowly poison themselves with their waste products.” In butter, you get a self-limiting system which stops the bacteria growing,” says Brocklehurst. The researchers are already working with food companies eager to see if their products can be made to stand bacterial attack through changes of the food's structure.
Brocklehurst believes it will be possible to make something changes of the for instance, more like that in butter, The key will be possible to make something used in salad cream liquid and mot taming like it into a solid state.
67The significance of Brocklehurst's research is that.
Ait suggested a way to keep some foods fresh without using some chemicals
Bit discovered small globules in both cream and butter
Cit showed the secret of how bacteria increase in cream and butter
Dit found that cream and butter share the same chemical composition
68According to the researchers, cream goes bad faster than butter
because bacteria.
Aare stronger in cream
Bincrease their number more easily in cream than in butter
Clive on less fat in cream than in butter
Dproduce less waste in cream than in butter
69According to Brocklehurst, we can keep cream fresh but .
Aremoving its fat Bkilling the bacteria
Creducing its water D changing its stricture
70The underlined word“colonies” refers to .
Atiny globules Bwatery regions
Cbacteria society Dlittle departments
71Commercial use of the research finding will be possible if salad cream can be made to stand bacterial attack .
Aby changing its chemical composition
Bby turning it into a solid lump
Cwhile keeping its structure unchanged
Dwhile its liquid form remains
(E)
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72If a man is tired of working indoors and wouldn't like to be too far
away from his girl friend who studies at Simmons,which college will be choose?
ASimmons. BST.Mary's CPaul Smith's DNorthem.
73If a girl wanted to learn modern science and she prefers to stay by the ocean nor in the northeast, which college will like best?
ASimmons. BST.Manry's. CPaul Smith's. DNorthen.
74If a man wishes to study business and in a non-state-run university, which of the following is her favourite?
ASimmons. BST.Mary's. CPaul Smith's DNorthetm.
75How many colleges allow you to get in touch with them through toll free telephone (免费电话)?
AFow. BThree. CTwo DOne
56-65 BDCCC-AABDA 66-75 DABDC-DCBDC
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A
My son and I were trying to sell the house we had repaired but in the barn(谷仓)there were bats(蝙蝠)and they would not leave. The barn was their home. They told us so in their own way. They hung there in the barn and seemed determined to stay for the season. Don't worry about it, Dad, " Patrick said. They keep down the mosquitoes(蚊子).”
Unfortunately they also kept the buyers away. when we had asked a person to sell the house for us he had refused to show it because of the bats. Bats are popular, "Patrick comforted me. They're ecological(生态学的)."Isn't there a machine you can buy that produces highfrequency sounds to keep bats away?” I don't know,” said Patrick. But I like bats, and whoever buys this house will probably like them too."”Probably?"I hated that word. How many bats are there ,anyway?" I counted about 90 last night," said Patrick. They were dropping out from under the edge of the roof." You mean there are more—outside?" They're everywhere, Dad. But look at it this way. When the cold weather comes, they’ll be off to Mexico. Maybe in the spring we can keep them out. Don't worry about it,” he said for the hundredth time. It's not a problem."
The bat expert I called was even more active than Patrick. I think you've got a large number there,” he said in wonder, I’ve been trying to attract bats to our house for 25 years A single bat eats up his weight in mosquitoes and black flies three times every night. You're a very lucky man.” I offered to share my luck with him. He could take them away. Bats have a remarkable homing instinct(本能),"he said. They'd fly straight
back even if I transported them 100 miles. Once they have settled, you can't stop them from coming back." I was silent.
Finally we managed to rent “(出租)the house to a young family, who were also interested in buying it. What about the bats?" I said to Patrick.
Oh, they love the bats,” he said. No mosquitoes. No black flies. It's one of the things that attracted them." Do you think they will really buy the bouse? "Probably." Probably? Well,if they do ,I suppose I'll have to admit that I was wrong. "You mean you're going to eat your words?"
Yes, I am."
56What was the problem the author had with his house?
ABats were living in the barn and wouldn't go away.
BThe author and his son couldn't sleep well because of the bats.
CThe author and his son might be able to stay for the season.
DThe house was still badly in need of repair.
57What did Patrick suggest the author should do to stop the bats living in the barn?
AHe should buy a highfrequency machine.
BHe should move them one hundred miles away.
CHe should reduce the number of mosquitoes.
DHe should close the barn in the spring.
58Why did the author fall silent when he talked with the bat specialist?
AHe felt sure about the situation.
BHe found out that it would be impossible to remove the bats.
CHe learned that he would be able to share his luck with the expert.
DHe liked the advice given by the expert.
59What happened regarding the house in the end?
ASome people agreed to rent the house.
BThe author failed to find anybody who wanted to live in the house.
CThe bat expert made the decision to buy the house.
DThe bats left the house for Mexico in the spring.
60Why did the author think he might have to “eat his words”?
AHe felt sorry for the bats.
BHe might be mistaken about being unable to sell the house.
CHe realized he might be wrong about the bats' actions.
DHe was happy about selling the house.
B
How many coins have you got in your pocket right now? Three? Two? Or one?What do you do with it? Go to a telephone box marked “Phone card”. Put in your card, make your call and when you've finished, a screen tells you how much is left on your card. It costs no extra for the cards, and the calls cost 10p per unit, the same as any other payphone call.You can buy them in units of 10,20,40,100 or 200.Now appearing in a shop near you
Near each Card phone place you'll find a shop where you can buy one. They are at bus, train and city tube(地铁)stations. At many universities, hospitals and clubs, restaurants and gas stations on the highway and shopping centers. At airports and seaports.
No more broken payphones Most broken payphones are like that because they've been vandalized(破坏).There are no coins in Card phone to excite thieves' interest in it. So you're not probably to find a vandalized one.
Get a phone card yourself and try it out. Or get a bigger wallet.
61The passage is most probably
Aa warning Ba notice Can advertisement Dan announcement
62There are three sections (部分)in the passage. Which one do you think is about why phone cards are good?
ASection 1. BSection 2. CSection 3. DNone.
63According to the information you get from the passage, how much does a card with 40 units cost?
A4 pounds.B40 pounds.C400 pounds. D100 pounds.
C
Martin is a man of all trades and of many experiences. He never stays at one job for more than six months and never leaves the job of his own will. He is not actually lazy or unfit and his employers(雇主)can not be said to be unreasonable. He is only, according to one of his former employers, too eager for the work that his employer hasn't the intention(打算)to let him do. One fact about Martin is that he never waits long to find a new job. Last month, he was fired again. Mr. King, the owner of a small shop hired him to paint his new house. He readily accepted the job without a word. When later Mr. King went to see how things were going on there, he couldn't find Martin. Instead he saw four workmen carefully painting the wall. “What's the matter?” he wondered.
“Hi, Mr. King!” he heard Martin's voice calling from behind. “They are working hard, aren't they?” Mr. King turned back. He saw Martin smiling at him.” What’s happened, Martin? And why are these workers here?”Mr. King asked.“I've hired them at 8 dollars for each man.”Martin told him happily.“But I will only pay 30 dollars for the whole work.”Mr. King couldn't understand.“I know, Mr. King. But just think. I only need to pay another two dollars and then can enjoy the happy feeling of being a boss. Isn't it worth the money?”
64Why is Martin often fired? Because he .
Ais too lazy Bhas few experiences Ctries to be a boss Doften acts against his employers' will
65Martin seems to be a .
Anarrowminded fellow Blighthearted man
Cman who is at loose ends Dperson full of fears
66Mr. King was when he saw four workers painting his house.
Ahappy Bangry Csatisfied Dsurprised
67The best title for the passage should be .
AMartin and Mr. King
BPainting a New House
CIt's Worth the Money
DReasonable or Not
D
The following table shows some results of a survey(调查)in which 800 Japanese school pupils were asked to give their impressions(印象)of their
classroom teachers. The pupils' impressions were found to differ depending on whether the teacher was new (with less than three years' experience),middlestanding (ten to twenty years), or a veteran (有经验的人)(twenty to thirty years). The numbers in the table show the percentage of the pupils who answered “very satisfied” or “extremely satisfied” for each question item(项目).
Question Items[]New[]MidddleStanding[]Veteran
1Shows a sense of humor in class
2Explains clearly
3Teaches in a relaxed(轻松)manner
4Writes neatly on the blackboard
5Lets pupils ask questions in class
6Makes checks and comments in notebooks
7Speaks loudly and clearly
8Treats all pupils equally
9Cares about pupils opinions
10Spends time with pupils between classes
[]434725
[]
[]442176
68As for Question Items ,pupils' evaluations (评价)can be said to rise at a steady rate(比率)as their teachers' experience increases.
A1 and 4
B3 and 5
C6 and 8
D9 and 10
69In contrast (对比)to the new teachers, the middlestanding and veteran teachers seem to have made a remarkable(明显)improvement in their ability to .
Abe fair to any pupil
Bevaluate pupils' progress
Cpresent materials clearly
Dunderstand and play with pupils
70Pupils seem to regard the new and the middlestanding teachers as being more than the veterans.
Arelaxed in class
Binterested in pupils' ideas
Cneat in appearance
Dskillful at explaining
71According to the table, which of the following is right?
AIn the new teachers' classes, pupils seem to ask questions more freely.
BPupils seem to be quite satisfied with the amount(量)of time their teachers spend with them between chasses.
CThe evaluation of the middlestanding teachers is lower than that of the veterans in seven items.
DThough veterans do not play games with pupils during breaks, their teaching is rated highly.
E
Do you find getting up in the morning so difficult that it's painful? This might be called laziness, but Dr. Kleitman has a new explanation. He has proved that everyone has a daily energy cycle.
During the hours when you labour through your work you may say that you're “hot”. That's true. The time of day when you feel most energetic is when your cycle of body temperature is at its peak(顶峰).For some people the peak comes during the forenoon. For others it comes in the afternoon or evening. No one has discovered why this is so, but it leads to such familiar words as :“Get up, John! You'll be late for work again!” The possible explanation to the trouble is that John is at his temperatureandenergy peak in the evening. Much family quarrelling ends when husbands and wives realize what these energy cycles mean, and which cycle each member of the family has.
You can't change your energy cycle, but you can learn to make your life fit it better. Habit can help, Dr. Kleitman believes. Maybe you're sleepy in the evening but feel you must stay up late anyway. Counteract(对抗)your cycle by staying up later than you want to. If your energy is low in the morning but you have an important job to do early in the day, rise before your usual hour. This won't change your cycle, but you'll get up steam(拿出干劲) and work better at your low point.
Get off to a slow start which saves your energy. Get up with a yawn(呵欠) and stretch (伸懒腰). Sit on the edge of the bed a minute before putting your feet on the floor. Whenever possible, do routine(常规的) work in the afternoon and save tasks requiring more energy for your sharper hours.
72If a person finds getting up early a problem, most probably.
Ahe is a lazy person
Bhe refuses to follow his own energy cycle
Che is not sure when his energy is low
Dhe is at his perk in the afternoon or evening
73Which of the following may lead to family quarrels according to the
passage?
AHaving no knowledge of energy cycle.
BA change in a family member's energy cycle.
CAttempts to control the energy cycle of other family members.
DThe laziness of the family members.
74If one wants to work more efficiently(有效地)at his low point in the morning, he should .
Achange his energy cycle
Bovercome his laziness
Cget up earlier than usual
Dgo to bed earlier
75You are advised to rise with a yawn and stretch because it will .
Ahelp to keep your energy for the day's work.
Bhelp you to control your temper early in the day
Cenable you to concentrate(专心)on your routine work
Dkeep your energy cycle under control all day
56A 57D 58B 59A 60B 61C 62C 63A 64D
65B 66D 67C 68B 69C 70B 71D 72D 73A
74C 75A
阅读理解
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
A
Dolphins (海豚) are not fish, but warm-blooded animals. They live in groups, and speak to each other in their own language. In this they are like other animals, such as bees and birds. But dolphins are very different from almost all land animals. Their brain is nearly the same size as our own, and they live a long time - at least twenty or thirty years.
Like some animals, dolpins use sound to help them find their way around. They also make these sounds to talk to each other and to help them find food. We now know they do not use their ears to receive these sounds, but the lower part of the mouth, called the jaw.
Strangely, dolphins seem to like man, and for thousands of years there have been stories about the dolphin and its friendship with people.
There is a story about sailors in the 19th century. In a dangerous part of the sea off the coast of New Zealand, they learnt to look for a dolphin called Jack. From 1871 to 1903 Jack met every boat in the area and showed it the way. Then in 1903 a passenger on a boat called The penguin shot and wounded Jack. He recovered and for nine years more continued to guide all ships through the area－except for The Penguin.
Today, some people continue to kill dolphins, but many countries of the world now protect them and in these places it is against the law to kill them.
56. Dolphins are different from many other animals in that they _____.
A. live in groups B. have large brains C. are warm-blooded D. have their own language
57. Which of the following does the dolphin use to help it find its way around?
A. Its nose. B. Its ears. C. Its mouth. D. Its eyes.
58. Why did the sailors off the coast of New Zealand look for Jack?
A. He was lonely and liked to be with people. B. They enjoyed playing with him.
C. He was seriously wounded. D. They wanted his help
59. By telling the story of Jack the writer wanted to show that _____.
A. dolphins are friendly and clever B. people are cruel to animals
C. Jack is different from other dolphins D. dolphins should be protected by law
B
Some time ago I discovered that one of my chairs had a broken leg. I didn't think there would be any difficulty in getting it mended, as there are a whole lot of antique(古董) shops near my home. So I left home one morning carrying the chair with me. I went into the first shop expecting a friendly reception(接待). I was quite wrong. The man wouldn't even look at my chair.
The second shop, though slightly more polite, was just the same, and the third and the fourth－so I decided that my approach must be wrong.
I entered the fifth shop with a plan in my mind. I placed the chair on the floor and said to the shopkeeper, "Would you like to buy a chair?" He looked it over carefully and said, "Yes, not a bad chair. How much do you want for it, sir?" "Twenty pounds," I said. "OK," he said, "I'll give you twenty pounds." "It's got a slightly broken leg," I said. "Yes, I saw that, it's nothing."
Everything was going according to plan and I was getting excited. "What will you do with it?" I asked. "Oh, it will be easy to sell once the repair is done." "I'll buy it," I said. "What do you mean? You've just sold it to me," he said. "Yes, I know but I've changed my mind. I am sorry. I'll give you twenty-seven pounds for it." "You must be crazy," he said. Then, suddenly the penny dropped. "I know what you want. You want me to repair your chair." "You're right," I said. "And what would you have done if I had walked in and said, ' Would you mean this chair for me?' " "I wouldn't have agreed to do it," he said. "We don't do repairs, not enough money in it and too much trouble. But I'll mend this for you, shall we say for a fiver?" He was a very nice man and was greatly amused(感到有趣) by the whole thing.
60. We can learn from the text that in the first shop the writer _____.
A. was rather impolite B. was warmly received
C. asked the shopkeeper to buy his chair D. asked the shopkeeper to repair his chair
61. The underlined word "approach" in the second paragraph means _____.
A. plan for dealing with things B. decision to sell things
C. idea of repairing things D. way of doing things
62. The expression "the penny dropped" in the last paragraph means the shopkeeper _____.
A. changed his mind B.accepted the offer
C. saw the writer's purpose D. decided to help the writer
63. How much did the writer pay?
A. ￡ 5. B. ￡ 7. C. ￡ 20. D. ￡ 27.
64. From the text, we can learn that the writer was _____.
A. honest B. careful C. smart D. funny
C
Most British telephone cards just plain green, but card collecting becoming a popular hobby in Britain and collectors even have their own magazine, International Telephone Cards. One reason for their interest is that cards from around the world come in a wide variety of different and often very attractive designs. There are 100,000 different cards in Japan alone, and there you can put your own design onto a blank (空白) card simply by using a photograph or a business card.
The first telephone cards, produced in 1976, were Italian. Five years later the first British card appeared, and now you can buy cards in more than a hundred countries. People usually start collecting cards because they are attractive, small and light, and they do not need much space. It is also a cheap hobby for beginners, although for some people it becomes a serious business. In Paris, for example, there is a market where you can buy only telephone cards, and some French cards cost up to 4,000 pounds. The first Japanese card has a value of about 28,000 pounds. Most people only see cards with prices like these in their collectors magazine.
65. The text is mainly about _____.
A. the history of phone cards B. phone card collecting as a hobby
C. reasons for phone card collecting D. the great variety of phone cards
66. When did people in Britain begin to use phone cards?
A. In 1971. B. In 1975. C. In 1976. D. In 1981.
67. The main reason for most people to collect phone cards is that _____.
A. they find the cards beautiful and easy to keep
B.they like to have something from different countries
C. they want to make money with cards
D. they think the cards are convenient to use
68. The writer mentions a market in Paris in order to show that _____.
A. card collecting is popular among young people B. French and Japanese cards are the most valuable
C. people can make money out of card collecting D. card collectors magazines are very useful
D
After a busy day of work and play, the body needs to rest. Sleep is necessary for good health. During this time, the body recovers from the activities of the day. The rest that you get while sleeping makes it possible for your body to prepare itself for the next day.
There are four levels of sleep, each being a little deeper than the one before. As you sleep, your body relaxes (放松) little by little. Your heart beats more slowly, and your brain slows down. After you reach the fourth level, your body shifts (变换) back and forth from one level of sleep to the other.
Tlthough your mind slows down, you will dream from time to time. Scientists who study sleep point out that when dreaming occurs, your eyeballs begin to move more quickly (although your eyelids are closed). This stage of sleep is called REM, which stands for rapid eye movement.
If you have trouble falling asleep, some people recommend (建议) breathing very slowly and very deeply. Other people believe that drinking warm milk will make you drowsy. There is also an old suggestion that counting sheep will put you to sleep.
69. The text suggests that not getting enough sleep might make you _____.
A. suffer from poor health B. feel tired and nervous
C. dream more often D. breathe quickly
70. During REM, _____.
A. you move restlessly B. you start dreaming
C. your mind stops working D. your eyeballs move quickly
71. The underlined word "drowsy" in the last paragraph probably means _____.
A. lazy B. sleepy C. relaxed D. pleased
72. A good title for this text might be _____.
A. Dreams B. Sleep C. Good Health D. Work and Rest
E
Many people imagine that cover-up means you don't get a tan. Nothing to show for your holiday. What a shame!
Not so. With Cover-up, you can get brown if you want to. The point of cover-up is to protect your skin from the damaging rays of the sun - the ones which, according to the doctors, make your skin look older.
That's what Solex Cover-up is all about - protection for your skin. It has a Sun Protection Factor of 8, which makes it suitable for anyone.
Find out how it works for you by referring to the Solex Sun Table. On sale wherever Solex is.
With Solex Cover-up, you can tan as slowly as you like. As gently as you like. And with much less chance of peeling (脱皮).
Your tan will look better. Your skin will stay young longer.
Solex Cover-up
Gentle tan... Full protection
73. The phrase "get a tan" in the first paragraph means "_____."
A. keep away from the sun on your holiday B. become darker because of sunshine
C. look younger after your holiday D. show you have been in the sun
74. Solex Cover-up can be used to _____.
A. protect your skin from sunburn B. cover yourself up on a windy beach
C. help you get a tan quickly D. help your skin peel gently
75. What is the main purpose of the text?
A.To advise people on how to protect their skin.
B.To warn people of the danger of sun rays.
C. To help sell Solex Cover-up.
D. To show how to get a tan.
56.B 57.C 58.D 59.A 60.D 61.D 62.C 63.A.64.C 65.B 66.D 67.A 68.C 69.A 70.D 71.B 72.B 73.B 74.A 75.C
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A
Be careful about those who use the truth to deceive. When someone tells you something that is true, but leaves out important information that should be included, he can create a false impression.
For example, someone might say, "I just won a hundred dollars on the lottery (彩票). It was great. I took that dollar ticket back to the store and turned it in for one hundred dollars!"
This guy's a winner, right? Maybe, maybe not. We then discover that he bought two hundred tickets, and only one was a winner. He's really a big loser!
He didn't say anything that was false, but he left out important information on purpose. That's called a half-truth. Half-truths are not technically lies, but they are just as dishonest.
Untrustworthy candidates (竞选者) in political campaigns often use this tactic (策略). Let's say that during Governor Smith's last term, her state lost one million jobs and gained three million jobs. Then she seeks another term. One of her opponents (对手) runs an ad saying, "During Governor Smith's term, the state lost one million jobs!" That's true. However an honest statement would have been, "During Governor Smith's term, the state had a net gain of two million jobs."
Advertisers will sometimes use half-truths. It's against the law to make false claims so they try to mislead you with the truth. An ad might say, "Nine out of ten doctors recommend Yucky Pills to cure nose pimples." It fails to mention that they only asked ten doctors and nine of them work for the Yucky Corporation.
This kind of deception happens too often. It's a sad fact of life: Lies are lies, and sometimes the truth can lie as well.
56. Which statement is true according to the article?
A. There is no 100-percent truth. B. A truth is as dishonest as a lie.
C. Lies are lies, and truths are lies, too. D. The truth can be used in dishonest ways.
57. The underlined word deceive is close in meaning to _____________.
A. pretend B. hide C. fool D. sell
58. The best title for this passage should be _____________.
A. A Special Lie B. How to Discover a Lie
C. Half-truths D. White Lies
B
The teachers below are looking for a holilday to suit their students. Read the descriptions of the students and those of the holidays, and then choose the best answer to each question.
Ms Robson's students are studying French and German. She would like to speak both languages at some point while they're away.
Hilary's students are fourteen years old. Some of them learn French, so she wants to find a holiday course which can offer individual (个别的) langauge lessons for those who would like to improve their French.
Rosie has a small group of students. They all want to sail but unfortunately some of them are unable to swim, although they're eager to learn.
Mr Pearson's class has just started to learn German but he wants a holiday which mixes studying the language with plenty of free time to explore the foreign country.
John has a class of eleven-year-olds who are crazy about sport. He'd like a course which organizes a complete programme including all kinds of sports, meals and entertainments.
1. 2
Summer Schools in the Czech Republic
Spend a week in a sports centre 15 minutes south of Prague. Each day’s programme is organized by our professional trainers for children aged 10—14. Prices include breakfast, lunch and dinner as well as sightseeing trips.
Summer In Austria
We will arrange a programme to suit your students. All our courses take place at the university in Linz. Morning classes are held in German, evening lectures on Austrian history are in English. We offer an exciting programme of evening activities including music, dance and theatre.
3. 4.
Greek Sailing Holidays
Arrive by air and then hire one of our new boats with all the latest equipment to sail around the Greek islands. These boats sleep up to twenty students and two teachers. Trained sailing staff are available but you must be able to swim.
Summer Courses in Finland
If you love water sports you’ll love our one-week sports holiday on the Finnish lakes. There are opportunities to swim, sail and water-ski. Lessons are available if you need them. There is also a chance to learn Finnish at no extra cost! Everyone welcome.
5. 6.
Touring In France
Fly to Paris and spend a few days sightseeing in this wonderful city before travelling on to Toulouse. All our tours have a French-speaking guide and accommodation is in comfortable hotels. Prices include breakfast and evening meal only.
Holiday Programmes in Germany
We offer morning classes in the German language at all levels from beginners upwards. In the afternoon you are free to join our mountain walks or to go shopping in the nearby town. In the evening we organize a full programme of entertainments. All ages welcome.
7. 8
Swiss Study Tours
Using the excellent railway system we off an unusual holiday, sport and study programme. Your hotel is a train: eat and sleep on board and spend each day in a different part of Switzerland.
Opportunities to speak French, German and Italian.
Summer School In France
We offer summer schools for students between the ages of 12 and 16. Live with a French family and choose from a range of different activities including horse-riding, indoor hocker, football, swimming and dry skiing. Private language lessons arranged if requested.
59. Which holiday is the most suitable for Mr. Robson's students?
A. 2 B. 6 C. 7 D. 8
60. John is most likely to choose _______ for his class.
A. 4 B. 3 C. 5 D.1
61. Holiday No.5 is suitable for ____________.
A. Hilary B. Mr. Robson C. Rosie D. none
62. Rosie will most probably choose ____ for her students.
A. 3 B. 4 C. 8 D. 7
C
Some inventions are so useful, but seem so simple, that we wonder why no one thought of them long ago. Post-it Notes - the pieces of paper that you can fasten almost anywhere and then remove without leaving any sign that they were there - are an example of such an invention.
Post-it Notes were invented about twenty years ago by Art Fry, a scientist at 3M Corporation. The idea for the product came from a frustrating (令人沮丧的) experience he often had while singing in his church choir（唱诗班）. Fry used pieces of paper as bookmarks to mark the places in his book of songs, but these bookmarks were always falling out. He knew he needed a bookmark that would stay where he put it, but that he could remove without damaging the pages.
Around that time, Fry heard about a new adhesive (粘合剂) that a colleague (同事), Dr. Spence Silver, had created. This adhesive was special because it was sticky, but not too sticky. It was strong enough to hold papers together, but weak enough to not tear the paper when it was removed. Fry saw that the new adhesive could help solve his bookmark problem. One morning, Fry put some of the adhesive on the edge of a piece of paper. Just as he hoped, it made a perfect bookmark..
A short time later, Fry realized that his new invention had even more uses than being a great bookmark. He came to this realization when he wrote a note on one of his new "bookmarks" and attached (附着) it to a report he was going to give to a colleague. Soon, co-workers were asking Fry for more samples of his invention so that they could use the new type of notes themselves.
Fry and some other people at 3M believed so much in the new product that they persuaded the company to give away thousands of the "sticky pieces of paper" for trial use. When some salespeople at 3M went to offices and showed workers just how helpful the new type of notes could be, they immediately received many orders. As more and more people discovered how useful Post-it Notes could be, the product took off.
63. The invention of Post-it Notes showed that Art Fry .
A. had a lot of knowledge B. was very hard-working
C. was good at creative thinking D. loved his job in the church
64. In what way did Dr. Spence help Art Fry?
A. They worked together and often discussed science.
B. His invention of a special adhesive made Art's invention possible.
C. He persuaded 3M Corporation to give away lots of Post-it Notes for tial use.
D. He cooperated with Art by providing the new adhesive for Art.
65. Which of the following is a possible use of Post-it Notes?
A. A note on a friend's door. B.An e-mail to a friend.
C. A postcard from abroad. D. An ad in a newspaper.
66. The underlined phrase "took off" means .
A. started to leave the ground B. disappeared from the market
C. had even more uses D. became popular very quickly
D
Read these two advertisements, and then answer the questions.
When you stretch out in the sun you can do one of three things.
You can use no sun tan oil. You can use an ordinary sun tan oil. Or you can use Bergasol.
If you don’t use any sun tan oil at all when you’re in sun that is stronger than you’re used to, you will burn surprisingly quickly.
If you use an ordinary sun tan oil you will protect your skin to a lesser or greater degree. How much depends on the ‘protection-factor (系数) number’ on the bottle.
Some of these oils block out so many of the sun’s rays you can stay in the sun all day without burning—but you won’t go very brown, either.
Bergasol will protect your skin like an ordinary sun tan oil. But Bergasol oil also has a tan accelerator (加速剂) which comes from the oil of the Bergamot fruit.
It speeds up the rate at which the sun acitvates the skin cells that produce melanin.
And it is melanin which gives the skin its brown colour.
So when you use Bergasol sun tan oil you go brown faster, and as the days pass the difference will become more and more obvious.
Unfortunately this special formulation isn’t cheap to prepare. So Bergasol is rather more expensive than ordinary sun tan oil.
However the price looks more attractive as you do.
bergasol
It makes you go brown faster
Protection
Many people imagine that ‘cover-up’ means you don’t get a tan. Nothing to show for your holiday. What a shame.
Not so. With ‘cover up’, you can get brown if you want to. The point of cover-up is to protect your skin from the harmful rays of the sun—the ones which, according to the experts, make your skin look older.
That’s what Solex Cover-up is all about—protection for your skin. It has a Sun Protection Factor of 8, which makes it suitable for anyone.
Find out how it works for you by consulting the Solex is.
With Solex Cover-up, you can tan as slowly as you like. As gently as you like. And with much less chance of peeling.
Your tan will look better. Your skin will stay young longer. Solex Cover-up.
Solex
Gentle tan…full protection
67. The underlined word "tan" is closest in meaning to ________________.
A. brown B. protection C. light D. health
68. Both Bergasol and Solex serve to ______________.
A. treat various kinds of skin disease B. help people enjoy the sun
C. help people get sun tan without being burnt D. paint the skin with a brown color
69. What's special about Bergasol?
A. It is more expensive than ordinary sun tan oil.
B. It has a tan accelerator that makes the skin go brown faster.
C. It has a protection-factor of 8, which makes it suitable for anyone.
D. It protects the skin from the harmful rays of the sun.
70. Which of the following decides how well your skin may be protected?
A. The price. B. Melanin. C. Cover-up. D. SPF number.
E
"It was all his own idea," says Pat Peters, the 38-year-old wife of Palo Alto, California high school football coach Bob Peters, 39. Bob had just drawn up a "motherhood contract"-a document (文件) stating that for 70 days this summer he would take over the care and feeding of the couple's four children, plus all household chores(杂务). Although he didn't even know how to make coffee when he signed, he was quite confident. (He thought the experience would make a nice book.)
After 40 of the 70 days, he was ready to give up. "I was beaten down, completely humbled," admits Peters. Three weeks later he spoke to the local press (also part of the bargain), stating, "Not only is motherhood a difficult task, not only is it never-ending, it is an impossible job for any normal human being."
Bob and Pat were high school sweethearts. After they were married in 1960, she worked as a secretary to help put him through university. Since then Bob has been the football and wrestling coach at Palo Alto's Cubberley High while Pat raised the kids.
Then two years ago Pat went back to work as a secretary at Cubberley. "I had been around children so much," she sighs (叹气), "I couldn't talk to a grown-up." She continued to run the household, however-until Bob signed the contract, whereupon she decided to relax and enjoy it.
Although Peters had consulted (咨询) with his school's home economics teachers and the head of the cafeteria (食堂), his meals were sometimes a disaster. "I tried to slip the butter I'd forgotten under the eggs after they were frying," he says. For the last three weeks, the family ate out a lot-sometimes having Macdonald's hamburgers for lunch and dinner.
As for housekeeping, a home economics teacher had told Bob that a room always looks clean if the bed is made. "I found an easier way-I shut the doors," he says. Soon the kids were wearing the same clothes for a week. "I made them wear their shirts inside out, and when we went to pick up Pat at work they turned them right side out so they would look clean."
Now that Bob has publicly admitted he was wrong, he is routinely (日常地) sharing the child-raising and household tasks with Pat. The tentative (暂定的) title of his book about the summer is taken from something he shouted at the kids one day: _______
71. The couple signed the contract because __________.
A. Pat complained a lot about her doing the housework all by herself
B. Bob loved taking care of children and wanted his wife to have a good rest
C. they agreed that husband and wife should share household tasks
D. Bob thought it easy to take care of the family and wanted the experience for a book
72. It was agreed that if Bob failed to keep to the contract, he would have to __________.
A. pay a certain amount of money
B. do all the housework for years
C. say sorry to his wife
D. admit publicly he was wrong about motherhood
73. What can we learn about Pat Peters?
A. She was hard-working and selfless.
B. She was pretty and kind-hearted.
C. She was tired of the child-raising and household tasks.
D. She did not love Bob any longer.
74. Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A. Bob managed to keep the kids' clothes clean.
B. Bob tried to cook good meals for his children.
C. Bob frequently took the kids out to eat because he was too busy at work.
D. Bob taught the kids to make their beds every day.
75. Which of the following can best end the news story?
A. "My experience of being a mother."
B. "I'm proud of you all, my dear!"
C. "Wait till your mother gets home!"
D. "Motherhood: an impossible job for anyone."
56~60 BBBCD 61~65 DBCBA 66~70 DACBD 71~75 DDABC
（15）
A
In America,drivers’ education is part of the regular high school curriculum.Every student in his or her second year of high school is required to take a class in driver’s education.However,
unlike other courses,it is not given during the regular school year.Instead it is a summer course.
The course is divided up into two parts:class time for learning laws and regulations and driving time to practise driving.Class time is not unlike any other class.The students have a text from which they study the basic laws they must know to pass the written driving test that is given to anyone wanting to get a driver’s license.
Driving time is a chance for the students to get behind the wheel (steering wheel) and practise starting steering,backing up,parking,switching lanes,turning corners,and all the other maneuvers (操作) required to drive a car.Each student is required to drive a total of six hours.The students are divided up into groups of four.The students and the instructor go out driving for twohour blocks of time.Thus,each student gets half an hour driving time per outing.The instructor and “driver” sit in the front seats and the other three students sit in the back.
Drivers Ed cars are unlike other cars in which they have two sets of brakes,one on the driver’s side and one on the other side where the instructor sits.Thus,if the student driver should run into difficulties the instructor can take over.The car also has another special feature.On the top of the car is a sign that reads:STUDENT DRIVER.That lets nearby drivers know that they should use extra caution(小心) because the student driver is a beginning driver,not very experenced and prone to driving slowly.
After the student has passed the driver’s education course and reached the appropriate age to drive(this age differs in every state but in most cases the person must be 16 years old),they can go to a designated state office to take their driver’s test,which is made up of an eye examination,a written test,and a road test.The person must pass all three tests in order to be given a driver’s license.If the person did well in his or her driver’s education class,he or she will pass the test with flying colors and get a driver’s license.
56.In America,the driver’s course mentioned above .
A.is considered as part of the advanced education
B.is given to anyone wanting to get a driver’s license
C.is carried on at the same time as other courses
D.is offered to all the students of Grade 2 in high schools
57.To prevent accidents,a drivers Ed car .
A.has a sign inside it B.has two sets of brakes
C.is big enough to hold five persons D.can’t run very fast
58.We can infer that the students are required to in their whole driving practice.
A.go out driving for tweleve times B.spend at least six hours driving
C.drive for twohour blocks of time D.get half an hour driving
59.Which of the following does not agree with the requirements for the students wanting to get their driver’s license?
A.They must be 16 years of age.
B.They should go to have their driver’s test.
C.They must have their eyes examined.
D.They ought to do well in their driver’s course.
60.In the last sentence,“with flying colors” means .
A.happily B.successfully C.colorfully D.quickly
B
Greenspace facilities (设施) are contributing to an important degree to the quality of the city environment.Fortunately it is no longer necessary that every lecture or every book about this subject has to start with the proof of this idea.At present it is generally accepted,although more as a self proved statement than on the base of a closely reasoned scientific proof.Recognizing the importance of greenspaces in the city environment is a first step on the right way,this does not mean,however,that enough details are known about the functions of greenspace in towns and about the way in which people are using these spaces.As to this subject I shall within the scope of this lecture,enter into one aspect(方面) only,namely the recreative function of greenspace facilities.
The theoretical separation of living,working,traffic and recreation which for many years has been used in town and country planning,has in my opinion resulted in more attention for forms of recreation far from home,while there was relatively little attention for improvement of recreative possibilities in the direct neighbourhood of the home.We have come to the conclusion that this is not right,because an important part of the time which we do not pass in sleeping or working,is used for activities at and around home.So it is obvious that recreation in the open air has to begin at the street door of the house.The city environment has to offer as many recreation activities as possible,and the design of these has to be such that more required activities can also have recreative aspect.
The very best standard of living is nothing if it is not possible to take a pleasant walk in the district,if the children cannot be allowed to play in the streets because the risks of traffic are too great,if during shopping you can nowhere find a spot for enjoying for a moment the nice weather,in short,if you only feel yourself at home after the street door of your house is closed after you.
61.The importance of greenspaces in the city environment .
A.has been recognized
B.is paid little attention to
C.is accepted on the base of scientific proof
D.is still unknown
62.For many years town and country planning has .
A.brought living areas and places of entertainment close together
B.separated recreation facilities far from home
C.improved recreative possibilities in the neighbourhood
D.enabled people to reach the best standard of living
63.According to the author,greenspaces should be designed .
A.to reduce the number of recreative activities
B.to attract more and more people
C.for people to use more conveniently
D.for people to do recreative activities at the street door of the house
64.The main idea of this passage is that .
A.attention must be paid to the improvement of recreation
B.greenspace facilities should be used better to improve the quality of life
C.the city environment is providing more recreative activites
D.we should try our best to raise our living standard
C
This is time of year when we think about giving and receiving presents.Can you find a little extra to give?On this page we suggest a few organizations you might like to help.
Littleton Children’s Home
We don’t want your money,but children’s toys,books and clothes in good condition would be very welcome.
Also — we are looking for friendly families who would take our children into their homes for a few hours or days as guests.You have so much—will you share it?
Phone Sister Thomas on 55671.
Children’s Hospice
We look after a small number of very sick children.This important work needs skill and love.We cannot continue without gifts of money to pay for more nursing staff.We also need story books and toys suitable for quiet games.
Please contact The Secretary,Little Children’s Hospice,Newby Road.
Street Food
In the winter weather,it’s no fun being homeless.It’s even worse if you’re hungry.We give hot food to at least fifty people every night.It’s hard work,but necessary.Can you come and help?If not,can you find a little money?We use a very old kitchen,and we urgently need some new saucepans.Money for new ones would be most welcome indeed.
Contact Street Food,c/o Mary’s House,Elming Way.Littleton Phone 27713.
Littleton Youth Club
Have you got an unwanted chair?—a recordplayer?—a pot of paint?
Because we can use them!
We want to get to work on our meeting room!
Please phone 66231 and we’ll be happy to collect anything you can give us.
Thank you!
The Night Shelter
We offer a warm bed for the night to anyone who has nowhere to go.We rent the former Comercial Hotel on Green Street.Although it is not expensive,we never seem to have quite enough money.Can you let us have a few pounds?Any amount,however small,will be such a help.
Send it to us at 15,Green St,Littleton.Please make check payable to Night Shelter.
65.Reading the passage,you might like to help these organizations which work for .
A.homeless and sick children
B.less fortunate members of our society
C.hungry people who have no beds to sleep in
D.friendly members of our society to help others
66.If you like children and you could offer a happy family to a homeless child,you may go to .
A.Street Food B.Night Sheleter
C.Children’s Home D.Children’s Hospice
67.We can infer that .
A.there are too many social problems in this country
B.people are very poor during the time for giving
C.warmhearted people like to give away money
D.this passage is taken from a local newspaper
68.If you want to help but you have no extra to give,you may dial and offer your help.
A.27713 B.55671 C.62735 D.66231
69.If your child has grown up,you may take the child’s things to .
A.Children’s Home and Children’s Hospice
B.Youth Club and Children’s Home
C.Children’s Hospice and Night Shelter
D.Youth Club and Night Sheltter
D
This is a true story.Rex White knows too many seamen’s stories to want to add to them.Besides,this happened on land.It happened in Lytham,a town on the River Ribble,near to the place where the river flows into the Irish Sea.The shape of the trees along the Lytham beach road is proof of the great strength of the wind which comes in off the sea.It blows hard across the grass,the car-parks and the open road beside the river,and there is nothing to stop it.Rex White was a ship’s pilot.It was his job to guide ships up the river,between banks of sand,into the port of Preston.Mr White lived in a village some kilometers from the coast,so he had to drive to Lytham and leave his car in one of the car-parks beside the river.Then he used to row out to the pilot boat,and await the particular ship that it was his duty to guide.
Early one morning,Mr White returned to Lytham from a night on duty,to find that he could not start his car.He had driven from his village the evening before,and had left his car in the car-park as usual.He had rowed out to the pilot boat,and gone on board the S.S.Kilkenny,which was on her way from Ireland.Then,in the early hours of the following morning,he had returned to Lytham in the pilot boat,expecting to drive home to a cup of hot chocolate and a warm bed.But no matter what he did,he could not get the engine to sart.
It was a cold and windy night;there was no one about,and here was no garage open to which he could turn for help.He was just about to give up,and spend the rest of the night on the back seat of the car,when he had a bright idea.He pushed his car round so that it was facing in the direction of the wind,opened all four doors,pushed it along a short way,and then jumped in.The doors acted like sails,and in no time the wind had taken him right out of the car-park,and away down the beach road.When he tried the starter-switch once more,the engine roared to life immediately.All he had to do then was to stop the car and shut the doors.
He went to bed later than usual,but he did not go without his cup of hot chocolate.Mr White was not a seaman for nothing.
70.We can tell how strong the wind is along the beach road,by .
A.the way the river flows into the Irish Sea
B.the fact that the open road is beside the river
C.looking at the shape of the trees
D.remembering that this is a true story
71.“There is nothing to stop it” means .
A.the wind always blows strongly without stopping
B.there is nothing in its way to break the force of the wind
C.there is nothing anyone can do to stop the wind blowing
D.the cars do not find it easy to stop on the open road
72.Because he did not live in Lytham,he had to .
A.drive some kilometres to work each day
B.row out some kilometres from the coast
C.travel by pilot boat from Preston to Lytham
D.work during the night and sleep during the day
E
During the fourth China Beijing High-tech Industries Week,exhibitions,feature presentations,
technological exchanges and trade talks,and other events are organized.
Exhibitions:
·China International Exhibition Centre
*Section for China’s key science and technology achievements of the Ninth Five-Year Plan(1996~2000).
*Environmental protection and energy section.
*Section for exhibitiors from other provinces and municipalities(自治市) and regions of China.
·China World Trade Centre
*Exchange and Trade Fair for Science and Technology Books and Sports Information Media.
*The Trade Fair for Modern Intelligent Houses and Beijing Urban Real Estate.
·China Millenium Monument
*Forum(论坛) and Exhibition of Foreign Sci-tech Universities.
·China Agricultural Culture Centre
*High-tech Construction Products Exhibition.
Feature Presentation:
·Science and Education
*Scientists Forum on the New Century.
·High-tech Industry
*Forum on Environmental Protection.
*2001 Forum on Bio-technology on Traditional Chinese Medicine and Natural Medicine.
Technical Exchanges and Trade Talks:
·Trade talks on financial capital transformation
·Sino-Italian Forum and Trade Fair for the Development of IT and Communications Technology
73.If you want to know more about the high-tech achievements of different parts of China,you should go to .
China World Trade Centre B.China Millenium Monument
C.China International Exhibition Centre D.China Agricultural Cultural Centre
74.These sessions mark the achievements of mankind in the fields of .
A.electronic communications,energy and education
B.sports technology,film-industry and environmental protection
C.network technology,high-tech industries and traffic
D.medicine,weather broadcast and finance
75.The advertisement is mainly about .
A.the major activities of the high-tech week
B.the time-table of high-tech week
C.the names of the meeting places
D.the topic of trade talks
56~60 DBAAB61~65 ABCBB 66~70 CDAAC 71~75 BACAA
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A
Please be advised that Nairobi like any other large city has a security and crime problem.However,if you observe the following simple guidelines you will stay and have a trouble—free seminar（研讨会）:
1.Do not wear a money belt.This makes you a instant target.
2.Gameras of all kinds are a favourite with snatchers.Feel free to use them within the Starehe Campus and the hotel grounds but not in the streets.
3.Ladies handbags are also a regular snatch.Avoid carrying one,and if you must,be alert and hold on to it tightly.
4.Jewellery and even glasses with valuable frames are also often targeted.Bear this in mind.
5.When in a vehicle keep the doors always locked,and the windows only slightly open—especially at traffic lights,junctions and in slow moving traffic.
6.Beware of street children,their begging often quickly transforms into something more unpleasant.
7.Stay with the main party all the time,and avoid wandering off on your own.
8.Finally,the best defence is to be alert at all times and conscious of your environment.
Should you have any problem,query or need help at any hour of the day or night call any of the following and they will do their best for you:
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56.This selection must be delivered by .
A.the Nairobe city government B.the police of the Nairobe Airport
C.the organizer of the seminar D.Kennedy Hongo,a detective
57.After reading this notice,visitors to Nairobe might gain an impression that .
A.Fred Okono and his fellow workmates are very kind and helpful
B.Nairobe is a large city which is very developed
C.the crime problem is very serious in the city of Nairobe
D.they should not have paid a visit to Nairobe,and should buy a ticket back immediately
58.The notice tells us that .
A.something unpleasant could happen to you if you use a camera during the seminar
B.ladies must not wear handbag or any jewellery
C.in the hotels of Nairobe,it might be dangerous to stay in a single room
D.everything will be OK if you always watch out and are clear about the surroundings
B
With only about 1,000 pandas left in the world,China is desperately trying to clone （克隆）the animal and save the endangered species（物种）.That’s a move similar to what a Texas A & M University researchers have been undertaking for the past five years in a project called “Noah’s Ark.”
Noah’s Ark is aimed at collecting eggs,embryos（胚胎）,semen and DNA of endangered animals and storing them in liquid nitrogen.If certain species should become extinct,Dr.Duane Kraemer,a professor in Texas A & M’ s College of Veterinary Medicine,says there would be enough of the basic building blocks to reintroduce the species in the future.
It is estimated that as many as 2,000 species of mammals,birds reptiles will become extinct in over 100 years.The panda,native only to China,is in danger of becoming extinct in the next 25 years.
This week,Chinese scientists said they grew an embryo by introducing cells from a dead female panda into the egg cells of a Japanese white rabbit.They are now trying to implant the embryo into a host animal.
The entire procedure could take from three to five years to complete.
“The nuclear transfer（核子移植）of one species to another is not easy,and the lack of available (capable of being used) panda eggs could be a major problem,”Kraemer believes.“They will probably have to do several hundred transfers to result in one pregnancy (having a baby).It takes a long time and it’s difficult,but this could be groundbreaking science if it works.They are certainly not putting any live pandas at risk,so it is worth the effort,”adds Kraemer,who it one of the leaders of the Project at Texas A & M,the first-ever attempt at cloning a dog.
“They are trying to do something that’s never been done,and this is very similar to our work in Noah’s Ark.We’re both trying to save animals that face extinciton.I certainly appreciate their effort and there’s a lot we can learn form what they are attempting to do.It’s a research that is very much needed.”
59.The aim of “Noah’s Ark”project is to .
A.make efforts to clone the endangered pandas
B.save endangered animals from dying out
C.collect DNA of endangered animals to study
D.transfer the nuclear of one animal to another
60.According to Professor Kraemer,the major problem in cloning pandas would be the lack to .
A.available panda eggs B.host animals C.qualified researchers D.enough money
61.The best title for the passage may be .
A.China’s Success in Pandas Cloning
B.The First Cloned Panda in the World
C.Exploring the Possibility to Clone Pandas
D.China—the Native Place of Pandas Forever
62.From the passage we know that .
A.Kraemer and his team have succeeded in cloning a dog
B.scientists try to implant a panda’s egg into a rabbit
C.Kraemer will work with Chinese scientists in clone researches
D.about two thousand of species will probably die out in a century
C
The common cold is the world’s most widespread illness,which is plagues （疫病）that flesh receives.
The most widespread fallacy（谬误）of all is that colds caused by cold.They are not.They are caused by viruses（病毒）passing on from person to person.You catch a cold by coming into contact,directly or indirectly,with someone who already has one.It cold causes colds,it would be reasonable to expect the Eskimos to suffer from them forever.But they do not.And in isolated arctic regions explorers have reported being free from colds until coming into contact again with infected people from the outside world by way of packages and mail dropped from airplanes.
During the First World War soldiers who spent long periods in the trenches （战壕）,cold and wet,showed no increased tendency to catch colds.
In the Second World War prisoners at the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp（奥斯维辛集中营）,naked and starving,were astonished to find that they seldom had colds.
At the Common Cold Research Unit in England,volunteers took part in Experiments in which they gave themselves to the discomforts of being cold and wet for long stretches of time.After taking hot baths,they put on bathing suits,allowed themselves to be with cold water,and then stood about dripping wet in drafty room.Some wore wet socks all day while others exercised in the rain until close to exhaustion.Not one of the volunteers came down with a cold unless a cold virus was actually dropped in his nose.
If,then,cold and wet have nothing to do with catching colds,why are they more frequent in the winter?Despite the most pains—taking research,no one has yet found the answer.One explanation offered by scientists is that people tend to stay together indoors more in cold weather than at other times,and this makes it easier for cold viruses to be passed on.
No one has yet found a cure for the cold.There are drugs and pain suppressors（止痛片）such as aspirin,but all they do is to relieve the symptoms（症状）.
63.The writer offered examples to support his argument.
A.4 B.5 C.6 D.3
64.Which of the following does not agree with the chosen passage?
A.The Eskimos do not suffer from colds all the time.
B.Colds are not caused by cold.
C.People suffer from colds just because they like to stay indoors.
D.A person may catch a cold by touching someone who already had one.
65.Arctic explorers may catch colds when .
A.they are working in the isolated arctic regions
B.they are writing reports in terribly cold weather
C.they are free from work in the isolated arctic regions
D.they are coming into touch again with the outside world
66.Volunteers taking part in the experiments in the Common Cold Research Unit .
A.suffered a lot B.never cuaght colds
C.often caught colds D.became very strong
67.The passage mainly discusses .
A.the experiments on the common cold
B.the fallacy about the common cold
C.the reason and the way people catch colds
D.the continued spread of common colds
D
Is language,like food,a basic human need?Judging from the result of the violent experiment by a German king.Frederick Ⅱ,in the 13th century,it may be.Hoping to discover what language a child would speak if the heard no mother tongue,he told the nurses to keep silent.
All the babies died before the first year.But clearly there was more than language deprivation here.What was missing was good mothering.Without good mothering,in the first year of life especially,the capacity to survive is seriously affected.
Today no such violent deprivation exists as that ordered by Frederick Ⅱ.Nevertheless,some children are still backward in speaking.Most often the reason for this is that the mother is insensitive（不敏感）to the signals of the baby,whose brain is programmed to map up language rapidly.There are critical times,it seems,when children learn more readily.If these sensitive periods are neglected（忽视）,the ideal time for gaining language skills passes and they might never be learned so easily again.
Linguists（语言学家）suggest that speech stages are reached in a fixed sequence（顺序）and at a constant age,but there are cases where speech has started late in a child who eventually turn out to be of high IQ.
Recent facts suggest that baby is born with the capacity to speak.What is special about Man’s brain,compared with that of the monkeys,is the complex system which enables a child to connect the sight and feel of,say,a teddy-bear（玩具熊）with the sound pattern“teddy-bear”.
But speech has to be stimulated（刺激）,and this depends on interaction between the mother and the child,where the mother recognizes the signals in the child’s babbling（牙牙学语）,grasping,crying and smiling,and responds to them.Insensitivity（不敏感）of the mother to these signals dulls（使迟钝）the interaction because the child gets discouraged and sends out only the obvious signals.Sensitivity to the child’s non-verbal signals in essential to the growth and development of language.
67.Frederick II’s experiment was violent because .
A.he wanted to prove children are born with ability to speak
B.he paid no attention to the importance of mothering to the infant
C.he was unkind to the nurses
D.he wanted his nurses to say no mother tongue
68.The reason some children are backward in speaking today is that .
A.their mothers do not respond to their attempts to speak
B.their mothers are not intelligent enough to help them
C.they do not listen carefully to their mothers
D.their brains have to absorb too much language at once
69.By critical times in Paragraph 3 the author means .
A.difficult periods in the child’s life
B.moments when the child becomes critical to its mother
C.important stages in the child’s development
D.times when mothers often neglect their children
70.Which of the following is NOT implied in the passage?
A.Ability to learn to speak a language is inborn in man.
B.Children do not need to be encouraged to learn to speak.
C.Early language starters are not necessarily highly intelligent.
D.Most children learn their language in definite stages.
E
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71.What is this passage mainly about?
A.How people should keep fit. B.A healthy diet program.
C.Some healthy people. D.Ways to lose weight.
72.What does the phrase“lose inches”mean in the passage?
A.Become shorter. B.Become taller.
C.Become fatter. D.Become thinner.
73.What is the aim of this diet program?
A.To keep healthy first and to lose weight second.
B.To lose weight as much as possible.
C.To lose weight at the cost of the health.
D.To lose weight first and to keep healthy second.
74.Which of the following is NOT true?
A.This program makes a change in your lifestyle.
B.This program can stop you from feeling hungry all the time.
C.This program allows you 1700 to 2000 calories for each meal.
D.The pictures above show what great progress the man and the lady have made in losing weight.
75.If you “Click Here”,what will you read on the Internet?
A.Some other programs. B.The content of this program.
C.Some interesting foods. D.Some products you can buy.
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Moscow,Russia(Space news)-"The computer is a better chess player,"insisted Viktor Prozorov,the loser." It seemed as if it were laughing after every good move.I know I should have beaten it for the sake of mankind(为人类着想），but I just couldn't win," he announced and shook his head sadly.
Prozorov's disappointment was shared by several grand masters who were present,some of whom were so upset that they shouted at the machine.Many chess players said that this meant the end of chess championships(锦标赛）around the world,since the fun had been taken out of the game.
The computer walked－or rather,rolled-away with 5,000 dollars in prize money and limited its remarks to a set of noises and light.
56.Which of the following best gives the main idea of this newspaper article?
A.5,000 dollars goes to a computer! B.New invention a laughing computer!
C.World's best chess player beaten! D.Computer defeats man in chess!
57.How did some of the grand masters feel about the chess game between Prozorov and the computer?
A.They thought that the game was no fun. B.They thought that the game wasn't fair.
C.They agreed that Prozorov didn't play well. D.They were unhappy that the computer had won.
58.What was it that Prozorov felt most bitter(懊恼)about?
A.That he didn't win the$5,000. B.That he hadn't tried his best.
C.That he had lost to a machine. D.That this was the end of the chess game.
59.After winning the game,the computer_____.
A.laughed B.walked away C.made some remarks D.gave out some lights and sounds
60.Many chess players felt that playing with a computer would_____.
A.make the game tougher B.make the game less interesting C.make man appear foolish
D.make man lose lots of
B
Extract 1
A computer
A computer is an "information processor".It is given information,called "data",instructed to do certain things and then show us the results.The data put into the computer is called the"input" and the results which come out are the "output".Some people say the circle of large standing stones at Stonechenge is a kind of computer.Prehistory people worked out their calendar from the position of the shadows made by the sun shining on the stones.
Extract 2
Teach yourself new subjects and skills at your own pace with a home computer.Use it to help with schoolwork,for self-improvement,even to improve your career skills.Learn touchtyping.
Foreign languages or computer programming.A home computer can help children of all ages learn classroom subjects such as spelling,geography and others.In fact it makes learning fun.So if you want to teach yourself,or help your children teach themselves-get a home computer.It can also help you manage your personal finances(经济）or help you to work taxes and plan household budgets(预算）.You can make business a pleasure with a home computer.
61.The writer introduces the words such as "input" and "output" in order to_____.
A.introduce people to computer language B.show computer language is the same as English
C.help people some scientific language D.give people some scientific language
62.Why does the writer talk about Stonechenge in Extract 1?
A.To give an example of the very first computer. B.To show that computers are older than mankind.
C.To tell the difference between the past and the present. D.To give another very of explaining computers.
63.If you think of the circle of large standing stones as a computer,_____.
A.the shadow is the input and the position is the output B.the sunlight is the input and the calendar is the output
C.the position is the input and the sunlight is the output D.the calendar is the input and the shadow is the output
64.Extract 2 is probably taken from_____.
A.a computer textbook B.a company's advertisement
C.a teach-yourself computer book D. a children's guide to computers
C
When did you last see a polar bear(北极熊）?On a trip to a zoo,perhaps?If you had attended a winter activity in New York a few years ago,you would have seen a whole polar bear club.These "Polar Bears" are people who meet frequently in the winter to swim in freezing cold water.That day,the air temperature was 3℃,and the water temperature was a little higher.The members of the Polar Bear Club at Coney Island,New York are usually about the age of 60.Members must satisfy two requirements.First,they must get along well with everyone else in the group;this is very important because there are so many different kinds of people in the club.Polar Bears must also agree to swim outdoors at least twice a month from November through February.
Dcotors don't agree about the medical effects of cold-winter swimming.Some are worried about the dangers of a condition in which the body's temperature drops so low that finally the heart stops.Other doctors,however,point out that there is more danger of a heart attack during summer swimming because the difference between the air temperature and water temperature is much greater in summer than in winter.
The Polar Bears themselves are satisfied with the benefits of cold-water swimming.They say that their favorite form of exercise is very good for the circulatory system(循环系统）because it forces the blood to move fast to keep the body warm.Cold-water swimmers usually turn bright red after a few minutes in the water.A person who turns blue probably has a very poor circulatory system and should not try cold-water swimming.
The main benefits of cold-water swimming are probably mental.The Polar Bears love to swim all year round;they find it fun and relaxing.As one 70-year-old woman says,"When I go into water,I pour my troubles into the ocean and let them float away."
65.The members of the Polar Bear Club must meet the following requirements except that_____.
A.they must swim outdoors at least 8 times in the four cold months
B.they must reach the age of 60
C.they should be easy to make friends with
D.they must agree to swim outdoors from November through February
66.According to the passage,some doctors believe it is true that_____.
A.Polar Bears are bears swimming in freezing water
B.cold-water swimming can make the body temperature dangerously high
C.you are healthy if cold-water swimming turns your skin color blue
D.cold-water swimming causes more heart attacks in summer than in winter
67.The Polar Bears like to swim year-round,for_____.
A.it is an easy way ot keep the body warm in winter
B.they can remain young
C.they find it enjoyable and interesting
D.they might meet fewer troubles in life
68.The passage is mainly about_____.
A.the requirements of the Polar Bear Club
B.a group of cold-water-swimming livers
C.the Polar Bears' life in New York
D.doctors' ideas about cold-water swimming
D
Swimming is one of those activities that can be learned early in life.Little children can learn to swim as soon as they walk.In fact,you need the same skills in walking as in swimming. However,I believe that five is the best age to learn.By five or six,a child knows fear of water,a very important thing to know.It's wise to be afraid,to recognize true danger.Young ones understand that the water can sometimes be very dangerous.
To really benefit from swimming,every swimmer should learn,as soon as possible,these four basic strokes;butterfly,backstroke,breastroke,and crawl.I feel that one of these-the breaststroke-is different from the others,since some young swimmers use this stroke naturally,without any training.
In swimming there are certain rules every swimmer should follow:
1.Never swim alone!No matter how good you are in the water,don't risk drowning by swimming alone.If you swim by yourself,with no life guards or friends with you,you may get into trouble.
2.Don't go beyond your abilities.Most swimmers know enough not to swim too far from the bank or the beach,Showing off by doing dangerous tricks is no good.
Swim safely and you will continue to swim and alive.
3.Don't smoke.Swimming depends on a healthy body;good lungs are part of it.
4.Work at any activity that builds muscles.
69.Little children can learn to swim as soon as _____.
A.they can talk B.they start walking C.they have no fear of the water
D.they are five or six years old
70.The author believes that fear of water is_____.
A.stupid B.sensible C.dangerous D.not smart
71.The stroke that some young swimmers use first is_____.
A.Picture(1) B.Picture(2) C.Picture(3) D.Picture(4)
72.According to the passage,you should not swim alone because_____.
A.the water is too cold B.your parents would not be happy
C.something in the water might attack D.you might drown
E
Is there a difference in meaning between"It's too late to make a telephone.Mary is asleep now." and "It's too late to telephone.Mary will be asleep now？"
Yes.The difference is in the reason given for it being too late to telephone.In the first sentence"Mary is asleep now",the speaker is stating a fact.In the second sentence"Mary will be asleep now," the speaker is saying what Mary usually does.In fact,it's possible that Mary isn't asleep,but she is usually asleep at this time.
So let's take two situations.In the first case,imagine Mary's mother answers the telephone.
You:"May I speak to Mary,please?"
Mother:"No.It's too late.Mary is asleep now."
You:" Are you sure?It's only 10 o'clock."
Mother:" Yes.I went to her room and she was asleep."
The mother knows that Mary is asleep because she went into her room and saw her.
Here is another case.Two friends decide to telephone Mary.
Jack:"Let's telephone Mary.It's 10 o'clock."
Jill:"No,It's too late.She will be asleep now."
Jill knows that Mary always goes to bed before 10 o'clock ,so now she'll probably be asleep.But it is also possible that she is staying up late.
73.In the first situation,Mary's mother_____.
A.wants to tell you that she knows Mary is asleep B.knows that Mary was asleep
C.has no idea whether Mary is asleep or not D.wants to know if she can take a message for Mary
74.In the second situation,Jill_____.
A.knows that Mary has gone to bed B.doesn't know that Mary is asleep
C.thinks it's likely that Mary cannot answer the telephone D.is sure that Mary can not answer the telephone
75.According to the teacher,in which situation do you think the word "will" is used in the same way Jill uses it?
A.It's too heavy,I think.I'll help you. B.Don't get into his office.He will be angry now.
C.You won't have to come to my office.I will send it to you. D.Will you please do me a favor?
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A
TERNANG,Mon—More than 10 000 people were made homeless in Ternang when the Sungai Mas overflowed its banks yesterday after six days of continuous heavy rain.
Flooding first appeared at mid-afternoon yesterday along the river banks.People straggling higher ground were just in time to get away from the destroy of the flood.Most of the flood victims had to leave their possessions behind.
The flood victims are now housed in various make-shift relief centers in the nearby town of Tulang.“Everything possible is being done to help the unfortunate people.”A government spokesman said,“In fact,money,food and clothing have begun to come in from public-spirited organizations and generous persons.”
According to latest reports it is still raining heavily at Ternang.The whole town is expected to be totally covered by water.So far no casualty has been reported.
56.According to the latest report .
A.it had been raining for six days
B.more than 10 000 people had no place to live
C.the town had already been totally flooded
D.the government tried its best to help the homeless people
57.With the help of the government,the flood victims .
A.were safe at higher place B.got everything they needed
C.lived comfortably in the relief centers D.were brought to Tulang within three hours
58.The word “casualty”in the last sentence means .
A.the house that is being built B.the money that is given to the victims
C.the person killed or injured in an accident D.the things lost in the flood
B
Glynis Davis:
I first piled on the ponds when I was in the family way and I couldn’t lose them afterwards.Then I joined a slimming club.My target was 140 pounds and I lost 30 pounds in six months.I felt great and people kept saying how good I looked.But Christmas came and I started to slip back into my old eating habits.I told myself I’d lose the weight at slimming classes in the new year…but it didn’t happen.Instead of losing the pounds.I put them on.I’d lost willpower and tried to believe that the old bage of fish and chips didn’t make any difference but the scales don’t lie.
Roz Juma:
To be honest,I never weigh myself any more I’ve leant to be happy with myself.It seemed to me that I would feel sorry about every spoonful of tasty food that passed my lips.My idea is simple.You shouldn’t be too much thinking about food and dieting.Instead,you should get on with life and stop dreaming of a supper-thin body.This is obviously the size I’m meant to be and,most of all.I’m happy with it.
Lesley Codwin:
I was very happy about winning Young Silmmer of the Year.I’d look in the mirror unable to believe this slim lady was me!That might have been my problem——perhaps from then on I didn’t pay any attention to myself.Winning a national competition makes everything worse,though,because you feel the eyes of the world are fixed upon you.I feel a complete failure because I’ve put on weight again.
Ros Langfod:
Before moving in with my husband Gavin,I’d always been about 110 pounds,but the pleasant housework went straight to my waist and I put on 15 pounds in a year.Every so often I try to go on a diet …I’m really good on a few days,then end up having the children’s leftovers or eating happily chocolate——my weakness.I’d like to be slim,but right now my duty is the children and home.I might take more exercise when my kids are older.
59.What do you think the four women were all talking about?
A.Their own slimming matter. B.Their life after marriage.
C.Their work as a housewife. D.Different diets they prefer.
60.Where are these short passage most likely to be taken from?
A.Talks on the air. B.Advertisements on the well.
C.Book in a library. D.Magazines for children.
61.What does the underlined word “scales”possibly mean?
A.The coach（教练）in the slimming club.
B.Some tool to measure weight.
C.Glynis Davis’ dear husband.
D.The salesperson in a food shop.
62.Which of the following best describes each of the four women’s attitudes towards slimming?
1.Glynis Davis a.I put on weight soon after got married
2.Ros Jums b.Fame（名声）doesn’t necessarily mean success
3.Leslcy Gowin c.Facts speak much louder than words
4.Ros landford d.I like myself as I am,and to be what you are
A.1-c;2-d;3-b;4-a B.1-c;2-b;3-d;4-a C.1-d;2-a;3-b;4-c D.1-a;2-b;3-c;4-d
C
Chinese basketball players have never been so close to the NBA before but questions remain about how they will adjust to life in the NBA if they go.
Wang Zhizhi,the 2.16-metre center for the Bayi Rockets who was chosen by the Dallas Mavericks two years ago,has finally received permission from authorities to travel to Dallas to play for the rest of the NBA season after he finishes playing in the Chinese Basketball Association’s finals on March 25th.If he has no problems with his visa(签证),Wang will be the NBA’s first Asian player.Wang was chosen by the Mavericks in the second round of the 1999 draft but the Rockets,and army-run club,refused to let him go.After negotiations（谈判）between the Rockets and NBA representatives（代表）,the decision was made to allow Wang the chance to try his hand at American basketball,but only for a period of short time.He has to be back to play in the Ninth National Games in November in Guangzhou.
Another center who has attracted attention from the NBA is Yao Ming,the 2.25-meter star who has led to the Shanghai Sharks into the finals fight with the Rockets this year.The 20-year-old’s NBA dreams might be harder to realize.Yao is the center of the Sharks and the club’s manager Bei Genyuan has said that he would allow Yao to go only at a proper time,for a proper team and under proper conditions.
Yao hasn’t been chosen yet and it is unlikely that he will be any time soon.People in the Shark’s front office earlier told members of the press that “it is not proper for Yao to attend the draft this year”because he has to represent Shanghai in the Ninth National Games.
Even if Wang and Yao make it to the promised land of basketball at last,analysts on both sides of the Pacific have said the NBA road will be a long one for both of them.Besides needing to work on their upper body strength,Wang and Yao will also have to adapt（适应）to the speed,techniques and above all,culture of the NBA.
63.Yao Ming has attracted attention from NBA because .
A.he is 2.25 metres tall,who is the tallest basketball player in China
B.he is the center of the Shanghai Sharks and has led Sharks into the final fight with the Rockets
C.he is regarded as the best basketball player in China
D.he is thought highly of in the international world
64.Yao Ming can play for NBA if .
A.there is no problem with his visa
B.NBA agrees to supply favorable conditions for him
C.time and conditions are proper
D.NBA can pay a large sum of money for Sharks
65.The underlined phrase“try his hand”in the passage probably means .
A.初试身手 B.碰碰运气 C.成为一员 D.为其效劳
66.NBA chose Wang Zhizhi so that .
A.it can show NBA need talents B.Wang Zhizhi can have a bright future
C.its whole level will be improved D.it can make Wang Zhizhi world-famous
67.When Wang Zhizhi plays in NBA,he will have to adapt to many things of NBA except . A.rules of basketball B.the speed
C.culture D.techniques
D
Antigua and Barbuda is the 32nd independent (独立的)nation in Latin America.It lies in the Caribbean Sea about 700 kilometers from South America,between Dominica on the west and Guadeloupe on the southeast.Antigua is the main island on which is its capital Saint John.The other two islands are Barbuda and Aedonda.The total area is about 441 square kilometers with a population of 80 thousand.Antigua was first discovered by Columbus in 1493.It was named after a Spanish church in Seville.The Spanish and the French had tried to settle in the place but were not successful.It later fell into the British hand and became a colony（殖民地）for more than three hundred years.It declared independence on November 1,1981.Its main agricultural products are cotton and sugar-cane.But about one third of its national income is from tourism（旅游）.English is the language spoken in the country.
The United Nations accepted it as its 157th member state on November 11,1981.
68.The Europeans discovered Antigua .
A.in 1981 B.in the 19th century C.300 years ago D.over 500 years ago
69.Which of the following is true according to the article?
A.The Spanish and French wanted to divide these islands between them.
B.The Spanish and the French made peace on these islands.
C.The British got to these islands before the Spanish.
D.The Spanish and the French tried to go and live there but failed.
70.Which of the following is wrong according to the article?
A.Seville is a city in Spain.
B.At the beginning of the 1980’s there were more than one hundred and fifty member states in the UN.
C.The British came to these islands earlier than the Spanish.
D.Antigua and Barbuda was ruled by the British for a long time.
71.From this article we can conclude .
A.Antigua and Barbuda is the last country accepted by the United Nations
B.A citizen may look November 1 as his own independent day in Antigua and Barbuda
C.November 1 must be the national day of Antigua and Barbuda
D.English,Spanish and French are widely used by the government
E
One evening Mr.Green was driving in his car along a lonely country road.He had been to London where he had drawn ￡ 50 from the bank,and he was now returning home with the money which he had put in his pocket book.At the loneliest part of the road a man in shabby,badly-fitting clothes stopped him and asked for a lift.Mr.Green told him to get into the car and continued on his way.As he talked to the man he learned that he had been in prison for robbery and had broken out of prison two days ago.Mr. Green was very worried at the thought of the ￡ 50 that he had put in his pocket book.Suddenly he saw a police-car and had a bright idea.He had just reached a small town where the speed limit was 30 miles an hour.He pressed down the accelerator and drove the car as fast as it would go.He looked back and saw that the police-car had seen him and had begun to chase him.After a mile or so the police-car overtook him and ordered him to stop.A policeman got out and came to Mr.Green’s car.Mr.Green had hoped that he could tell the policeman about the escaped robber,but the man had taken a gun out of his pocket and had put it to Mr.Green’s back.The policeman took out his notebook and pencil and said he wanted Mr.Green’s name and address.Mr.Green asked to be taken to the police station but the policeman said,“No,I want your name and address now.You will have to appear at the police court later.”So,Mr.Green gave the policeman his name and address.The policeman wrote it down,put his notebook and pencil back in his pocket and gave Mr.Green a talk about dangerous driving.Then Mr.Green started up his car again and drove on.He had given up all hope of his ￡50,but just as he reached the outskirts of London,the passenger said he wanted to get out here.Mr.Green stopped the car,the man got out and said,“Thanks for the lift.You’ve been good to me.This is the least I can do in return.”And he handed Mr.Green the policeman’s notebook.
While the policeman had talked to Mr.Green,the thief had stolen the notebook.
72.What was Mr.Green worried about when he learned the man was an escaped robber?
A.The ￡ 50 in his pocket book. B.His life.
C.His car. D.His pocket book.
73.Which of the following is true?
A.Mr.Green wanted to be taken to the police station right away but the policeman refused him.
B.The policeman asked Mr.Green to come to the police station right away.
C.The policeman told Mr.Green that he would have to pay a fine.
D.Mr.Green would not give his name and address but promised to appear at the police court later.
74.What did the robber give Mr.Green when he got out of the car?
A.The pistol he had put to the back of Mr.Green.
B.Some money.
C.Some money and the stolen notebook.
D.The policeman’s notebook.
75.Why did the robber steal the policeman’s notebook?
A.He wanted to show he could do something other people could not do.
B.He thought he should do something to save Mr.Green from trouble.
C.He had no other purpose but playing a trick on the policeman.
D.He meant to use the notebook to pay for the life.
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阅读下面的短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中，选出最佳选项。
A
The Great Wall of China is considered to be the only
man－made project seen from the moon. Although it was
once thought to have been built entirely during the Qin Dynasty( 朝代) between 221 and 208 BC, it is now believed to have been started
earlier.
The 15－foot－high, 25－foot－wide,
1,500－mile－long structure was
undoubtedly built to keep out invading enemies. To the common people of the
empire, who had been forced to build the wall, it was not worth it, however.
The wall, and other public works completed by the Qin Dynasty, had caused great
losses on the wealth and human life of the country. As a result, an angry population
rose up in rebellion（反抗）against the Qin Dynasty, and in
207 BC the Han Dynasty began.
Because of its rich history and magnificent
appearance, the Great Wall attracts tourists, scientists, and historians to
this day and will continue to do so for generations.
56. According to the author of this passage, the Han
Dynasty was able to come into power because .
A. enemies were not effectively prevented from
invading the empire
B. it had started the work on the wall and really
controlled it all along
C. the common people rebelled against the empire
that had forced them to work on the Great Wall
D. the Qin emperor lost all his personal wealth in
the creation of the Great Wall
57. The main idea of this passage is that .
A. the emperor of the Qin Dynasty was a slave driver
B. invading enemies were a problem in ancient China
C. the common people of ancient China were very poor
D. the human achievement of the Great Wall is widely
appreciated
58. With which of the following opinions would this
author most likely agree?
A. The pyramids of Egypt also attract modern man
because of the human effort they represent（体现）.
B. The pyramids of Egypt would probably be seen to a
human standing on the moon.
C. The human significance (意义) of the pyramids of Egypt is greater than that of the Great Wall.
D. The human significance of the pyramids of Egypt
is not as great as that of the Great Wall.
59. The writer has not directly stated, but would
support the opinion that .
A. Astronauts（宇航员） have
taken a personal interest in the history of the Great Wall of China
B. the common people of the Qin Dynasty were the
ones who provided the labor in constructing the Great Wall
C. work on the Great Wall was started before the Qin
Dynasty came into existence
D. the Great Wall of China is a great human
achievement and was probably worth the effort it took
B省略
C
When you turn on the
radio, you hear an advertisement. When you watch television, you hear and see
an advertisement. If you turn the pages of a newspaper or magazine, again you
find an advertisement. If you walk down the street, you see one advertising
board after another. All day, every day, people who want to sell you something
compete to catch your attention. As a result, advertisements are almost
everywhere.
In the West, advertisements are the fuel that makes
mass media work. Many TV stations, newspapers, magazines, radio stations are
privately owned. The government does not give them money. So where does the
money come from? From advertisements. Without advertisements, there would not
be these private businesses.
Have you ever asked yourself what advertising is?
Through the years, people have given different answers to the question. For
some time it was felt that advertising was a means of “keeping
your name before the public.” And some people thought
that advertising was “truth well told.” Now more and more people describe it in this way: Advertising is
the paid, nonpersonal (非针对某个人的), and usually persuasive
(有说服力的) description of goods, services and ideas by
identified sponsors (明确的出资者)through various media.
First, advertising is usually paid for. Various
sponsors pay for the advert sements we see, read, and hear over the various
media. Second, advertising is nonpersonal. It is not face to face
communication. Although you may feel that a message in a certain advertisement
is aimed directly at you, in reality, it is directed at large groups of people.
Third, advertising is usually persuasive. Directly or indirectly it tells
people to do something. All advertisements try to make people believe that the
product, idea, or service advertised can do good to them. Fourth, the sponsor
of the advertisement must be identified. From the advertisement, we can see if
the sponsor is a company, or an organization, or an individual. Fifth,
advertising reaches us through traditional (传统的)and
nontraditional mass media. Included in the traditional media are newspapers,
magazines, radio, television, and films. Nontraditional media include the mail,
matchbox covers, and billboards (广告牌).
62. The existence（存在）of the
privately owned mass media depends financially（经济上地）on
A. the government B. their
owners' families C. advertisements D. the audience
63. According to the passage, who are most probably
paying for the advertisements?
A. Companies. B.
Organizations. C. Individuals. D. All of the above.
64. Which of the following is considered
nontraditional mass media?
A. Newspapers. B. The
mail. C. Magazines
D. Films.
65. According to the passage, which of the following
statements about the features of advertisements is NOT true?
A. Advertising must be honest and amusing.
B. Advertising is meant for large groups of people.
C. Advertising tells people to do something directly
or indirectly.
D. The sponsors are always mentioned in the
advertisements.
D
The Internet has led to a huge increase in credit－card (信用卡) fraud.Your card information could
even be for sale in an illegal web site（非法网站）.
Web sites offering cheap goods and services should
be regarded with care.
On－line shoppers who enter
their credit－card information may never receive the
goods they thought they bought.The thieves then go shopping with your card
number—or sell the information over the Internet.
Computers hackers (黑客) have broken down security（安全）systems, raising questions about the safety of cardholder
information. Several months ago, 25,000 customers of CD Universe, an on－line music retailer (零售商) , were not lucky.
Their names, addresses and credit－card numbers were
posted on a Web site after the retailer refused to pay US $157,828 to get back
the information.
Credit－card firms are now
fighting against on－line fraud. Mastercard is working
on plans for Web－only credit card, with a lower credit
limit. The card could be used only for shopping on－line.
However, there are a few simple steps you can take to keep from being cheated (欺骗).
Ask about your credit－card
firm's on－line rules: Under British law, cardholders
have to pay the first US $78 of any fraudulent (欺骗性的)
spending.
And shop only at secure sites; Send your credit－card information only if the Web site offers advanced secure system.
If the security is in place, a letter will appear in
the bottom right－hand corner of your screen. The Web
site address may also start https: // － the extra “s” stands for secure. If in doubt, give your
credit－card information over the telephone.
Keep your password（密码）safe:
Most on－line sites require a user name and password before
placing an order. Treat your passwords with care.
66. What do most people worry about the Internet
according to this passage?
A. A lot of stolen credit－cards
were sold on the Internet.
B. Fraud on the Internet.
C. Many Web sites are destroyed.
D. Many illegal Web sites are on the Internet.
67. What is the meaning of “fraud”?
A. Cheating. B. Sale. C. Payment. D. Safety.
68. How can the thieves get the information of the
creditcard?
A. The customers give them the information.
B. The thieves steal the information from Web sites.
C. The customers sell the information to them.
D. The thieves buy the information from credit card
firms.
69. How many pieces of advice does the passage give
to you?
A. Four. B. Three. C. Five. D. Six.
70. You are shopping on the site: http: // www.
Shopping. com, and you want to buy a TV set, what does this article suggest to
do?
A. Order the TV set at once.
B. Do not buy the TV set on this site.
C. E－mail the site your
credit－card information.
D. Tell the site your password and buy the TV set
for you.
E
Children start out as
natural scientists, eager to look into the world around them. Helping them
enjoy science can be easy; there's no need for a lot of scientific terms or
expensive lab equipment. You only have to share your children's curiosity(好奇). Firstly, listen to their questions. I once visited a classroom of
seven－year－olds to talk about
science as a job. The children asked me “textbook
questions” about schooling, salary（薪水） and whether I liked my job. When I finished answering, we sat
facing one another in silence. Finally I said, “Now
that we're finished with your lists, do you have questions of your own about
science?”
After a long pause, a boy raised his hand, “Have you ever seen a grasshopper (蚱蜢) eat?
When I try eating leaves like that, I get a stomachache. Why?”
This began a set of questions that lasted nearly two
hours.
Secondly, give them time to think. Studies over the
past 30 years have shown that, after asking a question, adults typically wait
only one second or less for an answer, no time for a child to think. When
adults increase their “wait time” to three seconds or more, children give more logical(符合逻辑的), complete and creative answers.
Thirdly, watch your language. Once you have a child
involved in a science discussion, don't jump in with “That's
right” or “Very good”. These words work well when it comes to encouraging good behavior(行为). But in talking about science, quick praise can signal that
discussion is over. Instead, keep things going by saying, “That's interesting” or “I'd never thought of it that way before”, or
coming up with more questions or ideas.
Never push a child to “Think”. It doesn't make sense, children are always thinking, without your
telling them to. What's more, this can turn a conversation into a performance.
The child will try to find the answer you want, in as few words as possible, so
that he will be a smaller target (目标) for your
disagreement.
Lastly, show; don't tell. Real－life impressions of nature are far more impressive than any lesson
children can learn from a book or a television program. Let children look at
their fingertips through a magnifying glass(放大镜), and
they'll understand why you want them to wash before dinner. Rather than saying
that water evaporates (蒸发), set a pot of water to boil
and let them watch the water level drop.
71. According to the passage, children are natural
scientists, and to raise their interest, the most important thing for adults to
do is .
A. to let them see the world around
B. to share the children's curiosity
C. to explain difficult phrases about science
D. to supply the children with lab equipment
72. In the last sentence of the first paragraph, the
word “lists” could best be
replaced by
A. any questions B. any problems
C. questions from textbooks D. any number of questions
73. According to the passage, children can answer
questions in a more logical, complete and creative way if adults .
A. ask them to answer quickly.
B. wait for one or two seconds after a question.
C. tell them to answer the next day.
D. wait at least for three seconds after a question.
74. In which of the following paragraph(s) does the
author tell us what to say to encourage children in a science discussion?
A. The second and third. B. The fourth and fifth.
C. The fifth and sixth. D. The seventh.
75. The author mentions all of the following
techniques for adults to share with their children's curiosity except that
adults should .
A. tell their children stories instead of reciting(背诵) facts
B. offer their children chances to see things for
themselves
C. be patient enough when their children answer
questions
D. encourage their children to ask questions of
their own
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