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注意事项Part 1 Reading Comprehension (Multiple Choice)(每小题：2 分)Directions: Read the following passages carefully and choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.Questions 1 to 5 are based on the same passage or dialog.Choosing a travel companion is at least as uncertain as choosing a marriage partner. The chances of success are perhaps even less.No law of causality (因果关系) exists to insist that in choosing a travel companion you will lose a friend. But it's not unlikely. The odds depend on the length and the rigorousness (严密) of the trip. Some friendships have a strength that will withstand even travel; others are by nature short-lived and travel merely hastens their dissolution (结束，终止).Perhaps I should make it clear that in discussing this matter of travel companions I am confining myself to Platonic (柏拉图式的) friendships. Intimate friends may well be the best companions of all. Compromises and concessions from such companions clearly spring from a recognized emotional base that colors every issue. I'll confine myself, then, to companions, male and female, who are sharing a trip solely for company. Why bother at all with a travel companion? Why not travel alone, shiftily (机智地) pursuing one's goal? Some of the answers are obvious. A pleasant fellow traveler eases the stress and tensions, adds to the delights and rewards and pays half the bills. However, a bad-tempered companion quite often brings you to the point where you devoutly (虔诚地) wish you were alone.Finding that suitable companion is something of an art and something of a gamble. But the choice should be determined by one important rule: travelers should be going on the trip with the same idea in mind. They should hold in common a theory of travel.1. Choosing a travel companion is hard and risky, because ________.A. one may lose a friendB. one may suffer financial lossesC. one may be trapped in the dangerous situationD. one may miss the chance of finding the right marriage partner2. When intimate friends travel together, ________.A. the trip will hasten their dissolutionB. the trip will make them closer to each otherC. they will find the right ways to solve problems due to their relationshipD. they will make more friends on trip3. It can be inferred from the passage that the companion talked about here is the person ________.A. one can think of developing a deeper relationship withB. one can travel with merely for companyC. one can count on for a free travelD. one can learn much from4. Which of the following statements is TRUE?A. Choosing a travel companion won't lead to the loss of friends.B. Friendships cannot withstand the test of any trip.C. A travel companion is badly needed if one wants to take a trip.D. Like-minded people should travel together.5. Which of the following is the best title for this passage?A. Travel and Marriage-Two Similar ExperiencesB. Finding a Good Travel Companion-a Risky MatterC. Will Travel Damage the Friendship?D. Should One Travel Alone or in Another's Company?Questions 6 to 10 are based on the same passage or dialog.The term "culture shock" has already begun to creep into the popular vocabulary. Culture shock is the effect that involvement in a strange culture has on the unprepared visitor. Culture shock is what happens when a traveler suddenly finds himself in a place where yes may mean no, where a "fixed price" is negotiable, where to be kept waiting in an outer office is no cause for insult, where laughter may signify (意味) anger.The culture shock phenomenon causes a breakdown in communication, a misreading of reality, an inability to cope. Yet culture shock is relatively mild in comparison with the much more serious malady (弊病), future shock. Future shock is brought on by the premature arrival of the future. It may well be the most important disease of tomorrow.Take an individual out of his own culture and set him down suddenly in an environment sharply different from his own, with a different set of cues to react to—different conceptions (概念) of time, space, work, love, religion, sex, and everything else, then the dislocation he suffers will be severe. Given few clues as to what kind of behavior is rational under the radically new circumstances, the victim may well become a danger to himself and others.Now imagine not merely an individual but an entire society, an entire generation—including its weakest, least intelligent, and most irrational members—suddenly transported into this new world. The result is mass disorientation (迷失方向), future shock on a grand scale.This is the prospect that man now faces. Change is avalanching (把……淹没) upon our heads and most people are unprepared to cope with it.6. Culture shock occurs when ________.A. one loses all hopes of returning to his home environmentB. one expresses ideas and emotions contrary to what he intends to expressC. one cannot make accurate judgment using one's own value standardsD. one cannot conduct negotiations for goods of fixed prices7. Future shock is much more serious than culture shock as ________.A. it concerns the problems of the futureB. it affects people on a grand scaleC. it causes personal insultsD. it destroys the foundation of the society8. The word "cue" in Para. 3 most probably refers to something that ________.A. puzzles an individualB. disturbs an individual's normal way of lifeC. helps an individual to function in societyD. arouses an individual's interest in the new culture9. One effective way to prevent future shock is to ________.A. get people prepared for future changeB. keep people informed of foreign culturesC. have people resist possible future changeD. acquaint people with the harm of future change10. It can be inferred that the author's tone in the passage is ________.A. humorousB. exaggeratedC. radicalD. seriousQuestions 11 to 15 are based on the same passage or dialog.Silence is unnatural to man. He begins life with a cry and ends it in stillness. In the interval he does all he can to make a noise in the world, and there are few things of which he stands in more fear than of the absence of noise. Even his conversation is in great measure a desperate attempt to prevent a dreadful (可怕的) silence. He knows that ninety-nine percent of human conversation means no more than the buzzing (发出嗡嗡声) of a fly, but he longs to join the buzz and to prove that he is a man and not a waxwork figure. The object of conversation is not, for the most part, to communicate ideas. It is to keep up the buzzing sound. There are, it must be admitted, different qualities of buzz: there is even a buzz that is as exasperating (使人恼怒的) as the continuous ping (砰声) of a mosquito. But at a dinner party one would rather be a mosquito than amute (哑巴). Most buzzing, fortunately, is agreeable to the ear, and some of it is agreeable even to the mind. He would be a foolish man, however, who waited until he had a wise thought to take part in the buzzing with his neighbors.Those who despise (看不起) the weather as a conversational opening seem to me to be ignorant of the reason why human beings wish to talk. Very few human beings join in a conversation in the hope of learning anything new. Some of them are content if they are merely allowed to go on making a noise into other people's ears, though they have nothing to tell them except that they have seen two or three new plays or that they have had food in a Swiss hotel. At the end of an evening during which they have said nothing at immense length, they are proud of themselves on their success as conversationalists.11. The significance of man's speaking ability is that ________.A. it proves his existence as a manB. it raises his position as a manC. it makes him enjoy meaningful conversationsD. it gets him out of trouble12. The statement that "ninety-nine percent of human conversation means no more than the buzzing of a fly" suggests that ________.A. most of the human conversations are inspiring and instructiveB. most of the human conversations are as irritating as the noise made by a flyC. most of the human conversations can be dismissed as meaninglessD. most of the human conversations can be regarded as the effective activities13. According to the passage, a man will look silly if he ________.A. makes mistakes in the conversationB. feels reluctant to join in the conversationC. fails to communicate anything new to others in the conversationD. misunderstands others' meanings in the conversation14. In the author's opinion, the introduction of weather as a conversational opening indicates ________.A. the ignorance of the conversationalistB. the start of an acceptable conversationC. the coming of something newD. the boring nature of the conversation15. Which of the following statements is true, according to the passage?A. At a dinner party, everyone prefers to talk like a mosquito.B. People despise meaningless conversations.C. People take pride in their roles as conversationalists.D. One can always learn something useful from conversation.注意事项Part 2 Skimming and Scanning (True or False Questions + Blank Filling)(每小题：4 分)Directions: Read the following passage and then answer the questions. For questions 1-7, choose Y (YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage, choose N (NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage, choose NG (NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage. For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.Questions 1 to 10 are based on the same passage or dialog.Mount St. HelensWhat is happening?You are on your way to the market. It is early morning. The sky is clear, and you expect to have a lovely day. Suddenly, the sky goes black. And then something starts falling. At first you don't know what it is. It looks like snow, but, no, it can't be. You get a closer look—it is ash.This was what many people experienced one morning in 1980 after the eruption (喷发) of Mt. St. Helens. Though many miles away from the exploding mountain, people in cities and towns throughout Washington State and Oregon felt the effect. Nearer to the mountain itself, however, the effects were even more terrible.IntroductionMount St. Helens is an active volcano in Skamania County, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. It is located 96 miles south of Seattle and 53 miles northeast of Portland, Oregon. The mountain is part of the Cascade Range. It was initially known as Louwala-Clough which means "smoking or fire mountain" in the language of the local Native Americans, the Klickitats. It was named for British diplomat Lord St. Helens who was a friend of George Vancouver, an explorer who made a survey of the area in the late 18th century. This volcano is well known for its ash explosions and flows of melted rock.It is most famous for the terrible eruption on May 18, 1980 at 8:32 am. That eruption was the most deadly and economically destructive eruption of a volcano in the history of the United States. It was not, however, the largest eruption in US history. This honor goes to the eruption of MountKatmai, in 1912, in Alaska, which also ranks, worldwide, as the largest volcano event of the 20th century (the eruption of Mount Pinatubo was the second largest event).Fifty-seven people were killed and 250 homes, 47 bridges, 15 miles of railway and 185 miles of highway were destroyed. The eruption caused a massive falling of rocks, reducing the mountain's summit from 9,677 feet to 8,364 feet in height and replacing it with a mile-wide hole. The rocks that fell from the 1980 eruption combined to equal up to 0.7 miles in volume, making it the largest collection of fallen rocks in recorded history. However, the scale of it still pales in comparison to far larger ones that have occurred in the past elsewhere on Earth before recorded history.Mount St. Helens is a part of the Pacific Ring of Fire which includes over 160 active volcanoes.Setting and descriptionMount St. Helens is 34 miles almost due west of Mount Adams, which is in the eastern part of the Cascade Range. These "sister and brother" mountains are each about 50 miles from Mount Rainier, the giant of Cascade volcanoes. Mount Hood, the nearest major peak in Oregon, is about 60 miles southeast of Mount St. Helens.Mount St. Helens is young compared to the other major Cascade volcanoes. It was formed only within the last 40,000 years, and the pre-1980 summit started to grow only about 2200 years ago. The volcano is also known to have been the most active in the Cascades within the last 10,000 years.Even before its loss of height, Mount St. Helens was not one of the highest peaks in the Cascade Range. Its summit height made it only the fifth highest peak in Washington. It stood out prominently, however, from surrounding hills because of the evenness of its build and the extensive snow and ice-cover of the pre-1980 summit, earning it the name, "Fujiyama of America" or "Mount Fuji of America". The peak rose more than 5,000 feet above its base, where the lower parts combined with nearby ridges. The mountain is about 6 miles across at its base which is at an altitude of about 4,400 feet on the northeastern side and about 4,000 feet elsewhere. At the pre-eruption tree-line (upper limit of trees), the width was about 4 miles.Streams that head on the volcano enter three main river systems—the Toutle River on the north and north-west, the Kalama River on the west, and the Lewis River on the south and east. The streams are fed by abundant rain and snow that dump an average of about 140 inches of water on Mount St. Helens a year, according to National Weather Service data. The Lewis River has three dams for power generation. The southern and eastern sides of the volcano drain into the Swift Reservoir, which is directly south of the volcano's peak.Although Mount St. Helens is in Skamania County, Washington, the best access routes to the mountain run through Cowlitz County, Washington on the west. Washington State Route 504, locally known as the Spirit Lake Memorial Highway, connects with a heavily traveled highway, about 34 miles to the west of the mountain. That major north-south highway skirts (环绕) the low-lying cities of Castle Rock, Longview, and Kelso along the Cowlitz River and passes through Vancouver, Washington-Portland, Oregon urban area less than 50 miles to the southwest. The community nearest the volcano is Cougar, Washington which is in the Lewis River valley about 11 miles south-southwest of the peak. Gifford Pinchot National Forest surrounds Mount St. Helens, but some land owned by Washington is in private hands.Human historyNative American legends contain numerous accounts of eruptions of Mount St. Helens. Among the names they gave the mountain are Loowit (Sahaptin), Si Yett (Yakima), and Lavelatla (Cowlitz).The first recorded sighting of Mount St. Helens by Europeans was by Royal Navy Commander George Vancouver and the officers of a ship called HMS Discovery on May 19, 1792, while they were surveying the northern Pacific Ocean coast from 1792 to 1794. Vancouver named the mountain for British diplomat Alleyne Fitzherbert, 1st Baron St. Helens on October 20, 1792, as it came into view when the Discovery passed into the mouth of the Columbia River.On April 17, 1857 the Republican, a Steilacoom, Washington newspaper, reported that "Mount St. Helens, or some other mount to the southward, is seen... to be in a state of eruption". The lack of a significant ash layer associated with this event indicates that it was a small eruption, which may have been nothing more than clouds of steam and dust. This was the first reported activity from the volcano since 1854 and the last until 1980.During the lead-up to the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption, 84-year-old innkeeper Harry Truman, who had lived near the mountain for over 50 years, became nationally famous when he decided not to move away before the coming eruption, despite repeated requests by local authorities. His body was never found after the May 18, 1980 eruption, which left a huge hole in the mountain that faced the north. In total, 57 people were killed or never found. Had the eruption occurred one day later, when people would have been at work, rather than on a Sunday, the death toll would almost certainly have been much higher.1. This passage describes the location and history of Mount St. Helens, an active volcano.A. YB. NC. NG2. The eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 was only scarcely felt by people of Washington and Oregon.A. YB. NC. NG3. In the language of the Native Americans, the initial name of Mount St. Helens means "smoking or fire mountain".A. YB. NC. NG4. The eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 was the largest and most deadly one in US history.A. YB. NC. NG5. One result of the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 was the loss of its height by almost 2,000 feet.A. YB. NC. NG6. Mount St. Helens is comparatively young among the major Cascade volcanoes.A. YB. NC. NG7. The height of Mount St. Helens still ranks fifth in Washington, even after the eruption of 1980.A. YB. NC. NG8. The stream water on Mount St. Helens comes from which average around 140 inches each year.9. Eruptions of Mount St. Helens are mainly recorded in .10. Harry Truman decided not to move away before the coming eruption, so he became .。