Part II Reading Comprehension

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专升本-大学英语23

《大学英语》样卷Part II. Reading Comprehension (40 points)Directions:There are 4 reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C andD. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on theAnswer Sheet with a single line through the center.Passage OneHow do young children learn to have good values? How can parents teach their children about the importance of kindness, patience, and self-discipline? At a time when more and more parents worry about the negative and violent images (暴力形象) their children see on TV, in the movies and, on the internet, some are turning to fairy tales (童话) as a way to teach their young ones how to behave in society.Fairy tales were not always intended for children. We know this because some of these stories have existed for hundreds of years and were passed from generation to generation through songs and drama. They were considered entertainment for everyone, not only for young people. In these ancient stories, the heroes were extremely clever, fiercely independent, and never gave up. Over the years, some of the heroes’ qualities and story lines have been changed to fit the times.Psychologists think that fairy tales have a positive influence on children because they present the two sides of good and evil very clearly. When children hear the stories, they develop sympathetic for the heroic characters. In each tale, they can see that there are many different kinds of people in the world and that we all have a choice about what kind of people we want to be. We can choose to do good actions, rather than bad ones, in our lives.What kind of values can children learn from fairy tales? In “The Princess and the Pea,”a poorly dressed girl who insists she is a princess is given a difficult test by the Queen. When she passes the test, we learn that she is rewarded because she stayed true to herself. In “The Little Mermaid,” the mermaid (美人鱼) who lives under the sea longs to be with the humans on land. Through her experiences, we learn about the importance of living with and accepting other cultures. In “Pinocchio,” a wooden puppet (木偶) turns into a boy when he finally learns how to tell the truth.Teaching values is the reason most often given for teaching literature and encouraging reading. These old stories can indeed teach us lessons about human relationships that are universal (普遍的) enough to survive throughout the centuries. This might be the reason why they have been around for so long and are unlikely to disappear any time soon.1. What do we learn about fairy tales from the passage?A. They are written solely for children.B. They teach universal lessons about human relationships.C. They are all passed down through songs and drama.D. They are adapted to TV and movies as entertainment.2. Why do fairy tales have a positive influence on children?A. Good and evil are presented in a way they can easily understand.B. The characters are all good examples for them to follow.C. The heroes go through all kinds of hardships but never give up.D. There are many different kinds of characters for them to imitate.3. Some of the heroes’ qualities in fairy tales have been changed over the years______.A. to reflect the change of the valuesB. to suit the tastes of different peopleC. to arouse the interest of little childrenD. to adapt to the change of the times4. Children who have heard the story of the little mermaid might ______.A. learn to be better self-disciplinedB. be more likely to tell the truth than to tell the liesC. learn to stay true to themselves all their livesD. be better able to accept foreign cultures5. Parents encourage children to read fairy tells so that they ______.A. can entertain themselves without bothering othersB. can get to know great literature of the worldC. can stay away from violence shown on TVD. can learn how to behave in societyPassage TwoMost people think of a camel as an obedient beast of burden, because it is best known for its ability to carry heavy loads across vast stretch of desert without requiring water. In reality, the camel is considerably more than just the Arabian equivalent of the mule. It also possesses a great amount of intelligence and sensitivity.The Arabs assert that camels are so acutely aware of injustice and ill treatment that a camel owner who punishes one of the beats too harshly finds it difficult to escape the camel’s vengeance. Apparently, the animal will remember any injury and wait for an opportunity to get revenge.In order to protect themselves from the vengeful beats, Arabian camel drivers have learned to trick their camels into believing they have achieved revenge. When an Arab realizes that he has excited a camel’s rage, he places his own garments on the ground in the animal’s path. He arranges the clothing so that it appears to cover a man’s body. When the camel recognizes its master’s clothing on the ground, it seizes the pile with its teeth, shakes the garments violently andtramples(踩)on them in a rage. Eventually, after its anger had died away, the camel departs, assuming its revenge is complete. Only then does the owner of the garments come out of hiding, safe for the time being, thanks to this clever ruse(计策).6.Which of the following is mentioned in this passage?A.The camel never drinks water.B.The camel is always violent.C.The camel is always very sensitive.D.The camel is rarely used anymore.7.It is implied in the passage that ______.A.the mule is a stupid and insensitive animalB.the mule is as intelligent as the camelC.the mule is an animal widely used in the desertD.the mule is a vengeful animal8.From this passage we can conclude that ______.A.camels are generally vicious towards their ownersB.camels usually treat their owners wellC.camels don’t see very wellD.camels try to punish people who abuse them9.The writer makes the camel’s vengeful behavior clearer to the reader by presenting ______.A. a well—planned argumentB. a large variety of examplesC.some eye witness accountsD. a typical incident10.The main idea of the passage is ______.A.camels can be as intelligent as their driversB.camels, sensitive to injustice, will seek revenge on those who harm themC.camel drivers are often the target of camels’ revengeD.camels are sensitive creatures that are aware of injusticePassage ThreeToo often young people get themselves employed quite by accident, not knowing what lies in the way of opportunity for promotion, happiness and security. As a result, they are employed doing jobs that afford them little or no satisfaction. Our school leavers face so much competition that they seldom care what they do as long as they can earn a living. Some stay long at a job and learn to like it; others quite from one to another looking for something to suit them, the young graduates who leave the university look for jobs that offer a salary up to their expectation. Very few go out into the world knowing exactly what they want and realizing their own abilities. Thereason behind all this confusion is that there never has been a proper vocational guidance in our educational institution. Nearly all grope(摸索) in the dark and their chief concern when they look for a job is to ask what salary is like. They never bother to think whether they are suited for the job or, even more important, whether the job suits them, having a job is more than merely providing yourself and your dependants with daily bread and some money for leisure and entertainment, it sets a pattern of life and, in many ways, determines social status in life, selection of friends, leisure and interest.In choosing a career you should first consider the type of work which will suit your interest. Noting is more pathetic than taking on a job in which you have no interest, for it will not only discourage your desire to succeed in life but also ruin your talents and ultimately make you an emotional wreck (受到严重伤害的人)and a bitter person.11. The reason why some people are unlikely to succeed in life is that they _____.A. have ruined their talentsB. have taken on an unsuitable jobC. think of nothing but their salaryD. are not aware of their own potential12. The difficulty in choosing a suitable job lies mainly in that_____.A. much competition has to be facedB. many employees have no working experienceC. the young people only care about how much they can earnD. schools fail to offer students appropriate vocational guidance13. Which of the following statements is most important according to the passage?A. your job must suit your interest.B. your job must set a pattern of life.C. your job must offer you a high salary.D. your job must not ruin your talents.14. The best title for this passage would be ____.A. what can a good job offerB. earning a livingC. correct attitude on job-huntingD. how to choose a job15. The word “pathetic” in paragraph 2 most probably means ____.A. splendidB. miserableC. disgustedD. touchingPassage FourNow let us look at how we read. When we read a printed text, our eyes move across a page in short, jerky movement. We recognize words usually when our eyes are still when they fixate.Each time they fixate, we see a group of words. This is known as the recognition span or the visual span. The length of time which the eyes stop—the duration of the fixation—varies considerably from person to person. It also varies within any one person according to his purpose in reading and his familiarity with the text. Furthermore, it can be affected by such factors as lighting and tiredness.Unfortunately, in the past, many reading improvement courses have concentrated too much on how our eyes move across the printed page. As a result of this misleading emphasis on the purely visual aspects of reading, numerous exercises have been devised to train the eyes to see more words at one fixation. For instance, in some exercises, words are flashed on to a screen for, say, a tenth or a twentieth of a second. One of the exercises has required students to fix their eyes on some central point, taking in the words on either side. Such word patterns are often constructed in the shape of rather steep pyramids so the reader takes in more and more words at each successive fixation. All these exercises are very clever, but it’s one thing to improve a person’s ability to see words and quite another thing to improve his ability to read a text efficiently. Reading requires the ability to understand the relationship between words. Consequently, for these reasons, many experts have now begun to question the usefulness of eye training, especially since any approach which trains a person to read isolated words and phrases would seem unlikely to help him in reading a continuous text.16. The time of the recognition span can be affected by the following facts except ________.A. one’s familiarity with the t extB. one’s purpose in readingC. the length of a group of wordsD. lighting and tiredness17. The author may believe that reading ______.A. requires a reader to take in more words at each fixationB. requires a reader to see words more quicklyC. demands a deeply-participating mindD. demands more mind than eyes18. What does the author mean by saying “but it’s one thing to improve a person’s ability to seewords and quite another thing to improve his ability to read a text efficiently.” in the second paragraph?A. The ability to see words is not needed when an efficient reading is conducted.B. The reading exercises mentioned can’t help to improve both the ability to see and tocomprehend words.C. The reading exercises mentioned can’t help t o improve an efficient reading.D. The reading exercises mentioned has done a great job to impr ove one’s ability to see words.19. Which of the following is NOT true?A. The visual span is a word or a group of words we see each time.B. Many experts began to question the efficiency of eye training.C. The emphasis on the purely visual aspects is misleading.D. The eye training will help readers in reading a continuous text.20. The tune of the author in writing this article is ________.A. criticalB. neutralC. pessimisticD. optimisticPart III. Vocabulary and Structure (15 points)Directions: There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one answer that best completes the sentence. Thenmark the corresponding letter on the ANSWER P APER with a single line through thecenter.1. The noise to be just the dogs fighting for a bone in the country yard.A. made outB. worked outC. rang outD. turned out2. Our system has been designed to give the user quick and easy to the required information.A. accentB. accessC. responseD. approach3. Many young women do aerobics (增氧健美操)every day in their to achieve the perfect body.A. questB. strainC. temptationD. campaign4. The official of events is that the police were attacked and were just trying to defend themselves.A. issueB. illusionC. versionD. perspective5. If schoolchildren are allowed to work at their own , their performance will generally improve.A. versionB. paceC. evolutionD. system6. The conference was an attempt to discussion of the problem of widening gaps between the rich and the poor.A. stimulateB. conductC. intendD. uncover7. The clerk held my passport four inches from his face and to read it.A. affectedB. flippedC. strainedD. giggled8. The wounded woman got to her feet and made a at the kitchen knife at the sink.A. grabB. clickC. commentD. pat9. The professor the whole chapter, saying it was not difficult for us to study it by ourselves.A. dismissedB. coveredC. skippedD. explored10. To for the position, applicants would need to have a PhD degree and 3 years’ working experience.A. strainB. qualifyC. registerD. campaign11. Work ____ on the construction site last April and was completed within fifty-two weeks.A. varnishedB. commencedC. departed D projected12. The weed in the pool should be left untouched until the young frogs have _____.A. shapedB. departedC. soaredD. detached13. The woman and three children were now laughing and I was pleased about that, as they hadlooked _____ when I entered their house a few moments before.A. bruisedB. poisedC. scaredD. scrubbed14. Lack of Zink (锌) ____ causes a range of problems, although little scientific evidence supportsthe link.A. scarcelyB. definitelyC. appropriatelyD. supposedly15. The statistics show that those who prefer electronic banking ____ 45 percent.A. contributed toB. amounted toC. headed forD. consisted of16. He _____ the scene in front of him and immediately called in the police.A. interfered withB. broke upC. headed forD. took in17. As the shortage of skilled workers grows, the competition to _____ new employees is likely tointensify.A. recommendedB. pollC. recruitD. enroll18. He turned away for a few moments and I could see that he was _____ by the news.A. upsetB. neglectedC. overtakenD. interrupted19. Nazism _____ the dark myths of racial purity and the glories of a supposedly great history.A. fed onB. conjured upC. contributed toD. broke up20. On land, the weight of plants far _____ the weight of the animals that feed on them..A. overflowsB. affectsC. repaysD. exceeds21. Tons of food was laid out on the big table and crates of beer were ready for consumption.A. reservedB. expendedC. generatedD. stacked22. You’d better keep your leaders of your activities so that they can ensure you areadequately supported.A. informedB. amusedC. outlinedD. swallowed23. Although apparently rigid, bones exhibit a degree of elasticity that enables the skeleton to___considerable impact.A. escapeB. overwhelmC. withstandD. suppress24. Great minds generally look at life in a way to themselves.A. peculiarB. confinedC. similarD. unusual25. This is a very formal occasion. It is not appropriate to wear pants or skirts.A. messyB. franticC. casualD. jealous26. Their organization neither used nor the use of violence in its struggle for equality..A. scatteredB. enrolledC. overheadD. advocated27. Environmentalists are doing everything within their power to protect the birds and the impact of the oil spill.A. minimizeB. swallowC. exaggerateD. abridge28. Peter read the letter twice before its meaning .A. came upB. sank inC. caught onD. turned up29. When Ian was injured, Harry was chosen as a last—minute for the rugby team.A. preferenceB. diversificationC. alternativeD. replacement30. Each product by our company is quality tested at least three times, depending upon the requirements.A. derivedB. manufacturedC. demonstratedD. constructedPart IV Translation (10 points)Directions:Translate the following sentences into English.1.我认为我们在保护环境不受污染（pollution）方面还做得不够。

专业英语八级(阅读)模拟试卷109(题后含答案及解析)

专业英语八级（阅读）模拟试卷109(题后含答案及解析)题型有： 2. READING COMPREHENSIONPART II READING COMPREHENSIONSECTION A MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONSIn this section there are several passages followed by fourteen multiple-choice questions. For each multiple-choice question, there are four suggested answers marked [A] , [B], [C] and [D]. Choose the one that you think is the best answer.(1)How living creatures evolve has been pretty well understood for the past 150 years. How they came to exist in the first place, though, remains a mystery. Part of the reason for this mystery is that subsequent evolution has done a good job of erasing the evidence. But not a complete one. Some features are shared by all organisms, and may thus go back to the beginning of life. And one of the most bizarre of these features is that a lot of the molecules of which life is made are left-handed.(2)A left-handed molecule is one that causes polarized light to rotate to the left(i.e., anticlockwise). Most molecules which behave this way have a right-handed equivalent that is, in its arrangement of atoms, their mirror image. Ordinary chemical processes cannot tell the difference between the two forms, so they are usually equally abundant. But the enzymes that govern biochemistry are such precise tools that, often, only one-handedness is acceptable. In the case of amino acids, the subunits of which proteins are made, the acceptable form is the sinister one. Many people feel that understanding why this is so would illuminate the origin of life—and two groups of researchers, pursuing separate lines of enquiry, have come up with what may be the pieces of the jigsaw. (3)One further puzzle is that the amino acids found in meteorites(which are assumed to be similar to those of the primitive Earth)have been modified by a process called methylation into a form that is biologically useless. Nevertheless, since such methylated amino acids are the starting point, it is where Ronald Bres-low and his student Mindy Levine, who work at Columbia University, started. (4)A couple of years ago they revealed the first piece of the jigsaw when they found that an initial imbalance in favor of left-handed methylated amino acids in a solution can be amplified by repeated evaporation. During evaporation, the left-and right-handed molecules mate up and fall out of solution, leaving a left-handed excess.A mere two cycles of evaporation can push a starting ratio that is just 1% in favor of the left to one that is 90% left-handed. (5)Now, as Dr. Breslow has revealed to a meeting of the American Chemical Society, in New Orleans, Ms. Levine has discovered a process that favors the production of left-handed biologically active amino acids. The presence of copper in solutions that contain the chemical precursors of amino acids, together with left-handed methylated amino acids to seed the reaction, gives amino-acid formation a sinister bias. When Ms. Levine made an amino acid called phenylalanine this way she got 37% more of me left-handed form than theright-handed. With another, valine, the excess was 23% and with alanine, 20%.(6)The connection between the two pieces of work is that the left-handed methylated amino acids required to seed the second could have been provided by the evaporative process of the first—if, of course, a slightly biased supply of them had previously existed. (7)This is where Sandra Pizzarello of Arizona State University comes in. She has shown that the methylated amino acids found in meteorites do, indeed, have a bias of 1% or more in favor of the left-handed, suggesting that methylated amino acids kicking around on the primitive Earth would have shared a similar bias.(8)The mistake previous researchers made, therefore, was thinking of the methylated amino acids of meteorites as ingredients of life. Actually, if this work is pointing in the right direction, they were merely seeds. Taken together, these results argue that life formed in places with a lot of evaporation going on(suggesting heat)and a significant amount of copper present. This is speculation, of course, but it favors the idea that living things were created in land-locked ponds, rather than at sea, and probably in a volcanic environment.(V olcanic heat would drive the chemical reactions, as well as causing lots of evaporation.)It also suggests that biochemical left-handedness confers no selective advantage. What makes meteoritic amino acids left-handed has yet to be discovered. But it seems just a matter of chance that the living world is sinister.1．What can be inferred from the results of the studies by Ronald Breslow and Mindy Levine?A．Repeated evaporation pushes the right-handed molecules out completely.B．The simple presence of copper in the solutions gives amino-acid formation a sinister bias.C．The result of the first study has seeded the reaction of the second study.D．The two pieces of work connect in that they both created left-handed amino acid.正确答案：C解析：第6段第1句提到，第二项研究中的原料……可由第一项研究中的……提供，C是该句的同义表述，为正确选项。

英语本科自考历年真题及答案

英语本科自考历年真题及答案Part II Reading Comprehension (35%)Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with several blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. Please mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1.Questions 26-35 are based on the following passage.Thomas Jefferson, who died in 1826, looms ever larger as a figure of special significance. Americans, of course, are 1 with Jefferson as an early statesman, author of the Declaration of Independence, and a high-ranking presidential Founding Father. But there is 2 Jefferson less well known. This is the Jefferson who, as the outstanding American philosopher of democracy, has an increasing 3 to the world’s newly emerging peoples.There is no other man in 4 who formulated the ideas of 5 with such fullness, persuasiveness, and logic. Those 6 in democracy as a political philosophy and system — even those who do not accept his postulates or are 7 of his solutions — must reckon with （重视） his thought. What, then, is his thought, and how much of it isstill 8 under modern conditions of all the ideas and beliefs that 9 up the political philosophy known as Jefferson democracy, perhaps three are 10 . These are the idea of equality, the idea of freedom, and the idea of the people’s control over government.A) interested B) history C) forever D) relevantE) critical F) familiar(正确答案)G) make H) democracyI) influence J) another K) related L) theory M) appeal N) paramount O) other2. Choose the best suitable answer. [单选题] *A) interested B) history C) forever D) relevant E) critical F) familiar G) make H) democracyI) influence J) another(正确答案)K) related L) theoryM) appeal N) paramount O) other3. Choose the best suitable answer. [单选题] *A) interested(正确答案)B) history C) forever D) relevant E) critical F) familiar G) make H) democracy I) influence J) another K) related L) theory M) appeal N) paramount O) other4. Choose the best suitable answer. [单选题] *A) interested B) history(正确答案)C) forever D) relevantE) critical F) familiar G) make H) democracy I) influence J) another K) related L) theory M) appeal N) paramount O) otherA) interested B) history C) forever D) relevantE) critical F) familiar G) make H) democracy(正确答案)I) influence J) another K) related L) theory M) appeal N) paramount O) other6. Choose the best suitable answer. [单选题] *A) interested(正确答案)B) history C) forever D) relevant E) critical F) familiar G) make H) democracy I) influence J) another K) related L) theory M) appeal N) paramount O) other7. Choose the best suitable answer. [单选题] *A) interested B) history C) forever D) relevant E) critical(正确答案)F) familiar G) make H) democracy I) influence J) another K) related L) theory M) appeal N) paramount O) other8. Choose the best suitable answer. [单选题] *A) interested B) history C) forever D) relevant(正确答案)E) critical F) familiar G) make H) democracy I) influence J) another K) related L) theory M) appeal N) paramount O) otherA) interested B) history C) forever D) relevant E) critical F) familiar G) make(正确答案)H) democracy I) influence J) another K) related L) theory M) appeal N) paramount O) other10. Choose the best suitable answer. [单选题] *A) interested B) history C) forever D) relevant E) critical F) familiar G) make H) democracy I) influence J) another K) related L) theoryM) appeal N) paramount(正确答案)O) otherSection BDirections:There are three passages in this section Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice. Please mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1.Passage OneQuestions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage.Time to RelaxLeisure plays an important part in British life. There are four main reasons for this.First of all, people spend less time working now than they used to, mostly due to the introduction of new technology in industry. The normal British working week/is Monday to Friday, 9.00 am to 5.00 pm, although some people regularly work a few hours' overtime each week. Secondly, all working people get a minimum of two weeks' paid holiday a year. In addition, there are six or more bank holidays a year when all banks andbusinesses are closed, In some cases the dates of these national holidays change from year to year and in different parts of Britain.Another reason is that, thanks to modern medicine and higher living standards, people live longer now. This means that after retirement, people have quite a few years of leisure left. Nowadays a much higher proportion of the population is over sixty, but in this group there are more women than men.Finally, fewer babies are born each year and the average family in Britain has two children. This is one result of changing social attitudes. For example, many more married women now go out to work. The money they earn influences their leisure time. Even married women who do not go out to work have more time for interesting hobbies because most British homes have washing machines, vacuum cleaners and other labor-saving gadgets.11. “Time to relax” means “time for ______”. [单选题] *A) refreshments B) enjoyment C) amusement D) rest(正确答案)12. “A paid holiday” means working people ______. [单选题] *A) have to pay for their holidayB) have no pay when they are on holidayC) get usual pay when they are on holiday(正确答案)D) get less pay when they are on holiday13. Among the old people, there are______. [单选题] *A) as many men as womenB) more women than men(正确答案)C) more men than womenD) much more women than men14. In Britain, married women have more leisure hours because they have ______. [单选题] *A) work with a good payB) a lot of timeC) fewer children and more, labor-saving gadgets(正确答案)D) washing machines and vacuum cleaners15. Which of the following ideas is not suggested in the text? [单选题] *A) Some married women have more time for reading.(正确答案)B) Some married women have interesting hobbies.C) Some married women go out to work.D) Some married women stay at home.Passage TwoQuestions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage.Maintaining body health is one of the most important tasks in life. A healthy body requires nutritional foods and liquids for growth, development and defense against disease. A healthy body also requires fresh air, exercise and rest.Maintaining body health requires conscious effort. You chose the foods you eat. You choose whether you get fresh air and exercise. You choose how much rest you get.Nutrition is one of the most important components of body health. When people do not eat enough food or do not take in certain essential nutrients, they can suffer from malnutrition. Sometimes, disease robs the body of the essential nutrients in the diet. This condition is calledsecondary malnutrition. Sometimes a diet contains too many otherwise necessary nutrients, such as too many calories which may lead to heart and blood vessel disease. The key is to keep to a proper diet.Three essential foods are carbohydrates, fats and proteins. Carbohydrates provide body with fuel. Fats are stored in the body for future energy uses. Proteins are required for growth needs and for defending the body against diseases. Certain vitamins are needed in the body cells. Without them, deficiency diseases can occur. Certain minerals are also needed in the diet.Mental health is as important as bodily health. Stimulating activities should be part of everyone’s everyday life. Depression can result in loss of a person's desire to accomplish realistic goals. When this happens, the body can also suffer because the person loses concern over good nutrition, proper exercise and sufficient rest. Social workers and other behavioral scientists can help a person recognize and remove blocks in the way of sound mental health.16. What does a healthy body require? [单选题] *A) Fresh air, proper foods and liquids, exercise and rest.(正确答案)B) A good doctor to offer good advice.C) A lot of money with which to buy enough medicines.D) Living in the country.17. What is the key to avoiding heart and blood vessel disease? [单选题] *A) Eating foods rich in calories.B) Keeping the proper diet.(正确答案)C) Not eating too much.D) Sleeping less than ten hours a day.18. Which of the following does not belong to the three essential food groups? [单选题] *A) Carbohydrates. B) Proteins.C)Fats.D) Vitamins.(正确答案)19. What is the function of proteins? [单选题] *A) To provide body with fuel.B) To prepare for future energy uses.C) To defend against diseases.(正确答案)D) To develop bones and teeth.20. According to the passage, what does depression usually lead people to do? [单选题] *A) It usually makes them work overtime to forget their troubles.B) It may cause them to do nothing but rest.C) It makes them eat a lot in order to be in high spirits.D) It leads them to ignore body health.(正确答案)Passage ThreeQuestions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.For many of us, particularly men, sport is a major part of our lives. We play it as a child, loving the physicality of it, the competition and the sheer fun. Then when we stop playing it, we start watching it. Millions of people watching the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games are fascinated by the sight of men and women operating at the very limits of their potential, struggling To beat a record or defeat their opponents. Man's myths are full of superheroes and it's easy to feel that world-class athletes at(the peak of their powers have something of the superhero about them.It’s no wonder then that the language of sport permeates our everyday conversation. It’s most often used in the form of sporting metaphors-for example, we might say when completing an essay, I’m almost at the finishing line”, or “It was a ma rathon”.It’s often been noted that sporting metaphors are particularly popular in political and business circles because, like sport, these areas involve not only high competitiveness but also teamwork and playing by the rules.An amusing story that illustrates this concerns a Chinese computer company which works with managers form top American computer companies. At meetings and on telephone conference calls, Chinese and American managers had many difficulties communicating, with sporting terms causing the most confusion of all. The Americans would start a meeting by saying, “Let’s kick off”, the kick-off being the start of the match.Once the discussion had started, an American might make a point and then say to the Chinese team, “The ball’s in your c ourt”, or have made a point, he might turn to a colleague and say, “Can I pass the baton to you?” The misunderstandings became so bad that eventually-manager agreed to ban sporting metaphors from conference calls.21. Why do people enjoy watching the Olympic Games? [单选题] *A) Because the athletes often beat a record.B) Because it's fun watching two people being very competitive.C) Because these are top athletes doing the best they are capable of.(正确答案)D) Because the athletes are very unusual.22. Why “it was a marathon” a sporting metaphor for completing an essay? [单选题] *A) Because a marathon is long and difficult, as an essay can be.(正确答案)B) Because in some ways writing an essay is like a sport.C) Because you have to complete a marathon.D) Because both activities are very physical.23. Why are sporting metaphors used by politicians and business people? [单选题] *A) Because there are similarities between sports, politics and business.(正确答案)B) Because politicians and business people like to see themselves as powerful.C) Because sporting metaphors often refer to competitions.D) Because business people and politicians often like to play or watch sport.24. What did the Chinese company have most problems with? [单选题] *A)American managers B) Meetings and conference callsC) Expressions used by Americans(正确答D) Conference calls案)25. What is meant by the expression “Can I pass the baton to you?” when used in a meeting? [单选题] *A) “Can you continue with what I was saying?”B) “Do you agree?”C) “What do you think of what I have said?”(正确答案)D) “Have I said enough?”Part Ш Cloze (10%)Section ADirections: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A),B), C) and D). You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Please mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1.In the U.S., the camera is commonplace in almost every household. At scenic spots, no photo studios or free-lance cameramen are (26)_____. If you want to have photos (27)_____ for credentials, you’ll have to go to a photo studio, where only two copies are given for each (28)_____ and you can’t take away the negatives(底片). If three copies are needed, you'd better sit still and let the cameraman shoot twice (29)_____ Of course, for this you’ll be charged double, but that is still cheaper than having (30)_____ copies developed by the negatives. For each credential copy, seven to eight dollars will be paid. Before entering Canada as a tourist, 1 had to (31)_____ photos for visa (32) _____. The business hours of the studio coincided with my daughter’s shift hours, so she couldn’t (33) _____ the time to take me there. While shopping at the weekend, I had an (34) _____ discovery: the automatic photo kiosk(亭子), and my problem was settled in less than 10 minutes.The kiosk was built of plastics, covering less than two square meters and located at the(35) _____ of the snack bar of the shopping center. Inside, at one end of the kiosk, there(36) _____ a swivel chair (37) _____ height was adjustable and behind which was a background cloth of three colors (red, white and blue) for your choice. Straight ahead, about a meter (38) _____ in the opposite wall was inlaid a mirror showing your future (39) _____ in the photo. I sat in the chair and (40) _____ the position by the (41) _____ marks beside the mirror. I couldn't help (42) _____.How did the automatic snapping happen? On the right of the mirror there were two slots, one for coins and the other for bank notes. After I (43) _____ two one-dollar notes, the green light by the mirror flickered; I hastened to pose and about ten seconds (44)_____ the lamp flashed with a snap. When all came to an end, 1 waited outside the kiosk for five minutes until the photos jumped out of a small opening where they were claimed; four 2-inch colored copies of good (45) _____.26. Choose the one that best fit into the passage. [单选题] *A) enough B) available(正确答案)C) abundant D) ready27. Choose the one that best fit into the passage. [单选题] *A) taken(正确答案)B) take C) to be taken D) be taken28. Choose the one that best fit into the passage. [单选题] *A) case B) time C) service(正确答案)D) piece29. Choose the one that best fit into the passage. [单选题] *A) with succession B) on succession C) for succession D) in succession(正确答案)30. Choose the one that best fit into the passage. [单选题] *A) other B) various C) additional(正确答案)D) diverse31. Choose the one that best fit into the passage. [单选题] *A) present(正确答案)B) show C) bring D) hand32. Choose the one that best fit into the passage. [单选题] *A) appliance B) application(正确答案)C) applicator D) applicant33. Choose the one that best fit into the passage. [单选题] *A) spend B) cost C) take D) spare(正确答案)34. Choose the one that best fit into the passage. [单选题] *A) unexpected(正确答案)B) unusual C) sudden D) unpleasant35. Choose the one that best fit into the passage. [单选题] *A) opening B) entrance(正确答案)C) door D) passage36. Choose the one that best fit into the passage. [单选题] *A) laid(正确答案)B) lied C) lay D) lying37. Choose the one that best fit into the passage. [单选题] *A) its B) whose(正确答案)C) which D) that38. Choose the one that best fit into the passage. [单选题] *A) away(正确答案)B) apart C) out D) off39. Choose the one that best fit into the passage. [单选题] *A) picture B) figure C) image D) look(正确答案)40. Choose the one that best fit into the passage. [单选题] *A) controlled B) tilted C) balanced D) adjusted(正确答案)41. Choose the one that best fit into the passage. [单选题] *A) attitude B) altitude C) height(正确答案)D) highness42. Choose the one that best fit into the passage. [单选题] *A) smiling(正确答案)B) smile C) to smile D) with smile43. Choose the one that best fit into the passage. [单选题] *A) took in B) drove in C) dropped in(正确答案)D) cast in44. Choose the one that best fit into the passage. [单选题] *A) late B) latest C) latter D) later(正确答案)45. Choose the one that best fit into the passage. [单选题] *A) effect(正确答案)B) affection C) influence D) impression。

PartIIReadingcomprehension（skimmingandscanning）

Part II Reading comprehension (skimming and scanning)(15 minute)Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 1-7, choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage. Universities Branch OutAs never before in their long history, universities have become instruments of national competition as well as instruments of peace. They are the place of the scientific discoveries that move economies forward, and the primary means of educating the talent required to obtain and maintain competitive advantage. But at the same time, the opening of national borders to the flow of goods, services, information and especially people has made universities a powerful force for global integration, mutual understanding and geopolitical stability.In response to the same forces that have driven the world economy, universities have become more self-consciously global: seeking students from around the world who represent the entire range of cultures and values, sending their own students abroad to prepare them for global careers, offering course of study that address the challenges of an interconnected world and collaborative (合作的) research programs to advance science for the benefit of all humanity.Of the forces shaping higher education none is more sweeping than the movementacross borders. Over the past three decades the number of students leaving home each year to study abroad has grown at an annual rate of 3.9 percent, from 800,000 in 1975 to 2.5 million in 2004. Most travel from one developed nation to another, but the flow from developing to developed countries is growing rapidly. The reverse flow, from developed to developing countries, is on the rise, too. Today foreign students earn 30 percent of the doctoral degrees awarded in the United States and 38 percent of those in the United Kingdom. And the number crossing borders for undergraduate study is growing as well, to 8 percent of the undergraduates at America’s best institutions and 10 percent of all undergraduates in the U.K. In the United States, 20 percent of the newly hired professors in science and engineering are foreign-born, and in China many newly hired faculty members at the top research universities received their graduate education abroad.Universities are also encouraging students to spend some of their undergraduate years in another country. In Europe, more than 140,000 students participate in the Erasmus program each year, taking courses for credit in one of 2,200 participating institutions across the continent. And in the United States, institutions are helping place students in the summer internships (实习) abroad to prepare them for global careers. Y ale and Harvard have led the way, offering every undergraduate at least one international study or internship opportunity—and providing the financial resources to make it possible.Globalization is also reshaping the way research is done. One new trend involves sourcing portions of a research program to another country. Y ale professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Tian Xu directs a research center focused on the genetics of human disease at Shanghai’s Fudan University, in collaboration with faculty colleagues from both schools. The Shanghai center has 95 employees and graduate students working in a 4,300-square-meter laboratory seminars with scientists from both campuses. The arrangement benefits both countries; Xu’s Y ale lab is more productive, thanks to the lower costs of conducting research in China, and Chinese graduate students, postdoctors and faculty get on-the-job training from a world-classscientist and his U.S. team.As a result of its strength in science, the United States has consistently led the world in the commercialization of major new technologies, from the mainframe computer and the integrated circuit of the 1960s to the Internet infrastructure (基础设施) and applications software of the 1990s. the link between university-based science and industrial application is often indirect but sometimes highly visible: Silicon V alley was intentionally created by Stanford University, and Route 128 outside Boston has long housed companies spun off from MIT and Harvard. Around the world, governments have encouraged copying of this model, perhaps most successfully in Cambridge, England, where Microsoft and scores of other leading software and biotechnology companies have set up shop around the university.For all its success, the United States remains deeply hesitant about sustaining theresearch - university model. Most politicians recognize the link between investment in science and national economic strength, but support for research funding has been unsteady. The budget of the National Institutes of Health doubled between 1998 and 2003, but has risen more slowly than inflation since then. Support for the physical sciences and engineering barely kept pace with inflation during that same period. The attempt to make up lost ground is welcome, but the nation would be better served by steady, predictable increases in science funding at the rate of long-term GDP growth, which is on the order of inflation plus 3 percent per year.American politicians have great difficult recognizing that admitting more foreign students can greatly promote the national interest by increasing international understanding. Adjusted for inflation, public funding for international exchanges and foreign-language study is well below the levels of 40 years ago, in the wake of September 11, changes in the visa process caused a dramatic decline in the number of foreign students seeking admission to U.S. universities, and a corresponding surge in enrollments in Australia, Singapore and the U.K. Objections from American university and the business leaders led to improvements in the process and reversal of the decline, but the United States is still seen by many as unwelcoming to international students.Most Americans recognize that universities contribute to the nation’s well-being through their scientific research, but many fear that foreign students threaten American competitiveness by taking their knowledge and skills back home. They fail to grasp that welcoming foreign students to the United States has two important positive effects: first, the very best of them stay in the States and—like immigrants throughout history—strengthen the nation; and second, foreign students who study in the United States become ambassadors for many of its most cherished (珍视) values when they return home. Or at least they understand them better. In America as elsewhere, few instruments of foreign policy are as effective in promoting peace and stability as welcoming international university students.1. From the first paragraph we know that present-day universities have become ________.A) more popularized than ever beforeB) in-service training organizationsC) a powerful force for global integrationD) more and more research-oriented2. Over the past decades, the enrollment of overseas students has increased ________.A) at an annual rate of 8 percentB) at an annual rate of 3.9 percentC) by 800,000D) by 2.5 million3. In the United States, how many of the newly hired professors in science and engineering are foreign-born?A) 38%B) 10%C) 30%D) 20%4. How do Y ale and Harvard prepare their undergraduates for global careers?A) They give them chances for international study or internship.B) They arrange for them to participate in the Erasmus program.C) They offer them various courses in international politics.D) They organize a series of seminars on world economy.5. An example illustrating the general trend of universities’globalization is ________.A) Y ale’s establishing branch campuses throughout the worldB) Y ale’s student exchange program with European institutionsC) Y ale’s helping Chinese universities to launch research projectsD) Y ale’s collaboration with Fudan University on genetic research.6. What do we learn about Silicon V alley from the passage?A) It is known to be the birthplace of Microsoft Company.B) It was intentionally created by Stanford University.C) It is where the Internet infrastructure was built up.D) It houses many companies spun off from MIT and Harvard.7. What is said about the U.S. federal funding for research?A) It has increased by 3 percent.B) It doubled between 1998 and 2003.C) It has been unsteady for years.D) It has been more than sufficient.8. The dramatic decline in the enrollment of foreign students in the U.S. after September 11 was caused by ________.9. Many Americans fear that American competitiveness may be threatened by foreign students who will ________.10. The policy of welcoming foreign students can benefit the U.S. in that the very best of them will stay and ________.答案1. C2. B3. C4.D5. A6. C7. C8. changes in the visa process9. take their knowledge and skills back home10. strengthen the nation。

大学英语四级模拟测试（一）（附答案）

听力（略）Part II Reading ComprehensionDirections: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and you should decide which is the best choice. (40 points)Passage 1Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage:The United States is full of automobiles. There are still many families without cars, but some families have two or even more. However, cars are used for more than pleasure. They are necessary part of life.Cars are used for business. They are driven to offices and factories by workers who have no other way to get to their jobs. When salesmen are sent to different parts of the city, they have to drive in order to carry their products. Farmers have to drive into the city in order to get supplies. Sometimes small children must be driven to school. In some cities school buses are used only when children live more than a mile from the school. When the children are too young to walk that far, their mothers take turns driving them to school. One mother drives on Mondays, taking her own children and neighbors' children as well. Another drives on Tuesdays, another on Wednesdays, and so on. This is called forming a car pool. Men also form car pools, with three or four men taking turns driving to the place where they all work.More car pools should be formed in order to put fewer automobiles on the road and to use less gasoline. Parking is a great problem, and so is the traffic in and around cities. Too many cars are being driven. Something will have to be done about the use of cars.26. Many families in the U.S. own cars because ________.A) cars are a source of pleasure for themB) they need a car to form a car poolC) they live more than a mile away from the schoolD) cars form necessary part in their life27. Which of the following groups is NOT mentioned though they certainly drive cars?A) Office workers.B) Police and mail carriers.C) Salesmen and farmers.D) Factory workers.28. Paragraph 3 suggests that in the United States ________.A) children have to walk to schoolB) school buses take all the children to schoolC) mothers drive children to schoolD) families usually live within a mile from the school29. "A car pool" most probably means ________.A) a number of people sharing the use of a carB) a place for parking carsC) a group of tourists driving alternativelyD) a place for learning to drive30. What is the author's advice about the use of cars?A) To provide larger parking spaces.B) To build better roads.C) To produce fewer automobiles.D) To form more car pools.Passage 2Question 31 to 35 are based on the following passage:Recent fires have destroyed much of Indonesian forests and pose the latest threat to the survival of the endangered orangutans（红毛猿）. Thirty orangutans fleeing their burning forest home have been killed by villagers, who see the animals as crop raiders. Orangutan mothers have been killed so that their young can be captured and sold into the illegal wildlife pet trade. Orangutan experts continue to receive orangutan infants whose mothers have been killed while searching for food in plantations and fields.The fires, caused by drought and coupled with fire-setting methods to clear forests, have destroyed more than two million acres. When fire gets into the rainforests' layer of dry peat (partly decayed plant material which covers the soil), it can burn slowly off and on for months or years after the original fire. These fires continue until heavy rainfall soaks the peat through and through. Orangutans once numbered in the hundreds of thousands, but their population has dropped to roughly 25 000 due to fire, the destruction of forests from felling trees for timber and agriculture, and losses linked to the live-animal trade. Before the fires, only 40 percent of the orangutans' original habitat remained, and now, their habitat has become even smaller.31. What can be the best title for this passage?A) Fires Drive Orangutans to Danger.B) Orangutans Are Precious Animals.C) Fires in Indonesia Keep on Flaming.D) Orangutans Endanger the Crops of Indonesia.32. Which of the following is true about villagers?A) They set fire in order to kill orangutans for food.B) They are ignorant of wild life pets trade.C) They dislike orangutans because they destroy crops.D) They continue to receive orangutans infants.33. According to this passage, fires in Indonesia ________.A) will not end until it starts to rainB) will be eventually put out by human effortC) will die out when the winds stop blowingD) will only stop when the peat is totally wet34. Some people buy orangutans because ________.A) they want to save orangutansB) they want to keep orangutans as petsC) they want to build new homes for orangutansD) they want to take care of orangutan infants35. Which of the following is NOT a reason for the decreasing of orangutans in Indonesia?A) The forests have been burned to make land for agriculture.B) Most of orangutans' forests have been destroyed.C) Mother orangutans have been caught and sold in pet-animal market.D) Trees have been cut down for human profits.Passage 3Question 36 to 40 are based on the following passage:Don't try kicking the tires on a very modern and strange car developed by students at Coventry University. Not only does the car have no tires, it has no steering wheel, either.The Coventry Concept Car, as it is called is a completely new design that looks more like a snail（蜗牛）than an automobile. No working model, or functional form of the vehicle exists yet, but its designers recently introduced a life-sized model and explained how a real one would work. Electric motors would move rapidly undulating pad（形成波浪状气垫）underneath the car; moving the vehicle in any direction at speeds up to 480 km per hour. The motion would be a much faster way of crawling ? the way snails move. (Muscles in the bottom of a snail's flat foot contract （收缩）in waves that push the snail along the ground.)Steering of the snail car would be handled automatically by an onboard computer, which would receive signals from orbiting satellites. Those signals would help guide the snail car along a preprogrammed route.Even the car's color could be computer-controlled, the student designer suggested. Instead of a painted out appearance, the snail car would sport an electronically sensitive film that changes color according to its surroundings.36. The Coventry Concept Car is designed mainly based on ________.A) the appearance of a snailB) the movement of a snailC) the life-size of a snailD) the behavior of a snail37. Which of the following is true about the Coventry Concept Car?A) Its first working model can run at 480 km per hour.B) Its direction is controlled by a steering wheel.C) It moves in all directions on a pair of flat feet.D) It travels automatically along preprogrammed routes.38. The color of the car can be changed ______.A) by applying different films onto its exteriorB) automatically in accordance with its surroundingsC) by signals received by the car computerD) according to the customer's requirement39. The word "sport" in the last but one line most probably means _______.A) applyB) wearC) runD) notice40. Which of the following might be the best title for the passage?A) A Car at a Speed of a SnailB) A Computer-Controlled Electronic V ehicleC) A Car Without Tires and Steering WheelD) A Car with No Functional FormPassage 4Question 41 to 45 are based on the following passage:Have you ever been afraid to talk back when you were treated unfairly? Have you ever bought something just because the salesman talked you into it? Are you afraid to ask someone for a date?Many people are afraid to assert themselves（坚持自己的权利）. Dr. Alberti, author of Stand Up, Speak Out, and Talk Back, thinks it's because their self-respect is low. "Our whole set-up is designed to make people distrust themselves," says Alberti. "There's always a 'superior' around: a parent, a teacher, a boss who 'knows better'."But Alberti and other scientists are doing something to help those people assert themselves. They offer "Assertiveness Training" courses ? A T for short. In the A T course people learn that they have a right to be themselves. They learn to speak out and feel good about doing so. They learn to be aggressive without hurting other people.In one way, learning to speak out is to overcome fear. A group taking an A T course will help the timid person to lose his fear. But A T uses an even stronger motive ? the need to share. The timid person speaks out in the group because he wants to tell how he feels.Whether or not you speak up for yourself depends on your self-image. If someone you face is more "important" than you, you may feel less of a person. Y ou start to doubt your own good sense. Y ou go by the other person's label. But, why should you? A T says you can get to feel good about yourself. And once you do, you can learn to speak out.41. The problem the writer talks about is that _______.A) some people buy things they don't wantB) some people are afraid of arguing for themselvesC) there are too many "superiors" around usD) there is too much pressure from our society42. The cause of the problem discussed in this passage is that _______.A) some people have a low self-imageB) there is always someone around who "knows better"C) salesmen talk people into buying things they don't wantD) people don't share opinions in a group43. The set-up of our society often _______.A) makes people distrust themselvesB) makes things more favorable for "superiors"C) keeps people from knowing as much as their "superiors"D) helps people to learn to speak up for their rights44. A T is one solution to the problem in this passage, but one thing A T doesn't promote is to help people ________.A) to share their feelingsB) to have a right to be oneselfC) to overcome their fear before othersD) to be more aggressive45. The title for this passage could be ________.A) Assertiveness TrainingB) Loss of Self-respectC) The Importance of Human RightsD) Share Y our Feelings with OthersPart III Vocabulary and StructureDirections: There are 20 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Choose the ONE that best completes the se ntences. (10 points)46. Those high school students _____ to computer games will usually lose interest in their studies.A) absorbed B) addicted C) approached D) adapted47. What did you put in your suitcase? It's almost _____ mine.A) four times as heavy as B) four times heavier as C) as four times heavy as D) as heavy as four times48. In some countries today, it is still illegal for doctors to help a woman have a(n) _____.A) pregnancy B) abortion C) miscarriage D) embryo49. Metal _____ when cooled and expands when heated.A) decreases B) reduces C) condenses D) contracts50. The employees were afraid to ask for a salary raise _____ they should lose their jobs.A) lest B) or else C) so that D) in order that51. There has been a heated controversy over the new traffic _____ forbidding automobiles in downtown during the daytime.A) laws B) bans C) alerts D) regulations52. She has won a _____ prize for her poems published in the past 10 years.A) privileged B) awarded C) prestigious D) rewarded53. Each man and woman must sign _____ full names before entering the examination room.A) his B) her C) their D) one's49. Giving the child problems he can't solve will only ________ him.A) frustrate B) challenge C) conquer D) press54. It is pleasant to see that the whole community has participated in this environmental action with great _____.A) validity B) vow C) vigor D) vision55. As they can't have a child of their own, they're going to _____ a little girl.A) adapt B) adopt C) adjust D) receive56. It's no use _____ wit him. Y ou might as well argue with a stone wall.A) arguing B) of arguing C) in arguing D) to argue57. The official figures of unemployment revealed that millions of citizens could hardly make a _____ living.A) honest B) decent C) appropriate D) suitable58. The company has been found guilty violating copyright laws _____ a regular _____.A) for ... reason B) by ... way C) on ... basis D) to ... degree59. Believe it or not, he arrived in America with only 25 dollars _____.A) by his name B) to his name C) in his name D) with his name60. _____ is no reason for dismissing her.A) A few minutes late B) Owing to a few minutes late C) Because she was a few minutes late D) Being a few minutes late61. I handed in the application two months ago, but I have not received any response _____.A) in date B) out of date C) to date D) on date62. In the course of a day our students do far more than just _____ classes.A) attending B) attended C) to attend D) attend63. The newspaper didn't mention its secret _____ who provided the information for the event.A) resource B) source C) origin D) cause64. The clothes a person wears may express his _____ or social position.A) state B) significance C) determination D) status65. If I hadn't turned off the power before you touched the wires, you _____ now.A) wouldn't have smiled B) didn't smile C) wouldn't be smiling D) couldn't have smiledPart IV T ranslationSection A:Directions: Read the following passage and translate the 5 underlined sentences into Chinese.(5 points)(66) To be successful at business, you not only have to be good at what you do, but you have to be good at letting others know how good you are at what you do. Y ou have to come up with a plan to get your product or service in the market place. Y ou have to come up with a marketing plan. (67) This marketing plan involves two parts: you have to figure out who the market is; and you have to make the product or service known to that market. These two work together.It is a rare case in marketing when a product has appeal to everyone regardless of sex, age, income level or special interests. (68) The more typical case is that a product will appeal to a limited group of people who are willing to put down their hard-earned dollars to buy what you have to sell.(69) The basic question to keep in mind as you develop your marketing plan is: Who would want to buy the type of product I make and how can I develop it to be saleable to these special people? Once you define your market, you often have to modify your product to fit that market. Sometimes the answer to this question is clear and logical. Often, however, a business person has to do some research and experimentation to find the answer. (70) Many a business has failed because people didn't consider this obvious but critical question: Who is the market?66. ____________________________________________________________________________67.____________________________________________________________________________68. ____________________________________________________________________________69. ____________________________________________________________________________70. ____________________________________________________________________________Section BDirections: In this section, you will translate 5 sentences below into English. (10 points)71. 一群科学家上周在一次新闻发布会上宣布的克隆计划在全世界引起了轩然大波。

2002年6月六级真题解析（阅读部分）-六级阅读

Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)Directions: There are 4 passages in this Part. Each passage is followed by some questions or Unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.（这是⼀篇报道性的科普⽂章，⽂章的主题是⽓候变化对⼈类⽣存的影响。

阅读难度较⼤。

）When global warming finally came, it stuck with a vengeance (异乎寻常地). In some regions, temperatures rose several degrees in less than a century. Sea levels shot up nearly 400 feet, flooding coastal settlements and forcing people to migrate inland. Deserts spread throughout the world as vegetation shifted drastically in North America, Europe and Asia. After driving many of the animals around them to near extinction, people were forced to abandon their old way of life for a radically new survival strategy that resulted in widespread starvation and disease. The adaptation was farming: the global-warming crisis that gave rise to it happened more than l0,000 years ago.As environmentalists convene in rio de Janeiro this week to ponder the global climate of the future, earth scientists are in the midst of a revolution in understanding how climate has changed in the past --and how those changes have transformed human existence. Researchers have begun to piece together an illuminating picture of the powerful geo1ogical and astronomical forces that have combined to change the planet's environment from hot to cold, wet to dry and back again over a time Period stretching back hundreds of millions of years.Most important, scientists are beginning to realize that the climatic changes have had a major impact on the evolution of the human species. New research now suggests that climate shifts have played a key role in nearly every significant turning point in human evolution: from the dawn of Primates (灵长类动物) some 65 million years ago to human ancestors rising up to walk on two legs, from the huge expansion of the human brain to the rise of agriculture. Indeed, the human history has not been merely touched by global climate change, some scientists argue, it has in some instances been driven by it.The new research has profound implications for the environmental summit in Rio. Among other things, the findings demonstrate that dramatic climate change is nothing new for planet Earth. The benign (宜⼈的) global environment that has existed over the past l0,000years - during which agriculture, writing, cities and most other features of civilization appeared --is a mere bright spot in a much large pattern of widely varying climate over the ages. In fact the pattern of climate change in the past reveals that Earth's climate will almost certainly go through dramatic changes in the future -- even without the influence of human activity2l. Farming emerged as a survival strategy because man had been obliged____________ .A) to give up his former way of lifeB) to leave the coastal areas.C) to follow the ever-shifting vegetationD) to abandon his original settlement.答案为 A)?事实细节题。

2009,6答案Part II Reading Comprehension

Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)1. When Lenore Skenazy’s son was allowed to take the subway alone, he .A) was afraid that he might get lostB) enjoyed having the independenceC) was only too pleased to take the riskD) thought he was an exceptional child2. Lenore Skenazy believes that keeping kids under careful watch .A) hinders their healthy growthB) adds too much to parents’ expensesC) shows traditional parental cautionD) bucks the latest parenting trend3. Sken azy’s decision to let her son take the Subway alone has net with .A) opposition from her own familyB) official charges of child abuseC) approval from psychologistsD) somewhat mixed responses4. Skenazy started her own blog to .A) promote sensible parentingB) share parenting experienceC) fight against child abuseD) protect children’s rights5. According to the author, New York CityA) ranks high in road accidentsB) is much safe than beforeC) ranks low in child mortality ratesD) is less dangerous than small cities6. Parents today are more nervous about their kids’ safety than previous generations becauseA) there are now fewer children in the familyB) the number of traffic accidents has been increasingC) their fear is amplified by media exposure of crimeD) crime rates have been on the rise over the years7. According to child experts, how and when kids may be allowed more freedom depends on .A) the traditions and customs of the communityB) the safety conditions of their neighborhoodC) their parents’ psychological makeupD) their maturity and personal qualities8. According to Gallagher and Skenazy, children who are watchful will be better able to stay away from unsafe situations.9. Being able to fin d out where a child is anytime helps lessen parents’ anxiety.10. Nowadays with the help of GPS cell phones, parents can, from a distance, track their children’s movements(every movement)Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)Section A47.Where do girls get the notion that they need to be thin in order to be considered beautiful?From TV and fashion magazines.48. By promoting “body activism,” University of Texas psychologists aim to prevent (developing) eating disorders.49. According to the author, Mattel’s Barbie dolls are impossibly proportioned.50. The positive effects of the Body Project may last up to three years(after competing the program).51. One Body Project participant says that the real motive of those who promote the perfect body is to make money.Section BPassage One52. We can learn from the firstparagraph that 大家论坛.A) human activities have changed the wayturtles surviveB) efforts have been made to protectturtles from dying outC) government bureaucracy has contributed to turtles’ extinctionD) marine biologists are looking for thesecret of turtles’ reproduction53. What does the author mean by “Natureis indifferent to human notions of fairness” (Line 1, Para. 2)?A) Nature is quite fair regarding thesurvival of turtles.B) Turtles are by nature indifferent tohuman activities.C) The course of nature will not bechanged by human interference.D) The turtle population has decreased inspite of human protection.54. What constitutes a major threatto the survival of turtles according to Elizabeth Griffin?A) Their inadequate food supply.B) Unregulated commercial fishing.C) Their lower reproductively ability.D) Contamination of sea water55. How does global warming affectthe survival of turtles?A) It threatens the sandy beaches onwhich they lay eggs.B) The changing climate makes itdifficult for their eggs to hatch.C) The rising sea levels make it harder fortheir hatchlings to grow.D) It takes them longer to adapt to thehigh beach temperature.56. The last sentence of the passageis meant to 大家论坛.A) persuade human beings to show moreaffection for turtlesB) stress that even the most ugly speciesshould be protectedC) call for effective measures to ensuresea turtles’ survivalD) warn our descendants about theextinction of speciesPassage Two57. What’s the opinion of economistsabout going to college?A) Huge amounts of money is being wastedon campus socializing.B) It doesn’t pay to run into debt toreceive a college education.C) College education is rewarding inspite of the startling costs.D) Going to college doesn’t necessarilybring the expected returns.58. The two Harvard economists notein their study that, for much of the 20th century, 大家论坛.A) enrollment kept decreasing invirtually all American colleges and universitiesB) the labor market preferred high-schoolto college graduatesC) competition for university admissionswas far more fierce than todayD) the gap between the earnings ofcollege and high-school graduates narrowed59. Students who attend an in-statecollege or university can 大家论坛.A) save more on tuitionB) receive a better educationC) take more liberal-arts coursesD) avoid traveling long distances60. In this consumerist age, mostparents 大家论坛.A) regard college education as a wiseinvestmentB) place a premium on the prestige of theCollegeC) think it crucial to send theirchildren to collegeD) consider college education a consumerproduct61. What is the chief considerationwhen students choose a college today?A) Their employment prospects aftergraduation.B) A satisfying experience within theirbudgets.C) Its facilities and learningenvironment.D) Its ranking among similarinstitutions.Part V ClozeSome historian say that the most important contribution of DwightEisenhower’s presidency (总统任期) in the 1950s was the U.S. interstatehighway system. It was a __62_massive(C)_project, easily surpassing the scale of such previous human __63_endeavors(B)_ as the Panama Canal. Eisenhower’s interstate highways __64_bound(D)_ the nationtogether in new ways and__65_mobilized(C)_major economic growth by makingcommerce less __66_exclusive(C)_.Today, an information superhighway has been built—an electronic network that __67_connects(B)_ libraries,corporations, government agencies and __68_individuals(C)_.This electronic superhighway is called the Internet, __69_and(A)_ it is the backbone(主干) of theWorld Wide Web.The Internet had its __70_origins(C)_in a 1969 U.S. Defense Department computer network called ARPAnet, which __71_stood for(B)_ Advanced ResearchProjects Agency Network. The Pentagon built the network for militarycontractors and universities doing military research to__72_exchange(A)_ information. In1983 the National Science Foundation (NSF), __73_whose(D)_ mission is to promote science, took over.This new NSF network __74_attracted(C)_more and more institutional users, may of__75_which(B)_ had their own internal networks. For example,most universities that__76_joined(A)_the NSF network had intracampus computer networks. The NSF network__77_then(D)_ became a connector forthousands of other networks. __78_As(D)_a backbone system that interconnects networks, internet was a name that fit.So we can see that the Internet is the wired infrastructure (基础设施) on which web__79_messages(C)_ move. It began as a military communicationsystem, which expanded into a government-funded __80 civilian(B)__ research network.Today, the Internet is a user-financed system tying intuitions of manysorts together __81_into(A)_ an“information superhighway.”Part VI Translation82. With the oil prices ever rising,she tried to talk him out of buying a car (说服他不买车).83. Keeping a sense of humor helps(保持幽默有助于)reduce stress and promote creative thinking in today’s competitive society.84. When confronted with the evidence, he had no choice but to confess the crime he had committed (他不得不坦白自己的罪行).85. When peo ple say, “I can feel my ears burning,” it means they think there must be someone (who is) speaking ill of them (一定有人在说他们坏话).86. She has decided to go on a diet,but finds it hard to resist the temptation of ice cream (很难抵制冰淇淋的诱惑).回复引用举报返回顶部听力答案11. A) Fred forgot to call him last nightabout the camping trip.B) He is not going to lend his sleeping bag to Fred.C) He has not seen Fred at the gym for sometime.D) Fred may have borrowed a sleeping bag from someoneelse.12. A) Summer has become hotter in recentyears.B) It will cool down a bit over the weekend.C) Swimming in a pool has a relaxing effect.D) He hopes the weather forecast is accurate.13. A) Taking a picture of Prof. Brown.B) Commenting on an oil-painting.C) Hosting a TV program.D) Staging a performance.14. A) She can help the man take care ofthe plants.B) Most plants grow better in direct sunlight.C) The plants need to be watered frequently.D) The plants should be placed in a shady spot.15. A) Change to a more exciting channel.B) See the movie some other time.C) Go to bed early.D) Stay up till eleven.16. A) Both of them are laymen of modernart.B) She has beamed to appreciate modem sculptures.C) Italian artists’ works are difficult tounderstand.D) Modern artists are generally considered weird.17. A)They seem satisfied with what they have done.B) They have called all club members to contribute.C) They think the day can be called a memorableone.D) They find it hard to raise money for the hospital.18. A)The man shouldn’t hesitate to take the course.B) The man should talk with the professor first.C) The course isn’t open to undergraduates.D) The course will require a lot of reading.Questions 19 to 21 are based on theconversation you have just heard.19. A) Current trends in economicdevelopment.B) Domestic issues of general social concern.C) Stories about Britain’s relations with othernations.D) Conflicts and compromises among politicalparties.20. A) Based on the poll of public opinions.B) By interviewing people who file complaints.C) By analyzing the domestic and internationalsituation.D) Based on public expectations and editors’ judgment.21. A) Underlying rules of editing.B) Practical experience.C) Audie nce’s feedback.D) Professional qualifications.Questions 22 to 25 are based on theconversation you have just heard.22. A) Theaverage life span was less than 50 years.B) It was very common for them to have 12 children.C) They retired from work much earlier than today.D) They were quite optimistic about theirfuture.23. A) Get ready forecological changes.B) Adapt to the new environment.C) Learn to use newtechnology.D) Explore ways to stay young.24. A) When all women goout to work.B) When family planning is enforced..C) When a world government is set up.D) When all people becomewealthier.25. A) Eliminate povertyand injustice.B) Migrate to other planets.C) Control theenvironment.D) Find inexhaustible resources.Section BPassageOneQuestions 26 to 28 are based on the passageyou have just heard.26. A) To help young people improve theirdriving skills.B) To alert teenagers to the dangers of recklessdriving.C) To teach young people road manners throughvideotapes.D) To show teens the penalties imposed on carelessdrivers.27. A)Road accidents.B) Street violence.C) Drug abuse.D) Lung cancer.28. A) It has changed teens’ way of life.B) It has made teens feel like adults.C)It hasaccomplished its objective.D) It has been supported by parents.PassageTwoQuestions 29 to 31 are based on the passageyou have just heard.29. A) Customers may get addicted to thesmells.B) Customers may be misled by the smells.C) It hides the defects of certain goods.D) It gives rise to unfair competition.30. A) Flexible.B) Critical.C) Supportive.D) Cautious.31. A)The flower scent stimulated people’s desire to buy.B) Stronger smells had greater effects onconsumers.C) Most shoppers hated the small the shoe store.D) 84% of the customers were unaware of the smells. PassageThreeQuestions 32 to 35 are based on the passageyou have just heard.32. A) A goods train hit a bus carrying manypassengers.B) Two passenger trains crashed into eachother.C) A passenger traincollided with a goods train.D) An express train was derailed when hit by abomb.33. A) The rescueoperations have not been very effective.B) More than 300 injured passengers werehospitalized.C) The cause of the tragic accident remainsunknown.D) The exact casualtyfigures are not yet available.34. A) There was a bomb scare.B) There was a terrorist attack.C) A fire alarm was set off by mistake.D) 50 pounds of explosives were found.35. A) Follow policemen’sdirections.B) Keep an eye on the weather.C) Avoid snow-covered roads.D) Drive with specialcare.Section CEnglish is the leading international language.In different countries around the globe, English is acquired as the mother (36) tongue, in others it’s usedas a second language. Some nations use English as t heir (37) official language, performing the function of (38) administration; in othersit’s used as an international language for business, (39) commerce and industry.What factors and forces have led to the (40) spread of English? Why isEnglish now considered to be so prestigious that, across the globe, individualsand societies feel (41) disadvantaged if they do not have (42) competence in this language? How has English changed through 1,500 Years? These are someof the questions that you (43) investigate when you study English. You also examine the immense variability ofEnglish and (44) come to understandhow it is used as a symbol of both individual identity and social connection. Youdevelop in-depth knowledge of the intricate structure of the language. Why dosome non-native speakers of English claim that it’s a difficult language tolearn, while(45) infants born intoEnglish -speaking communities acquire their language before they learn to useforks and knives?At the University of Sussex, you areintroduced to the nature and grammar of English in all aspects. This involvesthe study of sound structures, the formation of words, the sequencing words andthe construction of meaning, as well as examination of the theories explainingthese aspects of English usage. (46) You'reencouraged to develop your own individual responses to various practical andtheoretical issues, which are raised by studying how speakers andwriters employ English for a wide variety of purposes.。

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专业英语八级（阅读）模拟题2019年(21)(总分100, 做题时间155分钟)PART II READING COMPREHENSIONSECTION A MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONSIn this section there are several passages followed by fourteen multiple-choice questions. For each multiple-choice question, there are four suggested answers marked [A] , [B], [C] and [D]. Choose the one that you think is the best answer.(1)It is nothing new that English use is on the rise around the world, especially in business circles. This also happens in France, the headquarters of the global battle against American cultural hegemony. If French guys are giving in to English, something really big must be going on. And something big is going on.(2)Partly, it's that American hegemony. Didier Benchimol, CEO of a French ecommerce **pany, **pelled to speak English perfectly because the Internet software business is dominated by Americans. He and other French businessmen also have to speak English because they want to get their message out to American investors, possessors of the world's deepest pockets.(3)The triumph of English in France and elsewhere in Europe, however, may rest on something more enduring. As they become entwined with each other politically and economically, Europeans need a way to talk to one another and to the rest of the world. And for a number of reasons, they've decided upon English as **mon tongue.(4)So when German chemical and **pany Hoechst merged with **petitor Rhone-Poulenc last year, **panies chose the vaguely Latinate Aventis as the **pany name—-and settled on English as **pany's common language. When monetary policymakers from around Europe began meeting at the European Central Bank in Frankfurt last year to set interest rates for the new Euroland, they held their deliberations in English. Even the European Commission, with 11 official languages and a traditionally French-speaking bureaucracy, effectively switched over to English as its working language last year.(5)How did this happen? One school attributes English's great success to the sheer weight of its merit. It's a Germanic language, brought to Britain around the fifth century A.D. During the four centuries of French-speaking rule that followed Norman Conquest of 1066, the language morphed into something else entirely. French words were added wholesale, and most of **plications of Germanic grammar were shed while few of **plications of French were added. The result is a language with a huge vocabulary and a simple grammar that can express most things more efficiently than either of its parents. What's more, English has remained ungoverned and open to change—foreign words,coinages, and grammatical shifts—in a way that French, ruled by the purist Academie Francaise, has not.(6)So it's a swell language, especially for business. But the rise of English over the past few centuries clearly owes at least as much to history and economics as to the language's ability to economically express the concept win-win. What happened is that **petition—first Latin, then French, then, briefly, German—faded with the waning of the political, economic, and military fortunes of, respectively, the Catholic Church, France, and Germany. All along, English was increasing in importance: Britain was the birthplace of theIndustrial Revolution, and London the world's most importantfinancial centre, which made English a key language for business. England's colonies around the world also made it the language with the most global reach. And as that former colony the U.S. rose to the status of the world's preeminent political, economic, military, and cultural power, English became the obvious second language to learn.(7)In the 1990s more and more Europeans found themselves forced to use English. The last generation of business and government leaders who hadn't studied English in school was leaving the stage. The European Community was adding new members and evolving from a paper-shuffling club into a serious regional government that would need a **mon language if it were ever to get anything done. Meanwhile, economic barriers between European nations have been disappearing, meaning that more and **panies are beginning to look at the whole continent as their domestic market. And then the Internet came along.(8)The Net had two big impacts. One was that it was an exciting, potentially lucrative new industry that had its roots in the U.S., so if you wanted to get in on it, you had to speak some English. The other was that by surfing the Web, Europeans who had previously encountered English only in school and in pop songs were **ing into contact with it daily.(9)None of this means English has taken over European life. According to the European Union, 47% of Western Europeans(including the British and Irish)speak English well enough to carry on a conversation.That's a lot more than those who can speak German(32%)or French(28%), but it still means more Europeans don't speak the language. If you want to sell shampoo or cell phones, you have to do it in French or German or Spanish or Greek. Even me U.S. and British **panies that stand to benefit most from the spread of English have been hedging their bets—CNN broadcasts in Spanish; the Financial Times has recently launched a daily German-language edition.(10)But just look at who speaks English: 77% of Western European college students, 69% of managers, and 65% of those aged 15 to 24. In the secondary schools of the European Union's non-English-speakingcountries, 91% of students study English, all of which means that the transition to English as the language of European business hasn't been all that traumatic, and it's only going to get easier in the future.SSS_SINGLE_SELEuropeans began to favour English for all the following reasons EXCEPT its _____.Ainherent linguistic propertiesBassociation with the business worldClinks with the United StatesDdisassociation from political changes该问题分值: 2.9答案:D第2段第1句说，部分原因与美国霸权有关，故C是原因之一。

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Part II Reading Comprehension (40%)Directions: Read the following passages carefully and do the multiple-choice questions.Text 1On a practical level, teachers need a wide variety of skills and abilities. They have to be ready to spend many hours at home planning their lessons and preparing homework. They have to be well organized in class, patient with students, able to appear bright and interested even if they are in fact tired or unhappy, and lively enough to control a group of young people for almost 200 days a year. Outside the classroom, they may have to prepare teaching materials, to choose books to use as texts, to help organize the work of other teachers, or to organize spare time activities for students.If you think that you have all the necessary qualities, you may feel that you would like to be a teacher. One way to decide, if you live in the United States, is by joining a club for future teachers, such as Student Action for Education. Clubs like this give advice about your field, and also allow you to watch teachers at work, attend meetings and experiment with teaching methods and equipment. You could also talk with the job advisor at your school or university. Finally, you could try teaching a younger student or becoming an advisor at a summer camp for children. Any activity in which you are dealing with children will help you decide whether you have a calling for teaching.1. The first paragraph is mainly about ________.A) how to plan lessons and prepare homeworkB) how to help organize the work of other teachersC) various skills and abilities teachers needD) how to prepare teaching materials2.The second paragraph is mainly concerned with ________.A) the ways of deciding one's future employmentB) the ways to decide whether teaching should be one's future employmentC) joining a club for future teachersD) talking to an advisor when choosing future employment3. According to the author, a teacher should show a firm mind ________.A) that suffers only from tirednessB) that suffers only from unhappinessC) that suffers only from unusual tiredness or unhappinessD) that is able to control tiredness and unhappiness4.Student Action for Education is ________.A) a summer camp for childrenB) an activity at a summer campC) a club for future teachersD) a club for job advisors5. Which of the following does the author suggest to a person who wants to be a teacher?A) Watching teachers at work, or organizing students' spare time activitiesB) Preparing and correcting homework, experimenting with teaching methods andequipmentC) Joining a future teachers' club, talking with job advisors, or working with childrenD) Planning lessons, or attending teachers' meetingsPassage 2There are different ideas about pets in different parts of the world. In most cultures, animals are in a worse position than human beings. In some cases, however, people treat their pets like members of their families, or perhaps better. In the United States and Europe, there are special shops that sell clothing and food for cats and dogs.In many countries of the world, there is special food for pets. It is common for big markets in many places to sell cat food and dog food. However, in a small town in France, there is a special restaurant for dogs. Dogs are the only customers. There is seating for twenty of them. The dogs choose from a variety of dishes on the menu.Of course, in most parts of the world, pets don't live in such wealth and comfort. People treat their pets in a more practical way. People own cats and dogs because they keep away mice and other unwanted animals. Owners have some loving feelings for their pets, but they do not see them as equal to family members. In most places in the world, there isn't any special clothing or fine food for animals. There aren't any special restaurants for dogs.Pets around the world live in a great variety of ways, just as people do.6. According to the passage, in most countries _________.A) people treat their pets like members of their familiesB) there are special shops that sell clothing for dogs and catsC) animals are in a worse position than human beingsD) pets such as dogs and cats are very popular7. According to the passage, there are ___________.A) restaurants for dogs in every city in FranceB) no dogs or cats that wear clothingC) some people who treat their pets far better than they treat their childrenD) many owners of dogs and cats in the United States and Europe8. For many people, pets may have a more practical function because _________.A) cats and dogs can be used to keep away miceB) pets are often useful companions for old peopleC) pets can sometimes be sold to make moneyD) some pets may show loving feelings for their owners.9. In your opinion, which of the following sentences is probably true?A) Dogs and cats like to wear expensive clothing.B) Many people visit the dog restaurant in France.C) People in every part of the world like to buy fine clothing for their pets.D) In some cases, animals have better food and clothing than people.10. The main idea of this reading passage is: _______.A) Dogs enjoy fine restaurantsB) A rich cat can afford to go to any restaurantC) People treat pets in very different ways in different parts of the worldD) It is stupid to have special food and clothing for animalsPassage 3What makes Americans spend nearly half their food dollars on meals away from home? The answers lie in the way Americans live today. During the first few decades of the twentieth century, canned and convenience foods freed the family cook from full-time duty at the kitchen range. Then, in the 1940s, work in the wartime plants took more women out of the home than ever before, setting the pattern of the working wife and mother.Today about half of the country’s married women are employed outside the home. But, unless family members pitch in with food preparation, women are not fully liberated from that chore. Instead many have become, in a sense, prisoners of the completely cooked convenience meal. It is easier to pick up a bucket of fried chicken on the way from work or t take family out for pizzas, or burgers than to start opening cans or heating up frozen dinners after a long, hard day.Also, the rising divorce rate means that there are more single working parents with children to feed. And many young adults and elderly people, as well as unmarried and divorced mature people, live alone rather than as part of a family unit and don’t want to bother cooking for one.Fast food is appealing because it is fast, it doesn’t require any dressing up, it offers a “fun”break.11. American women left home to work in large numbers because of_________.A) the improved living standardB) the increase in food priceC) the need of wartime industryD) the modernization of the kitchen12. The phrase “pitch in” in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to_________.A) “offer help and support”B) “eat with good appetite”C) “offer compliment”D) “disagree with”13. What is a working mother’s best choice if she does not have time to prepare dinner for thefamily according to the passage?A) Making a meal out of canned food.B) Buying some chicken on the way home and frying it.C) Taking the family to dinner at a pizza place.D) Heating up frozen dinners.14. Which of the following groups of Americans are most likely to cook their meal at home?A) Single working mothers.B) unmarried mature people.C) elderly people living alone.D) Unemployed women with family.15. What is this passage mainly about?A) Women’s liberation in America.B) Changes in the American family during Word War II.C) Reasons for the popularity of fast food in America.D) Rising divorce rate in America today.Passage 4There are different ideas about pets in different parts of the world. In most cultures, animals are in a worse position than human beings. In some cases, however, people treat their pets like members of their families, or perhaps better. In the United States and Europe, there are special shops that sell clothing and food for cats and dogs.In many countries of the world, there is special food for pets. It is common for big markets in many places to sell cat food and dog food. However, in a small town in France, there is a special restaurant for dogs. Dogs are the only customers. There is seating for twenty of them. The dogs choose from a variety of dishes on the menu.Of course, in most parts of the world, pets don't live in such wealth and comfort. People treat their pets in a more practical way. People own cats and dogs because they keep away mice and other unwanted animals. Owners have some loving feelings for their pets, but they do not see them as equal to family members. In most places in the world, there isn't any special clothing or fine food for animals. There aren't any special restaurants for dogs.Pets around the world live in a great variety of ways, just as people do.16. According to the passage, in most countries ______________________________.A. animals are in a worse position than human beingsB. people treat their pets like members of their familiesC. there are special shops that sell clothing for dogs and catsD. pets such as dogs and cats are very popular17. According to the passage, there are ______________________________.A. many owners of dogs and cats in the United States and EuropeB. restaurants for dogs in every city in FrancC. no dogs or cats that wear clothingD. some people who treat their pets far better than they treat their children18. For many people, pets may have a more practical function because ____________________.A. pets are often useful companions for old peopleB. cats and dogs can be used to keep away miceC. pets can sometimes be sold to make moneyD. some pets may show loving feelings for their owners19. In your opinion, which of the following sentences is probably true?A. Dogs and cats like to wear expensive clothing.B. Many people visit the dog restaurant in France.C. People in every part of the world like to buy fine clothing for their pets.D. In some cases, animals have better food and clothing than people.20. The main idea of this reading passage is ____________________________.A. Dogs enjoy fine restaurantsB. A rich cat can afford to go to any restaurantC. People treat pets in very different ways in different parts of the worldD. It is stupid to have special food and clothing for animals1-5 C B D C C6-10 C D A D C11-15 C A C D C16-20 A A B D CClozeChildren model themselves largely on their parents. They do so mainly through identification. Children identify 66 a parent when they believe they have the qualities and feelings that are 67 of that parent. The things parents do and say—and the 68 they do and say to them—therefore strongly influence a child’s 69 , However, parents must consistently behave like the type of 70 they want their child to become.A parent’s actions 71 affect the self mage that a child forms 72 identification.Children who see mainly positive qualities in their 73 will likely learn to see themselves in a positive way. Children who observe chiefly 74 qualities in their parents will have difficulty 75 positive qualities in themselves.Children may 76 their self image, however, as they become increasingly 77 .Isolated events, 78 dramatic ones, do not necessarily have a permanent 79 on a child’s behavior. Children interpret such events according to their established attitudes and previous training. Children who know they are loved can, 80 ,accept the divorce of their parent’s or a parent’s early 81 .But if children feel unloved, they may interpret such events 82 a sign of rejection or punishment. In the same way, all children are not influenced 83 by toys and games, reading matter, and television programs. 84 in the case of a dramatic change in family relations, the 85 of an activity or experience depends on how the child interprets it.66.A. to B. with C. around D. for67.A. informed B. characteristic C. conceived D. indicative68.A. gesture B. expression D. way D. extent69.A. behavior B. words C. mood D. reactions70.A. person B. humans C. creatures D. adult71.A. in turn B. nevertheless C. also D. as a result72.A. before B. besides C. with D. through73.A. eyes B. parents C. peers D. behaviors74.A. negative B. cheerful C. various D. complex75.A. see B. seeing C. to see D. to seeing76.A. modify B. copy C. Give up D. continue77.A. mature B. influenced C. unique D. independent78.A. particularly B. partially C. especially D. finally79.A. idea B. wonder C. stamp D. effect80.A. luckily B. for example C. at most D. theoretically81.A. death B. rewards C. advice D. teaching82.A. as B. being C. of D. for83.A. even B. at all C. alike D. as a whole84.A.Oh B. Alas C. Right D. As85.A. result B. effect C. scale D. causeKey: 66—70 BBCAA 71—75 CDBAB 76—80 ABCDB 81—85 AACDB1.Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the title: “My View on Job-hopping” Your composition should be in three paragraphs and based on the outline given below in Chinese.1．有些人喜欢始终从事一种工作，因为…2．有些人喜欢经常换工作，因为…3．我的看法。

专业英语八级(阅读)模拟试卷193(题后含答案及解析)

专业英语八级（阅读）模拟试卷193(题后含答案及解析)题型有： 2. READING COMPREHENSIONPART II READING COMPREHENSIONSECTION A MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONSIn this section there are several passages followed by fourteen multiple-choice questions. For each multiple-choice question, there are four suggested answers marked [A] , [B], [C] and [D]. Choose the one that you think is the best answer.(1)With the toll from anthrax mounting, the antibiotic most commonly used to tackle the deadly bug is now a celebrity. News anchor Tom Brokaw recently held a bottle up to the camera, saying: “In Cipro we trust.”(2)Sadly, that trust could be short-lived. Cipro “may have the dubious distinction of being the antibiotic we destroy faster than any other”, warns microbiologist Abigail A. Salyers at the University of Illinois. The problem is that bacteria are immensely adaptable critters. Expose them to antibiotics long enough, and they’ll evolve ways to survive the drugs.(3)Infectious-disease experts stress that people exposed to anthrax, such as postal workers in affected mail centers, should take Cipro, at least until tests show either that they don’t have the bug or that their bacterial strain is susceptible to other drugs. But those who gulp down Cipro merely out of fear are being dangerously irresponsible, putting both themselves and others at risk. (4)Why? The human body teems with bacteria. A broad-based antibiotic such as Cipro acts like a neutron bomb on this ecosystem, wiping out billions of microbes. Not only can that impair normal body functions in which bacteria play a role, such as digestion, but harmful germs can move in, like squatters taking over suddenly vacant houses. (5)CRYING WOLF. Worse, antibiotics breed resistance. When you take a drug, the hardest bacteria among constantly mutating strains survive, reproduce, and pass along defense mechanisms against drugs. Taking Cipro for weeks “is the perfect situation for the regular bacteria in the body to become resistant”, says Dr. Carol J. Baker, a pediatrician at Baylor College of Medicine and president of the Infectious Disease Society of America. Except in the case of an actual anthrax infection—rather than more exposure—it’s best to take the antibiotic for a few days only, to limit the development of resistance in the body’s bacteria. (6)Even without resistance, these normally harmless bugs can turn nasty. Painful infections result when benign gut flora, such as E. coli, find their way to the urinary tract. Streptococcus bugs that live harmlessly in the throat cause pneumonia if they get into the lungs. Contract one of these diseases, and your doctor may prescribe Cipro. But if you’ve previously taken weeks of the antibiotic, your particular bug may already be primed to resist it. Not until you have to rush to the hospital will anyone know that something has gone horribly wrong. And the resistant microbes can spread to others. (7)Indeed, antibiotic resistance is one of the world’s most pressing public-health problems. A single case of so-calledmultidrug-resistant tuberculosis costs more than $250,000 to cure—and the deadly germs are on the rise in many countries. Up to 30% of bacteria that cause ear infections and pneumonia in the U.S. can fight off standard antibiotics. The toll: thousands of hospitalizations and billions of dollars a year. (8)The quinolone drugs—of which Cipro is one example—were once part of the solution. They kill a wide spectrum of bugs, including strains resistant to other drugs. But resistance to quinolones has appeared in everything from meningitis-causing pneumococcus bugs to the E. coli in bladder infections.1．Which of the following statements can be inferred from the passage?A．Take Cipro often and get better soon.B．People don’t trust in Cipro.C．The advantage of antibiotic.D．Cipro: now for the downside.正确答案：D解析：通过阅读全文可知，文章主要谈论Cipro的弊端，因此应选D。

新理念5.0英语学习大厅综合教程第三册Unit2答案

综合教程第二单元卷A全新版第二版综合B3U2-APart I Listening Comprehension ( 14 minutes )Section A1.A) TB) FScript: Just like Uncle Tom in Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Josiah Henson was a long-suffering slave who was unwilling to stand up for himself.正确答案：B2.A) TB) FScript: The Underground Railroad is not a real road but a secret system used for helping thousands of slaves to escape north to Canada.正确答案：A3.A) TB) FScript: After winning his own freedom from slavery, John Parker helped other slaves to escape to get freedom.正确答案：A4.A) TB) FScript: Supported by his religious convictions, Levi Coffin, a white American, worked as a "conductor" of the Underground Railroad to help the escaping black slaves.正确答案：A5.A) TB) FScript: Many escaping slaves had to travel at night because it was easier for them to find the direction.正确答案：B6.A) TB) FScript: Many fugitives chose Canada as their primary destination because slavery had been abolished there.正确答案：A7.A) TB) FScript: The law at that time required black people seated in the middle area of the bus to give up their seats to white people who wanted them.正确答案：A8.A) TB) FScript: According to Rosa Parks’own statement, she refused to give up her seat to the white because she was too tired after work.正确答案：B9.A) TB) FScript: The bus boycott in Montgomery didn’t come to an end until the Supreme Court announced the racial separation illegal on city buses.正确答案：A10.A) TB) FScript: Rosa Parks was the first African American to be honored in the Capitol building after death.正确答案：BSection BThe central theme of Martin Luther King’s campaign for civil rights was non-violence. It worked better for King in the US than it did for Gandhi in (11)_________________ , where independence was (12)_________________ by terrible fighting between Muslims and Hindus (印度教教徒). There are lots of examples in King’s campaign of non-violent protest working. His campaign brought huge (13)_________________ and becauseKing taught blacks to meet the whites with love, not hate, it made the whites look(14)_________________ and evil in the eyes of the world. For example, when students organized(15)_________________ protests, the world saw white men arresting peaceful blacks because they sat in the wrong seats in a lunch bar in Woolworth’s. When children (16)_________________ in Birmingham, Alabama, the police used water cannon and dogs against them, arrested them and put them in (17)_________________ .Another important weapon in King’s (18)_________________ was publicity. For many poor blacks, life was simply a struggle to feed their families and keep a place to live. King needed to reach all those people and show them that their lives could be better. He made speeches all over America. He held meetings. When (19)_________________ , news of his arrest was in newspapers around the world. Black African-Americans became radicalized and wanted to fight. Some went further than King wanted, and used violence, as in the Watts Riots (暴动) in 1965 in Los Angeles. But he taught them that they could change things. Publicity then included posters, newspapers, meetings, (20)_________________ , marches, demonstrations, radio, and early television.Script: The central theme of Martin Luther King’s campaign for civil rights was non-violence. It worked better for King in the US than it did for Gandhi in India, where independence was accompanied by terrible fighting between Muslims and Hindus (印度教教徒). There are lots of examples in King’s campaign of non-violent protest working. His campaign brought huge publicity and because King taught blacks to meet the whites with love, not hate, it made the whites look silly and evil in the eyes of the world. For example, when students organized lunchtime protests, the world saw white men arresting peaceful blacks because they sat in the wrong seats in a lunch bar in Woolworth’s. When children marched in Birmingham, Alabama, the police used water cannon and dogs against them, arrested them and put them in jail.Another important weapon in King’s fight against injustice was publicity. For many poor blacks, life was simply a struggle to feed their families and keep a place to live. King needed to reach all those people and show them that their lives could be better. He made speeches all over America. He held meetings. When he was arrested, news of his arrest was in newspapers around the world. Black African-Americans became radicalized and wanted to fight. Some went further than King wanted, and used violence, as in the Watts Riots (暴动) in 1965 in Los Angeles. But he taught them that they could change things. Publicity then included posters, newspapers, meetings, word of mouth, marches, demonstrations, radio, and early television.正确答案：India正确答案：accompanied正确答案：publicity正确答案：silly正确答案：lunchtime正确答案：marched正确答案：jail正确答案：fight against injustice正确答案：he was arrested正确答案：word of mouthPart II Reading Comprehension ( 25 minutes )Section AIn the 1820s Coffin moved west to Newport (now Fountain City), Indiana, where he opened a store. Word spread that fleeing slaves could always find 21 at the Coffin home. At times he 22 as many as 17 fugitives at once, and he kept a team and wagon ready to convey them on the next 23 of their journey. Eventually three principal routes 24 at the Coffin house, which came to be the Grand Central Terminal of the Underground Railroad.For his efforts, Coffin received frequent 25 and warnings that his store and home would be burned. Nearly every conductor faced similar risks —26 . In the North, a magistrate might have imposed a 27 or a brief jail sentence for aiding those escaping. In the Southern states, whites were 28 to months or even years in jail. One 29 Methodist minister, Calvin Fairbank, was imprisoned for more than 17 years in Kentucky, where he 30 his beatings: 35,105 stripes with the whip.A) conformed B) converged C) fine D) sharplyE) death threats F) prejudiced G) courageous H) kept a log ofI) crippled J) leg K) or worse L) refugeM) identity N) sheltered O) sentenced21. ______________________正确答案：L22. ______________________正确答案：N23. ______________________正确答案：J24. ______________________正确答案：B25. ______________________正确答案：E26. ______________________正确答案：K27. ______________________正确答案：C28. ______________________正确答案：O29. ______________________正确答案：G30. ______________________正确答案：HSection BPassage OneQuestions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.There was one shop in the town of Mufulira that was notorious for its color bar. It was a drugstore. While Europeans were served at the counter, a long line of Africans queued at the window and often not only were kept waiting but, when their turn came to be served, were rudely treated by the shop assistants. One day I was determined to make a public protest against this kind of thing, and many of the schoolboys in my class followed me to the store and waited outside to see what would happen when I went in.I simply went into the shop and asked the manager politely for some medicine. As soon as he saw me standing in the place where only European customers were allowed to stand he shouted at me in a bastard language that is only used by a boss when speaking to his servants. I stood at the counter and politely requested in English that I should be served. The manager became exasperated and said to me in English, "Even if you stand there till Christmas I will never serve you."I went to the District Commissioner’s office. Fortunately the District Commissioner was out, for he was one of the old school; however, I saw a young District Officer who was a friend of mine. He was very concerned to hear my story and told me that if ever I wanted anything more from the drugstore all I had to do was come to him personally and he would buy my medicine for me. I protested that that was not good enough. I asked him to accompany me back to the store and to make a protest to the manager. This he did, and I well remember him saying to the manager, "Here is Mr. Kaunda who is a responsible member of the Urban Advisory Council, and you treat him like a common servant." The manager of the drugstore apologized and said, "If only he had introduced himself and explained who he was, then, of course I should have given him proper service."I had to explain once again that he had missed my point. Why should I have to introduce myself every time I went into a store …any more than I should have to buy my medicine by going to a European friend? I want to prove that any man of any color, whatever his position, should have the right to go into any shop and buy what he wants.31."Color bar" in the first paragraph comes closest in meaning to _______________.A) a bar which is painted in different colorsB) the fact that white and black customers are served separatelyC) a bar of chocolate having different colorsD) a counter where people of different colors are served with beer正确答案：B32.The writer was, at the time of the story, _______________.A) a black, but a member of the Urban Advisory CouncilB) an African servantC) a black, but a friend of the drugstore managerD) a rich black正确答案：A33.The manager of the drugstore shouted at the writer in a bastard language because __________.A) he hadn’t learned to speak polite EnglishB) he thought the writer wouldn’t understand EnglishC) that was the usual language when speaking to AfricansD) that was the only language he could speak when he was angry正确答案：C34.In the third paragraph, "he was one of the old school" means _______________.A) he believed in the age-old practice of racial discriminationB) he was a very old manC) he graduated from an old, conservative schoolD) he was in charge of an old school正确答案：A35.Why didn’t the writer wait at the window of the drugstore like other black Africans?A) Because he thought he was educated and should be treated differently.B) Because he thought, being an important person, he should not be kept waiting.C) Because he thought his white friend would help him out.D) Because he wanted to protest against racial discrimination.正确答案：DPassage TwoQuestions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.In the world of entertainment, TV talk shows have undoubtedly flooded every inch of space on daytime television. Many of us have seen and heard the often recycled topics found on such shows as Jerry Springer and Oprah Winfrey. And anyone who watches them regularly knows that each one varies in style and format. But no two shows are more profoundly opposite in content, while at the same time standing out above the rest, than the Jerry Springer and the Oprah Winfrey shows.Jerry Springer could easily be considered the king of “trash talk”. The topics on his show are as shocking as shocking can be. For example, the show takes the ever-common talk show themes of love, sex, cheating, guilt, hate, conflict and morality to a different level. Clearly, the Jerry Springer show is a display and exploitation of society’s moral catastrophes (灾难), yet people are willing to eat up the intriguing predicaments (困境) of other people’s lives.Like Jerry Springer, Oprah Winfrey takes TV talk show to its extreme, but Oprah goes in the opposite direction. The show focuses on the improvement of society and anindividual’s quality of life. Topics range from teaching your children responsibility, managing your work weekly, to getting to know your neighbors.Compared to Oprah, the Jerry Springer show looks like poisonous waste being dumped on society. Jerry ends every show with a “final word”. He makes a small speech that sums up the entire moral of the show. Hopefully, this is the part where most people will learn something very valuable.Clear as it is, the Oprah show is not for everyone. The show’s main target audience is middle-class Americans. Most of these people have the time, money, and stability to deal with life’s tougher problems. Jerry Springer, on the other hand, has more of an association with the young adults of society. These are 18- to 21-year-olds whose main troubles in life involve love, relationship, sex, money and peers. They are the ones who see some value and lessons to be learned underneath the show's exploitation.While the two shows are as different as night and day, both have ruled the talk show circuit for many years now. Each one caters to a different audience while both have a strong following from large groups of fans. Ironically, both could also be considered pioneers in the talk show world.36.Compared with other TV talk shows, both the Jerry Springer and the Oprah Winfrey are _____.A) more family-orientedB) unusually popularC) more profoundD) relatively formal正确答案：B37.Though the social problems Jerry Springer talks about appear distasteful, the audience ______.A) remain fascinated by themB) are ready to face up to themC) remain indifferent to themD) are willing to get involved in them正确答案：A38.Which of the following is likely to be a topic of the Oprah Winfrey show?A) A new type of robot.B) Racist hatred.C) Family budget planning.D) Street violence.正确答案：C39.Despite their different approaches, the two talk shows are both _____________.A) ironicalB) sensitiveC) instructive正确答案：C40.We can learn from the passage that the two talk shows _________________.A) have monopolized the talk show circuitB) exploit the weaknesses in human natureC) appear at different times of the dayD) are targeted at different audiences正确答案：DPart III Vocabulary and Structure ( 11 minutes )41.Animal rights activists are _____________ to using animals for medical research.A) punctualB) offensiveC) sentimentalD) opposed正确答案：D42.She turned away, prepared to go, _____________ to accept further rudeness.A) uneasyB) unwillingC) undoubtedD) unique正确答案：B43.Brown is certainly confident ________ his future success.A) inB) withC) ofD) to正确答案：C44.She was sent on a special ________ to Africa.A) missionB) causeC) tourD) delegation正确答案：A45.My professor suggested that I ________ the data accumulated over the years when I work on my project.A) make use ofB) take possession ofD) benefit from正确答案：A46.By visiting and talking to former prisoners in the camps, the journalist came to an obvious conclusion that they were ______.A) disguisingB) cloningC) puzzlingD) starving正确答案：D47.A large majority of elderly Americans ______ an old-age allowance from the government.A) give upB) get throughC) count onD) get by正确答案：C48.For a lot of people, baptisms, weddings and ______ are the only occasions they go to church.A) inaugurationsB) funeralsC) advertisementsD) salvation正确答案：B49.Local people have mixed feelings about the planned ______ of their town into a regional capital.A) arrangementB) transformationC) targetD) improvement正确答案：B50.We were intrigued to hear about Richard's ______ when he went mountain-climbing.A) exploitsB) horsepowersC) monstersD) homesteaders正确答案：A51.In the story the clever little fox ______ the hunters and escapes from the trap they set.A) outsmartsB) imposesD) disguises正确答案：A52.Rochelle L. Stanfield, a former staff correspondent for National Journal, is a Washington, D.C.- based ______ writer specializing in demographics and urban affairs.A) unanimousB) deputyC) freelanceD) supreme正确答案：C53.The colorful leaves _____________ the diversity and beauty of life here on earth.A) specializeB) optimizeC) minimizeD) symbolize正确答案：D54.To call the music of another music-culture "primitive" is __________ one's own standards on a group that does not recognize them.A) puttingB) emphasizingC) forcingD) imposing正确答案：D55.If the fire alarm is sounded, all residents are requested to ________ in the courtyard.A) assembleB) convergeC) accumulateD) crowd正确答案：A56.Countless divorced politicians would have been elected out of office years ago had they even thought of a divorce, let alone __________ one.A) gettingB) to getC) gottenD) get正确答案：C57.Greatly agitated, I rushed to the apartment and tried the door, __________ to find it locked.A) justB) onlyC) henceD) thus正确答案：B58.This meeting laid a solid foundation for the two countries to ____________ enduring and constant economic ties.A) shapeB) forgeC) generateD) proclaim正确答案：B59.Japan has already returned the vessel and 14 of the crew, but continues to _____________ the captain.A) detainB) retainC) sustainD) entertain正确答案：A60.After this concert she was firmly on the road to _____________ and fortune.A) distinctionB) recognitionC) famineD) fame正确答案：DPart IV Translation ( 10 minutes )61. Learning that he couldn't keep both ends meet after his unemployment, ____________________ (她安慰他说她替他支付房租和电话费).正确答案：she comforted him by saying that she would pick up the rent and the phone bill for him62. Everyone of us was required to ____________________ (充分利用暑假为下学期尝试在线教学做好准备).正确答案：make the best of the summer vacation to get well prepared for our trial of on-line teaching next term63. Today, after their 8-hour work a day, ____________________ (许多年轻人兼职做一份零活).正确答案：many young people take a part-time job on the side64. On any occasion ____________________ (中国人永远支持所有爱好世界和平的人们).正确答案：the Chinese will stand up for peace-loving people all over the world forever65. Carter's devotion to her ancestor is ____________________ (不仅仅关乎一己之骄傲).正确答案：about more than personal pride卷B全新版第二版综合B3U2-BPart I Listening Comprehension ( 14 minutes )Section A1.A) TB) FScript: Just like Uncle Tom in Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Josiah Henson was a long-suffering slave who was unwilling to stand up for himself.正确答案：B2.A) TB) FScript: The Underground Railroad is not a real road but a secret system used for helping thousands of slaves to escape north to Canada.正确答案：A3.A) TB) FScript: After winning his own freedom from slavery, John Parker helped other slaves to escape to get freedom.正确答案：A4.A) TB) FScript: Supported by his religious convictions, Levi Coffin, a white American, worked as a "conductor" of the Underground Railroad to help the escaping black slaves.正确答案：A5.A) TB) FScript: Many escaping slaves had to travel at night because it was easier for them to find the direction.正确答案：B6.A) TB) FScript: Many fugitives chose Canada as their primary destination because slavery had been abolished there.正确答案：A7.A) TB) FScript: The law at that time required black people seated in the middle area of the bus to give up their seats to white people who wanted them.正确答案：A8.A) TB) FScript: According to Rosa Parks’own statement, she refused to give up her seat to the white because she was too tired after work.正确答案：B9.A) TB) FScript: The bus boycott in Montgomery didn’t come to an end until the Supreme Court announced the racial separation illegal on city buses.正确答案：A10.A) TB) FScript: Rosa Parks was the first African American to be honored in the Capitol building after death.正确答案：BSection BThe Little Rock Nine, as they later came to be called, were the first black (11)_________________ to attend all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957. These remarkable young African-American students (12)_________________ segregation (隔离) in the deep South and won.Although Brown v. Board of Education outlawed segregation in schools, many school systems defied the law by (13)_________________ and threatening black students —Central High School was a (14)_________________ example. But the Little Rock Nine were (15)_________________ to attend the school and receive the same education offered to white students. Things grew ugly and (16)_________________ right away. On the first day of school, the (17)_________________ of Arkansas ordered the state’s National Guard to block the black students from entering the school. Imagine what it must have been like to be a student confronted (18)_________________ ! President Eisenhower had to send in federal troops to protect the students.But that was only the beginning of their ordeal. Every morning on their way to school angry crowds of whites insulted the Little Rock Nine —they even (19)_________________ . One of the students, fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Eckford, said "I tried to see a friendly face somewhere in the mob …I looked into the face of an old woman, and it seemed a kind face, but when I looked at her again, she (20)_________________ ." As scared as they were, the students wouldn’t give up, and several went on to graduate from Central High. Nine black teenagers challenged a racist system and defeated it.Script: The Little Rock Nine, as they later came to be called, were the first black teenagers to attend all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957. These remarkable young African-American students challenged segregation (隔离) in the deep South and won.Although Brown v. Board of Education outlawed segregation in schools, many school systems defied the law by intimidating and threatening black students —Central High School was a notorious example. But the Little Rock Nine were determined to attend the school and receive the same education offered to white students. Things grew ugly and frightening right away. On the first day of school, the governor of Arkansas ordered the state’s National Guard to block the black students from entering the school. Imagine what it must have been like to be a student confronted by armed soldiers! President Eisenhower had to send in federal troops to protect the students.But that was only the beginning of their ordeal. Every morning on their way to school angry crowds of whites insulted the Little Rock Nine —they even received death threats. One of the students, fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Eckford, said "I tried to see a friendly face somewhere in the mob …I looked into the face of an old woman, and it seemed a kind face, but when I looked at her again, she spat at me." As scared as they were, the students wouldn’t give up, and several went on to graduate from Central High. Nine black teenagers challenged a racist system and defeated it.正确答案：teenagers正确答案：challenged正确答案：intimidating正确答案：notorious正确答案：determined正确答案：frightening正确答案：governor正确答案：by armed soldiers正确答案：received death threats正确答案：spat at mePart II Reading Comprehension ( 25 minutes )Section AA gentle 21 swept the Canadian plains as I stepped outside the small two-story house. Alongside me was a 22 woman in a black dress, my guide back to a time when the surrounding settlement in Dresden, Ontario, was home to a hero in American history. As we walked toward a 23 gray church, Barbara Carter spoke proudly of her great-great-grandfather, Josiah Henson. "He was confident that the Creator 24 all men to be created equal. And he never gave up struggling for that freedom."Carter’s 25 her ancestor is about more than personal pride: it is about 26 . For Josiah Henson has 27 through the character in American fiction that he helped 28 : Uncle Tom, the long-suffering slave in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Ironically, that character has come to 29 everything Henson was not. A racial sellout unwilling to stand up for himself? Carter gets angry at the thought. "Josiah Henson was a man of 30 ," she said firmly.A) framework B) plain C) hazard D) intendedE) sought attention F) devotion to G) breeze H) a sense of trustI) lived on J) symbolize K) slender L) family honorM) inspire N) principle O) reverse21. ______________________正确答案：G22. ______________________正确答案：K23. ______________________正确答案：B24. ______________________正确答案：D25. ______________________正确答案：F26. ______________________正确答案：L27. ______________________正确答案：I28. ______________________正确答案：M29. ______________________正确答案：J30. ______________________正确答案：NSection BPassage OneQuestions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.There was a time when big-league university presidents really mattered. The New York Times covered their every move. Presidents, the real ones, sought their counsel. For Woodrow Wilson and Dwight Eisenhower, being head of Princeton and Columbia, respectively, was a stepping-stone to the White House. Today, though, the job of college president is less and less removed from that of the Avon lady (except the house calls are made to the doorsteps of wealthy alums).Ruth Simmons, the newly installed president of Brown University and the first African American to lead an Ivy League school, is a throwback to the crusading campus leaders of old. She doesn’t merely marshal funds; she invests them in the great educational causes of our day. With the more than $300 million she raised as president of Smith College from 1995 to 2001, Simmons also established an engineering program (the first at any women’s school). At a meeting to discuss the future of Smith’s math department, one professor timidly requested two more discussion sections for his course. Her response: "Dream bigger."Her own dream was born in a sharecropper's shack in East Texas where there was no money for books or toys —she and her 11 siblings each got an apple, an orange and 10 nuts for Christmas. When Simmons won a scholarship to Dillard University, her high school teachers took up a collection so she’d have a coat. She went on to Harvard to earn a Ph.D. in Romance languages.Simmons has made diversity her No. 1 campus crusade. She nearly doubled the enrollment of black freshmen at Smith, largely by traveling to high schools in the nation’s poorest ZIP codes to recruit. Concerned with the lives of minority students once they arrive at school, she has fought to ease the racial standoffs that plague so many campuses. In 1993, while vice provost at Princeton, she wrote a now famous report recommending that the university establish an office of conflict resolution to defuse racial misunderstandings before they boiled over.Her first task at Brown will be to heal one such rupture last spring after the student paper published an incendiary ad by conservative polemicist David Horowitz arguing that blacks economically benefited from slavery. "There’s no safe ground for anybody in race relations, but campuses, unlike any other institution in our society, provide the opportunity to cross racial lines," says Simmons. "And even if you’re hurt, you can’t walk away. You have to walk over that line."31.What does the author intend to illustrate with the example of Woodrow Wilson and Dwight Eisenhower?A) The president of the first-class university was really very important.。

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大学英语读写译(2)期末测试题及答案1大学英语读写译（二）期末测试题（1）Part I Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (10 points) Directions: For questions 1-7, mark Y (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage;N (for NO) if statement contradicts the information given in the passage;NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage. For question 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.The Web------My Main Source ofInformation and EducationThe advance of the World Wide Web (Web) on the Internet has made it possible for people to enjoy a better life. We can safely say that the Internet has become part of most people’s daily life in developed countries. The Web gives us excellent sources of information, saves our time, money and it is extremely convenient.As a resource, the World Wide Web (Web) contains huge amounts of information. The Web is extensive, relatively easy to access, and provides virtually unlimited information. An excellent resource to gain knowledge, the Web is leading the “information revolution.” It has made a huge difference in the world, and will continue to do so. When you need current information and you need it now, there are few alternatives.Over the past 12 years I have been involved in technology research. Originally, I obtained software information from printed reference materials and then from CDs. The advent of the Web as a research tool has greatly expanded the availability of information while reducing the amount of time needed on each task.The majority of my time on the Web involves looking up technical computer information, which I use for teaching Microsoft application classes and providing technical advice at work. Outside of work, I really likefollowing all aspects of the financial world, and the Web has turned into a great resource for this hobby.I can’t imagine being without it. Although it takes time to examine through the great number of sources, I find that after years of use I can quickly analyze the search results to find the most appropriate site. The amount of information on the Web is staggering, so it is important to remember what it is you are searching for and not get sidetracked.The Web is a wonderful resource when you can judge that the information provided is accurate and true. Like any other resource, the Web has good and not so good information to share. Depending on what you are looking for, you have to judge for yourself how relevant the material is for you. It is important not to believe everything you read and to attempt to stay away from personal sites, and I try to know who is responsible for the site before treating the information as fact.The more you use the Web, the more comfortable you get, and the more likely you are to use it even more. The Web certainly helps save time and allows you to focus resources in doing research and seeking out useful information.Overall, the Web has given me the opportunity to be much more times effective at obtaining data. If I find material but do not have time to read it, I print it out and read it later or on the commuter train. In addition, as I find things of interest, it takes only a few seconds to share that information with my team members and other professional associates. This enhances my networking capability to be in touch with many people with the same interest looking at a particular subject.The Web provides an excellent way to find information fast. It enables users to find research as it is occurring, rather than waiting for it to be published. It also provides a highly collaborative environment in which it is quickand easy to exchange ideas with colleagues.Not long ago we used to go to the library every time we needed information and spent hours searching for the right sources. Today there is “library” in our house and it is available 24 hours a day. From my personal experience, I found that using information online is very helpful. While I am at home, I am still able to connect to the world and search for any educational materials I need. I am able to exchange thoughts, opinions and information with my classmates without leaving my house.The Web is not only a big information provider but also saves us money and time. People are predicting that education will be much cheaper in the future because of Internet access to information. The cost of land, buildings and wages for teachers are continuously increasing and that makes conventional education more expensive than online education. What’s more, regular courses (offline) depend heavily on books and othertraditional paper-base materials while online education posts lectures, notes, and assignments electronically and that saves thousands of dollars every year. There is also no need for the classroom itself because most programs online require participation in discussion and group project via e-mail.The Web provides convenient classes and courses because there are no physical restrictions as in conventional education like space and time limitations. First, in classroom based education there is a limitation on the number of students that are allowed in each class while Internet education is available to everyone because a classroom is not a problem there. Students don’t have to struggle in order to register for the classes they like. Besides, there is no time limitation so students can repeat exercises as many times as they need.Education will spread out more and more online and students will have more choices on how and when to take their courses and classes.They will easily be able to take the classes they want and repeat material on the Internet as many times as they need.The Web is an excellent way to acquire knowledge quickly and easily, visit company websites, e-mail any questions you might have, research topics, conduct surveys, participate in special interest discussions, and gather information for further analysis without having to be physically present.1. The Web is a good source which is quick,easy to access, and full of useful information.2. The author looks up computerinformation and frequently enjoys music and movies on the Web.3. Information on the Web is always easy tojudge.4. When the author is in a hurry he usuallyprints the information out and reads it later or on the commuter train.5. In the author’s opinion, onlin e educationis believed to be more successful than the traditional education.6. The author clearly believes the Web willput libraries out of business.7. On the Web the students have moreopportunities to choose the way and the time to take their courses and classes.8. In the author’s opinion, the Web is notonly a big ________, but also a time and money saver.9. The Web is a good source which isextensive, ________, and provides almost all useful information.10. Internet education is more convenientbecause there are fewer restrictions such as ________and ________.Part II Reading Comprehension (Reading in depth) (40 points) Section A （10 points）Direction: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. Choose one word for each blank fromthe following words in the blank. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. （Passage A 和Passage B 二者选作其一。

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全新版大学进阶英语综合教程2综合训练第四单元练习题（含答案）Part I Listening ComprehensionSection ADirections: In this section, you will hear two news reports. At the end of each news report, you will hear two questions. Both the news report and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D).Questions 1 and 2 will be based on the following news item.1.A) Children first words.B) Eager parents.C) Music for parents.D) Toddler speech development.2.A) Because her two-year-old son spoke many words.B) Because she was concerned about her son.C) Because she wondered if her son had speech delay.D) Because she could not understand her son.Questions 3 and 4 will be based on the following news item.3.A) China sells about seventy percent of the world ivory.B) China will forbid ivory trade by the end of 2017.C) China has built the largest market in the world.D) China is the largest market for valuable commodities.4.A) Because it will help preserve endangered elephants.B) Because it can save over 20,000 elephants a year.C) Because the elephant population in Asia has declined.D) Because there are only half a million elephants in Africa.Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation, you will hear four questions. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D).Conversation OneQuestions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.5.A) Sally diamond ring. B) Sally Valentine Day present.C) Sally boyfriend Robert.D) Sally wedding plan.6.A) He proposed to Sally.B) He got on his knees.C) He talked about marriage.D) He got married.7.A) To offer some help. C) To be her Maid of Honor.B) To prepare for her wedding.D) To find three bridesmaids.8.A) Tina.C) Cindy.B) Susan.D) Lydia.Conversation TwoQuestions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard.9.A) Whether zoos are good for animals or not.B) Whether they should go to the zoo this Saturday.C) Whether wild animals should be rescued or not.D) Whether a polar bear should live in California.10.A) Because they cannot survive on their own in the wild.B) Because zoos often rescue some wild animals.C) Because the animals have to stay in cages there.D) Because zoos often take good care of the animals.11.A) People can see a polar bear in California.B) People can enjoy learning about the animals.C) People are able to see real animals there instead of on TV.D) People can experience different climates in zoos.12.A) Cages should be removed from the zoos.B) Wild animals should not be rescued.C) Animals should live their own way.D) Zoos should not prolong animals?life.Section CDirections: In this section, you will hear two passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Passage OneQuestions 13 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.13.A) Why airplane windows used to be rectangular.B) Why windows in the home are rectangular.C) Why the windows on airplanes are round.D) Why windows can cause airplanes to crash.14.A) When two commercial airplanes crashed within months.B) When the speed of commercial airplanes greatly increased.C) When investigators found the weakness of rectangular windows.D) When commercial airlines began to develop faster.15.A) They have become the new standard in passenger aviation.B) They have three layers of window panes at work.C) They collect 70 percent of the stress of air pressure.D) They are able to scatter pressure more evenly.Passage TwoQuestions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.16.A) It is an ambitious research program.B) It is a comprehensive resolution.C) It includes a series of new technologies.D) It has become a global focus.17.A) Environmental protection.C) Emissions reduction.B) Less noisy aircrafts.D) Finding alternative fuels.18.A) A highly internationalized industry.B) A new international trend.C) A competitive advantage.D) A low-carbon economy.Part II Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.How long have 1) _____ industrialists been dreaming about flying cars? So long that they are not called flying cars anymore. Now they oadable aircraft? And while the 2) _____ for success of such roadable aircrafts are still in doubt, that doesn’t mean the 3) _____ of the flying vehicle is dead. We might just need to come at the problem from a different direction.One such new 4) _____ is the AL-V (personal air land vehicle[车辆]) formed in Europe that changes from a road-going three-wheel motorcycle into a gyrocopter(旋翼机) that appears to fly as well as it drives ?which is to say very well in both regards. Where the flying cars have suffered from a lack of lateral stability(横向稳定性) in flight and mechanical 5) _____ on the ground, the PAL-V flies as well as any gyrocopter you are likely to see and, thanks 6) _____ its wonderful suspension(悬浮) system, drives like one of the best three-wheel motorcycles in the streets.The Dutch company behind the project has completed first testing of the PAL-V One prototype(样品) and 7) _____ that it could travel through the air over a distance of up to 275 nautical miles(海里) at a 8) _____ of 95 knots(节). The company recently announced it will begin production of the PAL-V with a limited 9) _____ of 45 vehicles priced at around $400,000 apiece.So while the flying car might not have a place in immediate 10) _____, perhaps a flying, three-wheeled gyrocopter will.A) vehicle B) approach C) confirmed D) aviationE) future F) attach G) chances H) transportationI) concept J) feature K) to L) complexityM) number N) speed O) flightSection BDirections: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once.NASA Next Giant LeapA)It was 45 years ago that Neil Armstrong took the small step onto the surface of the moon that changed the course of history. The years that followed saw a Space Age of scientific, technological and human research, on which we have built the modern era. Starting from the moon, we will move deeper into the solar system. The Apollo missions cleared a path for human exploration to the moon. Today we are extending that path to near-Earth asteroids(小行星), Mars and beyond.B)We are building on the Apollo program accomplishments to test and fly novel(新的), cutting-edge(尖端) technologies today for tomorrow missions. As we develop and test the newtools of 21st century spaceflight on the ourneyo Mars, we once again will change the course of history.C)The path to Mars begins with research on Earth and extends beyond its bounds, aboard the orbiting laboratory of the International Space Station, with our international partners. Some 250 miles above our heads, astronauts are conducting hundreds of experiments not possible on Earth, teaching us how humans can live, work and thrive(长得健壮) for longer periods in space.D)To help this nation send humans to deep space and return them to Earth safely, engineers across the country are developing a new space transportation tool that can travel far beyond our home planet. The Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System (SLS) heavy-lift rocket will be the most advanced space vehicles ever built. Together, they will take us farther into the solar system than humans have ever traveled. They are our spaceship to Mars and beyond.E)As we turn our eyes toward Mars, we are designing missions to take us to a roving ground?around the moon called cis-lunar(月球周围) space, where some of the very building blocks of the solar system can be explored.F)Near-Earth asteroids provide a unique opportunity we need for future human missions to Mars. Around 2019, we launch a robotic mission to reach a near-Earth asteroid. The spacecraft either will capture an entire asteroid or take a part off a much larger asteroid, then redirect the asteroid mass to a stable orbit(轨道) around the moon. Such missions will provide important information about the space to safely send humans to Mars.G)The new technologies we test by sending astronauts to study the asteroids in the cis-lunar space will make important advances to safely send humans to Mars. This includes tools like Solar Electric Propulsion, a highly efficient way to help us transport large objects and heavy cargo to support future Mars missions. NASA will continue to make significant investments in new technologies vital to achieving exploration goals. This includes advancements in entry, descent and landing technologies such as ow Density Supersonic Decelerators.H)Sending humans to deep space around the moon also will help advance techniques for space operations on and around Mars and its moons. The space around our moon is different than low-Earth orbit but very similar to what a spacecraft will experience on the trip to and from Mars. For instance, solar and cosmic radiation is intense. We also can use cis-lunar space to begin practicing activities in deep space, like spacewalks, and learn to cope with delays in communication with Earth because of the distance.I)Mars calls for us to explore. Missions to Mars could answer some of the fundamental questions of humanity: Does life exist beyond Earth? Could humans live on Mars in the future? J)The journey to answer these questions has risks, but the rewards for humanity are worth it. In our lifetime, NASA and the world will take the next giant leap to explore the red planet.______11.Preparation for the journey to Mars can start from a place near Earth.______12.People from different countries contribute to the exploration of Mars in one way or another.______13.Great benefits will be gained from missions to Mars.______14. A number of new technologies will be needed to send human beings to Mars.______15Despite the risks, it is worthwhile to take this great leap to explore Mars.______16.We are now standing on a new horizon, ready to take the next giant leap.______17.If we want to travel to Mars, a more powerful form of transportation is needed.______18.The cis-lunar space will serve as a genuine training ground.______19.New missions near Earth will provide new information before we really send a human being onto Mars.______20.The Apollo program has provided a strong base for our future explorations.Section CDirections: There are two passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice.Passage OneBelieve it or not, there is a whole generation of young people who would love to own a personal airplane but who have little or no interest in learning to fly. To satisfy demand from this new kind of traveler, futurists dream of building airplanes that will fly themselves with minimal input from their occupants(用户). Rather than planning a flight, checking weather and attending to all the other duties of pilot-in-command, the operators of these future aircrafts will simply hop in the front seat, press a few buttons (or merely speak to the flight computer) to input the desired destination and then kick back while the virtual(虚拟的) pilot does all the flying.It hard to imagine what level of understanding of aerodynamics(空气动力学) or aviation rules and regulations the operator of such a futuristic airplane would be required to possess, but for this concept to work the answer quite probably would have to be very little to none. After all, a 損ilot?who is so far removed from the decision-making processes and the actual hands-on flying of the airplane shouldn抰be depended on to take over in an emergency. Instead, these future general aviation airplanes will be little more than passenger-carrying UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicle[无人驾驶航空器]).In such cases, trained pilots on the ground could be given access to the airplane controls through a secure datalink(数据链) connection, enabling the remote operator to take over ?for a fee, of course. It similar to a concept now being debated in the airline world, where future Boeing and Airbus jetliners would have only one pilot physically on board the airplane with ground-based copilots available to step in as needed.We may not like the idea, but as we are seen in the UAV world, such operations are already possible. As the technology evolves and matures to enable airplanes to fly and land automatically without any help from humans, there no reason why airplane manufacturers (制造商) 20 years from now might not start offering a cockpit as optional equipment.21.What do futurists dream of?A) Owning a personal airplane. B) Attending to the duties of a pilot.C) Making planes with automatic piloting. D) Flying an airplane by themselves.22.What is the main characteristic of the new kind of traveler?A) They have considerable interest in learning to fly.B) They like owning and flying a personal airplane.C) They like to speak to the flight computer.D) They want to fly an airplane with minimal efforts.23.Which of the following is true of the virtual pilot on such futuristic airplanes?A) It is not as good as a human pilot. B) It knows everything about aerodynamics.C) It can easily replace a human pilot.D) It can take over in times of emergency.24.It is still necessary for human pilots on the ground to control such a plane because ______.A) such a plane is no more than an unmanned aerial vehicleB) the virtual pilot cannot handle an emergencyC) human pilots can make more money for thisD) there is a datalink connection to the controls25.Which of the following can serve as a proper title for the passage?A) The New Kind of Traveler C) The Virtual PilotB) The Fully Automated Airplane D) The Removed Human PilotPassage TwoNASA is now trying to make a spaceship that is much better than other ships.If we look at the things we need for our super spaceship, there seems to be one that is the most important. The spacecraft has to be as light as it can be. Weight costs money!A new discovery might allow spacecraft to be lighter. Imagine something that is stronger than steel but also weighs less. A new material called arbon nanotube?碳纳米管) might be the answer to the weight problem of building a super spaceship. This material is 600 times stronger than steel.One of the big problems with space travel is the radiation that in space. On Earth, our atmosphere protects us from radiation. In space, however, astronauts need protection against harmful rays.You might think that the metal on a spaceship is the answer. But, metals are the worst for shielding against very dangerous space rays. These rays are made of little pieces called ions(离子). When the ions hit metals at very high speeds, they can break an atom and cause another type of ray to form. These new rays can be worse than the radiation the metal skins were supposed to stop.You see why it is so important to block out these rays.But, we could use carbon nanotubes to make the skins of spacecraft. Nanotubes look a little like chicken wire that is too small to see.Things that are light in weight seem to work the best against these ions. When the rays hit lighter things, very little new radiation is made. The rays are stopped outside the spacecraft and new rays aren’t made.In addition, our super spaceship needs to be able to repair itself. This might really be possible. Humans can feel the smallest pinpricks(针刺) because of tiny sensors that send signals to our brains. Tiny sensors like ours could be built in the new ships. Each sensor could send messages to the computer rain?of the spacecraft. If something needed to be fixed, the computer could tell the ship to do it.Just as amazing as a car would be to someone 200 years ago, our nanotube spaceship might seem to us. We might actually make the spacecraft of tomorrow, using the technology of today.26.What is NASA trying to do?A) To make carbon nanotubes. B) To protect astronauts from ions.C) To make a new discovery.D) To build a super spaceship.27.Carbon nanotubes could be used to make the skins of spacecraft because ______.A) they are much lighter than metalB) they are 600 times stronger than steelC) they can shield the spacecraft from radiationD) they can break ions in space rays28.What will happen when ions hit the metal on a spaceship?A) Some worse radiation will be produced.B) All radiation will be blocked out.C) The metal on the spaceship will break up.D) The ions will move at high speeds.29.Tiny sensors will be built into the new spaceship so that ______.A) the computer brain can feel the smallest pinpricksB) the spaceship can have human sensationsC) the sensors can send signals to the spaceshipD) the spaceship will be capable of repairing itself30.What is the passage mainly about?A) How to build a future spaceship.B) How to make use of carbon nanotubes.C) How to protect astronauts in space.D) How to block out radiation.Part III TranslationDirections: Translate the passage from Chinese into English.周六，在戈壁滩发射基地——甘肃省酒泉卫星发射中心，神舟九号飞船载着中国第一位女宇航员升空。

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听力（略）Part II Reading ComprehensionDirections: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D),and you should decide which is the best choice. (40 points)Passage 1Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage:An unusual cooperation between the local university and other education providers in East Anglia has seen the establishment of Norwich's new Learning Shop. At the city center shop, local people can look through booklets and leaflets to find out about learning opportunities ranging from evening classes to postgraduates（研究生）degrees. Skilled staff are on hand to give accurate information about courses and training in the region.More than 11,000 people have visited the shop since it opened in 1997. The majority of inquiries have been about courses in further education, but 17 percent have related to higher education in general.Customer feedback（反馈）confirms how valuable the resource is. A woman's comment is typical: "It's a brilliant idea ―less daunting than going to the different institutions." A seller told us: "This really gives you hope you can get back into something."Fellow institutions are welcome to set up exhibitions and events at the shop: to date, these have included poetry readings, a recorder concert and numerous exhibitions and displays. The shop is staffed by two advisers and other colleagues from the fellow institutions in the region.Speaking at the "Norwich as a Learning City" conference, Prof. Mike Campell at the local university, said the first barrier（障碍）to learning was lack of information. The Learning Shop aims to break down that barrier.26. For what purpose is the Learning Shop set up?A) To help people know more about higher education.B) To sell booklets and leaflets of the institutions.C) To provide educational opportunities to old people.D) To promote courses and training in the region.27. The word "daunting" (Line 2, Para. 3) is close to________ in meaning.A) disappointingB) boringC) worryingD) discouraging28. What are the visitors to the Learning Shop mainly interested in?A) Further education courses.B) University degree courses.C) Evening classes.D) Part-time courses.29. The events we can find in the Learning Shop include the following EXCEPT ________.A) recorder concertsB) local conferencesC) poetry readingsD) displays and exhibitions30. Which of the following is TRUE according to Prof. Mike Campell?A) The city authorities should run more learning shops.B) People have difficulties in finding out about learning opportunities.C) The staff should provide customers with accurate information.D) Most people want to go back to college.Passage 2Question 31 to 35 are based on the following passage:Not all language is verbal. Some of our communication occurs without words. We often useour entire bodies for communication. We may raise our eyebrows（眉毛）to indicate surprise. Perhaps we nod our heads to show that we agree with something. There are hundreds of nonverbal signals that can be used to communicate. These signals are part of language, and they are governed by rules in the same way that our spoken language is. For this reason, people who speak different languages often use different nonverbal signals as well.In addition to verbal communication and the type of nonverbal communication discussed above, there are other message systems that we use to communicate. When we speak to some people, we may stand very close to them, while we may stand far away from other people. Use of space, then, is a way we can communicate the relationship we feel with another person. The waywe dress can also communicate for us. The person who wears dirty jeans and a T-shirt communicates a different attitude from a person who wears neat trousers and an attractive shirt.We can even use time to communicate. The person who is on time for an appointment shows a different attitude from the person who is an hour late does. Can you think of other message systems we use in communication?31. Language, according to the passage, is actually ________.A) verbal onlyB) verbal and nonverbal as wellC) the use of our bodiesD) nonverbal signals32. Nonverbal signals ________.A) have few rulesB) are more useful than speechC) are often used in communicationD) are entirely separate from language33. If a person wears a suit and a tie, it is a matter of ________.A) attitudeB) relationshipC) formalityD) habit34. People who do not speak the same language ________.A) have no nonverbal signals in commonB) cannot communicate with nonverbal signalsC) often have different nonverbal signalsD) use the same nonverbal signals35. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a form of nonverbal communication?A) Pace.B) Time.C) Dressing.D) Space.Passage 3Question 36 to 40 are based on the following passage:The market is a concept. If you are growing tomatoes in your backyard for sale, you are producing for the market. You might sell some to your neighbors and some to the manager of alocal store. But in either case, you are producing for the market. Your efforts are directed by the market. If people stop buying tomatoes, you may stop producing.If you take care of a sick person to earn money, you are producing service for the market. If your father is a steelworker or a truck driver or a doctor or a grocer, he is producing goods or services for the market.When you spend your income, you are buying things from the market. If you spend money in stores, supermarkets, gas stations, and restaurants, you are buying from the market. When the local grocer hires you to drive the delivery truck（送货车）, he is buying your labor in the labor market.The market is everywhere, and it's very real. If nobody buys your tomatoes, it won't be long before you get the message. The market is telling you something. It's telling you that you are using energies and resources in doing something the market doesn't want you to do.36. When we are producing for the market, ______.A) our life will become much easierB) we can help others in a better wayC) our efforts are directed by the marketD) we can avoid much waste of money37. You are buying from the market when you ______.A) fix your bike by yourselfB) look after your childrenC) take care of a sick personD) eat out in a restaurant38. The word "real" (line 1, Para. 4) probably means ______.A) urgentB) importantC) seriousD) concrete39. According to the passage the market can tell people ______.A) how to drive a bargainB) what should be producedC) when to stop sellingD) how to increase profits40. What is the author's purpose in writing the passage?A) To show what the market can do.B) To explain what the market consists of.C) To indicate how to succeed in the market.D) To argue for the necessity of the market.Passage 4Question 41 to 45 are based on the following passage:It is important to point out that the electronic universe is not without problems. Sometimesdata bank producers do not make their products up-to-date as frequently as they should; other on-line systems seem to be forever responding to a single command. In addition, despite the simplicity of concept, no one would argue that the search for information is easy. It can be difficult, for example, to locate the data bank that most likely contains the information you seek.On the other hand, the electronic universe is still young. For all its practical purpose, it is only a decade old, and like our own physical universe, it is constantly expanding. According to Cuadra Associates, publisher of an authoritative directory（指南）of data banks, many new data banks become available on-line each business day.There is every reason to believe that this trend will continue. Indeed, I have long been convinced that in the future, communications and on-line information retrieval（检索）may well be seen as the single most important result of the revolution in personal computers. Indeed, the electronic universe holds as yet unimagined possibilities.41. Which of the following is mentioned as a problem concerning the electronic universe?A) There is no authoritative directory for the use of data banks.B) Data bank producers do not modernize their products as needed.C) The electronic universe is expanding too fast.D) On-line data banks can not meet the needs of a single command.42. What do we know about the development of the electronic universe?A) It is popular everywhere now.B) It is constantly expanding.C) It appeared long time ago.D) It has caused a lot of problems.43. Cuadra Associates' directory can help people ________.A) to learn about the available online data banksB) to become an authoritative directorC) to build a successful data systemD) to update business data banks online44. What will be expected to be the most significant achievement in the revolution in personal computers?A) Locating the data bank containing your information.B) Up-to-date information and rapid communications.C) Communications and on-line information retrieval.D) Frequent responses to computers' command.45. The passage mainly discusses ________.A) the increase of on-line informationB) the improvement of personal computersC) the expansion of electronic universeD) the new ways of communicationsPart III Vocabulary and StructureDirections: There are 20 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Choose the ONE that best completes the sentences. (10 points)46. In fact, to make life _____ easier for themselves, some Americans prefer less demanding jobs, even with less pay.A) somewhat B) somehow C) sometime D) somewhere47. Human cloning has been the most controversial _____ in life sciences this year.A) question B) issue C) problem D) trouble48. We hope the measures to control water pollution, _____ taken by the government, will succeed.A) that B) because C) since D) as49. It is one thing to enjoy listening to good music, but it is quite _____ to perform skillfully yourself.A) other thingB) anotherC) somethingD) the other50. The chemical works that has _____ the fertile fields faces billions of dollars in fines.A) injured B) rotted C) spoiled D) upset51. The first two items of this contract are especially _____ of notice.A) worth B) worthy C) worthwhile D) worthless52. What was intended as a peaceful demonstration rapidly _____ into violence.A) caused B) resorted C) generated D) degenerated53. "Do you want to see my ID card or student card?" "Oh, _____."A) either one does wellB) each one is goodC) either one will doD) each will be fine54. The number of people invited to the party _____ two hundred, but a number of them _____ absent for various reasons.A) were … wasB) was … wereC) was … wasD) were … were55. The two most common _____ in making a cake are flour and sugar.A) elements B) factors C) components D) ingredients56. We had to refuse the dinner invitation because of a _____ engagement.A) primary B) preceding C) prior D) prevalent57. On no _____ will you be allowed to drive after drinking alcohol.A) occasion B) circumstance C) situation D) condition58. The student was _____ his head and wondering how he could afford such an expensive computer.A) scratching B) scraping C) screening D) screeching59. The visitors were amazed to see so many _____ and precious treasures in the museum.A) strange B) infrequent C) rare D) odd60. In summer I like to go to the seaside. It _____ good to lie on the beach or swim in the cool sea.A) feels B) does C) gets D) makes61. The last ten years _____ tremendous changes in the city.A) searched B) investigated C) witnessed D) overlooked62. Mr. Jason is an _____ force ―　he pushes his students to excel far beyond their own expectations.A) excessive B) agreeable C) aggressive D) inspirational63. Foreign tourists who have paid tax on things they have brought into the country can _____ it when they leave the country with them.A) claim B) acclaim C) exclaim D) reclaim64. _____ in thought, Mr. Smith almost ran into the car in front of him.A) Losing B) Lost C) Having lost D) To lose65. For the health of babies, breastfeeding is far superior _____ bottle-feeding.A) to B) than C) beyond D) versusPart IV TranslationSection A:Directions: Read the following passage and translate the 5 underlined sentences into Chinese.(5 points)(66) The basic belief behind adult education programs is that a country will be economically and politically stronger if its people are well educated. Germany worries about Germans who cannotread or write and cannot understand the news or participate in political life. These people will notbe represented in the government. (67) In the United States, it was recently estimated that almost20 percent of the adults have some difficulty reading and that the cost of this lack of education isas much as $225 billion. (68) Brazil（巴西）worries about farmers who do not know enough about modern farming techniques to use technology effectively. Without the help of these farmers, Brazil's agricultural income will be lower.Adult education faces many obstacles, however. Adults are not accustomed to returning to school and sitting for long hours listening to teachers and reading books. Also, many adults are ashamedor afraid to go back to school. (69) They often think that they will appear to be unintelligent orthat they will fail. Adults often have little time for education. They have jobs and families and cannot take four or six or eight or more hours every day to go to school. (70) Because of these problems, adults often cannot go to school, so school must go to the adults.66. __________________________________________________________________________67. __________________________________________________________________________68. __________________________________________________________________________69. __________________________________________________________________________70. __________________________________________________________________________Section BDirections: In this section, you will translate 5 sentences below into English. (10 points)71. 世界上最大的工业--旅游业--每年的产值为4万4千亿美元，并在全世界提供约2亿3千万个工作。

2008英语专业八级阅读真题及答案

2008英语专业八级真题及答案PART II READING COMPREHENSION (30 MIN)In this section there are four reading passages followed by a total of 20 multiple-choice questions. Read the passages and then mark your answers on your coloured answer sheetTEXT AAt the age of 16, Lee Hyuk Joon's life is a living hell. The South Korean 10th grader gets up at 6 in the morning to go to school, and studies most of the day until returning home at 6 p.m. After dinner, it's time to hit the books again—at one of Seoul's many so-called cram schools. Lee gets back home at 1 in the morning, sleeps less than five hours, then repeats the routine—five days a week. It's a grueling schedule, but Lee worries that it may not be good enough to get him into a top university. Some of his classmates study even harder.South Korea's education system has long been highly competitive. But for Lee and the other 700,000 high-school sophomores in the country, high-school studies have gotten even more intense. That's because South Korea has conceived a new college-entrance system, which will be implemented in 2008. This year's 10th graders will be the first group evaluated by the new admissions standard, which places more emphasis on grades in the three years of high school and less on nationwide SAT-style and other selection tests, which have traditionally determined which students go to the elite colleges.The change was made mostly to reduce what the government says is a growing education gap in the country: wealthy students go to the best colleges and get the best jobs, keeping the children of poorer families on the social margins. The aim is to reduce the importance of costly tutors and cram schools, partly to help students enjoy a more normal high-school life. But the new system has had the opposite effect. Before, students didn't worry too much about their grade-point averages; the big challenge was beating the standardized tests as high-school seniors. Now students are competing against one another over a three-year period, and every midterm and final test is crucial. Fretful parents are relying even more heavily on tutors and cram schools to help their children succeed.Parents and kids have sent thousands of angry online letters to the Education Ministry complaining that the new admissions standard is setting students against each other. "One can succeed only when others fail,” as one parent said.Education experts say that South Korea's public secondary-school system is foundering, while private education is thriving. According to critics, the country's high schools are almost uniformly mediocre—the result of an egalitarian government education policy. With the number of elite schools strictly controlled by the government, even the brightest students typically have to settle for ordinary schools in their neighbourhoods, where the curriculum is centred on average students. To make up for the mediocrity, zealous parents send their kids to the expensive cram schools.1Students in affluent southern Seoul neighbourhoods complain that the new system will hurt them the most. Nearly all Korean high schools will be weighted equally in the college-entrance process, and relatively weak students in provincial schools, who may not score well on standardized tests, often compile good grade-point averages.Some universities, particularly prestigious ones, openly complain that they cannot select the best students under the new system because it eliminates differences among high schools. They've asked for more discretion in picking students by giving more weight to such screening tools as essay writing or interviews.President Roh Moo Hyun doesn't like how some colleges are trying to circumvent the new system. He recently criticized "greedy" universities that focus more on finding the best students than faying to "nurture good students". But amid the crossfire between the government and universities, the country's 10th graders are feeling the stress. On online protest sites, some are calling themselves a “cursed generation” and “mice in a lab experiment”. It all seems a touch me lodramatic, but that's the South Korean school system.11. According to the passage, the new college-entrance system is designed toA. require students to sit for more college-entrance tests.B. reduce the weight of college-entrance tests.C. select students on their high school grades only.D. reduce the number of prospective college applicants.12. What seems to be the effect of introducing the new system?A. The system has given equal opportunities to students.B. The system has reduced the number of cram schools.C. The system has intensified competition among schools.D. The system has increased students' study load.13. According to critics, the popularity of private education is mainly the result ofA. the government's egalitarian policy.B. insufficient number of schools:C. curriculums of average quality.D. low cost of private education.14. According to the passage, there seems to be disagreement over the adoption of the new system between the following groups EXCEPTA. between universities and the government.B. between school experts and the government.C. between parents and schools.D. between parents and the government.15. Which of the following adjectives best describes the author's treatment of the topic?A. Objective.B. Positive.C. Negative.D. Biased.TEXT BWilfred Emmanuel-Jones was a teenager before he saw his first cow in his first field. Born in Jamaica, the 47-year-old grew up in inner-city Birmingham before making a career as a television producer and launching his own marketing agency. But deep down he always nurtured every true Englishman's dream of a rustic life, a dream that his entrepreneurial wealth has allowed him to satisfy. These days he's the owner of a thriving 12-hectare farm in deepest Devon with cattle, sheep and pigs. His latest business venture: pushing his brand of Black Fanner gourmet sausages and barbecue sauces. “My background may be very urban,” says Emmanuel-Jones. “But it has given me a good idea of what other urbanites want.”And of how to sell it. Emmanuel-Jones joins a herd of wealthy fugitives from city life who are bringing a new commercial know-how to British farming. Britain's burgeoning farmers' markets -numbers have doubled to at least 500 in the last five years—swarm with specialty cheesemakers, beekeepers or organic smallholders who are redeploying the business skills they learned in the city. "Everyone in the rural community has to come to terms with the fact that things have changed." Says Emmanuel-Jones. "You can produce the best food in the world, but if you don't know how to market it, you are wasting your time. We are helping the traditionalists to move on."The emergence of the new class of superpeasants reflects some old yearnings. If the British were the first nation to industrialize, they were also the first to head back to the land. "There is this romantic image of the countryside that is particularly English," says Alun Howkins of the University of Sussex, who reckons the population of rural England has been rising since 1911. Migration into rural areas is now running at about 100,000 a year, and the hunger for a taste of the rural life has kept land prices buoyant even as agricultural incomes tumble. About 40 percent of all farmland is now sold to "lifestyle buyers" rather than the dwindling number of traditional farmers, according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.What's new about the latest returnees is their affluence and zeal for the business of producing quality foods, if only at a micro-level. A healthy economy and surging London house prices have helped to ease the escape of the would-be rustics. The media recognize and feed the fantasy. One of the big TV hits of recent years, the "River Cottage" series, chronicled the attempts of a London chef to run his own Dorset farm.Naturally, the newcomers can't hope to match their City salaries, but many are happy to trade any loss of income for the extra job satisfaction. Who cares if there's no six-figure annual bonus when the land offers other incalculable compensations?Besides, the specialist producers can at least depend on a burgeoning market for their products. Today's eco-aware generation loves to seek out authentic ingredients. "People like me may be making a difference in a small way," Jan McCourt, a onetime investment banker now running his own 40-hectare spread in the English Midlands stocked with rare breeds.Optimists see signs of far-reaching change: Britain isn't catching up with mainland Europe; it's leading the way. “Unlike most other countries, where art isanal food production is being eroded, here it is being recovered," says food writer Matthew Fort. “It may be the mark of the next stage of civilization that we rediscover the desirability of being a peasant.” And not an investment banker.16. Which of the following details of Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones is INCORRECT?A. He was born and brought up in Birmingham.B. He used to work in the television industry.C. He is wealthy, adventurous and aspiring.D. He is now selling his own quality foods.17. Most importantly, people like Wilfred have brought to traditional British farmingA. knowledge of farming.B. knowledge of brand names.C. knowledge of lifestyle.D. knowledge of marketing,18. Which of the following does NOT contribute to the emergence of a new class of farmers?A. Strong desire for country life.B. Longing for greater wealth,C. Influence of TV productions.D. Enthusiasm for quality food business.19. What is seen as their additional source of new income?A. Modern tendency to buy natural foods.B. Increase in the value of land property.C. Raising and selling rare live stock. VD. Publicity as a result of media coverage.20. The sentence in the last paragraph “...Britain isn't catching up with mainland Europe; it's leading the way" implies thatA. Britain has taken a different path to boost economy.B. more authentic foods are being produced in Britain.C. the British are heading back to the countryside.D. the Europeans are showing great interest in country life.TEXT CIn Barcelona the Catalonians call them castells, but these aren't stereotypical castles in Spain. These castles are made up of human beings, not stone. The people who perform this agile feat of acrobatics are called castellers, and to see their towers take shape is to observe a marvel of human cooperation.First the castellers form what looks like a gigantic rugby scrummage. They are the foundation blocks of the castle. Behind them, other people press together, forming outward-radiating ramparts of inward-pushing muscle: flying buttresses for the castle. Then sturdy but lighter castellers scramble over the backs of those at the bottom and stand, barefoot, on their shoulders—then still others, each time adding a higher "story".These human towers can rise higher than small apar tment buildings: nine “stories”, 35 feet into the air. Then, just When it seems this tower of humanity can't defy gravity any longer, a little kid emerges from the crowd and climbs straight up to the top. Arms extended, the child grins while waving to the cheering crowd far below. Dressed in their traditional costumes, the castellers seem to epitomize an easier time,before Barcelona became a world metropolis arid the Mediterranean's most dynamic city. But when you observe-them tip close, in their street clothes, at practice, you see there's nothing easy about what the castellers do - and that they are not merely reenacting an ancient ritual.None of the castellers can-give a logical answer as to why they love doing this. But Victor Luna, 16, touches me on the shoulder and says in English: "We do it because it's beautiful. We do it because we are Catalan."Barcelona’s mother tongue is Catalan, and to understand Barcelona, you must understand two words of Catalan: seny and rauxa. Seny pretty much translates as common sense, or the ability to make money, arrange things, and get things done. Rauxa is reminiscent of our words “raucous” and “ruckus”.What makes the castellers revealing of the city is that they embody rauxa and seny. The idea of a human castle is rauxa—it defies common sense—but to watch one going up is to see seny in action. Success is based on everyone working together to achieve a shared goal.The success of Carlos Tusquets' bank, Fibanc, shows seny at work in everyday life. The bank started as a family concern and now employs hundreds. Tusquets said it exemplifies how the economy in Barcelona is different.Entrepreneurial seny demonstrates why Barcelona and Catalonia—the ancient region of which Barcelona is the capital—are distinct from the rest of Spain yet essential to Spain's emergence, after centuries of repression, as a prosperous, democratic European country. Catalonia, with Barcelona as its dynamo, has turned into an economic powerhouse. Making up 6 percent of Spain’s territory, with a sixth of its people, it accounts for nearly a quarter of Spain's production—everything fromtextiles to computers—even though the rest of Spain has been enjoying its own economic miracle.Hand in hand with seny goes rauxa, and there's no better place to see rauxa in action than on the Ramblas, the venerable, tree-shaded boulevard that, in gentle stages, leads you from the centre of Barcelona down to the port. There are two narrow lanes each way for cars and motorbikes, but it’s the wide centre walkway that makes the Ramblas a front-row seat for Barcelona's longest running theatrical event. Plastic armchairs are set out on the sidewalk. Sit in one of them, and an attendant will come and charge you a small fee. Performance artists throng the Ramblas—stilt walkers, witches caked in charcoal dust, Elvis impersonators. But the real stars are the old women and happily playing children, millionaires on motorbikes, and pimps and women who, upon closer inspection, prove not to be.Aficionados (Fans) of Barcelona love to co mpare notes: “Last night there was a man standing on the balcony of his hotel room,” Mariana Bertagnolli, an Italian photographer, told me. "The balcony was on the second floor. He was naked, and he was talking into a cell phone."There you have it, Barcelona's essence. The man is naked (rauxa), but he is talking into a cell phone (seny).21. From the description in the passage, we learn thatA. all Catalonians can perform castells.B. castells require performers to stand on each other.C. people perform castells in different formations.D. in castells people have to push and pull each other.22. According to the passage, the4mplication of the performance is thatA. the Catalonians are insensible and noisy people.B. the Catalonians show more sense than is expected.C. the Catalonians display paradoxical characteristics.D. the Catalonians think highly of team work.23. The passage cites the following examples EXCEPT __________ to show seny at work.A. development of a bankB. dynamic role in economyC. contribution to national economyD. comparison with other regions24. In the last but two paragraph, the Ramblas is described as “a front-row seat for Barcelona’s longest running theatrical event”. What does it mean?A. On the Ramblas people can see a greater variety of performances.B. The Ramblas provides many front seats for the performances.C. The Ramblas is preferred as an important venue for the events.D. Theatrical performers like to perform on the Ramblas.25. What is the main impression of the scenes on the Ramblas?A. It is bizarre and Outlandish.B. It is of average quality.C. It is conventional and quiet.D. It is of professional standard.TEXT DThe law firm Patrick worked for before he died filed for bankruptcy protection a yearafter his funeral. After his death, the firm's letterhead properly included him: Patrick S.Lanigan, 1954-1992. He was listed up in the right-hand corner, just above theparalegals. Then the rumors got started and wouldn't stop. Before long, everyone believed he had taken the money and disappeared. After three months, no one on the Gulf Coast believed that he was dead. His name came off the letterhead as the debtspiled up.The remaining partners in the law firm were still together, attached unwillingly at thehip by the bondage of mortgages and the bank notes, back when they were rolling and on the verge of serious wealth. They had been joint defendants in several unwinnable lawsuits; thus the bankruptcy. Since Patrick's departure, they had tried every possibleway to divorce one another, but nothing would work. Two were raging alcoholics who drank at the office behind locked doors, but nevertogether. The other two were in recovery, still teetering on the brink of sobriety.He took their money. Their millions. Money they had already spent long before it arrived, as only lawyers can do. Money for their richly renovated office building in downtown Biloxi. Money for new homes, yachts, condos in the Caribbean. The money was on the way, approved, the papers signed, orders entered; they could see it, almost touch it when their dead partner—Patrick—snatched it at the last possible second.He was dead. They buried him on February 11, 1992. They had consoled the widow and put his rotten name on their handsome letterhead. Yet six weeks later, he somehow stole their money.They had brawled over who was to blame. Charles Bogan, the firm's senior partner and its iron hand, had insisted the money be wired from its source into a new account offshore, and this made sense after some discussion. It was ninety million bucks, a third of which the firm would keep, and it would be impossible to hide that kind of money in Biloxi, population fifty thousand. Someone at the bank would talk. Soon everyone would know. All four vowed secrecy, even as they made plans to display as much of their new wealth as possible. There had even been talk of a firm jet, a six-seater.So Bogan took his share of the blame. At forty-nine, he was the oldest of the four, and, at the moment, the most stable. He was also responsible for hiring Patrick nine years earlier, and for this he had received no small amount of grief.Doug Vitrano, the litigator, had made the fateful decision to recommend Patrick as the fifth partner. The other three had agreed, and when Patrick Lanigan was added to the firm name, he had access to virtually every file in the office. Bogan, Rapley, Vitrano, Havarac, and Lanigan, Attorneys and Counselors-at-Law. A large ad in the yellow pages claimed "Specialists in Offshore Injuries." Specialists or not, like most firms they would take almost anything if the fees were lucrative. Lots of secretaries and paralegals. Big overhead, and the strongest political connections on the Coast.They were all in their mid- to late forties. Havarac had been raised by his father on a shrimp boat. His hands were still proudly calloused, and he dreamed of choking Patrick until his neck snapped. Rapley was severely depressed and seldom left his home, where he wrote briefs in a dark office in the attic.26. What happened to the four remaining lawyers after Patrick's disappearance?A. They all wanted to divorce their wives.B. They were all heavily involved in debts.C. They were all recovering from drinking.D. They had bought new homes, yachts, etc.27. Which of the following statements contains a metaphor?A. His name came off the letterhead as the debts piled up.B. …they could see it, almost touch it when their dead partner...C. …, attached unwillingly at the hip by the bondage of mortgages...D. …, and for this he had received no small amount of grief.28. According to the passage, what is the main cause of Patrick stealing the money?A. Patrick was made a partner of the firm.B. The partners agreed to have the money transferred.C. Patrick had access to all the files in the firm.D. Bogan decided to hire Patrick nine years earlier.29. The lawyers were described as being all the following EXCEPTA. greedy.B. extravagantC. quarrelsome.D. bad-tempered.30. Which of the following implies a contrast?A. …, and it would be impossible to hide that kind of money in Biloxi, population fifty thousand.B. They had been joint defendants in several unwinnable lawsuits; thus the bankruptcy.C. There had even been talk of a firm jet, a six-seater.D. His name came off the letterhead as the debts piled up.2008年英语专业八级Mini-lecture：(沪友今心提供)1. native language2. 3503. Historical4. India5. commerce6. Boom7. sea travel communication8. conference9. many radios 10. split阅读：(沪友落落提供)阅读一共四篇：韩国的新教育制度引起多方不满；第二篇是讲西班牙人的一些性格；第三篇是英国人热衷自己饲养出售畜牧产品；最后一篇是一个小说节选，四个律师被死去的合伙人骗得破产。

专业英语八级(阅读)模拟试卷162(题后含答案及解析)

专业英语八级（阅读）模拟试卷162(题后含答案及解析)题型有： 2. READING COMPREHENSIONPART II READING COMPREHENSIONSECTION A MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONSIn this section there are several passages followed by fourteen multiple-choice questions. For each multiple-choice question, there are four suggested answers marked [A] , [B], [C] and [D]. Choose the one that you think is the best answer.(1) There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes to the soldier, war-mad on a stricken field and refusing quarter; and it came to Buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight. He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time. He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars and over the face of dead matter that did not move. (2) But Spitz, cold and calculating even in his supreme moods, left the pack and cut across a narrow neck of land where the creek made a long bend around. Buck did not know of this, and as he rounded the bend, the frost wraith of a rabbit still flitting before him, he saw another and larger frost wraith leap from the overhanging bank into the immediate path of the rabbit. It was Spitz. The rabbit could not turn, and as the white teeth broke its back in mid air it shrieked as loudly as a stricken man may shriek. At sound of this, the cry of Life plunging down from Life’s apex in the grip of Death, the fall pack at Buck’s heels raised a hell’s chorus of delight.(3) Buck did not cry out. He did not check himself, but drove in upon Spitz, shoulder to shoulder, so hard that he missed the throat. They rolled over and over in the powdery snow. Spitz gained his feet almost as though he had not been overthrown, slashing Buck down the shoulder and leaping clear. Twice his teeth clipped together, like the steel jaws of a trap, as he backed away for better footing, with lean and lifting lips that writhed and snarled. (4) In a flash Buck knew it. The time had come. It was to the death. As they circled about, snarling, ears laid back, keenly watchful for the advantage, the scene came to Buck with a sense of familiarity. He seemed to remember it all—the white woods, and earth, and moonlight, and the thrill of battle. Over the whiteness and silence brooded a ghostly calm. There was not the faintest whisper of air—nothing moved, not a leaf quivered, the visible breaths of the dogs rising slowly and lingering in the frosty air. They had made short work of the snowshoe rabbit, these dogs that were ill-tamed wolves; and they were now drawn up in an expectant circle. They, too, were silent, their eyes only gleaming and their breaths drifting slowly upward. To Buck it was nothing new or strange, this scene of old time. It was as though it had always been, the wonted way of things. (5) Spitz was a practised fighter. From Spitzbergen through the Arctic, and across Canada and the Barrens, he had held his own with all manner of dogs and achieved to mastery over them. Bitter rage was his, but never blind rage. In passion to rend and destroy, he never forgot that his enemy was in like passion to rend and destroy. He never rushed till he was prepared to receive a rush; never attacked till he had first defended that attack. (6) In vain Buck strove to sink his teeth in the neck of the big white dog. Wherever his fangs struck for the softer flesh, they were countered by the fangs of Spitz. Fang clashed fang, and lips were cut and bleeding, but Buck could not penetrate his enemy’s guard. Then he warmed up and enveloped Spitz in a whirlwind of rushes. Time and time again he tried for the snow-white throat, where life bubbled near to the surface, and each time and every time Spitz slashed him and got away. Then Buck took to rushing, as though for the throat, when, suddenly drawing back his head and curving in from the side, he would drive his shoulder at the shoulder of Spitz, as a ram by which to overthrow him. But instead, Buck’s shoulder was slashed down each time as Spitz leaped lightly away. (7) Spitz was untouched, while Buck was streaming with blood and panting hard. The fight was growing desperate. And all the while the silent and wolfish circle waited to finish off whichever dog went down. (8) As Buck grew winded, Spitz took to rushing, and he kept him staggering for footing. Once Buck went over, and the whole circle of sixty dogs started up; but he recovered himself, almost in mid air, and the circle sank down again and waited. (9) But Buck possessed a quality that made for greatness—imagination. He fought by instinct, but he could fight by head as well. He rushed, as though attempting the old shoulder trick, but at the last instant swept low to the snow and in. His teeth closed on Spitz’s left fore leg. There was a crunch of breaking bone, and the white dog faced him on three legs. Thrice he tried to knock him over, then repeated the trick and broke the right fore leg. Despite the pain and helplessness, Spitz struggled madly to keep up. He saw the silent circle, with gleaming eyes, lolling tongues, and silvery breams drifting upward, closing in upon him as he had seen similar circles close in upon beaten antagonists in me past. Only this time he was me one who was beaten. (10) There was no hope for him. Buck was inexorable. Mercy was a thing reserved for gender climes. He manoeuvred for the final rush. The circle had tightened till he could feel the breaths of the huskies on his flanks. He could see mem, beyond Spitz and to either side, half crouching for the spring, their eyes fixed upon him. A pause seemed to fall. Every animal was motionless as though turned to stone. Only Spitz quivered and bristled as he staggered back and forth, snarling with horrible menace, as though to frighten off impending death. Then Buck sprang in and out; but while he was in, shoulder had at last squarely met shoulder. The dark circle became a dot on me moon-flooded snow as Spitz disappeared from view. Buck stood and looked on, the successful champion, the dominant primordial beast who had made his kill and found it good.1．It can be inferred from Para. 1 that Buck______.A．enjoyed the feel of being a leaderB．was experiencing a paradox of livingC．had overcome me horror of deathD．woke up its own nature as a wolf正确答案：A解析：推断题。

2004年06月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题试卷(含答案)

People assume that office politics involves some manipulative (工于心计的) behavior, says Deborah Comer, an assistant professor of management at Hofstra University. But politics derives from the word "polite". It can mean lobbying and forming associations. It can mean being kind and helpful, or even trying to please your superior, and then expecting something in return.
A) speaking up for oneself is part of human nature
B) self-promotion does not necessarily mean flattery
C) hard work contributes very little to one's promotion
D) They think the effort will get them nowhere.
14. The author considers office politics to be ________.
A) unwelcome at the workplace
B) bad for interpersonal relationships
Dale Carnegie suggested as much more than 50 years ago hard work alone doesn't ensure career advancement. You have to be able to sell yourself and your ideas, both publicly and behind the scenes. Yet, despite the obvious rewards of engaging in office politics-a better job, a raise, praise-many people are still unable-or unwilling-to play the game.

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全新版第二版综合B2U3-APart I Listening Comprehension ( 11 minutes )Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear ten statements. Numbers 1 to 6 are based on Text A while the rest are based on Text B. Each statement will be read ONLY ONCE. Listen carefully and decide whether each statement is true or false.1.A) TB) FScript: Sean's first actual job was waiting tables, and he was real happy about it.正确答案： A学生答案： B得分：0分2.A) TB) FScript: Mum and Dad aren't proud of Sean because he always does stupid things in his school.正确答案： B学生答案： A得分：0分3.A) TB) FScript: The manager thought that Sean and his father didn't need a man-to-man talk during the working time.正确答案： A学生答案： A得分：1分4.A) TB) FScript: To help Diane, her father invited Kyle's father to dinner at that French restaurant on the Third Street.正确答案： A学生答案： A得分：1分5.A) TB) FScript: Mrs. Higgins, in charge of admitting new students to Benjamin Harrison High School, thinks Heidi is the brightest students in the school.正确答案： B学生答案： A得分：0分6.A) TB) FScript: According to Text A, we know that Heidi is too shy to talk with Mrs. Higgins, so she is eager to go to class.正确答案： B学生答案： A得分：0分7.A) TB) FScript: Children rely on personal technological devices to define themselves and create social circles.正确答案： A学生答案： A得分：1分8.A) TB) FScript: According to A T&T survey, more than 60 percent of parents agreed that text messaging helps them communicate with their children.正确答案： A学生答案： A得分：1分9.A) TB) FScript: Savannah Pence, 15, always texts messages with her friends in front of her parents.正确答案： B学生答案： B得分：1分10.A) TB) FScript: Savannah's father has found that enforcing rules can't work, so he allows his daughter to send text messaging while watching TV.正确答案： A学生答案： B得分：0分Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.The older generation went to cities to earn money to take back home and never thought about (11)_________________ city life. As for the young, the new generation of migrant workers, the objective has (12)_________________ . What they want is to plant (13)_________________ in cities. They want to buy houses, get married and (14)_________________ children there. But to blend in cities is not all plain sailing for them. (15)_________________ with their urban peers, young migrant workers face more (16)_________________ difficulties, with adequate and affordable housing as their first and foremost (17)_________________ .Although the government has (18)_________________ a pilot project in some cities to offer subsidized housing to some migrant workers, nearly (19)_________________ of thoseinterviewed say it's getting harder for them to find affordable housing in (20)_________________ cities such as Beijing and Shanghai.Script: The older generation went to cities to earn money to take back home and never thought about integrating into city life. As for the young, the new generation of migrant workers, the objective has changed. What they want is to plant roots in cities. They want to buy houses, get married and raise children there. But to blend in cities is not all plain sailing for them. Compared with their urban peers, young migrant workers face more practical difficulties, with adequate and affordable housing as their first and foremost challenge.Although the government has launched a pilot project in some cities to offer subsidized housing to some migrant workers, nearly 70 percent//70% of those interviewed say it's getting harder for them to find affordable housing in overcrowded cities such as Beijing and Shanghai.正确答案：integrating into学生答案：intergreating得分：0分您可以修改得分：正确答案：changed学生答案：changed得分：2分您可以修改得分：正确答案：roots学生答案：routes得分：0分您可以修改得分：正确答案：raise学生答案：waited得分：0分您可以修改得分：正确答案：Compared学生答案：Compared得分：2分您可以修改得分：正确答案：practical学生答案：rates得分：0分您可以修改得分：正确答案：challenge学生答案：challenge得分：2分您可以修改得分：正确答案：launched学生答案：line得分：0分您可以修改得分：正确答案：70 percent学生答案：seventy得分：0分您可以修改得分：正确答案：overcrowded学生答案：overcroud得分：0分您可以修改得分：Part II Reading Comprehension ( 24 minutes )Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with several blanks. Y ou are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Y ou may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.A) happened B) trade C) interference D) knowingE) suspend F) humiliated G) asking H) locationI) exhausted J) repeated K) actually L) lovesM) needs to N) stop O) proof21. ______________________正确答案： A学生答案： A得分：1分22. ______________________正确答案： B学生答案： B得分：1分23. ______________________正确答案：L学生答案：L得分：1分24. ______________________正确答案：M学生答案：M得分：1分25. ______________________正确答案： F学生答案： F得分：1分26. ______________________正确答案：G学生答案：G得分：1分27. ______________________正确答案：K学生答案：K得分：1分28. ______________________正确答案：N学生答案：N得分：1分29. ______________________正确答案： C学生答案： C得分：1分30. ______________________正确答案： D学生答案： D得分：1分Section BDirections: There are several passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Y ou should decide on the best choice.Passage OneQuestions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.If you know exactly what you want, the best route to a job is to get specialized training. A recent survey shows that companies like graduates in such fields as business and health care who can go to work immediately with very little on-the-job training.That's especially true of booming fields that are challenging for workers. At Cornell's School of Hotel Administration, for example, bachelor's degree graduates get an average of four or five job offers with salaries ranging from the high teens to the low 20s and plenty of chances for rapid advancement. Large companies, especially, like a background of formal education coupled with work experience.But in the long run, too much specialization doesn't pay off. Business, which has been flooded with MBAs, no longer considers the degree an automatic stamp of approval. The MBA may open doors and command a higher salary initially, but the impact of a degree washes out after five years.As further evidence of the erosion (销蚀) of corporate (公司的) faith in specialized degrees, Michigan State Scheetz cites a pattern in corporate hiring practices, although companies tend totake on specialists as new hires, they often seek out generalists for middle and upper-level management. "They want someone who isn't constrained (限制) by nuts and bolts to look at the big picture", says Scheetz.This sounds suspiciously like a formal statement that you approve of the liberal-arts graduate. Time and again labor-market analysts mention a need for talents that liberal-arts majors are assumed to have: writing and communication skills, organizational skills, open-mindedness and adaptability, and the ability to analyze and solve problems, David Birch claims he does not hire anybody with an MBA or an engineering degree, "I hire only liberal-arts people because they have a less-than-canned way of doing things," says Birch. Liberal-arts mean an academically thorough and strict program that includes literature, history, mathematics, economics, science, human behavior —plus a computer course or two. With that under your belt, you can feel free to specialize, "A liberal-arts degree coupled with an MBA or some other technical training is a very good combination in the marketplace," says Scheetz.31.What can we infer from the example in Para. 2?A) All of graduates get an average of four or five job offers.B) Most of the graduates have chances for quick promotion.C) They fail to get plenty of chances for rapid advancement.D) Large companies prefer a background of formal education to work experience.正确答案： B学生答案： A得分：0分32.According to Para. 3, we can infer that ________.A) MBA programs will be as popular in five years’ time as they are nowB) in the long run, most specialization can insist people to get a brighter futureC) an MBA degree will fail to help promotion to managerial positions after five yearsD) people will not pay attention to the degree of MBA正确答案： C学生答案： C得分：2分33.The word “generalists” (in Para. 4) more likely means ________.A) people who have a specialized degreesB) people who have a strategic mindC) people who are ambitious and aggressiveD) people who have a degree of MBA正确答案： B学生答案： C得分：0分34.According to David Birch, we can infer that ________.A) liberal-arts people don’t know the ways of sol ving problemsB) liberal-arts people are more capable of handling changing situationsC) liberal-arts people must have attended MBA programsD) liberal-arts people are completely trained in specialized fields正确答案： B学生答案： B得分：2分35.According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?A) Specialists are cheaper to hire than generalists.B) Job training is more important than formal schooling.C) The author thinks that generalists will outdo specialists in management.D) On-the-job training is less costly than education.正确答案： C学生答案： C得分：2分Passage TwoQuestions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.A few years ago it was fashionable to speak of generation gap, a division between young people and their elders. Parents complained that children did not show them proper respect and obedience, while children complained that their parents did not understand them at all. What had gone wrong? Why had the generation gap suddenly appeared? Actually, the generation gap has been around for a long time. Many critics argue that it is built into the fabric of our society.One important cause of the generation gap is the opportunity that young people have to choose their own life style. In more traditional societies, when children grow up, they are expected to live in the same area as their parents, to marry people that their parents know and approve of, and often to continue the family occupation. In our society, young people often travel great distances for their educations, move out of the family home at an early age, marry or live with people whom their parents have never met, and choose occupations different from those of their parents.In our upwardly mobile society, parents often expect their children to do better than they did: to find better jobs, to make more money, and to do all the things that they were unable to do. Often, however, the ambitions that parents have for their children are another cause of the division between them. Often, they discover that they have very little in common with each other. Finally, the speed at which changes take place in our society is another cause of the gap between the generations. In a traditional culture, elderly people are valued for their wisdom, but in our society the knowledge of a lifetime may become obsolete overnight. The young and the old seem to live in two very different worlds, separated by different skills and abilities.No doubt, the generation gap will continue to be a feature of American life for some time to come. Its causes are rooted in the freedoms and opportunities of our society, and in the rapid pace at which society changes.36.The word "around" in Para. 1 means ________.A) on all sidesB) roundC) arouseD) in existence正确答案： D学生答案： C得分：0分37.According to the first paragraph, which of the following statements is TRUE?A) Generation gap is fashionable between young people and their elders.B) Generation gap means different ideas between young people and their elders.C) Parents and children get alone well with each other.D) Parents and children fail to get alone well with each other.正确答案： B学生答案： B得分：2分38.In our society, young people often do things Except that ________.A) they often travel great distances for their educationsB) they often move out of the family home at an early ageC) they marry or live with people whom their parents have never metD) they and their parents like the same occupation正确答案： D学生答案： D得分：2分39.According to the passage, what is the reason that has caused the generation gap?A) The young people are lack of the opportunity to choose their own life style.B) Parents place high hopes on their children.C) Modern education makes them think differently.D) Parents insist children to memorize and practice more.正确答案： B学生答案： A得分：0分40.In American society, young people often ________.A) rely on their parents to make a lifeB) stay with their parents in order to get an opportunity for higher educationC) seek the best advice from their parentsD) have very little in common with their parents正确答案： D学生答案： D得分：2分Part III V ocabulary and Structure ( 10 minutes )Directions: There are a number of incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence.41.We never allow foreign countries' ________ in our internal affairs.A) joiningB) participationC) attendanceD) interference正确答案： D学生答案： D得分：1分42.His thought were ________ this painful topic by the sudden arrival of a neighbor.A) distracted fromB) distracted offC) absorbed inD) absorbed with正确答案： A学生答案： D得分：0分43.She put on the dress once again and wondered if she could have the sleeves __________.A) shortenB) shortC) shortenedD) shortening正确答案： C学生答案： C得分：1分44.There are several people, who are new comers, _________ to me in my company.A) lowerB) juniorC) superiorD) higher正确答案： B学生答案： C得分：0分45.They always give the vacant seats to __________ comes first.A) whoeverB) whomeverC) whoD) whom正确答案： A学生答案： A得分：1分46.It is politely requested by the hotel management that radios _______ after 11 o'clock at night.A) were not playedB) not to playC) not be playedD) did not play正确答案： C学生答案： C得分：1分47.A good many proposals were raised by the delegates, ________ was to be expected.A) thatB) whatC) soD) as正确答案： D学生答案： B得分：0分48._________in the United States, St. Louis has now become the 24th largest city.A) Being the fourth biggest cityB) It was once the fourth biggest cityC) Once the fourth biggest cityD) The fourth biggest city it was正确答案： C学生答案： D得分：0分49.War itself is never ______, and we must never trumpet (吹嘘) it as such.A) preciousB) ambitiousC) anxiousD) glorious正确答案： D学生答案： B得分：0分50.In cultures where close physical contact is acceptable and ______, the British may be regarded as cold and distant.A) desirableB) availableC) advisableD) profitable正确答案： A学生答案： A得分：1分51.The test ______ a number of multiple choice questions.A) composes ofB) composes inC) consists inD) consists of正确答案： D学生答案： A得分：0分52.Many students are addicted to (沉迷于) ______ life of online game.A) virtuousB) virtualC) visualD) vital正确答案： B学生答案： A得分：0分53.It is ______ to rain in all parts of the country today, weather report says.B) possiblyC) probableD) likely正确答案： D学生答案： D得分：1分54.The theme of his speech was the need to conserve our natural _______: oil, water, trees, coal, and so on.A) mattersB) resourcesC) sourcesD) origins正确答案： B学生答案： D得分：0分55.Now English is in daily use among three or four hundred million people who were not _______ speaking it as their native language.A) backed upB) rearedC) broughtD) supported正确答案： B学生答案： A得分：0分56.Methods used in teaching English to young children are not always _______ for students.A) appreciateB) apparentC) appropriateD) approximate正确答案： C学生答案： D得分：0分57.President tries to devote more of his time and energy to improving social ______ program.A) welfareB) farewellD) infancy正确答案： A学生答案： A得分：1分58.In the poorer areas, doctors have no incentive —______, no financial incentive —to improve their practice.A) howeverB) at any rateC) thereforeD) but正确答案： B学生答案： A得分：0分59.As a student, it is important ______ everyone ______ hard.A) of … studyingB) for … studyingC) of … to studyD) for … to study正确答案： D学生答案： D得分：1分60.In Britain people ______ four million tons of coals for generating heat every day.A) swallowB) disposeC) consumeD) exhaust正确答案： C学生答案： D得分：0分Part IV Translation ( 10 minutes )Directions: Complete the sentences by translating into English the Chinese given in brackets. 61. They had ____________________ (将选择减少到) a dozen sites.正确答案：narrowed the choices down to学生答案：reduced the choic to得分：0分。

Part II Reading Comprehension

Part II Reading Comprehension (信息匹配题) 10%Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement containsinformation given in one of the paragraphs. Identify theparagraph from which the information is derived. You maychoose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph ismarked with a letter. Answer the questions by writing thecorresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡上作答。

Why I Love ThanksgivingA Over the years, I have had the opportunity to visit nearly every state inthe Union, and I never cease to be amazed by our country's variety ofpeople and places. I can step out of a subway into New York City, goaround a Michigan blueberry farm, or dig for clams along a desertedbeach in Maine. These places are very different but they represent theland I love.B One of the strongest similarities I have found in all of us Americans is theway we treat holidays. We all love holidays. They give us a reason toforget routine, to celebrate, and to make memories. What holiday gives us a better chance to do all of these things than Thanksgiving?Thanksgiving weekend is for most of us the longest, least interruptedweekend of the year. It is the ideal time for family and friends to cometogether again. It is also the most purely American of all holidays,because it celebrates the settling of our country by the Pilgrims over 350 years ago.C For me, Thanksgiving recalls all the things in life that I respond to moststrongly and for which I am truly thankful. There is the simple beauty of the earth and the harvest time. There is the satisfaction that comes fromthe working of the crops. And there is the tradition of the day itself: thereturn to my family homes in the green hills of Maryland and Virginia, the delicious food, and the sharing of holiday rituals.D For as long as I can remember, my grandparents had a farm nearFreeland, Maryland. Although I don't visit it often now, it was once thecenter of my life. I was five years old when I spent my first Thanksgiving at the farm. I remember the meal: the huge roast turkey, the redcranberry sauce, the wonderful mounds of just-whipped potatoes, andour family favorite pies — pumpkin and apple, fragrant with spices. That evening we gathere d in the parlor and sang. “Singing for our supper,” we called it. To this day we sing for our supper in the Scott household onThanksgiving. We always sing our favorite, “We Gather Together.”E In the Scott household, the Thanksgiving traditions have never waned;they've just changed a bit. Although I now live in New York City, I never spend Thanksgiving away from the farm. Instead of at my grandparents' farm, it is now at my own farm in Virginia. Both my wife and I love to cook and we try to do extra special things on the holidays. In addition to ourold traditional family favorites, we've added a molded tomato salad, anextremely rich sweet potato casserole, and a heavenly coconut andmandarin orange salad. But no matter how much the menu changes, no matter if we are serving roast goose instead of roast turkey or Southern pecan pie instead of apple, the sentiment remains the same. The spirit of the Thanksgiving holiday promotes life, friendship, closeness and family unity. Everyone who shares a Thanksgiving meal with us becomes afriend, and every friend becomes an honorary member of the family.F I like to believe that I can remember clearly every taste, every smell,every slightly off-key note of our happy singing — everything exceptwhere all the Thanksgivings went. As I grow older, the celebrationsseem to merge into one set of the best memories. I’ll always remember Thanksgivings as the times we ate good food, sang old-fashioned songs,and shared a lot of love with family and friends. May you all have thesame kind of joy.1. All Americans love holidays.[1].2. I’m often filled with wonder when I visit different places and meet variouspeople in our country.[2].3. The spirit of Thanksgiving encourages life, friendship, closeness andfamily unity.4. Thanksgiving is the ideal time for the reunion of family and friends.[4].5. The writer’s grandparents’ farm was once the center of the writer’s life.[5].6. Thanksgiving reminds the writer of a lot of things which he loves and isthankful for.[6].7. The writer and his wife now celebrate Thanksgiving at their own farm.[7].8. The writer enjoys Thanksgiving and hopes everyone can have the samekind of joy.9. The writer enjoys the return to his family homes, the delicious food and theholiday rituals at Thanksgiving.10. The celebrations of Thanksgiving become part of the writer’s bestmemories.[10].Part II Listening Comprehension 35%Section ADirections:In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter oh Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

Part II Reading Comprehension

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Part II Reading Comprehension

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