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What do newspapers，radio and TV have in common?
[A]They are all objective． 
[B]They all involve personalities．
[C]They are all biased． 
[D]They have the same impact on people．

3 单选题The different features of personality in which newspapers differ from radio and television do NOT include

4 单选题The two speakers seem to

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Which is NOT Mr. Lewis' purpose of the visit?
[A] To visit friends. 
[B] To give concerts.
[C]To vacation. 
[D]To give private lessons.

6 单选题What kind of cello did Mr. Lewis use when he was eight?

7 单选题Which is TRUE of Mr. Lewis' cello?

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Why did the woman quit her last position?
[A] She was fed up with bad-tempered guests. 
[B] She found the work was dull.
[C]She didn't have the opportunity for promotion.
[D]She had to work overtime.

9 单选题What has Miss Brown ever done which has something to do with tour?

10 单选题According to the interview, the job demands all of the following EXCEPT

11 单选题Which of the following is TRUE according to the conversation?

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What does a police-court do?
[A] It is charged by a civil officer. 
[B]It is presided over by a judge and jury.
[C]It is used for passing sentence for all offences.
[D]It is used for dealing with serous charges only.

13 单选题Who is expected to mention any special circumstances?

14 单选题What is NOT wise to do for one who is guilty?

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Sharks find their quarries by good sense of
[A]water waves made by quarries． 
[B]smell and electrical magnetic Dower．
[C]light． 
[D]blood．

16 单选题Why are sharks useful for humans?

17 单选题What is this passage mainly about?

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One purpose of writing a letter of complaint to a vendor is to
[A]inform him that you find a problem． 
[B]accuse him of irresponsibility．
[C]accuse him of negligence． 
[D]tell him that his company is a total failure．

19 单选题The preferred way of making a vendor answer your complaint is to

20 单选题A successful letter of complaint is one that the vendor．

21 单选题A letter of complaint should do all of the following EXCEPT

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Which of the following is NOT a condition for the reduction of debts?
[A]Poverty elimination． 
[B]Good government．
[C]Fight against corruption． 
[D]Poor living standard．

23 单选题By cancelling the debts owed to her, Britain intends to __ a similar scheme proposed by the International Monetary Fund.

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What happened during the accident?
[A]A train hit another train. 
[B]A train killed 23 people.
[C]A train went off its tracks. 
[D]A train was trapped inside the station.

25 单选题Which of the following statements best describes the condition of the passengers?

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The civil servants held a strike to protest
[A] spending cuts. 
[B]reform measures.
[C]pay cuts. 
[D]low pay.

27 单选题The civil servants' strike was staged __ the general strike.

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Which is the main idea of the news?
[A] Industrial relations in Germany. 
[B]The German energy industry.
[C]Coalition in the government. 
[D]Closure of nuclear reactors.

29 单选题The decision to shut down nuclear reactors resulted from the demand from

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How will UNICEF help the African children?
[A] Build more schools in Africa, 
[B]Reduce school fees in Africa.
[C]Make them go back to school. 
[D]Provide them with food and housing.

31 单选题Extra money is needed to help

31 单选题Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks. Mark the best choice for each blank on your answer sheet.
People thinking about the origin of language for the first time usually arrive at the conclusion that it developed gradually as a system of grunts, hisses and cries and (31)__________ a very simple affair (32)__________ (33)_________, when we observe the language behaviour of (34).__________ we regard as primitive cultures we find it (35)_________ complicated. It was believed that an Eskimo must have at the tip of his tongue a vocabulary of more than 10,000 words (36)_________ to get along reasonably well, much larger than the (37)__________ vocabulary of an average businessman who speaks English. (38) these Eskimo words are far more highly inflected (词尾变化的) than (39)_________ of any of the well-known European languages, for a (40)__________ noun can be spoken or written in (41) hundred different forms, each (42)__________ a precise meaning different from (43)_________ of any other. The forms of the verbs are even more (44) _________ The Eskimo language is, (45)_________ , one of the most difficult in the world to learn, (46).__________ the result that almost no traders or explorers have (47)__________ tried to learn it. (48) _________ , there has grown up, in communication between Eskimos and whites, a jargon (49)_________ to the pidgin English used in Old China, with a vocabulary of from 300 to 600 uninflected words. Most of them are derived from Eskimo but some are derived from English, Danish, Spanish, Hawaiian and other languages. It is this jargon that is usually (50)__________ by travellers as "the Eskimo language".根据以上资料回答下列第题：

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51 单选题She did her work _________her manager had instructed.

52 单选题_________ of the twins was arrested, because I saw both at a party last night.

53 单选题For some time now, world leaders _________ out the necessity for agreement on arms reduction.

54 单选题Have you ever been in a situation_________ you know the other person is fight yet you cannot agree with him?

55 单选题We've just installed two air-conditioners in our apartment,_________ should make great differences in our life next summer.

56 单选题AIDS is said_________ the number-one killer of both men and women over the past few years in that region.

57 单选题She managed to save __________ she could out of her wages to help her brother.

58 单选题Fool __________ Jane is, she could not have done such a thing.

59 单选题The experiment requires more money than __________

60 单选题__________ for the fact that she broke her leg, she might have passed the exam.

61 单选题--What courses are you going to do next semester?
--I don't know. But it's about time__________ on something.
A. I'd decide 
B. I decided 
C. I decide 
D. I'm deciding

62 单选题Look! There is a _________ of fish!

63 单选题I suppose that he is just joking, __________?

64 单选题Never believe him, who was such a __________ character.

65 单选题A friendship may be deep, lasting, or_________, casual and situational.

66 单选题It is believed that children of two or three years old are able to learn any language if they are __________ it.

67 单选题The police have offered a large __________ for information leading to the robber's arrest.

68 单选题I arrived at the airport so late that I __________ missed the plane.

69 单选题The popularity of the film shows that the reviewers' fears were completely __________

70 单选题The head of the Museum was __________ and let us actually examine the ancient manuscripts.

71 单选题The multinational corporation was making a take-over __________ for a property company.

72 单选题The party's reduced vote was __________ of lack of support for its policies.

73 单选题There has been a _________ lack of communication between the union and the management.

74 单选题The teacher __________ expects his students to pass the university entrance examination.

75 单选题The family in Chinese cities now spends more money on housing than before.

76 单选题The new colleague __________ to have worked in several big corporations before he joined our company.

77 单选题During the reading lesson, the teacher asked students to read a few _________ from the novel.

78 单选题During the summer holiday season it is difficult to find a(n) __________ room in the hotels here.

79 单选题The old couple will never __________ the loss of their son.

80 单选题Scientific research results can now be quickly __________ to factory production.

81 单选题TEXT A
Many of the home electric goods which are advertised as liberating the modern woman tend to have the opposite effect, because they simply change the nature of work instead of eliminating it. Machines have a certain novelty value, like toys for adults. It is certainly less tiring to put clothes in a washing machine, but the time saved does not really amount to much: the machine has to be watched, the clothes have to be carefully sorted out first, stains removed by hand, buttons pushed and water changed, clothes taken out, aired and ironed. It would be more liberating to pack it all off to a laundry and not necessarily more expensive, since no capital investment is required. Similarly, if you really want to save time you do not make cakes with an electric mixer, you buy one in a shop. If one compares the image of the woman in the women's magazine with the goods advertised by those periodicals, one realizes how useful a projected image can be commercially. A careful balance has to be struck: if you show a labour-saving device, follow it up with a complicated recipe on the next page; on no account hint at the notion that a woman could get herself a job, but instead foster her sense of her own usefulness emphasizing the creative aspect of her function as a housewife. So we get cake mixes where the cook simply adds an egg herself, to produce "that lovely home-baked flavour the family love", and knitting patterns that can be made by hand, or worse still, on knitting machines, which became tremendously fashionable when they were first introduced. Automatic cookers are advertised by pictures of pretty young mothers taking their children to the park, not by professional women presetting the dinner before leaving home for work.According to the passage, many of the home electric goods which are supposed to liberate women

82 单选题According to the context, "capital investment" refers to money

83 单选题The goods advertised in women's magazines are really meant to

84 单选题TEXT B
The "standard of living" of any country means the average person's share of the goods and services which the country produces. A country's standard of living, therefore, depends first and foremost on its capacity to produce wealth. "Wealth" in this sense is not money, for we do not live on money but on things that money can buy: "goods" such as food and clothing, and "services" such as transport and entertainment.
A country's capacity to produce wealth depends upon many factors, most of which have an effect on one another. Wealth depends to a great extent upon a country's natural resources, such as coal, gold, and other minerals, water supply and so on. Some regions of the world are well supplied with coal and minerals, and have a fertile soil and a favourable climate; other regions possess none of them.
Next to natural resources comes the ability to turn them to use. Some countries are perhaps well off in natural resources, but suffered for many years from civil and external wars, and for this and other reasons have been unable to develop their resources. Sound and stable political conditions, and freedom from foreign invasion, enable a country to develop its natural resources peacefully and steadily, and to produce more wealth than another country equally well served by nature but less well ordered. Another important factor is the technical efficiency of a country's people. Industrialized countries that have trained numerous skilled workers and technicians are better placed to produce wealth than countries whose workers are largely unskilled.
A country's standard of living does not only depend upon the wealth that is produced and consumed within its own borders, but also upon what is indirectly produced through international trade. For example, Britain's wealth in foodstuffs and other agricultural products would be much less if she had to depend only on those grown at home. Trade makes it possible for her surplus manufactured goods to be traded abroad for the agricultural products that would otherwise be lacking. A country's wealth is, therefore, much influenced by its manufacturing capacity, provided that other countries can be found ready to accept its manufactures. The standard of living in a country is determined by

85 单选题A country's capacity to produce wealth depends on all the factors EXCEPT

86 单选题According to the passage, __________ play an equally important role in determining a country's standard of living.

87 单选题TEXT C
How we look and how we appear to others probably worries us more when we are in our teens or early twenties than at any other time in our life. Few of us are content to accept ourselves as we are, and few arc brave enough to ignore the trends of fashion.
Most fashion magazines or TV advertisements try to persuade us that we should dress in a certain way or behave in a certain manner. If we do, they tell us, we will be able to meet new people with confidence and deal with every situation confidently and without embarrassment. Changing fashion, of course, does not apply just to dress. A barber today does not cut a boy's hair in the same way as he used to, and girls do not make up in the same way as their mothers and grandmothers did. The advertisers show us the latest fashionable styles and we are constantly under pressure to follow the fashion in case our friends think we are odd or dull.
What causes fashions to change? Sometimes convenience or practical necessity or just the fancy of an influential person can establish a fashion. Take hats, for example. In cold climates, early buildings were cold inside, so people wore hats indoors as well as outside. In recent times, the late President Kennedy caused a depression in the American hat industry by not wearing hats: more American men followed his example.
There is also a cyclical pattern in fashion. In the 1920s in Europe and America, short skirts became fashionable. After World War Two, they dropped to ankle length. Then they got shorter and shorter until the miniskirt was in fashion. After a few more years, skirts became longer again.
Today, society is much freer and easier than it used to be. It is no longer necessary to dress like everyone else. Within reason, you can dress as you like or do your hair the way you like instead of the way you should because it is the fashion. The popularity of jeans and the "untidy" look seems to be a reaction against the increasingly expensive fashions of the top fashion houses.
At the same time, appearance is still important in certain circumstances and then we must choose our clothes carefully. It would be foolish to go to an interview for a job in a law firm wearing jeans and a sweater; and it would be discourteous to visit some distinguished scholar looking as ff we were going to the beach or a night club. However, you need never feel depressed if you don't look like the latest fashion photo. Look around you and you'll see that no one else does either!The author thinks that people are

88 单选题Fashion magazines and TV advertisements seem to link fashion to

89 单选题Causes of fashions are

90 单选题Present-day society is much freer and easier because it emphasizes

91 单选题Which is the main idea of the last paragraph?

92 单选题TEXT D
Massive changes in all of the world's deeply cherished sporting habits are underway. Whether it's one of London's parks full of people playing softball, and Russians taking up rugby, or the Superbowl rivaling the British Football Cup Final as a televised spectator event in Britain, the patterns of players and spectators are changing beyond recognition. We are witnessing a globalization of our sporting culture.
That annual bicycle race, the Tour de France, much loved by the French is a good case in point. Just a few years back it was a strictly continental affair with France, Belgium and Holland, Spain and Italy taking part. But in recent years it has been dominated by Colombian mountain climbers, and American and Irish riders.
The people who really matter welcome the shift toward globalization. Peugeot, Michelin and Panasonic are multi-national corporations that want worldwide returns for the millions they invest in teams. So it does them literally a world of good to see this unofficial world championship become just that.
This is undoubtedly an economic-based revolution we are witnessing here, one made possible by communications technology, but made to happen because of marketing considerations. Sell the game and you can sell Coca Cola or Budweiser as well.
The skilful way in which American football has been sold to Europe is a good example of how all sports will develop. The aim of course is not really to spread the sport for its own sake, but to increase the number of people interested in the. major money-making events. The economics of the Superbowl are already astronomical.
With seats at US$125, gate receipts alone were a staggering $10,000,000. The most important statistic of the day, however, was the $100,000,000 in TV advertising fees. Imagine how much that becomes when the eyes of the world are watching.
So it came as a terrible shock, but not really as a surprise, to learn that some people are now suggesting that soccer change from being a game of two 45-minute halves, to one of four 25-minute quarters. The idea is unashamedly to capture more advertising revenue, without giving any thought for the integrity of a sport which relies for its essence on the flowing nature of the action.
Moreover, as sports expand into world markets, and as our choice of sports as consumers also grows, so we will demand to see them played at a higher and higher level. In boxing we have already seen numerous, dubious world title categories because people will not pay to see anything less than a "World Title" fight, and this means that the tire fights have to be held in different countries around the world!Globalization of sporting culture means that

93 单选题Which of the following is NOT related to the massive changes?

94 单选题What is the author's attitude towards the suggestion to change soccer into one of four 25-minute quarters?

95 单选题People want to see higher-level sports competitions mainly because

96 单选题TEXT E
Scientists have determined that Archaeopteryx, the earliest known bird, was definitely birdbrained, meaning no disrespect. Indeed, they consider the fossil's brain size decisive evidence that Archaeopteryx had what it took to fly.
The new research suggests, moreover, that birds probably started flying millions of years earlier than scientists previously thought. It is just that fossils of those fast flying birds-predecessors of Archaeopteryx-have never been found.
The researchers, at the Natural History Museum in London, based their findings on the first X-ray examination and reconstruction of the braincase and inner ear of a 147-million-year-old Archaeopteryx specimen. They found that in size, shape and volume, its brain was similar to that of the modem eagle or sparrow.
Measurements of the semicircular canals, the mechanism for balance inside the ear, showed that Archaeopteryx had the “neurological and structural adaptations necessary for flight," the scientists concluded.
Their research, involving an X-ray computed tomography scan, or C.T., of the fossil's braincase and inner ear, is described today in the journal Nature.
Previous studies of the feathered wing and tail of Archaeopteryx and its birdlike anatomy, including a pronounced wishbone, supported the prevailing view of experts that it was capable of some degree of powered flight. Archaeopteryx is considered a prime transitional species in the evolution of some reptiles, probably dinosaurs, into today's birds.
But the research team, led by Dr. Angela Milner, a paleontologist at the British museum, wrote that until their investigation of Archaeopteryx, "little was understood about the extent to which its brain and special senses were adapted for flight."
Dr. Milner said the new study not only established that Archaeopteryx was capable of "controlling the complex business of flying," but also showed "how much there is still to discover about when and how bird flight began."
In a statement issued by the museum, Dr. Milner said, "If flight was this advanced by the time Archaeopteryx was around, then were birds actually flying millions of years earlier than we'd previously thought?"What is the original meaning of "birdbrained" and what does it mean here in the first paragraph?

97 单选题The reason why there still needs improvement in the past view of Archaeopteryx is that

98 单选题It can be inferred from the passage that if birds started flying millions of years earlier than scientists previously thought

99 单选题In the sixth paragraph, here "anatomy" means

100 单选题The author's attitude towards the new research is

101 简答题Nowadays people are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of health. And they have different ways to stay healthy. For example, some exercise every day; others try to keep a balanced diet. What do you think is the best way to stay healthy?
Write on ANSWER SHEET TWO a composition of about 200 words on the following topic:
The Best Way to Stay Healthy
You are to write in three pans:
In the first part, state what you think is the best way.
In the second part, support your view with one or two reasons.
In the last part, bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or a summary.
Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the in structions may result in a loss of marks.

102 简答题Write on ANSWER SHEET TWO a note of about 50-60 words based on the following situation:
You have heard that your friend, Jack, wishes to sell his walkman. Write him a note expressing your interest in it, asking him about its condition and offering a price for it.
Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness.