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What does the man mean when he says he is conscious of time?
[A] He is committed to his work. 
[B] He doesn't have enough time to do his work.
[C] He doesn't have to meet deadline in his work.
[D] He looks upon work as hard labor.

2 单选题According to the conversation, all of the following are true of work today EXCEPT

3 单选题According to the woman，which is TRUE?

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Which of the following is TRUE of the speakers?
[A] Both speakers are objective about city or country life.
[B] The woman is biased against country life.
[C] The man is biased against country life.
[D] Both speakers are biased against city life.

5 单选题Which of the following is TRUE of city life?

6 单选题What is TRUE of the laws in the country?

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When does the man eat fast food?
[A] On weekdays and a few times at weekends.
[B] in the morning but not at lunchtime or in the evening.
[C] Between meals but not during a main meal.
[D] Everyday throughout the week.

8 单选题What does the man think of fast food?

9 单选题How is one's own cooked food compared with fast food?

10 单选题What is the relationship between the two speakers?

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An emotion is more likely to be the subject of scientific research if
[A] it is 
[B] it is not a
[C] it is 
[D] it is easy to describe and measure.

12 单选题Which is NOT a true statement?

13 单选题What does the passage say about hate?

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What does the speaker say about sleep-clinic patients?
[A] Most are insomniacs. 
[B] Most are teenagers.
[C] Most are easily cured. 
[D] Most suffer from excessive sleep.

15 单选题When does excessive sleep usually first become apparent?

16 单选题What can one suffering from excessive sleep do to prevent sleep attacks?

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The target of the School Choices Program is
[A] to improve American education. 
[B] to cause competition among schools.
[C] to support children in poor families. 
[D] to support disabled children.

18 单选题Which state provides family with tax credits to pay for private school?

19 单选题Mr. Milton found the School Choice Programs at the age of

20 单选题Which of the following statements is TRUE about the objection to vouchers?

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The UN resolution is about international efforts in tightening control on
[A] terrorism activities. 
[B] terrorists' networks.
[C] weapons for terrorists. 
[D] funding for terrorism.

22 单选题What does the UN resolution specifically require states to do?

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Altogether how many people were injured during the violence.9
[A] 1. 
[B] 2. 
[C]13. 
[D]14.

24 单选题How long has the violence lasted?

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After the terrorist attacks in the United States, insurance rates soared as much as
[A] 100%. 
[B] 200%. 
[C] 500%. 
[D] 1,000%.

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Eight foreign aid workers were arrested in Afghanistan because of their ____________ activities.
[A] political 
[B] espionage 
[C] religious 
[D] relief

27 单选题Which of the following is NOT mentioned as one of the penalties?

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According to the report, how many people are HIV-positive?
[A] 22 million. 
[B] 36 million. 
[C] 25 million. 
[D] 58 million.

29 单选题

Who was H. G. Wells?
[A] A pioneer. 
[B] A writer. 
[C] A doctor. 
[D] A researcher.

30 单选题What causes the problem of having internal organs in wrong order in one's real life?

31 单选题During McDonald's early years French fries were made from scratch every day. Russet Burbank potatoes were (31) __________, cut into shoestrings, and fried in its kitchens (32) ___________ the chain expanded nationwide in the mid-1960s it sought to (33)___________ labour costs, reduce the number of suppliers, and (34)__________ that its fries tasted the same at every restaurant. McDonald's began (35) __________ to frozen French fries in 1966--and few customers noticed the difference. (36) ___________, the change had a profound effect (37)___________ the nation's agriculture and diet A familiar food had been transformed into a highly processed industrial (38)__________. McDonald's fries now come from huge manufacturing plants (39) __________ can process two million pounds of potatoes a day. The expansion (40) __________ McDonald's and the popularity of its low-cost, mass-produced fries changed the way Americans eat.
The (41) ___________ of McDonald's French fries played a (42) __________ role in the chain's success—fries are much more profitable than hamburgers—and was (43)__________ praised by customers, competitors, and even food critics. Their (44) __________ taste does not stem (45) ___________ the kind of potatoes that McDonaid's (46)__________, the technology that processes them, or the restaurant equipment that fries them: other chains use Russet Burbank, buy their French fries from the (47) large processing companies, and have similar (48)__________ in their restaurant kitchens. The taste of a French fry is (49)__________ determined by the cooking oil For decades McDonald's cooked its French fries in a mixture of about 7 per cent cottonseed oil and 93 per cent beef fat. The mixture gave the fries their unique (50)_________填上最佳答案。

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51 单选题Agriculture is the country's chief source of wealth, wheat __________ by far the biggest cereal crop.

52 单选题Jack___________ from home for two days now, and I am beginning to worry about his safety.

53 单选题Above the trees are the hills, __________ magnificence the river faithfully reflects on the surface.

54 单选题Who __________ was coming to see me in my office this afternoon?

55 单选题--Does Alan like hamburgers?
--Yes. So much ___________ hat he eats them almost every day.

56 单选题Your ideas, ___________, seem unusual to me.

57 单选题The opening ceremony is a great occasion, it is essential __________ for that.

58 单选题Time ____________________, the celebration will be held as scheduled

59 单选题___________ I like economics, I like sociology much better.

60 单选题It is futile to discuss the matter further, because __________ going to agree upon anything today.

61 单选题They overcame all the difficulties and completed the project two months ahead of time, __________is something we had not expected.

62 单选题He is quite worn out from years of hard work. He is not the man __________ he was twenty years ago.

63 单选题Since the weather is fine we __________ walk for a while.

64 单选题She would just __________ stay __________ go.

65 单选题It is turning dark. I am afraid a heavy rain is __________

66 单选题The mother needs ___________ bottle feeds for she doesn't have enough milk to breast-feed her baby.

67 单选题I am glad to hear that John finally ____________________ his own mistakes.

68 单选题She would have been more agreeable if she had changed a little bit, __________?

69 单选题At three thousand feet, wide plains begin to appear, and there is never a moment when some distant mountain is not

70 单选题The first two stages in the development of civilized man were probably the invention of weapons and the discovery of fire, although nobody knows exactly when he acquired the use of the

71 单选题It will take us twenty minutes to get to the railway station, __________ traffic delays.

72 单选题He will have to___________ his indecent behaviour one day.

73 单选题With __________ exceptions, the former president does not appear in public now.

74 单选题We have been hearing __________ accounts of your work.

75 单选题During the summer holiday season there are no __________ rooms in this seaside hotel.

76 单选题Drive straight ahead, and then you will see a __________ to the Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway.

77 单选题Whenever possible, Ian __________ how well he speaks Japanese.

78 单选题The tenant left nothing behind except some __________ of paper, cloth, etc.

79 单选题Shares on the stock market have __________ as a result of a world-wide economic downturn.

80 单选题I think you can take a(n) __________ language course to improve your English.

81 单选题TEXT A
The way in which people use social space reflects their social relationships and their ethnic identity. Early immigrants to America from Europe brought with them a collective style of living, which they retained until late in the 18th century. Historical records document a group-oriented existence, in which one room was used for eating, entertaining guests, and sleeping. People ate soups from a communal pot, shared drinking cups, and used a common pit toilet. With the development of ideas about individualism, people soon began to shift to the use of individual cups and plates; the eating of meals that included meat, bread, and vegetables served on separate plates; and the use of private toilets. They began to build their houses with separate rooms to entertain guests-living rooms, separate bedrooms for sleeping, separate work areas--kitchen, laundry room, and separate bathrooms.
In Mexico, the meaning and organization of domestic space is strikingly different. Houses are organized around a patio, or courtyard. Rooms open onto the patio, where all kinds of domestic activities take place. Individuals do not have separate bedrooms. Children often sleep with parents, and brothers or sisters share a bed, emphasizing familial interdependence. Rooms in Mexican houses are locations for multiple activities that, in contrast, are rigidly separated in the United States.Changes in living styles among early immigrants were initially brought about by

82 单选题Which of the following is NOT discussed in the passage?

83 单选题TEXT B
There are superstitions attached to numbers; even those ancient Greeks believed that all numbers and their multiples had some mystical significance.
Those numbers between 1 and 13 were in particular to have a powerful influence over the affairs of men.
For example, it is commonly said that luck, good or bad, comes in three; if an accident happens, two more of the same kind may be expected soon afterwards. The arrival of a letter will be followed by two others within a certain period.
Another belief involving the number three has it that it is unlucky to light three cigarettes from the one match. If this happens, the bad luck that goes with the deed fails upon the person whose cigarette was the last to be lit. The ill-omen linked to the lighting of three things from one match or candle goes back to at least the 17th century and probably earlier. It was believed that three candies alight at the same time would be sure to bring bad luck; one, two, or four, were permissible, but never just three.
Seven was another significant number, usually regarded as a bringer of good luck. The ancient astrologers believed that the universe was governed by seven planets; students of Shakespeare will recall that the life of man was divided into seven ages. Seven horseshoes nailed to a house will protect it from all evil.
Nine is usually thought of as a lucky number because it is the product of three times three. It was much used by the Anglo Saxons in their charms for healing.
Another belief was that great changes occurred every 7th and 9th of a man's life. Consequently, the age of 63 (the product of nine and seven) was thought to be a very perilous time for him. If he survived his 63 rd year he might hope to live to a ripe old age,
Thirteen, as we well know, is regarded with great awe and fear.
The common belief is that this derives from the fact that there were 13 people at Christ's Last Supper. This being the eve of his betrayal, it is not difficult to understand the significance given to the number by the early Christians.
In more modem times 13 is an especially unlucky number of a dinner party, for example. Hotels will avoid numbering a floor the 13th; the progression is from 12 to 14, and no room is given the number 13. Many home owners will use 12 1/2 instead of 13 as their house number.
Yet oddly enough, to be born on the 13th of the month is not regarded with any fear at all, which just shows how irrational we are in our, superstitious beliefs According to the passage, which of the following groups of numbers will certainly bring good luck to people?

84 单选题The ill luck associated with 13 is supposed to have its origin in

85 单选题What is the author's attitude towards people's superstitious beliefs?

86 单选题TEXT C
Women's minds work differently from men's. At least, that is what most men are convinced of. Psychologists view the subject either as a matter of frustration or a joke. Now the biologists have moved into this minefield, and some of them have found that there are real differences between the brains of men and women. But being different, they point out hurriedly, is not the same as being better or worse.
There is, however, a definite structural variation between the male and female brain. The difference is in a part of the brain that is used in the most complex intellectual processes--the link between the two halves of the brain.
The two halves are linked by a trunkline of between 200 and 300 million nerves, the corpus callosum. Scientists have found quite recently that the corpus callosum in women is always larger and probably richer in nerve fibres than it is in men. This is the first time that a structural difference has been found between the brains of women and men and it must have some significance. The question is "What"? and this difference exists, are there others? Research shows that present-day women think differently and behave differently from men. Are some of these differences biological and inborn, a result of evolution? We tend to think that it is the influence of society that produces these differences. But could we be wrong?
Research showed that these two halves of the brain had different functions, and that the corpus callosum enabled them to work together. For most people, the left half is used for word handling, analytical and logical activities; the right half works on pictures, patters and forms. We need both halves working together. And the better the connections, the more harmoniously the two halves work. And, according to research findings, women have the better connections.
But it isn't all that easy to explain the actual differences between skills of men and women on this basis. In Schools throughout the world girls tend to be better than boys at "language subjects" and boys better at moths and physics. If these differences correspond with the differences in the hemispheric trunk line, there is an unalterable distinction between the sexes.
We shan't know for a while, partly because we don't know of any precise relationship between abilities in school subjects and the functioning of the two halves of the brain, and we cannot understand bow the two halves interact via the corpus callosum. But this striking difference must have some effect and, because the difference is in the parts of the brain involved in intellect, we should be looking for differences in intellectual processing. Which of the following statements is CORRECT?

87 单选题According to the passage it is commonly believed that brain differences are caused by factors.

88 单选题"These differences" in paragraph 5 refer to those in

89 单选题At the end of the passage the author proposes more work on

90 单选题What is the main purpose of the passage?

91 单选题TEXT D
Information is the primary commodity in more and more industries today.
By 2005, 83% of American management personnel will be knowledge workers. Europe and Japan are not far behind.
By 2005, half of all knowledge workers (22% of the labour force) will choose "flextime, flexplace" arrangements, which allow them to work at home, communicating with the office via computer networks.
In the United States, the so-called "digital divide" seems to be disappearing. In early 2000, a poll found, that, where half of white households owned computers, so did fully 43% of African-American households, and their numbers were growing rapidly. Hispanic households continued to lag behind, but their rate of computer ownership was expanding as well.
Company-owned and industry-wide television networks are bringing programming to thousands of locations. Business TV is becoming big business.
Computer competence will approach 100% in US urban areas by the year 2005, with Europe and Japan not far behind.
80% of US homes will have computers in 2005, compared with roughly 50% now.
In the United States, 5 of the 10 fastest-growing careers between now and 2005 will be computer related. Demand for programmers and systems analysts will grow by 70%. The same trend is accelerating in Europe, Japan, and India.
By 2005, nearly all college texts and many high school and junior high books will be tied to Internet sites that provide source material, study exercises, and relevant news articles to aid in learning. Others will come with CD-ROMs that offer similar resources.
Internet links will provide access to the card catalogues of all the major libraries in the world by 2005. It will be possible to call up on a PC screen millions of volumes from distant libraries. Web sites enhance books by providing pictures, sound, film clips, and flexible indexing and search utilities.
Implications: Anyone with access to the Internet will be able to achieve the education needed to, build a productive life in an increasingly high-tech world. Computer learning may even reduce the growing American prison population.
Knowledge workers are generally better paid than less-skilled workers. Their wealth is raising overall prosperity.
Even entry-level workers and those in formerly unskilled positions require a growing level of education. For a good career in almost any field, computer competence is a must. This is one major trend raising the level of education required for a productive role in today's work force. For many workers, the opportunity for training is becoming one of the most desirable benefits any job can offer. Information technology is expected to have impact on all the following EXCEPT

92 单选题"Digital divide" in the 4th paragraph refers to

93 单选题Which of the following statements is INCORRECT according to the passage?

94 单选题Which of the following areas is NOT discussed in the passage?

95 单选题At the end of the passage, the author seems to emphasize __________ in an increasingly high-tech world.

96 单选题TEXT E
Television can be a wonderful learning tool. Thirty-odd years ago,"Sesame Street," "The Electric Company"and "Mr. Rogers' Neighbourhood" helped my sons learn to read, count, socialize and cope with feelings. Natureprograms on public television taught them an enormous respect for the word at large and the creatures within it.
Not until the boys were old enough to understand how commercials tried to promote consumption were they allowed to watch sports programs on commercial television. The basic motto of the household was, "When it's light out, you're out"--that is, playing outdoors.
With little TV, they were two lean, strong, athletic children who grew up in a home without junk food, did not pester their parents to buy things they Saw advertised, never smoked or drank alcohol and knew more about wildlife than the leader of a trip to Kenya.
Unfortunately, our experience with television is rarely duplicated these days. Sitting passively in front of the tube for hours is taking its toll on the bodies and minds of the nation's children. Studies have documented unhealthy effects on weight, attention span, reading skills and socialization among children who spend hours a day watching television or playing video games.
The average young child in this country watches about four hours of television a day and each year sees tens of thousands of commercials, often for high-fat, high-sugar or high-salt snacks and foods; thousands of episodes of violence; and countless instances of alcohol use ,and inappropriate sexual activity. By the time American children finish high school, they have spent nearly twice as many hours in front of the television set as in the classroom. In the first paragraph, "Thirty-odd years ago" means

97 单选题Which is true about the author's sons according to the passage?

98 单选题In the fourth paragraph, "duplicated" means

99 单选题Which statement is CORRECT according to the passage?

100 单选题In the fourth paragraph, "taking its toll" means

101 简答题People in modem society live under a lot of pressure, from education, career, or family. So it is important for them to keep a good mood under whatever circumstances.
Write on ANSWER SHEET TWO a composition of about 200 words on the following topic:
The Importance of Keeping a Good Mood
You are to write in three parts.
In the first part, state specifically what your view is.
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 appopriacy. Failure to follow the instructions 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:
Your friend Clare has invited you to her house-warming party this weekend. However, you will be away then. Write her a note politely declining her invitation and expressing your best wishes to her.
Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness.