1. We should not complain about taxes.
A) feel unhappy
B) say bad things
C) care
D) prai
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2. What were the effects of the decision she made?
A) reasons
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C) caus
D) bas
3.People don’t realize how rious this recession has actually been.
A) know
B) think
C) doubt
D) remember
4.First editions of certain popular books cannot be obtained for love or money.
A) at any place
B) at any price
C) in any language
D) in any country
5. About a quarter of the workers in the United States are employed in factories.
A) thirducos
B) fourth
C) tenth
D) fifteenth
答案：ABABB Television Is Doing Irrearable Harm “Yes, but what did we u to do before there was television?”How often we hear statements like this! Television hasn’t been with us all that long, but we are already beginning to forget what the world was like without it, Before we admitted the one-eyed monster into our homes we never found it difficult to occupy our spare time. We ud to enjoy civilized pleasures. For instance, we ud to have hobbies, we ud to entertain our friends and be entertained by them, we ud to go outside for our amuments to theatres, cinemas, restaurants and sporting events, We even ud to read books and listen to music and broadcast talks occasionally. All that belongs to the past. Now all our free time is regulated by the “goggle box”. We rush home or gulp down our meals to be in time for this or that programme. We have even given up sitting at table and having a leisurely evening meal, exchanging the news of the day. A sandwich and a glass of beer will do anything, providing it doesn’ t interfere with the programme. The monster demands absolute silence and attention. If any member of the family dares to open his mouth during a programme, he is quickly silenced.
Whole generation are growing up addicted to the telly. Food is left uneaten, homework undone and sleep is lost, The telly is a universal pacifier. It is now standard practice for mother to keep the children quiet by putting them in the living room and turning on the t. It doesn’t mater that the children will watch rubbishy commercials or spectacles of sadism(性虐狂)and violence—so long as they are quiet.
There is a limit to the amount of creative talent available in the world, Every day, television consumes vast quantities of creative work, That is why most of the programmes are so bad: it is impossible to keep pace with the demand maintain high standards as well. When millions watch the same programme, the whole world becomes a village, and society is reduced to the conditions which obtain in pre-literate communities (有⽂字之前的时期). We become utterly dependent on the two most primitive media of communication: pictures and the spoken work.
Television encourages passive enjoyment. We become content with cond-hand experiences. It is so easy to sit in our armchair watching others working. Little by little “television” cuts us off from the real world. We get so lazy, we choo to spend a fine day in mi-darkness, glued to our ts, rather than go out into the world itlf, Television may be a splendid medium of communication, but it prevents us from communicating with each other. We only become aware how totally irrelevant televi
sion is to real living when we spend a holiday by the a or in the mountains, far away from civilization, In quiet natural surroundings we quickly discover how little we miss the hypnotic (催眠)tyranny of King Telly.
16 This article is about the disadvantages of television.
A Right
B Wrong
C Not mentioned
17 We often go outside for our amuments now.
A Right
B Wrong
C Not mentioned
18 We rush home to be in time for a programme.
A Right
B Wrong
C Not mentioned
19 “The one-eyed monster” refers to the TV t.
A Right
B Wrong
C Not mentioned
20 One harm of telly is to consume quantities of creative work.
A Right
B Wrong
C Not mentioned
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21 This article implies that all the TV ts in the world should be destroyed.
A Right
B Wrong
C Not mentioned
22 Watching too much TV may not only results in the laziness but also the low ability to do things.
A Right
B Wrong
C Not mentioned
答案：ABAAACAScreen Test
1 Every year millions of women are screened with X-rays to pick up signs of breast cancer. If this happens early enough, the dia can often be treated successfully. According to a survey Australia, Canada, the US and Spain, screen women under 50.
2 But the medical benefits of screening the younger women are controversial, partly becau the radiation brings a small risk of inducing cancer. Also, younger women must be given higher dos of X-rays becau their breast tissue is denr.
3 Rearchers at the Polytechnic University of Valencia analyd the effect of screening more than 160,000 women at 11 local clinics. After estimating the women’ s cumulative do of radiation, they ud two models to calculate the number of extra cancers this would cau.
4 The mathematical model recommended by Britain’s National Radiological Protection Board (NRPB) predicted that the screening programme would cau 36 cancers per 100,000 women, 18 of them fatal. The model preferred by the UN Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation led to a lower figure of 20 cancers.
5 The rearchers argue that the level of radiation-induced cancers is “not very significant” compared to the far larger number of cancers that are discovered and treated. The Valencia programme, they say, detects between 300 and 450 cas of breast cancer in every 100,000 women screened.
6 But they point out that the risk of women contracting cancer from radiation could be reduced by bet
ween 40 and 80 percent if screening began at 50 instead of 45, becau they would be expod to less radiation. The results of their study, they suggest, could help “optimize the technique” for breast cancer screening.
7 “There is a trade-off between the diagnostic benefits of breast screening and its risks,” admits Michael Clark of the NRPB. But he warns that the study should be
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interpreted with caution. “On the basis of the current data, for every 10 cancers successfully detected and prevented there is a risk of causing one later in life. That’s why radiation exposure should be minimized in any screening programme.”
23 Paragraph 2 __________
24 Paragraph 3 __________
25 Paragraph 4 __________
26 Paragraph 5 __________
A Harm Screening May Do to a Younger Woman
B Investing the Effect of Screening
C Effects Predicted by Two Different Models
D Small Risk of Inducing Cancers from Radiation
E Treatment of Cancers
F Factors That Trigger Cancers
27 Early discovery of breast cancer may .
28 Advantages of screening women under 50 are .
ribbon 29 Delaying the age at which screening starts may .
30 Radiation exposure should be .
A be costly
B harmful
C save a life
D still open to debate
E reduce the risk of radiation triggering a cancer
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F reduced to the minimum
答案：ABCD CDEFLooking to the Future
When a magazine for high-school students asked its readers what life would be like in twenty years, they said: Machines would be run by solar power. Buildings would rotate so they could follow the sun to take maximum advantage of its light and heat. Walls would “radiate light” and “change color with the push of a button.” Food would be replaced by pills. School would be taught “by electrical impul while we sleep.”Cars would have radar. Does this sound like the year 2000?Actually, 46 and the question was, “what will life be like in 1978?”
教育部考试中心托福 The future is much too important to simply guess about, the way the high school students did, so experts are regularly asked to predict accurately. By carefully studying the prent skilled businessmen, scientists, and politicians are suppodly able to figure out in advance what will happe
n. But can they? One expert on cities wrote: 47 , but would have space for farms and fields. People would travel to work in “airbus”, large all-weather helicopters carrying up to 200 pasngers. When a person left the airbus station he could drive a coin-operated car equipped with radar. The radar equipment of cars would make traffic accidents “almost unheard of”. Does that sound familiar? If the expert had been accurate it would, becau he was writing in 1957.His subject was “The city of 1982.”
If the professionals sometimes sound like high-school students, it’s probably becau 48 . But economic forecasting, or predicting what the economy will do, has been around for a long time. It should be accurate, and generally it is. But there have been some big mistakes in this field, too. In early 1929, most forecasters saw an excellent future for the stock market. In October of that year, 49 ,ruining thousands of investors who had put their faith in financial foreers.广州学英语
One forecaster knew that predictions about the future would always be subject to significant errors. In 1957,H.J.Rand of the Rand Corporation was asked about the year 2000, “Only one thing is certain,” he answered. “Children born today 50 .”
A the stock market had its worst loss ever
B will have reached the age of 43 9
C the article was written in 1958
D Cities of the future would not be crowded
E the prediction of the future is generally accurate
F future study is still a new field
答案：CDFAB What Should I Say to the Person Who Has Cancer?
It is normal to feel that you don't know what to say to someone who has cancer. You might only know the person casually, or you may have worked (1) or lived near each other for many years and have a clor relationship. The most important (2) you can do is to acknowledge the situation in some way - whatever is most comfortable for you. You can show interest and concern, you can express encouragement, or you (3) offer support. Sometimes the simplest expressions of concern are the (4) meaningful.
While it is good to be encouraging, it is also important (5) to show fal optimism or to tell the perso
n with cancer to always have a positive attitude. Doing (6) things may discount their fears, concerns, or sad feelings. It is also tempting to say that you know (7) the person feels. While you may know this is a difficult time, no one can know exactly how the person with (8) feels.
Humor can be an important way (9) coping. It is also another source of support and encouragement. Let the person with cancer (10) the lead; it is healthy if they find something funny about a side effect, like hair loss or incread appetite, and you can certainly join (11) in a good laugh. This can be a g r e a t w a y t o r e l i e v e s t r e s s a n d t o t a k e a b r e a k f r o m t h e ( 1 2 ) s e r i o u s n a t u r e o f t h e s i t u a t i o n . / p >
