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Paper One
Part I Reading Comprehension
Directions: There are veral 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 One
Questions 1 to 5 are bad on the following passage:
A lot of us have spent a lot of time trying to get low-income children interested in
middle-class values: education, hard work, an orientation (导向) toward the future. And none of it ems to work.
The real problem, I suspect, is the cur (诅咒) of low expectations. We doubt that most children who speak a certain way, or who come from certain kinds of homes and economic circumstances, will ever perform well in any tting that requires above-average intelligence. We doubt that the children will ever achieve middle-class status. We remind them in a thousand ways that we will be astonished if they ever amount to much, and we wonder why they keep succumbing (屈从) to drugs and crime and premature x.
The children of the poor don‟t try harder at the things that middle-class youngsters take for granted for the same reason I don‟t try harder to slam-dunk a basketball. We don‟t work very har d at things that we assume are beyond our ability to master.
But there is one group of minority Americans who work hard and who are successful --- the recently arrived Asian-Americans. There are two complicated things about the Asians. The first is that they e America as a land of great opportunity. The cond is they know that the key to success is hard work. They take as a given that anybody who works hard enough can achieve success.
1. The low-income children are ________.
A) not interested in middle-class values
B) trying to accept the middle-class values
C) easy to be addicted to drugs
D) of lower intelligence
2. Para. 2 tells us ________.
A) people tend not to have confidence in low-income children
B) low-income children behave poorly becau p eople don‟t expect too much from them
C) low-income children keep succumbing to drugs and crime to escape people‟s cur
D) people hope that low-income children can attain mid-class status
3. Poor children don‟t work hard becau ________.
A) they can e no hope of getting the mid-class things
B) they are only good at playing basketball
C) they are of low abilities
D) they don‟t want to get tho mid-class things
4. Asian-Americans ________.
A) usually are very rich
B) will grasp any opportunity that will lead them to success
C) are looked down upon by the whites
D) are more successful in teaching their children
5. What is the next paragraph most probably about?
A) Why the virtues in Asian-Americans no longer belong to Americans.
B) Some examples about famous Asian-Americans.
C) Social problems related to low-income children.
D) How did the American Dream start?
Passage Two
Questions 6 to 10 are bad on the following passage:
Sports fans all over the world recognize the name Michael Jordan. From Thailand to Tenne, kids wear clothes with his picture on them. Jerys (球服) with his number 23 on the front, jackets with the Bulls logo on the back, and Air Jordan athletic shoes all reflect the fame of this superstar. Michael Jordan has become the most famous attraction of the world‟s favorite spectator sport.
Michael Jordan was born in 1963 in Brooklyn, New York. Growing up, Michael did not look like a future superstar. He was very shy and didn‟t like to talk to other people about himlf. He was also very short. He showed little promi of having a future career in basketball. When he tried out for the freshman team in high school, Michael didn‟t make it. The next year, however, after a large growth spurt, he made the team. The rest is history.
Michael‟s road to fame began at the University of North Carolina. He brought an acrobatic (杂技的) style to the game that few had en before. Michael ud his quickness and strength to reach the ba
sket again and again. He became famous for his powerful slam dunk. Basketball fans from all over the world began to take notice. One reporter wrote that when Michael went up to dunk the basketball, it looked like he could fly. He was given the nickname “Air Jordan”.
6. Kids all over the world wear things related to Jordan, ____ is not mentioned in the passage.
A) shoes
B) jerys
C) jackets
D) sockets
7. Jordan once didn‟t em to promi to be a superstar becau ____.
A) he was too shy
B) he kept from others
C) he was short
D) he was poor
8. Jordan grew much taller ____.
A) after he joined NBA
B) in the first year in high school
C) in the cond year in high school
D) in the first year in college
9. Which is not mentioned as one of Jordan‟s advantages?
A) Quickness.
B) Strength.
C) Skills.
D) Height.
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10. When did the name “Air Jordan” become well-known?
A) After a reporter compared his dunk to flying.
B) After he won the “Most Valuable Player” in NBA.
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Passage Three
Questions 11 to 15 are bad on the following passage:
Sugar is so much a part of our modern life that we only really think about it when, for some reason, we cannot obtain it. It has been known to man for at least 3,000 years, but has come into common u only in modern times. Until quite recently it was considered as a medicine and as a luxury for the very rich only.
Sugar is, then, very important to our civilization. But what exactly is it? Of cour, most of us recogni
ze sugar immediately as the sweet material which we put in coffee or cakes. This common form of sugar is derived from two plants: the sugarcane (a type of grass which grows to a height of twenty feet) and the sugar beet (which grows under ground). But there are in fact many types of sugar, and the chemist recognizes hundreds of different varieties, each coming from a different source.
About 90% of the sugar is produced as food. Only 10% is ud in industry for purpos other than food production. Yet sugar has great possibilities for u as the basis of chemicals. It can even be ud for making plastics. In the future the potential us will certainly be developed more than in the past.
There are many reasons why we should increa the production of sugar. Most important is that it is one of the most highly concentrated of energy foods. Thus sugarcane and sugar beet produce an average of 7,000,000 calories per acre. In this way they have the advantage over potatoes which give only 4,000,000, while the figure for wheat and beans is 2,000,000 each. So three acres of land growing wheat, beans and potatoes give only slightly more energy than one acre of sugar.
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11. The heading of Paragraph 1 may be _________.
A) What Sugar Is
B) Sugar Through the Ages
C) The Advantages of Sugar
D) Prent and Future Us of Sugar
12. The third paragraph emphasizes ________.
A) about 90% of sugar is ud as food
B) only 10% is ud in industry
C) sugar is ud for making plastic
D) future us of sugar
13. Sugar has been ud widely _________.
A) for 3,000 years
B) in modern times
C) quite recently
D) for 300 years
14. How many common forms of sugar are exemplified in this passage?
A) One.
B) Two.
C) One hundred.
D) Several hundreds.
15. The main reason why we should increa the production of sugar is ________.
A) it tastes sweet
B) we can save plenty of land
C) we can get more food
D) it‟s one of the least highly concentrated of energy foods
Passage Four
Questions 16 to 20 are bad on the following passage:
Alice Walker makes her living by writing, and her poems, short stories, and novels have won many awards and fellowships for her. She was born in Eatonton, Georgia. She went to public schools there, and then to Spelman College in Atlanta before coming to New York to attend Sarah Lawrence College, from which she graduated in 1966. For a time she lived in Jackson, Mississippi, with her lawyer husband and small daughter. About Langston Hughes, American poet, her first book for children, she says, “Aft er my first meeting with Langston Hughes I vowed I would write a book about him for children someday. Why? Becau I, at twenty-two, knew next to nothing of his work, and he didn‟t scold me; he just gave me a stack of his books. And he was kind to me; I will always be grateful that in his absolute warmth and generosity he fulfilled my deepest dream of what a poet should be.”
“To me he is not dead at all. Hardly a day goes by that I don‟t think of him or speak of him. Once, just before he died, when he was sick with the flu, I took him a sack full of oranges. The joy
I felt in giving that simple gift is undiminished by time. He said he liked oranges, too.”
16. The main topic of the passage is ________.
A) Alice Walker‟s reflection on Langston Hughes
B) the influence of Alice Walker on the writing of Langston Hughes
C) Langston Hughes‟ book about Alice Walker
D) a comparison of the childhoods of Alice Walker and Langston Hughes
17. In the passage, Alice Walker is described as ________.
A) a rearch fellow at Spelman College
B) a professor at Sarah Lawrence College
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C) a prize-winning writer of pro and poetry
D) an author of plays for children
18. Before attending college, Alice Walker went to school in _________.
A) Atlanta, Georgia
B) Eatonton, Georgia
C) Jackson, Mississippi
D) Lawrence, Massachutts
19. The word “vowed” in Paragraph 1 is clost in meaning to “_________”.
A) confided
B) believed
C) disclod
D) promid
20. It can be inferred from the passage that Alice Walker‟s first impressions o f Langston Hughes were derived mostly from __________.
A) talking with his friend
B) reading his autobiography
C) studying his poetry
D) meeting him
Passage Five
Questions 21 to 25 are bad on the following passage:
Professor Smith recently persuaded 35 people, 23 of them women, to keep a diary of all their abnt-minded actions for a fortnight. When he came to analyze their embarrassing laps (差错) in a scientific report, he was surprid to find that nearly all of them fell into a few groupings. Nor did the laps appear to be entirely random (随机的).
孕妇能用电热毯吗One of the women, for instance, on leaving her hou for work one morning threw her dog her earrings and tried to fix a dog biscuit on her ear. “The explanation f or this is that the brain is like a computer,” explains the professor. “People programme themlves to do certain activities regularly. It
was the woman‟s custom every morning to throw her dog two biscuits and then put on her earrings. But somehow the acti on got reverd in the programme.” About one in twenty of the incidents the volunteers reported were the “programme asmbly failures”.
Altogether the volunteers logged 433 unintentional actions that they found themlves doing -- an average of twelve each. There appear to be peak periods in the day when we are at our zaniest (荒谬可笑的). The are two hours some time between and noon, between four and with a smaller peak between eight and “Among men the peak ems to be when a changeover in brain …programmes‟ occurs, as for instance between going to and from work.” Women on average reported slightly more laps -- 12.5 compared with 10.9 for men probably becau they were more reliable reporters.
A startling finding of the rearch is that the abnt-minded activity is a hazard of doing things in which we are skilled. Normally, you would expect that skill reduces the number of errors we make. But trying to avoid silly slips by concentrating more could make things a lot wor -- even dangerous.
21. In his study Professor Smith asked the subjects _____.
A) to keep track of people who tend to forget things
B) to report their embarrassing laps at random
C) to analyze their awkward experiences scientifically
D) to keep a record of what they did unintentionally
22. Professor Smith discovered that _____.
A) certain patterns can be identified in the recorded incidents
B) many people were too embarrasd to admit their abnt-mindedness
C) men tend to be more abnt-minded than women
D) abnt-mindedness is an excusable human weakness
23. “Programme asmbly failures” (Sentence 6, Paragraph 2) refers to the phenomenon that people _____.
A) often fail to programme their routines beforehand
B) tend to make mistakes when they are in a hurry
C) unconsciously change the quence of doing things
D) are likely to mess things up if they are too tired
24. We learn from the third paragraph that _____.
A) abnt-mindedness tends to occur during certain hours of the day
B) women are very careful to perform actions during peak periods
C) women experience more peak periods of abnt-mindedness
寻找桃花源D) men‟s abnt-mindedness often results in funny situations
25. It can be concluded from the passage that _____.
A) people should avoid doing important things during peak periods of laps
B) hazards can be avoided when people do things they are good at
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C) people should be careful when programming their actions
D) laps cannot always be attributed to lack of concentration
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