1. Knowing the rewards of ______, NASA astronaut Ellen Ochoa encourages students to study hard if they wish to pursue career in science and engineering.
A. generosity
B. rendipity
C. diligence
D. individuality
E. merriment
2. The editor did not wish to print an article bad on mere ______; she therefore ordered the reporter to find convincing ______.
A. substantiation…data
B. speculation…guesswork
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C. conjecture…proof
D. amicability…rationalization
E. explanation…interpretation
3. Linda is ______ in matters large and small; she is inflexible in her opinions and utterly resistant to persuasion.
A. facetious
B. avuncular
C. sanguine
D. obdurate
E. tractable
4. Jason was truly ______, for he squandered a great deal of money with no thought for t
he future.
A. prescient
B. infallible
C. reticent
野望朗读D. improvident
E. dulous
5. The 1990's were ______ years for organization: the staff was happy, customers were satisfied, and profits were excellent.
A. halcyon关于快乐的作文
B. notorious
C. somnolent
D. capricious
E. expedient
SECTION 7
The passages below are followed by questions bad on their content; questions following a pair of related passages may also bad on the relationship between the paired passages. Answer the questions on the basis of what is stated or implied in the ages and in any introductory material that may be provided.
Questions 6-9 are bad on the following passages.
passage 1
It was time to visit some sweets factories. Would they be magical, unpredictable places, like tho in the movies, i steaming and chugging machines? The reality was far better. I visited half a dozen factories, and every time I entered one I was delirious with joy, ecstati犯错的后果
c that the machines were exactly as I hoped they would be—long conveyor belts crammed with little sweets being prodded d poked, coated and dried, and extraordinary cauldrons and pipes and pushers and packers and printers and stampers and choppers and scrapers, all working away to produce super-fresh examples of super sweets, which were left lying around in vast piles, trays and buckets—as if I had stumbled on a candy El Dorado.*
Passage 2
The candy factory places all the foul props of the modern age in the rvice of our most innocent desires. To watch huge, metal machines plink out delicate chocolate .bunnies—what delicious irony! The bogeyman of technology tamed! Bunnies not bombs! This is a lot of nonn, of cour. Candy companies are rvants of global capitalism, just as surely as oil and plastics companies. They dehumanize workers, both here and abroad, pump out pollution, and provide an indulgence that is unconscionable, given the great many people on the planet who are starving.
* a legendary city of great wealth
6. Both passages suggest that
(A) the candy manufacturing process has been patterned after process ud in other industries
(B) real candy factories are even more intriguing than the ones featured in films
(C) candy companies produce a variety of candy for a global market
(D) candy production is highly mechanized
(E) candy production is extremely costly
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7. Compared with the tone of Passage 1, the tone of Passage 2 is more
(A) ecstatic
(B) sincere易经原文全文及译文
(C) pensive
(D) evasive
(E) indignant
8. In Passage 2, the ntence "This is a lot of nonn, of cour" (lines 18-19) marks a shift from袁本初
(A) flowery description to unambiguous fact
(B) facetious exclamation to earnest asrtion
(C) random description to conci prediction
(D) a candid declaration to a somber apology
(E) a historical recounting to a revisionist account
9. The author of Passage 2 would most likely regard the view expresd in Passage 1 as
(A) endearing
(B) discerning
(C) insincere
(D) naive纸伞的折法
(E) pragmatic
Questions 10-15 are bad on the following passage.
The following passage is adapted from a nineteenth-century short story. A group of men are in a small lifeboat after their ship has sunk during a storm.
The mind of the master of a vesl is rooted deep in the timbers of her, though he command for a day or a decade; and this captain had on him the stem impression of a scene in the greys of dawn of ven turned faces, and later a
5 stump of a topmast with a white ball on it, that slashed to and fro at the waves, went low arid lower, and down. Thereafter there was something strange in his voice. Although steady, it was deep with mourning, and of a quality beyond oration or tears.
10 "Keep 'er a little more south, Billie," said he.
"A little more south, sir," said the oiler in the stern. A at in this boat was not unlike a at upon a bucking bronco, and by the same token a bronco is not much smaller. The craft pranced and reared and plunged like an
15 animal. As each wave came, and she ro for it, she emed like a hor making at a fence outrageously high. The manner of her scramble over the walls of water is a mystic thing, and, moreover, at the top of them were ordinarily the problems in white water, the foam racing
