课程名称：兄弟的英文 英语一 情难却
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PartⅠ Reading Comprehension（30分）
Directions: There are 2 reading passages in this ction. 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.
Passage One Questions 1 to 5 are bad on the following passage.
One of the most popular literary figures in American literature is a woman who spent almost half of her life in China, a country on a continent thousands of miles from the United States. In her life time she earned his country’s most highly acclaimed literary award, the Pulitzer Prize, and also the most prestigious form of literary recognition in the world, the Nobel Prize for Literature. Pearl S. Buck was almost a houhold word throughout much of her lifetime becau of her prolific output, which consisted of some eighty-five published works, includin
g veral dozen novels, six collections of short stories, fourteen books for children, and more than a dozen works of nonfiction. When she was eighty years old, some twenty-five volumes were awaiting publication. Many of tho books were t in China, the land in which she spent so much of her life. Her books and her life rved as a bridge between the cultures of the East and the West. As the product of tho two cultures she became, as she described herlf, “mentally bifocal”. Her unique background made her into an unusually interesting and versatile human being. As we examine the life of Pearl Buck, we cannot help but be aware that we are in fact meeting three parate people: a wife and mother, an internationally famous writer, and a humanitarian and philanthropist. One cannot really get to know Pearl Buck without learning about each of the three. Though honored in her lifetime with the William Dean Howell Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in addition to the Nobel and Pulitzer Prizes, Pearl Buck as a total human being, not only a famous author, is a captivating subject of study.
1. What is the author’s main purpo in writing the passage?
A) To offer a criticism of the works of Pearl Buck.
B) To illustrate Pearl Buck’s views on Chine literature.
C) To illustrate the background and diver interests of Pearl Buck.
D) To discuss Pearl Buck’s influence on the cultures of the East and the West.
2. According to the passage, Pearl Buck was an unusual figure in American literature in that she ______.
A) wrote extensively about a very different culture
B) published half of her books abroad什么是间接引语
C) won more awards than any other woman of her time
D) achieved her first success very late in life
3. According to the passage, Pearl Buck described herlf as “mentally bifocal” to suggest that she was ______.
A) capable of resolving the differences between two distinct linguistic systems
正宗粉蒸肉的做法 B) keenly aware of how the past could influence the future
营的成语C) capable of producing literary works of interest to both adults and children
D) equally familiar with two different cultural environments
4. The word “prolific” in Line 6 is clost in meaning to which of the following?
A) influential. B) impressive. C) fruitful. D) outstanding.
5. Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A) All of Pearl Buck’s books were written in China.
B) Pearl Buck won veral literary awards for her works.
C) Pearl Buck knew both American and Chine cultures very well.
D) One has to study the different aspects of Pearl Buck in order to understand her well.关于友谊
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Passage Two Questions 6 to 10 are bad on the following passage.
Are organically grown foods the best food choices? The advantages claimed for such foods over conventionally grown and marketed food products are now being debated. Advocates of organic foods – a term who meaning varies greatly – frequently proclaim that such products are safer and more nutritious than others.
The growing interest of consumers in the safety and nutritional quality of the typical North American diet is a welcome development. However, much of this interest has been sparked by sweeping claims that the food supply is unsafe or inadequate in meeting nutritional needs. Although most of the claims are not supported by scientific evidence, the preponderance (优势) of written material advancing such claims makes it difficult for the general public to parate fact from fiction. As a result, claims that eating a diet consisting entirely of organically grown foods prevents or cures dia or provides other benefits to health have become widely publicized and formed the basis for folklore.
Almost daily the public is besieged (围攻) by claims for “no-aging” diets, new vitamins an
d other wonder foods. There are numerous unsubstantiated reports that natural vitamins are superior to synthetic ones, that fertilized eggs are nutritionally superior to unfertilized eggs, that untreated grains are better than fumigated grains, and the like.
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One thing that most organically grown food products em to have in common is that they cost more than conventionally grown foods. But in many cas consumers are mislead if they believe organic food can maintain health and provide better nutritional quality than conventionally grown foods. So there is real cau for concern if consumers, particularly tho with limited incomes, distrust the regular food supply and buy only expensive organic foods instead.
6. The word “advocate” in Line 2, Para. 1 is clost in meaning to which of the following?
A) proponents. B) merchants. C) inspectors. D) consumers.
7. According to the first paragraph, which of the following is true about the term “organic foods”?
A) It is accepted by most nutritionists. B) It has been ud only in recent years.
C) It has no fixed meaning. D) It is ldom ud by consumers.
