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SECTION 1
历届全运会
Think carefully about the issue prented in the following excerpt and assignment below:
For a variety of reasons, people often make choices that have negative results. Later, they regret the choices, finding out too late that bad choices can be costly. On the other hand, decisions that em completely reasonable when they are made may also be the cau of later disappointment and suffering. What looks like a wonderful idea at one time can later em like the worst decision that could have been made. Good choices, too, can be costly.
亦声
Assignment: Are bad choices and good choices equally likely to have negative conquences? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this iss
ue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or obrvations.
SECTION 3
1. Although visitors initially may find touring the city by subway to be ______， they are plead to discover that subways are an inexpensive and ______ way to get around。
(A) wasteful .. generous
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(B) daunting .. efficient
(C) 站起来的英文extravagant .. prohibitive
(D) convenient .. solitary
(E) 扁担和板凳绕口令enjoyable .. easy
2. One critic asrts that modern urban architecture caus nsory deprivation becau
it fails to provide visual and tactile _______.
A. latency B. stimulation C. complacence D. confusion E. extension
3. Becau little rain falls in the district during summer, municipalities are necessarily_________ to _________ water from winter storms.
(A) ready.. squander
(B) reluctant.. retain
(C) free.. absorb
(D) careful.. store
(E) unwilling .. conrve
趋同性4. Toni Cade Bambara's novels are engrossing becau the protagonists, in striving to achieve goals, are not simply_________ characters.
(A) passive (B) tangible (C) abandoned (D) autonomous (E) redundant
5. Once his integrity had been________, the mayoral candidate was quick both to _ the attacks and to issue counterattacks.
送终(A) debunked…buttress
(B) mmence
(C) linquish
(D) pudiate
(E) avoid
Passage 1
家具展
Before silent film star Charlie Chaplin (1899-1977), came along, traps and hoboes had long been a part of the Anglo-American cartoon ad comic strip tradition. But Chaplin was to rai the tramp figure to heights of poetic and mythic power. Chaplin’s famous Tramp is a human being down and out on his luck but full of passion for hope that things will get
better. He is complex and many-sides, thereby touching most human beings at one or more points in our character and makeup. There is a good deal in his nature that most of us identity with in our cret lves, apart from what we are in the public world we inhabit.
Passage 2
Chaplin was very forthcoming during a 1957 interview about how much the early comic strips “Weary Willie and Tired Tim” influenced his creation of his own Tramp character. “There’s been a lot said about how I evolved the little tramp character who made my name,” said Chaplin. “Deep psychological stuff has been written about how I meant him to be a symbol of all the class war, of the love-hate concept, the death-wish, and what-all. But if you want the simple Chaplin legend, I started the little tramp simply to make people laugh and becau tho other tramps. Weary Willie and Tired Tim, dad always made me laugh.”
6. Given Chaplin’s statement in lines 22-25 (“I …laugh”), he would most likely view Passage 1’s portray of the “famous Tramp “( line 5) as
A misleading readers about is creative intention
B disregarding his effort to render social commentary through humor
C implying that the Tramp was derived from a comic strip
D asrting that the Tramp was the only character he portrayed
E assuming that few could embrace his ideas
7. Compared to the description of Chaplin’s Tramp in Passage 1, the account of the Tramp in Passage 2 is less
A optimistic
B ambiguous
C sincere
D complicated
E humorous
8. IN comparison to Passage 2, the tone of Passage 1 is
A more defensive
B more laudatory
C more ntimental
D less analytical
E less pretentious
9. Which best describes the relationship between Passage 1 and Passage2?
A Passage 1 explains the profound effect of Chaplin’s Tramp on audience; Passage2 describes how Chaplin created the Tramp
B Passage 1 explores how Chaplin expanded the Tramp’s character; Passage 2 analyzes the Tramp’s impact on audience
