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Part
II
Reading
Comprehension
(35
minutes)
Directions:
There are 4 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 21 to 25 are based on the
following passage.
It was the worst tragedy in maritime
(
航海的
) history, six times
more deadly
than the Titanic.
When the German cruise ship Wilhelm
Gustloff was hit by torpedoes
(
鱼雷
)
fired from a
Russian submarine in the final winter of World War
II, more than 10,000
people - mostly
women, children
and old
people fleeing the final Red Army push
into
Nazi
Germany
-
were
packed
aboard.
An
ice
storm
had
turned
the
decks
into
frozen sheets that sent hundreds of
families sliding into the sea as the ship tilted
and
began
to
go
down.
Others
desperately
tried
to
put
lifeboats
down.
Some
who
succeeded fought off those in the water
who had the strength to try to claw their way
aboard.
Most
people
froze
immediately.
Tll
never
forget
the
screams,
says
Christa
Ntitzmann, 87, one
of the
1,200 survivors. She
recalls watching the ship, brightly lit,
slipping into its dark grave - and into
seeming nothingness, rarely mentioned for more
than half a century.
Now Germany
's
Nobel
Prize-winning
author
Gtinter
Grass
has
revived
the
memory
of
the
9,000
dead, including more
than 4,000 children - with his latest novel Crab
Walk, published
last
month. The book, which will be out in
English next year, doesn't dwell on the
sinking; its heroine is a pregnant
young woman who survives the catastrophe only to
say later:
about
it, not here in the West (of Germany) and
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not at all in the East.
with
the
weekly
Die
Woche:
the
crimes
we
Germans
are
responsible
for
were and are so
dominant, we didn't have the energy left to tell
of our own sufferings.''
The
long
silence
about
the
sinking
of
the
Wilhelm
Gustloff
was
probably
unavoidable - and
necessary. By unreservedly owning up to their
country's monstrous
crimes in the
Second World War, Germans have managed to win
acceptance abroad,
marginalize
< br>(
使
...
不得势
)
the
neo-
Nazis
at
home
and
make
peace
with
their
neighbors. Today's unified Germany
is more prosperous and
stable than at any time in its long, troubled
history. For that, a
half century of
willful forgetting about painful memories like the
German Titanic was
perhaps
a
reasonable
price
to
pay.
But
even
the
most
politically
correct
Germans
believe that they'
ye now earned the right to discuss the full
historical record. Not to
equate German
suffering with that of its victims, but simply to
acknowledge a terrible
tragedy.
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21.
Why does the author say
the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff was
the worst tragedy in maritime history?
A
：
It was attacked by Russian
torpedoes.
B
：
Most of its passengers were
frozen to death.
C
：
Its victims were mostly
women and children.
D
：
It caused the largest
number of casualties.
请选择答案：
A:B:C:D:22.
Hundreds of families dropped into the
sea when
A
：
a
strong ice storm tilted the ship
B
：
the cruise
ship sank all of a sudden
C
：
the badly damaged ship
leaned toward one side
D
：
the frightened passengers
fought desperately for lifeboats
请选择答案：
A:B:C:D:23.
The
Wilhelm Gustloff tragedy
was little
talked about
for more than half a
century because Germans
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A
：
were eager to win
international acceptance
B
：
felt guilty for their
crimes in World War II
C
：
ad been pressured to keep
silent about it
D
：
were afraid of offending
their neighbors
请选择答案：
A:B:C:D:24.
How
does
Gunter
Grass
revive
the
memory
of
the
Wilhelm
Gustloff tragedy?
A
：
By
presenting the horrible scene of the torpedo
attack.
B
：
By describing the ship's
sinking in great detail.
C
：
By giving an interview to
the weekly Die Woche.
D
：
By depicting the survival
of a young pregnant woman.
请选择答案：
A:B:C:D:25.
It
can
be
learned
from
the
passage
that
Germans
no
longer think that
A
：
they will be misunderstood
if they talk about the Wilhelm Gustloff tragedy
B
：
the Wilhelm Gustloff
tragedy is
a reasonable price to
pay for
the nation's past
misdeeds
C
：
Germany is responsible for
the horrible crimes it committed in World War II
D
：
it
is wrong to equate their sufferings with those of
other countries
请选择答案：
A:B:C:D:Passage Two
Questions 26 to 30 are
based on the following passage.
Given
the
lack
of
fit
between
gifted
students
and
their
schools,
it
is
not
surprising
that
such
students
often
have
little
good
to
say
'about
their
school
experience. In one study of 400 adul
who had achieved distinction in all areas of life,
researchers
found
that
three-fifths
of
these
individuals
either
did
badly
in
school
or
were
unhappy
in
school.
Few
MacArthur
Prize
fellows,
winners
of
the
MacArthur
Award for creative accomplishment, had
good things to say about their precollegiate
schooling if they had not been placed
in advanced programs. Anecdotal
(
名人轶事
)
reports
support this. Pablo Picasso, Charles Darwin, Mark
Twain, Oliver Goldsmith,
and William
Butler Yeats all disliked school. So did Winston
Churchill, who almost
failed
out
of
Harrow,
an
elite
British
school.
About
Oliver
Goldsmith,
one
of
his
teachers remarked,
know
more
than
their
teachers,
and
their
teachers
often
feel
that
these
children
are
arrogant, inattentive,
or unmotivated.
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Some of these gifted people may have
done poorly in school because their,
gifts
were
not
scholastic.
Maybe
we
can
account
for
Picasso
in
this
way.
But
most
fared poorly in school
not because they lacked ability but because they
found school
unchallenging and
consequently lost interest. Yeats described the
lack of fit between
his
mind
and
school:
I
had
found
it
difficult
to
attend
to
anything
less
interesting
than
my
own
thoughts,
I
was
difficult
to
teach.
As
noted
earlier,
gifted
children
of
all
kinds
tend
to
be
strong-willed
nonconformists.
Nonconformity
and
stubbornness (and Yeats's level of
arrogance and self-absorption) are likely to lead
to
Conflicts with teachers.
When highly gifted students
in any domain talk about what was important
to
the
development
of
their
abilities,
they
are
far
more
likely
to
mention
their
families
than
their
schools
or
teachers.
A
writing
prodigy
(
神童
)
studied
by
David
Feldman
and
Lynn
Goldsmith
was
taught
far
more
about
writing
by
his
journalist
father than his English teacher. High-
IQ children, in Australia
studied
by
Miraca
Gross
had
much
more
positive
feelings
about
their
families
than
their schools. About
half of the mathematicians studied by Benjamin
Bloom had little
good to say about
school. They all did well in school and took
honors classes when
available, and some
skipped grades.
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26.
The main
point the author
is making about
schools is that
A
：
they should satisfy the
needs of students from different family
backgrounds
B
：
they are often incapable of
catering to the needs of talented students
C
：
they should organize their
classes according to the students' ability
D
：
they should enroll as many
gifted students as possible
请选择答案：
A:B:C:D:27.
The
author
quotes
the
remarks
of
one
of
Oliver
Goldsmith's teachers
A
：
to provide support for his
argument
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B
：
to illustrate the strong
will of some gifted children
C
：
to explain how
dull students can also be successful
D
：
to show how
poor Oliver's performance was at school
请选择答案：
A:B:C:D:28.
Pablo Picasso is listed among the many
gifted children
who
A
：
paid no attention to their
teachers in class
B
：
contradicted their teachers
much too often
C
：
could not cope with their
studies at school successfully
D
：
behaved
arrogantly and stubbornly in the presence of their
teachers
请选择答案：
A:B:C:D:29.
Many
gifted people attributed their success.
A
：
mainly to
parental help and their education at home
B
：
both to school instruction
and to their parents' coaching
C
：
more to their
parents' encouragement than to school training
D
：
less to their systematic
education than to their talent
请选择答案：
A:B:C:D:30.
The
root
cause
of
many
gifted
students
having
bad
memories of their school
years is that
A
：
their nonconformity brought
them a lot of trouble
B
：
they were seldom praised by
their teachers
C
：
school courses failed to
inspire or motivate them
D
：
teachers were usually far
stricter than their parents
请选择答案：
A:B:C:D:Passage Three
Questions 31 to 35 are
based on the following passage,
When we worry about who
might be spying on our private lives, we usually
think about the Federal agents. But the
private sector outdoes the government every
time. It's Linda Tripp, not the FBI,
who is facing charges under Maryland
's
laws
against
secret
telephone
taping.
It's
our
banks,
not
the
Internal
Revenue
Service (IRS), that pass our private
financial data to telemarketing fin'ms.
Consumer
activists
are
pressing
Congress
for
better
privacy
laws
without
much
result
so
far.
The
legislators
lean
toward
letting
business
people
track
our
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financial habits virtually at will.
As
an example of what's going on, consider U.S.
Bancorp, which was recently
sued for
deceptive practices by the state of Minnesota
.
According
to
the
lawsuit,
the
bank
supplied
a
telemarketer
called
MemberWorks
with
sensitive
customer
data
such
as
names,,
ph'one
numbers,
bank-account
and
credit-card numbers, Social Security
numbers, account balances and credit limits.
With these customer lists
in hand, MemberWorks started dialing for dollars -
selling dental plans, videogames,
computer software and other products and services.
Customers
who
accepted
a
trial
offer
had,
30
days
to
cancel.
If
the
deadline
passed, they were charged automatically
through their bank or credit-card accounts.
U.S. Bancorp collected a share of the
revenues.
Customers were doubly deceived, the
lawsuit claims. They. didn't know that
the bank was giving account numbers to
MemberWorks. And if customers asked, they
were led to think the answer was no.
The
state
sued
MemberWorks
separately
for
deceptive
selling.
Thecompany
de'hies that it did anything wrong. For
its part, U.S. Bancorp settled without admitting
any mistakes.
But
it agreed to
stop
exposing its
customers to
nonfinancial
products
sold by outside firms. A few top banks
decided to do the same. Many other banks will
still do business with MemberWorks and
similar firms.
And
banks
will
still
be
mining
data
from
your
account
in
order
to
sell
you
financial
products,
including
things
of
little
value,
such
as
credit
insurance
and
credit-card protection plans.
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You
have
almost
no
protection
from
businesses
that
use
your
personal
accounts for profit. For example, no
federal law shields
information
-
mainly
the
details
of
your
bank
and
credit-
card
accounts.
Social
Security numbers are for sale by
private fa'ms. They've generally agreed not to
sell to
the public. But
to
businesses, the numbers are an open
book. Selfregulation
doesn't
work. A firm might publish a privacy-
protection policy, but who enforces it?
Take U.S. Bancorp again. Customers were
told, in writing, that
information you
supply to us will be considered
confidential.
to
MemberWorks.
The
bank
even
claims
that
it
doesn't
your
data
at
all.
It
merely
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31.
Contrary to popular
belief,
the author finds that spying on
people's privacy
A
：
is mainly
carried out by means of secret taping
B
：
has been
intensified with the help of the IRS
C
：
is practiced
exclusively by the FBI
D
：
is more prevalent in
business circles
请选择答案：
A:B:C:D:32.
We
know from the passage that
A
：
legislators
are acting to pass a law to provide better privacy
protection
B
：
most states are turning a
blind eye to the deceptive practices of private
businesses
C
：
the
state
of
Minnesota
is
considering
drawing
up
laws
to
protect
private
information
D
：
lawmakers are inclined to
give a free hand to businesses to inquire into
customers'
buying habits
请选择答案：
A:B:C:D:33.
When
the
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without notice for a product or service
if
A
：
you fail to cancel it
within the specified period
B
：
you happen to
reveal your credit card number
C
：
you find the
product or service unsatisfactory
D
：
you fail to
apply for extension of the deadline
请选择答案：
A:B:C:D:34.
Businesses
do
not
regard
information
concerning
personal bank
accounts as private because
A
：
its revelation will do no
harm to consumers under the current protection
policy
B
：
it is considered
C
：
it
has always been considered an open secret by the
general public
D
：
its sale can be brought
under control through self-regulation
请选择答案：
A:B:C:D:35.
We
can infer from the passage that
A
：
banks will have to change
their ways of doing business
B
：
privacy
protection laws will soon be enforced
C
：
consumers'
privacy will continue to be invaded
D
：
请选择答案：
A:B:C:D:Passage Four
Questions 36 to 40 are based on the
following passage.
It's hardly news that the
immigration system is a mess. Foreign nationals
have
long been slipping across the
border with fake papers, and visitors who arrive
in the
U.S.
legitimately
often
overstay
their
legal
welcome
without
being
punished.
But
since
Sept. 11, it's become
clear that terrorists have been shrewdly factoring
the weaknesses
of
our
system
into
their
plans.
In
addition
to
their
mastery
of
forging
passports,
at
least
three of
the 19 Sept.
11 hijackers
(
劫机者
) were here on expired
visas. That's
been a safe bet until
now. The Immigration and Naturalization Service
(INS) (
移民
归化局
)
lacks
the
resources,
and
apparently
the
inclination,
to
keep
track
of
the
estimated 2 million
foreigners who have intentionally overstayed their
welcome.
But
this
laxness
(
马虎
)
toward
immigration
fraud
may
be
about
to
change.
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Congress has already taken some modest
steps. The U.S.A. Patriot Act, passed in the
wake
of
the
Sept.
11
tragedy,
requires
the
FBI,
the
Justice
Department,
the
State
Department
and
the
INS
to
share
more
data,
which
will
make
it
easier
to
stop
watch-
listed terrorists at the border.
But what's
really needed, critics say, is even tougher laws
and more resources
aimed at tightening
up border security. Reformers are calling for a
rollback of rules
that
hinder
law
also
want
the
INS
to
hire
hundreds
more
border
patrol agents and
investigators to keep illegal immigrants out and
to track them down
once they're here.
Reformers also
want to see the INS set
up a database to monitor
whether visa
holders actually leave the country when they are
required to.
All these proposed changes were part of
a new border-security bill that passed
the
House
of
Representatives
but
died
in
the
Senate
last
week.
Before
Sept.
11,
legislation of this kind had been
blocked by two powerful lobbies: universities,
which
rely
on
tuition
from
foreign
students
who
could
be
kept
out
by
the
new
law,
and
business, which relies
on foreigners for cheap labor. Since the attacks,
they've backed
off. The bill would have
passed this time but for congressional
maneuverings and is
expected to be
reintroduced and to pass next year.
Also
on
the
agenda
for
next
year:
a
proposal,
backed
by
some
influential
law-makers, to
split the INS into two agencies - a good cop that
would tend to service
functions like
processing citizenship papers and a bad cop that
would concentrate on
border
inspections,
deportation
and
other
functions.
One
reason
for
the
division,
supporters
say,
is
that
the
INS
has
in
recent
years
become
too
focused
on
serving
tourists and
immigrants. After the Sept. l 1 tragedy, the INS
should pay more attention
to serving
the millions of ordinary Americans who rely on the
nation's border security
to protect
them from terrorist attacks.
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36.
Terrorists have
obviously
taken advantage of
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