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Passage 1
Exchange a
glance with someone, then look away. Do you
realize
that you have made a statement?
This type of stare often produces
hostile feelings.
1. It can be inferred
from the first paragraph that___.
A)
every glance has its significance
2. If
you want to be left alone on an elevator, the best
thing to do
is___.
B) to
avoid eye contact with other passengers
3. By
means___.
C) ceasing to glance at others
4. If one is looked at by a stranger
for too long, he tends to
feel___.
B) uneasy
5. The passage
mainly discusses___.
D) the role of eye
contact in interpersonal communication.
Passage 2
Geraldo
Rivera is well known for his compassionate
investigative
reports on WABC-TV
Eyewitness News
.
But
I’m not just in the
business of making people cry. I’m in the
business of
chang
e.”
6.
Geraldo Rivera is working as a(n)______.
B. investigative reporter for a special
TV program
7. How many awards did
Rivera receive for his work?
D. Five
8. Rivera’s inves
tigation
and expose on the conditions at
WillowbrookStateSchool led to _____.
D. all of the above
9. The
term “One
-to-
One” in the
3
rd
paragraph refers to
______.
A. an organization in the
community that helps take better
care
of the
mentally disabled
10. The author suggests in this passage
that_____.
B. Rivera never tries to
conceal his own compassion in his
reporting
Passage
3
In the old days, children
were familiar with birth and death as part
of life. This is perhaps the first
generation of American youngsters
(
年轻人
) who have
never been close by during the birth of a baby
and have never experienced the death of
a family member.
11. The elders of
contemporary Americans___.
C) usually
witnessed the birth or death of a family member
12. Children in America today are
denied the chance___.
A) to learn how
to face death
13. Five hundred
critically ill patients were investigated with the
main purpose of___.
D)
learning how to best help them and their families
14. The need of a dying patient for
company shows___.
A) his desire for
communication with other people
15. It
may be concluded from the passage that___.
C) dying patients should be truthfully
informed of their
condition
Passage4
The
oldest and simplest method, then, of describing
differences in
personality was to
classify people according to types. Such a
system is called a Typology.
A famous example of this method was set
forth in Greece about the
year 400 B.C.
A physician named Hippocrates theorized that there
were four fluids, or humors, in the
body. Corresponding to each
humor, he
believed, there existed a definite type of
personality.
16. This passage focuses
on________.
C. personality theory and
classification
17. According to
Hippocrates’ fluid theory, a person with a perfect
balance of all the four humors in
him_________.
B. had a pleasant and
agreeable temperament
18. Which of the
following is NOT true?
C. people with
an oversupply of blood would easily get
excited
19. Modern
personality theories and classifications______.
A. are often very different because
personality itself is
rather
complicated
20. In the
forth-coming paragraphs, the author is most
probably
going to talk about____.
B. different opinions of psychologists
about the factors in
determining
personality
Passage
5
Space is a dangerous
place, not only because of meteors
(
流星
) but
also
because of rays from the sun and other stars.
21. According to the first paragraph,
the atmosphere is essential to
man in
that___.
A) it protects him against the
harmful rays from space
22. We know
from the passage that___.
B) the effect
of exposure to radiation is slow in coming
23. The harm radiation has done to the
Apollo crew members___.
D) remains
unknown
24. It can be inferred from the
passage that___.
B) protection from
space radiation is no easy job
25. The
best title for this passage would be___.
C) Effects of Space Radiation
Passage 6
Although the United Kingdom covers only
a small area of the
earth’s surface, it
represents people of many different origins and
cultures.
26. In this
passage the author intends to tell the origin of
____.
A. the British
27.
From the passage we know that_______.
D. almost every British citizen had his
or her family origin
from
somewhere else
28. According
to the passage, the earliest inhabitants in
Britain
were______.
C. Stone
Age hunters and gatherers
29. Thanks to
______ we can learn about the earliest inhabitants
in
Britain.
D. The Romans
occupying the Celtic Kingdoms in Britain
30. According to the passage which of
the following is NOT true?
D. There
were blacksmiths in Britain before 700 BC.
Passage 7
The
concept of
be misunderstood; but we
have no handy substitute.
versa
(
反之亦然
).
31. Which
of the following words can best describe the
popular
understanding of
D)
Oversimplified.
32. According to the
author the concept of
difficult to
explain because___.
C) the organism and
the environment influence each other
33. In analyzing the environmental
forces acting on man the
author
suggests that___.
C) man is modified by
the cultural environment as well as
by
the natural
environment
34. As for culture, the author points
out that___.
B) it is also affected by
environmental factors
35. In this
passage, the author is primarily concerned
with___.
A) the interpretation of the
term
Passage 8
Together with earthquakes, volcanoes
are phenomena which both
delight and
terrify the human mind at the same time.
36. V
olcanoes______.
D. delight people and, on the other
hand, terrify them
37. The
first paragraph implies that in classical
times____.
A. there were a lot of
volcanic eruptions on the islandof Vulcano
38. The word
vent
(Para. 2, Line
1)means_______.
A. something like a
chimney in the volcano
39. According to
this passage, most
of the world’s
volcanic
eruptions_____.
C.
are neither extremely destructive nor extremely
nondestructive
40. According
to _____, the Pelean type is the most explosive
type of
V
olcano.
B. the nature of the explosion
Passage 9
If you
want to stay young, sit down and have a good
think. This is
the research finding of
a team of Japanese doctors, who say that
most of our brains are not getting
enough exercise--and as a result,
we
are ageing unnecessarily soon.
41. The
team of doctors wanted to find out___.
A) why certain people age sooner than
others
42. On what are their research
findings based?
C) The study of brain
volumes of different people.
43. The
doctor's tests show that___.
D) some
people's brains have contracted more than other
44. The word
C) persons
chosen to be studied in an experiment
45. According to the passage, which
people seem to age slower
than the
others?
A) Lawyers
Passage
10
It is difficult to
imagine what life would be like without memory.
The meanings of thousands of everyday
perceptions, the bases for
the
decisions we make, and the roots of our habits and
skills are to
be found in our past
experiences, which are brought into the
present by memory.
46.
According to the passage, memory is considered to
be _____.
B. an ability to store
experiences for future use
47. The
comparison made between the memory capacity of a
large
computer and that of human being
shows that______.
C. the computer’s
memory capacity is much smaller even
than a teenager’s
48. The whole passage implies that____.
C. animals are able to solve only very
simple problems
49. The phrase “in
terms of” in the last sentence can best be
replaced by______.
B.
expressed by
50. The topic of the
passage is:
B. Memory is of vital
importance to life.
Passage11
In what
now seems like the prehistoric times of computer
history, the earth's postwar era, there
was quite a wide-spread
concern that
computers would take over the world from man one
day.
(
失误
).
51. What is the main purpose of this
passage?
D) To warn against a mentally
lazy attitude towards
computers.
52. According to the passage, the
initial concern about computers
was
that they might___.
B) take control of
the world
53. The passage recommends
those dealing with computers to___.
A)
be reasonably doubtful about them
54.
The passage suggests that the present-day problem
with regard
to computers is___.
D) fundamental
55. It can be
inferred from the passage that the author would
disapprove of___.
B) the use
of one's internal computer
Passage
12
A new enemy is
threatening Japanese traditions: leisure. As part
of its
attempt to increase imports, the
government is trying to get people to
work less and spend more. The workers
are disgusted.
56. The purpose of
getting the Japanese to have more spare time is
that______.
B. the
government needs to get more goods from abroad
57. The group of people who welcome the
shorter-hour system in Japan
is_____.
B. the industrialists
58.
The unions think that ______.
C. the
shorter hours they work, the less pay they can
have
59. What is the result of the
younger Japanese’s reaction to the leisure
industry?
C. It becomes more
and more flourishing
60. The best title
for this passage can be_____.
B.
Leisure: the Greatest Threat!
Passage
13
In the 196Os,medical
researchers Thomas Holmes and Richard
Rahe developed a checklist of stressful
events. They appreciated
the tricky
point that any major change can be stressful.
61. The result of Holmes-Rahe's medical
research tells us____.
C) what kind of
event would cause stress
62. The
studies on stress in the early 1970's led to___.
B) great panic over the mental disorder
it could cause
63. The score of the
Holmes-Rahe test shows___.
A) how much
pressure you are under
64. Why is
follow?
D) You could be
missing opportunities as well.
65.
According to the passage people who have
experienced ups
and downs may
become___.
C) more capable of coping
with adversity
Passage 14
Some pessimistic experts feel that the
automobile is bound to fall
into
disuse. They see a day in the not-too-distant
future when all
autos will be abandoned
and allowed to rust. Other authorities,
however, think the auto is here to
stay. They hold that the car will
remain a leading means of urban travel
in the foreseeable future.
66. One
significant improvement in the future car will
probably
be___.
C) its power
source
67. What is the author's main
concern?
D) How to solve the problem of
traffic jams.
68. What provides autos
with electric power in an automated
highway system?
B) A rail.
69. In an automated highway system, all
the driver needs to do
is___.
C) inform the system of his destination
by phone
70. What is the author's
attitude toward the future of autos?
A)
Optimistic.
Passage 15
It is hard to track the blue whale, the
ocean's largest creature, which
has
almost been killed off by commercial whaling and
is now listed
as an endangered species.
Attaching radio devices to it is difficult,
and visual sightings are too unreliable
to give real insight into its
behavior.
71. The passage is chiefly about___.
B) the civilian use of a military
detection system
72. The underwater
listening system was originally designed___.
A) to trace and locate enemy vessels
73. The deep-sea listening system makes
use of____.
C) the unique property of
layers of ocean water in
transmitting
sound
74. It can be inferred from the
passage that___.
D) military technology
has great potential in civilian use
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