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考研英语-668
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Some time between digesting Christmas dinner and putting your head back down to work, spare a thought or two for the cranberry. It is, of course, a (1) of Christmas: merry bright red, bittersweetly delicious with turkey and the very devil to get out of the tablecloth (2) spilled. But the cranberry is also a symbol of the modern food industry and in the tale of its (3) from colonial curiosity to business - school case study (4) a deeper understanding of the opportunities and (5) of modern eating.
The fastest growing part of today’ s cranberry market is for cranberries that do not taste like cranberries. Ocean Spray’ s "flavoured fruit pieces" ( FFPS, to the trade) taste like orange, cherry, raspberry or any (6) of other fruits. They are in fact cranberries. Why make a cranberry taste like an orange Mostly because it is a (7) little fruit: FF PS have a shelf-life of two years. Better (8) , they ke
A. similar
B. feasible
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In the past year, a lot has changed in the field of human spaceflight. (46) In January, President George Bush brushed aside the fact that America’s entire space-shuttle fleet was grounded when he announced grandiose plans to put people back on the moon, and then to launch a manned mission to Mars. (47) In June, Burt Rutan, an American aeronautical engineer, showed that human spaceflight was no longer the preserve of governments by sending a man to the edge of space in Space Ship One, a privately financed vehicle that cost about the same to build as a luxury yacht. That was followed in September by Sir Richard Branson, the British entrepreneur behind the Virgin brand, announcing that he had signed a deal with Mr Rutan to work on plans for a fleet of five suborbital vehicles developed from Space Ship One.
(48) Now, in the dying days of the year, America’ s Congress has passed a bill that unravels a tangle about who would be responsible for regul -
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Text 4
Some things are doomed to remain imperfect, the United Nations among them. De spite noble aspirations, the organization that more than any other embodies the collective will and wisdom of an imperfect world was created, in the words of one former secretary general, not to take humanity to heaven, but to save it from hell. Is it failing in that task
Alarmed at the bitter dispute over the war in Iraq, and at growing threats -- from the devastation of AIDS and the danger of failing states to the prospect of terrorists armed with weapons of mass destruction -- that the UN ’ s founding powers hadn’ t even had night mares about, last year Kofi Annan, the current secretary-general, asked a group of eminent folk to put on their thinking caps. Their report on how the UN might in future better contribute to international peace and security--mobilising its own and the world’ s re sources to prevent crises where possible and to deal with them m
A. foretelling the fragility of an imperfect world.
B. restraining the noble aspirations of heaven.
C. depicting the aim of establishing UN.
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Text 2
The twin English passions for gardening and long muddy walks may seem puzzling to foreigners, yet they are easily explained in terms of a favourite economist’ s concept: scarcity. Most other nations have lots of countryside. England doesn’ t, and therefore its people prize the stuff. One consequence of the rural romance is a word which exists only in English and describes those with a particular sort of hostility to development: Nimbys, who don’ t mind new housing so long as it is Not In My Back Yard. Another consequence is a problem for the government.
Compared with its neighbours’ economies, Britain’ s has been doing very nicely in recent years. Only one big threat looms: the possibility of a bust in the overheated and volatile housing market, which could feed through to the rest of the economy and lead to recession, as happened in the early 1990s. The government reckons that one reason why house prices have been risin
A. unselected regional bodies side with Nimbys.
B. most of the first new towns get the go-ahead.
C. elected local authorities fuels the hostility to development.
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Text 1
Forget Iraq and budget deficits. The most serious political problem on both sides of the Atlantic is none of these. It is a difficulty that has dogged the ruling classes for millennia. It is the servant problem.
In Britain David Blunkett, the home secretary, has resigned over an embarrassment ( or one of many embarrassments, in a story involving his ex-girlfriend, her husband, two pregnancies and some DNA) concerning a visa for a Filipina nanny employed by his mistress. His office speeded it through for reasons unconnected to the national shortage of un skilled labour. Mr Blunkett resigned ahead of a report by Sir Alan Budd, an economist who is investigating the matter at the government’ s request.
In America Bernard Kerik, the president’ s nominee for the Department of Homeland Security, withdrew last week because he had carelessly employed a Mexican nanny whose Play-Doh skills were in better order than her paperwork. Mr Kerik al
A. Getting visa for servants will not be a problem.
B. Sir Alan is qualified to be a dismal scientist.
C. The majority gets rid of the traditional solution.
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Part A
Directions:
Yesterday, you received a letter of invitation from Tom Cruise, one of your American friends. You are asked to attend his birthday party. But you cannot accept bis invitation. Write a letter to Tom, telling him your decision, stating your reason(s) , and making an apology.
Write your letter with no less than 100 words. Write it neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter; use "Li Ming" instead. You do not need to write the address. (10 points)
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Text 3
Education is compulsory in Britain, whether at school "or otherwise"; and "other wise" is becoming more popular. In 1999, only 12,000 children were listed as being home-schooled. Now that figure is 20,000, according to Mike Fortune-Wood, an educational researcher. But he thinks that, as most home-taught children never go near a school and are therefore invisible to officialdom, the total is probably nearer 50,000.
As usual, Britain lies between Europe and America. In Germany, home teaching is illegal. In America, it’ s huge: over 1 m children are home-schooled, mainly by religious parents. There are a small minority among British home-educators, who consist mainly of two types: hippyish middle-class parents who dislike schools on principle, and those whose children are unhappy at school.
The growth is overwhelmingly in this second category, says Roland Meighan, a home-education expert and publisher. One reason is tha
A. the complaint against the compulsory education.
B. the occasional employment of school facilities.
C. the intensified attempts of other sections with respect to personalization
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[A] Dr Daniel Stanley, an oceanographer, has found volcanic shards in Egypt that he believes are linked to the explosion. Computer simulations by Mike Rampino, a climate modeler from New York University, show that the resulting ash cloud could have plunged the area into darkness, as well as generating lightning and hail, two of the 10 plagues.
[B] The cloud could have also reduced the rainfall, causing a drought. If the Nile had then been poisoned by the effects of the eruption, pollution could have turned it red, as happened in a recent environmental disaster in America. The same pollution could have driven millions of frogs on to the land, the second plague. On land the frogs would die, removing the only obstacle to an explosion of flies and lice--the third and fourth plagues. The flies could have transmitted fatal diseases to cattle (the fifth plague) and boils and blisters to humans (the sixth plague).
[C] Moses, which will be broadcast in December 2002, will