When I was home in Britain on holiday
last summer, I spent an evening looking at photos my father had taken when he
stayed with us in Beijing in the spring of 1966. Of all these interesting scenes
of the past, the one I exclaimed at was a photo of Chang An Jie at Tiananmen.
The photo showed one car and two bicycles!
This made me reflect
on the changes that have transformed Beijing since I came to the city 37 years
ago. In those days, the bicycle was king. What sheer joy it was to cycle along
with the hundreds (not thousands) of fellow pedallers (骑车人), never in fear of
life and limb as one is now. I bought my first bike in 1963. It cost me 150
yuan--in those days three or four months’ salary for the average city
dweller.
Such changes! Good or bad Today, cycling is hazardous
but bikes are easily affordable. Gone are the old wo
A. She was indifferent to the changes.
B. She preferred the past to the present.
C. She was amazed at the changes.
D. She believed that the changes were good.
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[单项选择] Passage Two
When I was home in Britain on holiday
last summer, I spent an evening looking at photos my father had taken when he
stayed with us in Beijing in the spring of 1966. Of all these interesting scenes
of the past, the one I exclaimed at was a photo of Chang An Jie at Tiananmen.
The photo showed one car and two bicycles!
This made me reflect
on the changes that have transformed Beijing since I came to the city 37 years
ago. In those days, the bicycle was king. What sheer joy it was to cycle along
with the hundreds (not thousands) of fellow pedallers (骑车人), never in fear of
life and limb as one is now. I bought my first bike in 1963. It cost me 150
yuan--in those days three or four months’ salary for the average city
dweller.
Such changes! Good or bad Today, cycling is hazardous
but bikes are easily affordable. Gone are the old wo
A. To make a comparison between the past and the present.
B. To honor her father.
C. To criticize the past.
D. To criticize the present.
[单项选择]Passage Two
When Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg launched thefacebook.com in Feb. 2004, even he could not imagine the forces it would let loose. His intent was to connect college students. Facebook, which is what this website rapidly evolved into, ended up connecting the world.
To the children of this connected era, the world is one giant social network. They are not bound — as were previous generations of humans — by what they were taught. They are only limited by their curiosity and ambition. During my childhood, all knowledge was local. You learned everything you knew from your parents, teachers, preachers, and friends.
With the high-quality and timely information at their fingertips, today’s children are rising normally tame middle class is speaking up against social ills. Silicon Valley executives are being shamed into adding women to their boards. Political leaders are marshalling the energy of millions for elections and political causes. All of this is being done
A. To help students connect with the outside world.
B. To bring university students into closer contact.
C. To help students learn to live in a connected era.
D. To combine the world into an integral whole.
[单项选择] Passage Two
When Daniel Franklin, a political
science professor from Atlanta, needed career advancement advice, he didn’t turn
to colleagues, therapists or even his mom.
He went to the Advice
Ladies.
Three thirty something New York women, advertising
freelancers by day, have turned themselves into Saturday afternoon street-comer
oracles, they pull up lawn chairs and a table on a lower Manhattan street corner
and dish out free advice to passersby. They’ve claimed the comer of West
Broadway and Broome Street in Soho as their own for the last several
months.
Amy Alkon, who, with longtime friends Marlowe Minnick
and Carolyn Johnson, becomes a part-time shrink each weekend. "We use creative
problem- solving to turn problem into fun," she says.
On a
recent steamy afternoon, a line has formed in front of the Advice Ladies’ table.
Obv
A. about 30 New York women who offered free advice by day
B. three women freelancers about 30 years old who offered advertising advice on Saturday
C. about 30 women advertising freelancers offered advice every Saturday afternoon in New York
D. three women about 30 years old, who did advertising as a job, offered free advice every Saturday afternoon
[单项选择] Passage Two
Britain’s emissions of greenhouse gases, blamed by
many scientists for contributing to global warming, have fallen by 14 percent
since 1990, according to the latest government report.
British
lakes and rivers are also on the road to recovery from acid rain poisoning,
following successful curbs to air pollution from cars and heavy
industry.
The report by the National Atmospheric Emissions
Inventory (NAEI) attributed the drop in greenhouse gas emissions to several
factors including: the introduction of catalytic converters on cars, a move
toward low sulphur and lead-free petrol and a switch to gas from coal and oil in
power generation.
Environment Minister Michael Meacher said the
downward trend was welcome, but warned of complacency.
"Even
though these figures are encouraging, we must not be complacent. There are still
A. make land and waterways ultra-fertile
B. smother the growing of plants
C. create health damaging ozone
D. contribute to acid rain
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