One day I was at the airport waiting
for a ticket to New York and the girl in the ticket office said, "I’m sorry, I
can’t sell you a ticket. Our computer is down."
"If your
computer is down, just write me out a ticket."
"I can’t write
you out a ticket. The computer is the only one allowed to do so."
I looked down on the computer and every passenger was just standing there
staring at the black screen. Then I asked her, "What do all you people
do’
"We give the computer the information about your trip, and
then it tells us whether you can fly with us or not."
"So when
it goes down, you go down with it."
"That’s good, sir.
’
"How long will the computer be down" I wanted to
know.
"I have no idea. There’s no way we can find out without
asking the computer."
After the girl told me they had no backup
A. When the Computer Is Down
B. How to buy a ticket
C. The Computer of the Airport
D. Asking the Computer
[填空题]Schools in England fall into two categories: One is public schools, which his maintained by local authorities and free to all children; the other is private schools or independent schools, which parents need to pay for their children’s education.
[单项选择]In English culture one can form an O with one’s thumb and forefinger while stretching out the other three fingers to signify "______".
A. It’s me
B. Come here
C. OK
D. Yes
[单项选择] Passage Two
One hundred boats bearing one million
desperate uninvited immigrants set sail from the Ganges (恒河) for the fabled
coast of the French Riviera. They are totally destitute and have decided that
their only chance of survival is in a country with a conscience that
traditionally welcomes refugees from the Third World. Their journey will take 50
days.
In France, the news is trumpeted with pride by the liberal
media, churchmen and left-wing activists. Favorable media echoes are heard all
over Europe; Political leaders and the armed forces fumble for common policies.
Publicly, French authorities praise the intrepid voyagers. Privately, they
exchange ideas on how they can divert one million hungry souls to other
shores.
A trendy French radio journalist, Albert Dufort, sees
the makings of a historical redistribution of wealth between
A. a country showing sympathy for the refugees from the Third World
B. a place with clean conscience that all men in the world should be equal in every way
C. a nation that shares the same tradition with the third world countries
D. a state that strongly believes that all refugees should be treated as a human being
[单项选择]
Passage Two
One thing almost everyone is agreed on, including Americans, is that they place a very high valuation up on success. Success does not necessarily mean material rewards, but recognition of some sort-preferably measurable. If a boy turn out to be a preacher(传真者) instead of a businessman, that’s all right. But the bigger his church is, the more successful he is judged to be.
A good many things contributed to this accent on success. There was the Puritan(清教徒) belief in the virtue of work, both for its own sake and because the rewards it brought were regarded as signs of God’s love. There was the richness of opportunity in a land waiting to be settleD. There was the lack of a settled society with fixed ranks and classes, so that a man was certain to rise through achievement. Here was the de- termination of an immigrant to gain in the new world what bad been denied to him in the old, and on the part of his children an urge to throw off the
A. success is highly valued in American society
B. success surely brings material rewards
C. success equals measurable recognition
D. people agree on what success means
[单项选择] Passage Two
One year ago we stared aghast at images
of the Southeast Asian tsunami. Video cameras taken on vacation to record the
everyday pleasures of the beach were suddenly turned to quivering utility as
they documented the panic and mayhem of a natural disaster. Who can forget the
disbelief in the recorded voices This can’t be happening to us. Human beings
are never prepared for natural disasters. There is a kind of optimism built into
our species that seems to prefer to live in the comfortable present rather than
confront the possibility of destruction, It may happen, we seem to believe, but
not now, and not to us. Mount Vesuvius has been erupting since historical
records began. The eruption of A. D. 79 both destroyed Pompeii and preserved it
for posterity. Pliny the Younger starkly recorded the details in prose that can
still be read as a
A. the world with greenhouse effect
B. the world with rich natural resource
C. the world without water
D. the world without plants
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