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[填空题] Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.
Electricity was born at the dawn of the last century. From then on, households have been inundated with a flood of home electric goods. What is the impact of this home electric goods revolution
It is argued here that the home electric goods revolution may liberate women from the home. And it is true that many households never hesitate a second to adopt this new technology or that, however, in fact many of the home electric goods which are advertised as liberating the modem woman tend to have the opposite effect, because they simply change the nature of work instead of eliminating it. Machines have a certain novelty value, like toys for adults. It is certainly less tiring to put clothes in a washing machine, but the time saved does not really amount to much the machine has to be watched, the clothes have to be carefully sorted out first, stains removed by hand, buttons pushed and water changed, clothes tak
[填空题]Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
Teddy bears have been around since 1902. The teddy bear came to being when President Theodore Roosevelt refused to shoot a black bear held captive (俘虏) by his hunting party. Also worth noting is that President Roosevelt’s refusal to (47) this captive bear became a very popular political cartoon by Cliff Barryman.
A Brooklyn shopkeeper was (48) by the cartoon. The shopkeeper then asked President Roosevelt for (49) to name a toy bear "Teddy", the nickname of "Theodore". Thus became the creation of the teddy bear.
It is also worth (50) that the teddy bear was born in Germany between 1902 and 1903.
The first teddy bears did not have lovely faces or smiles, in fact, the first teddy bears had expressions which could best be described as (51) Teddy bears were also quite stiff, the (52) arms and legs and soft, plush (毛绒的) bodies came much l
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Questions 11 to 14 are based on the following passage. At the
end of the passage, you will be given 20 seconds to answer t. he
questions.
Now, listen to the passage.
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" meant that ______.
A. Americans would lose if they gave way to fear
B. Americans have no real troubles during the 1930s
C. F.D.R. would solve America’s problems because he was not afraid
D. Americans were in trouble because they hadn’t looked at their troubles with clear heads
[单项选择] Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.
No one should be forced to wear a uniform under any circumstances. Uniforms are demanding to the human spirit and totally unnecessary in a democratic society. Uniforms tell the world that the person who wears one has no value as an individual but only lives to function as a part of a whole. The individual in a uniform loses all self-worth.
There are those who say that wearing a uniform gives a person a sense of identification with a larger, more important concept. What could be more important than the individual himself If an organization is so weak that it must rely on cloth and buttons to inspire its members, that organization has no right to continue its existence. Others say that the practice of making persons wear uniforms, say in a school, eliminates all envy and competition in the matter of dress, such that a poor person who cannot afford good-quality clothing is not to be belittled by a wealthy per
A. efforts
B. motivation
C. skills
D. attempts
[单项选择]Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
Cambridge University closed down in the summer of 1665 when the plague broke out. New ton, a student there, went home to Lincolnshire. He stayed home for two years while the disease ran its course in the area around London. The 23-year-old Newton spent that time studying and laying the foundations for his greatest work, the Principia. One day he sat thinking in his garden, when an apple fell. Then he realized that the direction the apple fell, along with every other object on this round earth, was always toward Earth’s center. It wasn’t just that the apple fell, but that it tried to go to Earth’s center. That was Newton’s eureka moment. He realized that Earth had drawn the apple to it. He realized that every object in the universe draws every other object— probably in proportion to its mass. Newton didn’t publish his Principia until 20 years later. But he formulated the Law of Universal Gravitation (LUG) there in his
A. fabricated
B. ridiculous
C. authentic
D. reasonable
[单项选择]Questions 17 to 20 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the passage.
What was said to have been stolen
A. A book.
B. $ 3000.
C. A handbag.
D. A Christmas car
[单项选择]Questions 14 to 16 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the passage.
Which studying material is more challenging
A. The study guide.
B. The course reader.
C. The textbook by Osborne.
D. Readings by Bender.
[单项选择]Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage:
In the United States elementary education begins at the age of six. At this stage nearly all the teachers are women, mostly married. (80) The atmosphere is usually very friendly, and the teachers have now accepted the idea that the important thing is to make the chil-dren happy and interested. The old authoritarian (要绝对服从的) methods of education were discredited (不被认可) rather a long time ago-so much so that many people now think that they have gone too far in the direction of trying to make children happy and interestedrather than giving them actual instruction.
The social education of young children tries to make them accept the idea that human beings in a society need to work together for their common good. So the emphasis is on co- operation rather than competition throughout most of this process. This may seem curious, in view of the fact that American society is highly competitive; however, the need
A. sensible and sensitive
B. competitive and interested
C. curious and friendly
D. happy and co-operative
[单项选择]Questions 14 to 17 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions.
Now listen to the passage.
Who looks after the paper, especially the front page, in the afternoon and evening, preparing for the next morning
A. The Assistant Editor.
B. The head of the department.
C. The Night Editor.
D. The Deputy Editor.
[单项选择]Questions 11 to 13 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.
Now listen to the passage.
How many high school students are presenting science projects in Portland this week
A. One hundred.
B. Several hundred.
C. One thousand.
D. Several thousan
