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[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.
Who is most likely to want a higher speed limit
A. Drivers with turbo-charged vehicles.
B. Professional truck drivers.
C. Older people.
D. People from the Southern US.
[单项选择]Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
Americans are a very energetic and mobile people, always on the run, rushing from one appointment to another, from a PTA meeting to a social planning committee. They have very little time to spend preparing elaborate everyday meals to be eaten at leisure. In many homes it is rare for the whole family to sit down at supper together. Clubs and commitments force them to grab a quick meal rather than a sit-down supper.
When they do have the chance to eat at home often the working housewife prefers to prepare meals which can be quickly heated and consumed, it is no wonder, therefore, that America has become a sanctuary for fast food consumption.
This great transformation occurred after World War II when many women began to work full-time jobs and were spending less time at home with their families. Women, however, wanted to function well in the capacity of home-maker, as well as that of career woman
A. the attraction of the radio
B. their preference in fast food
C. the shift of home focus
D. the attraction of the television
[单项选择]Questions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage.
Picasso’s art was not just a pleasant distraction. The artist believed that art helps to penetrate further into the world and into men for understanding. With his unusually acute senses, with his intense, black eyes, Picasso saw every subject as no one else did. He tried to express the essence of his subject. He showed people how to grasp a new concept of beauty. He made them realize that beauty can have a diversity of forms. "Now is the time in this period of change and revolution to use a revolutionary manner of painting and not to paint like before." That was Picasso’s idea. Believing it is the artist’s function to discover new forms of expression, he liberated art and made our feelings about it more acute.
Picasso keeps all of art alive. His work encompasses ’all of the past and foretells the future of art. His early paintings were sober and sensible, in the academic style. But Picasso was among the first
A. Cezanne.
B. Picasso.
C. Michelangelo.
D. An unknown artist.
[填空题]Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.
I am a foot taller than Napoleon and twice the weight of Twiggy; on my only visit to a beautician (美容师), the woman said she found my face a challenge. Yet despite these social disadvantages I feel cheerful, happy, confident and secure.
I work for a daily newspaper and so get to a lot of places I would otherwise never see. This year I went to Ascot to write about the people there. I saw something there that made me realize the stupidity of trying to conform, of trying to be better than anyone else. There was a small, plump woman, all dressed up—huge hat, dress with pink butterflies, long white gloves. She also had a shooting stick. But because she was so plump, when she sat on the stick it went deep into the ground and she couldn’t pull it out. She tugged and tugged, tears of rage in her eyes. When the final tug brought it out, she crashed with it to the ground.
I saw her walk away. Her day had bee
[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.
Why had there been no calls from the Nelsons for quite some time
A. Mrs. Nelson’s appendix had been taken out two years before.
B. Mr. Nelson had divorced his wife and had married another woman.
C. Mr. Nelson had decided not to bother the doctor any more.
D. Mr. Nelson’s former wife had been very well recently.
[单项选择]Questions 18 to 20 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.
What is man’s intelligence decided by
A. A large brain,
B. A small brain.
C. The environment.
D. Not precisely mentioned here.
[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.
This passage tells us about ______.
A. an accident in a river
B. a sea captain
C. a boat crossing a river full of ice
D. a noble deed by a brave man
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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.
The best title for this selection is ______.
A. Food from Coal and Gas
B. Non-Spoiling and New Foods
C. Spacecraft Food
D. The Shortage of Food
[填空题] Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
We always convince ourselves that life will be better after we get married, have a baby, than another. Then we are frustrated that the kids aren’t old enough and we’ll be more (47) when they are. After that we’re frustrated that we have teenagers to deal with. We will (48) be happy when they are out of that stage.
We always tell ourselves that our life will be (49) when our spouse gets his or her act together. When we get a nice car, and are able to go on a nice vocation when we (50) . The truth is that there’s no better time than right now. If not now, when Our life will always be filled with (51) .It’s best to admit this to ourselves and decide to be happy anyway.
One of my favorite (52) comes from Alfred Souza. He said: "for a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin-real life. But there was always some (53
[单项选择] Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.
From Boston to Los Angeles, from New York City to Chicago to Dallas, museums are either planning, building, or wrapping up wholesale expansion programs. These programs already have radically altered facades and floor plans or are expected to do so in the not-too- distant future.
In New York City alone, six major institutions have spread up and out into the air space and neighborhoods around them or are preparing to do so.
The reasons for this confluence of activity are complex, but one factor is a consideration everywhere — space. With collections expanding, with the needs and functions of museums changing, empty space has become a very precious commodity.
Probably nowhere in the country is this more true than at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which has needed additional space for decades and which received its last significant facelift ten years ago. Because of the space crunch, the Art Muse
A. influence
B. conclusion
C. joining
D. expansion
