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Questions 16 to 18 are based on the following passage.
Suppose you work in a big firm and find English important for your job because you often deal with foreign businessmen. Now you are looking for a place where you can improve your English, especially your spoken English. Here are some ads about English language training. You may find the information you need.
Global English Center
*General English in all four skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing.
*3-month(700 yuan), 6-month(1, 200 yuan) and 12-month(2, 000 yuan) courses.
*Choice of morning or evening classes, 3 hours per day, Mon. —Fri.
*Experienced college English teachers.
*Close to the city center and bus stops.
TEL: 676012134
Modern Language School
*Special courses in English for business.
*Small classes (12—16 students) on Sat. & Sun. from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
*Native English teach
A. it requires an entrance examination
B. it is nearest to the city center
C. its courses are more advanced
D. its teaching quality is better
[单项选择]Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.
It was 10 years ago, on a warm July night, that a newborn lamb with took her first breath in a small shed in Scotland. From the outside, she looked no different from thousands of other sheep born on __36__ farms. But Dolly, as the world soon came to realize, was no __37__ lamb. She was cloned from a single cell of an adult female sheep, __38__ long-held scientific dogma that had declared such a thing biologically impossible.
A decade later, scientists are starting to come to grips with just how different Dolly was. Dozens of animals have been cloned since that first little lamb — mice, cats, cows and, most recently, a dog — and it’s becoming __39__ clear that they are all, in one way or another, defective.
It’s __40__ to think of clones as perfect carbon copies of the original. It turns out, though, that there are various degrees of genetic __41__. That may come as a shock to people who have paid thousands of
[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 for
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.
Americans ensure proper respect for the national flag by
A. making laws.
B. enforcing discipline.
C. educating the public.
D. holding ceremonies.
[填空题]Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
If our society ever needed a reading renaissance(复兴), it’s now.The National Endowment for the Arts released "Reading at Risk" last year, a study showing that adult reading 47 have dropped 10 percentage points in the past decade, with the steepest drop among those 18 to 24. “Only one half of young people read a book of any kind in 2002. We set the bar almost on the ground. If you read one short story in a teenager magazine, that would have 48 , ”laments a director of research and analysis. He 49 the loss of readers to the booming world of technology, which attracts would-be leisure readers to E-mail, IM chats, and video games and leaves them with no time to cope with a novel.
“These new forms of media undoubtedly have some benefits,” says Steven Johnson, author of Everything Bad Is Good for You. Video games 50 problem solving skills; TV shows promote mental gymna
[单项选择]Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.
For some time past it has been widely accepted that babies-and other creatures-learn to do things because certain acts lead to “rewards”; and there is no reason to doubt that this is true. But it used also to be widely believed that effective rewards, at least in the early stages, had to be directly related to such basic physiological (生理的)“drives” as thirst or hunger. In other words, a baby would learn if he got food or drink or some sort of physical comfort, not otherwise.
It is now clear that this is not so. Babies will learn to behave in ways that produce results in the world with no reward except the successful outcome.
Papousek began his studies by using milk in the normal way to“reward” the babies and so taught them to carry out some simple movements, such as turning the head to one side or the other. Then he noticed that a baby who had had enough to drink would refuse the milk but wou
A. would make learned responses when it saw the milk
B. would carry out learned movements when it had enough to drink
C. would continue the simple movements without being given milk
D. would turn its head to right or left when it had enough to drink
[单项选择]Questions 15 to 17 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 kind of man would you say John Milton was
A. He was well-known in the world.
B. He was very strange.
C. He was clever and hard working.
D. He was quick at Latin and poems.
[单项选择]Questions 18 to 20 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be give 15 seconds to answer the questions.
Now listen to the passage.
Up to the 1920’s, what was one objection to the films
A. They were silent.
B. They didn’t tell a complete story.
C. They were too expensive.
D. They were too short.
[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.
The high-energy gamma radiation ______.
A. is released at the Earth’s Center
B. is a kind of long wavelength
C. is reemitted at slightly short wavelengths
D. is absorbed by atoms inside the Sun
