He is a rare celebrity scientist. He’s
even had a TV cameo role (小角色) in Star Trek in which he plays poker with
scientific icons (偶像)Sir Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein. Yet when asked about
comparisons between himself and the two scientists, he calls it all "media hype
(炒作)." Once asked how he felt about being labeled the world’s smartest person,
he responded: "It is very embarrassing. It is rubbish, just media hype. They
just want a hero, and I fill the role model of a disabled genius. At least I am
disabled, but I am no genius. "
Hawking has ALS or Lou Gehrig’s
disease, a neuromuscular disease that progressively weakens muscle control. He
gets around in a wheelchair, and after completely losing the use of his vocal
chords in an operation to assist his breathing in 1985, he communicates through
a computer. A speech synthesiz
A. is a very famous scientist
B. can be compared with Newton and Einstein
C. is a very good actor
D. has surpassed any scientists known in the world
[单项选择] Passage Three
He shouldn’t have come back alive.
Captain J. H. Hedley was British pilot in World War I. He fell victim to a bit
of misfortune that would have been enough to kill anyone. Yet, with bad luck
staring him in the face, good luck was coming up fast on his tail.
Captain Hedley was flying a mission over Germany with his copilot, A
Canadian flyer named Makepeace. Suddenly they were surrounded by a group of
German fighters. Makepeace, an experienced pilot, knew he had to take the plane
into a vertical dive in order to slip away from Germans. Inexplicably,
Hedley was caught unaware by his copilot’s maneuver. He was thrown sharply out
of his seat and out of the plane. Makepeace sadly counted Hedley a dead man and
continued his evasive maneuvers.
Suddenly, Makepeace spotted
Hedley clinging to the tail of the plane, Hedley hung
A. afraid of each other
B. in competition
C. fighting together
D. fighting each other
[单项选择]The reason why John left his home was（ ）he felt he’d brought shame to his parents.
A. because
B. that
C. as
D. for
[单项选择] Passage Two
He has been at the helm (舵)of the
Securities and Exchange Commission for only three months, but William Donaldson
has given individual investors reason to believe that he will prove to be an
effective champion of their interests as a vigilant regulator of the nation’s
financial markets. The challenges ahead remain daunting, but Mr. Donaldson is
steadily restoring the agency’s credibility in the wake of its disastrous
stewardship by Harvey Pitt.
The SEC. chairman passed his first
big test by persuading William McDonough, the respected president of the New
York Federal Reserve, to run the new accounting oversight board created by
Congress last summer. He has also opened an important inquiry into trading
practices at the New York Stock Exchange. The commission has issued rules to
tighten corporate boards’ oversight over financial a
A. Mr. William Donaldson is a very capable chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission
B. the Commission is on a boat
C. Mr. William Donaldson is a steward of a sailing boat
D. Mr. William Donaldson was once a sailing champion
[单项选择]Passage Two
A. He first speech on TV.
B. He invented the TV set.
C. He was the first person appearing on TV.
D. He gave the first demonstration of a television picture.
[单项选择]
Passage Four
The classic difficulty felt with democracy arises from the fact that democracy can never express the will of the whole people because there never exists any such unchanging will (at least in any society that call itself democratic). The concept of government of the whole people by the whole people must be looked on as being in the poetry rather than in the prose of democracy; the fact of prose is that real democracy means government by some kind of dominant majority.
And the ever-present danger, repeatedly realized in fact, is that this dominant majority may behave toward those who are not of the majority in such a manner as to undermine the moral basis of the right of people, because they are people, to have some important say in the setting of their own course and in the use of their own faculties. Other forms of government may similarly fail to respect human independence. But there is at least no contr
A. democracy in its true sense can scarcely be regarded as realistic
B. democracy has to give up its moral basis for proper compromise
C. democratic governments should respect the rights of the minority
D. democratic governments must weigh the claims of political inferiors
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