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[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. are directly related to pleasure
B. will meet their physical needs
C. will bring them a feeling of success
D. will satisfy their curiosity
[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.
______ used beans in the preparation of the royal drink of the realm.
A. Cortez
B. Aztec Indians
C. Emperor Montezuma
D. The Spaniards
[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.
Why can middle-aged and old people have an easy access to drugs
A. Drugs are covered by their social welfare.
B. Drugs are covered by their medical care.
C. They rely on drugs to kill their pains.
D. They usually have money for drugs.
[填空题]Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.
Last year, our nation’s capital passed the murder-a-day mark, and the number of homicides is now up some 50 percent from that level. More than half of these killings are drug-related. In 1988 New York City had its most violent year ever, with 1896 homicides. Many of these in volved drugs. Such homicides are also a problem in Detroit, Baltimore, St. Louis, Los Angeles, Phoenix and scores of other cities where drug gangs war against one another and use violence to spread their deadly trade. In Bankhead Courts, and Atlanta housing project, drug-related crime has reached the point where mail carriers have had to depend on increased police patrols at delivery, time. What is happening around us unfolds a vivid picture that the links between drug use and crime are clearly established. According to authoritative governmental study, around three-quarters of crack and heroin users claim they commit crime to feed their habit. I
[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.
The six policies to prevent millions of death linked to tobacco use are known as______.
A. MPOWER
B. NPOWER
C. MBOWER
D. NBOWER
[单项选择]Questions 23 to 26 are based on the following passage．
American money can be quite confusing．The bills or paper money are all of the same color and size．One has to look carefully to he sure he is giving out a $1 bill and not a$10 bill，for example．Furthermore，new bills stick together easily，Be sure this does not happen to you．Coins are also confusing．This is partly because some of them have two names，partly because the size does not indicate the value．The ten．cent coin is smaller than the five—cent coin，for example．In addition，all coins are silver—colored except the penny(one cent)which is brown color or copper-colored．
One cent，or a penny，is the coin of smallest value，equal to 1/100 of a dollar．It is useful for some parking meters and some sales taxes but a penny does not buy very much! Five pennies are equal to one nickel．A coin of ten cents，the smallest in size of all the coins，is one of the most useful．It is used for pay-phones，buying newspapers from coi
A. three.
B. Four．
C. Five．
D. Six．
[单项选择] Questions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage.
BRITAIN’S universities are in an awful spin. Top universities were overwhelmed by the 24% of A-level applicants with indistinguishable straight As newer ones are beating the byways for bodies.
Curiously, both images of education—the weeping willows of Cambridge and the futuristic architecture of UEL—are cherished by the government. Ministers want to see half of all young people in universities by 2010 (numbers have stalled at 42%), without letting go of the world-class quality of its top institutions.
Many argue that the two goals are incompatible without spending a lot more money. Re searchers scrabble for funds, and students complain of large classes and reduced teaching time. To help solve the problem, the government agreed in 2004 to let universities increase tuition fees.
Though low, the fees have introduced a market into higher education. Universities can offer cut-price tuition, althoug
A. They are confident of changing it.
B. They are much disturbed by it.
C. They find it natural in the market.
D. They cherish it with a nostalgic mood.
[单项选择] Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
Some families in America and elsewhere have started buying child friendly mobile phones outfitted with GPS (Global Positioning System) technology.
These phones and their related tracking services allow parents to pinpoint the location of their children with ease. Parents agree to pick up the phone bill in return for the reassurance of knowing where their children are; children are prepared to put up with the watching if they are allowed to have a phone.
Mobile operators in America are now launching tracking services. Under a federal decree known as E911, they had to upgrade their networks to ensure that anyone dialing the 911 emergency number could be located to within 100 metres. Some operators opted for triangulation technology, which determines the location of the handset by comparing the signals received by different base stations. But Verizon and Sprint chose to adopt the more expensive but more
A. cut down on the service fees
B. provide innovative services
C. relate their services to health care
D. develop their own GPS technology
[单项选择]Questions 32 to 35 are based on the following passage．
A national survey showed that many of America’s public school teachers spend their own time expanding the knowledge and skins．Professional training is a way of life for many teachers．Some even go to summer schools to learn new skills and keep up with advances in technology．
The average teacher has 25 years of classroom experience and mole than half hold a master’s degree．Nearly 23 percent began fulltime teaching within the past five years．This statistic should cause some concerns because it means a large number of teachers are reaching the retirement age．If this trend is not recognized，at some point this will result in an experience gap．
With salaries based on fewer hours and no overtime，the complaints of the teachers become more understandable．Many outsiders feel that the long summer vacations justify lower pay scales，but in reality，many teachers spend a good part of their vocation honing their ski
A. there is a danger for experience gap
B. 23 percent of teachers lack experience
C. more than half of the teachers will retire soon
D. there are more experienced teachers than the inexperienced ones
[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.
Country music comes from
A. the South and Northeast.
B. the Northeast and Midwest.
C. factories and army camps.
D. the Appalachian Mountains and the Southwest.
