单选题 .  SECTION A  MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
    In this section there are four passages followed by ten multiple choice questions. For each multiple choice question, there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer and mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO.
    PASSAGE ONE
    (1) When Bill was very young, they had been in love. Many nights they had spent walking, talking together. Then something not very important had come between them, and they didn't speak. Impulsively, she had married a man she thought she loved. Bill went away, bitter about women.
    (2) Yesterday, walking across Washington Square, she saw him for the first time in years.
    (3) "Bill Walker," she said.
    (4) He stopped. At first he did not recognize her; to him she looked so old.
    (5) "Mary! Where did you come from?"
    (6) Unconsciously, she lifted her face as though wanting a kiss, but he held out his hand. She took it.
    (7) "I live in New York now," she said.
    (8) "Oh." —Smiling politely, then a little frown came quickly between his eyes.
    (9) "Always wondered what happened to you, Bill."
    (10) "I'm a lawyer. Nice firm, way downtown."
    (11) "Married yet?"
    (12) "Sure. Two kids."
    (13) "Oh," she said.
    (14) A great many people went past them through the park. People they didn't know. It was late afternoon. Nearly sunset. Cold.
    (15) "And your husband?" he asked her.
    (16) "We have three children. I work in the bursar's office at Columbia."
    (17) "You are looking very..." (he wanted to say old) "... well," he said.
    (18) She understood. Under the trees in Washington Square, she found herself desperately reaching back into the past. She had been older than he then in Ohio. Now she was not young at all. Bill was still young.
    (19) "We live on Central Park West," she said. "Come and see us sometime."
    (20) "Sure," he replied. "You and your husband must have dinner with my family some night. Any night. Lucille and I'd love to have you."
    (21) The leaves fell slowly from the tree in the Square. Fell without wind. Autumn dusk. She felt a little sick.
    (22) "We'd love it," she answered.
    (23) "You ought to see my kids." He grinned.
    (24) Suddenly the lights came on up the whole length of Fifth Avenue, chains of misty brilliance in the blue air.
    (25) "There's my bus," she said.
    (26) He held out his hand. "Goodbye."
    (27) "When...", she wanted to say, but the bus was ready to pull off. The lights on the avenue blurred, twinkled, blurred. And she was afraid to open her mouth as she entered the bus. Afraid it would be impossible to utter a word.
    (28) Suddenly she shrieked very loudly, "Good-bye!" But the bus door had closed.
    (29) The bus started. People came between them outside, people crossing the street, people they didn't know. Space and people. She lost sight of Bill. Then she remembered she had forgotten to give him her address—or to ask him for his—or tell him that her youngest boy was named Bill, too.
    PASSAGE TWO
    (1) Change is one of the common facts of life. Most of us have seen a number of changes in our own lives from simple things like fashion trends and entertainment to big changes in technology.
    (2) Language, too, has experienced change and continues to develop. The continuous change is what keeps languages alive.
    (3) Slang is a way in which languages can transform and are renewed. Slang is the use of informal words and expressions that are not considered standard in a language. Some consider slang to be witty and clever, adding spice to the informal written and spoken language. Walt Whitman described slang as "the start of imagination and humor, breathing into its nostrils the breath of life". However, others criticize its use, believing that it weakens the language.
    (4) The spoken English language of today's younger generation is filled with slang words and expressions. These lively words and phrases are an example of how language plants its own seeds of change that develop within social circumstances.
    (5) Sometimes slang is the use of a word that is already in the standard dictionary, for example, lift (to pick up or raise) is given a new meaning, such as "to steal"; or hunk  a large piece of something) has now become "a handsome man". Other times, slang is an invented word, such as chocoholic, which means "a person who loves chocolate". Other invented words are mula, which means "money" and airhead, which means "a person who is stupid".
    (6) Now, you'll understand your friends if they say something like, "I was such an airhead to think that I could get away with lifting a whole box of chocolates from the store just because I was all out of mula."
    PASSAGE THREE
    (1) If the old maxim that the customer is always right still has meaning, then the airlines that fly the world's busiest air route between London and Paris must have a flight on their hands.
    (2) The Eurostar train service linking the UK and French capitals via the Channel Tunnel is winning customers in increasing numbers. In late May, it carded its one millionth passenger, having run only a limited service between London, Paris and Brussels since November 1994, starting with two trains a day in each direction to Paris and Brussels. By 1997, the company believes that it will be carrying ten million passengers a year, and continue to grow from there.
    (3) From July, Eurostar steps its service to nine trains each way between London and Paris, and five between London and Brussels. Each train carries almost 800 passengers, 210 of them in first class.
    (4) The airlines estimate that they will initially lose around 15%—20% of their London-Paris traffic to the railways once Eurostar starts a full service later this year (1995), with 15 trains a day each way. A similar service will start to Brussels. The damage will be limited, however, the airlines believe, with passenger numbers returning to previous levels within two to three years.
    (5) In the short term, the damage caused by the 1 million people-levels traveling between London and Paris and Brussels on Eurostar trains means that some air services are already suffering. Some of the major carriers say that their passenger numbers are down by less than 5% and point to their rivals—Particularly Air France—as having suffered the problems. On the Brussels route, the railway company had less success, and the airlines report anything from around a 5 % drop to no visible decline in traffic.
    (6) The airlines' optimism on returning traffic levels is based on historical precedent. British Midland, for example, points to its experience on Heathrow Leeds Bradford service which saw passenger numbers fold by 15% when British Rail electrified and modernized the railway line between London and Yorkshire. Two years later, travel had risen between the two destinations to the point where the airline was carrying record numbers of passengers.
    PASSAGE FOUR
    (1) The establishment of the Third Reich (第三帝国) influence events in American history by starting a chain of event, which culminated in war between Germany and the United states. The complete destruction of democracy, the persecution of Jew, the war on religion, the cruelty and barbarism of the Nazis, and especially, the plans of Germany and her allies, Italy and Japan, for world conquest caused great indignation in this country and brought on fear of another world war. While speaking out against Hitler's atrocities, the American people generally favored isolationist policies and neutrality. The Neutrality Acts of 1935 and 1936 prohibited trade with any belligerents or loans to them. In 1937 the President was empowered to declare an arms embargo in wars between nations at his discretion.
    (2) American opinion began to change somewhat after president Roosevelt's "quarantine the aggressor" speech at Chicago (1937) in which he severely criticized Hitler's policies. Germany's seizure of Austria and the Munich Pact for the partition of Czechoslovakia (1938) also aroused the American people. The conquest of Czechoslovakia in March 1939 was another rude awakening to the menace of the Third Reich. In August 1939 came the shock of Nazi-Soviet Pact and in September the attack on Poland, the outbreak of European war. The United States attempted to maintain neutrality in spite of sympathy for the democracies arrayed against the Third Reich. The Neutrality Act of 1939 repealed the arms embargo and permitted "cash and carry" exports of arms to belligerent nations. A strong national defense program was begun. A draft act was passed (1940) to strengthen the military service. A Lend Lease Act (1941) authorized the President to sell, exchange, or lend materials to any country deemed necessary by him for the defense of the United States. Help was given to Britain by exchanging certain overage destroyers for the fight to establish American bases in British territory in the Western Hemisphere. In August 1941, President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill met and issued the Atlantic Charter that proclaimed the kind of a world which should be established after the war. In December 1941, Japan launched the unprovoked attack on the United States at Pearl Harbor. Immediately thereafter, Germany declared war on the United States.1.  What did Mary's reaction to their encounter imply?(PASSAGE ONE)