阅读理解Letter A support, assure, ensure, sure, convey, respect Dear Mr．Vice President, I have the distinct pleasure to (1) to you, on the occasion of your birthday, my most sincere wishes of good health, happiness and joy beside your family and friends, as well as of full success in fulfilling the complex responsibilities of your mission. I greatly (2) and admire your work and leadership in (3) of the efforts President George W．Bush and the whole US Administration are undertaking to defend homeland security, fight terrorism and threat of weapons of mass destruction, especially those in hands of repressive regimes．I would like to (4) you of the readiness of the Romanian Government to support the United States in its actions to make (5) Iraq disarms and complies with all UN requirements. Please accept, Mr．Vice President, my warmest congratulations on your birthday and the assurance of my sincere friendship and support.Sincerely yours,

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阅读理解In bringing up children, every parent watches eagerly the child''s acquisition (学会)of each new skill the first spoken words, the first independent steps, or the beginning of reading and writing. It is often tempting to hurry the child beyond his natural learning rate, but this can set up dangerous feelings of failure and states of worry in the child. This might happen at any stage. A baby might be forced to use a toilet too early, a young child might be encouraged to learn to read before he knows the meaning of the words he reads. On the other hand, though, if a child is left alone too much, or without any learning opportunities, he loses his natural enthusiasm for life and his desire to find out new things for himself. Parents vary greatly in their degree of strictness towards their children. Some may be especially strict in money matters. Others are severe over times of coming home at night or punctuality for meals. In general, the controls imposed represent the needs of the parents and the values of the community as much as the child''s own happiness. As regards the development of moral standards in the growing child, consistency is very important in parental teaching. To forbid a thing one day and excuse it the next is no foundation for morality (道德) . Also, parents should realize that example is better than precept. If they are not sincere and do not practise what they preach (说教), their children may grow confused, and emotionally insecure when they grow old enough to think for themselves, and realize they have been to some extent fooled. A sudden awareness of a marked difference between their parents'' principles and their morals can be a dangerous disappointment.

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阅读理解Letter BRecommending Agentsprovide, attached, opinion, requesting, propositionDear Mr．Sun: We thank you for your letter of the 23rd August (1) addresses of possible agents for your products. On the (2) list we have given names and addresses of three firms who in our (3) would be able to (4) you with the required services, and would be interested in your (5) . Very truly yours.

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阅读理解Part C You are going to read a passage about habits. From the list of headings A-G choose the best one to summarize each paragraph (33-38) of the passage. There is one extra heading that you do not need to use. Habits are bad only if you can’t handle them We are endlessly told we’re creatures of habit. Indeed, making this observation's if it were origin is one of the most annoying habits of pop psychologists. The psychologist William James said long ago that life “is but a mass of habits … our dressing and undressing, our eating and drinking, our greetings and partings, our giving way for ladies to precede are things of a type so fixed by repetition as almost to be classed as reflex actions.” What pop psychology can’t decide, though, is whether this state of affairs is good or bad. Are habits, properly controlled, the key to happiness? Or should we be doing all we can to escape habitual existence? This isn’t a question of good versus bad habits: we can agree, presumably, that the habit of eating lots of vegetables is preferable to that of drinking a three-litre bottle of White Lightning each night. Rather, it’s a disagreement about habituation itself. Since habit is so much more powerful than our conscious decision-making, what are needed are deliberately chosen routines. No matter how hard you resolve to spend more time with your spouse, it’ll never work as well as developing the habit of a weekly night out of doing the hardest task first each morning. Yet on the other hand, as we know all too well, habits hose their power precisely because they’re habitual. An expensive cappuccino, once in a while, is a life-enhancing pleasure; an expensive cappuccino every day soon becomes a boring routine. Even proven therapeutic techniques, such as keeping a diary, work better when done occasionally, not routinely. I don’t have an answer to this dilemma. But there is one way to get the best of both words: develop habits and routines that are designed to disrupt your habits and routines, and keep things fresh. One obvious example is the “weekly review”, which time-management experts are always recommending: a habit, yes, but one that involves stepping out of the daily habitual stream to gain perspective. Or take Bill Cates’s famous annual “think week”, in which he holes up in the mountain with a stack of books and journals, to reflect on future paths of action. You don’t need a week in the mountains, though: an hour’s walk in the park each week might prove as beneficial. A smaller-scale kind of routinised disruption is a method known as burst working, involving tiny, timed sprints of 5 to 10 minutes, with gaps in between. Each burst brings a microscopic but refreshing sense of newness, while each tiny deadline adds useful pressure, preventing a descent into torpor. Each break, meanwhile, is a moment to breathe-a miniature “think week”, to step back, assess your direction, and stop the day sliding into forgetfulness. All these techniques use the power of habituation to defeat the downsides of habituation. Like jujitsu(柔道), you’re turning the enemy’s strength against him; unlike jujitsu, we physically malcoordinated types can do it, too.

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阅读理解for, look forward to, which, that, as much as, come into effect, pride, proud, enclosed, compromise Dear Sir or Madam, (1) is our new price list which will (2) by the end of this month．You will see that we have increased our prices on most models．We have, however, refrained from doing so on some models of (3) we hold large stocks．The explanation (4) ur increased prices stems from the fact (5) we are now paying 10/% more for our raw materials than we were paying last year, along with some of our subcontractors having raised their prices (6) 15/%. As you know, we (7) our product and are (8) of the reputation for quality and dependability we have built over 15 years．We will not (9) that reputation because of raising costs．We have, therefore, decided to raise the price of some of our products. We hope you will understand our position and (10) your cooperation. With best regards,

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阅读理解The world''s population continues to grow. There now are about 4 billion of us on earth. That could reach 6 billion by the end of the century and 11 billion in another 75 years. Experts long have been concerned about such growth. Where will we find the food, water, jobs, houses, schools and health care for all these people? A major new study shows that the situation may be changing. A large and rapid drop in the world''s birth rate has taken place during the past 10 years. Families generally are smaller now than they were a few years ago. It is happening in both developing and industrial nations. Researchers said they found a number of reasons for this. More men and women are waiting longer to get married and are using birth control devices and methods to prevent or delay pregnancy. More women are going to school or working at jobs away form their homes instead of having children. And more governments, especially in developing nations, now support family planning programs to reduce population growth. China is one of the nations that has made great progress in reducing its population growth. China has already cut its rate of population growth by about one half since 1970. China now urges each family to have no more than one child. And it hopes to reach zero population growth, the number of births equaling the number of deaths, by the year 2000. Several nations in Europe already have fewer births than deaths. Experts said that these nations could face a serious shortage of workers in the future. And the persons who are working could face much higher taxes to help support the growing number of retired people.

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