填空题Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. There are two types of people in the world. Although they have equal degree of health and wealth and other {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}of life, one becomes happy, the other becomes unhappy. This {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}from the different ways in which they consider things, persons, events and the resulting effects upon their minds. People who are to be happy fix their attention on the convenience of things, the pleasant parts of conversation, the well prepared dishes, the goodness of the wine, the fine weather. They enjoy all the cheerful things. Those who are to be unhappy think and speak only of the {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}things. Therefore, they are continually discontented. By their remarks, they sour the pleasure of society, offend many people, and make themselves {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}everywhere. If this turn of mind was founded in nature, such unhappy persons would be the more to be pitied. The {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}of criticizing and being disgusted is perhaps taken up by imitation. It grows into a habit, unknown to its {{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}. The habit may be strong, but it may be cured when those who have it are {{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}of its bad effects on their interests and tastes. I hope this little warning may be of {{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}to them, and help them change this habit. Although in fact it is chiefly an act of the imagination, it has serious results in life since it brings on deep sorrow and bad luck. Those people offend many others; nobody loves them, and no one treats them with more than the most common politeness and respect. This {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}puts them in bad {{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}and draws them into arguments. These should change this bad habit. If they do not, it will be good for others to avoid any contact with them. A. arises B. assured C. comforts D. contrary E. convinced F. disagreeable G. dissatisfied H. emerges I. frequently J. occasionally K. possession L. possessors M. service N. temper O. tendency

填空题I can't boot my computer now．Something______(一定出了毛病)with its operating system．

填空题______ (如果我是你), I would have accepted such an offer given by the manager.

填空题The central airport designated to receive a large number of flights from many location and where passengers can transfer flights to other locations is called the ______.

填空题From the health point of view we are living in a marvelous age. A large number of once (36) illnesses can now be (37) by modem drugs and surgery. It is almost certain that one day remedies will be found for the most (38) remaining diseases. The life (39) on average has increased (40) . But though the possibility of riving a longer life is greater than ever before, every day we (41) the incredible slaughter on the roads. Man versus the motor-car! It is a never-ending battle which man is (42) . It has been rightly said that when a man is sitting behind a steering-wheel, his car becomes the (43) of his personality. There is no doubt that the motor-car often brings out a man's worst qualities. (44) . It is high time a world code were created to reduce this senseless waste of human life. (45) . Present drinking and driving laws should be made much stricter. Maximum and minimum speed limits should be imposed on all roads. Governments should lay down safety specifications for manufacturers. These measures may sound harsh. (46) . After all, the world is for human beings, not motor-cars.

填空题Americans often say that there are only two things a person can be sure of in life:S36 ______ and taxes. Many people feel that the United States has the worst taxes in the world. Taxes are the money that people pay to support their government. There are generally three S37 ______ of government in the United States: federal, state, and city; therefore, there are three types of taxes. Salaried people who earn more than four to five thousand dollars per year must pay a certain part of their salaries to the federal government. The percentage varies for different people. It depends on their salaries. The federal government has a two level income tax: that is, 15 or 28 percent. S38 $ ______ is the cutoff. The tax rate is 15 percent below $ 17,850 and 28 percent above. The second tax is for the state government: New York, California, or any of the other forty-eight states. Some states have an income tax similar to that of the federal government. S39 ______ . Other states have a sales tax, which is a percentage charged to any item which people buy in the state. Some states use income tax and sales tax to raise their revenues. The third tax is for the city. This tax comes in two forms: property tax (residents who own a home have to pay taxes on it) and excise tax, which is collected on vehicles in a city. The cities use this money for education, police, public works, etc. Since Americans pay such high taxes, they often feel that they are working one day each week just to pay their taxes. People always complain about taxes. S40 ______ .They all believe that taxes are too high in this country.

填空题Mr. Black prefers to resign______(也不愿参加这种不诚实的商业交易).

填空题Only when I came across some trouble and had no one to rely on ______(我才意识到自立的重要性).

填空题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}}{{I}} In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 1- 7, mark Y (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage; N (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage; NG ( for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage. For questions 8 --10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.{{/I}} {{B}}The "Never-Stop" Blogging{{/B}} To celebrate four years of marriage, Richard Wiggins and his wife, Judy Matthews, recently spent a week in Key West(基韦斯特市). Early on the morning of their anniversary, Ms. Matthews heard her husband get up and go into the bathroom. He stayed there for a long time. "I didn't hear any water running, so I wondered what was going on," Ms. Matthews said. When she knocked on the door, she found him seated with his laptop balanced on his knees, typing into his Web log, a collection of observations about the technical world, over a wireless link.{{B}}The increasing biogging{{/B}} Blogging is a pastime for many, even a livelihood for a few. For some, it becomes an obsession (沉迷). Such bloggers often feel compelled to write several times daily and feel anxious if they don't keep up. As they spend more time sitting in front of their computers, they neglect family, friends and jobs. They blog at home, at work and on the road. They blog openly or sometimes, like Mr. Wiggins, quietly so as not to call attention to their habit. The number of bloggers has grown quickly, thanks to sites like blogger.com, which makes it easy to set up a biog. Technorati, a blog-tracking service, has counted some 2.5 million blogs. Of course, most of those millions are abandoned or, at best, maintained infrequently. For many bloggers, the novelty soon wears off and their persistence fades. Sometimes, too, the realization that no one is reading sets in. A few blogs have thousands of readers, but never have so many people written so much to be read by so few. By Jupiter Research's estimate, only 4 percent of online users read blogs.{{B}}The self. talking Mr. Wiggins{{/B}} Indeed, if a blog is compared to a conversation between a writer and readers, bloggers like Mr. Wiggins are having conversations largely with themselves. Mr. Wiggins, 48, a senior information technologist at Michigan State University in East Lansing, does not know how many readers he has; he suspects it's not many. But that does not seem to bother him. "I'm just getting something off my chest," he said. Nor is he deterred(妨碍) by the fact that he endeavors for hours at a time on his blog for no money. He gets satisfaction in other ways. "Sometimes there's an 'I told you so' aspect to it," he said. Recent reflections on wigblog, blogspot, com have focused on Gmail, Google's new e-mail service. Mr. Wiggins points with pride to Wigblog posts that voiced early privacy concerns about Gmail.{{B}}Being addicted{{/B}} Perhaps a chronically small audience is a blessing. For it seems that the more popular a blog becomes, the more some bloggers feel the need to post. Mr. Pierce, who lives in Hollywood and works as a scheduler in the entertainment industry, said blogging began to feel like an addiction when he noticed that he would rather be with his computer than with his girlfriend -- for technical reasons. "She's got an iMac, and I don't like her computer," Mr. Pierce said. When he is at his girlfriend's house, he's getting ants in his pants. "We have little fights because I want to go home and write my thing," he said. Mr. Pierce described the rush he gets from what he called "the fix" provided by his biog. "The pleasure of reply is twofold," he said, "You can have instant response; you're going to hear about something really good or bad. And if I feel like I've written something good, it's enjoyable to go back and read it. And, like most addictions, those feelings go away quickly. So I have to do it again and again. It is not uncommon among bloggers."{{B}}A sense of achievement{{/B}} Joseph Lorenzo Hall, 26, a graduate student at the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California at Berkeley who has studied bloggers, said that for some people blogging has replaced e-mail as a way to procrastinate (耽搁) at work. People like Mr. Pierce, who devote much of their free time to the care and feeding of their own blogs and posting to other blogs, do so largely because it makes them feel productive even if it is not a paying job. Mr. Wiggins has missed deadline after deadline at Searcher, an online magazine for which he is a paid contributor. Barbara Quint, the editor of the magazine, said she did all she could to get him to deliver his columns on time. Then she discovered that Mr. Wiggins was busily posting articles to his blog instead of sending her the ones he had promised, see said. "Here he is working all night on something read by five second cousins and a dog, and I'm willing to pay him," she said. Ms. Quint has grown more understanding of his reasons, if not entirely sympathetic. "The Web's illusion of immortality(不朽的名声) is sometimes more attractive than actual cash," she said.{{B}}Blogging as routine{{/B}} Mr. Jarvis characterizes the blogging way of life as a routine rather than an obsession. "It's a habit," he said. "What you're really doing is telling people about something that they might find interesting. When that becomes part of your life, when you start thinking in blog, it becomes part of you."{{B}}Blog fatigue{{/B}} Suffering from a similar form of "blog fatigue," Bill Barol, a freelance writer in Santa Monica, California, simply stopped altogether after four years of nearly constant blogging. "It was starting to feel like work, and it was never supposed to be a job," Mr. Barol said, "It was supposed to be an anti- job." Even with some 200 visitors to his blog each day, he has not posted to his blog since returning from a month of travel. Still, Mr. Barol said, he does not rule out a return to blogging someday. "There is this attractive thing that happens, this kind of snowball-rolling-down-a-hill thing, where the sheer momentum (动力) of several years' posting becomes very keenly felt," he said. "And the absence of posting feels like -- I don't know, laziness or something.

填空题About ______ per cent of children with two right-handed parents will be left-handed.

填空题The Nano Business Alliance is originally composed of nanotech startups, major corporations and______.

填空题 When men returned from World War II and the postwar "baby boom" began, Americans began to move in great numbers to the{{U}} (36) {{/U}}. A new model of a traditional family developed, and women were{{U}} (37) {{/U}}separated from men. Men generally went back into the city to work, and there was a strong{{U}} (38) {{/U}}between work and home. Houses in the suburbs were far{{U}} (39) {{/U}}from each other. These areas were all residential and there were no stores or businesses nearby. Women had to drive to buy food and to visit relatives and friends. All these factors{{U}} (40) {{/U}}to a sense of{{U}} (41) {{/U}}and to a feeling of separation Between the family and the outside world~ At the same time{{U}} (42) {{/U}}developments gave American housewives many{{U}} (43) {{/U}}inventions such as dishwashers, vacuum cleaners, and frozen foods. {{U}}(44) {{/U}}. With more time on their hands, Americanwomen began to want to become more involved in social activities. {{U}} (45) {{/U}}. Given the historical model of women who were active outside the home in building America, {{U}}(46) {{/U}}.

填空题French, what he then translated, using a table of auxiliary verbs and a______.

填空题Useful is one of the basic elements of patentability.

填空题Generation gap refers to______(年长的人和年轻人之间在观念、感情和兴趣方面的差异)．