阅读理解What will the tourists do after they return to Beijing? Either for departure home or for ________. 

阅读理解Passage FiveSocrates is often referred to as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and yet he wrote nothing, established no school, and held no particular theories of his own. What he did do, however, was frequently ask the questions that interested him, and in doing so developed a new way of thinking. This method proceeds(展开）as a dialogue between opposing views, and it earned him many enemies in Athens, where he lived.As a young man, Socrates is believed to have studied natural philosophy, looking at the various explanations of the nature of the universe, but then became involved in the politics of the city-state and concerned with more down-to-earth moral issues, such as the nature of justice.However. he was not interested in winning arguments, or arguing for the sake of making money, Nor was he seeking answers or explanations. He was simply examining the basis of the concepts we apply lo ourselves(such as "good" , "bad" ,and "just" ),for he believed that understanding what we are is the first task of philosophy.He was sentenced to. death on charges of corrupting the young with bad ideas. But he also had many followers, and among them was Plato, who recorded Socrates' ideas in the written works, called dialogues, in which Socrates sets about examining various ideas.Socrates, central concern, then, was the examination of life, and it was his cruel questioning of earned committed to his task until the very enD、According to the account of his defense at his trial, Socrates chose death rather than face a life of ignorance: "The life which is unexamined is not worth living. "What is true about Socrates?

阅读理解Which of the following novels made him famous?

阅读理解What can we learn from the first paragraph? 

阅读理解When does a baby take an interest in books?

阅读理解This passage is mainly about . 

阅读理解Task 3 (3 point each; 15 point in all) Directions: This task is the same as Task 1 (No.56 through No.60).Money is used for buying or selling goods, for measuring value and for storing wealth. However, in primitive societies a system of barter was useD、 Barter was a system of direct exchange of gooD、 Somebody could exchange a sheep, for example, for anything in the market place that he or she considered to be of equal value. Barter, however, was a very unsatisfactory system of exchange, and various money systems developed based on goods that the members of a society recognized as having value. Cattle, grain, teeth, shells, salt, and tobacco had all been useD、 Precious metals gradually took over because, when made into coins, they were portable, durable, recognizable, and divisible into larger and smaller units of value.A coin is a piece of metal, usually disc-shaped, which bears lettering, designs or numbers showing its value. Until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, coins were given monetary worth based on the exact amount of metal contained in them, but most modern coins are based on face value—the value that the governments choose to give them, which doesn’t show the actual metal content. Coins have been made of gold, silver, copper, plastic and in China even from tealeaves. Most governments now issue paper money in the form of bills, which are really “promises to pay”. Paper money is obviously easier to handle and much more convenient in the modern worlD、 Checks and credit cards are being used increasingly, and it is possible to imagine a world where “money” in the form of coins and paper currency will no longer be useD、 Even today, in the United States, many places, especially filling stations will not accept cash at night for security reasons.“Barter” (Line 2, Paragraph l) here means_________.

阅读理解According to the context of the passage, you can guess the meaning of the verb " evolve" is_______.

阅读理解Passage 2Most people have had a dog or wanted one as their companion at some time in their lives. If you are thinking of buying a dog, however, you should first decide what sort of companion you need and whether the dog is likely to be happy in the surroundings you can provide. Specialists’ advice is useful to help you choose the most suitable kind of dog. But in part the decision depends on common sense. Different dogs were originally developed to perform specific tasks. So, if you want a dog to protect you or your house, for example, you should choose the one that has the right size and characteristics. You must also be ready to devote a great deal of time to training the dog when it is young and give it the exercise it needs throughout its life, unless you live in the countryside and can let it run freely. Dogs are demanding pets. Cats love the house and so are satisfactory with their place where there is secure, but a dog is loyal to its master and consequently wants him to show proof of his affection.The best time to buy a baby dog is when it is between 6 and 8 weeks old so that it can transfer its love from its mother to its master. If baby dogs have not established a relationship with the human being until they are over three months old, their strong relationship will always be with dogs. They are likely to be too shy when they are brought out into the world to become good pets.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

阅读理解Buyers purchase goods as a group in order to ________. 

阅读理解What is mentioned as a consideration in buying a dog?

阅读理解Your life depends on heat. The sentence means ______.

阅读理解Why were precious metals gradually used for making coins?

阅读理解Task 2 Directions:After reading the following passage，you will find 5 questions or unfinished statements(No.51 to No.55). For each question or statement there are 4 choices marked A，B，C and D. You should make the correct choice and write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. Many students who pareicipated in the 2010 civil service exams(公务员考试)in China saw them as the“most diffcult”，due to their emphasis on general knowledge. This year，the Chinese central government offices have opened 15,000 posts but it’s not large enough to find a home for the one million people applying. According to a 2009 Washington post report,US students are also giving government jobs a hard look. “The Partnership for Public Service”poll(民意调查)found that about 90% of US students are interested in federal(联邦政府的)jobs. Nearly 84% gave the security offered by federal jobs as a reason. The same goes for students in the UK.A 2008 Daily Mail report found that applications from college graduates for government civil service jobs have surged 33% over 2007. Besides providing financial security，civil service jobs ususlly offer other benefits，especially in Asia. In India，for example, the average annual income is about $8，116-more than 10 times higher. Plus, civil servants get a one-month paid holiday every year，20 days of medical leave and 20-day half-paid vacation. The 2010 civil service exams in China were thought the“most difficult”because___________

阅读理解Your life depends on heat. The sentence means ______.

阅读理解Judging from the passage, people have more chances to survive fires in aircraft if they ______.

阅读理解Task 1 Directions : After reading the following passage, you will find five questions or unfinished statements ( No.46 to No. 50). For each question or statement there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You are required to make the correct choice and write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. Many post-80s couples are complaining that going to the movies, shopping or attending parties have become impossible since their kids were born.  That' s the way most parents are living their lives, no weekends of their own, no time to visit friends, not even a chance of promotion in their jobs. Asking help from their parents might be a way out,but problems are that some aging parents are not strong enough to take care of the kids, and that the kids may also become too spoiled by their grandparents. Then, here comes a solution: families with kids can form a small group, and parents of each family can take turns to look after all the kids in this group on weekends. Thus, other parents can have some quiet time and feel free to do something they' ve been planning for a long time.  At the same time, the kids can make new friends and won' t be hanging around their parents all day long. This is baby-pooling. Many post-80s couples can't go to the movies, shop or attend parties because________.  

阅读理解American teachers sometimes have trouble understanding Japandse students in class because Japanese students ________. 

阅读理解A good way to save money in a supermarket is to_______.

阅读理解Task 4(3 points each, 15 points in all)Directions: This task is the same as Task l (No. 61 through No. 65).Trees have a spectacular(壮丽的 ;奇观的)survival recorD、 Over a period of more than 400 million years, they have evolved as the tallest, most massive, and longest-lived organisms ever to inhabit the Earth. Yet trees lack a means of defense that almost every animal has: trees cannot move away from destructive forces. Because they cannot move, all types of living and nonliving enemies-fire, storms, microorganisms, insects, other animals and, later, humans-have wounded them throughout their history. Trees have survived because their evolution has made them into highly compartmented (分隔的)organisms: that is, they wall off injured and infected wood.In that respect trees are radically different from animals. Fundamentally, animals heal, they preserve their life by making billions of repair, installing (安置) new cells or rejuvenated (恢复活力的) cells in the positions of old ones. Trees cannot heal; they make no repairs. Instead, they defend themselves from the consequences of injury and infection by walling off the damage. At the same time they put new cells in new positions; in effect, they grow a new tree over the old one every year. The most obvious results of the process are growth rings, which are visible on the cross section of a trunk, a root, or a branch.The author's main purpose in this article is to explain the_______