复合题Passage TwoIn the old days, children were familiar with birth and death as part of life. This is perhaps the first generation ofAmerican youngsters（年轻人） who have never been close by du

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复合题Section BDirections: There are 3 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D.

复合题Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.Text 3You can negotiate virtually anythin

复合题Directions: In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions【B1】 to 【B5】, choose the most suitable one from the list A—G to fit into each of the numbered blanks. There are

复合题Directions: In this part there is a short passage with five questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possib

复合题Directions: For passages 1 to 4, each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A., B., C. and D. Decide on the best choice a

复合题The process begins even before you leave the car, when you remove your gloves to squeeze a loose bail back into one of your ski bindings. The freezing metal bites your flesh. Your skin temperature drops.Within a few seconds, the palms of your hands are a chilly, painful 60 degrees. Instinctively, the web of surface capillaries on your hands constrict, sending blood coursing away from your skin and deeper into your torso. Your body is allowing your fingers to chill in order to keep its vital organs warm.You replace your gloves noticing only that your fingers have numbed slightly. Then you kick boots into bindings and start up the road.Were you a Norwegian fisherman or Inuit hunter, both of whom frequently work gloveless in the cold, your chilled hands would open their surface capillaries periodically to allow surges of warm blood to pass into them and maintain their flexibility. This phenomenon, known as the hunter’s response, can elevate a 35-degree skin temperature to 50 degrees within seven or eight minutes.Other human adaptations to the cold are more mysterious. Tibetan Buddhist monks can raise the skin temperature of their hands and feet by 15 degrees through meditation. Australian aborigines, who once slept on the ground and unclothed, on near-freezing nights, would slip into a light hypothermic state, suppressing shivering until the rising sun re-warmed them.You have no such defenses, having spent your days at a keyboard in a climate-controlled office. Only after about ten minutes of hard climbing, as your body temperature rises, does blood start seeping back into your fingers. Sweat trickles down your sternum and spine.

复合题Text 3Folk music in the traditional sense-music played or sung around the village green, music used to accompany ceremonials like harvesting—belongs to the small communities exemplified in the English village of pre-industrial times. The art music of the written tradition is too the music of the community, hut of very different kind. It stems from a leisured class or group that has time and learning to write down its music and to rehearse complex and difficult works. Originally this was pre-eminently done in the church; after the Middle Age it became more and more popular in the courts of the secular nobility of Europe. As recently as the late eighteenth century Haydn and Mozart wrote most of their music for performances in private orchestras and theatres, and hence the classical composers developed their orchestral symphonies, their chamber music and operas.During the great nineteenth century transition from an aristocratic and mainly agricultural society to the industrial age in which we live now, men and women were herded into the factories and slums; and the indigenous popular music and dancing began to die out At the other end of the scale the music of the art musicians began to be enjoyed by a wider social class, and composers such as Mendelssohn wrote for the middle-class Victorian drawing-room.In the barren and bleak environment of the nineteenth century industrial town, however, something very notable in the way of a new people’s music flourished. There were the music-hall songs, and this was indeed a popular music in a limited way; but it was not until the growth of jazz and of the dance music developed from it that the urban masses began to find something which had a special appeal.And so it was at this point that everything came together. The new kind of music; the means of disseminating it widely through the gramophone and, later, the radio; the commercial world of mass production for profit; and the new twentieth century folk-people with little experience cither in self-expression in music or in the arts of any sort of cultural background, but people with a steadily increasing amount of money and leisure. Some form of release through music they sought, as every human community has sought it, and some form they were given.So developed the new industry, an industry for the provision of popular music. As Christian Damton has said, folk music（as commonly understood） is “music which comes from the people”, whereas popular music（ again as commonly understood） is, “music written for the people”; and the achievement of the business interests in Tm Pan Alley and the recording companies has been to manufacture a music for the people on the largest possible scale. They have done this, as such things must be done, by process of standardization, by providing an article which will be accepted by most of the people of the time.

复合题Direction: 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 passag

复合题Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.Text 1In recent years, Israeli consumers

复合题Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET.Most worthwhile careers require some kind of specialized traini

复合题Directions: Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written clearly on the ANSWER SHEET.There is certainly much

复合题Passage ThreeCulture is the sum total of all the tradition, customs, beliefs, and ways of life of a given group of human being. Inthis sense, every group has a culture, however savage,

复合题Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET.Text 1Play is the principal business of

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复合题Text 2Timothy Berners-Lee might be giving Bill Gates a run for the money, but he passed up his shot at fabulous wealth—intentionally—in 1990. That’s when he decided not to patent the technology used to create the most important software innovation in the final decade of the 20th century, the World Wide web. Berners-Lee wanted to make the world a richer place, not a mass personal wealth. So he gave his brainchild to us all.Berners-Lee regards today’s Web as a rebellious adolescent that can never fulfill his original expectations. By 2005, he hopes to begin replacing it with the Semantic Web-a smart network that will finally understand human languages and make computers virtually as easy to work with as other humans.As imagined by Berners-Lee, the new Web would understand not only the meaning of words and concepts but also the logical relationships among them. That has great potential. Most knowledge is built on two pillars: semantics and mathematics. In number-processing, computers already outclass people. Machines that are equally skilled at dealing with language and reason won’t just help people uncover new insights; they could blaze new trails on their own. Even with a fairly crude version of this future Web, mining online for valuable pieces of knowledge would no longer force people to go through screen after screen of irrelevant data. Instead, computers would dispatch intelligent agents, or software messengers, to explore Web sites by the thousands and logically pick out just what’s relevant. That alone would provide a major boost in productivity at work and at home. But there’s far more.Software agents could also take on many routine business work, such as helping manufacturers find and negotiate with low-cost part suppliers and handling help-desk questions. The Semantic Web would also be a treasure house of eureka insight. Most inventions and scientific breakthroughs, including today’s Web, spring from novel combinations of existing knowledge. The Semantic Web would make it possible to evaluate more combinations overnight than a person could do in a life time. Sure scientists and other people can post ideas on the Web today for others to read. But with machines doing the reading and translating technical terms, related ideas from millions of Web pages could be distilled and summarized. That will lift the ability to assess and integrate information to new heights. The Semantic Web, Berners-Lee predicts, will help more people become more intuitive as well as more analytical. It will foster global collaborations among people with diverse cultural perspectives, so we have a better chance of finding the right solutions to the really big issues-like the environment and climate warning.

复合题Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D 0n the ANSWER SHEET.For some time now, nobody seems to have a solution for inflatio

复合题Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1.Teachers need to be aware of the emotional, intellectual, and phy

复合题Language has a powerful influence over people and their behavior. This is especially true in the fields of marketing and advertising. The choice of language to 【A1】_____ specific messages with the 【A2】_____ of influencing people is vitally important Visual content and 【A3】_____ in advertising have a very great 【A4】_____ on the consumer, but it is language 【A5】_____ helps people to identify a product and remember it.The English language is known for its 【A6】_____ vocabulary. 【A7】_____ many other languages have only one or two words which carry a particular meaning; English may have five or six. 【A8】_____, the meanings of these five or six words may differ in a very 【A9】_____ way. It is important to understand the 【A10】_____ of a word. Connotation is the feeling or ideas that are suggested by a word, 【A11】_____ the actual meaning of the word. Armchair, for example, suggests comfort, whereas chair 【A12】_____ no particular feelings.One way in which advertisers 【A13】_____ language to their own use is to take compound words and use them as 【A14】_____. These compounds often later become widely used in 【A15】_____ situations. 【A16】_____ of these compounds which have become part of the English language are: top-quality, economy-size, chocolate-flavored, feather-light and longer-lasting.The language of advertising is, of course, normally very 【A17】_____ and emphasizes why one product stands out in 【A18】_____ with 【A19】_____ . Advertising language may not always be “correct” language in the normal sense. For example, comparatives are often used when no real comparison is made. An advertisement for a 【A20】_____ may say “It gets clothes whiter”, but whiter than what?