阅读理解I think of good manners as a sort of hidden beauty secret

阅读理解Passage 4 I was just a boy when my father brought me to Harlem for the first time, almost 50 years ago

阅读理解Passage 3 My grandparents believed you were either honest or you werent

阅读理解Text 3 How we look and how we appear to others probably worries us more when we are in our teens or early twenties than at any other time in our life

阅读理解With a presidential campaign, health care and the gun control debate in the news these days, one cant help getting sucked into the flame wars that Internet comment threads

阅读理解Passage 3 Rose Saxon, the Queen of Romance Comics, was at her drawing board in the garage of her house in Bloomtown, New York

阅读理解Passage 3 Recent debates about the economy have rediscovered the question, is that right?, where right means more than just profits or efficiency

阅读理解(2) As those pieces which the painter sketches for his own amusement in his leisure hours, are often superior to the most elaborate productions, so it is that ideas often suggest themselves to us spontaneously, as it were, far surpassing in beauty those which arise in the mind upon applying ourselves to any particular subject

阅读理解The term corporate culture refers to an organizations value system

阅读理解Passage E There were several reasons why the Industrial Revolution started in the Great Britain rather than in France, the other great power of the day

阅读理解(4) It is not difficult to imagine a world short of ambition

阅读理解(2) My friend received another degree this month

阅读理解Text 3 What is your favorite colour? Do you like yellow, orange, red? If you do, you must be an optimist, a leader, an active person who enjoys life, people and excitement

阅读理解Passage Two 3M comes from Minnesota Mining Manufacturing, but those three Ms might better stand for Mistake=Magic=Money

阅读理解Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A., B., C. and D. You should decide on the best choice and write down your answer on the Answer Sheet.Passage 3It started last year when a group of middle school children on a biology field trip in south-central Minnesota spotted some unusual-looking frogs. One was missing a leg, some had withered arms, others had shrunken eyes. Of the 22 frogs caught that day, 11 were deformed. Their teacher told officials. Reports of strange frogs began to mount: a frog with nine legs; a clubfooted frog; a frog with three eyes, one of them in its throat.At first, investigators from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency in St. Paul assumed that the problem was restricted to their state, and the agricultural part at that. They were wrong. Deformed frogs have since turned up in Wisconsin, South Dakota, Vermont and up into Canada.“Abnormalities like this get me worried,” says David Hoppe, a University of Minnesota researcher. “We don’t know how far this is going to go.” Because frogs spend much of their life in water, pesticides or harmful metals were prime suspects. But now possible causes include acid rain, global warming and increased ultraviolet light. Hoppe observes that different deformities seem to be concentrated in frogs from different regions. It may be, he says, that more than one cause is at work.What some scientists fear is that the frogs could be a sign that something is very wrong with the environment. “We may have a large problem here,” says Robert McKinnell, a University of Minnesota cancer researcher, who has collected hundreds of deformed frogs. “If frogs are not able to handle whatever it is that is causing this, it may turn out that people can’t either.”

阅读理解Passage 1 There are two factors which determine an individuals intelligence

阅读理解Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A., B., C. and D. You should decide on the best choice and write down your answer on the Answer Sheet.Passage 4It was September of 1620 when their ship, called the “Mayflower” left port with 102 men, women and children on board. This was the worst season of the year for an ocean crossing, and the trip was very uneven. After sixty-five days at sea, she landed in Provincetown Harbor, Massachusetts.The Pilgrim leaders knew that they were in unsettled territory which had no governing body. They also knew that in order to survive, every society needed a means of establishing and enforcing proper rules of conduct. Partly to protect themselves from others, forty-one men aboard the ship held a meeting to choose their first governor and sign the historic Mayflower agreement, the first one for self-government in America.For about a month longer, the Pilgrims lived aboard ship and sent out parties to explore the coastline of the bay. They found a harbor, and cleared land, which was an Indian village, but a disease a few years earlier had killed the entire Indian population. Coming ashore in their small boat, the Pilgrims landed on a large rock later named Plymouth Rock. This was the beginning of the second permanent English settlement in America.The Pilgrims were poorly trained and poorly equipped to cope with life in the wilderness. During their first winter in the new land, they suffered a great deal. Poor food, hard work, diseases, and bitterly cold weather killed about half of them. By the end of this terrible first winter, only about fifty Plymouth colonists remained alive.One spring morning in 1621, an Indian walked into the little village of Plymouth and introduced himself in a friendly way. Later he brought the Indian chief, who offered assistance. The Indians taught the Pilgrims how to hunt fish, and grow food. Because of this help from the Indians, the Pilgrims had a good harvest. Then the first Thanksgiving dinner was cooked and served out-of-doors, and the holiday was a great success.

阅读理解Passage 3 The Return of Artificial Intelligence It is becoming acceptable again to talk of computers performing human tasks such as Problem-solving and Pattern-recognition

阅读理解Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A., B., C. and D.. You should deicide the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.Passage OneDuring the past few years, scientists all over the world have suddenly found themselves productively engaged in task they once spent their lives avoiding—writing, any kind of writing, but particularly letter writing. Encouraged by electronic mail’s surprisingly high speed, convenience and economy, people who never before touched the stuff are regularly, skillfully, even cheerfully tapping out a great deal of correspondence.Electronic networks, woven into the fabric of scientific communication these days, are the route to colleagues in distant countries, shared data, bulletin boards and electronic journals. Any-one with a personal computer, a modern and the software to link computers over telephone lines can sign on. An estimated five million scientists have done so with more joining every day, most of them communicating through a bundle of interconnected domestic and foreign routes known collectively as the Internet, or net.E-mail is starting to edge out the fax, the telephone, overnight mail, and of course, land mail. It shrinks time and distance between scientific collaborators, in part because it is conveniently asynchronous (Writer can type while their colleagues across time zones sleep; their message will be waiting). If it is not yet speeding discoveries, it is certainly accelerating communication.Jeremy Bernstein, the physicist and science writer, once called E-mail the physicist’s umbilical cord. Later other people, too, have been discovering its connective virtues. Physicists are using it; college students are using it; everybody is using it; and as a sign that it has come of age, the New Yorker has celebrated its liberating presence with a cartoon—an appreciative dog seated at a keyboard, saying happily, “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.”

阅读理解Passage 4 The train began to slow down among the fields