单选题 Questions 17 ～ 20 are based on the passage about the relationship between reading and dreams. You now have 20 seconds to read Questions 17 ～ 20.

单选题Whatelsedoesthewomanwanttobuy?A.Cameras.B.Colorfilms.C.Somepaper.

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单选题Orchids are unique in having the most highly developed of all blossoms, in which the usual male and female reproductive organs are fused in a single structure called the column. The column is designed so that a single pollination will fertilize hundreds of thousands, and in some cases millions, of seeds, so microscopic and light that they are easily carried by the breeze. Surrounding the column are three sepals and three petals, sometimes easily recognizable as such, often distorted into gorgeous, weird, but always functional shapes. The most noticeable of the petals is called the labellum, or lip. It is often dramatically marked as an unmistakable landing strip to attract the specific insect the orchid has chosen as its pollinator. To lure their pollinators from afar, orchids use appropriately intriguing shapes, colors, and scents. At least 50 different aromatic compounds have been analyzed in the orchid family, each blended to attract one, or at most a few, species of insects or birds. Some orchids even change their scents to interest different insects at different times. Once the right insect has been attracted, some orchids present all sorts of one-way obstacle courses to make sure it does not leave until pollen has been accurately placed or removed. By such ingenious adaptations to specific pollinators, orchids have avoided the hazards of rampant crossbreeding in the wild, assuring the survival of species as discrete identities. At the same time they have made themselves irresistible to collectors.

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单选题Most of us Americans have a vague, uneasy sense of wicked wastefulness. We throw out the never-opened pack of food that"s past its sell-by date before answering a call on the fourth mobile phone we have had in five years. We gaze around our living space groaning at the sheer quantity of little-used clothing, blocking it up like a blood clot in an arterial vein. Our despair is genuine at the way we are running out of the earth"s resources and at the fact that we have so much when two-thirds of the world"s population only just get enough to eat and drink. Yet we feel completely powerless to do anything about it, too busy, irritable and tired to focus on practical steps. For the problem goes even deeper than material wastefulness: We know we are wasting our time, our being, our lives. We have compromised in our choice of career, lovers, friends; we put on a face to meet the faces that we meet. Trapped in marketing characters, not only in our office politics but in our intimate relationships, too, we play too many games. Deep down, we know that it"s time to "get a life", to stop being distracted by pointless consumerism, unreal relationships, and "Affluenza-infected" career ambitions. The first step to salvation is to understand how much it is not your fault. If you read Vance Packard"s 1958 book about the advertising industry, The Hidden Persuaders , it proves that long ago retailers were devising ways to deliberately deceive us into confusing mixed wants with true needs in order to keep the consumption bandwagon rolling. In recent years, manufacturers have intentionally speeded up the rate at which electronic goods become obsolescent and instead of the proper repair customer services that used to exist, there are merely expensive help-lines, When your toaster or printer or MP3 music device breaks down after only a year, it is no accident that there is no one who will repair them—"it"d cost more than buying a new one, love". So this is a selfish capitalist system which is designed to maximize profits through rapid turnover of "newer, better" goods that break down sooner and are designed to be irreparable. It"s not your fault! What you can do is withdraw as much as possible from the consumption game. Every time you are about to buy something ask yourself, "do I need this, or do I just want it?"

单选题 It is often observed that the aged spend much time thinking and talking about their past lives, {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}about the future. These reminiscences are not simply random or trivial memories, {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}is their purpose merely to make conversation. The old person's recollections of the past help to {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}an identity that is becoming increasingly fragile: {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}any role that brings respect or any goal that might provide {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}to the future, the individual mentions their past as a reminder to listeners, that here was a life {{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}living. {{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}, the memories form part of a continuing life {{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}, in which the old person {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}the events and experiences of the years gone by and {{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}on the overall meaning of his or her own almost completed life. As the life cycle {{U}} {{U}} 11 {{/U}} {{/U}}to its close, the aged must also learn to accept the reality of their own impending (即将发生的) death. {{U}} {{U}} 12 {{/U}} {{/U}}this task is made difficult by the fact that death is almost a {{U}} {{U}} 13 {{/U}} {{/U}}subject in the United States. The mere discussion of death is often regarded as {{U}} {{U}} 14 {{/U}} {{/U}}As adults many of us find the topic frightening and are {{U}} {{U}} 15 {{/U}} {{/U}}to think about it--and certainly not to talk about it {{U}} {{U}} 16 {{/U}} {{/U}}the presence of someone who is dying. Death has achieved this taboo {{U}} {{U}} 17 {{/U}} {{/U}}only in the modern industrial societies. There seems to be an important reason for our reluctance to {{U}} {{U}} 18 {{/U}} {{/U}}the idea of death. It is the very fact that death remains {{U}} {{U}} 19 {{/U}} {{/U}}our control; it is almost the only one of the natural processes {{U}} {{U}} 20 {{/U}} {{/U}}is so.

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单选题{{B}}Part B{{/B}} Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET 2. The fact is that the energy crisis, which has suddenly been officially announced, has been with us for a long time now, and will be with us for an even longer time. Whether Arab oil flows freely or not, it is clear to everyone that world industry cannot be allowed to depend on so fragile a base. {{U}}(61) The supply of oil can be shut off unexpectedly at any time, and in any case, the oil wells will all run dry in thirty years or so at the present rate of use.{{/U}} {{U}}(62) New sources of energy must be found, and this will take time, but it is not likely to result in any situation that will ever restore that sense of cheap and plentiful energy we have had in the times past.{{/U}} For an indefinite period from here on, mankind is going to advance cautiously, and consider itself lucky that it can advance at all. To make the situation worse, there is as yet no sign that any slowing of the world's population is in sight. Although the birth-rate has dropped in some nations, including the United States, the population of the world seems sure to pass six billion and perhaps even seven billion as the twenty first century opens. {{U}}(63) The food supply will not increase nearly enough to match this, which means that we are heading into a crisis in the matter of producing and marketing food.{{/U}} Taking all this into account, what might we reasonably estimate supermarkets to be like in the year 2001 ? To begin with, the world food supply is going to become steadily tighter over the next thirty years even here in the United States. By 2001, the population of the United States will be at least two hundred fifty million, and possibly two hundred seventy million, and the nation will find it difficult to expand food production to fill the additional mouths. {{U}}(64) This will be particularly true since energy pinch will make it difficult to continue agriculture in the high-energy American fashion that makes it possible to combine few farmers with high yields.{{/U}} It seems almost certain that by 2001 the United States will no longer be a great food-exporting nation and that, if necessity forces exports, it will be at the price of belt-tightening at home. In fact, as food items will tend to decline in quality and decrease in variety, there is very likely to be increasing use of flavoring additives. {{U}}(65) Until such time as mankind has the sense to lower its population to the point where the planet can provide a comfortable support for all, people will have to accept more unnatural food.{{/U}}

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单选题Genetically modified (GM) food provokes skirmishes all over the world, but the main battle is between America, which champions the stuff, and the European Union, which resists it. Proponents of GM crops say they are sage, good for the environment and may provide cheaper and better food. Opponents say GM is unnatural, dangerous and unnecessary. It is perhaps little wonder that Europeans, remembering such recent scares as mad-cow disease, have balked at the prospect of eating or growing GM food. Americans argue that this nervousness is scientifically unjustified and serves European political-and farm-interests nicely by keeping out competition. Hence America's willingness to arraign the Europeans before the World "grade Organization unless the EU lifts its five-year moratorium on new GM varieties. When it comes to the science. American is right. As yet another (British) panel concluded this week, there is no evidence that GM crops now in commercial cultivation are more dangerous to human health than conventional food. So there is no reason why Europeans should not eat the GM food that Americans already consume by the siloful, nor why their governments should obstruct GM imports. As for growing GM crops, experience outside Europe suggests that they are no worse for the environment than normal farming, and can be better. But this is not to say that GM crops will be benign everywhere. Farming is not like medicine, with a biotech drug that cures in Peoria having the same effect in Paris. Introducing GM crops into Europe justifies rigorous testing to see how they affect local conditions. Such uncertainties are best dealt with by more research, not blanket rejection. If this research confirms that GM crops have no more detrimental environmental effects than conventional farming, they should be approved for commercial use. Thanks to scaremongering by green lobbyists and organic farmers, and much media frenzy, most European shoppers will probably remain mistrustful. But there has been some shift in opinion: hostility to GM food seems to be abating. That hostility will fall away faster should some GM food prove to be cheaper than non-GM food, which may yet happen. One reason for this is that, later this year, Europe will introduce a needlessly elaborate new scheme of labelling and tracking GM foods right through the food chain, which is meant to give consumers more choice by alerting them to GM products. America criticizes the new labels partly because they single out "GM-derived" ingredients, such as oils and sugars, which are so refined as to lack any biological trace of genetic modification, and partly because the traceability requirements will be onerous. Yet America itself is working on tracking regulations to identify the provenance of ingredients and stem the risk of terrorist attack on its food supply. Labelling in principle is fine, where consumers demand it, as in Europe-but the schemes do need to be well-designed. Europe's farmers could benefit from some GM crops, but such gains pale by comparison with the handouts they get from the Common Agricultural Policy. As for consumers, so far GM crops have made little difference to the quality or cost of the goods in the supermarkets. The new labeling scheme may change that, by making it more costly to source wholly non-GM products. As GM technology develops, continued European rejection of GM could mean it loses out on future crops that might benefit its landscape, and boost its farm and science industries. The irony of the battle over GM food is that so much passion is being wasted on such mundane fruits of modern science. Today's GM crops are of modest advantage and risk. It is naive to argue that GM food will eradicate world hunger. Rural poverty in the developing world is a complex problem: poor farmers need better roads, and more liberal farm policies in the rich countries, as much as they need GM crops. Instead, the value of GM technology lies more in its promise, not its present. Even if the future harvest of hardier crops and healthier foods does not materialize from the lab, the battle over GM food will have been useful. Without it, the old ways of food regulation, farm testing, commodity handling and pub. lie consultation would not have been shaken up and hauled into the 21st century. GM crops have served as seeds of change, whether or not they reap the eventuat rewards.