阅读理解Directions: In this section there are 2 passages followed by questions, each with four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer. Write your answers on your Answer Sheet.Passage ⅡAt 5:15 am of April 18, 1906, the greatest earthquake disaster in the history of the United States occurred. At that crucial moment, San Francisco and the surrounding areas were rocked by huge movements in the earth underneath, causing damages unheard of before. The loss in money, lives, and peace of mind were such that it took decades for San Francisco to recover, and still haunts the memory of that great city to this day.As the first massive quake hit the sleeping city, building tumbles and chaos suddenly reigned in the streets. Amid bursting gas mains, falling debris, and raging fires, panic held sway over the citizenry as each fled from the destruction all around them. People fled to the safety of parks, far from the toppling skyscrapers, as martial law was imposed to keep the madness in check.Fire swept across the city as the broken gas mains caught fire and occasionally exploded. Brave firemen rushed to the scenes of disaster, only to find that the central water main had also been destroyed by the quake, leaving them helpless to watch as the fires raged on and spread further and further.A second massive shock hit the crumbled city at 8:00 am, nearly three hours after the first. Although the most serious fires began in the business district, as time progressed, it was clear that the loss in life was mainly in the poorer areas of the city, under which most of the burning gas mains ran. After all was said and done, the final death tolls were horrifyingly high. In addition, nearly all the major buildings in the city were reduced to rubble, including the City Hall, the new Post Office, the Parrot Building (previously the largest department store in the West), the Chronicle and Examiner Buildings (San Francisco’s two major newspapers), and Stanford University in nearby Palo Alto.In the wake of the destruction, urban planners immediately set to work to rebuild the shattered city. They did this with gusto, designing new buildings, pipes, and streets with earthquake safety in mind. These ongoing precautions no doubt contributed to the phenomenal performance of the city’s infrastructure during the earthquake of 1989, in which, although millions of dollars in damage occurred, widespread major destruction and loss of life were avoided.
阅读理解Passage Two Even before Historian Joseph Ellis became a best-selling author, he was famous for his vivid lectures. In his popular courses at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, he would often make classroom discussions lively by describing his own combat experience in Vietnam. But as Ellis’s reputation grew—his books on the Founding Fathers have won both the prestigious National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize—the history professor began to entertain local and national reporters with his memories of war. Last year, after The Boston Globe carried accounts of Ellis’s experience in the Vietnam war, someone who knew the truth about Ellis dropped a dime. Last week The Boston Globe revealed that Ellis, famous for explaining the nation’s history, had some explaining to do about his own past.“Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made,” said a wretched Ellis. It turned out that while the distinguished historian had served in the Army, he’d spent his war years not in the jungles of Southeast Asia, but teaching history at West Point. He’d also overstated his role in the antiwar movement and even his high-school athletic records. His admission shocked colleagues, fellow historians and students who wondered why someone so accomplished would beautify his past. But it seems that success and truthfulness don’t always go hand in hand. Even among the distinguished achievers, security experts say, one in ten is deceiving-indulging in everything from empty boasting to more serious offenses such as plagiarism, fictionalizing military records, making up false academic certificates or worse. And, oddly, prominent people who beautify the past often do so once they’re famous, says Ernest Brod of Kroll Associates, which has conducted thousands of background checks. Says Brod: “It’s not like they use these lies to climb the ladder.”Then what makes them do it? Psychologists say some people succeed, at least in part, because they are uniquely adjusted to the expectations of others. And no matter how well-known, those people can be haunted by a sense of their own shortcomings. “From outside, these people look anything but fragile,” says Dennis Shulman, a New York psychoanalyst. “But inside, they feel hollow, empty.”
阅读理解Directions: In this section there are 2 passages followed by questions, each with four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer. Write your answers on your Answer Sheet.Passage ⅠWhen I was 11, I read the Bible cover to cover. I was not precocious, or particularly religious; there were lots of us bored, bookish children in the 1970s. Television was largely rubbish, and our parents’ bookshelves were what were left. I thought of this when I heard author Claire Tomalin complains that children are growing up without the skills to read Charles Dickens. As the country celebrates the 200 th anniversary of his birth, Tomalin claims that children are not being taught to have the prolonged attention spans necessary for his texts. And she blames this attention deficit on the fact that children are “reared on dreadful television programmes.”It is true that children have never had more distraction or entertainment to choose from than today. And it is probably true that this generation’s attention span is shorter; my children have dismissed as “too slow” or “boring” most of the childhood books I saved for them. I was quite offended by this, until I reread some.Because it is not just entertainment that moves at a faster rate. The world does, too. And, frankly, Dickens is dense, and hard work, as are many writers of that era. I read Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone recently. It was like wading through treacle.It isn’t surprising that Tomalin stresses Dickens’s relevance—she is his biographer, after all. But I’d put money on it that not many children of my generation read Dickens for pleasure either. It took me years to come to Great Expectations and The Pickwick Papers, and then it was only post- university, when I became independently hungry for knowledge.The bald truth is that the travails of Pip have little resonance for today’s children, and until they are old enough to understand Miss Havisham’s tragedy, or the poignancy of the rotting hulls of the prison ships in the Thames Estuary, why would they?Dickens might be one of the greatest creators of characters in English, as Tomalin claims, but I suspect she hasn’t read many of the newer creations in children’s literature. Today’s children see the pathos in Greg Heffley, the Wimpy Kid of Jeff Kinney’s novels. They are fascinated by the pitfalls of the resourceful Baudelaire children in Lemony Snicket’s gothic A Series of Unfortunate Events. They can recognise the adolescent dilemmas of Harry Potter.You can’t insist that childhood tastes be set in aspic, and the idea that they should mimic some Academic Francaise of literature is dangerous. My mother encouraged me to read anything—my pocket money—on the basis that all reading was valuable, and would act as a gateway to more challenging stuff later on.In turn, I believe that my children will come to the classics when they’re ready probably when they download them as free e-books, like the rest of us.Until then, I’ll take comfort from the fact that the 1969 classic The Very Hungry Caterpillar is still the most-read children’s book in Britain, with the average family reading it some nine times last year. It has underdeveloped characterisation, yes, and the vocabulary is limited. But as a prompt to an appetite for reading, it is priceless.
完形填空Directions: There are 20 questions in this part of the test. Read the passage through. Then, go back and choose one suitable word or phrase marked A, B, C, or D for each blank in the passage. Write the corresponding letter of the word or phrase you have chosen on your Answer Sheet.The term “quality of life” is difficult to define. It 【A1】______ a very wide scope such as living environment, health, employment, food, family life, friends, education, material possessions, leisure and recreation, and so on. 【A2】______ speaking, the quality of life, especially 【A3】______ seen by the individual, is meaningful in terms of the degree 【A4】______ which these various areas of life are available or provide 【A5】______ for the individual.As activity carried 【A6】______ as one thinks fit during one’s spare time, leisure has the following 【A7】______ : relaxation, recreation, and entertainment, and personal development. The importance of these varies according to the nature of one’s job and one’s life style. 【A8】______, people who need to 【A9】______ much energy in their work will find relaxation most 【A10】______ in leisure. Those with a better education and in professional occupations may 【A11】______ more to seek recreation and personal development (e.g.【A12】______ of skills and hobbies) in leisure.The specific use of leisure 【A13】______ from individual to individual 【A14】______ the same leisure activity may be used differently by different individuals. Thus, the following are possible use of television watching, a 【A15】______ leisure activity, a change of experience to provide 【A16】______ from the stress and strain of work; to learn more about what is happening in one’s environment; to provide an opportunity for understanding oneself by 【A17】______ other people’s life experiences as 【A18】______ in the programs.Since leisure is basically self-determined, one is able to take 【A19】______ his interests and preferences and get 【A20】______ in an activity in ways that will bring enjoyment and satisfaction.
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语法与词汇Right at the moment a lot of attention _____ children who leave school unable to read orwrite.
语法与词汇It’s necessary _____ a hand at once.
语法与词汇The question is _____ into practice.
语法与词汇形，A项中的lend应采用原形。Don’t loosen your grip on the rope _____ you’ll fall.
语法与词汇I have been working diligently for the people _____.
语法与词汇Section BDirections: In this section, choose the proper word or phrase for each blank. Make properchanges if necessary.
语法与词汇_____ of the two winners in the game was awarded a pen.
语法与词汇There is no doubt _____ the company has made the right decision on the sales project.
语法与词汇Many people feel that psychoanalysis has contributed _____ to a better understanding ofbehavior.
语法与词汇_____ to sleep than the telephone rang once again.
语法与词汇When a fire broke out at the National Exhibition in London, at least ten _____ paintingscompletely were destroyed.
语法与词汇The audit is usually performed by a third party, primarily serving the interests of the partywho _____ the responsibility.
语法与词汇She was trying _____ by the teacher in class.