Though speech is the most obvious form of communication, it is not the only means ______ we communic

seem to understand each other and share each other' s emotions to such an extent that one suspects some kinds of thought communication.

What is not so widely known is that this special relationship often acts as brake on twins' intellectual development. As they are partly isolated in their own private world, twins communicate less with adults than do other children. The verbal ability of a four-year-old twin is typically six months behind that of a non-twin. The problem can be particularly severe in a deprived home, a one-parent family for example, where there is little stimulation for children anyway.

Such children, while capable of mutual comprehension in a private language, often remain in comprehensible to outsiders and thus at a severe educational disadvantage. The only solution to the problem, cruel though it may seem, is to separate the twins thus forcing them to acquire ordinary speech helped and guided by sympathetic parents and teachers.

Many people don' t know that ______.

A．twins understand each other very well

B．twins are slow to learn to talk

C．twins are unlikely to do less well at school than other children

D．there exists more communication between twins

Passage Five

Roman soldiers in some places built long rows of signal towers. When they had a message to send, the soldiers shouted it from tower to tower. If there were enough towers and enough soldiers with loud voices, important news could be sent quickly over distance.

In Africa, people learned to send messages by beating on a series of large drums (鼓). Each drum was kept within hearing distance of the next one. The drum beats were sent out in a special way that all the drummers understood. Though the messages were simple, they could be sent at great speed for hundreds of miles.

In the eighteenth century, a French engineer found a new way to send short messages. In this way, a person held a flag in each hand and the arms were moved to various positions representing different letters of the alphabet (字母表). It was like spelling out words with flags and arms.

Over a long period of time, people sent messages by all these different ways. However, not until the telephone was invented in America in the nineteenth century could people send speech sounds over a great distance in just a few seconds.

51. According to this passage, the Roman way of communication depended very much on______.

A. fine weather

B. high tower

C. the spelling system

D. arm movements

hat you wish to accomplish by your speech. The four most common 1 of speech are to inform, to convince, to move to action, and to entertain. Do you, like a teacher or an expert in aan 2,wish to make your ideas clear to people 3 with your subject？ Or, like a debater, wish to convince the judge or the audience？ Or, like a fund raiser for a naturalist foundation, wish to secure donations or 4 cash？ Or, like a comedian or an after-dinner speaker, wish to entertain？ The language and the tone that you use must be 5 for your purpose, for your audience and for the occasion.A speech to the graduating class will have quite different language, tone and manner of 6,for example, from information conveyed to a group of your friends. 7,no matter how talented the speaker is, a talk without adequate preparation is usually a 8.To speak without preparing is to shoot without taking 9.Decide what your aim or objective is; then state it in a complete topic sentence such as "my purpose is to convince the class that cats as well as dogs should require licenses in our community". Make sure that your subject is definite and not too 10 .

1、A、targets

B、purposes

C、tasks

D、aspects

2、A、area

B、field

C、research

D、occupation

3、A、unknown

B、dealing

C、agreeing

D、unfamiliar

4、A、collect

B、accumulate

C、invest

D、account

5、A、important

B、necessary

C、appropriate

D、central

6、A、performance

B、presentation

C、exhibition

D、proposal

7、A、However

B、Furthermore

C、Even though

D、Therefore

8、A、failure

B、collapse

C、fulfillment

D、mistake

9、A、point

B、object

C、aim

D、goal

10、A、narrow

B、confined

C、spacious

D、broad

movement in the 1950s and 1960s.

King was born on January 15, 1929. in Atlanta, Georgia. When he was young, he was strongly influenced by Thoreau and Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi’s idea of non-violent resistance. Having received a Ph. D (Doctor of Philosophy) from Boston University, he became a political and religious leader of the non-violent civil rights movement in 1955. On August 28, 1963, he led over 250,000 Americans on a march in Washington D.C. to fight for the Civil Rights Law and delivered his best known speech “I Have a Dream”. The “dream” is a dream of brotherly love and equality for the Black and White. As a result, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for peace in 1964, but he was murdered four years later.

Though he died, he was greatly respected and loved by the Americans, both the white and the black. By vote of Congress in 1968, the third Tuesday of every January is now a holiday in Luther King’s honour. He lives in people’s hearts forever.

Martin Luther King was murdered when he was 39 years old.

A.T B.F

Martin Luther King was a black minister only.

A.T B.F

Martin Luther King's Day has been a federal holiday for more than 40 years.

A.T B.F

The underlined word "delivered" in the second paragraph could be replaced by "gave

A.T B.F

The best title for this passage is "Civil Rights Law

A.T B.F

er of his time, was a remarkable one. At the time, high political offices in Rome, though technically achieved by winning elections, were almost exclusively controlled by a group of wealthy noble families that held them for many generations. Cicero’s family, though noble, was not one of them, nor did it have great wealth. But Cicero had a great deal of political ambition; at a very young age he chose as his basic belief the same as Achilles was said to have had: to always be the best and overtop the rest. Lacking the advantage of a proper family origin, there were especially only two career options open to them. One was a military career, since military success was thought to result from exceptional personal qualities and could lead to popularity and therefore political opportunity as was the case much later for American presidents Ulysses S. Grant and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Cicero, however, was no soldier. He hated war, and served in the military only very briefly as a young man.

Instead, Cicero chose a career in the law. To prepare for this career, he studied law, rhetoric, and philosophy. When he felt he was ready, he began taking part in legal cases. A career in the law could lead to political success for several reasons, all of which are still relevant today. First, a lawyer would gain a great deal of experience in making speeches. Second, he could also gain exposure and popularity from cases. Finally, a successful lawyer would build up a network of political connections, which is important now but was even more important in Cicero’s time, when political competition was not conducted along party lines or on the basis of doctrine, but instead was based on loose, shifting networks of personal friendships and commitments. Cicero proved to be an excellent speech-maker and lawyer, and an outstanding politician. He was elected to each of the principal Rome offices on his first try and at the earliest age at which he was legally allowed to run for them.

To win an important office in Cicero’s time, a candidate should______.

A.be born of a wealthy family

B.possess political experience

C.launch a national campaign

D.convince the general public

Cicero came from a family with ______.

A.great wealth

B.remarkable fame

C.political ambition

D.noble background

Unlike Cicero, Ulysses Grant attained his political position due to ______.A.his strong beliefs

B.his personal relations

C.his military achievements

D.his powerful speeches

A Roman politician’s career prospects were strongly influenced by ______.A.their party’s support

B.their social connections

C.their political doctrine

D.their public popularity

Cicero was elected to the principal offices when______.

A.he got support from his friends

B.he began his career as a lawyer

C.he was committed to social services

D.he was just old enough to run for them

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Who is disabled in China？

China is a country with a large number of disabled.Almost 60 million people have vision, hearing, speech, limb, intellectual or mental impairments.There is one disabled person in every 20 Chinese, and one out of every five households on average has a disabled family member.

According to nationwide surveys of the disabled, handicapped children under 14 account for 16 percent of the total handicapped population, and they display the greatest need for rehabilitative training as they display the highest recovery rates after early therapy.Those disabled between the ages of 15 and 59 account for 44 percent, but often their disabilities are not very severe.Although they are more or less able to work, they require vocational training, ‘cultural education’ and special employment.

The disabled over 60 years of age account for 40 percent.Many of them become handicapped due to illness or loss of various functions.Some live alone without any income, and therefore their insurance, rehabilitation, and medical needs have become a social issue.

The illiterate and semi-illiterate suffer from limited employment opportunities, and often they become socially handicapped as well.These people, often neglected, pose another social problem.

(China Today)

Questions 6-10 are based on Passage 3

6.Which group represents the largest percentage of disabled people in China？

A) Children under 14.

B) Those between 15 and 59.

C) People over 60.

D) People at the age of 16, 40 and 44.

7.According to the passage, ‘disabled people’ refers to .

A) those who are physically handicapped

B) those who are mentally handicapped

C) those who are socially handicapped

D) All of the above

8.‘Socially handicapped’ people refers to .

A) those who cannot read or write or can read and write only a little

B) those who cannot speak or can speak only a little

C) those who cannot hear or can hear only a little

D) those who cannot sing or dance or can sing and dance only a little

9.The disabled people who are most likely to recover after an early treatment are .

A) the children under 14

B) those between 15 and 59

C) the people over 60

D) the people at the age of 16, 40 and 44

10.According to the passage, some of the disabled people, though more or less able to work, they need to receive _______.

A) vocational training

B) cultural education

C) special employment

D) all of the above

A.a speech of introduction

B.none of the above

C.a speech of presentation

D.an acceptance speech