Although most people return from package holidays reasonably satisfied, this t, not always

Accordiiig to the passage, which of the following is NOT true？ ()

A. Some Americans would not accept the value of conservation and environment protection, because this value would probably make them unemployed.

B. Many Americans have been used to wasting, so it will be difficult for them to accept the new value of conservation.

C. Some old values are still having a strong influence on American people, although they are harmful in this new age.

D. Most Americans have fully realized the need to protect the environment, so they have taken measures to recycle junked goods.

Teams are required for most engineering projects. Although some small hardware or

software products can be developed by individuals. the scale and complexity of modern

systems is such. and the demand for short schedules so great that it is no longer（71 ）for

one person to do most engineering jobs. Systems development is a team (72),and the

effectiveness of the team largely determines the (73) of the engineering

Development teams often behave much like baseball or basketball teams. Even though

they may have multiple specialties. all the members work toward (74) However. onsystems maintenance and enhancement teams. the engineers often work relatively independently. much like wrestling and track teams

A team is（75） just a group of people who happen to work together. Teamwork

takes practice and it involves special skilis. Teams require common processes; they need

agreed-upon goals; and they need effective guidance and leadership. The methods for guiding

and leading such teams are well known but they are not obvious

A.convenient

B.existing

C.practical

D.real

？Read the text about the importance of qualifications.

？In most of the lines 34—45 there is one extra word. One or two lines, however, are correct.

？If a line is correct, write CORRECT on your Answer Sheet.

？If there is an extra word in the line, write the extra word in CAPITAL LETTERS on your Answer Sheet.

The Importance of Qualifications

Young people and their parents are aware that it is increasingly necessary to

have good qualifications order to get a job nowadays. Going to university and

34. into further education is considered very important by both teenagers and their

35. parents. 63% of teenagers in full-time education want to go on to university or

36. further education, although this figure does decreases as young people

37. approach this big decision. Young women in particular wish to enter the higher

38. education with three times as many girls continuing to studying in preference

39. to going straight to work. Although family influence is still very important in

40. helping the young in make career choices. Today's careers information and

41. work experience play a mater part in decisions about his employment.

42. Over 80% of young people do not want to follow in their parents footsteps

43. by going into the same jobs and 74% of parents would rather prefer their children to

44. choose a different career to their own. Researchers were surprised by this result.

45. And young people who do the same jobs as their parents do not always live happily.

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For millions of people suffering from arthritis, it is the only thing that works. Aspirin, in short, is truly the 20th-century wonder drug. It is also the second largest suicide drug and is the leading cause of poisoning among children. It has side effects that, although relatively mild, are largely unrecognized among users.

Although aspirin was first sold by a German company in 1899, it has been around much longer than that. Hippocrates, in ancient Greece, understood the medical value of tree barks and leaves which today are known to contain a chemical found in aspirin. During the 19th century. there was a great deal of experimentation in Europe with this chemical, and it led to the introduction of aspirin. By 1915, aspirin tablets were available in the United States.

A small quantity of aspirin relieves pain and inflammation. It also reduces fever by affecting some of the body's reactions. Aspirin is very irritating to the stomach lining. The best way is to chew the tablets before swallowing them with water, but few people can stand the bitter taste. Some people suggest crashing the tablets in milk or orange juice.

Which of the following statements is NOT true？

A．Aspirin is good to arthritis sufferers.

B．Aspirin may be used as suicide drug.

C．Aspirin is dangerous to small children.

D．Aspirin has unrecognizable side effects.

A person riding a bicycle uses very little energy to make the bicycle move, and there is no pollution at all when you are riding. Even so, in developed ___2___, most people don't travel to work by bicycle. It is not because the bicycles are expensive or people feel tired if they ride to work. It's because the number of cars on the roads becomes larger. It certainly becomes ___3___ to ride a bicycle. As a result, more people put their bicycles away and go to work in their cars. And in this way, the situation is made more serious. ___4___ the best way to make riding safer and more popular is to create paths only for bicycles, and to make ___5___ so difficult and expensive for drivers to drive their cars into the city that they will go back to using their bicycles.

1)、A.Perhaps

B.it

C.countries

D.more dangerous

E.until

2)、A.Perhaps

B.it

C.countries

D.more dangerous

E.until

3)、A.Perhaps

B.it

C.countries

D.more dangerous

E.until

4)、A.Perhaps

B.it

C.countries

D.more dangerous

E.until

5)、A.Perhaps

B.it

C.countries

D.more dangerous

E.until

Americans this year will swallow 15,000 tons of aspirin, one of the safest and most effective drugs invented by man. The most popular medicine in the world today, it is an effective pain reliever. Its bad effects are relatively mild, and it is cheap.

For millions of people suffering from arthritis(关节炎), it is the only thing that works. Aspirin, in short, is truly the 20th century wonder drug. It is also the second largest suicide drag and is the leading cause of poisoning among children, it has side effects that, although relatively mild, are largely unrecognized among uses.

Although aspirin was first sold by a German company in 1899, it has been around much longer than that. Hippocrates, in ancient Greece, understood the medical value of the leaves and tree bark which today are known to contain salicylates(水杨酸盐), the chemical in aspirin. During the 19th century, there was a great deal of experimentation in Europe with this chemical, and it led to the introduction in Europe with this chemical, and it led to the introduction of aspirin. By 1915, aspirin tablets were available in the United States.

A small quantity of aspirin(two five-grain tablets) relieves pain and inflammation(炎症). It also reduces fever by interfering with some of the body's reactions. Specifically, aspirin seems to slow down the formation of the acids involved in pain and the complex chemical reactions that cause fever. The chemistry of these acids is not fully understood, but the slowing effect of aspirin is well known.

Aspirin is very irritating to the stomach, and many aspirin takers complain about upset stomach. There is a right way and a wrong way to take aspirin. The best way is to chew the tablets before swallowing them with water, but few people can stand the bitter taste. Some people suggest crushing the tablets in milk or orange juice and drinking that.

A good title for this article would be______.

A．Why I Take Aspirin

B．The Side Effects of Aspirin

C．Aspirin: The Most Popular Medicine in the World

D．Aspirin, a Good Medicine

Most people have plenty of insecurities, and this seems like a situation that will bring them out. If parents, teachers or peers mocked your foibles as a child, you fear a repeat. If you were under pressure to be perfect, you are terrified of failing in the most public of ways.

While extroverts will feel less fear before the ordeal, it does not mean they will necessarily do it better. Some very shy people manage to shine. In fact, personality is not the best predictor of who does it well. Regardless of what you are like in real life, the key seems to be to act yourself.

Actual acting, as in performing the scripted lines of a character other than yourself, does not do the job. While politicians may limit damage by having carefully rehearsed, written screeds to speak from, there is always a hidden awareness among the audience that the words might not be true.

Although, as Earl Spencer proved at his sister Princess Diana's funeral, it is possible both to prepare every word and to act naturally. In script. rarely works and it is used as a crutch by most people. But, being yourself doesn't work either. If you spoke as if you were in your own kitchen, it would be too authentic, too unaware of the need to communicate with an audience.

I remember going to see British psychiatrist RD Laing speak in public. He behaved like a seriously odd person, talking off the top of his head. Although he was talking about madness and he wrote on mental illness, he seemed to be exhibiting rather than explaining it.

The best psychological place from which to speak is an unselfconscious self-consciousness, providing the illusion of being natural. Studies suggest that this state of "flow", as psychologists call it, is very satisfying. Whether in normal life or making speeches, the key is to remind yourself that, contrary to what your teachers or parents may have implied, your best is good enough. In the zone, a strange place of authentic falsehood and shallow depth, play is possible.

For most people the biggest fear for public speaking is ______.

A．looking foolish

B．failing in words

C．not attracting attention

D．appearing pressurized

Although April did not bring the rains we all hoped for, and although the Central Valley doesn’t generally experience the atmospheric (大气的) sound and lightning that can accompany those rains, it is still important for parents to be able to answer the youthful questions about thunder and lightning.

The reason that these that these two wonders of nature are so difficult for many adults to explain to children is that they are not very well understood by adults themselves. For example, did you know that the lighting we see flashing(闪烁) down to the earth from a cloud is actually flashing up to a cloud from the earth？ Our eyes cheat us into thinking we see a downward motion when it’s actually the other way round. But then, if we believe only what we think we see, we’d still insist that the sun rises in the morning and sets at night.

Most lightning flashes take place inside a cloud, and only a relative few can be seen jumping between two clouds or between the earth and a cloud. But, with about 2,000 thunderstorms taking place above the earth every minute of the day and night, there’s enough activity to produce about 100 lightning strikes on the earth every second.

Parents can use thunder and lightning to help their children learn more about the world around them. When children understand that the light of the lightning flashes reaches their eyes almost at the same moment, but the sound of the thunder takes about 5 seconds to travel just one mile, they can begin to time the interval between the flash and the crash to learn how close they are to the actual spark.

26. According to the first paragraph, in the Central Valley area, rains come _____.

A. when it is April

B. when the field is dry

C. when people all hope for it

D. usually without thunder and lighting

27. We tend to think that lighting moves downward because_____.

A. our eyes play a joke on us

B. we take it to be true scientifically

C. we cannot see it clearly most of the time

D. it always runs down from a cloud to the earth

28. Which of the following is NOT true about lighting according to the passage？

A. Most lightning flashes take place inside a cloud.

B. About 2,000 thunderstorms occur above the earth every minute.

C. People can seldom see lightning flashes running between two clouds or between the earth and a cloud.

D. The thunderstorms happening above the earth can provide enough power to produce about 100 lightning strikes every second.

29. What does the word “ spark” in the last paragraph probably refer to ？

A. Cloud

B. Rain

C. Thunderstorm

D. Lightning flash

30. What does the passage imply？

A. Seeing is believing.

B. We should never trust what we see or hear.

C. People may easily make mistakes in their understanding of nature.

D. Children sometimes know more about nature than their parents do.

Although many persons assume that languages exist in dictionaries and grammars, in fact they only exist in people's heads. But this is equally true of cultural traits, which indicate clearly a they only exist in people's heads. But this is equally true of cultural traits, which indicate clearly a person's value system when crucial decisions need to be made before there is any time to think about alternatives, for example, diving into a flooding stream to rescue a drowning child.

第二节 完型填空

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。

Most people agree that fencing (击剑) is one sport in which a person must be at least 30 years old before he learns all he needs to know about the sport.【36】Clark Summers of the University of Detroit【37】that this doesn't always have to be【38】 Clark is a different kind of fencer in a lot of【39】. He is American, while most fencers are from the【40】of Europe. He is black while most fencers in the past have been【41】And he is【42】22 years old.

Many people【43】that Clark is the most promising fencer in this country today. Although he is young, he has been able to【44】the necessary skills. Already he has won a number of fencing contest (况赛)【45】older fencers. He is almost【46】to become a member of the US Olympic (奥林匹克) fencing team!

"There is no【47】danger in fencing, today," Clark says, "But I never【48】that fencing was not always a sport. In the old days, people fenced to【49】a quarrel. Each match was a matter of【50】. If that【51】true in the matches I【52】in today, every touch against me would mean that I【53】wounded or killed. So I try to play【54】I were fencing for my life. I don't like, the idea of being【55】!"

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A．And

B．But

C．Then

D．So

【C14】______ is true of reading literature.

Most people have read numerous【C15】______ works, but many do not understand or【C16】______ the author's skill in communicating. This book【C17】______ intended to help you learn to concentrate【C18】______ attention not only on what happens, but on【C19】______ it happens and how the author has presented it to analyze and【C20】______ literary works So that you can fully experience and appreciate them.

【C1】

A．instruction

B．tradition

C．demonstration

D．aspiration