TEXT H First read the questions. 55. What is the bees great contribution to mankind? A. they can provide mankind honey which is valuable nutrition. B. pollination benefits mankind most. C. beekeeping is a very profitable business which enables a great number of people earn a living. D. the bee is a significant node in the chain of ecological system. 56. Why does the author mention the womens liberation movement? A. to make a comparison between the womens liberation movement and bees female monarchy society. B. to draw an analogy. C. to defend womens liberation movement with the example of bees female dominating culture. D. to illustrate an unparallel example for womens liberation movement. Now go through Text H quickly to answer question 35 and 36. A lush spring and summer are certain to bring acute frustrations and violent twinges of conscience farmers and gardeners, for if they dont use harmful insecticides, they may have fewer flowers, fruits, vegetables, or fodder —— temporarily; if they do use such insecticides, they may have no honeybees —— permanently. On balance, however, the latter is by far the greater evil, for pollination is the bees greatest gift to mankind, greater than the honey in the honeycomb; if the bees are eradicated, man will surly face disasters worse than army worms, Japanese beetles, or crab grass. Beekeeping was practically unknown in the Western Hemisphere until after the first European settlers arrived. The earliest reference to beekeeping here come from Virginia, where beekeeping was practical apiary in 1622; however, by 1640 Newbury, Massachusetts, and a fine municipal apiary, and in 1641 bee colonies in New England were selling for five pounds a piece, the equivalent of fifteen days labor by a skilled craftsman. Today, the New England honey crop, for example, total more than a million pounds of honey from approximately 38,000 colonies; this, however, represent only a relatively small part of Americans nearly five million colonies, most of which are now in the South and the West. Will there continue to be that many colonies? Already about a half million colonies have been destroyed by poisonous insecticides, and all over the country entomologists and ecologists are deeply worried about the loss of honeybees and the threat of dwindling food supplies as there pollinations are killed off. Imagine pollinating a ten-acre field with clumsy fingers. It takes a busy bee about seven seconds per sip, and a minimum of a 15,000 bees per acre can handle the job with dispatch daily, hence, producers of vast acreage of fruits, vegetables, and fodders plants rent hives of bees in the springtime to do the work which neither man nor machine can duplicate. Although bees have been in existence for millions of years and wild honey was sought by the most primitive man, it was only five or six thousand years ago that bees began to be cultivated and "managed " in apiaries. They became so precious to the Egyptian economy, in fact, that the pharaohs forbade the removal of any of them. Finally, after several unsuccessful bee nappings, St. Sossima managed to smuggle out ten honeybees and a queen in a hollow reed, and legend holds that all the honeybees now registered and "managed" are descendants of these Egyptian bees. Beekeeping is not without its hazards, however; in fact, Jay Mc Donough of Connecticut found that it can be rather disconcerting for the beginner. Several years ago, with his wife and two young daughters, Jay bought a fine old house, cleared land for an organic vegetable garden, and ordered a supply of bees for pollination purposes. He originally assumed he wanted the bees only for pollination, but the family soon discovered the advantages of a ready supply of honey and beeswax. At the outset, however, like any inexperienced beekeeper, Jay learned the hard way. His first three pounds of bees, shipped from Georgia with the queen-to-be carefully boxed separately and surrounded with honey-candy which would later be eaten off by her subjects when released her for her duties, arrived early one morning just as Jay, a first officer and copilot for Trans World Airlines, was due to leave for a six-day flight. At that juncture, he did not realize that bees caged for a relatively long journey have only vengeance on their minds. Nighttime, when bees are ready for bed, is the only time to release them, so that their queen with relative calm and enthusiasm, they will establish proper housekeeping arrangement. Time was pressing, however; so Jay carefully shook the caged bees into their new hive, deposited the unsuspecting queen in the midst of everything, and departed. Angry and disgruntled, the bees promptly tore into the queens retreat, stung her to death in reprisal for her mismanagement, and flew around confusedly. Fortunately, a local beekeeper who inspects registered bees came by that first day, learned of the palace revolt, and quickly introduced one of his own queens, successfully establish her on the throne before further damage occurred. In a few days she was laying from 2000 to 3000 eggs per day, and now there are several hives operating on the Mc Donough place. Beekeepers in general are outspoken critics of the wanton use of insecticides, and Olympio Cartinelli, also of Connecticut, is no exception, for not long ago Mr. Cartinellis fifteen colonies of honeybees were destroyed in a single day by a neighbors use of sprays to control the army worms in his cornfield. The whole family grieved over the loss of their hard-working friends, and so, in fact, did the neighbor because the bees had been pollinating other producing fields of his and the yield was sharply reduced. The bees invaluable aid to man is , of course, merely a side effect from the bees point of view, the bees main purpose in life being the production of honey food for herself and royal jelly for her queen; nursing feeding, and protecting the babies; and tolerating a few necessary males, the drones. Incidentally, the womens liberation movement would do well to study bee culture for pointers; the little honey-makers have the girl backed right the map when it comes to organization, sharply defined responsibilities, and control of males in a female monarchy. Whats more, the bees obviously know something we dont: we are aware that royal jelly has unique life-giving qualities, but cannot exactly define or reproduce it in a test tube. The praise and respect accorded bees by those who know and appreciate them is perhaps best summarized by Francis H. Mattutat, president of a firm which deals in bulk honey: "Bees are the only creatures that have come on the earth to bring creativity, without destructive side effect. They proliferate without upsetting other life cycles. In taking pollen and nectar to create honey, they render a greater service to plants, animals, and humanity. They set an example of instant justice, too. When in anger, confusion, of self-defense a bee stings its adversary, it instantly destroys itself. The use of its stinger id a one-time protest. Giving more than it takes, the bee is probably the most useful creature on earth."
55. What is the bee's great contribution to mankind?
A) they can provide mankind honey which is valuable nutrition.
B) pollination benefits mankind most.
C) beekeeping is a very profitable business which enables a great number of people earn a living.
D) the bee is a significant node in the chain of ecological system.
56. Why does the author mention the women's liberation movement?
A) to make a comparison between the women's liberation movement and bees' female monarchy society.
B) to draw an analogy.
C) to defend women's liberation movement with the example of bees' female dominating culture.
D) to illustrate an unparallel example for women's liberation movement.
TEXT I First read the question. 57. Who are addressed in this article? A. common people who wish to grasp the knack for saving money. B. the young bread-earners who always live beyond their means. C. prudent new arrivals from Asia. D. families that lack financial strategy. Now go though Text I quickly to answer question 37. Willie Huang, a certified financial planner with American Express Financial Advisors, Inc. in Queen, New York, himself an immigrant from Taiwan, regularly advises recent arrivals from Asia. He says they often make the same mistakes. After evaluating the Tsang assets, Huang praised their knack for saving money. "Their ability to live within their means is excellent," he says, comparing them favorable with some of his native-born U.S. clients who are deep in credit-card debt. But Huang found several dangerous flaws in the familys financial strategy. His advice: Invest more aggressively. Huang asserts the couple needs to invest in the stock market, the only place where they can find the growth they need to be able to retire comfortably. He wants the Tsangs to put some of their money into growth-oriented mutual funds, but like many Asian immigrants, Eric has watched friends and family lose money on the Hog Kong stock market. He prefers to bet his familys future on real estate and restaurants over which he has more control. Huang reluctantly recommends certificates of deposit, bank tome deposits that offer a much smaller return —— around 5% vs. average long-term returns of double that for growth tock funds. His plan: Keep a third of the 18,000 of saving in a checking account as a cash reserve. Put the other 12,000 in bank CDs. Get good heath coverage. Eric has looked into competitive health care plans and found that for a family of four the monthly cost would be between 600 and 800 —— too much, he decided. Most new Asian immigrants dont carry heath insurance, notes Sher Sparano, president of benefits Advisory Service, Inc. in Queen, New York. Sparano suggests that Eric look into the New York State Heath Insurance Partnership Plan for small business owners. This state plan subsidizes up to 45% of the cost of health care premiums of an employees or owner (and their families) of a participating small business. For a family of six (which Eric can claim because his parents are dependents), an applicants like Eric with no more than 47,708 in income would have to pay only 18751 a month. Purchase disability insurance. In the case of a catastrophic accident or illness, Eric would not qualify for federal social security disability payments since he has worked less than 10 years in the U.S. If permanently disabled, he would prove an unbearable drain on his family, which could not survive on Rebeccas 8,400 salary. Huang advises the family to immediately look for a disability insurance policy for Eric is guaranteed renewable and non-cancelable. Price: 100 a month for coverage that would would pay 1,500 a month in case Eric is disabled. Replace your life insurance policy. Many Asian immigrants buy life insurance, but usually the wrong kind. "Erics policy needs to be restructured to better cover the family for about the same amount theyre now spending per month," advises Huang. Erics coverage should be raised to 350,000 because he is the primary breadwinner. The policy for the children should be scraped because they are a poor way to save. Eric is still against stocks and is not convinced that CDs are a good idea either. "I have a business to run," he says." What if I need emergency money for the restaurant?" He is, however, very interested in disability insurance and the heath insurance plan, particularly since the latter will cover his parents. As for the life insurance advice, he says he wants to study it a bit more before making a decision.
57. Who are addressed in this article?
A) common people who wish to grasp the knack for saving money.
B) the young bread-earners who always live beyond their means.
C) prudent new arrivals from Asia.
D) families that lack financial strategy.
TEXT J First read the questions. 58. Whats the text mainly about? A. Chinas cinema in modern times. B. the development of Chinese film. C. the origin and development of Chinas cinema. D. major film made in China. 59. When was the film the North Is Ours produced? A. after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. B. when the Yanan Film Group was founded. C. immediately before the founding of the Peoples Republic of China. D. during the Anti-Japanese War. Now go though Text J to answer question 38 and 39. The cinema was introduced into China at the end of the 19th century. On August 11,1896, a Western film was shown in Shanghai. It was the first film shown in China. In 1950, a photo studio in Beijing made the first Chinese film which was only a collection of scenes from a Beijing opera based on the classical novel The romance of the Three Kingdoms. In the early thirties, under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, film personnel in the Kuomintang ruled areas produced many progressive and revolutionary films such as Spring Silkworms, Plunder of Peach and Plum, Three Modern Women, The Great Road, Song of the Fishermen, and Crossroad. These films reflect the realities of society and the wishes of the people. During the Anti-Japanese War, many progressive films were made in the Kuomintang controlled areas. Among them were Defend Our Land, The March of Victory, The North Is Ours, Sons and Daughters of China, and The snowy Taihang Mountains. The films reflect the peoples demand for resistance against Japan. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the Kuomintang reactionaries established their monopoly of the film industry. In spite of the oppression and persecution by the Kuomintang, progressive film-makers, led by the underground Party organizations, produced a group of excellence film. Remote Love, Along the Songhua River, Eight Thousand Li of Cloud and Moon, and The Spring of River Flows East are all about the peoples life or struggles during the War of Resistance against Japan. Myriads of Lights and Crows and Sparrows depict the peoples sufferings under the the rule of the Kuomintang. In the liberated areas, the founding of the Yanan Film Group marks the starting point of the peoples film industry. This group, established under the direct leadership of the Communist Party in 1938, shot valuable documentaries which include Yanan and the Eighth Route Army, Dr. Norman Bethune, and Nanniwan. In 1946, the Yanan Film Studio was found. The newsreel Defend Yanan and the Shanxi-Gansu-Nigxia Border Areas, produced by the studio, recorded part of the liberation War. In October, 1946, the Northeast Film Studio was established in the Northeast Liberation War. Its main production were seventeen newsreels entitled The Democratic Northeast. Many films made before the founding of the Peoples Republic of China have strong points and qualities which contemporary film-makers should study and develop. Many old progressive films adopted a realistic style; therefore they reflect Chinese society and the lives the people and shoe sympathy for the oppressed and exploited. Early film-makers were clear about the purpose of their work: to make the plot development, customs and habits, language and acting their films conform to the taste of the audience. It is obvious that the pioneers of Chinas progressive films made great contributions to the development of Chinas film industry.
58. What's the text mainly about?
A) China's cinema in modern times.
B) the development of Chinese film.
C) the origin and development of China's cinema.
D) major film made in China.
59. When was the film the North Is Ours produced?
A) after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.
B) when the Yan'an Film Group was founded.
C) immediately before the founding of the People's Republic of China.
D) during the Anti-Japanese War.
55. What is the bee's great contribution to mankind?
A) they can provide mankind honey which is valuable nutrition.
B) pollination benefits mankind most.
C) beekeeping is a very profitable business which enables a great number of people earn a living.
D) the bee is a significant node in the chain of ecological system.
56. Why does the author mention the women's liberation movement?
A) to make a comparison between the women's liberation movement and bees' female monarchy society.
B) to draw an analogy.
C) to defend women's liberation movement with the example of bees' female dominating culture.
D) to illustrate an unparallel example for women's liberation movement.
TEXT I First read the question. 57. Who are addressed in this article? A. common people who wish to grasp the knack for saving money. B. the young bread-earners who always live beyond their means. C. prudent new arrivals from Asia. D. families that lack financial strategy. Now go though Text I quickly to answer question 37. Willie Huang, a certified financial planner with American Express Financial Advisors, Inc. in Queen, New York, himself an immigrant from Taiwan, regularly advises recent arrivals from Asia. He says they often make the same mistakes. After evaluating the Tsang assets, Huang praised their knack for saving money. "Their ability to live within their means is excellent," he says, comparing them favorable with some of his native-born U.S. clients who are deep in credit-card debt. But Huang found several dangerous flaws in the familys financial strategy. His advice: Invest more aggressively. Huang asserts the couple needs to invest in the stock market, the only place where they can find the growth they need to be able to retire comfortably. He wants the Tsangs to put some of their money into growth-oriented mutual funds, but like many Asian immigrants, Eric has watched friends and family lose money on the Hog Kong stock market. He prefers to bet his familys future on real estate and restaurants over which he has more control. Huang reluctantly recommends certificates of deposit, bank tome deposits that offer a much smaller return —— around 5% vs. average long-term returns of double that for growth tock funds. His plan: Keep a third of the 18,000 of saving in a checking account as a cash reserve. Put the other 12,000 in bank CDs. Get good heath coverage. Eric has looked into competitive health care plans and found that for a family of four the monthly cost would be between 600 and 800 —— too much, he decided. Most new Asian immigrants dont carry heath insurance, notes Sher Sparano, president of benefits Advisory Service, Inc. in Queen, New York. Sparano suggests that Eric look into the New York State Heath Insurance Partnership Plan for small business owners. This state plan subsidizes up to 45% of the cost of health care premiums of an employees or owner (and their families) of a participating small business. For a family of six (which Eric can claim because his parents are dependents), an applicants like Eric with no more than 47,708 in income would have to pay only 18751 a month. Purchase disability insurance. In the case of a catastrophic accident or illness, Eric would not qualify for federal social security disability payments since he has worked less than 10 years in the U.S. If permanently disabled, he would prove an unbearable drain on his family, which could not survive on Rebeccas 8,400 salary. Huang advises the family to immediately look for a disability insurance policy for Eric is guaranteed renewable and non-cancelable. Price: 100 a month for coverage that would would pay 1,500 a month in case Eric is disabled. Replace your life insurance policy. Many Asian immigrants buy life insurance, but usually the wrong kind. "Erics policy needs to be restructured to better cover the family for about the same amount theyre now spending per month," advises Huang. Erics coverage should be raised to 350,000 because he is the primary breadwinner. The policy for the children should be scraped because they are a poor way to save. Eric is still against stocks and is not convinced that CDs are a good idea either. "I have a business to run," he says." What if I need emergency money for the restaurant?" He is, however, very interested in disability insurance and the heath insurance plan, particularly since the latter will cover his parents. As for the life insurance advice, he says he wants to study it a bit more before making a decision.
57. Who are addressed in this article?
A) common people who wish to grasp the knack for saving money.
B) the young bread-earners who always live beyond their means.
C) prudent new arrivals from Asia.
D) families that lack financial strategy.
TEXT J First read the questions. 58. Whats the text mainly about? A. Chinas cinema in modern times. B. the development of Chinese film. C. the origin and development of Chinas cinema. D. major film made in China. 59. When was the film the North Is Ours produced? A. after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. B. when the Yanan Film Group was founded. C. immediately before the founding of the Peoples Republic of China. D. during the Anti-Japanese War. Now go though Text J to answer question 38 and 39. The cinema was introduced into China at the end of the 19th century. On August 11,1896, a Western film was shown in Shanghai. It was the first film shown in China. In 1950, a photo studio in Beijing made the first Chinese film which was only a collection of scenes from a Beijing opera based on the classical novel The romance of the Three Kingdoms. In the early thirties, under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, film personnel in the Kuomintang ruled areas produced many progressive and revolutionary films such as Spring Silkworms, Plunder of Peach and Plum, Three Modern Women, The Great Road, Song of the Fishermen, and Crossroad. These films reflect the realities of society and the wishes of the people. During the Anti-Japanese War, many progressive films were made in the Kuomintang controlled areas. Among them were Defend Our Land, The March of Victory, The North Is Ours, Sons and Daughters of China, and The snowy Taihang Mountains. The films reflect the peoples demand for resistance against Japan. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the Kuomintang reactionaries established their monopoly of the film industry. In spite of the oppression and persecution by the Kuomintang, progressive film-makers, led by the underground Party organizations, produced a group of excellence film. Remote Love, Along the Songhua River, Eight Thousand Li of Cloud and Moon, and The Spring of River Flows East are all about the peoples life or struggles during the War of Resistance against Japan. Myriads of Lights and Crows and Sparrows depict the peoples sufferings under the the rule of the Kuomintang. In the liberated areas, the founding of the Yanan Film Group marks the starting point of the peoples film industry. This group, established under the direct leadership of the Communist Party in 1938, shot valuable documentaries which include Yanan and the Eighth Route Army, Dr. Norman Bethune, and Nanniwan. In 1946, the Yanan Film Studio was found. The newsreel Defend Yanan and the Shanxi-Gansu-Nigxia Border Areas, produced by the studio, recorded part of the liberation War. In October, 1946, the Northeast Film Studio was established in the Northeast Liberation War. Its main production were seventeen newsreels entitled The Democratic Northeast. Many films made before the founding of the Peoples Republic of China have strong points and qualities which contemporary film-makers should study and develop. Many old progressive films adopted a realistic style; therefore they reflect Chinese society and the lives the people and shoe sympathy for the oppressed and exploited. Early film-makers were clear about the purpose of their work: to make the plot development, customs and habits, language and acting their films conform to the taste of the audience. It is obvious that the pioneers of Chinas progressive films made great contributions to the development of Chinas film industry.
58. What's the text mainly about?
A) China's cinema in modern times.
B) the development of Chinese film.
C) the origin and development of China's cinema.
D) major film made in China.
59. When was the film the North Is Ours produced?
A) after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.
B) when the Yan'an Film Group was founded.
C) immediately before the founding of the People's Republic of China.
D) during the Anti-Japanese War.