<FONT face=微軟雅黑>Part I Writing.
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled The Civil Servant Test Craze. Your essay should start with a brief description of the picture. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.
1、1.有人做好事期望得到回報;
2.有人認(rèn)為應(yīng)該像雷鋒那樣做好事不圖回報;
3.我的觀點。
Should One Expect a Reward When Doing a Good Deed?</P><P> 一、聽力選擇題
1、聽錄音，回答1-36題：
A.Surfing the net.
B.Watching a talk show.
C.Packing a birthday girl.
D.Shopping at a jewelry store.
2、
A.He enjoys finding fault with exams.
B.He is sure of his success in the exam.
C.He doesn't know if he can do well in the exam.
D.He used to get straight A's in the exams he took.
3、
A.The man is generous with his good comments on people.
B.The woman is unsure if there will be peace in the world.
C.The woman is doubtful about newspaper stories,
D.The man is quite optimistic about human nature.
4、
A.Study for some profession.
B.Attend a medical school.
C.Stay in business.
D.Sell his shop.
5、
A.More money.
B.Fair treatment.
C.A college education.
D.Shorter work hours.
6、
A.She was exhausted from her trip.
B.She missed the comforts of home.
C.She was impressed by Mexican food.
D.She will not go to Mexico again.
7、
A.Cheer herself up a bit.
B.Find a more suitable job.
C.Seek professional advice.
D.Take a psychology course.
8、
A.He dresses more formally now.
B.What he wears does not match his position.
C.He has ignored his friends since graduation.
D.He failed to do well at college.
9、Conversation One.
聽材料，回答下列問題：
A.To go sightseeing.
B.To have meetings.
C.To promote a new champagne.
D.To join in a training program,
10、
A.It can reduce the number of passenger complaints.
B.It can make air travel more entertaining.
C.It can cut down the expenses for air travel.
D.It can lessen the discomfort caused by air travel.</P><P>11、
A.Took balanced meals with champagne.
B.Ate vegetables and fruit only.
C.Refrained from fish or meat.
D.Avoided eating rich food,
12、
A.Many of them found it difficult to exercise on a plane.
B.Many of them were concerned with their well-being,
C.Not many of them chose to do what she did.
D.Not many of them understood the program.
13、Conversation Two.
聽材料，回答下列各題：
A.At a fair.
B.At a cafeteria.
C.In a computer lab,
D.In a shopping mall.
14、
A.The latest computer technology.
B.The organizing of an exhibition.
C.The purchasing of some equipment.
D.The dramatic changes in the job market.
15、
A.Data collection.
B.Training eonsultancy.
C.Corporate management.
D.Information processing.
16、Passage One.
聽材料，回答下列各題：
A.Improve themselves.
B.Get rid of empty dreams.
C.Follow the cultural tradition.
D.Attempt something impossible.
17、
A.By finding sufficient support for implementation.
B.By taking into account their own ability to change.
C.By constantly keeping in mind their ultimate goals.
D.By making detailed plans and carrying them out.
18、
A.To show people how to get their lives back to normal.
B.To show how difficult it is for people to lose weight.
C.To remind people to check the calories on food bags.
D.To illustrate how easily people abandon their goals.
19、Passage Two.
聽材料，回答下列各題：
A.Michael's parents got divorced.
B.Karen was adopted by Ray Anderson.
C.Karen's mother died in a car accident.
D.A truck driver lost his life in a collision.
20、
A.He ran a red light and collided with a truck.
B.He sacrificed his life to save a baby girl.
C.He was killed instantly in a burning ear.
D.He got married to Karen's mother.
21、
A.The reported hero turned out to be his father.
B.He did not understand his father till too late.
C.Such misfortune should have fallen on him.
D.It reminded him of his miserable childhood, Passage Three
22、Passage Three.
聽材料，回答下列各題：
A.Germany.
B.Japan.
C.The U.S.
D.The U.K.
23、
A.By doing odd jobs at weekends.
B.By working long hours every day,
C.By putting in more hours each week.
D.By taking shorter vacations each year,
24、
A.To combat competition and raise productivity.
B.To provide them with more job opportunities.
C.To help them maintain their living standard.
D.To prevent them from holding a second job.
25、
A.Change their jobs.
B.Earn more money.
C.Reduce their working hours.
D.Strengthen the government's role.</P><P> 二、聽力
26、聽材料，回答下列各題：
Growing numbers of bright students face missing out on their first choice university, academics warned today, as figures showed three-quarters of institutions are being forced to reduce places.
Almost 100 out of 130 universities in England could be forced to take fewer 26 this year, following the introduction of Coalition reforms designed to drive down 27 fees.
Many members of the elite Russell Group are among those facing 28 , with Liverpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle and Southampton being particularly 29 .
Data from the Government's Higher Education Funding Council for England suggests some newer universities such as Bedfordshire and East London are expecting to lose around one-in-eight places.
The cuts are being 30 following the introduction of new rules that effectively 31 universities charging more than 7,500 in student fees from this autumn.
It means large numbers of places are being 32 towards cheap further education colleges.
Ministers are also lifting controls on the number of bright students gaining at least two A grades and a B at Alevel that universities can recruit 33 an inevitable scramble towards a small number of top institutions.
The funding council's chief executive denied the loss of student places would tip any institution into significant financial trouble.
But Prof Michael Farthing, vice-chancellor of Sussex University and chairman of the 1994 Group, which represents many small research institutions, said the figures show that many excellent students will be denied places at their first choice universities.
"The number of students universities are allowed to recruit has been cut across the sector, with 20,000 places 34 o institutions with lower than average fees, "he said.
"Far from giving the best universities freedom to 35 more students, this represents a push to a cut-price education."
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快速閱讀 問答題
36、根據(jù)下列短文，回答36-46題。
Nearly a third of women are the main breadwinners in their household in Britain, according to a major survey.
Researchers said that in many relationships it was no longer assumed that the man would bring in the bigger income, 36 in a time of widespread redundancies (裁員).
In a 37 shift in attitudes, four out often women said that the career of whichever partner had the highest income would take 38 in the relationship.
In one in ten families, a house husband looks after the children and does the 39 while their female partner works full time.
Ten percent of women admitted this role 40 had put strains on their relationship and some said it had even led to them 41 company.
The Women and Work Survey 2010, commissioned (受......委托) by Grazia magazine, found that almost half of full-time mothers 42 not earning their own money.
And two thirds of the mothers among the 2,000 women in the survey said they wanted to keep working in some way after having children.
A 43 higher number of those with children under three said they would prefer to work--preferably part- time--rather than stay at home.
Victoria Harper of Grazia said,"Women are getting good jobs when they graduate, and working up the career 44 faster than they have ever done."
This means that there has to be more 45 between the roles of men and women in a relationship and when they have children.
A.precedence
B.connection
C.prospect
D.slightly
E. ladder
F.favored
G.plan
H.reversal
I.especially
J.parting
K.opposite
L.chores
M.disliked
N.fluidity
O. significant
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Section C
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D ). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
56、根據(jù)下列短文，回答56-61題。
You hear the refrain all the time: the U.S. economy looks good statistically, but it doesn't feel good. Why doesn't ever-greater wealth promote ever-greater happiness? It is a question that dates back at least to the appearance in 1958 of The Affluent (富裕的) Society by John Kenneth Galbmith, who died recently at 97.
The Affluent Society is a modem classic because it helped define a new moment in the human condition. For most of history,"hunger, sickness, and cold" threatened nearly everyone. Galbmith wrote "Poverty was found everywhere in that world. Obviously it is not of ours." After World War II, the dread of another Great Depression gave way to an economic boom. In the 1930s unemployment had averaged 18.2 percent; in the 1950s it was 4.5 percent.
To Galbralth, materialism had gone mad and would breed discontent. Through advertising companies conditioned consumers to buy things they didn't really want or need. Because so much spending was artificial, it would be unfulfilling. Meanwhile, government spending that would make everyone better off was being cut down because people instinctively--and wrongly--labeled government only as "a necessary evil".
It's often said that only the rich are getting ahead; everyone else standing still or falling behind. Well, there are many undeserving rich--overpaid chief executive, for instance. But over any meaningful period, most people's incomes are increasing. From 1995 to 2004, inflation-adjusted average family income rose 14.3 percent, to
$43,200. People feel "squeezed" because their rising incomes often don't satisfy, their rising wants--for bigget homes, more health care, more education, faster Interact connections.
The other great frustration is that it has not eliminated insecurity. People regard job stability as part of their standard of living. As corporate layoffs increased, that part has eroded. More workers fear they're becoming "the disposable American," as Louis Uchitelle puts it in his book by the same name.
Because so much previous suffering and social conflict stemmed from poverty, the arrival of widespread affluence suggested utopian (烏托邦式的) possibilities. Up to a point, affluence succeeds. There is much less physical misery than before. People are better off. Unfortunately, affluence also creates new complaints and contradictions.
Advanced societies need economic growth to satisfy the multiplying wants of their citizens. But the quest for growth lets loose new anxieties and economic conflicts that disturb the social order. Affluence liberates the individual, promising that everyone can choose a unique way to self-fulfillment. But the promise is so extravagant that it predestines many disappointments and sometimes inspires choices that have anti-social consequences, including family breakdown and obesity (肥胖癥). Statistical indicators of happiness have not risen with incomes.
Should we be surprised? Not really. We've simply reaffirmed an old truth: the pursuit of affluence does not always end with happiness.
What question does John Kenneth Galbraith raise in his book The Affluent Society?
A.Why statistics don't tell the truth about the economy.
B.Why affluence doesn't guarantee happiness.
C.How happiness can be promoted today.
D.What lies behind an economic boom.
57、According to Galbraith, people feel discontented because ________。
A.public spending hasn't been cut down as expected
B.the government has proved to be a necessary evil
C.they are in fear of another Great Depression
D.materialism has run wild in modem society
58、Why do people feel squeezed when their average income rises considerably?
A.Their material pursuits have gone far ahead of their earnings.
B.Their purchasing power has dropped markedly with inflation,
C.The distribution of wealth is uneven between the rich and the poor.
D.Health care and educational costs have somehow gone out of control.
59、What does Louis Uehitelle mean by "the disposable American" (Lines 2-3, Para, 5 )?
A.Those who see job stability as part of their living standard.
B.People full of utopian ideas resulting from affluence.
C.People who have little say in American politics.
D.Workers who no longer have secure jobs.
60、What has affluence brought to American society?
A.Renewed economic security.
B.A sense of self-fulfillment.
C.New conflicts and complaints.
D.Misery and anti-social behavior.
61、根據(jù)下列短文，回答{TSE}題。
The use of deferential (敬重的) language is symbolic of the Confucian ideal of the woman, which dominates conservative gender norms in Japan. This ideal presents a woman who withdraws quietly to the background, subordinating her life and needs to those of her family and its male head. She is a dutiful daughter, wife, and mother, master of the domestic arts. The typical refined Japanese woman excels in modesty and delicacy; she "treads softly (謹(jǐn)言慎行)in the world," elevating feminine beauty and grace to an art form.
Nowadays, it is commonly observed that young women are not conforming to the feminine linguistic (語言的) ideal. They are using fewer of the very deferential "women's" forms, and even using the few strong forms that are known as "men's." This, of course, attracts considerable attention and has led to an outcry in the Japanese media against the defeminization of women's language. Indeed, we didn't hear about "men's language" until people began to respond to girls' appropriation of forms normally reserved for boys and men. There is considerable sentiment about the "corruption" of women's language--which of course is viewed as part of the loss of feminine ideals an morality--and this sentiment is crystallized by nationwide opinion polls that are regularly carried out by the media.
Yoshiko Matsumoto has argued that young women probably never used as many of the highly deferential forms as older women. This highly polite style is no doubt something that young women have been expected to" grow into"-after all, it is a sign not simply of femininity, but of maturity and refinement, and its use could be taken to indicate a change in the nature of one's social relations as well. One might well imagine little girls using exceedingly polite forms when playing house or imitating older women-in a fashion analogous to little girls' us, era high-pitched voice to do "teacher talk" or "mother talk" in role play.
The fact that young Japanese women are using less deferential language is a sure sign of change--of social change and of linguistic change. But it is most certainly not a sign of the "masculinizafiun" of girls. In some instances, it may be a sign that girls arc making the same claim to authority as boys and men, but that is very different from saying that they are trying to be "masculine". Katsue Reynolds has argued that girls nowadays are using more assertive language strategies in order to be able to compete with boys in schools and out. Social change also brings not simply different positions for women and girls, but different relations to life stages, and adolescent girls are participating in new subcultural forms. Thus what may to an older speaker, seem like "masculine" speech may seem to an adolescent like "liberated" or "hip" speech.
The first paragraph describes in detail ________.
A.the standards set for contemporary Japanese women
B.the Confucian influence on gender norms in Japan
C.the stereotyped role of women in Japanese families
D.the norms for traditional Japanese women to follow
62、What change has been observed in today's young Japanese women?
A.They pay less attention to their linguistic behavior.
B.They use fewer of the deferential linguistic forms.
C.They confuse male and female forms of language.
D.They employ very strong linguistic expressions.
63、How do some people react to women's appropriation of men's language forms as reported in the Japanese media?
A.They call for a campaign to stop the defeminization.
B.They see it as an expression of women's sentiment.
C.They accept it as a modem trend.
D.They express strong disapproval.
64、According to Yoshiko Matsumoto, the linguistic behavior observed in today's young women
A.may lead to changes in social relations
B.has been true of all past generations
C.is viewed as a sign of their maturity
D.is a result of rapid social progress
65、The author believes that the use of assertive language by young Japanese women is
A.a sure sign of their defeminization and maturation
B.an indication of their defiance against social change
C.one of their strategies to compete in a male-dominated society
D.an inevitable trend of linguistic development in Japan today
Part VI Translation (30 minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English. You should write your answer on Answer Sheet 2.</P><P> 66、中歐經(jīng)濟(jì)貿(mào)易合作取得了可喜的成果。歐盟已經(jīng)成為中國的重要經(jīng)貿(mào)伙伴，是中國的技術(shù)供應(yīng)方、第三大貿(mào)易伙伴和第五大投資方。2001年，中歐貿(mào)易達(dá)到766億美元，比上一年增長11%，尤其是中
國從歐盟的進(jìn)口增長了15.8%。我非常贊賞歐中貿(mào)協(xié)(Europe-ChinaBusilless Association)與比重經(jīng)貿(mào)理事會(Belgium-Chinese Economic and Commercial Council)為發(fā)展中歐關(guān)系所做出的努力。中歐經(jīng)濟(jì)貿(mào)易合作具有廣闊的前景。中歐經(jīng)濟(jì)具有很強(qiáng)的互補(bǔ)性，在貿(mào)易、投資、科技等領(lǐng)域具有很大的合作潛力。</P><P></FONT>
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled The Civil Servant Test Craze. Your essay should start with a brief description of the picture. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.
1、1.有人做好事期望得到回報;
2.有人認(rèn)為應(yīng)該像雷鋒那樣做好事不圖回報;
3.我的觀點。
Should One Expect a Reward When Doing a Good Deed?</P><P> 一、聽力選擇題
1、聽錄音，回答1-36題：
A.Surfing the net.
B.Watching a talk show.
C.Packing a birthday girl.
D.Shopping at a jewelry store.
2、
A.He enjoys finding fault with exams.
B.He is sure of his success in the exam.
C.He doesn't know if he can do well in the exam.
D.He used to get straight A's in the exams he took.
3、
A.The man is generous with his good comments on people.
B.The woman is unsure if there will be peace in the world.
C.The woman is doubtful about newspaper stories,
D.The man is quite optimistic about human nature.
4、
A.Study for some profession.
B.Attend a medical school.
C.Stay in business.
D.Sell his shop.
5、
A.More money.
B.Fair treatment.
C.A college education.
D.Shorter work hours.
6、
A.She was exhausted from her trip.
B.She missed the comforts of home.
C.She was impressed by Mexican food.
D.She will not go to Mexico again.
7、
A.Cheer herself up a bit.
B.Find a more suitable job.
C.Seek professional advice.
D.Take a psychology course.
8、
A.He dresses more formally now.
B.What he wears does not match his position.
C.He has ignored his friends since graduation.
D.He failed to do well at college.
9、Conversation One.
聽材料，回答下列問題：
A.To go sightseeing.
B.To have meetings.
C.To promote a new champagne.
D.To join in a training program,
10、
A.It can reduce the number of passenger complaints.
B.It can make air travel more entertaining.
C.It can cut down the expenses for air travel.
D.It can lessen the discomfort caused by air travel.</P><P>11、
A.Took balanced meals with champagne.
B.Ate vegetables and fruit only.
C.Refrained from fish or meat.
D.Avoided eating rich food,
12、
A.Many of them found it difficult to exercise on a plane.
B.Many of them were concerned with their well-being,
C.Not many of them chose to do what she did.
D.Not many of them understood the program.
13、Conversation Two.
聽材料，回答下列各題：
A.At a fair.
B.At a cafeteria.
C.In a computer lab,
D.In a shopping mall.
14、
A.The latest computer technology.
B.The organizing of an exhibition.
C.The purchasing of some equipment.
D.The dramatic changes in the job market.
15、
A.Data collection.
B.Training eonsultancy.
C.Corporate management.
D.Information processing.
16、Passage One.
聽材料，回答下列各題：
A.Improve themselves.
B.Get rid of empty dreams.
C.Follow the cultural tradition.
D.Attempt something impossible.
17、
A.By finding sufficient support for implementation.
B.By taking into account their own ability to change.
C.By constantly keeping in mind their ultimate goals.
D.By making detailed plans and carrying them out.
18、
A.To show people how to get their lives back to normal.
B.To show how difficult it is for people to lose weight.
C.To remind people to check the calories on food bags.
D.To illustrate how easily people abandon their goals.
19、Passage Two.
聽材料，回答下列各題：
A.Michael's parents got divorced.
B.Karen was adopted by Ray Anderson.
C.Karen's mother died in a car accident.
D.A truck driver lost his life in a collision.
20、
A.He ran a red light and collided with a truck.
B.He sacrificed his life to save a baby girl.
C.He was killed instantly in a burning ear.
D.He got married to Karen's mother.
21、
A.The reported hero turned out to be his father.
B.He did not understand his father till too late.
C.Such misfortune should have fallen on him.
D.It reminded him of his miserable childhood, Passage Three
22、Passage Three.
聽材料，回答下列各題：
A.Germany.
B.Japan.
C.The U.S.
D.The U.K.
23、
A.By doing odd jobs at weekends.
B.By working long hours every day,
C.By putting in more hours each week.
D.By taking shorter vacations each year,
24、
A.To combat competition and raise productivity.
B.To provide them with more job opportunities.
C.To help them maintain their living standard.
D.To prevent them from holding a second job.
25、
A.Change their jobs.
B.Earn more money.
C.Reduce their working hours.
D.Strengthen the government's role.</P><P> 二、聽力
26、聽材料，回答下列各題：
Growing numbers of bright students face missing out on their first choice university, academics warned today, as figures showed three-quarters of institutions are being forced to reduce places.
Almost 100 out of 130 universities in England could be forced to take fewer 26 this year, following the introduction of Coalition reforms designed to drive down 27 fees.
Many members of the elite Russell Group are among those facing 28 , with Liverpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle and Southampton being particularly 29 .
Data from the Government's Higher Education Funding Council for England suggests some newer universities such as Bedfordshire and East London are expecting to lose around one-in-eight places.
The cuts are being 30 following the introduction of new rules that effectively 31 universities charging more than 7,500 in student fees from this autumn.
It means large numbers of places are being 32 towards cheap further education colleges.
Ministers are also lifting controls on the number of bright students gaining at least two A grades and a B at Alevel that universities can recruit 33 an inevitable scramble towards a small number of top institutions.
The funding council's chief executive denied the loss of student places would tip any institution into significant financial trouble.
But Prof Michael Farthing, vice-chancellor of Sussex University and chairman of the 1994 Group, which represents many small research institutions, said the figures show that many excellent students will be denied places at their first choice universities.
"The number of students universities are allowed to recruit has been cut across the sector, with 20,000 places 34 o institutions with lower than average fees, "he said.
"Far from giving the best universities freedom to 35 more students, this represents a push to a cut-price education."
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快速閱讀 問答題
36、根據(jù)下列短文，回答36-46題。
Nearly a third of women are the main breadwinners in their household in Britain, according to a major survey.
Researchers said that in many relationships it was no longer assumed that the man would bring in the bigger income, 36 in a time of widespread redundancies (裁員).
In a 37 shift in attitudes, four out often women said that the career of whichever partner had the highest income would take 38 in the relationship.
In one in ten families, a house husband looks after the children and does the 39 while their female partner works full time.
Ten percent of women admitted this role 40 had put strains on their relationship and some said it had even led to them 41 company.
The Women and Work Survey 2010, commissioned (受......委托) by Grazia magazine, found that almost half of full-time mothers 42 not earning their own money.
And two thirds of the mothers among the 2,000 women in the survey said they wanted to keep working in some way after having children.
A 43 higher number of those with children under three said they would prefer to work--preferably part- time--rather than stay at home.
Victoria Harper of Grazia said,"Women are getting good jobs when they graduate, and working up the career 44 faster than they have ever done."
This means that there has to be more 45 between the roles of men and women in a relationship and when they have children.
A.precedence
B.connection
C.prospect
D.slightly
E. ladder
F.favored
G.plan
H.reversal
I.especially
J.parting
K.opposite
L.chores
M.disliked
N.fluidity
O. significant
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Section C
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D ). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
56、根據(jù)下列短文，回答56-61題。
You hear the refrain all the time: the U.S. economy looks good statistically, but it doesn't feel good. Why doesn't ever-greater wealth promote ever-greater happiness? It is a question that dates back at least to the appearance in 1958 of The Affluent (富裕的) Society by John Kenneth Galbmith, who died recently at 97.
The Affluent Society is a modem classic because it helped define a new moment in the human condition. For most of history,"hunger, sickness, and cold" threatened nearly everyone. Galbmith wrote "Poverty was found everywhere in that world. Obviously it is not of ours." After World War II, the dread of another Great Depression gave way to an economic boom. In the 1930s unemployment had averaged 18.2 percent; in the 1950s it was 4.5 percent.
To Galbralth, materialism had gone mad and would breed discontent. Through advertising companies conditioned consumers to buy things they didn't really want or need. Because so much spending was artificial, it would be unfulfilling. Meanwhile, government spending that would make everyone better off was being cut down because people instinctively--and wrongly--labeled government only as "a necessary evil".
It's often said that only the rich are getting ahead; everyone else standing still or falling behind. Well, there are many undeserving rich--overpaid chief executive, for instance. But over any meaningful period, most people's incomes are increasing. From 1995 to 2004, inflation-adjusted average family income rose 14.3 percent, to
$43,200. People feel "squeezed" because their rising incomes often don't satisfy, their rising wants--for bigget homes, more health care, more education, faster Interact connections.
The other great frustration is that it has not eliminated insecurity. People regard job stability as part of their standard of living. As corporate layoffs increased, that part has eroded. More workers fear they're becoming "the disposable American," as Louis Uchitelle puts it in his book by the same name.
Because so much previous suffering and social conflict stemmed from poverty, the arrival of widespread affluence suggested utopian (烏托邦式的) possibilities. Up to a point, affluence succeeds. There is much less physical misery than before. People are better off. Unfortunately, affluence also creates new complaints and contradictions.
Advanced societies need economic growth to satisfy the multiplying wants of their citizens. But the quest for growth lets loose new anxieties and economic conflicts that disturb the social order. Affluence liberates the individual, promising that everyone can choose a unique way to self-fulfillment. But the promise is so extravagant that it predestines many disappointments and sometimes inspires choices that have anti-social consequences, including family breakdown and obesity (肥胖癥). Statistical indicators of happiness have not risen with incomes.
Should we be surprised? Not really. We've simply reaffirmed an old truth: the pursuit of affluence does not always end with happiness.
What question does John Kenneth Galbraith raise in his book The Affluent Society?
A.Why statistics don't tell the truth about the economy.
B.Why affluence doesn't guarantee happiness.
C.How happiness can be promoted today.
D.What lies behind an economic boom.
57、According to Galbraith, people feel discontented because ________。
A.public spending hasn't been cut down as expected
B.the government has proved to be a necessary evil
C.they are in fear of another Great Depression
D.materialism has run wild in modem society
58、Why do people feel squeezed when their average income rises considerably?
A.Their material pursuits have gone far ahead of their earnings.
B.Their purchasing power has dropped markedly with inflation,
C.The distribution of wealth is uneven between the rich and the poor.
D.Health care and educational costs have somehow gone out of control.
59、What does Louis Uehitelle mean by "the disposable American" (Lines 2-3, Para, 5 )?
A.Those who see job stability as part of their living standard.
B.People full of utopian ideas resulting from affluence.
C.People who have little say in American politics.
D.Workers who no longer have secure jobs.
60、What has affluence brought to American society?
A.Renewed economic security.
B.A sense of self-fulfillment.
C.New conflicts and complaints.
D.Misery and anti-social behavior.
61、根據(jù)下列短文，回答{TSE}題。
The use of deferential (敬重的) language is symbolic of the Confucian ideal of the woman, which dominates conservative gender norms in Japan. This ideal presents a woman who withdraws quietly to the background, subordinating her life and needs to those of her family and its male head. She is a dutiful daughter, wife, and mother, master of the domestic arts. The typical refined Japanese woman excels in modesty and delicacy; she "treads softly (謹(jǐn)言慎行)in the world," elevating feminine beauty and grace to an art form.
Nowadays, it is commonly observed that young women are not conforming to the feminine linguistic (語言的) ideal. They are using fewer of the very deferential "women's" forms, and even using the few strong forms that are known as "men's." This, of course, attracts considerable attention and has led to an outcry in the Japanese media against the defeminization of women's language. Indeed, we didn't hear about "men's language" until people began to respond to girls' appropriation of forms normally reserved for boys and men. There is considerable sentiment about the "corruption" of women's language--which of course is viewed as part of the loss of feminine ideals an morality--and this sentiment is crystallized by nationwide opinion polls that are regularly carried out by the media.
Yoshiko Matsumoto has argued that young women probably never used as many of the highly deferential forms as older women. This highly polite style is no doubt something that young women have been expected to" grow into"-after all, it is a sign not simply of femininity, but of maturity and refinement, and its use could be taken to indicate a change in the nature of one's social relations as well. One might well imagine little girls using exceedingly polite forms when playing house or imitating older women-in a fashion analogous to little girls' us, era high-pitched voice to do "teacher talk" or "mother talk" in role play.
The fact that young Japanese women are using less deferential language is a sure sign of change--of social change and of linguistic change. But it is most certainly not a sign of the "masculinizafiun" of girls. In some instances, it may be a sign that girls arc making the same claim to authority as boys and men, but that is very different from saying that they are trying to be "masculine". Katsue Reynolds has argued that girls nowadays are using more assertive language strategies in order to be able to compete with boys in schools and out. Social change also brings not simply different positions for women and girls, but different relations to life stages, and adolescent girls are participating in new subcultural forms. Thus what may to an older speaker, seem like "masculine" speech may seem to an adolescent like "liberated" or "hip" speech.
The first paragraph describes in detail ________.
A.the standards set for contemporary Japanese women
B.the Confucian influence on gender norms in Japan
C.the stereotyped role of women in Japanese families
D.the norms for traditional Japanese women to follow
62、What change has been observed in today's young Japanese women?
A.They pay less attention to their linguistic behavior.
B.They use fewer of the deferential linguistic forms.
C.They confuse male and female forms of language.
D.They employ very strong linguistic expressions.
63、How do some people react to women's appropriation of men's language forms as reported in the Japanese media?
A.They call for a campaign to stop the defeminization.
B.They see it as an expression of women's sentiment.
C.They accept it as a modem trend.
D.They express strong disapproval.
64、According to Yoshiko Matsumoto, the linguistic behavior observed in today's young women
A.may lead to changes in social relations
B.has been true of all past generations
C.is viewed as a sign of their maturity
D.is a result of rapid social progress
65、The author believes that the use of assertive language by young Japanese women is
A.a sure sign of their defeminization and maturation
B.an indication of their defiance against social change
C.one of their strategies to compete in a male-dominated society
D.an inevitable trend of linguistic development in Japan today
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