詞匯選項(xiàng)
1 The conclusion can be deduced from the premises
A argued
B derived
C permitted
D come
2 I can no longer tolerate his actions.
A put up with
B accept
C take
D suffer from
3 Our plan is to allocate one member of staff to handle appointments.
A ask
B persuade
C assign
D order
4 She has been the subject of massive media coverage.
A extensive
B negative
C responsive
D explosive
5 I expect that she will be able to cater for your particular needs
A supply
B reach
C provide
D meet
答案：BACAD
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Norwich
Norwich, the capital of the part of Britain known as East Anglia, has been in existence for more than two thousand years. It began as a small village beside the River Wensum. At the time of the Norman invasion in 1066 it had grown to become one of the largest towns in England.
With two cathedrals and a mosque (清真寺), Norwich has long been a popular centre for various religions. The first cathedral was built in 1095 and has recently celebrated its 900th anniversary, while Norwich itself had a year of celebration in 1994 to mark the 800th anniversary of the city receiving a Royal Charter. This allowed it to be called a city and to govern itself independently.
Today, in comparison with places like London or Manchester, Norwich is quite small, with a population of around 150,000, but in the 16th century Norwich was the second largest city of England. It continued to grow for the next 300 years and got richer and richer, becoming famous for having as many churches as there are weeks in the year and as many pubs as there are days in the year.
Nowadays, there are far fewer churches and pubs, but in 1964 the University of East Anglia was built in Norwich. With its fast-growing student population and its success as a modern commercial centre (Norwich is the biggest centre for insurance services outside London), the city now has a wide choice of entertainment: theatres, cinemas, nightclubs, busy cafes, excellent restaurants, and a number of arts and leisure centres. There is also a football team, whose colours are green and yellow. The team is known as "The Canaries (金絲雀)", though nobody can be sure why.
Now the city's attractions include another important development, a modern shopping centre called 'The Castle Mall'. The people of Norwich lived with a very large hole in the middle of their city for over two years, as builders dug up the main car park. Lorries moved nearly a million tons of earth so that the roof of the Mall could become a city centre park, with attractive water pools and hundreds of trees. But the local people are really pleased that the old open market remains, right in the heart of the city and next to the new development. Both areas continue to do good business, proving that Norwich has managed to mix the best of the old and the new.
16 The River Wensum flows by Norwich
A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned
17 People have lived by the River Wensum for at least 2,000 years
A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned
18 Norwich has been a city since its first cathedral was built
A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned
19 Norwich has always been one of the smallest English cities
A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned
20 The number of foreign students in Norwich has been increasing since 1964.
A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned
21 The football team is called "The Canaries" because of the colours the players wear.
A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned
22 It took more than two years to build "The Castle Mall"
A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned
答案：AABBCBA
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閱讀下面這篇短文，短文后有2項(xiàng)測(cè)試任務(wù)：(1)第23～26題要求從所給的6個(gè)選項(xiàng)中為第2～5段每段選擇1個(gè)正確的小標(biāo)題;(2)第27～30題要求從所給的6個(gè)選項(xiàng)中選擇4個(gè)正確選項(xiàng)，分別完成每個(gè)句子。請(qǐng)將答案涂在答題卡相應(yīng)的位置上.
Keeping Cut Flowers
1 While everybody enjoys fresh cut flowers around their house, few people know how to keep them for as long as possible. This may be done by keeping in mind a few simple facts.
2 An important thing to remember about cut flowers is that they are sensitive to temperature. For example, studies have shown that cut carnations(康乃馨)retain their freshness eight times longer when kept at 12℃ than when kept at 26℃. Keeping freshly harvested flowers at the right temperatures is probably the most important aspect of flower care.
3 Flowers are not intended by nature to live very long. Their biological purpose is simply to attract birds or insects, such as bees, for pollination(授粉). After that, they quickly dry up and die. The process by which flowers consume oxygen and produce carbon dioxide(二氧化碳), called respiration(呼吸), generates the energy the flower needs to give the flower its shape and color. The making of seeds also depends on this energy. While all living things respire, flowers have a high level of respiration. A result of all this respiration is heat, and for flowers the level of heat relative to the mass of the flower is very high. Respiration also brings about the eventual death of the flower. Thus the greater the level of respiration, the sooner the flower dies.
4 How, then, to control the rate at which flowers die? By controlling respiration. How is respiration controlled? By controlling temperature. We know that respiration produces heat, but the reverse is also true. Thus by maintaining low temperatures, respiration is reduced and the cut flower will age more slowly.
5 Another vital factor in keeping cut flowers is the quality of the water in which they are placed. Flowers find it difficult to "drink" water that is dirty or otherwise polluted. Even when water looks and smells clean, it almost certainly contains harmful substances that can endanger the flowers. To rid the water of these unwanted substances, household chlorine bleach(含氯漂白劑)can be used in small quantities. It is recommended that 15 drops of chlorine bleach(at 4% solution)be added to each liter of water. The water and solution should also be replaced each day.
23 Paragraph 2__________.
24 Paragraph 3__________.
25 Paragraph 4__________.
26 Paragraph 5__________.
A Control of Respiration
B Beauty of Fresh Cut Flowers
C Role of Respiration
D Most Important Aspect of Flower Care
E Need for Clean Water
F Ways of Stopping Respiration
27 A few simple facts will help you keep cut flowers__________.
28 Respiration plays a key role__________
29 The aging of cut flowers can be slowed down__________.
30 Another important way to prolong the life of cut flowers is__________.
A by keeping its original shape and color
B in the life of cut flowers
C to produce carbon dioxide
D for as long as possible
E by controlling temperature
F to replace the water and solution every day
答案：23. D24. C25. A 26. E27. D28. B29. E30. F
閱讀理解
truth. The first study to compare honesty across a range of communication media has fund that people are twice as likely to tell lies in phone conversations as they are in emails. The fact that emails are automatically recorded—and can come back to haunt (困擾) you—appears to be the key to the finding.
Jeff Hancock of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, asked 30 students to keep a communications diary for a week. In it they noted the number of conversations or email exchanges they had lasting more than 10 minutes, and confessed to how many lies they told. Hancock then worked out the number of lies per conversation for each medium. He found that lies made up 14 per cent of emails, 21 per cent of instant messages, 27 per cent of face-to-face interactions and an astonishing 37 per cent of phone calls.
His results to be presented at the conference on human-computer interaction in Vienna, Austria, in April, have surprised psychologists. Some expected emailers to be the biggest liars, reasoning that because deception makes people uncomfortable, the detachment (非直接接觸) of emailing would make it easier to lie. Others expected people to lie more in face-to-face exchanges because we are most practised at that form of communication.
But Hancock says it is also crucial whether a conversation is being recorded and could be reread, and whether it occurs in real time. People appear to be afraid to lie when they know the communication could later be used to hold them to account, he says. This is why fewer lies appear in email than on the phone.
People are also more likely to lie in real time—in a instant message or phone call, say—than if they have time to think of a response, says Hancock. He found many lies are spontaneous (脫口而出的) responses to an unexpected demand, such as: “Do you like my dress?”
Hancock hopes his research will help companies work our the best ways for their employees to communicate. For instance, the phone might be the best medium foe sales where employees are encouraged to stretch the truth. But, given his result, work assessment where honesty is a priority, might be best done using email.
1. Hancock’s study focuses on ________.
A) the consequences of lying in various communications media
B) the success of communications technologies in conveying ideas
C) people are less likely to lie in instant messages
D) people’s honesty levels across a range of communications media
2. Hancock’s research finding surprised those who believed that ________.
A) people are less likely to lie in instant messages
B) people are unlikely to lie in face-to-face interactions
C) people are most likely to lie in email communication
D) people are twice as likely to lie in phone conversations
3. According to the passage, why are people more likely to tell the truth through certain media of communication?
A) They are afraid of leaving behind traces of their lies.
B) They believe that honesty is the best policy.
C) They tend to be relaxed when using those media.
D) They are most practised at those forms of communication.
4. According to Hancock the telephone is a preferable medium for promoting sales because ________.
A) salesmen can talk directly to their customers
B) salesmen may feel less restrained to exaggerate
C) salesmen can impress customers as being trustworthy
D) salesmen may pass on instant messages effectively
5. It can be inferred from the passage that ________.
A) honesty should be encouraged in interpersonal communications
B) more employers will use emails to communicate with their employees
C) suitable media should be chosen for different communication purposes
D) email is now the dominant medium of communication within a company
答案：1. D 2. C 3. D 4.A 5. B
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Commitment
An old man lived in a certain part of London, and he would wake up every morning and go to the subway. He would get the train right to Central London, and then sit at the street corner and beg. (46)He sat at the same street corner and begged for almost 20 years.
His house was filthy, and a stench came out of the house and it smelled horribly. The neighbors could not stand the smell anymore, so they summoned the police officers to clear the place. (47)There were small bags of money all over the house that he had collected over the years.
The police counted the money, and they soon realized that the old man was a millionaire. (48)When he arrived home that evening, he was met by one of the officers who told him that there was no need for him to beg any more as he was a rich man now, a millionaire.
He said nothing at all; he went into his house and locked the door. (49)Then he went to the subway, got into the train, and sat at the street corner and continued to beg.
(50)We learn nothing from this story other than staying focused on the things we enjoy doing, commitment. We should remain true to our course, although it may mean committing ourselves to things that people around us would normally disapprove. Just keep it in mind that commitment attracts wealth.
A.They waited outside his house in anticipation to share the good news with him.
B. He knew, loved and believed in what he was doing.
C. He would do this every single day of his life.
D. The officers knocked down the door and cleaned the house.
E. The next morning he woke up as usual.
F. Obviously, this old man had no great plans, dreams or anything significant for his life.
正確答案:CDAEF
完形填空
Marriage of Some Japanese Couples
Some Japanese still get married by parents’ arrangement.Yoshio and Hiromis Tanaka，a young Japanese couple living in the United States，told the story of their (51) marriage.“We didn’t marry，for love in the western sense. we married in the (52) Japanese way. Our parents arranged our marriage through a matchmaker.
In Japan，we believe that marriage is (53)affecting the whole family rather than a matter concerning only the young couple. (54), we think it is very important to match people according to their social background，education and so on. When our parents thought it was time for us to get married，they went to a local (55)and asked her for some suggestions.They discussed the details and looked at the photos she sent, and then our parents asked her to arrange a(an) (56)for us.
A Japanese marriage interview is held in a(n) (57)place，such as a hotel or a restaurant，and is (58)by the boy and the girl，their parents and the matchmaker.Information about the couple and their families is (59) over a cup of tea or a meal.Then the boy and the girl are (60)for a short time to know each other. When they return home, they have to tell the family whether they want to meet again or not.
Yoshi (61)，“When our parents realized we were (62)about each other，they started to make arrangements for our wedding.My family paid money to (63).This is the money to help pay for the wedding ceremony and for setting up the house (64).We also gave her family a beautiful ornament(裝飾物) to put in the (65)room of their house，so everyone knew that Hiromis was going to marry.”
51.A.arranged B.planned C.prepared D.performed
正確答案:A
52.A.cultural B.traditional C.new D.old
正確答案:B
53.A.anything B.nothing C.everything D.something
正確答案:D
54.A.So B.Though C.Then D.But
正確答案:A
55.A.minister B.dealer C.matchmaker D.inhabitant
正確答案:C
56.A.examination B.bargain C.interview D.debate
正確答案:C
57.A.public B.secret C.dangerous D.expensive
正確答案:A
58.A.hosted B.attended C.held D.arranged
正確答案:B
59.A.destroyed B.recorded C.imitated D.exchanged
正確答案:D
60.A.left alone B.shut up C.driven away D.put together
正確答案:A
61.A.refused B.explained C.continued D.stopped
正確答案:C
62.A.anxious B.serious C.furious D.worried
正確答案:B
63.A.Yoshio B.Yoshio’s C.Hiromis D.Hiromis’s
正確答案:D
64.A.backwards B.forwards C.afterwards D.inwards
正確答案:C
65.A.best B.cleanest C.warmest D.quietest
正確答案:A