Text
Generations of Americans have been brought ____ 26 ____ to believe that a good breakfast is impor-tant fof health. Eating breakfast at the ____ 27____of the day, we have all been ____ 28____, is as necessaryas putting gasoline in the family car ____ 29____starting a trip.
But for many people the thought of food first in the morning is by ____ 30____pleasures. So ____ 31____ all the efforts, they still take no ____ 32____ Between 1978 and 1983, the latest years for which figuresare ____ 33 ____ ,the number of people who didn' t have breakfast increased ____ 34____33 percent-from 8.8million to 11.7 million____35____the Chinese-based Market Research Corporation of America.
For those who feel pain of ____36 ____ about not having breakfast,____ 37 ____. there is some goodnews. Several studies in the last few years ____ 38____that, for adults especially, there may be nothing____39____with omitting breakfast. "" Going ____ 40____breakfast does not affect ____ 41 ____"Said Amold E.Bendoer, former professor of nutrition at Queen Elizabeth College in London, 42does givingpeople breakfast improve performance.
____43____evidence relating breakfast to better health or ____ 44____performances is surprisingly inade-quate, and most of the recent work involves children, not ____ 45____ "The literature," says one researcher, Dr. Ernesto Pollitt at the University of Texas."is poor.
26. [A]about [B]into [C]up [D]from
27. [A]start [B]end [C]moming [D]begin
28. [A]said [B]believed [C]reported [D]told
29. [A]after [B]before [C]when [D]as
30. [A]some [B]any [C]no [D]all
31. [A]despite [B]in spite [C]though [D]however
32. [A]brunch [B]breakfast [C]lunch [D]supper
33. [A]available [B]used [C]got [D]estimated
34. [A]with [B]at [C]by [D]from
35. [A]from [B]according to [C]through [D]out of
36. [A]guilt [B]happiness [C]sadness [D]eagerness
37. [A]however [B]therefore [C]whereas [D]but
38. [A]indicatei [B]report [C]announce [D]declare
39. [A]wrong [B]right [C]correct [D]incorrect
40. [A]without [B]with [C]from [D]out of
41. [A]performance [B]health [C]heart [D]brain
42. [A]not [B]neither [C]either [D]nor
43. [A]Science [B]Scientist [C]Scientific [D]Scientists
44. [A]better [B]good [C]well [D]worse
45. [A]people [B]men [C]humans [D]adults
Text 1
When a 13-year-old Virginia girl started sneezing, her parents thought it was merely a cold. Butwhen the sneezes continued for hours, they called in a doctor. Nearly two months later the girl wasstill sneezing, thousands of times a day, and her case had attracted worldwide attention.
Hundreds of suggestions, ranging from"put a clothes pin on her nose"to "have her stand on herhead"poured in. But nothing did any good. Finally,she was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital whereDr. Leo Kanner, one of the world’s top authorities on sneezing, solved the baffling (難以理解的)problem with great speed.
He used neither drugs nor surgery, curiously enough, the clue for the treatment was found in anancient superstition about the amazing bodily reaction we call the sneeze. It was all in her mind, hesaid, a view which Aristotle, some 3,000 years earlier, would have agreed with heartily.
Dr. Kanner simply gave a modem psychological interpretation to the ancient belief that too muchsneezing was an indication that the spirit was troubled; and he began to treat the girl accordingly."Less than two days in a hospital room, a plan for better scholastic and vocational adjustment,
and reassurance about her unreasonable fear of tuberculosis quickly changed her from a sneezer to anex-sneezer," he reported.
Sneezing has always been a subject of wonder, awe and puzzlement. Dr. Kanner has collectedthousands of superstitions concerning it. The most universal one is the custom of begging for theblessing of God when a person sneezes a practice Dr. Kanner traces back to the ancient belief that asneeze was an indication that the sneezer was possessed of an evil spirit. Strangely, people over theworld still continue the custom with the traditional, "God bless you" or its equivalent.
When scientists look at the sneeze, they see a remarkable mechanism which, withou any con-scious help from you, takes on a job that has to be done. When you need to sneeze you sneeze, thisbeing nature’s clever way of getting rid of an annoying object from the nose. The object may be justsome dust in the nose which nature is striving to remove.
40. The girl sneezed continuously because she ________
[A]was ill
[B]was mentally ill
[C]had heavy mental burden
[D]had attracted world-wide attention
47. When the girl began to sneeze continuously,________
[A]a lot of people offered their advice
[B]she was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital
[C]she was given a treatment found in ancient superstition
[D]many doctors treated her in different ways
48. Dr. Kanner cured the girl by________
[A]using Aristotle's method
[B]giving her psychological treatment
[C]practicing superstition
[D]treating her tuberculosis
49. When a person sneezes, we say" God bless you" because __________
[A]it’s a tradition
[B]the person is possessed of an evil spirit
[C]the person is ill
[D]God will bless those who sneeze
50. According to scientists, people sneeze because________
[A]they are ill
[B]to sneeze is human nature
[C]they do not need any conscious help
[D]there are unwanted things in their noses
Text 2
There was one thought that air pollution affected only the area immediately aroun large cities with factories and heavy automobile traffic. At present, we realize that although these are the areaswith the worst air pollution, the problem is literally worldwide. On several occasions over the pastdecade, a heavy cloud of air pollution has covered the east of the United States and brought healthwarnings in rural areas away from any major concentration of manufacturing and automobile traffic.In fact, the very climate of the entire earth may be infected by air pollution. Some scientists considerthat the increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in the air resulting from the burning of fossil fuels(coal and oil) is creating a "greenhouse effect" conserving heat reflected from the earth and raisingthe world’s average temperature. If this view is correct and the world’s temperature is raised only afew degrees, much of the polar ice cap will melt and cities such as New York, Boston, Miami, andNew Orleans will be in water.
Another view, less widely held, is that increasing particular matter in the atmosphere is blockingsunlight and lowering the earth’s temperature--a result that would be equally disastrous. A drop ofjust a few degrees could create something close to a new ice age, and would make agriculture difficultor impossible in many of our top farming areas. Today we do not know for sure that either of theseconditions will happen (though one recent government report drafted by experts in the field concludedthat the greenhouse effect is very possible). Perhaps, if we are lucky enough, the two tendencies willoffset each other and the world’s temperature will stay about the same as it is now. Driven by eco-nomic profit, people neglect the damage on our environment caused by the "advanced civilization".Maybe the air pollution is the price the human beings have to pay for their development. But is it really worthwhile?
51. As pointed out at the beginning of the passage, people used to think that air pollution________
[A]caused widespread damage in the countryside
[B]affected the entire eastern half of the United States
[C]had damaged effect on health
[D]existed merely in urban and industries areas
52. As to the greenhouse effect, the author________
[A]shares the same view with the scientists
[B]is uncertain of its occurrence
[C]rejects it as being ungrounded
[D]thinks that it will destroy the world soon
53. The word "offset" in the second paragraph could be replaced by________
[A]slip into
[B]make up for
[C]set up
[D]catch up with
54. It can be concluded that________
[A]raising the world’s temperature only a few degrees would not do much harm to life on earth
[B]lowering the world’s temperature merely a few degrees would lead many major fann-
ing areas to disaster
[C]almost no temperature variations have occurred over the past decade
[D]the world’s temperature will remain constant in the years to come
55. This passage is primarily about________
[A]the greenhouse effect
[B]the burning of fossil fuels
[C]the potential effect of air pollution
[D]the likelihood of a new ice age
Text 3
My family and I recently returned from a trip to Alaska, a place that combines supernatural beauty with a breathtaking amount of bear risks. I' ll start with some facts at a glance :
WHERE ALASKA IS :Way the hell far from you. Beyond Mars.
HOW YOU GET THERE:You sit in a variety of airplanes for most of your adult life.WHAT THEY HAVE THERE THAT WILL TRY TO KILL YOU:Bears.
I am quite serious about this. Although Alaska is now an official state in the United States withmodem conveniences such as rental cars and frozen yogurt, it also allows a large number of admit-ted bears to stride freely, and nobody seems to be the least bit alarmed about this. In fact, the Alas-kans seem to be proud of it. You walk into a hotel or department store, and the first thing you seeis a glass case containing a stuffed bear the size of a real one. Our hotel had two of these. It waswhat we travel writers call "a two-bear hotel". Both bears were standing on their hind legs and striking a pose that said: "Welcome to Alaska! I'm going to tear your arms off!"
This struck me as an odd concept, greeting visitors with a showcase containing a major localhazard. It's as if an anti-drug organization went around setting up glass display cases containingstuffed drug smugglers(走私者), with little plaques (胸章)stating how much they weighed andwhere they were taken.
Anyway, we decided the best way to deal with our fear of bears was to become well informedabout them, so we bought a book, Alaska Bear Tales. Here are some of the chapter titles, which Iam not making up:
"They' ll Attack Without Warning""They' ll Really Attack You"
"They Will Kill"
"Come Quick! I'm Being Eaten by a Bear!""They Can Be Funny"
Ha-ha ! 1 bet they can. I bet Mr. and Mrs. Bear will fight playfully over the remaining portionof a former tourist plumped up by airline food. But just the same, I' m glad that the only actualbears that we saw were in the zoo.
56. What is the tone of the story?
[A]Serious.
[B]Complex.
[C]Comic.
[D]Disapproving,
57. Which of the following is the author in favour of?
[A]Airline food.
[B]Drug smugglers.
[C]Bears.
[D]Bears in zoos.
58. Why does the author mention stuffed drug smugglers?
[A]Because they can attack without warning just like bears.
[B]Because they are used to give warnings to visitors about bears.
[C]Because they are as funny as stuffed bears.
[D]Because they are used to show the oddness of the stuffed bears.
59. What's the author's impression of Alaska?
[A]Positive.
[B]Negative.
[C]Neutral.
[D]Funny.
60. What can we learn from the passage about Alaskans?
[A]They are fond of bears.
[B]They don't know how to treat tourists.
[C]They want to frighten tourists away.
[D]They live a very natural life.
Part B
Directions:
Read the texts from a magazine article in which five people gave their opinions on work arwl family.For Questions 61 to 65, match the name of the persons to one of the statements given below. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.
Liu:
To me, work is first and my child is second. I work more for myself than for my child becauseit's the only way to be economically independent. Otherwise, I may some day lose everything, even my child.
I can give for the sake of my daughter but never at the cost of my career. Only after I achieve value through work can it be possible for me to raise my baby.
I resumed working after a short maternity (產(chǎn)婦的) leave. Now my daughter goes to kinder garten' while I am at work; I think that is her first step into society.
Liang:
Nowadays, economic independence is particularly important to women. The only way to realize self value is through work. I believe women should first live as a social entity(實體), then as amother. And there are facts to show that women are not inferior to men in the working world.
Child is just another part of my life, it would be impossible to make her my whole life. I think I will also get a nanny(保姆) to lend me a hand.
Yao:
When women make their career as their final pursuit, I think they lose their natural maternalinstincts. I hope my wife will put most of her energy and time on child care and family. Becauseshe gives birth to the child, she can do a much better job than the father in understanding the child.The mother should be the main educator while father works as her assistant.
Wang:
Women are naturally fit for human reproduction while men are meant for material production.Married women must assume the role of full-time mothers if their financial situation permits it; and a woman's value is only realized after she has successfully raised her child.
Zhao:
Although we may say women's talents lie in being mothers, we should admit that women donot sacrifice their families for work and they are not expected to give up a chance for a career. Bothparents need to balance the responsibilities of family and work. After all women are equal membersof society and have value in all social fields.
Now match each of the items (61 to 65) to the appropriate statement.
Note: There are two extra statements.
61. Liu
62. Liang
63. Yao
64. Wang
65. Zhao
Statements
[A]My child is the focus of my life.
[B]Family and work are both important for women.
[C]Men should be asked to return to their paternal duties.
[D]I would give up the whole world for my work.
[E]Women need work to prove their own value.
[F]Women are born to be mothers.
[G]Women understand child better than men.
Generations of Americans have been brought ____ 26 ____ to believe that a good breakfast is impor-tant fof health. Eating breakfast at the ____ 27____of the day, we have all been ____ 28____, is as necessaryas putting gasoline in the family car ____ 29____starting a trip.
But for many people the thought of food first in the morning is by ____ 30____pleasures. So ____ 31____ all the efforts, they still take no ____ 32____ Between 1978 and 1983, the latest years for which figuresare ____ 33 ____ ,the number of people who didn' t have breakfast increased ____ 34____33 percent-from 8.8million to 11.7 million____35____the Chinese-based Market Research Corporation of America.
For those who feel pain of ____36 ____ about not having breakfast,____ 37 ____. there is some goodnews. Several studies in the last few years ____ 38____that, for adults especially, there may be nothing____39____with omitting breakfast. "" Going ____ 40____breakfast does not affect ____ 41 ____"Said Amold E.Bendoer, former professor of nutrition at Queen Elizabeth College in London, 42does givingpeople breakfast improve performance.
____43____evidence relating breakfast to better health or ____ 44____performances is surprisingly inade-quate, and most of the recent work involves children, not ____ 45____ "The literature," says one researcher, Dr. Ernesto Pollitt at the University of Texas."is poor.
26. [A]about [B]into [C]up [D]from
27. [A]start [B]end [C]moming [D]begin
28. [A]said [B]believed [C]reported [D]told
29. [A]after [B]before [C]when [D]as
30. [A]some [B]any [C]no [D]all
31. [A]despite [B]in spite [C]though [D]however
32. [A]brunch [B]breakfast [C]lunch [D]supper
33. [A]available [B]used [C]got [D]estimated
34. [A]with [B]at [C]by [D]from
35. [A]from [B]according to [C]through [D]out of
36. [A]guilt [B]happiness [C]sadness [D]eagerness
37. [A]however [B]therefore [C]whereas [D]but
38. [A]indicatei [B]report [C]announce [D]declare
39. [A]wrong [B]right [C]correct [D]incorrect
40. [A]without [B]with [C]from [D]out of
41. [A]performance [B]health [C]heart [D]brain
42. [A]not [B]neither [C]either [D]nor
43. [A]Science [B]Scientist [C]Scientific [D]Scientists
44. [A]better [B]good [C]well [D]worse
45. [A]people [B]men [C]humans [D]adults
Text 1
When a 13-year-old Virginia girl started sneezing, her parents thought it was merely a cold. Butwhen the sneezes continued for hours, they called in a doctor. Nearly two months later the girl wasstill sneezing, thousands of times a day, and her case had attracted worldwide attention.
Hundreds of suggestions, ranging from"put a clothes pin on her nose"to "have her stand on herhead"poured in. But nothing did any good. Finally,she was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital whereDr. Leo Kanner, one of the world’s top authorities on sneezing, solved the baffling (難以理解的)problem with great speed.
He used neither drugs nor surgery, curiously enough, the clue for the treatment was found in anancient superstition about the amazing bodily reaction we call the sneeze. It was all in her mind, hesaid, a view which Aristotle, some 3,000 years earlier, would have agreed with heartily.
Dr. Kanner simply gave a modem psychological interpretation to the ancient belief that too muchsneezing was an indication that the spirit was troubled; and he began to treat the girl accordingly."Less than two days in a hospital room, a plan for better scholastic and vocational adjustment,
and reassurance about her unreasonable fear of tuberculosis quickly changed her from a sneezer to anex-sneezer," he reported.
Sneezing has always been a subject of wonder, awe and puzzlement. Dr. Kanner has collectedthousands of superstitions concerning it. The most universal one is the custom of begging for theblessing of God when a person sneezes a practice Dr. Kanner traces back to the ancient belief that asneeze was an indication that the sneezer was possessed of an evil spirit. Strangely, people over theworld still continue the custom with the traditional, "God bless you" or its equivalent.
When scientists look at the sneeze, they see a remarkable mechanism which, withou any con-scious help from you, takes on a job that has to be done. When you need to sneeze you sneeze, thisbeing nature’s clever way of getting rid of an annoying object from the nose. The object may be justsome dust in the nose which nature is striving to remove.
40. The girl sneezed continuously because she ________
[A]was ill
[B]was mentally ill
[C]had heavy mental burden
[D]had attracted world-wide attention
47. When the girl began to sneeze continuously,________
[A]a lot of people offered their advice
[B]she was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital
[C]she was given a treatment found in ancient superstition
[D]many doctors treated her in different ways
48. Dr. Kanner cured the girl by________
[A]using Aristotle's method
[B]giving her psychological treatment
[C]practicing superstition
[D]treating her tuberculosis
49. When a person sneezes, we say" God bless you" because __________
[A]it’s a tradition
[B]the person is possessed of an evil spirit
[C]the person is ill
[D]God will bless those who sneeze
50. According to scientists, people sneeze because________
[A]they are ill
[B]to sneeze is human nature
[C]they do not need any conscious help
[D]there are unwanted things in their noses
Text 2
There was one thought that air pollution affected only the area immediately aroun large cities with factories and heavy automobile traffic. At present, we realize that although these are the areaswith the worst air pollution, the problem is literally worldwide. On several occasions over the pastdecade, a heavy cloud of air pollution has covered the east of the United States and brought healthwarnings in rural areas away from any major concentration of manufacturing and automobile traffic.In fact, the very climate of the entire earth may be infected by air pollution. Some scientists considerthat the increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in the air resulting from the burning of fossil fuels(coal and oil) is creating a "greenhouse effect" conserving heat reflected from the earth and raisingthe world’s average temperature. If this view is correct and the world’s temperature is raised only afew degrees, much of the polar ice cap will melt and cities such as New York, Boston, Miami, andNew Orleans will be in water.
Another view, less widely held, is that increasing particular matter in the atmosphere is blockingsunlight and lowering the earth’s temperature--a result that would be equally disastrous. A drop ofjust a few degrees could create something close to a new ice age, and would make agriculture difficultor impossible in many of our top farming areas. Today we do not know for sure that either of theseconditions will happen (though one recent government report drafted by experts in the field concludedthat the greenhouse effect is very possible). Perhaps, if we are lucky enough, the two tendencies willoffset each other and the world’s temperature will stay about the same as it is now. Driven by eco-nomic profit, people neglect the damage on our environment caused by the "advanced civilization".Maybe the air pollution is the price the human beings have to pay for their development. But is it really worthwhile?
51. As pointed out at the beginning of the passage, people used to think that air pollution________
[A]caused widespread damage in the countryside
[B]affected the entire eastern half of the United States
[C]had damaged effect on health
[D]existed merely in urban and industries areas
52. As to the greenhouse effect, the author________
[A]shares the same view with the scientists
[B]is uncertain of its occurrence
[C]rejects it as being ungrounded
[D]thinks that it will destroy the world soon
53. The word "offset" in the second paragraph could be replaced by________
[A]slip into
[B]make up for
[C]set up
[D]catch up with
54. It can be concluded that________
[A]raising the world’s temperature only a few degrees would not do much harm to life on earth
[B]lowering the world’s temperature merely a few degrees would lead many major fann-
ing areas to disaster
[C]almost no temperature variations have occurred over the past decade
[D]the world’s temperature will remain constant in the years to come
55. This passage is primarily about________
[A]the greenhouse effect
[B]the burning of fossil fuels
[C]the potential effect of air pollution
[D]the likelihood of a new ice age
Text 3
My family and I recently returned from a trip to Alaska, a place that combines supernatural beauty with a breathtaking amount of bear risks. I' ll start with some facts at a glance :
WHERE ALASKA IS :Way the hell far from you. Beyond Mars.
HOW YOU GET THERE:You sit in a variety of airplanes for most of your adult life.WHAT THEY HAVE THERE THAT WILL TRY TO KILL YOU:Bears.
I am quite serious about this. Although Alaska is now an official state in the United States withmodem conveniences such as rental cars and frozen yogurt, it also allows a large number of admit-ted bears to stride freely, and nobody seems to be the least bit alarmed about this. In fact, the Alas-kans seem to be proud of it. You walk into a hotel or department store, and the first thing you seeis a glass case containing a stuffed bear the size of a real one. Our hotel had two of these. It waswhat we travel writers call "a two-bear hotel". Both bears were standing on their hind legs and striking a pose that said: "Welcome to Alaska! I'm going to tear your arms off!"
This struck me as an odd concept, greeting visitors with a showcase containing a major localhazard. It's as if an anti-drug organization went around setting up glass display cases containingstuffed drug smugglers(走私者), with little plaques (胸章)stating how much they weighed andwhere they were taken.
Anyway, we decided the best way to deal with our fear of bears was to become well informedabout them, so we bought a book, Alaska Bear Tales. Here are some of the chapter titles, which Iam not making up:
"They' ll Attack Without Warning""They' ll Really Attack You"
"They Will Kill"
"Come Quick! I'm Being Eaten by a Bear!""They Can Be Funny"
Ha-ha ! 1 bet they can. I bet Mr. and Mrs. Bear will fight playfully over the remaining portionof a former tourist plumped up by airline food. But just the same, I' m glad that the only actualbears that we saw were in the zoo.
56. What is the tone of the story?
[A]Serious.
[B]Complex.
[C]Comic.
[D]Disapproving,
57. Which of the following is the author in favour of?
[A]Airline food.
[B]Drug smugglers.
[C]Bears.
[D]Bears in zoos.
58. Why does the author mention stuffed drug smugglers?
[A]Because they can attack without warning just like bears.
[B]Because they are used to give warnings to visitors about bears.
[C]Because they are as funny as stuffed bears.
[D]Because they are used to show the oddness of the stuffed bears.
59. What's the author's impression of Alaska?
[A]Positive.
[B]Negative.
[C]Neutral.
[D]Funny.
60. What can we learn from the passage about Alaskans?
[A]They are fond of bears.
[B]They don't know how to treat tourists.
[C]They want to frighten tourists away.
[D]They live a very natural life.
Part B
Directions:
Read the texts from a magazine article in which five people gave their opinions on work arwl family.For Questions 61 to 65, match the name of the persons to one of the statements given below. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.
Liu:
To me, work is first and my child is second. I work more for myself than for my child becauseit's the only way to be economically independent. Otherwise, I may some day lose everything, even my child.
I can give for the sake of my daughter but never at the cost of my career. Only after I achieve value through work can it be possible for me to raise my baby.
I resumed working after a short maternity (產(chǎn)婦的) leave. Now my daughter goes to kinder garten' while I am at work; I think that is her first step into society.
Liang:
Nowadays, economic independence is particularly important to women. The only way to realize self value is through work. I believe women should first live as a social entity(實體), then as amother. And there are facts to show that women are not inferior to men in the working world.
Child is just another part of my life, it would be impossible to make her my whole life. I think I will also get a nanny(保姆) to lend me a hand.
Yao:
When women make their career as their final pursuit, I think they lose their natural maternalinstincts. I hope my wife will put most of her energy and time on child care and family. Becauseshe gives birth to the child, she can do a much better job than the father in understanding the child.The mother should be the main educator while father works as her assistant.
Wang:
Women are naturally fit for human reproduction while men are meant for material production.Married women must assume the role of full-time mothers if their financial situation permits it; and a woman's value is only realized after she has successfully raised her child.
Zhao:
Although we may say women's talents lie in being mothers, we should admit that women donot sacrifice their families for work and they are not expected to give up a chance for a career. Bothparents need to balance the responsibilities of family and work. After all women are equal membersof society and have value in all social fields.
Now match each of the items (61 to 65) to the appropriate statement.
Note: There are two extra statements.
61. Liu
62. Liang
63. Yao
64. Wang
65. Zhao
Statements
[A]My child is the focus of my life.
[B]Family and work are both important for women.
[C]Men should be asked to return to their paternal duties.
[D]I would give up the whole world for my work.
[E]Women need work to prove their own value.
[F]Women are born to be mothers.
[G]Women understand child better than men.