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1、注意：1试卷保密，考生不得将试卷带出考场或撕页，否则成绩作废。请监考老师负责监督。2请各位考生注意考试纪律，考试作弊全部成绩以零分计算。3本试卷满分100分，答题时间为120分钟。4本试卷分为试题卷和答题卷。5所有试题答案，均应写在答题卷上，写在试题卷上不得分。试 题 卷Part I Reading Comprehension * 20）+5=35%Section A （30%）Directions：There are four passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished sta

2、tementsFor each of them there are four choices marked A），B），C）and D）You should decide on the best choice and write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.Text AQuestions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage:He was a funny looking man with a cheerful face, good natured and a great talker.

3、He was described by his student, the great philosopher Plato, as “the best and most just and wisest man.” Yet, the same man was condemned to death for his belief.The man was the great philosopher, Socrates, and he was condemned for not believing in the recognized gods and for corrupting young people

4、. The second charge stemmed from his association with numerous young men who came to Athens from all over the civilized world to study under him.Socrates method of teaching was to ask questions and, by pretending not to know the answers, to press his students into thinking for themselves. His teachi

5、ngs had unsurpassed influence on all the great Greek and Roman schools of philosophy. Yet, for all his fame and influence, Socrates himself never wrote a word.Socrates encouraged new ideas and free thinking in the young, and this was frightening to the conservative people. They wanted him silenced.

6、Yet, many were probably surprised that he accepted death so readily.Socrates had the right to ask for lesser penalty, and he probably could have won over enough of the people who had previously condemned him. But Socrates, as affirm believer in law, reasoned that it was proper to submit to the death

7、 sentence. So, he calmly accepted his fate and drank a cup of poison hemlock in the presence of his grief-stricken friends and students.1.In the first paragraph, the word “yet” is used to introduce_.AcontrastBa sequenceCemphasis Dan example2.Socrates was condemned to death because he _.believed in l

8、awwas a philosopher published outspoken philosophical articlesadvocated original opinions 3.The word “unsurpassed” in the third paragraph is close in meaning to _.untoldunequaledunnoticedunexpected4.By mentioning that Socrates himself never wrote anything, the writer implies that _.it was surprising

9、 that Socrates was so famousSocrates was not so learned as he is reputed to have beenSocrates used the work of his students in teachingthe authorities refused to publish Socrates works5.Socrates accepted the death penalty to show _. his belief in his studentshis contempt for conservativeshis recogni

10、tion of the legal system that he was not afraid of death Text BQuestions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage:Influenza has been with us a long, long time. According to some Greek writers on medical history, the outbreak of 412 BC was of influenza. The same has been suggested of the sickness t

11、hat swept through the Greek army attacking Syracuse in 395 BC. Flu is a disease that moves more quickly among people living in crowded conditions, so it is likely to attack armies. During the nineteenth century there were five widespread outbreaks of influenza. The last of the five happened in 1889

12、and marked the beginning of the story of influenza in our time. Like the present outbreak, it started in Asia. For more than forty years before that outbreak, influenza had steadily decreased and was believed to be dying out. A new group of outbreaks was introduced by the great outbreak of 1889-1890

13、 and for the next quarter of a century flu remained a constant threat.In April 1918, flu broke out among American troops stationed（驻扎） in France. It quickly spread through all the armies but caused relatively few deaths. Four months later, however, a second outbreak started which proved to be a kill

14、er. It killed not only the old and already sick but also healthy young adults. It went through every country in the world, only a few distant islands in the South Atlantic and the Pacific remaining untouched. It brought the life of whole countries to a stop; food supplies stopped and the work loss was very great. Before the great outbreak ended, it had killed at least 15 million people.Medical science is still not certain what hit us in 1918. The influenza virus（病毒） was not found until 1933, so all that today can be said about the 1918 outbreak was the kind o