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1、Today McDonalds is really a household name. Its names for its sandwiches have come to mean hamburger in the decades since the day Ray Kroc watched people rush up to order fifteen-cent hamburgers. In 1976, McDonalds had over $ 1 billion in total sales. Its first twenty-two years is one of the most in

2、credible success stories in modern American business history1. This passage mainly talks about.A）the development of fast food servicesB）how McDonalds became a billion-dollar businessC）the business careers of Mac and Dick McDonaldD）Ray Krocs business talent2. Mac and Dick managed all of the following

3、 businesses except.A） a drive-inB） a cinemaC） a theaterD） a barbecue restaurant3. We may infer from this passage that.A）Mac and Dick McDonald never became wealthy for they sold their idea to KrocB）The location the McDonalds chose was the only source of the great popularity of their drive-inC）Forty y

4、ears ago there were numerous fast-food restaurantsD）Ray Kroc was a good businessman4. The passage suggests that.A）creativity is an important element of business successB）Ray Kroc was the close partner of the McDonald brothersC）Mac and Dick McDonald became broken after they sold their ideas to Ray Kr

5、ocD）California is the best place to go into business5. As used in the second sentence of the third paragraph, the worduniquemeans.A）specialB）financialC ）attractiveD）peculiarPassage 11.C2.B3.D4.A5.DPassage2Youre busy filling out the application form for a position you really need; lets assume you onc

6、e actually completed a couple of years of college work or even that you completed your degree. Isnt it tempting to lie just a little, to claim on the form that your diploma represents a Harvard degree? Or that you finished an extra couple of years back at State University?More and more people are tu

7、rning to utter deception like this to land their job or to move ahead in their careers, for personnel officers, like most Americans, value degrees from famous schools. A job applicant may have a good education anyway, but he or she assumes that chances of being hired are better with a diploma from a

8、 well-known university. Registrars at most well-known colleges say theydeal with deceitful claims like these at the rate of aboutone per week.Personnel officers do check up on degrees listed on application forms, then. If it turns out that an applicants lying, most colleges are reluctant to accuse t

9、he applicant directly. One Ivy League school calls them impostors（骗子）; another refers to them asspecial cases. One well-known West Coast school, in perhaps the most delicate phrase of all, says that these claims are made byno such people.To avoid outright（彻底的）lies, some job-seekers claim that they a

10、ttended or were associated with a college or university. After carefully checking, a personnel officer may discover that attending means being dismissed after one semester. It may be that being associated with a college means that the job-seeker visited his younger brother for a football weekend. On

11、e school that keeps records of false claims says that the practice dates back at least to the turn of the century-thats when they began keeping records, anyhow.If you dont want to lie or even stretch the truth, there are companies that will sell you a phony（假的）diploma. One company, with offices in N

12、ew York and on the West Coast, will put your name on a diploma from any number of non-existent colleges. The price begins at around twenty dollars for a diploma from Smoot State University.The prices increase rapidly for a degree from the University of Purdue. As there is no Smoot State and the real

13、 school in Indiana properly called Purdue University, the prices seem rather high for one sheet of paper1. The main idea of this passage is that.A）employers are checking more closely on applicants nowB）lying about college degrees has become a widespread problemC）college degrees can now be purchased

14、easilyD）employers are no longer interested in college degrees2. According to the passage, special cases refer to cases where.A）students attend a school only part-timeB）students never attended a school they listed on their applicationC）students purchase false degrees from commercial filmsD）students a

15、ttended a famous school3. We can infer from the passage that.A）performance is a better judge of ability that a college degreeB）experience is the best teacherC）past work histories influence personnel officers more than degrees doD）a degree from a famous school enables an applicant to gain advantage o

16、ver others in job petition4. This passage implies that.A）buying a false degree is not moralB）personnel officers only consider applicants from famousschoolsC）most people lie on applications because they were dismissed from schoolD）society should be greatly responsible for lying on applications5. As u

17、sed in the first line of the second paragraph, the word utter means.A）addressB）thoroughC）ultimateD）decisivePassage 21.B2.C3.D4.D5.CPassage 3Everyone has heard of the San Andreas fault （断层）, which constantly threatens California and the West Coast with earthquakes. But how many people know about the

18、equally serious New Madrid fault in Missouri?Between December of 1811 and February of 1812, three major earthquakes occurred, all centered around the town of New Madrid, Missouri, on the Mississippi River. Property damage was severe. Buildings in the area were almost destroyed. Whole forests fell at

19、 once, and huge cracks opened in the ground, allowing smell of sulfur（硫磺）to filter upward.The Mississippi River itself completely changed character, developing sudden rapids and whirlpools. Several times it changed its course, and once, according to some observers, it actually appeared to run backwa

20、rds.Few people were killed in the New Marid earthquakes, probably simply because few people lived in the area in 1811; but the severity of the earthquakes are shown by the fact that the shock waves rang bells in church towers in Charleston, South Carolina, on the coast. Buildings shook in New York C

21、ity, and clocks wer stopped in Washington, D.C. Scientists now know that Americas two major faults are essentially different. The San Andreas is a horizontal boundary between two major land masses that are slowly moving in opposite directions. California earthquakes result when the movement of these

22、 two masses suddenly lurches （倾斜） forward.The New Madrid fault, on the other hand, is a vertical fault; at some points, possibly hundreds of millions of years ago, rock was pushed up toward the surface, probably by volcanoes under the surface. Suddenly, the volcanoes cooled and the rock collapsed, l

23、eaving huge cracks. Even now, the rock continues to settle downwards, and sudden sinking motions trigger （触发） earthquakes in the region. The fault itself, a large crack in this layer of rock, with dozens of other cracks that split off from it, extends from northeastArkansas through Missouri and into

24、 southern lllinois.Scientists who have studied the New Madrid fault say there have been numerous smaller quakes in the area since 1811; these smaller quakes indicate that larger ones are probably coming, but the scientists say have no method of predictingwhen a large earthquake will occur1. This pas

25、sage is mainly about.A）the New Madrid fault in MissouriB）the San Andreas and the New Madrid faultsC）the causes of faultsD）current scientific knowledge about faults2. The New Madrid fault is.A）a horizontal faultB）a vertical faultC）a more serious fault than the San Andreas faultD）responsible for formi

26、ng the Mississippi River3. We may conclude from the passage that.A）it is probably as dangerous to live in Missouri as in CaliforniaB）the New Madrid fault will eventually develop a mountain range in MissouriC）California will become an island in futureD）A big earthquake will occur to California soonA）horizontal faults are more dangerous than vertical faults.B）Vertical faults are more dangerous than horizontal faultsC）Earthquakes occur only around fault areasD）California will break into pieces by an