1、1 分 答案:C2. The International Whaling Commission warns that if nothing is done to save the whales now the species will soon be ( )A. imitatedB. intimatedC. contaminatedD. exterminated1 分 D3. He is a strange character,_is very hard to get along with.A. whoB. whichC. thatD. where1 分 A4. You screamed in
2、 your sleep last night. You _ a terrible dream.A. must have hadB. must haveC. should have hadD. should have1 分 A5. It is believed to be a problem that will affect only a small ( ) of the total populationA. fractionB. frictionC. affectionD. fracture6. I chose a small room with the window _ the street
3、.A. facesB. facedC. facingD. to face1 分 C7. Most schools have plans in place for ( ) to fires, fights, medical emergencies and other situations that call for quick assessment and decisive actionA. convertingB. respectingC. restoringD. responding8. Due to the limited seating _ of the hall, merely abo
4、ut 700 journalists were present for the press conferenceA. capacityB. capabilityC. possibilityD. probability9. If we had known that she had planned to go abroad today, we _ at the airport.A. would see her offB. would have seen her offC. should see her offD. must have seen her off1 分 B10. The issue w
5、as whether or not the bacteria (细菌) in his body would _ the local ecosystem.A. breakB. balanceC. contaminateD. contain11. The population isnt _ evenly across the nation but unevenly among the forty neighborhood types, with distinct socioeconomic levels, family life cycles and ethnic makeups.A. attri
6、buted B. tributedC. distributedD. contributed12. The new _ of this dictionary has not been in use yet, but its appearance has aroused quite a lot of attention.A. visionB. versionC. refineD. verification13. It was suggested that this problem _ at the next meeting.A. was discussedB. will be discussedC
7、. have to be discussedD. be discussed14. Tom is ( ) many other people who work hereA. junior toB. junior thanC. more junior toD. more junior than15. To survive and grow, businesses are under _ pressure to expand their markets for new products and made them look different from othersA. crucialB. comp
8、lexC. constantD. significant二、阅读理解(共 1 道试题,共 10 分。)V 1. People can be addicted to different things e.g., alcohol, drugs, certain foods, or even television. People who have such an addiction are compulsive, i.e., they have a very powerful psychological need that they feel they must satisfy. According
9、 to psychologists, many people are compulsive spenders; They feel that they must spend money. This compulsion, like most others, is irrational impossible to explain reasonably. For compulsive spenders who buy on credit, charge accounts are even more exciting than money. In other words, compulsive sp
10、enders feel that with credit, they can do anything. Their pleasure in spending enormous amounts is actually greater than the pleasure that they get from the things they buy. There is even a special psychology of bargain-hunting. To save money, of course, most people look for sales, low prices, and d
11、iscounts. Compulsive bargain hunters, however, often buy things that they dont need just because they are cheap. They want to believe that they are helping their budgets, but they are really playing an exciting game; when they can buy something for less than other people, they feel that they are win
12、ning. Most people, experts claim, have two reasons for their behavior: a good reason for the things that they do and the real reason. It is not only scientists, of course, who understand the psychology of spending habits, but also business people. Stores, companies, and advertisers use psychology to
13、 increase business. They consider peoples needs for love, power, or influence, their basic values, their beliefs and opinions, and so on in their advertising and sales methods. Psychologists often use a method called “behavior therapy” to help individuals solve their personality problems. In the sam
14、e way, they can help people who feel that they have problems with money.1). According to the psychologists a compulsive spender is one who spends large amounts of money ( ) .A. and takes great pleasure from what he or she buysB. in order to satisfy his or her basic needs in life C. just to meet his
15、or her strong psychological needD. entirely with an irrational eagerness 2 分 C2). According to the writer, compulsive bargain hunters are in constant search of the lowest possible prices () .A. because they want to save money to help their budgetsB. because they can openly boast of their triumph ove
16、r others in getting things for lessC. and will not have money problems if they can keep to their budgetsD. but they seldom admit they feel satisfied if they can get things for less than others2 分 A3). Which of the following is TRUE?A. All people spend money for exactly the same reason that they need
17、 to buy things.B. Business people and advertisers can use the psychology of money to increase salesC. Business people understand the psychology of compulsive buying better than scientists doD. compulsive bargain hunters do not have problems with money.2 分 B4). The article is mainly about().A. the ps
18、ychology of money spending habitsB. the purchasing habits of compulsive spendersC. a special psychology of bargain huntingD. the use of the psychology of spending habits in business5). From the passage we may safely conclude that compulsive spenders or compulsive bargain hunters()A. are really unrea
19、sonableB. need special treatmentC. are really beyond remediesD. can never get any help to solve their problems with money三、阅读理解(共 1 道试题,共 10 分。 The Internet seems to have just arrived, so how can we possibly imagine what will replace it? In truth, early versions of the Net have been around since the
20、 1960s and 70s, but only after the mid-1990s did it begin to have a serious public impact. Since 1994, the population of users has grown from about 13 million to more than 300 million around the world. What will the Internet be like 20 years from now? Like the rest of infrastructure, the Internet wi
21、ll eventually seem to disappear by becoming widespread. Most access will probably be via high-speed, low-power radio links. Most handheld, fixed and mobile appliances will be Internet enabled. This trend is already discernible in the form of Internet-enabled cell phones and personal digital assistan
22、ts. Like the servants of centuries past, our household helpers will chatter with one another and with the outside help. So many appliances, vehicles and buildings will be online by 2020 that it seems likely there will be more things on the Internet than people. Internet-enabled cars and airplanes ar
23、e coming online, and smart houses are being built every day. Eventually, programmable devices will become so cheap that we will embed them in the cardboard boxes into which we put other things for storage or shipping. These passive “computers” will be activated as they pass sensors and will be able
24、to both emit and absorb information. Such innovations will facilitate increasingly automatic manufacturing, inventory control, shipping and distribution. Checkout at the grocery store will be fully automatic, as will payment via your digital wallet. The advent of programmable, mini-scale machines wi
25、ll extend the Internet to things with the size of molecules that can be injected under the skin, leading to Internet-enabled people. Such devices, together with Internet-enabled sensors embedded in clothing, will avoid a hospital stay for medical patients who would otherwise be there only for observ
26、ation. The speech processor used today in cochlear implants for the hearing impaired could easily be connected to the Internet; listening to Internet radio could soon be a direct computer-to-brain experience! The Internet will undergo substantial alteration as optical technologies allow the transmis
27、sion of many trillions of bits per second on each Internets fiber-optic backbone network. The core of the network will remain optical, and the edges will use a mix of access technologies, ranging from radio and infrared to optical fiber and the old twisted-pair copper telephone lines.By then, the In
28、ternet will have been extended, by means of an interplanetary Internet backbone, to operate in outer space. How will this pervasive Internet access affect our daily lives? More and more of the worlds information will be accessible instantly and from virtually anywhere. In an emergency, our health re
29、cords will be available for remote medical consultation with specialists and perhaps even remote surgery. More and more devices will have access to the global positioning system, increasing the value of geographically indexed databases. Using GPS with speech-understanding software that is emerging t
30、oday, we will be able to get directions from our Internet as easily as we once got them at a filling station. Is there any downside to a society suffused with information and the tools to process it? Privacy will come at a premium. Enormous quantities of data about our daily affairs will flow across the Internet, working to make our lives easier. Despite our preference for giving up privacy in exchange for convenience, our experiences online may make us yearn for the anonymity
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