1、(C) under (D) onD3. In _, the northerners have a particular liking for dumplings while the southerners are fond of rice.(1分)(A) common (B) total (C) general(D) particular4. Would you like something _?(1分)(A) drink (B) to drink (C) drinking(D) for drinkingB5. How can he _ if he is not _ ?(A) listen;
2、hearing (B) hear; listening(C) be listening; heard (D) be hearing; listened to6. The computer system suddenly _while he was searching for information on the Internet.(1分)(A) broke down(B) broke out(C) broke up(D) broke inA7. How much has the company _this year?(A) brought in(B) brought down(C) broug
3、ht out(D) brought about8. The old houses are being pulled down to _a new office block.(1分)(A) make room for(B) make use of(C) take the place of (D) supply with9. _no need _the radio as Im used to studying with it on.(1分)(A) Its; to turn down(B) It turning up(C) There to turn off (D) There turning of
4、f10. The wild flowers looked like a soft orange blanket_ the desert.(1分)(A) covering (B) covered (C) cover(D) to cover11. . _is the population of Paris?(A) How many(B) How much (C) How (D) What12. The red flower goes from one to_ in the class.(1分)(A) the other(B) others (C) another(D) other13. Two d
5、ays is not enough for him to finish the work. He needs _ day.(1分)(A) other (B) the other (C) the third (D) a third14. The Chinese women volleyball players _both in and out of China.(1分)(A) are thought good of (B) are highly thought of(C) are well thought (D) are ill thought of15. As the busiest woma
6、n there, she made_ her duty to look after all the other peoples affairs in that town.(1分)(A) this (B) that (C) one(D) it二、阅读理解Much of the worlds coffee is grown in Brazil. Not long ago an unseasonable frost swept through coffee plantations there. The result affected people in many countries for a lo
7、ng time to come.At first, reports of serious damage were received. These led to a sharp rise in the price of coffee, which had not been a highly profitable crop. Growers in other countries made extra efforts to increase their exports to profit from the expected shortage. However, they were hampered
8、by smugglers who wished to avoid government controls. The price of coffee fell slightly.Then large restaurants and hotels began to buy coffee to build up stocks for future use. The price rose sharply and public resistance developed. Housewives organized a boycott of coffee. This led to a rise in the
9、 price of tea and a fall in the price of coffee. Much to the dismay of growers, the price fell sharply. Their response was rather surprising. Instead of selling their stocks of coffee, they began to buy on the open market. Their motive was clear. They wanted to force the price of coffee up, and one
10、way of doing this was to reduce the amount of coffee available for sale to the public.Luckily for coffee-drinkers, this move failed. Restaurants and hotels stopped buying coffee. Large numbers of small growers had to sell their crops to keep alive. The large growers found that they were buying more
11、coffee than they were growing. They abandoned their efforts and let the normal law of supply and demand decided the price. Meanwhile, millions of people had changed to cheaper drinks and would not switch back to coffee.(10分)16). Who suffered most from the recent unseasonable frost?(2分)(A) The restau
12、rants and hotels.(B) The coffee growers in Brazil.(C) Smugglers.(D) The coffee growers in other countries.17). Financially, who gained most from the crop failure in Brazil?(A) the public as a whole.(C) The housewives.(D) The coffee growers in other countries18). This passage mainly deals with _ .(2分
13、)(A) the effect of weather on a crop such as coffee(B) the housewives reaction to the rise in the price of coffee(C) the reasons for changes in the price of coffee(D) the methods the coffee growers adopted to raise the price of coffee19). the outcome of the changes in the price of coffee was that _
14、.(2分)(A) the demand for coffee decreased (B) there was a fall in the price of tea(C) many people switched back to coffee(D) the growers decided not to grow coffee in future20). Which of the following factors made the coffee price fall?(A) The building up of stocks by restaurants and hotels.(B) The r
15、educing amount of coffee available for sale.(C) The boycott of coffee organized by housewives.(D) The news of the great damage caused by the bad weather.The process by means of which human beings can arbitrarily make certain things stand for other tings may be called the symbolic process. Everywhere
16、 we turn, we see the symbolic process at work. Stripes on the sleeve can be made to stand for military rank; rings of gold or pieces of paper can stand for wealth; crossed sticks can stand for a set of religious beliefs. There are few thing that men do or want to do, possess or want to possess, that
17、 have not, in addition to their mechanical or biological value, a symbolic value.All fashionable clothes are highly symbolic: materials, cut, and ornament are dictated only to a slight degree by considerations of warmth, comfort or practicability. The more we dress up in fine clothes, the more we re
18、strict our freedom of action. Food is also highly symbolic. Specific foods are used to symbolize specific festivals. For example, moon cakes are eaten to celebrate the Chinese mid-autumn festival as the Chinese think that on the Mid-Autumn Day (August 15th of the lunar year), the moon is at its brig
19、htest. We select our furniture to serve as visible symbols of our taste, wealth, and social position. We trade in perfectly good cars for later models not always to get better transportation, but to give evidence to the community that we can afford it.I once had an eight-year-old car in good running
20、 condition. A friend of mine, a repairman who knew the condition of the car, kept urging me to trade it for a new model. “But why?” I asked, “The old cars in fine shape still.” The repairman answered scornfully, “Yeah, but what the hell. All youve got is transportation.”Recently, the term “transport
21、ation car” has begun to appear in advertisements, for example, “4B Dodge-Runs perfectly well: transportation car. Leaving, must sell. $100”. Apparently it means a car that has no symbolic value and is good only for getting you there and bringing you back-a poor kind of vehicle indeed!(10分)21). Accor
22、ding to the passage, people dress themselves in fashionable clothes chiefly to _(2分)(A) comfort and warm themselves(B) display their well-developed figures(C) restrict their freedom of action (D) show that they are rich enough to buy them22). Nowadays people often sell their old cars in good running
23、 condition and buy new ones _(2分)(A) just to hold more people (B) because they want to celebrate specific festivals(C) just to show their wealth(D) because they are moving to a new place23). The term “transportation car” we now often come across in advertisements refers to a car which _(2分)(A) is ma
24、de by a transport company(B) transports goods only(C) has only practical value(D) is transported by other vehicles24). According to the writer, people eat specific food at specific time simply to _(2分)(A) show their high social position(B) keep themselves healthy(C) celebrate a certain traditional o
25、ccasion(D) prove that they are wealthy25). In the last paragraph of the passage, “Leaving, must sell.” Means that _(2分)(A) the advertiser is on his way to the market for selling his car(B) the car has not any symbolic value at all(C) the car is ready to leave and has to be sold (D) the owner is goin
26、g to leave the place so he has to sell the carIn the past twenty years, there has been an increasing tendency for workers to move from one country to another. While some newly independent countries have understandably restricted most jobs to local people, other countries have attracted and welcomed
27、migrant workers. This is particularly the case in the Middle East, where increased oil incomes have enabled many countries to call in outsiders to improve local facilities. Thus the Middle East has attracted oil-workers from the U.S.A. and Europe. It has brought in construction workers and technicia
28、ns from many countries, including South Korea and Japan.In view of the difficult living and working conditions in the Middle East, it is not surprising that the pay is high to attract suitable workers. Many engineers and technicians can earn at least twice as much money in the Middle East as they ca
29、n in their own country, and this is a major attraction. An allied benefit is the low taxation or complete lack of it. This increases the net amount of pay received by visiting workers and is very popular with them.Sometimes a disadvantage has a compensating advantage. For example, the difficult livi
30、ng conditions often lead to increased friendship when workers have to depend on each other for safety and comfort. In a similar way, many migrant workers can save large sums of money partly because of the lack of entertainment facilities. The work is often complex and full of problems but this merely presents an inc
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