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1、A. nature B. limitation C. usefulness D. creativity 67. It is implied in the passage that_.A. local news used to be the only source of information.B. local news still takes a significant place.C. national news is becoming more popular.D. international news is the fastest transmitted news. 68. Which

2、of the following statements is INCORRECT?A. To possess information used to be a privilege.B. Public libraries have replaced private libraries.C. Communication means more than transmission.D. Information influences ways of life and thinking. 69. From the last paragraph we can infer that the writer is

3、_.A. indifferent to the harmful influence of the mass mediaB. happy about the drastic changes in the mass mediaC. pessimistic about the future of the mass mediaD. concerned about the wrong use of the mass media TEXT BThe men and women of Anglo-Saxon England normally bore one name only. Distinguishin

4、g epithets were rarely added. These might be patronymic, descriptive or occupational. They were, however, hardly surnames. Heritable names gradually became general in the three centuries following the Norman Conquest in 1066. It was not until the 13th and 14th centuries that surnames became fixed, a

5、lthough for many years after that, the degree of stability in family names varied considerably in different parts of the country.British surnames fall mainly into four broad categories: patronymic, occupational, descriptive and local. A few names, it is true, will remain puzzling: foreign names, per

6、haps, crudely translated, adapted or abbreviated; or artificial names. In fact, over fifty percent of genuine British surnames derive from place names of different kinds, and so they belong to the last of our four main categories. Even such a name as Simpson may belong to this last group, and not to

7、 the first, had the family once had its home in the ancient village of that name. Otherwise, Simpson means “the son of Simon”, as might be expected.Hundreds of occupational surnames are at once familiar to us, or at least recognisable after a little thought: Archer, Carter, Fisher, Mason, Thatcher,

8、Taylor, to name but a few. Hundreds of others are more obscure in their meanings and testify to the amazing specialization in medieval arts, crafts and functions. Such are “Day”, （Old English for bread maker） and “Walker” （a fuller whose job it was to clean and thicken newly made cloth）.All these vo

9、cational names carry with them a certain gravity and dignity, which descriptive names often lack. Some, it is true, like “Long”, “Short” or “Little”, are simple. They may be taken quite literally. Others require more thinking: their meanings are slightly different from the modem ones. “Black” and “W

10、hite “ implied dark and fair respectively. “Sharp” meant genuinely discerning, alert, acute rather than quick-witted or clever.Place-names have a lasting interest since there is hardly a town or village in all England that has not at some time given its name to a family. They may be picturesque, eve

11、n poetical; or they may be pedestrian, even trivial. Among the commoner names which survive with relatively little change from old-English times are “Milton”（middle enclosure） and “Hilton”（enclosure on a hill）.70. Surnames are said to be _ in Anglo-Saxon England.A. common B. vocational C. unusual D.

12、 descriptive 71. We learn from the first paragraph _ for many years after the 13th and 14th centuries.A. family names became descriptive and occupationalB. people in some areas still had no surnamesC. some people kept changing their surnamesD. all family names became fixed in England 72. “Patronymic

13、” in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to “formed from _.A. the name of ones father” B. the family occupation”C. ones family home” D. ones family history” 73. Which of the following sentences is an opinion rather than a fact?A. hundreds of occupational names are at once familiar to us.B. “B

14、lack” and “White” implied “dark” and “fair” respectively.C. Vocational names carry with them a certain gravity and dignity.D. Every place in England has given its name to a family. TEXT CSince the early 1930s, Swiss banks had prided themselves on their system of banking secrecy and numbered accounts

15、. Over the years, they had successfully withstood every challenge to this system by their own government who, in turn, had been frequently urged by foreign governments to reveal information about the financial affairs to certain account holders. The result of this policy of secrecy was that a kind o

16、f mystique had grown up around Swiss banking. There was a widely-held belief that Switzerland was irresistible to wealthy foreigners, mainly because of its numbered accounts and bankers reluctance to ask awkward questions of depositors. Contributing to the mystique was the view, carefully propagated

17、 by the banks themselves, that if this secrecy was ever given up, foreigners would fall over themselves in the rush to withdraw money, and the Swiss banking system would virtually collapse overnight.To many, therefore, it came like a bolt out of the blue, when, in 1977, the Swiss banks announced the

18、y had signed a pact with the Swiss National Bank （the Central Bank）. The aim of the agreement was to prevent to improper use of the countrys bank secrecy laws, and its effect was to curb severely the system of secrecy.The rules which the banks had agreed to observe made the opening of numbere d acco

19、unts subject to much closer scrutiny than before. The banks would be required, if necessary, to identify the origin of foreign funds going into numbered and other accounts. The idea was to stop such accounts being used for dubious purposes. Also they agreed not to accept funds resulting from tax eva

20、sion or from crime.The pact represented essentially a tightening up of banking rules. Although the banks agreed to end relations with clients whose identities were unclear or who were performing improper acts, they were still not obliged to inform on a client to anyone, including the Swiss governmen

21、t. To some extent, therefore, the principle of secrecy had been maintained.74. Swiss banks took pride in_.A. the number of their accountsB. withholding client informationC. being mysterious to the outsidersD. attracting wealthy foreign clients 75. According to the passage, the widely-held belief tha

22、t Switzerlandw as irresistible to wealthy foreigners was _ by banks themselves.A. denied B. criticized C. reviewed D. defended 76. In the last paragraph, the writer thinks that_.A. complete changes had been introduced into Swiss banksB. Swiss banks could no longer keep client informationC. changes i

23、n the bank policies had been somewhat superficialD. more changes need to be considered and made TEXT DCoketown was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and the ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face

24、of a savage. It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever. It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye, and vast piles of buildings full of windows where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and

25、where the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down like the head of an elephant in a state of madness. The town contained several large streets all very like one another, and many small streets still more like one another, inhabited by people equally like one another.A sunny midsummer day. There was such a thing sometimes, even in Coketown. Seen from a distance in such weather, Coketown lay covered in