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• 1Directions: After reading the following passage, you will find 5 questions or unfinished statements,

  　36. What's the finding of the research undertaken at Carnegie Mellon University?

  　　A) People spend more time on the Internet now.

  　　B) People spend less time with their families and friends now.

  　　C) The Net proves socially healthier than television.

  　　D) Internet use may cause a drop in psychological health.

  　　37. What had the researchers expected before the research?

  　　A) The Net may account for the drop in psychological health.

  　　B) Internet use may improve social health.

  　　C) Internet use has nothing to do with social health.

  　　D) Spending much time on the Internet makes people feel bad and lonely.

  　　38. Which is not true according to the passage?

  　　A) The Net allows users to choose their information and to communicate with others.

  　　B) Internet communication may be less psychologically satisfying than actual conversation.

  　　C) Undeveloped Internet technology causes the drop in psychological health.

  　　D) The wider world through the Net makes users less satisfied with their lives.

  　　39. What does Christine Riley, the psychologist, suggest?

  　　A) It's necessary to take social factors into account in designing applications and services for technology.

  　　B) It's important to tell the users how to design and apply the technology.

  　　C) Compared with social factors, the technology itself has more influence on the Internet users.

  　　D) No social factors should be considered in applications and services for technology.

  　　40. Which of the following would be the most appropriate title for the passage?

  　　A) How to Use the Internet

  　　B) Disadvantages of the Internet

  　　C) Social Factors and the Internet

  　　D) Internet May Cause Bad Feelings

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• 2　Directions: This task is the same as Task 1. The 5 questions or unfinished statements are numbered

  　　41. What is whole life insurance?

  　　A) It's permanent insurance protection from the day you were born until you die.

  　　B) It's permanent insurance protection that protects you for your whole life, from the day you buy it until you die.

  　　C) It's insurance protection for your whole family members.

  　　D) It's income protection insurance.

  　　42. What can whole life insurance do for you?

  　　A) It only provides basic insurance protection.

  　　B) It provides Mortgage protection and Estate preservation.

  　　C) It offers Retirement funding, Charitable giving, Business needs.

  　　D) It not only offers basic insurance protection, but also provides Mortgage protection, Estate preservation, Retirement funding, Charitable giving and Business 　needs.

  　　43. According to the passage, who will help you determine an amount of insurance needed?

  　　A) A life insurance agent.

  　　B) Nobody except yourself.

  　　C) Your family members.

  　　D) Your lawyer.

  　　44. The word“policy”in the fifth paragraph probably means ________.

  　　A) 政策

  　　B) 保险

  　　C)彩票

  　　D) 策略，方法

  　　45. When you die, the death benefits of your life insurance will ________.

  　　A) be lost

  　　B) be paid to your beneficiaries

  　　C) be possessed by the insurance company

  　　D) will be given to the government

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• 3Directions: This task is the same as Task 1. The 5 questions or unfinished statements are numbered 4

  　　41. What is the main idea of the passage?

  　　A) How to diet.

  　　B) Why we should diet.

  　　C) What we should diet.

  　　D) Where we should diet.

  　　42. While dieting you should ________.

  　　A) choose fried foods

  　　B) choose low-calorie food

  　　C) choose snack as hamburger in McDonalds

  　　D) talk to your doctor

  　　43. When you have lost the weight you wish, you can ________.

  　　A) have some more simple items in your diet

  　　B) eat more and more foods you like

  　　C) stop dieting

  　　D) tell the doctor what you've done

  　　44. According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true?

  　　A) While dieting, you should ask the doctor so that you can lose your weight quickly.

  　　B) Plan meals means to have some foods you like and take them as your daily eating habits.

  　　C) When you have lost your weight, you can have some coffee and tea without sugar or cream.

  　　D) As you are dieting, don't forget exercise.

  　　45. If you want to start a weight control program, you should ________.

  　　A) ask your doctor

  　　B) plan meals and choose low-calorie foods

  　　C) do some exercise

  　　D) all of the above

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• 4Read the texts from an article in which five people talked about smoking. For questions 61 to 65, ma

  　　61. Hadley

  　　62. Randy

  　　63. Sampson

  　　64. Rowley

  　　65. Bernice

  　　Statements

  　　[A] Smoking brings many psychological benefits.

  　　[B] Tobacco is an important source of income to the government.

  　　[C] Smoking is sure to cause diseases.

  　　[D] It's a shortsighted policy to depend on tobacco for money.

  　　[E] The advertisement for it is dishonest and harmful.

  　　[F] The tobacco industry makes highquality advertisement for smoking.

  　　[G] It's doubtful whether there is link between smoking and cancer.

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• 5A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as rule, to have it retold in identically the s

  　　56. In the writer's opinion, a fairy tale .

  　　[A] cannot be read to children without variation because they find no pleasure in it

  　　[B] will be more effective if it is adapted by parents

  　　[C] must be made easy so that children can read it on their own

  　　[D] is no longer needed in developing children's power of memory

  　　57. According to the passage, some people who are openly against fairy tales argue that .

  　　[A] fairy tales are harmful to children in that they show the primitive cruelty in children

  　　[B] fairy tales are harmful to children unless they have been adapted by their parent

  　　[C] fairy tales increase a tendency to sadism in children

  　　[D] children who have read fairy stories pay little attention to the study of history and mechanics

  　　58. In the writer's opinion to rid children of fears, fairy stories should be.

  　　[A] told only once

  　　[B] repeated many times

  　　[C] told in a realistic setting

  　　[D] presented vividly

  　　59. In the writer's opinion, fairy stories .

  　　[A] have a very bad effect on children

  　　[B] have advantages in cultivating children's imagniativity

  　　[C] help children to come to terms with fears

  　　[D] harm children greatly

  　　60. According to the passage, which of the following statement is not true about fairy stories

  　　[A] If children indulged his fantasies in fairy tales instead of being

  　　taught how to adapt to reality by studying history and mechanics the world should be full of madman.

  　　[B] Children can often be greatly terrified when the fairy story is heard for the first time.

  　　[C] Fairy tales may beneficially direct children's aggressive, destructive and sadistic impulses.

  　　[D] Fairy tales are no more than stories about imaginary figures with magical powers which has nothing to do with external world.

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• 6About ten men in every hundred suffer from colour blindness in some way; women are luckier only abou

  　　51. Among people who suffer from colour blindness, .

  　　[A] some may see everything in shades of green

  　　[B] few can tell the difference between blue and green

  　　[C] few may think that red, orange and yellow are all shades of green

  　　[D] very few may think that everything in the world is in green

  　　52. When millions of rods in our eyes are at work in darkness we can see.

  　　[A] colours only

  　　[B] shapes and colours

  　　[C] shapes only

  　　[D] darkness only

  　　53. According to the passage, bats and adult owls cannot see colours.

  　　[A] because they hunt at night

  　　[B] because they cannot see light

  　　[C] because they have no cones and rods

  　　[D] because they have no cones

  　　54. According to the passage, dogs and cats.

  　　[A] as well as human beings can not see some colours

  　　[B] have fewer cones than human beings

  　　[C] have less rods than human beings

  　　[D] can see colours as well as human beings

  　　55. Which of the following is not true about insects

  　　[A] Insects can see more colours than human beings.

  　　[B] Insects can see ultraviolet rays which are invisible to men.

  　　[C] All insects have their favorite colours.

  　　[D] The world is more colorful to insects than to human beings.

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• 7　Read the following three texts. Answer the questions on each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark y

  　　46. How did the dog perform his duties

  　　[A] He was delighted to show them off.

  　　[B] He did his best but was not often successful.

  　　[C] He did them quickly to get them over.

  　　[D] He had few opportunities to do them.

  　　47. What does the passage tell us about gun dogs

  　　[A] They are the fastest runners of all dogs.

  　　[B] Their teeth are removed when they are young.

  　　[C] They can carry birds, etc. without hurting them.

  　　[D] They breed well, producing many young dogs.

  　　48. As a result of Williams' work .

  　　[A] he did not get enough sleep

  　　[B] there was an oily smell from his clothes

  　　[C] the dog grew accustomed to travelling by train

  　　[D] the dog was confused about the time of the day

  　　49. It upset Williams' wife and family when .

  　　[A] Williams had to go to work at night

  　　[B] the dog made too much noise in the house

  　　[C] Williams made them all get up early

  　　[D] the dog would not let them see the newspaper

  　　50. Williams did not realise his loss for several days because .

  　　[A] he trusted the dog to find the wallet

  　　[B] he was unconscious all that time

  　　[C] he thought the wallet was in the house

  　　[D] he had no occasion to feel in his pockets

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• 8　Read the texts from an article in which five people talked about smoking. For questions 61 to 65,

  Now match each of the people (1 to 5) to the appropriate statement.

  　　Note: there are two extra statements.

  　　61. Hadley

  　　62. Randy

  　　63. Sampson

  　　64. Rowley

  　　65. Bernice

  　　Statements

  　　[A] Smoking brings many psychological benefits.

  　　[B] Tobacco is an important source of income to the government.

  　　[C] Smoking is sure to cause diseases.

  　　[D] It's a shortsighted policy to depend on tobacco for money.

  　　[E] The advertisement for it is dishonest and harmful.

  　　[F] The tobacco industry makes highquality advertisement for smoking.

  　　[G] It's doubtful whether there is link between smoking and cancer.

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• 9There was one thought that air pollution affected only the area immediately around large cities with

  56. As pointed out at the beginning of the passage, people used to think that air pollution _______.

  　　[ A ] cause widespread damage in the countryside

  　　[ B ] affected the entire eastern half of the United States

  　　[ C ] had damaged effect on health

  　　[ D ] existed merely in urban and industries areas

  　　57. As to the greenhouse effect, the author __________.

  　　[ A ] share the same view with the scientist.

  　　[ B ] is uncertain of its occurrence

  　　[ C ] rejects it as being ungrounded

  　　[ D ] thinks that it will destroy the world soon

  　　58. The word “offset” in the second paragraph could be replaced by _________.

  　　[ A] slip into [ B ] make up for

  　　[ C ] set up [ D ] catch up with

  　　59. It can be concluded that ____________.

  　　[ A ] raising the world’s temperature only a few degrees would not do much harm to life on earth.

  　　[ B] lowering the world’s temperature merely a few degrees would lead major farming areas to disaster.

  　　[C] almost no temperature variations have occurred over the past decade.

  　　[D] the world’s temperature will remain constant in the years to come.

  　　60. This passage is primarily about __________.

  　　[A]the greenhouse effect..

  　　[ B ] the burning of fossil fuels..

  　　[C] the potential effect of air pollution.

  　　[ D] the likelihood of a new ice age.

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• 10　An alcohol breath test (ABT) is often used by the police to find out whether a person is drunk whi

  　小题1:What is the legal alcohol level for a 20­year­old driver in the US?

  　　A.0.000%.　B.0.005%.

  　　C.0.080%.　D.0.096%.

  　　小题2:What is the purpose of the Missouri experiment?

  　　A.To introduce a new method of calculating blood alcohol levels.

  　　B.To discover the relation between energy drinks and ABT test results.

  　　C.To warn people of the dangers of drinking energy drinks.

  　　D.To change the current legal alcohol limit for drivers in the United States.

  　　小题3:The underlined word “subjects” in Paragraph 2 refers to________.

  　　A.the things that are being discussed

  　　B.areas of knowledge studied in school

  　　C.the participants in an experiment

  　　D.the people who belong to a country

  　　小题4:Which of the following affects the ABT test result most for energy drink consumers?

  　　A.The age of the person who takes the test.

  　　B.The place where the test is given.

  　　C.The equipment that the test uses.

  　　D.The time when the test is taken.

  　　小题5:Which of the following is true according to the passage?

  　　A.A driver whose blood alcohol level is found to be 0.1% will be arrested.

  　　B.No energy drinks really cause anyone to test positive on an ABT.

  　　C.Few popular energy drinks contain alcohol in them.

  　　D.Those taking an ABT 15 minutes after drinking alcohol cannot be found out.

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