题干：Many people would agree that stress is a major problem in modern life. It is cer

第1题

Manypeople______liveinthecountrysideratherthaninthecity. A.wouldrather B.preferto C.

Many people ______live in the countryside rather than in the city.

A. would rather

B. prefer to

C. would like

D. had better

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第2题

Why can many people see "silver linings" to the economic showdown？A．They would benefit in

Why can many people see "silver linings" to the economic showdown？

A．They would benefit in certain ways.

B．The stock market shows signs of recovery.

C．Such a slowdown usually precedes a boom.

D．The purchasing power would be enhanced.

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第3题

根据以下内容回答题：When I was a boy，children always objected（1)wearing school uniform. but

根据以下内容回答题：

When I was a boy，children always objected(1)wearing school uniform. but teacherswere(2)on it because they said all of US looked(3)．0therwise，they said，children would compete with(4)and the poorer children would be unhappy because people would see how poor they were．In recent years，however，many schools have(5)the idea of making children wear uniform. but funnily enough，now that children can wear(6)they like，they have adopted a uniform. of their own．When some journalists visited a London school，they found that aU the boys and girls were dressed in jcans．One girl said she would rather die than wear a coat instead of a jersey because(7)wants to look different(8)the other children in the class．Parents may not be as happy about th．is as children，but they(9)to be，because this new kind of uniform. is one that the children like，not something they have been forced to wear，and it is also(10)cheaper than school uniform. used to be．

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A.against

B.to

C.for

D.on

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第4题

If you asked people what the most important invention has been,many would say the printing press

If you asked people what the most important invention has been,many would say the printing press. Others _1_ say the wheel.But even though it’s_2_whether the appearance of the printing press affected the course of history more than the wheel，the printing press _3_ within the top two or three inventions in history. _4_ the telephone, the television,the radio, and the computer,the written word was the only way to _5_ ideas to people too far away to talk with.Until the 6th or 7th century,all books had to be written _6_.Creating a book was difficult，and very few existed.Therefore，very few people read books.

In the 6th and 7th centuries, the Chinese invented a way to print pages by _7_ characters and pictures on wooden，ivory，or clay blocks.They would print a page from the block by putting _8_ on the block and pressing paper onto the ink.This _9_ is called letterpress printing.The invention of letterpress printing was a great advance in communication _10_ each block could be inked many times and many copies of each page could be made.Many books could now be made.Therefore，many people could read the same book.

1.A.might B.ought to C.had to D.should

2.A.variable B.agreeable C.reliable D.debatable

3.A.lists B.ranges C.ranks D.covers

4.A.Now that B.No longer C.Long before D.Since then

5.A.invent B.communicate C.generalize D.motivate

6.A.by hand B.at heart C.on foot D.in mind

7.A.drawing B.painting C.writing D.carving

8.A.chalk B.oil C.ink D.crystal

9.A.definition B.action C.movement D.process

10.A.when B.because C.although D.if

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第5题

根据材料请回答 23～30 题 Lie detectors （测谎仪)are widely used in the United States to f

根据材料请回答 23～30 题

Lie detectors (测谎仪)are widely used in the United States to find out whether a per-son is telling the truth or not.Polygraphists, the person who operate them, claim that they can establish guilt by detecting physiological changes that accompany emotional stress.The technique adopted is to ask leading questions such as: "Did you take the mo-ney？" or "Where did you hide the money？", mixed in with neutral questions, and measure the subject's electrical resistance in the palm or changes in his breathing and heart rate.Such apparatus has obtained widespread recognition.

Whether lie detectors will ever be adopted on a similar scale in Britain is still a matter of opinion.At first sight, it appears obvious that any simple, reliable method of convic-ting guilty people is valuable, but recent research sponsored by the U.S.Office of Public Health not only raises doubts about how lie detectors should be.used but also makes it questionable whether they should be employed at all.

The point is that, apart from many of the polygraphists being unqualified, the tests themselves are by no means free from error, primarily because they discount human imagi-nation and ingenuity.Think of all those perfectly innocent people, with nothing to be a-fraid of, who blush and stammer when a customs officer asks them if they have anything to declare.Fear, and a consequently heightened electrical response, may not be enough to establish guilt.It depends on whether the subject is afraid of being found out or afraid of being wrongfully convicted.

On the other hand, the person who is really guilty and whose past experience has pre-pared him for such tests can distort the results by anticipating the crucial questions or de-liberately giving exaggerated responses to neutral ones!

The success rate of up to 90% claimed for lie detectors is misleadingly attractive.If we refer such a figure to a company with 500 employees, twenty of whom are thieves, the lie detector could catch 18 of them but in doing so would place 32 innocent employees un-der suspicion.The problem for the management would therefore become one of deciding how much industrial unrest they are prepared to cause in order to eliminate theft.What concerns research workers even more, of course, is the fact that a certain number of in no-cent people are bound to be convicted of crimes that they have not committed.

第 23 题 Paragraph 1__________

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第6题

Would you eat a bacon, lettuce and love apple sandwich？ You probably have eaten many of th

em. Love apple was the name used many years ago for the tomato.

The tomato is originally an American plant. It was found in South America by early Spanish explorers. The word tomato comes from the native Nahuatl word tomatl. But when it moved north, the plant earned a different name. Remarkably, the settlers in North America thought it was poisonous. They believed that to eat it was surely to die. It was said that deserted suitors would threaten to eat a tomato to cause their coldhearted lovers-regret. Because of this legend, the settlers called the tomato a "love apple." While people enjoyed other native plants such as corn and sweet potatoes, everyone avoided the tomato.

No one knows who first dared to eat a tomato. Perhaps someone was brave enough, or lovesick enough, to try out the truth of the rumors. Of course, whoever ate this fruit was perfectly safe. No one died from eating a love apple. Still, it was many years before the people fully believed that the tomato was a safe, and even good food. But its use did become common, and the plant was sent across the ocean to become part of many traditional European dishes.

The language from which we derived the word tomato is______.

A．Portuguese

B．Spanish

C．Nahuati

D．European

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第7题

We have no idea about when men first began to use salt, but we do know that it has been us

ed in many different ways throughout the history.

For example, it is recorded in many history books the people who lived over three thousand years ago ate salted fish. Thousands of years ago in Egypt, salt was used to preserve the dead.

In some periods of history, a person who stole salt was thought to have broken the law. Take the eighteenth century for an example, if a person was caught stealing salt, he would be thrown into prison. History also records that only in England about ten thousand people were put into prison during that century for stealing salt! About one hundred and fifty years ago, in the year 1553, if a man took more than his share of salt, he would be thought to have broken the law and would be seriously punished. The offender' s ear was cut off.

Salt was an important item on the dinner table of a king. It was always placed in front of the king when he sat down to eat. Important guests at the king' s table were seated near the salt. Less important guests were given seats farther away from it.

Thousands of years ago in Egypt, salt was used ______.

A．to punish people who had broken the law

B．to keep dead bodies from decay

C．to keep fish alive

D．to make chemicals

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第8题

根据以下内容，回答下列各题。Insure means to protect _51_ a loss of money．Most people can bud

根据以下内容，回答下列各题。

Insure means to protect _51_ a loss of money．Most people can budget their money so that their income will cover expected expenses _52_ food, clothing, housing, and public services．But, there is no way to know _53_ who will suffer a crisis (危机) such as a serious illness, fire, flood, or a car accident．Such crises usually _54_ great expense．Even if people could predict crises, it would be hard to save enough money to _55_ the expenses．Insurance is a system _56_ a company collects money from many individuals and then pays certain expenses whenever one of those insured individuals is faced with a certain crisis．An insurance policy _57_ how much the insurance costs and how much the company will pay when a policy holder is faced with a certain crisis．There are many different kinds of insurance, _58_ hospital, motor-car and fire．Insurance can be rather expensive but most people buy insurance of some kin

D．Insurance is something _59_ people buy and hope they will _60_ need．

51._________

A.for

B.from

C.against

D.with

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第9题

It is curious how often sympathy for the old and infirm takes a form. which actually humil

iates them. Their friends, with good will, sometimes lean forward to rearrange their neckwear, touching their hair or patting their faces—things they would never presume to do, unasked, to one of their contemporaries. An equally humiliating habit is to talk about old people in front of them as if they were not there, discussing their health.

It is now universally accepted that children should be encouraged to do as much as they can for themselves in order to develop their brains and muscles, but so few people today seem to have time to allow the elderly the same means of keeping their minds and muscles active. They perform. innumerable services for the old that they would be much better left to do, even with a struggle, for themselves.

Convenient flats, "motherly" visitors, or organized entertainments cannot make up for the fundamental need which must be satisfied the need to retain to the end of life human dignity and the respect of one's fellows.

Many people are not aware that it is rather rude to ______.

A．talk casually about old people in front of them as if they were not there

B．show sympathy for the old

C．take care of the old when they are not ill

D．pat the faces of the contemporaries

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第10题

Education has acquired a kind of snob value in modern times. We are no longer content

to be honest craftsmen, skilled at our work through years of patient practice. Nowadays if we want to get a decent job, we have to have a piece of paper. If we want promotion in even the humblest job, we have to obtain a certificate or a diploma first. We may know that we would be better at the job than the man with the paper qualifications, but our experience and practical skills are regarded as relatively unimportant. "Johnson would have been manager by now if he'd taken the trouble to get a degree," his colleagues say, "he's a clever man. He could have done anything if he'd had a proper education."

I wonder if, as time goes on, we shall discover that many people, whose practical experience and ability would have been enormously useful to their employers, have been rejected on the grounds that they are insufficiently qualified. Would it not be better to allow people to become expert in the way most suited to them, rather than oblige them to follow a set course of instruction which may offer no opportunity for them to develop skills in which they would have become expert if left to themselves？

1.By the first sentence in Para. One, the writer perhaps means ____.

A、education has acquired a pleasant value

B、education is ignored by the public

C、too much attention is paid to degrees in education

D、too little attention is paid to degrees in education

2.According to the passage, if we want to get promotion nowadays we have to ____.

A、produce proof of our qualification

B、write a paper about our qualifications

C、apply to take a certificate

D、apply for a diploma course

3.From the passage we understand that his colleagues think that Johnson ____.

A、should have been given a degree

B、would have been able to get a degree

C、couldn't have done anything without a degree

D、would become manager even without a degree

4.The writer fears that without paper qualifications many people ____.

A、won't get proper education

B、will prove useless in their job

C、will be dismissed from their job

D、won't be considered for a job

5.In the writer's opinion it would be better if people ____.

A、were forced to take a diploma

B、were free to become educated in their own way

C、attended more practical courses

D、attended courses intended for experts

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