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He is the only person who can ____ in this case, because the other witnesses were killed mysteriously.
A) testify B) charge C) accuse D) rectify
This boy was _______ for what he had done in the class.
A) scolded B) overcome C) inclined D) displayed
On weekend my grandpa usually ____ a glass of wine.
A) subscribes B) engages in C) hangs on D) indulges in
The leader of the expedition ____ everyone to follow his example.
A) promoted B) reinforced C)sparked D) inspired
We must look beyond ____ and assumptions and try to discover what is missing.
A) justifications B) illusions C) manifestations D) specifications
I left my friend’s house shortly after seven. It was still too early for me to have my evening meal, so I walked along the seafront (滨海马路) for about an hour until I began to feel hungry. By that time I was not far from a favorite restaurant of mine, where I often went to eat two or three times a week. I knew the owner well and frequently complimented (赞美, 恭维) him on his excellent cooking.
I went into the restaurant, which was already crowded, and ordered my meal. While I was waiting for the soup to arrive, I looked around to see if I knew anyone in the restaurant. It was then that I noticed that a man sitting at a corner table near the door kept glancing in my direction, as if he knew me, I certainly did not know him, for I never forgot a face. The man had a newspaper open in front of him, which he was pretending to read, though all the while I could see that he was keeping an eye on me. When the waiter brought my soup, the man was clearly puzzled by the familiar way in which the waiter and I addressed each other. He became even more puzzled as time went on and it grew more and more obvious that I was well known in the restaurant. Eventually he got up and went into the kitchen. After a few minutes he came out again, paid his bill and left without another glance in my direction.
When I had finished and was about to pay my bill, I called the owner of the restaurant over and asked him what the man had wanted. The owner was a little embarrassed by my question and at first did not want to tell me. I insisted. “Well,” he said, “that man was a detective.” “Really?” I said, considerably surprised. “He followed you here because he thought you were a man he was looking for,” the owner of the restaurant said. “When he came into the kitchen, he showed me a photograph of the wanted man. He certainly looked like you! Of course, since we know you here, I was able to convince him that he had made a mistake.” “It’s lucky I came to a restaurant where I am known,” I said, “otherwise I might have been arrested!”
31.When the author got to his favorite restaurant, it was ___________ .
A) already nine o’clock
B) eight o’clock on the dot
C) about two minutes past eight
D) slightly later than eight o’clock
32.The man sitting at the corner table near the door kept glancing in the direction of the author because he was __________________ .
A) interested in the personality of the author
B) making a study of the author
C) looking up and down the author
D) keeping a lookout over the author
33.The author was followed by the detective probably because he ___________ .
A) took after a suspect
B) was similar to a criminal in personality
C) was an accomplice
D) looked like a murderer
34.The detective had a newspaper open in front of him in order to ____________ .
A) read it in detail
B) cover up what he was really doing there
C) have it rechecked
D) wait for his food
35.According to the text, if the author had been a stranger in the restaurant, he would have been ____________________.
A) taken to court
B) followed
C) captured
D) sentenced to a few years’ imprisonment
A very important world problem is the rapidly increasing pressure of population on land and on land resources.
It is not so much the actual population of the world but its rate of increase which is important. It works out to be about 1.6 per cent per annum net increase. In terms of numbers this means something like forty to fifty-five million additional people every year. Canada has a population of twenty million--rather less than six months. climb in world population. Take Australia. There are ten million people in Australia. So, it takes the world less than three months to add to itself a population which peoples that vast country. Let us take our own crowded country--England and Wales: forty-five to fifty million people--just about a year.s supply.
By this time tomorrow, and every day, there will be added to the earth about 120,000 extra people, just about the population of the city of York.
This enormous increase of population will create immense problems. By A.D. 2000, unless something desperate happens, there will be as many as 7,000,000,000 people on the surface of this earth! So this is a problem which you are going to see in your lifetime.
Why is this enormous increase in population taking place? It is really due to the spread of the knowledge and the practice of what is coming to be called Death Control. Death Control is something rather different from Birth Control. Death Control recognizes the work of the doctors and the nurses and the hospitals and the health services in keeping alive people who, a few years ago, would have died of some of the incredibly serious killing diseases, as they used to be. Squalid conditions, which we can remedy by an improved standard of living, caused a lot of disease and dirt. Medical examinations at school catch diseases early and ensure healthier school children. Scientists are at work stamping our malaria and other more deadly diseases. If you are seriously ill there is an ambulance to take you to a modern hospital. Medical care helps to keep people alive longer. We used to think seventy was a good age; now eighty, ninety, it may be, are coming to be recognized as a normal age for human beings. People are living longer because of this Death Control, and fewer children are dying, so the population of the world is shooting up.
Imagine the position if you and I and everyone else living on earth shared the surface between us. How much should we have each? It would be just over twelve acres--the sort of size of a small holding. But not all that is useful land which is going to produce food. We can cut out one-fifth of it, for example, as being too cold. That is land which is covered with ice and snow--Antarctica and Greenland and the great frozen areas of northern Canada. Then we can cut out another fifth as being too dry--the great deserts of the world like the Sahara and the heart of Australia and other areas where there is no known water supply to feed crops and so to produce food. Then we can cut out another fifth as being too mountainous or with too great an elevation above sea level. Then we can cut out another tenth as land which has insufficient soil, probably just rock at the surface. Now, out of the twelve acres only about four are left as suitable for producing food.. But not all that is used. It includes land with enough soil and enough rainfall or water, and enough heat which, at present, we are not using, such as, for example, the great Amazon forests and the Congo forest and the grasslands of Africa. How much are we actually using? Only a little over one acre is what is required to support one human being on an average at the present time.
36. The world.s population is increasing because _______.
A) the number of babies born every year is about 16 percent of the
total population
B) the birth rate is about 1.6 percent higher than the death rate
C) the birth rate is going up by 1.6 percent per annum
D) the death rate is going down by about 1.6 percent every year
37. The author mentions the different populations of Canada, Australia,
and England and Wales in order to _______.
A) show how small these countries are
B) show how quickly those countries are populated
C) emphasize the low rate of increase of world population
D) emphasize the high rate of increase of world population
38. According to the passage which of the following is not the cause for
death?
A) Poor living condition. B) Fatal diseases like malaria.
C) Poor medical service. D) Less food to feed people.
39. By "Death Control" the author means _______.
A) a rather different kind of Birth Control
B) control of the world.s population
C) the prevention or cure of diseases
D) the spread of knowledge in the world
40. From the passage we can conclude _______.
A) the problem of land is not very serious
B) the problem of land can be solved by removing Death Control
C) the problem of land should be solved by reducing the population
D) there is still potential to tap in the use of land
One of the most daring deep-space missions NASA has ever launched is turning out to be one of the least publicized. The target is a large asteroid (小行星) named 1992KD, which orbits the sun millions of miles from Earth. But that destination is almost incidental to the performance of the spacecraft that will make the trip. Though it looks little different from countless other unmanned probes NASA has launched, the ship will be navigated by an electronic brain that has been likened to HAL, the independent-minded computer in the film 2001, and will move through space under power of a system that has long been the stuff of technological fantasies: an ion propulsion (离子推进) engine.
If all goes as planned, Deep Space 1, scheduled for launch later this month, will be the forerunner of a new’ generation of spacecraft. While flight planners hope the ship will make some interesting observations about the target asteroid, including its composition and the structure of its surface, DS1 ‘s primary assignment is to validate a host of new technologies NASA has always considered too risky to try on a mission that may attract a great deal of public attention. Says Mar Rayman of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, DS1’ s chief engineer, “We have an unproven propulsion system, powered by an unproven solar panel, commanded by an unproven navigation system.
What is most remarkable about the spacecraft is how it gets from place to place. After being launched by an ordinary rocket, DS1 will be pushed through space by an engine that works by firing electrons into atoms of xenon gas, stripping each of an electron and giving the atoms an electric charge-ionizing them. The ions are then accelerated through an electric field and emitted from the thrusters at 65,000 m. p. h. Despite that speed, the particles produce little thrust, comparable to the weight of a piece of paper.
41. What is special about NASA’s planned deep-space mission regarding its publicity?
A) It is targeted at a large asteroid.
B) It is much less reported by the media.
C) It is the same as other unmanned probes.
D) It isn’t certain whether it will be successful.
42. What is the primary, purpose of the DS1 mission?
A) Testing new technologies for future spacecraft.
B) Calculating risks for the benefit of other missions.
C) Studying the surface of a large asteroid.
D) Proving a new generation of spacecraft.
43. Once launched, whether the spacecraft will reach its destination is incidental to the performance of all the following EXCEPT ___________.
A) the self-navigation system B) the ion-powered engine
C) the solar cells D) the flight planners
44. How does the DS1 leave the earth’s orbit?
A) By its special propulsion engine.
B) By a conventional rocket engine.
C) By firing electrons into the atoms of xenon gas.
D) By accelerating through an electric field.
45. Which of the following is NOT true according to this article?
A) The author likens the DS1’s navigation system to an electronic brain.
B) The DS1 is the first of a new breed of spacecraft.
C) The DS1 chief engineer has nothing to lose in such a mission.
D) The DS1’s power system used to be the dream of scientists.
A few days ago I asked my sons’ governess（女家庭教师）Julia to come into my study. “Be seated, Julia, ”I said, “Let’s settle our accounts. I guess you most likely need some money, but maybe you’re too polite to mention it. Now then, we agreed on thirty dollars a month...”
“Forty.”
“No, thirty. I made a note of it. I always pay our governess thirty. Well, um, you’ve been here two months, so...”
“Two months and five days.”
“Exactly two months. I made a special note of it. That means you have sixty dollars coming to you. Take off nine Sundays... you know you didn’t work with Tom on Sundays, you only took walks. And three holidays... ”Julia was biting her finger nail nervously, her face red, but - not a worD.
“Three holidays, therefore take off twelve dollars. Four days Tom was sick and there were no lessons, as you were occupied only with Dick. Three days you had a toothache and my wife gave you permission not to work after lunch. Twelve and seven - nineteen. Take nineteen off ... that leaves. hmm.... forty one dollars. Correct？”
Julia’s left eye reddened with tears welling up. Her chin trembled; she coughed nervously and blew her nose, but - still not a worD.
“Around New Year’s Day you broke a teacup and a saucer; take off two dollars. The cup cost more, it was a treasure of the family, but- forget it. When didn’t I take a loss! Then, due to your neglect （疏忽）, Tom climbed a tree and tore his jacket; take away ten. Also due to your carelessness the maid stole Dick’s shoes. You ought to watch everything! You get paid for it. So, that means five more dollars off. The tenth of January I gave ten dollars.”
“You didn’t. ”sobbed JuliA.
“But I made a note of it.”
“Well... if you say so.”
“Take twenty seven from forty one -that leaves fourteen.”
Both her eyes were filled with tears. Beads of sweat stood on the thin pretty little nose. Poor girl!
“Only once was I given any money,” she whispered, her voice trembling, “and that was by your wife. Three dollars, nothing more.”
“Really? You see now, and I didn’t know that! Take three from fourteen.. leaves eleven. Here’s your money, my dear. Three, three, three, one and one. Here it is !”
I handed her eleven dollars. She took them and pocketed them.
“Merci （法语: 谢谢）,”she whispereD.
I jumped to my feet and started pacing the room. I was overcome with anger. “For what, this - ‘merci’?” I askeD.
“For the money. ”
“But you know I’ve cheated you - robbed you ! I have actually stolen from you ! Why this‘merci’？”
“In my other places they didn’t give me anything at all.”
“They didn’t give you anything? No wonder! I played a little joke on you, a cruel lesson, just to teach you... I m going to give you all the eighty dollars! Here they are in the envelope all ready for you... Is it really possible to be so spineless （懦弱）?Why didn’t you protest? Why were you silent? Is it possible in this world to be without teeth and claws（爪）-to be such a fool?”
Embarrassed, she smileD. And I could read her expression,“It is possible.”
I asked her pardon for the cruel lesson and, to her great surprise, gave her the eighty dollars. She murmured her little“merci”several times and went out. I looked after her and thought,“How easy it is to crush the weak in this world !”
46．While talking to Julia, the wrier expected from her ________.
A. a protest B. gratitude
C. obedience D. an explanation
47．What shocked the writer was Julia’s ________.
A. nervousness in front of her boss
B. acceptance of injustice
C. shyness when talking about money
D. reluctance to express herself
48．The writer said, “Is it possible in this world to be without teeth and claws?” He was actually telling the governess ________.
A. to be more aggressive
B. to be more careful in her work
C. to protect her right
D. to live independently
49．At the end of the story, the writer said,“ How easy it is to crush the weak in this world!”to show ________.
A. his understanding of Julia’s anxiety
B. his worry about Julia’s future
C. his concern on the living condition of working - class people
D. his sympathy for the mental state of those exploited
50．From the story, we can tell that Julia’s employer was ________.
A. greedy but honest
B. ill - tempered but warm - hearted
C. strict but forgiving
D. none of the above
Faces, like fingerprints, are unique. Did you ever wonder how it is possible for us to recognize people? Even a skilled writer probably could not describe all the features that make one face different from another. Yet a very young child-or even an animal, such as a pigeon-can learn to recognize faces, we all take this ability for granted.
We also tell people apart by how they behave. When we talk about someone’s personality, we mean the ways in which he or she acts, speaks, thinks and feels that make that individual different from other.
Like the human face, human personality is very complex. But describing someone’s personality in words is somewhat easier than describing his face. If you were asked to describe what a “nice face” looked like, you probably would have a difficult time doing so.
But if you were asked to describe a “nice person”, you might begin to think about someone who was kind, considerate, friendly, warm, and so forth.
There are many words to describe how a person thinks, feels and acts. Fordin Allport, an American psychologist, found nearly 18,000 English words charactering differences in people’s behavior. And many of us use this information as a basis for describing, or typing, his personality. Bookworms, conservatives, military types-people are described with such terms.
People have always tried to “type” each other. Actors in early Greek drama wore masks to show the audience whether they played the villains or the hero’s role. In fact, the words “person” and “personality” come from the Latin persona, meaning “mask”. Today most television and movie actors do not wear masks. But we easily tell the “good guys” from the “bad guys” because the two types differ in appearance as well as in actions.
51. By using the simile (直喻) of fingerprints, the author tells us that _____.
A) people differ from each other in facial features
B) people have difficulty in describing the features of fingerprints
C) people have different personalities
D) people can learn to recognize faces
52. According to this passage, some animals have the gift of _____.
A) typing each other
B) telling people apart by how they behave
C) recognizing human faces
D) telling good people from bad people
53. Who most probably knows best hw to describe people’s personality?
A) Psychologists. B) The modern TV audience.
C) The ancient Greek audience D) The movie star.
54. According to the passage, it is possible for us to tell one type of person form another because _____.
A) human faces have complex features
B) people differ in their behavioral and physical characteristics
C) human fingerprints provide unique information
D) people’s behavior can be easily described in words
55. Which of the following is the major point of the passage?
A) How to get to know people.
B) Why it is necessary to identify people’s personality.
C) Hoe best to recognize people.
D) Why it is possible to describe people.
Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D) on the right side of the paper, you should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
How often one hears children wishing they were grown up, and old people wishing they were young again. Each _56__, however, has its pleasures and _57__ pains, and the happiest person is the _58__ who enjoys what each age gives him _59__ wasting his time in useless _60_. Childhood is a time when there are few responsibilities to make _61__ difficult. A child is usually fed, looked after and loved, _62__ he may do. It is _63__ that he will ever again in his life be given so _64__ without having to do anything in _65_. In addition, life is always presenting new things to the child.
Old age, on the other hand, has always been _66__ of as the worst age to be; but with old age _67__ come wisdom and the ability to help others _68__ advice (wisely given). The old can have the _69__ of seeing their sons and daughters _70__ making progress in life; they can _71__ their grandchildren growing up around them; and perhaps _72_ of all, they can feel the happiness of having reached a _73__ when they can lie back and rest, _74__ others to continue the battle _75__ life.
56. A) time B) person C) age D) division
57. A) many B) its C) their D) also
58. A) one B) luckiest C) child D) best
59. A) unless B) without C) except D) beyond
60. A) work B) efforts C) attempts D) regrets
61. A) people B) child C) them D) life
62. A) however B) which C) whatever D) what
63. A) impossible B) unreasonable C) surely D) natural
64. A) few B) many C) little D) much
65.A) fact B) return C) kindness D) thought
66.A) considered B) thought C) concerned D) regarded
67.A) should B) must C) need D) can
68.A) by B) for C) in D) with
69.A) joy B) profit C) advantage D) benefit
70.A) exceedingly B) gradually C) thoroughly D) increasingly
71.A) watch B) make C) bring D) control
72.A) one B) any C) worst D) best
73.A) level B) decision C) point D) time
74.A) helping B) leaving C) inviting D) forcing
75.A) on B) of C) about D) over
The government is trying to do something to ____ better understanding between the two nations .
A) raise B) promote C) heighten D) increase
The soldier was _____ of running away when the enemy attacked.
A) scolded B) charged C) accused D) punished
People appreciate ____ with him because he has a good sense of humor.
A) to work B) to have worked C) working D) having worked
When a spacecraft travels, one of the major problems is reentry into the Earth’s _______.
A) surface B) atmosphere C) attitude D) bent
A) testify B) charge C) accuse D) rectify
This boy was _______ for what he had done in the class.
A) scolded B) overcome C) inclined D) displayed
On weekend my grandpa usually ____ a glass of wine.
A) subscribes B) engages in C) hangs on D) indulges in
The leader of the expedition ____ everyone to follow his example.
A) promoted B) reinforced C)sparked D) inspired
We must look beyond ____ and assumptions and try to discover what is missing.
A) justifications B) illusions C) manifestations D) specifications
I left my friend’s house shortly after seven. It was still too early for me to have my evening meal, so I walked along the seafront (滨海马路) for about an hour until I began to feel hungry. By that time I was not far from a favorite restaurant of mine, where I often went to eat two or three times a week. I knew the owner well and frequently complimented (赞美, 恭维) him on his excellent cooking.
I went into the restaurant, which was already crowded, and ordered my meal. While I was waiting for the soup to arrive, I looked around to see if I knew anyone in the restaurant. It was then that I noticed that a man sitting at a corner table near the door kept glancing in my direction, as if he knew me, I certainly did not know him, for I never forgot a face. The man had a newspaper open in front of him, which he was pretending to read, though all the while I could see that he was keeping an eye on me. When the waiter brought my soup, the man was clearly puzzled by the familiar way in which the waiter and I addressed each other. He became even more puzzled as time went on and it grew more and more obvious that I was well known in the restaurant. Eventually he got up and went into the kitchen. After a few minutes he came out again, paid his bill and left without another glance in my direction.
When I had finished and was about to pay my bill, I called the owner of the restaurant over and asked him what the man had wanted. The owner was a little embarrassed by my question and at first did not want to tell me. I insisted. “Well,” he said, “that man was a detective.” “Really?” I said, considerably surprised. “He followed you here because he thought you were a man he was looking for,” the owner of the restaurant said. “When he came into the kitchen, he showed me a photograph of the wanted man. He certainly looked like you! Of course, since we know you here, I was able to convince him that he had made a mistake.” “It’s lucky I came to a restaurant where I am known,” I said, “otherwise I might have been arrested!”
31.When the author got to his favorite restaurant, it was ___________ .
A) already nine o’clock
B) eight o’clock on the dot
C) about two minutes past eight
D) slightly later than eight o’clock
32.The man sitting at the corner table near the door kept glancing in the direction of the author because he was __________________ .
A) interested in the personality of the author
B) making a study of the author
C) looking up and down the author
D) keeping a lookout over the author
33.The author was followed by the detective probably because he ___________ .
A) took after a suspect
B) was similar to a criminal in personality
C) was an accomplice
D) looked like a murderer
34.The detective had a newspaper open in front of him in order to ____________ .
A) read it in detail
B) cover up what he was really doing there
C) have it rechecked
D) wait for his food
35.According to the text, if the author had been a stranger in the restaurant, he would have been ____________________.
A) taken to court
B) followed
C) captured
D) sentenced to a few years’ imprisonment
A very important world problem is the rapidly increasing pressure of population on land and on land resources.
It is not so much the actual population of the world but its rate of increase which is important. It works out to be about 1.6 per cent per annum net increase. In terms of numbers this means something like forty to fifty-five million additional people every year. Canada has a population of twenty million--rather less than six months. climb in world population. Take Australia. There are ten million people in Australia. So, it takes the world less than three months to add to itself a population which peoples that vast country. Let us take our own crowded country--England and Wales: forty-five to fifty million people--just about a year.s supply.
By this time tomorrow, and every day, there will be added to the earth about 120,000 extra people, just about the population of the city of York.
This enormous increase of population will create immense problems. By A.D. 2000, unless something desperate happens, there will be as many as 7,000,000,000 people on the surface of this earth! So this is a problem which you are going to see in your lifetime.
Why is this enormous increase in population taking place? It is really due to the spread of the knowledge and the practice of what is coming to be called Death Control. Death Control is something rather different from Birth Control. Death Control recognizes the work of the doctors and the nurses and the hospitals and the health services in keeping alive people who, a few years ago, would have died of some of the incredibly serious killing diseases, as they used to be. Squalid conditions, which we can remedy by an improved standard of living, caused a lot of disease and dirt. Medical examinations at school catch diseases early and ensure healthier school children. Scientists are at work stamping our malaria and other more deadly diseases. If you are seriously ill there is an ambulance to take you to a modern hospital. Medical care helps to keep people alive longer. We used to think seventy was a good age; now eighty, ninety, it may be, are coming to be recognized as a normal age for human beings. People are living longer because of this Death Control, and fewer children are dying, so the population of the world is shooting up.
Imagine the position if you and I and everyone else living on earth shared the surface between us. How much should we have each? It would be just over twelve acres--the sort of size of a small holding. But not all that is useful land which is going to produce food. We can cut out one-fifth of it, for example, as being too cold. That is land which is covered with ice and snow--Antarctica and Greenland and the great frozen areas of northern Canada. Then we can cut out another fifth as being too dry--the great deserts of the world like the Sahara and the heart of Australia and other areas where there is no known water supply to feed crops and so to produce food. Then we can cut out another fifth as being too mountainous or with too great an elevation above sea level. Then we can cut out another tenth as land which has insufficient soil, probably just rock at the surface. Now, out of the twelve acres only about four are left as suitable for producing food.. But not all that is used. It includes land with enough soil and enough rainfall or water, and enough heat which, at present, we are not using, such as, for example, the great Amazon forests and the Congo forest and the grasslands of Africa. How much are we actually using? Only a little over one acre is what is required to support one human being on an average at the present time.
36. The world.s population is increasing because _______.
A) the number of babies born every year is about 16 percent of the
total population
B) the birth rate is about 1.6 percent higher than the death rate
C) the birth rate is going up by 1.6 percent per annum
D) the death rate is going down by about 1.6 percent every year
37. The author mentions the different populations of Canada, Australia,
and England and Wales in order to _______.
A) show how small these countries are
B) show how quickly those countries are populated
C) emphasize the low rate of increase of world population
D) emphasize the high rate of increase of world population
38. According to the passage which of the following is not the cause for
death?
A) Poor living condition. B) Fatal diseases like malaria.
C) Poor medical service. D) Less food to feed people.
39. By "Death Control" the author means _______.
A) a rather different kind of Birth Control
B) control of the world.s population
C) the prevention or cure of diseases
D) the spread of knowledge in the world
40. From the passage we can conclude _______.
A) the problem of land is not very serious
B) the problem of land can be solved by removing Death Control
C) the problem of land should be solved by reducing the population
D) there is still potential to tap in the use of land
One of the most daring deep-space missions NASA has ever launched is turning out to be one of the least publicized. The target is a large asteroid (小行星) named 1992KD, which orbits the sun millions of miles from Earth. But that destination is almost incidental to the performance of the spacecraft that will make the trip. Though it looks little different from countless other unmanned probes NASA has launched, the ship will be navigated by an electronic brain that has been likened to HAL, the independent-minded computer in the film 2001, and will move through space under power of a system that has long been the stuff of technological fantasies: an ion propulsion (离子推进) engine.
If all goes as planned, Deep Space 1, scheduled for launch later this month, will be the forerunner of a new’ generation of spacecraft. While flight planners hope the ship will make some interesting observations about the target asteroid, including its composition and the structure of its surface, DS1 ‘s primary assignment is to validate a host of new technologies NASA has always considered too risky to try on a mission that may attract a great deal of public attention. Says Mar Rayman of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, DS1’ s chief engineer, “We have an unproven propulsion system, powered by an unproven solar panel, commanded by an unproven navigation system.
What is most remarkable about the spacecraft is how it gets from place to place. After being launched by an ordinary rocket, DS1 will be pushed through space by an engine that works by firing electrons into atoms of xenon gas, stripping each of an electron and giving the atoms an electric charge-ionizing them. The ions are then accelerated through an electric field and emitted from the thrusters at 65,000 m. p. h. Despite that speed, the particles produce little thrust, comparable to the weight of a piece of paper.
41. What is special about NASA’s planned deep-space mission regarding its publicity?
A) It is targeted at a large asteroid.
B) It is much less reported by the media.
C) It is the same as other unmanned probes.
D) It isn’t certain whether it will be successful.
42. What is the primary, purpose of the DS1 mission?
A) Testing new technologies for future spacecraft.
B) Calculating risks for the benefit of other missions.
C) Studying the surface of a large asteroid.
D) Proving a new generation of spacecraft.
43. Once launched, whether the spacecraft will reach its destination is incidental to the performance of all the following EXCEPT ___________.
A) the self-navigation system B) the ion-powered engine
C) the solar cells D) the flight planners
44. How does the DS1 leave the earth’s orbit?
A) By its special propulsion engine.
B) By a conventional rocket engine.
C) By firing electrons into the atoms of xenon gas.
D) By accelerating through an electric field.
45. Which of the following is NOT true according to this article?
A) The author likens the DS1’s navigation system to an electronic brain.
B) The DS1 is the first of a new breed of spacecraft.
C) The DS1 chief engineer has nothing to lose in such a mission.
D) The DS1’s power system used to be the dream of scientists.
A few days ago I asked my sons’ governess（女家庭教师）Julia to come into my study. “Be seated, Julia, ”I said, “Let’s settle our accounts. I guess you most likely need some money, but maybe you’re too polite to mention it. Now then, we agreed on thirty dollars a month...”
“Forty.”
“No, thirty. I made a note of it. I always pay our governess thirty. Well, um, you’ve been here two months, so...”
“Two months and five days.”
“Exactly two months. I made a special note of it. That means you have sixty dollars coming to you. Take off nine Sundays... you know you didn’t work with Tom on Sundays, you only took walks. And three holidays... ”Julia was biting her finger nail nervously, her face red, but - not a worD.
“Three holidays, therefore take off twelve dollars. Four days Tom was sick and there were no lessons, as you were occupied only with Dick. Three days you had a toothache and my wife gave you permission not to work after lunch. Twelve and seven - nineteen. Take nineteen off ... that leaves. hmm.... forty one dollars. Correct？”
Julia’s left eye reddened with tears welling up. Her chin trembled; she coughed nervously and blew her nose, but - still not a worD.
“Around New Year’s Day you broke a teacup and a saucer; take off two dollars. The cup cost more, it was a treasure of the family, but- forget it. When didn’t I take a loss! Then, due to your neglect （疏忽）, Tom climbed a tree and tore his jacket; take away ten. Also due to your carelessness the maid stole Dick’s shoes. You ought to watch everything! You get paid for it. So, that means five more dollars off. The tenth of January I gave ten dollars.”
“You didn’t. ”sobbed JuliA.
“But I made a note of it.”
“Well... if you say so.”
“Take twenty seven from forty one -that leaves fourteen.”
Both her eyes were filled with tears. Beads of sweat stood on the thin pretty little nose. Poor girl!
“Only once was I given any money,” she whispered, her voice trembling, “and that was by your wife. Three dollars, nothing more.”
“Really? You see now, and I didn’t know that! Take three from fourteen.. leaves eleven. Here’s your money, my dear. Three, three, three, one and one. Here it is !”
I handed her eleven dollars. She took them and pocketed them.
“Merci （法语: 谢谢）,”she whispereD.
I jumped to my feet and started pacing the room. I was overcome with anger. “For what, this - ‘merci’?” I askeD.
“For the money. ”
“But you know I’ve cheated you - robbed you ! I have actually stolen from you ! Why this‘merci’？”
“In my other places they didn’t give me anything at all.”
“They didn’t give you anything? No wonder! I played a little joke on you, a cruel lesson, just to teach you... I m going to give you all the eighty dollars! Here they are in the envelope all ready for you... Is it really possible to be so spineless （懦弱）?Why didn’t you protest? Why were you silent? Is it possible in this world to be without teeth and claws（爪）-to be such a fool?”
Embarrassed, she smileD. And I could read her expression,“It is possible.”
I asked her pardon for the cruel lesson and, to her great surprise, gave her the eighty dollars. She murmured her little“merci”several times and went out. I looked after her and thought,“How easy it is to crush the weak in this world !”
46．While talking to Julia, the wrier expected from her ________.
A. a protest B. gratitude
C. obedience D. an explanation
47．What shocked the writer was Julia’s ________.
A. nervousness in front of her boss
B. acceptance of injustice
C. shyness when talking about money
D. reluctance to express herself
48．The writer said, “Is it possible in this world to be without teeth and claws?” He was actually telling the governess ________.
A. to be more aggressive
B. to be more careful in her work
C. to protect her right
D. to live independently
49．At the end of the story, the writer said,“ How easy it is to crush the weak in this world!”to show ________.
A. his understanding of Julia’s anxiety
B. his worry about Julia’s future
C. his concern on the living condition of working - class people
D. his sympathy for the mental state of those exploited
50．From the story, we can tell that Julia’s employer was ________.
A. greedy but honest
B. ill - tempered but warm - hearted
C. strict but forgiving
D. none of the above
Faces, like fingerprints, are unique. Did you ever wonder how it is possible for us to recognize people? Even a skilled writer probably could not describe all the features that make one face different from another. Yet a very young child-or even an animal, such as a pigeon-can learn to recognize faces, we all take this ability for granted.
We also tell people apart by how they behave. When we talk about someone’s personality, we mean the ways in which he or she acts, speaks, thinks and feels that make that individual different from other.
Like the human face, human personality is very complex. But describing someone’s personality in words is somewhat easier than describing his face. If you were asked to describe what a “nice face” looked like, you probably would have a difficult time doing so.
But if you were asked to describe a “nice person”, you might begin to think about someone who was kind, considerate, friendly, warm, and so forth.
There are many words to describe how a person thinks, feels and acts. Fordin Allport, an American psychologist, found nearly 18,000 English words charactering differences in people’s behavior. And many of us use this information as a basis for describing, or typing, his personality. Bookworms, conservatives, military types-people are described with such terms.
People have always tried to “type” each other. Actors in early Greek drama wore masks to show the audience whether they played the villains or the hero’s role. In fact, the words “person” and “personality” come from the Latin persona, meaning “mask”. Today most television and movie actors do not wear masks. But we easily tell the “good guys” from the “bad guys” because the two types differ in appearance as well as in actions.
51. By using the simile (直喻) of fingerprints, the author tells us that _____.
A) people differ from each other in facial features
B) people have difficulty in describing the features of fingerprints
C) people have different personalities
D) people can learn to recognize faces
52. According to this passage, some animals have the gift of _____.
A) typing each other
B) telling people apart by how they behave
C) recognizing human faces
D) telling good people from bad people
53. Who most probably knows best hw to describe people’s personality?
A) Psychologists. B) The modern TV audience.
C) The ancient Greek audience D) The movie star.
54. According to the passage, it is possible for us to tell one type of person form another because _____.
A) human faces have complex features
B) people differ in their behavioral and physical characteristics
C) human fingerprints provide unique information
D) people’s behavior can be easily described in words
55. Which of the following is the major point of the passage?
A) How to get to know people.
B) Why it is necessary to identify people’s personality.
C) Hoe best to recognize people.
D) Why it is possible to describe people.
Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D) on the right side of the paper, you should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
How often one hears children wishing they were grown up, and old people wishing they were young again. Each _56__, however, has its pleasures and _57__ pains, and the happiest person is the _58__ who enjoys what each age gives him _59__ wasting his time in useless _60_. Childhood is a time when there are few responsibilities to make _61__ difficult. A child is usually fed, looked after and loved, _62__ he may do. It is _63__ that he will ever again in his life be given so _64__ without having to do anything in _65_. In addition, life is always presenting new things to the child.
Old age, on the other hand, has always been _66__ of as the worst age to be; but with old age _67__ come wisdom and the ability to help others _68__ advice (wisely given). The old can have the _69__ of seeing their sons and daughters _70__ making progress in life; they can _71__ their grandchildren growing up around them; and perhaps _72_ of all, they can feel the happiness of having reached a _73__ when they can lie back and rest, _74__ others to continue the battle _75__ life.
56. A) time B) person C) age D) division
57. A) many B) its C) their D) also
58. A) one B) luckiest C) child D) best
59. A) unless B) without C) except D) beyond
60. A) work B) efforts C) attempts D) regrets
61. A) people B) child C) them D) life
62. A) however B) which C) whatever D) what
63. A) impossible B) unreasonable C) surely D) natural
64. A) few B) many C) little D) much
65.A) fact B) return C) kindness D) thought
66.A) considered B) thought C) concerned D) regarded
67.A) should B) must C) need D) can
68.A) by B) for C) in D) with
69.A) joy B) profit C) advantage D) benefit
70.A) exceedingly B) gradually C) thoroughly D) increasingly
71.A) watch B) make C) bring D) control
72.A) one B) any C) worst D) best
73.A) level B) decision C) point D) time
74.A) helping B) leaving C) inviting D) forcing
75.A) on B) of C) about D) over
The government is trying to do something to ____ better understanding between the two nations .
A) raise B) promote C) heighten D) increase
The soldier was _____ of running away when the enemy attacked.
A) scolded B) charged C) accused D) punished
People appreciate ____ with him because he has a good sense of humor.
A) to work B) to have worked C) working D) having worked
When a spacecraft travels, one of the major problems is reentry into the Earth’s _______.
A) surface B) atmosphere C) attitude D) bent