大学英语-大学英语四级阅读模拟题15

大学英语-大学英语四级阅读模拟题15 大学英语四级阅读模拟题15 Part ? Reading Comprehension Section A Lamar Odom, the star forward in the NBA, is known for his outsized love of candy, sometimes eating 1 bags of chocolate and jelly beans on game day. Last week, a doctor and NBA fan wrote an essay 2 Odom's sweet tooth to his inconstant and sometimes slow play. Odom countered that, if anything, the 3 sugar helps his performance. But what do studies have to say? According to research, candy before exercise can 4 performance, but only to a point. Studies have shown, for example, that when athletes eat a 180-calorie candy bar and then ride a bike for an hour—rushing for the final 15 minutes—they 5 better than on days when they drink only beforehand. But on days when the 6 eat a solid meal a few hours earlier and then have sugar before riding, they do better than on just the sugar alone. Candy can be as 7 as healthier options like fruit, and because people 8 release little insulin (胰岛素) during exercise, crashing is unlikely, said Nancy Clark, a sports nutritionist. But candy lacks nutrients that are critical to things like bone strength and post-exercise 9 . For best results, pre-exercise meals should combine protein and easily digestible carbohydrates. Sugar can work as quick 10 for exercise, but nutrient-rich foods are better. A. excessive B. efficient C. rally D. perform E. fuel F. boasting G. coarsely H. entire I. enhance J. typically K. hazard L. subjects M. lodges N. linking O. recovery For some educators, there is nothing wrong with fun and games. A group called the Education Arcade recently held a conference in Los Angeles to discuss the future of 11 games. The Education Arcade brings together international game designers, publishers, teachers and policymakers. They say they want to lead 12 in the way the world learns through computer and video games. The 13 was part of E-three, the Electronic Entertainment Exposition. This is a yearly trade 14 where companies show off new games and educational products. The Education Arcade started at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, near Boston. Professors worked with the Microsoft company to create what they called the Games-to-Teach Project. The group began to 15 ways to use technology in teaching and learning. They worked with game designers to develop ideas about how 16 and science could mix with game playing. The Education Arcade is the research part of this Games-to-Teach Project. The group recently announced that a "Games for Learning" statement will be 17 on some products. This should begin to appear in American stores in about six months. The 18 is to help people find games that are fun but will also teach. The Education Arcade says it also wants to get businesses to produce more games that teach. Companies have been creating systems like hand-held educational 19 made by LeapFrog. And new educational role-playing games are being developed. M.I.T. and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in Virginia are developing a game called "Revolution." Players will get to experience the American Revolution 20 . A. placed B. mathematics C. primarily D. goal E. occurrences F. show G. explore H. estimated I. radical J. educational K. change L. online M. devices N. conference O. inherit As war spreads to many corners of the globe, children sadly have been drawn into the center of conflicts. In Afghanistan, Bosnia, and Colombia, however, groups of children have been taking part in peace education 21 . The children, after learning to resolve conflicts, took on the 22 of peacemakers. The Children's Movement for Peace in Colombia was even nominated (提名) for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998. Groups of children 23 as peacemakers studied human rights and poverty issues in Colombia, eventually forming a group with five other schools in Bogota known as The Schools of Peace. The classroom 24 opportunities for children to replace angry, violent behaviors with 25 , peaceful ones. It is in the classroom that caring and respect for each person empowers children to take a step 26 toward becoming peacemakers. Fortunately, educators have access to many online resources that are 27 useful when helping children along the path to peace. The Young Peacemakers Club, started in 1992, provides a Website with resources for teachers and 28 on starting a Kindness Campaign. The World Centers of Compassion for Children International call attention to children's rights of war. Starting a Peacemakers' Club is a praiseworthy and how to help the 29 venture for a class and one that could spread to other classrooms and ideally affect the culture of the 30 school. A. acting B. assuming C. comprehensive D. cooperative E. entire F. especially G. forward H. images I. information J. offers K. projects L. respectively M. role N. technology O. victims Section B Keep Our Seas Clean A. By the year 2050 it is estimated that the world's population could have increased to around 12 billion. Of these, some 60 percent will live within 60 km of the sea. The agricultural and industrial activities required to support this population will increase the already significant pressures on fertile coastal areas. Death and disease caused by polluted coastal waters costs the global economy US $12.8 billion a year. Plastic waste kills up to 1 million sea birds, 100,000 sea mammals and countless fish each year. B. One significant impact of human activity is marine pollution. The most visible and familiar is oil pollution caused by tanker accidents and tank washing at sea, and in addition to the gross visible short-term impacts, severe long-term problems can also result. In the case of the Exxon Valdez which ran onto a shore in Alaska in 1989, biological impacts from the oil spill can still be identified 15 years after the event. The Prestige which sank off the Spanish coast late in 2002, resulted in huge economic losses as it polluted more than 100 beaches in France and Spain and effectively destroyed the local fishing industry. C. Despite the scale and visibility of such impacts, the total quantities of pollutants entering the sea from the long line of catastrophic oil spills appeared small compared with those of pollutants introduced directly and indirectly from other sources, including domestic sewage, industrial discharges, leakages from waste tips, urban and industrial run-off, accidents, spillages, explosions, sea dumping operations, oil production, mining, agriculture nutrients and pesticides, waste heat sources, and radioactive discharges. Land based sources are estimated to account for around 44 percent of the pollutants entering the sea and atmospheric inputs account for an estimated 33 percent. By contrast, transport on the sea accounts for 12 percent. D. The impacts of pollution vary. Nutrient pollution from sewage discharges and agriculture can result in unsightly and possibly dangerous "blooms" of algae (藻类) in coastal waters. As these blooms die and decay they use up the oxygen in the water. This has led, in some areas, to "creeping dead zones" (CDZ), where oxygen dissolved in the water falls to levels unable to sustain marine life. Industrial pollution also contributes to these dead zones. E. Radioactive (放射性的) pollution has many causes, including the normal operation of nuclear power stations, but by far the single biggest sources of man-made radioactive elements in the sea are the nuclear fuel reprocessing plants at La Hague in France and at Sellafield in the UK. Waste released from them has resulted in the widespread pollution of living marine resources over a wide area; radioactive elements traceable to reprocessing can be found in seaweeds as far away as the West Greenland Coast. F. Trace metal pollution from metal mining, production and processing industries can damage the health of marine plants and animals and render some seafoods unfit for human consumption. The contribution of human activities can be very significant: the amount of mercury introduced to the environment by industrial activities is around four times the amount released through natural processes such as weathering and erosion (腐蚀). G. The input of man-made chemicals to the oceans potentially involves an overwhelming number of different substances. 63,000 different chemicals are thought to be in use worldwide with 3,000 accounting for 90 percent of the total production amount. Each year, anywhere up to 1,000 new synthetic chemicals may be brought onto the market. Of all these chemicals some 4,500 fall into the most serious category. These are known as persistent organic pollutants (POPs). They're resistant to breakdown and have the potential to accumulate in the tissues of living organisms (all marine life), causing hormone disruption which can, in turn, cause reproductive problems, induce cancer, suppress the immune system and interfere with normal mental development in children. H. POPs can also be transported long distances in the atmosphere and deposited in cold regions. As a result, Inuit populations who live in the Arctic a long distance from the sources of these pollutants are among the most severely influenced people on the planet, since they rely on fat-rich marine food sources such as fish and seals. POPs are also thought to be responsible for some polar bear populations failing to reproduce normally. Scarily, seafoods consumed by people living in warm and mild regions are also affected by POPs. Oily fish tend to accumulate POPs in their bodies and these can be passed to human consumers. When oily fish are rendered down into fish meal and fish oils and subsequently used to feed other animals, then this too can act as a pathway to humans. Farmed fish and shellfish, dairy cattle, poultry and pigs are all fed fish meal in certain countries, and so meat and dairy products as well as farmed and wild fish can act as further sources of these chemicals to humans. I. The North and Baltic Seas also contain some of the world's busiest shipping lanes. 200,000 ships cross the North Sea every year. Many goods transported by ships are hazardous (half the goods carried at sea can be described as dangerous) and loss of dangerous cargoes can result in damage to the marine environment. Chemical tank washings, discharge of oily wastes and wash waters are all significant sources of marine pollution. J. In addition there is always the risk of a major oil spill, a risk made worse by the fact that some of the tankers that routinely travel through still have only one body-frame or have other technical defects and crews who are poorly educated. In November 2002, the Prestige oil tanker went down off the coast of Spain with 70,000 tons of oil on board which polluted 2,890 km of coastline. A few days earlier it had been crossing the Baltic. K. Some sources of pollution have been brought under control by international legislation. Countries which signed the London Convention have agreed to stop the dumping of radioactive and industrial waste at sea. The OSPAR Convention regulates marine pollution in the North East Atlantic Region while countries which signed the Stockholm Convention have committed themselves to the phase out of a number of persistent organic pollutants. Within the European Community, the Water Framework Directive may be expected to bring further reductions in polluting inputs, although it will be over a very long time frame. The additional benefit of the new EU REACH (Registration Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals) initiative, which aims to regulate the production and use of dangerous chemicals at source, remains to be seen. 31、 The regulation of marine pollution in the North East Atlantic Region is based on the OSPAR Convention. 32、 The fact that some tankers still have only one body-frame or have other technical defects making bigger possibility of oil spill. 33、 About one-third of the pollutants entering the sea come from atmospheric inputs. 34、 The overgrow of algae will result in oxygen shortage in the water, which led to "creeping dead zones". 35、 In warm and mild regions, farmed fish and shellfish are also affected by POPs because they are fed fish meal. 36、 As long as 2,890 km of coastline had been polluted by the oil spill of the Prestige oil tanker. 37、 Oil pollution caused by tanker accidents and tank washing at sea is considered as the most visible and familiar marine pollution. 38、 Half of the goods transported by ships can be classified as dangerous cargoes. 39、 The West Greenland Coast has been polluted by radioactive elements. 40、 Hormone disruption in marine life is the result of accumulation of POPs. Things You Can't Say in Canada A. Attacking our sacred cows (things or people that cannot be criticized) may turn you into one looked down upon by all others—but it can also be a lot of fun. Every culture has its unacknowledged taboos—the things you are forbidden to say or do in polite company, the accepted truths you are not allowed to doubt. You might think that a liberal, open-minded country like Canada would be free of such taboos, but you'd be wrong. In spite of our belief in our own civilized tolerance, some things are simply not open to debate. If you try, you're bound to shock the neighbors. B. It's risky to question the wisdom of the tribe. You might get stoned. On the other hand, some people might walk secretly up to you afterwards and tell you that they secretly agree. So here's a challenge to a few of our nation's most widely held beliefs. You say these things in public at your own danger. I will be elaborating on these points over the months to come. Feel free to stone me or secretly agree—or, even better, add to the list. At the very least, they're sure to start a good dinner-party fight. C. Margaret Atwood writes some really awful books. The queen of Canadian Literature dominates the literary world like a giant. Nobody has won more awards than she has, and nobody is more feared. There is no such a thing as a bad review of a Margaret Atwood book in Canada. That's too bad, because many of her books are tedious and unreadable, full of unpleasant characters and plot filled with torture. Why will no one say so? Because we're grateful that she has put us on the global map. And because if they do, they'll never work in this country again. D. Recycling is a waste of time and money. Once upon a time it was easy to put out the trash. Today, the Garbage Gestapo rules our lives. Every household has become a mini version of the village dump, and every one of us has become a garbage picker, carefully separating our organic waste from our bottles and papers, and worrying about where our different kinds of garbage are supposed to go. Don't try to sort a wine bottle into the wrong bag! The trash police will punish you. The truth about recycling is that it's a giant waste of dollars and doesn't help the environment. But don't tell your kids. They won't believe you. They've been brainwashed. E. Only private enterprise can save public health care. Tommy Douglas, the CBC's Greatest Canadian, brought us universal health care. But even his plan didn't originally pay for everybody's minor diseases, such as ingrown toenails. His primary goal was to make sure nobody faced financial ruin if they got sick. Today we have a system where controlling costs is more important than treating patients, and where ideology is disabling us. In some places, including Toronto, people go blind waiting for cataract (白内障) surgery. The government could restore their sight tomorrow simply by sending them to a private clinic instead of to a hospital. The cost to the government would be exactly the same. But in Canada, "private" is a dirty word, and so the government would rather you go blind. Poor Tommy would be spinning in his grave. F. David Suzuki is bad for the environment. From global warming to farmed salmon and genetically modified crops, David Suzuki has just one message: The end is near. He is our homegrown prophet of doom, who can predict what will happen in the future. He advocates the essential wickedness of the human race. Like a modern Savonarola, he warns that unless we cast our material possessions into the bonfire, we're all going to hell. The trouble with this predicting vision is that people are starting to isolate from the environment. And our hugely expensive investment in the unworkable Kyoto treaty, which Mr. Suzuki tells us doesn't go nearly far enough, will wipe out more practical measures to cut smog and clean up our waste sites. G. A national daycare program won't do a thing to help poor kids. Cheap national daycare! Who could be against it? It's supposed to give kids a better start in life, and nobody can object to that. But In Quebec, where the program started, universal daycare has turned out to be nothing more than a giant (and extremely costly) subsidy for relatively well-off middle-class parents. Few poor parents use the system. No doubt convenient daycare is a gift sent by god for many people. But so far there is no definitive evidence that kids who go to daycare go on to do better in school or in life. So if we want to invest billions in helping kids, why are we spending it on the kids who need help the least? H. Group of Seven artists are overexposed genre (类型) painters. I like A.Y. Jackson as much as you do. His paintings remind me of when I went to summer camp. I grew up with a reproduction of The West Wind hanging in our living room. (That was by Tom Thomson, who wasn't really a member of Group of Seven, but never mind.) Group of Seven were the first artists to depict the wild Canadian landscape, and they were bold young rebels in their time. But that time was 80 years ago. Today their work is the essence of bourgeois picture-postcard art—the kind of art it's safe to take your mother to see. Enough, already. Maybe it's time we moved on. I. The United States is the greatest force for ever the world has ever known. Of all the shocking things you can say around the dinner table, this is the most shocking one. After all, America-criticizing is part of our national identity. At best, we see our neighbor as a well-intentioned but arrogant and wrong-doing bully (欺负弱小者) that throws its weight around too much. At worst, we see our neighbor as one of the most evil nations in the world. And yet, right now, hundreds of millions of people in desperately poor parts of the world are being liberated from millennia of suffering and serfdom. Why? Because of the United States, which has spread its idea of economic freedom—and its purchasing power—around the world. 41、 David Suzuki believes that "the end is near", and he is regarded as a local prophet of doom. 42、 In Quebec, the national daycare system is seldom used by poor parents. 43、 Thanks to the United States, desperately poor parts of the world are being liberated from millennia of suffering and serfdom. 44、 Margaret Atwood has been regarded as the queen of Canadian Literature. 45、 Criticizing the United States is the Canada's national identity. 46、 Almost everyone in Canada becomes a garbage picker and carefully sorts out different kinds of garbage. 47、 The Kyoto treaty was aimed at solving pollution problems. 48、 Canada is a country that is liberal and open-minded. 49、 As "private" is regarded as a dirty word, the government isn't willing to send patients to a private clinic. Group of Seven were the first artists to depict the wild Canadian landscape. 50、 Are we ready for the library of the future? A. Librarians today will tell you their job is not so much to take care of books but to give people access to information in all forms. Since librarians, like so many people, believe that the entire universe of commerce, communication and information is moving to digital form, they are on a reform to give people access to the Internet—to prevent them from becoming second-class citizens in an all-digital world. Something funny happened on the road to the digital library of the future, though. Far from becoming keepers of the keys to the Grand Database of Universal Knowledge, today's librarians are increasingly finding themselves in an unexpected, overloaded role: They have become the general public's last-resort providers of tech support. B. It wasn't supposed to be this way. Today's libraries offer a variety of media and social-cultural events—they are "blended libraries," to use a term created by Kathleen Imhoff, assistant director of the Broward County Library of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. At the newly remodeled San Francisco Public Library, the computers are prominently displayed in the center of the library building while the books are all but hidden on the periphery (外围). Imhoffs own library has word processing and other types of software for visitors to use, Internet access, audio CDs, videotapes, concerts, lectures, books and periodicals in three forms (print, microfiche and digital). Many libraries have found that this kind of "blending" is hugely popular in their communities, and librarians explain the changes in their institutions' roles by pointing to the public demand for these new services. But other trends are at work, too. C. For some time, libraries have been automating their back-end, behind-the-desk functions for reasons of cost and convenience, just like any other business. Now, the computers have moved out from behind librarians' desks and onto the floor where the visitors are. This means that, suddenly, library-goers will have to know how to use those computers. This sounds reasonable enough until you take a close look. Unfortunately, the same technology that cuts costs and relieves librarians of work behind the scenes increases it for the public—and for the librarians at the front desk who have to help the public figure out how to use the technology. The unhappy result: People are simply not finding the information they seek. D. If you are just coming to the library to read a book for pleasure and you know what a card catalog is and you have some basic computer skills, then you are going to be OK. But ff you are trying to find some specific information—say, whether software in the classroom helps kids learn better or the causes of lung cancer or the basic procedure for doing a cost-benefit analysis of computer systems (three topics I have actually tried to look up in the San Francisco library)—then you're in trouble. E. To begin with, library visitors must now be able to type, to use a mouse and a menu and to understand the various types of computer interfaces (terminal text, windows and browsers). It's also nice if you know 17 different ways to quit a program, which electronic databases you should look in for what kinds of information, the grammar necessary to define your search and the Library of Congress' controlled vocabulary. After I had been to the new San Francisco library three times, I started keeping a folder of instructions on how to do a keyword search, since I would forget between visits. F. Probably 50% of the population has never used a computer, fewer know how to type and almost nobody knows anything about electronic databases or searching grammar. As a result, the public library is now engaged in a massive attempt to teach computer literacy to the entire country. Some librarians compare it to the adult literacy programs the library also sponsors, but this is on a far larger scale—and less closely tied to the library's traditional mission. The response at each library system has been different. Some libraries actually give courses in word processing, accounting program and so on. But even at libraries where the staff has resisted becoming computer trainers, they are still forced to devote significant resources to the problem. G. Such has been the case in San Francisco, where people with disabilities can sign up to use the voice-recognition program Dragon Dictate—but only if they can prove they already know how to use the software. The librarians have neither the time nor the peculiar skill (nor the time to develop the skill) to teach it to them. At the reference desks, librarians try not to spend a lot of time teaching people the basics of how to use the computer, but sometimes it's unavoidable. "We try to get them started," says business librarian John Kenney. "We let them do as much as they can on their own and they come get us. It's certainly a big problem." H. The San Francisco library offers classes on its own electronic catalog, commercial periodical indexes and the Internet twice a week as well as occasional lectures about the Internet. Although it seems odd to me that people now need to take a two-hour class before they can use the library, the classes are always hill. But despite the excellent teachers, two hours is simply not enough to meet the needs of the students, many of whom have never used a computer before in their lives and many of whom simply can't type. When I took the class one Tuesday, the man sitting next to me said he has used the library's computer catalog many times, but he keeps making typing mistakes without knowing it. This unexpectedly throws him into the wrong screens and he doesn't know how to get back. On the floor, he repeatedly has to ask a librarian for help. I. "Providing technology does not mean people can use the technology," says Marc Webb, a San Francisco librarian and one of the teachers. "Half the voters are still trying to read English." The library has also had to deal with the practical difficulties of making its catalog accessible via the Internet, a new service many libraries are starting to offer. "It's absolutely overwhelming," Webb says. "Everyone is getting to us with multiple transports, they're all using different software, they have Winsock or Telnet set up differently, and suddenly the library is forced to become a hardware and software help desk. When you're trying to tell someone over the telephone how to set up Winsock through AOL when this is the first time they've ever used a computer, it's very difficult." 51、 Computers are more prominently displayed than books in San Francisco Public Library. 52、 Libraries have been automating their back-end, behind-the-desk functions in consideration of cost and convenience. 53、 Recently, many libraries are trying to provide the visitors with a new service: making their catalogs accessible via the Internet. 54、 As 50% of the population may have never used a computer, the public library now has been engaged in computer literacy programs. 55、 In today's libraries, the librarians are playing an unexpected role as a provider of tech support for the public. 56、 Library visitors have to know how to type and use a mouse if they want to seek information in the modern library. 57、 If you have some basic knowledge of card catalogue and computer skills, you will be able to read a book for pleasure. 58、 The San Francisco library regularly provides classes on computers skills and the Internet. 59、 Blended libraries are hugely popular in communities at the present time. 60、 Dragon Dictate is the software which is used to help the disabled in library use. Section C Passage One For thousands of years, people thought of glass as something beautiful to look at. Only recently have they come to think of it as something to look through. Stores display their goods in large glass windows. Glass bottles and jars that hold food and drink allow us to see the contents. Glass is used to make eyeglasses, microscopes, telescopes, and many other extremely useful and necessary objects. Until the Second World War, most of the glass used for optical instruments was imported from Europe. However, during the war Americans could not get European glass, and they were forced to make their own. As a result, new kinds of glasses were developed that had been previously unknown. These new effects were achieved by mixing other chemical elements with the sand. Some of these new glasses are very strong and can resist many kinds of shocks. Legend has it that a very hard glass was invented by a Roman who showed his discovery to the Emperor. When the Emperor saw the glass he feared that it would become more valuable than gold and silver, malting his treasure worthless. Therefore, he had the glassmaker killed, and the secret was not discovered again for hundreds of years. In the present century, safety glass was invented for use in modern cars and planes. Safety glass is made by placing a layer of plastic between two layers of plate glass. When the outside layer of glass is broken, the pieces do not scatter and injure people. Some glass of this type is strong enough to resist bullets. Although in recent years plastics have replaced glass under conditions where glass might be easily broken, there are new uses being developed, for the greatest advantage of glass is that its component parts are inexpensive and can be found all over the world. 61、 With the passage of time, glass ______. A. is regarded as transparent B. is no longer seen as decoration C. is used to make things look pleasant D. is widely used to replace steel in making containers 62、 Why did Americans make their own glass during the Second World War? A. The war blocked the way of glass import. B. They refused to use the European glass. C. The glass made in Europe was out of date. D. They were able to make a new kind of glass. 63、 By telling the legend, the author wants to ______. A. prove that the Roman was the first inventor of hard glass B. support that the Americans were as clever as the Romans C. give some interesting information about hard glass D. provide a historical event concerned with hard glass 64、 All of the following concerning the safety glass are discussed in the text EXCEPT ______. A. its uses B. its strength C. its structure D. its limitations 65、 New uses of glass are being developed on the ground that ______. A. glass is not as safe as plastics B. glass is not as strong and durable as plastics C. glass is easily obtainable and inexpensive D. glass is more and more widely used In America alone, tipping is now a $16 billion-a-year industry. Consumers acting rationally ought not to pay more than they have to for a given service. So why do they? The conventional wisdom is that tips both reward the efforts of good service and reduce uncomfortable feelings of inequality. The better the service, the bigger the tip. A paper analyzing data from 2,547 groups dining at 20 different restaurants shows that the relationship between larger tips and better service was very weak. Customers who rated a meal as "excellent" still tipped anywhere between 8% and 37% of the meal price. Tipping is better explained by culture than by economics. In America, the custom has become established; it is regarded as part of the accepted cost of a service. In a New York restaurant, failing to tip at least 15% could well mean abuse from the waiter. Hairdressers can expect to get 15-20%, the man who delivers your groceries $2. In Europe, tipping is less common; in many restaurants, free tipping is being replaced by a standard service charge. In many Asian countries, tipping has never really caught on at all. How to account for these national differences? Look no further than psychology. According to Michael Lynn, the Cornell paper's co-author, countries in which people are more outgoing, sociable or neurotic (神经质的) tend to tip more. Tipping relieves anxiety about being served by strangers. "And," says Mr. Lynn, "in America, where people are outgoing and expressive, tipping is about social approval. If you tip badly, people think less of you. Tipping well is a chance to show off." Icelanders, by contrast, do not usually tip—a measure of their introversion (内向) and lack of neuroses, no doubt. While such explanations may be crude, the hard truth seems to be that tipping does not work. It does not benefit the customer. Nor, in the case of restaurants, does it actually encourage the waiter, or help the restaurant manager to monitor and assess his staff. The cry of mean tippers that service people should "just be paid a decent wage" may actually make economic sense. 66、 From the passage we can understand that Americans ______. A. are reluctant to give tips, but they still do so B. like to give tips to service people to help them financially C. are willing to give tips because they love the practice D. are giving fewer and fewer tips 67、 We can learn from the third paragraph that ______. A. tips are voluntary in America B. tipping is rare in many Asian countries C. people don't tip in Europe D. tipping is now popular in Iceland 68、 Based on Michael Lynn's theory, which of the following is true? A. Nervous people do not usually tip. B. American people are anxious. C. Icelanders don't like to show off. D. People will ignore you if you tip badly. 69、 Michael Lynn is most probably ______. A. an economist B. a writer C. a psychologist D. a sociologist 70、 What does the author think about the relationship between service and tip? A. Bigger tips bring about better service. B. Good service should be rewarded with tips. C. Tips are effective in improving service. D. Tips cannot help prompt better service. The quality of patience goes a long way toward your goal of creating a more peaceful and loving self. The more patient you are, the more accepting you will be of what life is, rather than insisting that life be exactly as you would like it to be. Without patience, life is extremely frustrating. You are easily annoyed, bothered, and irritated. Patience adds a dimension of ease and acceptance to your life. It's essential for inner peace. Becoming more patient involves opening your heart to the present moment, even if you don't like it. If you are stuck in a traffic jam, late for an appointment, being patient would mean keeping yourself from building a mental snowball before your thinking get out of hand and gently reminding yourself to relax. It might also be a good time to breathe as well as an opportunity to remind yourself that, in the bigger scheme of things, being late is "small stuff". Patience is a quality of heart that can be greatly enhanced with deliberate practice. An effective way that I have found to deepen my own patience is to create actual practice periods—periods of time that I set up in my mind to practice the art of patience. Life itself becomes a classroom, and the curriculum is patience. You can start with as little as five minutes and build up your capacity for patience over time. What you'll discover is truly amazing. Your intention to be patient, especially if you know it's only for a short while, immediately strengthens your capacity for patience. Patience is one of those special qualities where success feeds on itself. Once you reach little milestone (里程碑)—five minutes of successful patience—you'll begin to see that you do indeed have the capacity to be patient, even for longer periods of time. Over time, you may even become a patient person. Being patient will help you to keep your perspective. You'll see even a difficult situation, say your present challenge, isn't "life or death" but simply a minor obstacle that must be dealt with. Without patience, the same scenario can become a major emergency complete with yelling, frustration, hurt feelings, and high blood pressure. 71、 In the first paragraph, the expression "building a mental snowball" can be best replaced by ______. A. imagining a big snowball B. awaiting a result calmly C. taking a deep breath D. losing your patience 72、 The main idea of the first paragraph is that ______. A. it takes a long time to cultivate patience B. patience is very important for us C. patience is essential for inner peace D. being late is "small stuff" 73、 It's implied in the second paragraph that ______. A. the quality of patience is very hard to cultivate B. patience should become a school course C. you'll get more than expected from practicing patience D. the quality of patience will lead you to success 74、 People without patience will treat the challenge as ______. A. a minor thing B. a matter of life or death C. the small stuff D. a great chance 75、 The purpose of this passage is to ______. A. persuade people to be more patient B. tell how to practice patience C. list the advantages of patience D. state the importance of patience Passage Two The Eskimos have developed a capacity to live peacefully with one another. They have not had a strict system of landownership, one of the universal causes of conflict. They have evolved a system of food-sharing among families that makes the preservation of life possible. The absolute necessity of creating this safeguard against starvation has strengthened bonds between neighbors. Almost every traveler has noted the Eskimos' friendliness and good humor toward strangers and among themselves. In a country where agriculture is impossible they have been forced to spend their energies in food-gathering rather than warfare. If one family disagreed with another, the usual solution was for that family to pick up its few possessions and go elsewhere. In the vast unused land, moving presented almost no problem. The practice of infanticide, and suicide among the old people, seems to have been a factor of survival in times of food scarcity. The size of the family was controlled to some extent by the ability of the father as a hunter and by the abundance of game (猎物) in the area. Marriage was a very serious and lifelong bond among Eskimos; in order to choose a permanent and compatible mate a number of trial marriages were permitted, each lasting perhaps haft a year. During the trial period a couple usually lived with the girl's parents and the young man hunted exclusively for his future father-in-law. If a child was born as a result of an unsuccessful trial marriage it was adopted by relatives or friends. Children are often given out for adoption in the Eskimos society and are eagerly adopted by other families, for the Eskimos' camp and nomad (游牧民族的) group represent a kind of extended family. Polygamy (一夫多妻制) was occasionally practiced by the most successful hunters, but usually to protect a widow or a girl who had lost her father. 76、 The Eskimos live peacefully with one another because of ______. A. their system of landownership B. their system of food-sharing C. the development of agriculture D. their love for moving 77、 The author's attitude to infanticide can be best described as ______. A. critical B. horrified C. understanding D. favorable 78、 Which of the following is true of an Eskimo family? A. The more successful a hunter was, the bigger his family would be. B. The more successful a hunter was, the more wives he would marry. C. The more successful a hunter was, the more probable he would marry a widow. D. The more successful a hunter was, the more probable his wife was a fatherless girl. 79、 It can be inferred about the Eskimo marriage that ______. A. trial marriage was permitted only once in one's lifetime B. young couples lived by themselves during the trial period C. children out of trial marriage would be given to others D. divorce was not accepted by the Eskimos 80、 It is implied by the author that ______. A. the Eskimo fathers play the role of breadwinner B. the Eskimo children are not cherished by their parents C. when the Eskimos grow old, they usually kill themselves D. the Eskimos will retain their way of life It's 10 pm. You may not know where your child is, but the chip does. The chip will also know if your child has fallen and needs immediate help. Once doctors arrive, the chip will also be able to tell them which drugs are not suitable for little Johnny or Janie. At the hospital, the chip will tell doctors his or her complete medical history. And of course, when you arrive to pick up your child, settling the hospital bill with your health insurance policy will be a simple matter of waving your own chip—the one embedded in your hand. To some, this may sound unbelievable. But the technology for such chips is no longer the stuff of science fiction. And it may soon offer many other benefits besides locating lost children or elderly patients. It could be used as credit cards and people won't have to carry wallets anymore. On the other hand, some are already wondering what this sort of technology may do to the sense of personal privacy and liberty. "Any technology of this kind could result in abuse of personal privacy," says Lee Tien, senior staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "If a kid can be tracked, do you want other people to be able to track your kid? It's a double-edged sword." Applied Digital Solutions, Inc. in Palm Beach, Florida, says it has recently applied to the Food and Drug Administration for permission to begin testing its device in humans. About the size of a grain of rice, the microchip can be encoded (编码) with bits of information and embedded in humans under a layer of skin. When scanned by a nearby reader, the embedded chip gives the data. Most embedded chip designs are so-called passive chips, which give information only when scanned by a nearby reader. But active chips—such as the proposed Digital Angel of the future—will give out information all the time. And that means designers will have to develop some sort of power source that can provide a continuous source of energy, yet be small enough to be embedded with the chips. In addition to technical problems, many suspect that all sorts of legal and privacy issues would have to be cleared as well. 81、 By using the example in the first two paragraphs, the author wants to tell us that ______. A. chips are usually used to locate lost children B. chips are more convenient than credit cards C. chips will soon be useful in many aspects of daily lives D. chips will bring out the issue of abuse of personal privacy 82、 What is the attitude of Lee Tien towards the chips? A. Negative. B. Indifferent. C. Arbitrary. D. Cautious. 83、 One of the features of the device considered by Applied Digital Solutions is ______. A. duration B. capacity C. safety D. purpose 84、 Which of the following statements about Digital Angel is NOT true? A. Digital Angel will include at least a chip and a power source. B. Digital Angel will soon be produced and replace passive chips. C. Digital Angel will be embedded in humans under a layer of skin. D. Digital Angel will give information without being scanned by a reader. 85、 It is indicated in the passage that chip producers have to consider the following issues EXCEPT ______. A. financial problems B. technical problems C. legal problems D. privacy problems Languages will continue to diverse. Even if English were to become the universal language, it would still take many different forms. Indeed the same could happen to English as has happened to Chinese: a language of intellectuals which doesn't vary hugely alongside a large number of variations used by local peoples. We will continue to teach other languages in some form, and not just for reasons of practical use. Learning a language is good for your mental health; it forces you to understand another cultural and intellectual system. So I hope British education will develop a more rational approach to the foreign languages available to students in line with their political importance. Because so many people believe it's no longer important to know another language, I fear that time devoted to language teaching in schools may well continue to decline. But you can argue that learning another language well is more exhausting than, say, learning to play chess well—it involves sensitivity to a set of complicated rules, and also to context. Technology will certainly make a difference to the use of foreign languages. Computers may, for instance, relieve the hard work that a vast translation represents. But no one who has seen a computer translation will think it can substitute for live knowledge of the different languages. A machine will always be behind the times. Still more important is the fact that no computer will ever get at the associations beyond the words associations that may not be expressed but which carry much of the meaning. In languages like Arabic that context is very important. Languages come with heavy cultural baggage too—in French or German if you miss the cultural references behind a word you're very likely to be missing the meaning. It will be very hard to teach all that to a computer. All the predictions are that English will be spoken by a declining proportion of the world's population in the 21st century. I don't think foreign languages will really become less important, but they might be perceived to be—and that would in the end be—a very bad thing. 86、 Which of the following statements about Chinese is true? A. Chinese will soon become the universal language. B. Chinese is a language of intellectuals. C. There are many dialects in Chinese. D. Chinese will be regarded as important as English. 87、 According to the second paragraph, the author may most probably agree that ______. A. other languages should be taught principally for practical reasons B. learning a language is to know a country's cultural and intellectual system C. British education has a rational approach to the teaching of foreign languages D. learning another language well is too exhausting and complicated 88、 The worst disadvantage of computer translation is that ______. A. the expressions used in it are always behind the times B. it can only be used in the translation of certain languages C. it cannot replace live knowledge of the different languages D. it can never express the implied meanings beyond word associations 89、 By saying "languages come with heavy cultural baggage", the author means that ______. A. much unnecessary cultural background blocks the understanding of a language B. a language usually contains important cultural traditions and custom C. it is a burden for a language learner to understand the related culture D. the understanding of a language is affected by the various contexts it is in 90、 The author thinks it would be a bad thing if ______. A. English is spoken by fewer people in the 21st century B. foreign languages become less important in the 21st century C. English is not as important as foreign languages in the 21st century D. foreign languages are regarded as less important in the 21st century 答案: Part ? Reading Comprehension Section A 1、 处应为定语成分，可为形容词或分词。该句中的outsized love 表 关于同志近三年现实表现材料材料类招标技术评分表图表与交易pdf视力表打印pdf用图表说话 pdf 明奥多姆很喜欢吃糖，有时更会 把巧克力或软糖“整包”吃掉，由此可见，entire一词最适合本句句意。本句也可能说奥多姆吃“过 多”的巧克力和软糖，但要注意，如果要表达这个内容，空白处后不会有bags of这些词，直接说 excessive chocolate and jelly beans就行了，这样，从习惯用法上应该将excessive排 除掉。 2、 此处应为后置定语成分，可以是形容词或分词，并可与to搭配。根据本句的内容和“能与to搭配”这 个条件可以推断此处应选用linking一词，link...to...意为“把……与……联系起来”。 3、 此处应为定语成分，可为形容词或分词。在本句中，奥多姆对上一句对他的批评做出反驳，据此可知 奥多姆的看法应该是，糖吃得“多”反而有助于他的表现，由此可见，空白处应表“多”之义，因此， 本题答案应为excessive。 4、 此处应为原形动词。空白处的动词应说明糖果如何影响运动员的表现，是可以让他们成绩“上升”还 是“下降”呢?根据下一句空白处后的better一词可知本句应表明糖果可“提高”运动员的成绩，因此， 本题应选用enhance一词。 5、 此处应为原形动词。根据本句和上一句的内容可以推断空白处的动词应有“表现”、“做”的意思，因 此，本题答案应为perform。 6、 此处应为名词。空白处的名词应为此次研究的对象(subjects)，也就是上一句提到过的“运动 员”(athletes)，在名词词库中只有subjects一词符合题意。 7、 此处应为形容词。通过上一段的内容可以知道糖果和水果一样“有益于”健康，空白处的形容词应带有褒义，因此，形容词词库中的efficient最为合适。 8、 此处应为副词。此处的副词应帮助强调人们“尤其”在运动时分泌很少胰岛素，typically意为“尤其”，故为本题答案。 9、 此处应为名词。空白处前的post-exercise是本题最好的提示，空白处应为具有运动后“恢复”的意思，在选项中，recovery和rally都有“恢复(健康)”的意思，但rally表“恢复(健康)”之义时是动词，不符合本题对词性的 要求 对教师党员的评价套管和固井爆破片与爆破装置仓库管理基本要求三甲医院都需要复审吗 ，因此，recovery为本题答案。 10、 此处应为名词。根据本文对糖果的研究可以推断本句应表明糖果可以迅速地提供“能量”，在名词词库中，fuel与此意思最为相近，因此，选fuel。 11、 此处应为形容词，修饰games。在词库中educational和online都是可能的选择，但上下文多次提到education一词，由此可见，这篇文章讨论的是教育游戏，而不是在线游戏，因此educational最适合。 12、 此处应为名词，作lead的宾语。根据上下文，考虑到该次会议所讨论的内容及其目的，可以推断此处应为change。lead change意为“引导变革”。 13、 此处应为名词，回指上一段提到的conference。 14、 此处应为名词，根据该句中this一词的提示，所需名词的意思应该与上一句的exposition同义，因此答案是show。 15、 此处需要动词原形，而且是及物动词。在词库中，explore和change都符合词性的要求，但上下文一直没有提到旧的方式，因此也不会涉及“改变”，由此可排除change。因此答案为explore。 16、 此处需要名词，与science并列作mix的主语。因为该词与science并列，可以推断它也是一门学科，只有mathematics合适。 17、 此处应该是动词的过去分词，与will be构成该句的谓语。根据statement和下文的on some products可以推断该词应该是placed，意为“放置”。 18、 此处应为单数名词，表明粘贴声明的目的，因此答案就是goal。 19、 此处应为名词，从上下文可以判断该名词是某种system，是一种设备，因此答案是devices。 20、 此处需要副词作状语修饰动词experience，表示学习经历的方式，词库中相符的词为online。experience the American Revolution online意为“在线体验美国革命”。 21、 空白处缺名词。根据句子意思，特别是谓语take part in，可以比较容易地确定答案为projects。 22、 空白处缺名词。构成搭配take on the role of...“承担……的角色”。 23、 分析 定性数据统计分析pdf销售业绩分析模板建筑结构震害分析销售进度分析表京东商城竞争战略分析 句子结构，句子已有谓语动词studied，此处所填入的词应该作主语的后置定语。再结合句子意思，groups of children与peacemakers应该指同一群人，填入acting正好可以与as构成固定搭配，所以答案为acting。 24、 本句缺谓语动词。句子主语是单数第三人称，再结合句子意思，不难选出正确答案offers。 25、 空白处缺形容词。此形容词在语义上应该与peaceful一致，表示正面和积极意义，而与前面的angry以及violent表示负面意义的词相对。由此，可以比较容易地选出正确答案cooperative。 26、 观察句子结构，不缺主谓宾成分，可知此处缺一个副词，把词库中的三个副词进行对比，可以发现只有forward符合句意:take a step forward意为“朝前迈了一步”。 27、 空白处之前的系动词和之后的形容词useful之间要填入的应该是一个副词，在especially和respectively之间，不难选定especially。 28、 根据句子结构，可以断定and之后的部分应该是与之前的(a Website with) resources并列的同类名词，可以确定答案是information。 29、 空白处要填入的应该是一个名词，根据上下文的意思，特别是空白处之后的修饰成分of war，可以选出正确答案victims。 30、 首先判定空白处需要一个形容词来修饰名词school，再根据句子意思，尤其是本句中a class与spread to other classrooms，可以锁定要填入的词是entire。 Section B 31、 [解析] 根据题目的OSPAR Convention定位到K段。该段第3句采用主动句式The OSPAR Convention regulates...，意思跟题目无异，故可确定K段为该题出处。 32、 [解析] 根据题目中的one body-frame及technical defects可以定位到J段。J段首句也出现了题目中提到的fact，且该词后的同位语从句内容与题目中的从句语义几乎一致，故选J。 33、 [解析] 文章B、C两段是说明海洋污染的来源，B段重点介绍油污染，C段则提到其他的污染源。题目中about one-third与C段倒数第2句的33 percent所指的比率相同，而且都指atmospheric inputs的比率，故选C。 34、 [解析] 根据题目明显的信号词creeping dead zones，可定位到D段。题目的overgrow对应该段倒数第3句blooms，oxygen shortage对应原文的use up the oxygen。 35、 [解析] 根据题目中的POPs可将范围缩小在G、H段。其中H段重点说明POPs的危害和影响，本题的内容与之有关。H段末句的these chemicals指的就是POPs，而该句中的so表明养殖的鱼类和贝壳类都会受POPs的影响，因为这些养殖水产are all fed fish meal，题目意思与此相符。 36、 [解析] 根据题目关键信息Prestige oil tanker及数字2,890可直接定位到J段。J段倒数第2句以该邮轮为例说明严重漏油的风险，题目语义与该句意思一致，故选J。 37、 [解析] 根据题目的关键信息the most visible and familiar可定位到B段，该段第2句指出最显而易见和为人熟悉的海洋污染源，与题目表述一致，故为答案。 38、 [解析] 本题内容有关海洋货运，与之相关的段落为I，该段第2句的意思与题目语义一致，其中括号里的carried at sea对应题中的transported by ships，而be described则对应题中的be classified。 39、 [解析] 文中只有E段提到West Greenland Coast，故该题可直接定位到E段。该段最后一句说到在格陵兰岛西部海岸的海藻中可以检测到放射性元素，意即该海岸已被放射性元素污染，故选E。 40、 [解析] POPs在G和H两段中都有提到。G段倒数第2句开始首次介绍POPs及其概念。G段最后一句中的causing表明一种因果关系，与题目的is the result of对应且描述对象均为Hormone disruption。 41、 [解析] 根据题目中的David Suzuki和the end is near定位到F段。该段第2句的one message里的信息同题目中他认为的内容一致，故可判断题目信息来源于F段。 42、 [解析] 根据地名Quebec和national daycare system定位到G段第5、6句。该段第6句明确表明“很少来自贫困家庭的家长”使用这个系统，该系统指的就是全国日托服务，故选G。 43、 [解析] 根据题目中的liberated，millennia和serfdom等词定位到I段。该段倒数第3句提到成千上百贫困地区的人正从千年的苦难和奴役中解放出来，最后一句说了被解放的原因:美国。这两句结合起来就是题目意思，因此选I。 44、 [解析] 根据人名Margaret Atwood定位到C段。结合该段1、2句可知道the queen of Canadian Literature指的就是Margaret Atwood，由此可知Margaret Atwood被视为加拿大文学女王，故选C。 45、 [解析] 根据Criticizing以及the United States定位到I段的第3句，题目表述跟该句意思相同，故选I。 46、 [解析] 根据题目中的garbage picker定位到D段第4句。该句中的分词结构carefully separating...是对前面的every one of us has become a garbage picker的补充说明，题目将其变为并列句，句义一致，故选D。 47、 [解析] 根据专有名词Kyoto treaty定位到F段最后一句。该句虽没有明确指出Kyoto treaty是针对什么问题的，但句末的cut smog and clean up our waste sites暗示Kyoto treaty与环境污染问题最密切相关，故选F。 48、 [解析] 根据题目中的专有名词Canada和country定位到A段第3句。该句中的liberal，open-minded country like Canada表明加拿大是一个自由开放的国度，故选A。 49、 [解析] 根据题目中的dirty，private定位到E段倒数第2句。结合前三句理解，此处的would rather you go blind是指不愿意将病人送到私人门诊。题目与此相符，故选E。 50、 [解析] 根据题目中的Group of Seven定位到H段第6句。题目所述与此一致，故选H。 51、 [解析] 本题与该图书馆中电脑和书籍的摆放位置有关，据此可定位到B段。该段第2句提到，在旧金山公共图书馆，电脑被放在中间显眼的位置，而书籍放在外围不起眼的位置，本题与该信息相符，故选B。 52、 [解析] 根据题目的关键词automating their back-end，behind-the-desk可定位到C段。该段首句所述内容与题目相符，题目中的in consideration of和原文中的for reasons of同义，故选C。 53、 [解析] 根据题目关键信息a new service及making its catalog accessible via the Interne 可定位到I段第3句，在原文中，a new service...是对前面提到的making its catalog accessible via the Internet的补充说明，与题目的顺序相反，但表达的是同一意思。 54、 [解析] 根据题目的具体数据50%及computer literacy定位到F段。该段首句提到50%的公众未使用过电脑，题目的前半句与之对应。第2句提到，因此，公共图书馆都在努力进行全国电脑扫盲，题目的后半句与此内容相符。 55、 provider of tech support可定位至首句的最后[解析] 根据题目的an unexpected role及 一句。该句说到现在的图书馆管理员出乎意料地成了“提供技术支持的人”，题目所述与此相符，故A为答案。 56、 [解析] 根据题目关键信息how to type and use a mouse可定位至E段首句。该句提到现代图书馆读者必须要学会打字和使用鼠标，题目所述与此处一致，故选E。 57、 [解析] 根据题目的read a book for pleasure，card catalogue及computer skills等可定位到D段首句，该句提到只要知道卡片目录和基本的计算机技术，就可在图书馆阅读取乐了，这与题目所述相符，故选D。 58、 [解析] 文中有多处出现关键词San Francisco library，其中只有H段首句提到该图书馆会每周两次提供有关电子目录、商业期刊索引及因特网知识的课，本题所述与之相符，故选H。 59、 [解析] 根据本题的关键词Blended libraries可直接定位到B段。该段首句出现了blended library，而倒数第2句则说“这类混合”在社区中深受欢迎，故选B。 60、 [解析] 根据Dragon Dictate可直接定位到G段首句。由该句对Dragon Dictate的描述可以知道，这个软件是为残疾人使用图书馆所 设计 领导形象设计圆作业设计ao工艺污水处理厂设计附属工程施工组织设计清扫机器人结构设计 的，本题所述与此相符，故选G。 Section C Passage One 61、B 本题考查倒装句的理解。从文章第2句的开头only recently可知第1句和第2句是对比关系:现在的情况与以前不一样了，因此B为正确选项。选项A是对原文第2句话的曲解，虽然这句话中说到的玻璃现在被视为something to look through，但是，这句话要强调的并不是到现在人们才发现玻璃是透明的，而是要强调玻璃可以被用作工具，透过它去看别的东西。选项C中的look pleasant和选项D在文中都没有提到。 62、A 从第2段的第1、2句可以看出，二战前美国从欧洲进口玻璃，而战时却不能从欧洲进口玻璃，也就是说，进口玻璃的渠道应是被战争中断了，因此答案应为选项A。选项D是不能进口玻璃的结果(而不是原因。其余两项都没有原文依据。 63、C 本题考查例子与主题的关系。作者引用传说，只是为了使文章读起来更有趣。这是一个传说，不一定是真实的，因此，它不能被视为选项D所提及的历史事件，也不能证明是罗马人第一个发明坚固的玻璃，所以选项A也是不对的。选项B与本段内容无关，本段主要说明了美国人开发出新的玻璃制品的来由，并无说明美国人聪明之意。 64、D 本题考查列举处，用排除法可以找出答案。第3段中除选项D外，选项A可从第1句推断，选项B可从最后一句推断，选项C可从第2句推断。 65、C 本题解题的关键在于注意最后一段中的“there are new uses being developed, for...”，这里表明了一对因果关系，for后面引出不断研发玻璃新用途的原因，由此可见，本题正确选项应为C。选项A和B中提到的玻璃的缺点虽在现实中也是有可能的，但文中并无字句说明因为这些缺点而要不断研发玻璃的新用途。 66、A 原文第1段讲人们其实不该支付小费，但美国人每年仍要付16 billion作为小费，在第3段及第4段分析原因时指出:付小费主要是文化而非经济原因，以及在美国这个习惯已经固定下来了。可见，美国人付小费多少有几分不得已。 67、B 本题考查该段最后一句中catch on的理解。通过对比说明小费在不同的地区有不同的看法，可以推断出亚洲国家对小费持否定态度，catch on意为“流行，风行”，由此可判断选项B为正确答案。选项A和C与第3段中的表述不符，选项D在第4段出现，且表达的意义与第4段最后一句相反。 68、C 根据第4段中林恩的理论，付小费是一种表现自己的方式，而冰岛人通常不付小费，说明他们性格内向，故推断选项C为正确答案。选项A与原文意思相反，选项B毫无根据，选项D与原文有出入，其中的ignore不等同于第4段中的think less of。 69、C 本文第4段指出要从心理学的角度解释付小费在各国的区别，然后引用了Michael Lynn的理论，由此可见，他最有可能是一个心理学家，研究消费心理。本题最具干扰性的是选项A，付小费对很多人来说是一种经济行为，但作者在第3段首句即指出付小费最好用文化而不是经济学来解释，可见本文的重点不在于“经济”，所以Michael Lynn是经济学家的可能性就降低了。 70、D 最后一段表达了作者的观点，在首句即指出付小费达不到预期效果，因此选项D为正确答案。选项A和B其实是对第1段最后两句的近义替换，但都是人们传统的观念和想法，并非作者的观点。选项C的意思明显与最后一段首句相反。 71、D 句中短语keep...from有助于理解考点的意义，building a mental snowball是一种暗喻，作者想表达人的情绪像滚雪球似的积聚直至失控之意，根据上下文可判断出该表达法在此处的意义为选项D。本文的主题是patience，而选项A、B、C都与主题无关。 72、B 本段的第1句为主题句，理解go a long way toward是解题的关键，该短语意为“对……大有帮助”，并不是“花长时间”的意思，因此，选项B为正确选项，而选项A对go a long way toward理解错误。选项C和D都只是该段中心思想的片断，概括不够全面。 73、C 从第2段最后两句可以推断出正确答案应为选项C。选项A与本段第1句意思相反。本段第3句虽有提到classroom和curriculum等与学习有关的词语，但它们是一种暗喻，不能因此推断选项B。选项D最具干扰性，因为倒数第2句有success一词，但只要对该句理解正确，就能排除此选项了。 74、B 本题考查对比处。第3段开头将有耐心和没耐心的两种人在面对困境时的态度进行对比，可以推断选项B为正确选项。根据同一段可发现其他三个选项都是有耐心的人面对困境时的态度。 75、A 作者通过阐明耐心的重要性，如何培养耐心和拥有耐心的好处来劝说读者要更加耐心，由此可见选项A正确。选项B、C和D分别只是文章三个段落的大意，而并非对全文主题的概括。 Passage Two 76、B 本题可用排除法找出答案。选项A与第1段第2句相反;选项C与该段倒数第3句不符;选项D歪曲了原文:最后两句提到爱斯基摩人为避免矛盾会迁居异处，但这并不表明他们常常爱搬家。选项B可从第3句找到。 77、C 第2段第1句表明作者认为杀婴是为了生存，而句中的seem to表明了作者对杀婴没有过激的反应，所以应是选项C(理解的)。文中没有使用任何反面的字眼表示选项A(批评的)或选项B(毛骨悚然的)，但也没有热情洋溢的字眼表示选项D(赞成的)。 78、A 根据第2段最后一句可推断选项A合乎原文。选项B、C、D考查的都是对本段最后一句话的理解，但都是对原文的曲解。 79、D 最后一段第一句说婚姻是lifelong，由此可推断爱斯基摩人对离婚持否定态度。选项A与该段第1句中的a number of trim marriages were permitted不符;选项B与该段第2句不符;选项C与第3句不符，文中指出如果试婚失败(an unsuccessful trim marriage)，试婚期间所生的小孩会由别人收养，并不如选项C中所述所有试婚期间所生的小孩都会送由别人收养。 80、A 根据第2段第2句可推断出选项A。文章提到爱斯基摩人会杀死婴儿，老人也会自杀，小孩通常送给他人收养，但这些都是在食物匮乏时出于生存的需要，所以选项B和C不对。文章谈到了爱斯基摩人的性格特点以及过去的一些风俗，但没有提及是否会继续这样生活下去，因此可排除选项D。 81、C 本题考查例子与观点的关系。第3段是对前两段的 总结 初级经济法重点总结下载党员个人总结TXt高中句型全总结.doc高中句型全总结.doc理论力学知识点总结pdf 及进一步的阐述，因此，本段就是前两段想要说明的观点。选项A和B只是对例子中某些细节的陈述，不能总括例子的中心思想。这两段的例子说的都是芯片的好处，因此与选项D所说的问题不相关。 82、D 第5段最后一句表明:Lee Tien对芯片的看法，他对芯片既没有完全肯定，也没有完全否定，表明这种看法是很审慎的，不武断，因此选项A、B、C都不对。 83、B 本题考查bits of的理解。第6段是有关这个发明的描述，其中第2句提到bits of information，表明这家公司考虑到了芯片的容量问题，而其他选项A、C和D在文中皆无体现。 84、B 本题考查强对比处及有分隔成分的长句的理解。倒数第2段表明了“数字天使”的特点，选项A、C和D都可从本段推断出，只有选项B没有提及。 85、A 本题考查列举处。最后一段提到了三个问题要解决，只有选项A(经济问题)没有提及。 86、C 本题考查复合句的理解。本题最大的干扰选项是B，理解第1段最后一句是关键。可以先把定语从句和分词结构去掉，剩下的就是对Chinese的完整描述，即:a language of intellectuals alongside a large number of variations，由此可见，选项B过于片面。A项与首段第2句不符，D项未提及。 87、B 本题其实是要求判断说法的正误。第2段的第2句表明了作者的态度，也就是选项B。选项A、C都与原文的陈述不符，选项D不是作者的观点。 88、D 本题考查强对比处。第3段第5句中的Still more important是答题的关键，表明紧接着的才是计算机翻译最大的缺点，而前面提到的都不是最严重的，由此可推断选项A和C不对，而选项B在文中并无相关细节支持。 89、B 本题主要考查baggage一词的理解。baggage带有“惯例、传统”的意思，但这个意思并不包括在考纲词汇里。baggage虽有“包袱、累赘”之义，但从文中可见，baggage是与前一句中的context同样重要的东西，都能影响对语言的理解，因此，作者使用这个词并无贬义，由此可否定选项A和C。从baggage后的too一词可推断，baggage是与context不同的影响理解语言的因素，由此也可否定选项D。 90、D 本题考查含有插入成分的句子的理解。最后一段最后一句中的a very bad thing是两个不同句子 中的表语，应把句子重新整理为“but they might be perceived to be a very bad thing, and that would in the end be a very bad thing too”，而且只有选项D中的regard表达了perceive的意思，因此可以确定选项D正确。