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9.

[A] The state laws.

[B] The church authorities.

[C] The local communities.

[D] The national government.

10.

[A] Forty percent.

[B] Seventy percent.

[C] Forty five percent.

[D] Seventy five percent.

11.

[A] Because students vary in needs.

[B] Because teaching methods vary greatly.

[C] Because schools offer different subjects.

[D] Because there are different aids at school.

12.

[A] He thinks that it is somewhat impolite.

[B] He thinks that it is sometimes possible.

[C] He thinks that it is something one ought todo.

[D] He thinks that it is always too difficult for a job to do.

13.

[A] Whether he could find a better job in Spain.

[B] Whether he could quit the job he did not like.

[C] Whether he could become a doctor in England.

[D] Whether there would be any opportunity to be rich.

14.

[A] Because the doctor was very rich.

[B] Because the doctor knew him well.

[C] Because the doctor was very happy with his job in Spain.

[D] Because the doctor used the chance to thank him for his

advice.

15.

[A] You can sleep m it.

[B] It's safer than trains.

[C] It's fast and comfortable.

[D] You can see more of the country.

16.

[A] Americans like greyhounds.

[B] The buses go to the country.

[C] The buses are as fast as greyhounds~

[D] There's a picture of a greyhound on the bus.

17.

[A] They don't like buses,

[B] They are always in a hurry.

[C] They think planes more safe.

[D] They find trams too crowded.

18.

[A] Any road without traffic lights.

[B] Any highway without crossroad.

[C] It's a road where the drivers do not pay.

[D] It's a highway not controlled by the government.

答案：BDABD DCDBB

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In 1997, devotees of home electronics eagerly awaited the DVD player, a new device that could play movies without videotape, and with greater clarity. It caught on even faster than CD music players and within four years. DVD movies surpassed VHS tapes in sales. The DVDs success is just one example of a historic shift from analog to digital technologies. They began with computing and are now spreading to industries from banking to publishing. Products and services are shedding the limits of their physical form to become encoded information that never degrades, Can be reproduced perfectly and distributed around the world in minutes, or less.

Another example is photography: by the end of this year, the number of images captured digitally each day is expected to surpass the number of images captured on film. With digital cameras and other devices linked to personal computers, we can collect vast amounts of data, which fortunately takes up little or no closet space. Today's average personal computer has a hard drive that can store 300 times more information than a

decade ago. Technologies, such as broadband e-commerce, are expected to be the primary means of delivering entertainment and media by the end of this decade. Even life itself is increasingly digitized. The human genome, the recipe for our genetic makeup, has been mapped and encoded and researchers are harnessing the power of computing to accelerate the development of new, lifesaving drugs.

The implications of this broad, digital revolution are enormous, although they tend to be over-shadowed by the struggles of high-tech industries to recover from the go-go years of the 1990s. Those struggles are real, yet there are reasons for optimism about a return to robust economic growth and job creation in the next several years. The digital innovations (创新) of the past two decades continue to bear fruit, so stay tuned for good news --- digitally, of course.

37. Digital technologies really began to take form when ____.

[A] DVD technology was introduced

[B] it was used with photography

[C] used in computing

[D] information was encoded

38. The example of photography is used to show ____.

[A] how digital technology has replaced traditional film

[B] the enormous storage advantages of digital technology

[C] how digital technology has improved the quality of production

[D] how economical it is to use digital technology since it stores so much

39. The author implies that excitement over the digital revolution may be hindered by ____.

[A] ignorance of the technology

[B] robust economic growth

[C] the economic realities of its practicality

[D] economic problems of hi-tech companies

40. By using the phrase "stay tuned for good news" (Line 5, Para. 3) the author wants us to ____.

[A] try and be more optimistic

[B] wait for the situation to change for the better

[C] expect more positive innovations

[D] hope that the good news won't change

41. The passage is based on the author's ____.

[A] experience of the changes

[B] admiration of the changes

[C] analysis of the changes

[D] hope for changes

Passage 2

42. According to the passage, it is not It is not surprising that a philosophy surprising that ____. borrowed from business should see its

[A] business and education finds so much principal focus within education as the

furthering of the connection with business in common

[B] politicians expect education to be like a and industry. Moreover, when a

business philosophy is implemented at

governmental level by people, the majority [C] the education world is managed by who learnt their under standing of life people from the business philosophy within this environment, it is not surprising [D] those who come from the business that they should picture education as world think education should serve feeding this goal. industry needs In an age when the US is seen as being in

desperate, almost cut throat competition

with industrial neighbors, it becomes an 43. The desire to make education article of faith that to maintain present subservient to the desires of industry is standards of living, education must attractive because ____

increasingly focus upon training the youth [A] the goals are easier to define and of the country to compete in such markets. measure This demand is, of course, nothing new. A [B] for those who take a wider view of number of factors come together to education provide the motive force for making

education the handmaiden (女仆人) of the [C] economic competition is so intense

these days job market. For those with economic

blinkers, such concentration makes good [D] youth are lacking the skills to compete sense, but for those who take a wider view in the modem economy

of the purposes of education, this appears

narrow and damaging, even, in the long

term, to the economic good health of the 44. Those who think education should

serve the economy are of the opinion that country. It is possible to argue for the

____. ultimate purposes of education from

different standpoints.

The one that appears to be the motive

force in much educational

decision-making at the present time

values knowledge that is conducive to the [A] all subjects should have some relationship to economics [B] knowledge is to be perceived as preserving a nations cultural history [C] knowledge is to be transmitted

[D] students must learn how to be furtherance of the national economic

well-being. It sees the child as a being to businessmen

be trained to fit into this economic machine. Initiative and activity are

encouraged only as far as these dovetail 45. The disagreement child-centred

advocates have with the economic aim of with ultimate occupational destinations.

education stems from ____. The teacher, therefore, is seen as a

trainer, a constructor, a transmitter. [A] their training background

However, there are many who value [B] their beliefs about children and how knowledge which is perceived as part of knowledge derives

that country's cultural heritage while other [C] their distaste of the economic system child-centred advocates see the [D] their view of their role as a trainer not a curriculum as based on each individual transmitter of knowledge child's experiences and interests, each

being active, involved, unique constructors of their own reality. Others see schools as 46. According to the author, the various being essentially concerned with pressing conflicting views of education ____. social issues which need to be resolved, [A] add complexity and richness to the and therefore the curriculum takes the profession form of being topic or problem-based.

Such sketches do not begin to do justice [B] demonstrate the fallacies of the

economic approach to the complexity and richness of

argument, which may be contained in

differing educational ideologies. However,

if they at the very east convey the

profound conflicting views, these

descriptions suggest that there is truth in

each of them, but none must have the

stage to itself. [C] prevent progression towards the economic aim [D] ensure that one particular philosophy is not overly dominant

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You should also introduce your speaker’s you should make clear that the audience is aware of the speaker’s (11)individuals are so well-known in their fields that it is only necessary to present them by name.

present role in society.

(20）

1. A) for B) in C) up D) on

2. A) heart B) mind C) mood D) thought

3. A) responsibilities B) commissions C)missions D) ventures

4. A) make B) shape C) set D) form

5. A) promise B) convince C) persuade D) inform

6. A) attending B) listening C) presenting D) watching

7. A) tension B) pressure C) strain D) nervousness

8. A) from B) away C) of D) out

9. A) enduring B) encountering C) retaining D) experiencing

10. A) effort B) intention C) purpose D) meaning

11. A) qualifications B) certificate C) convictions D) requirements

12. A) Moreover B) Unless C) However D) Although

13. A) places B) occasions C) surroudings D) cases

14. A) possible B) appropriate C) relevant D) available

15. A) eager B)reluctant C) ashamed D) deliberate

16. A) check B)examine C) find D) detect

17. A) performing B) accomplishing C) planning D) plotting

18. A) Although B) Since C) Because D) Therefore

19) A emphasize B) repeat C)recall D)remind

20. A) far B)well C) good D) long

答案：1-5 Ｄ B A C B 6-10 B A C D C

11 -15 A C D C B 16-20 C C A B B

如果你被要求介绍一位发言人的话, 对你来讲你应该记住, 你有责任做的不仅仅是起立, 背诵一些事实, 然后坐下来。你有至少5个主要的责任。它确实是你的责任:给发言人设置位置, 建立发言人与观众的密切关系，并说服听众，演讲者是一个人值得聆听（的人）。为完成这个总目标, 你还需要缓解紧张, 从而减轻你的发言人可能会面临的怯场或焦虑等情绪。

你应该介绍你的发言人的演讲主题和目的，作这项工作时，你还得让听众清楚的知道发言人在他的从事领域内的资格。一些人在他们的领域内是非常著名的，你可要向听众说出他的名字。但是，大多数情况下，然而, 大多数情况下，忽视这种可能性（发言人是众所周知，无需你介绍这种情况）更好些，介绍一些与发言人相关的事实，如他的教育背景，主要成就，目前的社会地位。

大多数发言者都不愿意谈论自己的成就，这就是你的工作，你事先了解这些成就，然后告诉那些看起来最有趣的介绍给听众。这需要提前做好计划。

尽管之前你可能已经提过发言人的名字头衔，但在正式介绍他时, 贴近你的介绍重复他演讲的主题或内容以及他的的名字，头衔这总是一个好主意。