Some 23 million additional U.S. residents are expected to become more regular users of the

第1题

Part ADirections: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by c

Part A

Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. (40 points)

The Catholic Church is changing in America at its most visible point: the parish church where believers pray, sing and clasp hands across pews to share the peace of God. Today there are fewer parishes and fewer priests than in 1990 and fewer of the nation's 65 million Catholics in those pews. And there's no sign of return.

Some blame the explosive 2002 clergy sexual abuse scandal and its financial price tag. But a study of 176 Roman Catholic dioceses shows no statistically significant link between the decline in priests and parishes and the $772 million the church has spent to date on dealing with the scandal.

Rather, the changes are driven by a constellation of factors:

-Catholics are moving from cities in the Northeast and Midwest to the suburbs, South and Southwest.

-For decades, so few men have become priests that one in five dioceses now can't put a priest in every parish.

-Mass attendance has fallen as each generation has become less religiously observant.

-Bishops—trained to bless, not to budget—lack the managerial skills to govern multimillion-dollar institutions.

All these trends had begun years before the scandal piled on financial pressures to cover settlements, legal costs, care and counseling for victims and abusers. The Archdiocese of Boston, epicenter of the crisis, sold chancery property to cover $85 million in settlements last year, and this year will close 67 churches and recast 16 others as new parishes or worship sites without a full-time priest. Archbishop Sean O'Malley has said the crisis and the reconfiguration plan are "in no way" related. He cites demographic shifts, the priest shortage and aging, crumbling buildings too costly to keep up. Fargo, N.D., which spent $821,000 on the abuse crisis, will close 23 parishes, but it's because the diocese is short of more than 50 priests for its 158 parishes, some with fewer than a dozen families attending Mass.

They know how this feels in Milwaukee. That archdiocese shuttered about one in five parishes from 1995 to 2003. The city consolidations "gave some people who had been driving back into the city from new homes in the suburbs a chance to say they had no loyalty to a new parish and begin going to one near their home", says Noreen Welte, director of parish planning for the Milwaukee Archdiocese. "It gave some people who already were mad at the church for one reason or another excuse to stop going altogether."

Which of the following reflects the change of Catholic Church？

A．Fewer prayers in the church.

B．Fewer pews in the parish.

C．Fewer Catholics in America.

D．Fewer signs in the peace of God.

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Which of the plan does NOT belong to Microsoft？A．Prepare to invest $ 200 million on the e-

Which of the plan does NOT belong to Microsoft？

A．Prepare to invest $ 200 million on the e-books.

B．Cooperate with the British Library to digitize some 25 million pages.

C．Introduce some new services to Amazon.

D．Launch the MSN Book Search next year.

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第3题

According to the passage which of the following is NOT true？A．About 2 million metric tons

According to the passage which of the following is NOT true？

A．About 2 million metric tons of garbage is burned in some power plants in Paris, France each year.

B．In a modem society, more and more garbage is produced each year.

C．Using garbage is a good way to solve the problem of energy shortage.

D．It will be too expensive to use garbage as an energy source.

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第4题

Why were spraying operations carried out in Dorchester county（)？

A. People were concerned about the number of bees.

B. Several cases of Zika disease had been identifie

C. Two million bees were infected with diseas

D. Zika virus had destroyed some bee farms.

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第5题

Some two thousand million years ago, the mountain on the sun was raised probably becau

se______.

A. the star moved away from the sun

B. another star happened to come near the sun

C. fhe sun and the moon raised the tides on the earth

D. a large tidal wave of a star travelled over the surface of the sun

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第6题

The Bush administration is about to propose far-reaching new rules that would give people

with disabilities greater access to tens of thousands of courtrooms, swimming pools, golf courses, stadiums, theaters, hotels and retail stores. The proposal would substantially update and rewrite federal standards for enforcement of the Americans With Disabilities Act, a landmark civil rights law passed with strong bipartisan support in 1990. The new rules would set more stringent requirements in many areas and address some issues for the first time, in an effort to meet the needs of an aging population and growing numbers of disabled war veterans.

More than seven million businesses and all state and local government agencies would be affected. The proposal includes some exemptions for parts of existing buildings, but any new construction or renovations would have to comply. The new standards would affect everything from the location of light switches to the height of retail service counters, to the use of monkeys as "service animals" for people with disabilities, which would be forbidden'.

The White House approved the proposal in May after a five-month review. It is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on Tuesday, with 60 days for public comment. After considering those comments, the government would issue final rules with the force of law. Already, the proposal is stirring concern. The United States Chamber of Commerce says it would be onerous and costly, while advocates for disabled Americans say it does not go far enough.

Since the disability law was signed by the first President Bush, advances in technology have made services more available to people with disabilities. But Justice Department officials said they were still receiving large numbers of complaints. In recent months, the federal government has settled lawsuits securing more seats for disabled fans at Madison Square Garden in New York and at the nation's largest college football stadium, at the University of Michigan.

The Justice Department acknowledged that some of the changes would have significant costs. But over all, it said, the value of the public benefits, estimated at $ 54 billion, exceeds the expected costs of $ 23 billion. In an economic analysis of the proposed rules, the Justice Department said the need for an accessible environment was greater than ever because the Iraq war was "creating a new generation of young men and women with disabilities". John L. Wodatch, chief of the disability rights section of the Justice Department, said："Disability is inherent in the human condition. The vast majority of individuals who are fortunate enough to reach an advanced age will benefit from the proposed requirements. "

What do we learn about the Bush administration's proposal of new rules？

A．It is made on behalf of the aging people and disabled former army men.

B．It is a revised edition of the Americans With Disabilities Act.

C．It is a landmark civil rights law with the supports from both Parties.

D．It is the first proposal setting stricter requirement for some issues.

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第7题

All the useful energy at the surface of the earth comes from the activity of the sun. The

sun heats and feeds creatures and mankind. Each year it provides men with two hundred million tons of grain and nearly ten million tons of wood, coal, oil, natural gas, and all other fuels are stored energy from the sun. (80) Some was collected by this season' s plants as carbon compounds. Some was stored by plants and trees ages ago. Even waterpower derives from the sun. Water turned into vapor by the sun fails as rain. It courses down the mountains and is converted to electric power. Light transmits only the energy that comes from the sun' s outer layer, and much of this energy that is directed towards the earth never arrives. About nine tenths of it is absorbed by the atmosphere of the earth. In fact, the earth itself gets only one half millionth of the sun's entire output of radiant energy.

The sun is the source of all of the following EXCEPT______.

A．gasoline

B．natural gas

C．atomic power

D．animal fat

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All the useful energy at the surface of the earth comes from the activity of the sun. The

sun heats and feeds mankind. Each year it provides men with two hundred million tons of grain and nearly ten million tons of wood.

Coal, oil, natural gas, and all other fuels are stored-up energy from the sun. Some was collect ed by this season's plants as carbon compounds. Some was stored by plants and trees ages ago.

Even waterpower derives from the sun. Water turned into vapor by the sun falls as rain. It courses down the mountains and is converted to electric power.

Light transmits only the energy that comes from the sun' s outer layers, and much of this energy that is directed toward the earth never arrives. About nine-tenths of it is absorbed by the atmosphere of the earth. In fact; the earth itself gets only one half-billionth of the sun' s entire output of radiant energy.

All the useful energy at the surface of the earth comes ______.

A．directly from the sun

B．from the sun' s activity

C．from energy stored by the sun

D．from radiation of the sun

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第9题

Some 23 million additional U.S. residents are expected to become more regular users of the

U.S. health care system in the next several years, thanks to the passage of health care reform.Digitizing medical data has been promoted as one way to help the already burdened system manage the surge in patients. But putting people's health information in databases and online is going to do more than simply reduce redundancies. It is already shifting the very way we seek and receive health care.

"The social dynamics of care are changing," says John Gomez, vice president of Eclipsys, a medical information technology company. Most patients might not yet be willing to share their latest CT scan images over Facebook, he notes, but many parents post their babies' ultrasound images, and countless patients nowadays use social networking sites to share information about conditions, treatments and doctors.

With greater access to individualized health information-whether that is through a formal electronic medical record, a self-created personal health record or a quick instant-messaging session with a physician—the traditional roles of doctors and patients are undergoing a rapid transition.

"For as long as we've known, health care has been I go to the physician, and they tell me what to do, and I do it,'" says Nitu Kashyap, a physician and research fellow at the Yale Center for Medical Informatics. Soon more patients will be arriving at a hospital or doctor's office,having reviewed their own record, latest test results and recommended articles about their health concerns. And even more individuals will be able to skip that visit altogether, instead sending a text message or e-mail to their care provider or consulting a personal health record or smart phone application to answer their questions.

These changes will be strengthened by the nationwide shift to electronic medical records,which has already began. Although the majority of U.S. hospitals and doctors' offices are still struggling to start the changeover, many patients already have electronic medical records, and some even have partial access to them. The My Chart program, in use at Cleveland Clinic, the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and other facilities, is a Web portal (门户)through which patients can see basic medical information as well as some test results.

Medical data is getting a new digital life, and it is jump-starting a "fundamental change in how care is provided," Gomez says.

Which of the following is the best title for this passage？

A．The Future of Your Medical Data.

B．Challenges Against Doctors and Hospitals.

C．Benefits of the U. S. Health Care Reform.

D．How to Access and Share Your Health Information.

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It is estimated that some seven hundred million people about half the world's population a

re un able to read and write, and there are probably two hundred and fifty million more whose level of attainment(造诣、成就)is so slight that it barely qualifies a literacy(识字).

Recently the attack on illiteracy has been stepped up. A world plan has been drawn up by a committee of UNESCO experts in Paris, as part of the United Nations Development Decade, and an international conference on the subject has also been held. UNESCO stresses that functional literacy is the aim. People must learn the basic skills of responsible citizenship: the ability to read notices, newspapers, timetables, letters, price lists, to keep simple records and accounts, to sort out the significance of the information gathered, and to fill in forms.

The major areas of illiteracy are in Asia, and Central and South America. In Africa there are at least one hundred million illiterates, making up eighty to eighty-five per cent of the total population. In Europe the figure is about twenty-four million, most of them is Southern Europe, with Spain, Italy, Portugal, and Yugoslavia heading the list (the United Kingdom has about seven hundred thousand).

According to the estimate, the illiterate population in the world is ______.

A．two hundred and fifty million

B．one hundred million

C．about half of the total population in the world

D．seven thousand million

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All the useful energy at the surface of the earth comes from the activity of the sun. The

sun heats and feeds mankind. Each year it【21】men with two hundred million tons of grain and【22】ten million tons of wood.

Coal, oil natural gas, and all other【23】are stored-up energy from the sun. It was collected by the plants as carbon compounds and stored【24】ago.

Even waterpower comes from the sun. Water【25】into vapor by the sun falls as rain. It runs【26】the mountains and is converted to electric power.

Light transmits only the energy【27】comes from the sun' s outer layers, and【28】of this energy that is directed toward the earth never arrives. About【29】of it is absorbed by the atmosphere of the earth. In【30】,the earth itself gets only one half-billionth of the Sun' s entire output of rediant energy.

(41)

A．gathers

B．produces

C．provides

D．sends

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