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第1题

The Internet can make the news more democratic, giving the public a chance to ask question

s and seek【56】facts behind stories and candidates, according【57】the head of the largest US on-line services. "But the greatest【58】for public participation is still in the future , " Steven Case, Chairman of America On-line, told at a recent meeting on Journalism and the Internet【59】mainly by the Freedom Forum.【60】, some other experts often say the new technology of computers is【61】the face of journalism, giving reporters【62】to more information and their readers a chance to ask questions and turn to【63】sources. " You don't have to buy a newspaper and be【64】to the four corners of that paper any more" , Sam Meddis , on-line technology editor at USA Today,【65】about the variety of information【66】to computer users.

But the experts【67】the easy access to the Internet also【68】anyone can post information for others to see. "Anyone can say anything they want,【69】it's right or wrong, " said Case. Readers have to【70】for themselves whom to trust. "In a world of almost【71】voices respected journalists and respected brand names will【72】become more important, not less, " Case said.

The Internet today is about【73】radio was 80 years ago, or television 50 years ago or cable 25 years ago, he said. But it is growing rapidly【74】it provides people fast access to news and a chance to【75】on it.

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A．after

B．through

C．out

D．for

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第2题

Today anyone will accept money in exchange for goods and services. People use money to buy

food, furniture, books, bicycles and hundreds of others they need or want. When they work, they usually get paid in money.

Most of the money today is made of metal or paper. But people used to use all kinds of things as money. One of the first kinds of money was shells.

Shells were not the only things used as money. In China, cloth and 'knives were used. In the Philippine Islands, rice was used as money. In some parts of Africa, cattle were one of the earliest kinds of money. Other animals were used as money, too.

The first metal coins were made in China. They were round and had a square hole in the center. People strung them together and carried them from place to place.

Different countries have used different metals and designs for their money. The first coins in England were made of tin. Sweden and Russia used copper to make their money. Later, other countries began to make coins of gold and silver.

But even gold and silver were inconvenient if you had to buy something expensive. Again the Chinese thought of a way to improve money. They began to use paper money. (80)The first paper money looked more like a note from one person to another than paper money used today.

Money has had an interesting history from the days of shell money until today.

Which of the following can be cited as an example of the use of money in exchange for services？

A．To sell a bicycle for $ 20.

B．To get some money for old books at a garage sale.

C．To buy things you need or want.

D．To get paid for your work.

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第3题

The Chinese have used a method called acupuncture（针炙) to perform. operations for about 4

The Chinese have used a method called acupuncture(针炙) to perform. operations for about 4,000 years without putting the patient to sleep. This involves placing flexible needles into certain parts of the body. The needles are available in a number of stores in China and anyone may buy them.

To learn how to use the needles takes about one month of training. But to be skillful requires greater time. (79) The person who performs the acupuncture knows how to put in the needles so the needles themselves are not painful. This person also knows where to place the needles so the patient feels no pain in the area where the operation is to be performed. A particular operation might require 25 or more needles placed in various parts of the body. But now this operation requires only 3 or 4 needles.

Today, the Chinese doctors are trying to learn more about acupuncture. (80) They are trying to develop a convincing theory to explain how the needles work in preventing pain, or why a needle in the wrist, for example, Would prevent the pain in the area of the mouth.

A patient who needs an operation is given a choice between having acupuncture or having one of the chemicals used for putting him to sleep. It has been estimated that over half of the patients choose acupuncture because there is no sickness after the operation but the chemical may make the patient sick for a few hours or a day.

Acupuncture is ______.

A．a medical operation

B．a medical needle

C．a medical technique

D．a medical machine

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第4题

On a clear night you can see many stars in the sky. These stars are millions of miles away

. Are there living things on any of the stars？ People have always thought about this question. They could not find the answer before now. Today scientists know more about space than ever before. Some machines can help them look for the answer.

How will scientists do this？ People can' t go to the stars. The stars are far away. A person would take hundreds of years to the next star in a spaceship. So scientists are sending out radio signals. These signals travel in space at the speed of light. At that speed, radio signals will take 25 years to reach the next star. The signals ask "Is there anyone out here？". Living things in space must have machines to hear the signals. We will not get an answer to our signals for more than 50 years. However, scientists are already listening. Someone from space may be trying to send signals to us, too.

Scientists also have sent large telescopes into space. A telescope can make things look larger. The telescopes are going around the earth. They are looking for life on other worlds. In the next few years we may get an answer to the question, "Is there life in space.

People always thought about the question, ______.

A．How can scientists use machines to look for a star？

B．How far away are the stars？

C．How many years a person would take to go to the next star in a spaceship？

D．Is there life in space？

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第5题

Should anyone much care whether an American boy living overseas gets six vicious thwacks o

n his backside？ So much has been argued, rejoined and rehashed about the case of Michael Fay, an 18-year-old convicted of vandalism and sentenced to a caning in Singapore, that an otherwise sorry little episode has shaded into a certified International Incident, complete with intercessions by the U.S. head of state. An affair has outraged American libertarians even as it has animated a general debate about morality East and West and the proper functioning of U.S. law and order.

Which, to all appearances, is what Singapore wanted. The question of whether anyone should care about Michael Fay is idle. Though Singapore officials profess shock at the attention his case had drawn, they know Americans care deeply about the many sides of this issue. Does a teenager convicted of spraying cars with easily removable paint deserve half a dozen powerful strokes？ At what point does swift, sure punishment become torture？ By what moral authority can America, with its high rates of lawlessness and license, preach of a safe society about human rights？

The caning sentence has concentrated minds wondrously on an already lively domestic debate over what constitutes a due balance between individual and majority rights. Too bad Michael Fay has become a focus for this discussion. Not only does he seem destined to be pummeled and immobilized, but the use of Singapore as a standard for judging any other society, let alone the cacophonous U.S., is fairly worthless.

To begin with, Singapore is an offshore republic that tightly limits immigration. Imagine crime-ridden Los Angeles, to which Singapore is sometimes contrasted, with hardly any inflow of the hard-luck, often desperate fortune seekers who flock to big cities. Even without its government's disciplinary measures, Singapore more than plausibly would be much the same as it is now. An academic commonplace today is that the major factor determining social peace and prosperity is culture—a sense of common identity, tradition and values.

Unlike Singapore, though, the U.S. today is a nation in search of a common culture, trying to be a universal society that assimilates the traditions of people from all over the world. Efforts to safeguard minority as well as individual rights have produced a gridlock in the justice system. Its troubles stem more from the decay of family life than from any government failures. Few societies can afford to look on complacently. As travel eases and cultures intermix, the American experience is becoming the world's.

The circumstances of this affair—evidently no Singaporean has ever been punished under the Vandalism Act for defacing private property—suggest that Singapore has used Fay as an unwilling point man in a growing quarrel between East and West about human rights.

What did the writer say happened to Michael Fay in Singapore？

A．His case captured worldwide attention.

B．He received severe punishment.

C．His experience was out of the ordinary.

D．He was likely to be disabled.

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第6题

Henry's job was to examine cars which crossed the frontier（边境) to make sure that they we

Henry's job was to examine cars which crossed the frontier(边境) to make sure that they were not smuggling(走私) anything into the country. Every evening except at weekends, he would see a factory worker coming up the hill towards the frontier,【C1】______a bicycle with a big load of old straw on it. When the bicycle【C2】______the frontier, Henry used to stop the man and【C3】______him take the straw off and untie it. Then he would examine the straw carefully to see【C4】______he could find anything, after which he would look in all the man's pockets【C5】______he let him tie the straw again. He never found【C6】______ ,even though he examined it very carefully, Then one evening, after he had looked through the straw and emptied the worker's pockets【C7】______usual, he said to him," Listen, I know that you are smuggling things【C8】______this frontier. Won't you tell me what it is that you're bringing into the country so successfully？ I'm an old man, and today's my last day on the job. Tomorrow I'm going to【C9】______. I promise that I shall not tell anyone if you tell me what you've been smuggling. "The worker did not say anything for【C10】______. Then he smiled turned to Henry and said quietly," Bicycles."

【C1】

A．pushing

B．pulling

C．filling

D．carrying

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第7题

Henry's job was to examine cars which crossed the frontier（边境)to make sure that they wer

Henry's job was to examine cars which crossed the frontier(边境)to make sure that they were not smuggling(走私)anything into the country. Every evening except at weekends, he would see a factory worker coming up the hill towards the frontier,【21】 a bicycle with a big load of old straw on it,When the bicycle【22】 the frontier, Henry used to stop the man and【23】 him take the straw off and untie it. Then he would examine the staw carefully to see【24】 he could find anything，after which he would look in all the man's pockets【25】 he let him tie the straw again. He never found【26】 , even though he examined it very carefully. Then one evening, after he had looked through the straw and emptied the worker’ s pockets【27】 usual. He said to him,“ Listen，I know that you are smuggling things 【28】 this frontier. Won' t you tell me what it is that you’ re bringing into the country so successfully？ I’ m an old man, and today' s my last day on the job. Tomorrow I’m going to【29】 . I promise that I shall not tell anyone if you tell me what you' ye been smuggling. ”The worker did not say anything for【30】 . Then the smiled, turned to Henry and said quietly,“ Bicycles.”

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A．pushing

B．pulling

C．filling

D．carrying

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第8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)

In spite of "endless talk of difference", American society is an amazing machine for homogenizing people. This is "the democratizing uniformity of dress and discourse, and the casualness and absence of consumption "launched by the 19th-century department stores that offered ' vast arrays of goods in an elegant atmosphere'" Instead of intimate shops catering to a knowledgeable elite, these were stores "anyone could enter, regardless of class or background". This turned shopping into a public anti democratic act". The mass media, advertising and sports are other forces for homogenization.

Immigrants are quickly fitting into this common culture, which may not be altogether elevating but is hardly poisonous. Writing for the National Immigration Forum, Gregory-Rodriguez reports that today's immigration is neither at unprecedented level nor resistant to assimilation. In 1998 immigrants were 9.8 percent of population; in 1900, 13.6 percent. In the 10 years prior to 1990, 3.1 immigrants arrived for every 1,000 residents; in the 10 years prior to 1890, 9.2 for every 1,000. Now, consider three indices of assimilation—language, home ownership and intermarriage.

The 1990 Census revealed that "a majority of immigrants from each of the fifteen most common countries of origin spoke English 'well' or 'very well' after ten years of residence". The children of immigrants tend to be bilingual and proficient in English. "By the third generation, the original language is lost in the majority of immigrant families". Hence the description of America as a graveyard for language. By 1996 foreign born immigrants who had arrive before 1970 had a home ownership rate of 75.6 percent, higher than the 69.8 percent rate among native born Americans.

Foreign-born Asians and Hispanics "have higher rates of intermarriage than do U.S.-born whites and blacks". By the third generation, one third of Hispanic women are married to non-Hispanics, and 41 percent of Asian-American women are married to non-Asians.

Rodriguez notes that children in remote villages around world are fans of superstars like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Garth Brooks, yet some Americans fear that immigrant living within, the United States remain somehow immune to the nation's assimilative power.

Are there divisive issues and pockets of seething anger in America？ Indeed. It is big enough to have a bit of every thing. But particularly when viewed against America's turbulent past, today's social induces suggest a dark and deteriorating social environment.

The word "homogenizing" (Line 1, Paragraph 1) most probably means ______.

A．identifying

B．associating

C．assimilating

D．monopolizing

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第9题

The world is going through the biggest wave of mergers and acquisitions ever witnessed. Th

e process sweeps from hyperactive America to Europe and reaches the emerging countries with unsurpassed might. Many in these countries are looking at this process and worrying:" Won't the wave of business concentration turn into an uncontrollable anti-competitive force？"

There's no question that the big are getting bigger and more powered. Multinational corporations accounted for less than 20% of international trade in 1982. Today the figure is more than 25% and growing rapidly. International affiliates ac count for a fast-growing segment of production in economies that open up and welcome foreign investment. In Argentina, for instance, after the reforms of the early 1990s, multinationals went from 43% to almost 70% of the industrial production of the 200 largest firms. This phenomenon has created serious concerns over the role of smaller economic firms, of national businessmen and over the ultimate stability of the world economy.

I believe that the most important forces behind the massive M&A wave are the same that underlie the globalization process: falling transportation and communication costs, lower trade and investment barriers and enlarged markets that re quire enlarged operations capable of meeting customer's demands. All these are beneficial, not detrimental, to consumers. As productivity grows, the world's wealth increases.

Examples of benefits or costs of the current concentration wave are scanty. Yet it is hard to imagine that the merger of a few oil firms today could re-create the same threats to competition that were feared nearly a century ago in the U.S., when the Standard Oil trust was broken up. The mergers of telecom companies, such as WorldCom, hardly seem to bring higher prices for consumers or a reduction in the pace of technical progress. On the contrary, the price of communications is coming down fast. In cars, too, concentration is increasing—witness Daimler and Chrysler, Renault and Nissan—but it does not appear that consumers are being hurt.

Yet the fact remains that the merger movement must be watched. A few weeks ago, Alan Greenspan warned against the megamergers in the banking industry. Who is going to supervise, regulate and operate as lender of last resort with the gigantic banks that are being created？ Won't multinationals shift production from one place to another when a nation gets too strict about infringements to fair competition？ And should one country, take upon itself the role of "defending competition" on issues that affect many other nations, as in the U.S. vs. Microsoft case？

What is the typical trend of businesses today？

A．To take in more foreign funds,

B．To invest more abroad.

C．To combine and become bigger.

D．To trade with more countries.

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第10题

For years, children in the industrial areas of Europe and America seldom left their smoky

cities to see the beauties of the countryside. This was not because the woods and fields were always far away, but because they were too far from the city to permit people to make a day trip between morning and nightfall.

In 1970, a young German schoolmaster had an idea which changed this state of affairs. He decided to turn his little schoolhouse into a dormitory or hostel for the summer holidays. Anyone who brought his sleeping bag and cooking equipment along could stay there for a very small quantity of money. The idea was a success. A few years later, the schoolhouse was much too small to hold the many young people who wanted to stay there. As a result, a dormitory was set up in an old castle nearby. This was the first Youth Hostel.

Today, young students and workers of every country can meet in the hostel and get to know each other. When young people arrive at the hostel, they have only to show their card of membership in a hostel organization in their own country. This card will permit him to use the facilities of hostels all over the world for very low prices.

Often, at the evening meal, a group of boys and girls from various parts of the country or the world will happen to meet at the same hostel. They may put their food together and prepare a dinner with many kinds of dishes. Sometimes a program will be organized after the meal with dances, songs, or short talks followed by a question period. One can learn a lot of things about other places, just by meeting people who come from those places. For this reason, a few weeks spent "hostelling" can be just as useful a part of one's education as classes in school.

The author says children in the city seldom went to the woods and fields because

A．all these places were too far away for them to go between morning and nightfall

B．it was impossible for them to go and get back in one day

C．they were not old enough to take such a trip

D．they were not permitted to go to these places

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