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1) take a rain check
改期
2) lost count
弄不清楚
3) be in another world
精神恍惚<
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;
魂不守舍
4) make yourself at home
随意，随便
5) save your breath
省口气吧
;
别白费口舌了
6) make sense
有意义，理解
7) cost sb. an arm and a
leg
非常昂贵
8) burn a hole in one's
pocket
很快地被花光
9) fill one's shoes
很好地顶替
;
令人满意地替代
10) is ice cold
表示理所当然
11) like apples and oranges
用来表示无法相比的事物
12) lose one's train of
忘记
13) meet each other half way
相互妥协，让步
14) on the dot
准时
;
正点
15) once and
for all
最后一次
;
干脆
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16) out of earshot
不在听力所及围
17) out of this world
非常好
18) play by ear
随机应变，视情形而定
19) ring a bell
令人想起某件事
;
听起来耳熟
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If the
population of the earth goes on increasing at its
present rate, there
will eventually not
be enough resources left to sustain life on the
the
middle of the 21st century,if
present trends continue, we will have used up all
the oil that drives our cars,for if
scientists develop new ways of
feeding
the human race,the crowded conditions on earth
will make it necessary
for lus to look
for open space somewhere else. But none of the
other planets in
our solar system are
capable of supporting life at present. One
possible
solution to the problem,
however,has recently been suggested by American
scientist, Professor Carl Sagan.
Sagan believes
that before the earth's resources are compleetely
exhausted
it will be possible to change
the atmophere of Venus and so create a new world
almost as large as earth itself. The
difficult is that Venus is much hotter than the
earth and there is only a tiny amount
of water there.
Sagan proposes that algae organisms
that can live in extremely hot or cold
atmospheres and at the same time
produce oxygen,should be bred in condition
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similar to
those on soon as this has been done, the algae
will be
placed in small rockets.
Spaceship will then fly to Venus and fire the
rockets into
the atmosphere .In a
fairly short time, the alge will break down the
carbon
dioxide into oxygen and carbon.
When the algae
have done theri work, the atmosphere will become
cooler,but befor man can set foot on
Venus it will be neccessary for the oxygen
to produce rain. The surface of the
planet will still be too hot for man to land on
it but the rain will eventually fall
and in a few years something like earth will be
reproduced on Venus.
long run, the most
insoluble problem caused by population
growth on earth will probably be the
lack of ______.
ces
Sagan believes that Venus might be
colonized from earth
because
_____
might be possible to change its
atmosphere
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atmosphere is the same as
the earth's
is
a good supply of water on Venus
days on Venus are long
enough
Venus
there is a lot of ________.
dioxide
monoxide
are plants that can____.
in very hot temperatures
in very cold
temperatures
cture oxygen
of the above
5. Man can land on Venus only
when_______.
algae have done their work
atmosphere becomes cooler
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s oxygen
rains there
答案：
cabdd
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People
living on parts of the south coast of England face
a serious problem.
In 1993, the owners
of a large hotel and of several houses discovered,
to their
horror, that their gardens had
disappeared overnight. The sea had eaten into
the soft limestone cliffs on which they
had been built. While experts were
studying the problem, the hotel and
several houses disappeared altogether,
sliding down the cliff and into the
sea.
Erosion
(
侵蚀
) of the white cliffs
along the south coast of England has
always been a problem but it has become
more serious in recent years. Dozens
of
homes have had to be abandoned as the sea has
crept farther and farther
inland.
Experts have studied the areas most affected and
have drawn up a map
for local people,
forecasting the year in which their homes will be
swallowed up
by the hungry sea.
Angry owners
have called on the Government to erect sea
defenses to
protect their homes.
Government surveyors have pointed out that in most
cases, this is impossible. New sea
walls would cost hundreds of millions of
pounds and would merely make the waves
and currents go further along the
coast, shifting the problem from one
area to another. The danger is likely to
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continue, they
say, until the waves reach an inland area of hard
rock which will
not be eaten as
limestone is. Meanwhile, if you want to buy a
cheap house with
an uncertain future,
apply to a house agent in one of the threatened
areas on
the south coast of England.
You can get a house for a knockdown price but it
may turn out to be a knockdown home.
1. What is the
cause of the problem that people living on parts
of the
south coast of England
face?
A) The disappearance of hotels, houses
and gardens.
B)
The experts
’
lack
of knowledge.
C) The rising of the sea level.
D) The washing-
away of limestone cliffs.
2. The erosion of the white cliffs in
the south of England ________.
A) will soon
become a problem for people living in central
England
B) has
now become a threat to the local residents
C) is quickly
changing the map of England
D) can be stopped if proper
measures are taken
3. The
experts
’
study on the problem
of erosion can ________.
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A) lead to its eventual solution
B) provide an
effective way to slow it down
C) help to prevent it from
worsening
D)
warn people whose homes are in danger
4. It is not feasible to
build sea defenses to protect against erosion
because ________.
A) it is too
costly and will endanger neighbouring areas
B) the
government is too slow in taking action
C) they will be
easily knocked down by waves and currents
D) house agents
along the coast do not support the idea
5. According to
the author, when buying a house along the south
coast
of England, people should
________.
A) be aware of the potential danger
involved
B)
guard against being cheated by the house agent
C) take the
quality of the house into consideration
D) examine the
house carefully before making a decision
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参考答案
1. C 2. B 3. A 4.B 5. D
3.
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Statuses are
marvelous human inventions that enable us to get
along with
one another and to determine
where we
everyday lives, we mentally
attempt to place people in terms of their
statuses.
For example, we must judge
whether the person in the library is a reader or a
librarian, whether the telephone caller
is a friend or a salesman, whether the
unfamiliar person on our property is a
thier or a meter reader, and so on.
The statuses we assume
often vary with the people we encounter, and
change throughout life. Most of us can,
at very high speed, assume the statuses
that various situations require. Much
of social interaction consists of identifying
and selecting among appropriate
statuses and allowing other people to
assume their statuses in relation to
us. This means that we fit our actions to
those of other people based on a
constant mental process of appraisal and
interpretation. Although some of us
find the task more difficult than others,
most of us perform it rather
effortlessly.
A
status has been compared to ready-made clothes.
Within certain limits,
the buyer can
choose style and fabric. But an American is not
free to choose the
costume
(
服装
) of a Chinese peasant or
that of a Hindu prince. We must choose
from among the clothing presented by
our society. Furthermore, our choice is
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limited to a
size that will fit, as well as by our pocketbook
(
钱包
). Having made a
choice within these limits we can have
certain alterations made, but apart from
minor adjustments, we tend to be
limited to what the stores have on their racks.
Statuses too come ready made, and the
range of choice among them is limited.
这是一篇说明文，讲的是人们的
St
atus(
身份、地位
)
这一问题。<
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51.
In the first paragraph, the writer tells us that
statuses can help us
_______.
A) determine whether a
person is fit for a certain job
B) behave appropriately in
relation to other people
C) protect ourselves in unfamiliar
situations
D)
make friends with other people
[
答案及分析
]
：
[B]
事实辨认题。问在第一段
作者告诉我们人的身份对我们有下列哪
种帮助。第一段第一句说得很明白：
“身份有助于我们和别人相处，决定我们在社会中
所处的地位、扮演的角色”
，
[B]
项意为“正确地与人交往”，正是上述意思。
52.
According to the writer, people often assume
different statuses
______.
A) in order to
identify themselves with others
B) in order to better
identify others
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C) as their
mental processes change
D) as the situation changes
[
答案及分析
]
：
[D]
事实辨认题。问作者认为
，在什么情况下人们经常具有不同的身
份。
[A]
项意为“为了将自己预其他人区别开”，
[B]
项为
“为了更好地识别他人”，
[C]
项为“当心理发生变化时”，
[D]
项意为“随着环境的变化”。
[
A]
、
[B]
、
[C]
三项都不
合文章原意，并且根据第二段第一、二句话可
知
[D]
项正确。
53. The word
A)
involvement B) appreciation C) assessment D)
presentation
[<
/p>
答案及分析
]
：
[C]
词义理解题。
问第二段第六行中的
appraisal
一词的意思是什么。
根据该词所在的句子
，
可知该词含义和
mental process(
思想过程
)
有关，
并且可
能与和
其并列的词
interpretation(
解释，
说明，
理解
)
有一定相似之处。
involvement
意为
“陷
入，
卷入
;
牵涉，
包含”
，
assessment
意为
“估计，
< br>评估
;
所估计之数额”
，
appreciation
表示“感，感激
;
欣赏，评价，赏识”，
presentation
意为“赠送
;
提出
;
引见，介绍
;
出
席，
呈现
;
演出”。比较起来，
[B]
项符合上述两点，而且意思上说得通。
appraisal
的准
确意思是“估计，估价，评价”，在此句中“评价”讲。
54. In
the last sentence of the second paragraph, the
pronoun
refers to
A) fitting our
actions to those of other people appropriately
B)
identification of other people's statuses
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C) selecting one's own statuses D)
constant mental process
[
答案及
分析
]
：
[A]
事实辨认题。问第二段最后一句中“
it
”指代什么。根据句
意及
其结构可知：
it
指代
the task
，
即前一句
“
we fit out actions to those of
people based
on a constant mental
process of appraisal and interpretation
”，不难看出
[A]
项
正确。
4.
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One
of the qualities that most people admire in others
is the
willingness to admit one's
mistakes. It is extremely hard sometimes to
say a simple thing like
to
say,
I had an experience recently with
someone admitting to me that he had
made a mistake fifteen years ago. He
told me he had been the manager of a
certain grocery store in the
neighbourhood where I grew up, and he asked me if
I remembered the egg cartons. Then he
related an incident and Ibegan to
remember vaguely the incident he was
describing.
I
was about eight years old at the time, and I had
gome into the store with
may mother to
do the weekly grocery shopping. On that particular
day, I must
have found my way to the
dairy food department where the incident tood
place.
There must have been a special sale on
eggs that day because there was an
impressive display of eggs indozen and
half-dozen cartons. The cartons were
stacked three or four feet high. I must
have stopped in front of a display to
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admire the
stacks. Just then a woman came by pushing her
grocery cart and
knocked off the stacks
of cartons. For some reason, I decided it was up
to me to
put the display back together,
so I want to work.
The manager heard the moise and came
rushing over to see what had
happened.
When he appeared, I was on my knees inspecting
some of the
cartons to see if any of
the eggs were broken, but to him it looked as
though I
was the culprit. He severely
reprimanded me and wanted me to pay for any
broken eggs. I protested my innocence
and tried to explain, but it did no good.
Even though I quickly forgot all about
the incident, apparently the manager did
not.
old was the author when he wrote this
article?
8
18
23
15
was to blame for knocking
off the stacks of cartons?
author
manager
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c.A woman
author's mother
of the following
statements is not true?
woman who knocked off the
stacks of cartons was seriously criticized
by the mananger
author was severely critizized by the
manager.
c.A
woman carelessly knocked off the stacks of cartons
was the author
who put the display back together
of the following can serve
as the best title for the passage?
Harder to
Admit One's Mistake
b.I was once the culprit
c.I remember an incident
d.A case of
mistaken identity
tone of the article expresses the
author's_______.
tion for the manager's
willingness to admit mistakes
to the manager for his
wrong accusation
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ation against
the woman who knocked off the stacks of cartons
for the
mistake the made in the store
答案：
ccada
5.
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Water problems in the future will
become nore intense and more
complex.
Our increasing population will tremendously
increase urban
wastes,primarily sewage.
On the other hand, increasing demands for water
will
decease substantialy the amount of
water available for diluting wastes. Rapidly
expanding industries which involve more
and more complex chemical
processes
will produce large volumes of liquid wastes, and
many of these will
contain chemicals
which are noxious. To feed our rapidly expanding
population,
agriculture will have to be
intensified. This will involve ever-
increasingquantities
of agricultural
chemicals, From this , it is apparent that drastic
steps must be
taken immediately to
develop corrective measures for the pollution
problem.
There
are two ways by which this pollution problem can
be dwindled. The
first relates to the
treatment of wastes to decrease their pollution
hazard. This
involves the processing of
solid wastes
liquid wastes, or
efflunets,to permit the reuse of the water or
minimize
pollution upon final disposal.
A second
approach is to develop an economic use for all or
a part of the
wastes. Farm manure is
spread in fields as a nutrient or organic
supplement .
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Effluents from sewage disposal plants
are used in some areas both for irrigation
and for the nutrients contained.
Efflunets from other processing plants may
also be used as a supplemental source
of water. Many industries, such as meat
and poultry processing plants, are
currently converting former waste products
into marketable byproducts. Other
industries are potential eonomic uses for
waste products.
purpose of this passage is
______.
alert the reader to the dwindling
water supply
explain industrial uses of water
acquaint the reader with
water pollution problems
demostrate various measures to solve
the pollution problem
of the following points is NOT
INCLUDED in the passage?
dustrial development
incudes the simplification of complex chemical
processes.
ng wastes needs certain amount of water
s for water
will go up along with the expanding population
ive cultivation
of land requires more and more chemicals
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reader can conclued
that________.
ies of the world will work together on
polution problems
ucts from wastes lead to a more
prosperous marketplace
e is making great progress on
increasing water supplies
industries are now ,aking economic use
of wastes
author gives substance to the passage through the
use of _______.
iews with authorities in the field of
water controls
ns and personal observations
tions which
clarify important terms
arguments and persuasions
words
答案
:<
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cadbc
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6.
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Many people
believe the glare from snow causes snowblindnenss.
Yet,
dark glasses or not , they find
themselves suffering from headaches and
watering eyes,and even
snowblindness,when exposed to several hours of
light
The United States Army has now
determined that glare from snow does not
cause snowblindness in troops in a
snow-covered , a man's eyes
frequently
find nothing to foucs on in a broad expanse of
barren snow-covered
terrain. So his
gaze continually shifts and jumps back and forth
over the entire
landscape in search of
tsomething to look at. Finding nothing, hour after
hour,
the eyes never sotp searching and
the eyeballs become sore and the eye
muscles ache. Nature offsets this
irritation by producing more and fluid which
covers the eyeball. The fluid coversthe
eyeball in increasing quantity until vision
blurs, then is obsured,and the result
is total, even though
temporary,snowblindness.
Experiments led the Army to
a simple method of overcoming this problem.
Scouts ahead of a main body of troops
are trained to shake snow from
evergreen bushes, creating a dotted
line as they cross completely
snow-
covered landscape,Even the scouts themselves throw
lightweight , dark
colored objects
ahead on which they too can focus . The men
following can
then see gaze is
arrested. Their eyes focus on a bush and
having found something to see,stop
scouring the snow-blanketed lanscape. By
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focusing their
attention on one object at a time,the men can
cross the snow
without becoming
hopelessly snowblind or lost. In this way the
problem of
crossing a solid white
terrain is overcome.
prevent headaches, watering eyes and
blindness caused by the
glare from
snow, dark glasses are_____.
ensible
ctive
ble
the eyes are sore tears are produced
to ________.
the vision
snowblindness
the irritation
the muscles
indness may be avoided
by_______.
trating to the solid white terrain
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ing for something to look at in snow-
covered terrain
ing the eyes with something to foucs on
ng the eyeballs
with fluid
scouts shake snow from evergreen bushes in order
to _______.
the men behind something to see
fy the
landscape
themselves in the cold
t the men behind from losing their way
5.A suitable
title for this passage would be
_______.
indness and how to overcome it
's cure for
snowblindness
rs in the snow
vision
答案：
CCCAA
7.
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On Thursday
afternoon Mrs. Carke, dressed for going out, took
her
handbag with her money and her key
in it, pulled the door behind her to lock it
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and went to the
over 60s Club. She always went there on Thursdays.
It was a
nice outing for an old woman
who lived alone.
At six o'clock she cane home, let
herself in and at once smelt cigarette
smoke. Cigarette smoke in her house?
How? How? Had someone got in? She
checked the back door and the windows.
All were locked or fastened, as usual.
There was no sign of forced entry.
Over a cup of
tea she wondered whether someone might have a key
that
fitted her front
door-
following Thursday. Nothing
happened. Was anyone watching her movements?
On the Thursday after that she went out
at her usual time,dressed as usual, but
she didn't go to the club. Instead she
took a short cut home again, letting
herself in through her garden and the
back door. She settled down to wait.
It was just after four
o'clock when the front door bell . Clarke was
making a cup of tea at the time. The
bell rang again, and then she heard her
letter-box being pushed open. With the
kettle of boiling water in her hand, she
moved quietly towards the front door. A
long piece of wire appeared through
the
letter-box, and then a hand. The wire turned and
caught around the knob
on the door-
lock. Mrs. Clarke raised the kettle and poured the
water over the
hand. There was a shout
outside, and the skin seemed to drop off the
fingers
like a glove. The wire fell to
the floor, the hand was pulled back, and Mrs.
Clarke
heard the sound of running feet.
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. Clarke looded forward to Thursday
because_______.
worked at a club on the day
said visitors
on Thursdays
visited a club on Thursday
d.a special visitor came on Thursday
someone had
made a forced entery,_______.
would have
found a broken door or window
or she was still in the
house
would
have been thown about
or she would have needed a master key
the third
Thursday Mrs. Clarke went out_______.
e she didn't
want to miss the club again
see if the thief was
hnging about outside
the club but then changed her mind
an attempt to
trick the thief
lock on the front door was one
which_______.
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a piece of
wire to open it
he opened from inside without a key
't be opened
without a key
a knob instead of a key
wire feel to the
floor_______.
e refused to open the door
the man's glove dropped
off
e it was
too hot to hold
e the man justwanted to get away
答案：
cadbd
8.
。。。
Trees should
only be pruned when there is a good and clear
reason for
doing so and ,
fortunately,the number of such reasons is small.
Pruning involves
the cutting away of
obergrown and unwanted branches, and the
inexperienced
gardener can be
encouraged by the thought that more damage results
from
doing it unnecessarily than from
leaving the tree to grow in its own way.
First, pruning
may be done to make sure that trees have a desired
shape or
size. The object may be to get
a tree of the right height, and at the same time
to
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