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Part 1 Reading Comprehension (Multiple
Choice)
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每小题：
1
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Directions:
Read the following passages carefully and choose
the best answer from the four choices
marked A, B, C and D.
Questions 1 to 5 are based on the same
passage or dialog.
Time
passed and my cards sold well. My enthusiasm for
the
greeting card business grew
quickly. All along, I had been drawing
fantasy art: monsters, dragons,
castles, etc. With the birth of my
first son in 1980, the content of my
work went through a pretty
dramatic
change.
Fantasy went out of
the window, and I began to illustrate reality.
In the spring of 1983, we,
The Mary Engelbreit Greeting Card
Company, took our 12 little designs to
New York to exhibit them at
a national
card show.
I remember how
big the show was. I just couldn't get over it. I
had
no idea there were so many
different card companies. And it was
exciting because our 12 little cards
were getting a lot of attention in
that
huge place!
I've been told
one of the reasons we had so much success at that
show is because my card style was
different than anything else at
the
market. I typically draw complicated details and
use deep colors
and funny or meaningful
quotations.
By 1985, many
greeting card publishers started noticing my art,
and
two of them approached me with
licensing contracts.
I have
always believed if you choose a job you love,
you'll never
work a day in your life.
If you ask about the mystery of my success,
all I can say is this: to imagine is
everything!
CBAAD
1.
Before the
birth of her first son, Mary Engelbreit's cards
focused on ________.
A.
reality
B. daily life
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C.
fantasy
D. dragons
2.
B. couldn't believe it
C. couldn't stay to the end
of it
D. couldn't
understand it
3.
B.
they had a thank-you sentence
C. they had complicated details
D. they were rich in color
4.
B. asked Engelbreit to make
her cards more distinctive
C. wanted Engelbreit to use more
meaningful quotations
D.
thought her cards were to complicated
5.
According to Mary Engelbreit, the key
to success is
________.
A.
devotion
A couple of
greeting card companies ________.
A.
presented Engelbreit with contracts
Engelbreit's cards were successful
because ________.
A. they were
distinctive in style
The New York show
was so big that Engelbreit ________.
A.
couldn't walk through it
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B. opportunity
C. good luck
D.
imagination
Questions 6 to
10 are based on the same passage or
dialog.
In the early days of
sea travel, seamen on long voyages lived
exclusively on salted meat and
biscuits. Many of them died of
scurvy
(
坏血病
), a blood disease which
causes swollen gums, livid
(
铅色的
) white spots
on the flesh and general exhaustion. On one
occasion, in 1535, an English ship
arrived in Newfoundland with its
crew
seriously ill. The men's lives were saved by
Iroquois Indians
(
易洛魁印第安人
) who
gave them vegetable leaves to eat.
Gradually it came to be realized that
scurvy was caused by
something lacking
in the sailors' diet. Captain Cook, on his long
voyages of discovery to Australia and
New Zealand, established
the fact that
scurvy could be warded off by the giving fresh
fruit to
the sailors.
Nowadays it is understood that a diet
which contains nothing
harmful may yet
result in serious diseases if certain important
elements are missing. These elements
are called
a number of such substances
are known and they are given letters
to
identify them, A, B, C, D, and so on. Different
diseases are
associated with a lack of
particular vitamins. Even a slight lack of
Vitamin C, for example, the vitamin
most plentiful in fresh fruit and
vegetables, is thought to increase our
chances of catching colds.
The vitamins necessary for a healthy
body are normally supplied by
a good
mixed diet, including a variety of fruit and green
vegetables.
It is only when people try
to live on a very restricted diet, say, during
the extended periods of religious
fasting (
斋戒
), or when trying
to
lose weight, that it is necessary to
supply the missing vitamins.
DACDC
6.
B. People lose blood.
C. People become livid.
Which of the following
happens because of scurvy?
A. People
become hungry.
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D. People feel pain in their gums.
7.
B. They stopped in places
to relax.
C. They often
found Indians to help.
D.
They ate vegetable leaves regularly.
8.
B. Vitamin B.
C.
Vitamin C.
D. Vitamin D.
9.
B. Diets like those taken
by religious people.
C.
Certain important elements known by letters.
D. Mixed diets with
different fruits and vegetables.
10.
When should people take vitamins?
A. When wanting to be healthy.
B. When joining a religion.
C. When dieting to lose
weight.
What supplies all
the vitamins we need to be healthy?
A.
Any one of the different sorts of green
vegetables.
Which vitamin helps protect
us against colds?
A. Vitamin A.
How would the sailors ward off scurvy
on long trips?
A. They took fresh fruit
with them.
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D.
When protecting against sickness.
Questions 11 to 15 are based on the
same passage or dialog.
You
must face the fact that in your inmost heart you
hate the
thought of moving. It is
easiest not to leave the rooms where your
children passed through their wonderful
childhood and annoying
teens to a
friendly but slightly distant maturity.
Until, suddenly one day,
the distance is absolute and they are
grown up and gone. Then you find
yourself living in too large a
house,
which consumes in its maintenance too much energy
and
money. When we found ourselves in
this situation a few years ago,
we
determined to move while we still had the strength
and before
the emotional ties that the
old house had wrapped around us
became
too powerful to be broken. Move while you can! But
be
sure you really want to, and do not
move too often. It is an
exhausting
process.
Your first task is
to find a house that will suit you. It must be
smaller,
quieter, easier to run, and
more conveniently placed for transport.
Not so small, though, that it will not
have room for your largest
pieces of
furniture, and located not too far from the
neighborhood
where so many friendships
have been built up.
At last
we found one: a late Victorian cottage, in a
street where the
houses, all small,
range from late 18th to mid 20th century. It was
near enough to where we wanted to live.
It had no basement
(
底下
层
), which was
a great convenience for aging legs; there were
only
two floors: one for ourselves and
one where friends, children, and
grandchildren could spread themselves
when they came to stay.
Each floor had
two rooms. There was a kitchen on the ground
floor,
with the bathroom above it.
DCABA
11.
The passage concerns ________.
A. buying a house for a newly married
couple
B. buying a large
house for a growing family
C. buying a better house when people
have more money to
spend
D. buying a smaller house for older
people whose children
have
left home
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