B) It was just terrible.
C) The actors were enthusiastic. D) The plot was funny enough.
Section B
Passage One
Question 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. A) Social work. B) Medical care. C) Applied1 physics. D) Special education.
12. A) The timely advice from her friends and relatives. B) The two-year professional training she received.
C) Her determination to fulfill2 her dream. D) Her parents’ consistent moral support.
13. A) To get the funding for the hospitals. B) To help the disabled children there.
C) To train therapists for the children there. D) To set up an institution for the handicapped.
Passage Two
Questions 14 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14. A) At a country school in Mexico. B) In a mountain valley of Spain.
C) At a small American college. D) In a small village in Chile.
15. A) By expanding their minds and horizons. B) By financing their elementary education.
C) By setting up a small primary school. D) By setting them an inspiring example.
16. A) She wrote poetry that broke through national barriers.
B) She was a talented designer of original school curriculums.
C) She proved herself to be an active and capable stateswoman.
D) She made outstanding contributions to children’s education.
17. A) She won the 1945 Nobel Prize in Literature.
B) She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.
C) She translated her books into many languages.
D) She advised many statesmen on international affairs.
Passage Three
Questions 18 to 20 are based on passage you have just heard.
18. A) How animals survive harsh conditions in the wild.
B) How animals alter colors to match their surroundings.
C) How animals protect themselves against predators3.
D) How animals learn to disguise themselves effectively.
19. A) Its enormous size. B) Its plant-like appearance.
C) Its instantaneous response. D) Its offensive smell.
20. A) It helps improve their safety. B) It allows them to swim faster.
C) It helps them fight their predators. D) It allows them to avoid twists and turns.
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension （35 minutes）
Passage One
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage
There are good reasons to be troubled by the violence that spreads throughout the media. Movies, television and video games are full of gunplay and bloodshed, and one might reasonably ask what’s wrong with a society that presents videos of domestic violence as entertainment.
Most researchers agree that the causes of real-world violence are complex. A 1993 study by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences listed “biological, individual, family, peer, school, and community factors” as all playing their parts.
Viewing abnormally large amounts of violent television and video games may well contribute to violent behavior in certain individuals. The trouble comes when researchers downplay uncertainties4 in their studies or overstate the case for causality（因果关系）. Skeptics were dismayed several years ago when a group of societies including the American Medical Association tried to end the debate by issuing a joint5 statement: “At this time, well over 1,000 studies… point overwhelmingly to a causal connection between media violence and aggressive behavior in some children.”
Freedom-of-speech advocates accused the societies of catering6 to politicians, and even disputed the number of studies (most were review articles and essays, they said). When Jonathan Freedman, a social psychologist at the University of Toronto, reviewed the literature, he found only 200 or so studies of television-watching and aggression7. And when he weeded out “the most doubtful measures of aggression”, only 28% supported a connection.
The critical point here is causality. The alarmists say they have proved that violent media cause aggression. Butn the assumptions behind their observations need to be examined. When labeling games as violent or non-violent, should a hero eating a ghost really be counted as a violent event? And when experimenters record the time it takes game players to read “aggressive” or “non-aggressive” words from a list, can we be sure what they are actually measuring? The intent of the new Harvard Center on Media and Child Health to collect and standardize8 studies of media violence in order to compare their methodologies, assumptions and conclusions is an important step in the right direction.
Another appropriate step would be to tone down the criticism until we know more. Several researchers write, speak and testify quite a lot on the threat posed by violence in the media. That is, of course, their privilege. But when doing so, they often come out with statements that the matter has now been settled, drawing criticism from colleagues. In response, the alarmists accuse critics and news reporters of being deceived by the entertainment industry. Such clashes help neither science nor society.
21. Why is there so much violence shown in movies, TV and video games?
A ) There is a lot of violence in the real world today.
B ) Something has gone wrong with today’s society
C ) Many people are fond of gunplay and bloodshed.
D ) Showing violence is thought to be entertaining.
22. What is the skeptics’ ( Line 3, Para. 3 ) view of media violence?
A ) Violence on television is fairly accurate reflection of real-world life.
B ) Most studies exaggerate the effect of media violence on the viewers.
C ) A causal relationship exists between media and real-world violence.
D ) The influence of media violence on children has been underestimated.
23. The author uses the term “alarmists” ( Line 1, Para. 5 ) to refer to those who ______.
A ) use standardized9 measurements in the studies of media violence
B ) initiated10 the debate over the influence of violent media on reality
C ) assert a direct link between violent media and aggressive behavior
D ) use appropriate methodology in examining aggressive behavior
24. In refuting the alarmists, the author advances his argument by first challenging _____.
A ) the source and amount of their data B ) the targets of their observation
C ) their system of measurement D ) their definition of violence
25. What does the author think of the debate concerning the relationship between the media and violence?
A ) More studies should be conducted before conclusions are drawn11.
B ) It should come to an end since the matter has now been settled.
C ) The past studies in this field have proved to be misleading.
D ) He more than agrees with the views held by the alarmists.
Passage Two
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
You’re in trouble if you have to buy your own brand-name prescription12 drugs. Over the past decade, prices leaped by more than double the inflation rate. Treatments for chronic13 conditions can easily top $2,000 a month — no wonder that one in four Americans can’t afford to fill their prescriptions14. The solution? A hearty15 chorus of “O Canada.” North of the border, where price controls reign16, those same brand-name drugs cost 50% to 80% less.
The Canadian option is fast becoming a political wake-up call. “If our neighbors can buy drugs at reasonable prices, why can’t we?” Even to whisperuyy that thought provokes anger. “Un-American!” And — the propagandists’ trump17 card（王牌）— “Wreck our brilliant health-care system.” Supersize drug prices, they claim, fund the research that sparks the next generation of wonder drugs. No sky-high drug price today, no cure for cancer tomorrow. So shut up and pay up.
Common sense tells you that’s a false alternative. The reward for finding, say, a cancer cure is so huge that no one’s going to hang it up. Nevertheless, if Canada-level pricing came to the United States, the industry’s profit margins18 would drop and the pace of new-drug development would slow. Here lies the American dilemma19. Who is all this splendid medicine for? Should our healthcare system continue its drive toward the best of the best, even though rising numbers of patients can’t afford it? Or should we direct our wealth toward letting everyone in on today’s level of care? Measured by saved lives, the latter is almost certainly the better course.
To defend their profits, the drug companies have warned Canadian wholesalers and pharmacies20（药房）not to sell to Americans by mail, and are cutting back supplies to those who dare.
Meanwhile, the administration is playing the fear card. Officials from the Food and Drug Administration will argue that Canadian drugs might be fake, mishandled, or even a potential threat to life.
Do bad drugs fly around the Internet? Sure — and the more we look, the more we’ll find. But I haven’t heard of any raging epidemics21 among the hundreds of thousands of people buying cross-border.
Most users of prescription drugs don’t worry about costs a lot. They’re sheltered by employee insurance, owing just a $ 20 co-pay. The financial blows rain, instead, on the uninsured, especially the chronically22 ill who need expensive drugs to live. This group will still include middle-income seniors on Medicare, who’ll have to dig deeply into their pockets before getting much from the new drug benefit that starts in 2006.
26. What is said about the consequence of the rocketing drug prices in the U.S.?
A ) A quarter of Americans can’t afford their prescription drugs.
B ) Many Americans can’t afford to see a doctor when they fall ill.
C ) Many Americans have to go to Canada to get medical treatment.
D ) The inflation rate has been more than doubled over the years.
27. It can be inferred that America can follow the Canadian model and curb23 its soaring drug prices by _______.
A ) encouraging people to buy prescription drugs online
B ) extending medical insurance to all its citizens
C ) importing low-price prescription drugs from Canada
D ) exercising price control on brand-name drugs
28. How do propagandists argue for the U.S. drug pricing policy?
A ) Low prices will affect the quality of medicines in America.
B ) High prices are essential to funding research on new drugs.
C ) Low prices will bring about the anger of drug manufacturers
D ) High-price drugs are indispensable in curing chronic diseases.
29. What should be the priority of America’s health-care system according to the author?
A ) To resolve the dilemma in the health-care system.
B ) To maintain America’s lead in the drug industry.
C ) To allow the vast majority to enjoy its benefits.
D ) To quicken the pace of new drug development.
30. What are American drug companies doing to protect their high profits?
A ) Labeling drugs bought from Canada as being research.
B ) Threatening to cut back funding for new drug research.
C ) Reducing supplies to uncooperative Canadian pharmacies.
D ) Attributing the raging epidemics to the ineffectiveness of Canadian drugs.
Passage Three
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.
Age has its privileges in America, and one of the more prominent of them is the senior citizen discount. Anyone who has reached a certain age — in some cases as low as 55 — is automatically entitled to dazzling array of price reductions at nearly every level of commercial life. Eligibility24 is determined25 not by one’s need but by the date on one’s birth certificate. Practically unheard of a generation ago, the discounts have become a routine part of many businesses — as common as color televisions in motel rooms and free coffee on airliners26.
People with gray hair often are given the discounts without even asking for them; yet, millions of Americans above age 60 are healthy and solvent27（有支付能力的）. Businesses that would never dare offer discounts to college students or anyone under 30 freely offer them to older Americans. The practice is acceptable because of the widespread belief that “elderly” and “needy” are synonymous（同义的）. Perhaps that once was true, but today elderly Americans as a group have a lower poverty rate than the rest of the population. To be sure, there is economic diversity within the elderly, and many older Americans are poor. But most of them aren’t.
It is impossible to determine the impact of the discounts on individual companies. For many firms, they are a stimulus28 to revenue. But in other cases the discounts are given at the expense, directly or indirectly29, of younger Americans. Moreover, they are a direct irritant in what some politicians and scholars see as a coming conflict between the generations.
Generational tensions are being fueled by continuing debate over Social Security benefits, which mostly involves a transfer of resources from the young to the old. Employment is another sore point. Buoyed（支持）by laws and court decisions, more and more older Americans are declining the retirement30 dinner in favor of staying on the job — thereby31 lessening32 employment and promotion33 opportunities for younger workers.
Far from a kind of charity they once were, senior citizen discounts have become a formidable economic privilege to a group with millions of members who don’t need them.
It no longer makes sense to treat the elderly as a single group whose economic needs deserve priority over those of others. Senior citizen discounts only enhance the myth that older people can’t take care of themselves and need special treatment; and they threaten the creation of a new myth, that the elderly are ungrateful and taking for themselves at the expense of children and other age groups. Senior citizen discounts are the essence of the very thing older Americans are fighting against — discrimination by age.
31. We learn from the first paragraph that _______.
A ) offering senior citizens discounts has become routine commercial practice
B ) senior citizen discounts have enabled many old people to live a decent life
C ) giving senior citizens discounts has boosted the market for the elderly
D ) senior citizens have to show their birth certificates to get a discount
32. What assumption lies behind the practice of senior citizen discounts?
A ) Businesses, having made a lot of profits, should do something for society in return.
B ) Old people are entitled to special treatment for the contribution they made to society.
C ) The elderly, being financially underprivileged, need humane34 help from society.
D ) Senior citizen discounts can make up for the inadequacy35 of the Social Security system.
33. According to some politicians and scholars, senior citizen discounts will _______.
A ) make old people even more dependent on society
B ) intensify36 conflicts between the young and the old
C ) have adverse37 financial impact on business companies
D ) bring a marked increase in the companies’ revenues
34. How does the author view the Social Security system?
A ) It encourages elderly people to retire in time.
B ) It opens up broad career prospects38 for young people.
C ) It benefits the old at the expense of the young.
D ) It should be reinforced by laws and court decisions.
35. Which of the following best summarizes the author’s main argument?
A ) Senior citizens should fight hard against age discrimination.
B ) The elderly are selfish and taking senior discounts for granted.
C ) Priority should be given to the economic needs of senior citizens.
D ) Senior citizen discounts may well be a type of age discrimination.
Passage Four
Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.
In 1854 my great-grandfather, Morris Marable, was sold on an auction39 block in Georgia for $ 500. for his white slave master, the sale was just “business as usual.” But to Morris Marable and his heirs, slavery was a crime against our humanity. This pattern of human rights violations40 against enslaved African-Americans continued under racial segregation41 for nearly another century.
The fundamental problem of American democracy in the 21st century is the problem of “structural42 racism43” : the deep patterns of socio-economic inequality and accumulated disadvantage that are coded by race, and constantly justified44 in public speeches by both racist45 stereotypes47 and white indifference48. Do Americans have the capacity and vision to remove these structural barriers that deny democratic rights and opportunities to millions of their fellow citizens?
This country has previously49 witnessed two great struggles to achieve a truly multicultural50 democracy.
The First Reconstruction（1954-1877）ended slavery and briefly51 gave black men voting rights, but gave no meaningful compensation for two centuries of unpaid52 labor53. The promise of “40 acres and a mule（骡子）” was for most blacks a dream deferred54（尚未实现的）.
The Second Reconstruction（1954-1968）, or the modern civil rights movement, ended legal segregation in public accommodations and gave blacks voting rights. But these successes paradoxically obscure the tremendous human costs of historically accumulated disadvantage that remain central to black Americans’ lives.
The disproportionate wealth that most whites enjoy today was first constructed from centuries of unpaid black labor. Many white institutions, including some leading universities, insurance companies and banks, profited from slavery. This pattern of white privilege and black inequality continues today.
Demanding reparations（赔偿）is no just about compensation for slavery and segregation. It is, more important, an educational campaign to highlight the contemporary reality of “racial deficits” of all kinds, the unequal conditions that impact blacks regardless of class. Structural racism’s barriers include “equity inequity,” the absence of black capital formation that is a direct consequence of America’s history. One third of all black households actually have negative net wealth. In 1998 the typical black family’s net wealth was $ 16,400 , less than one fifth that of white families. Black families are denied home loans at twice the rate of whites.
Blacks remain the last hired and first fired during recessions. During the 1990-91 recession, African-Americans suffered disproportionately. At Coca-Cola, 42 percent of employees who lost their jobs were blacks. At Sears, 54 percent were black. Black have significantly shorter life spans, in part due to racism in the health establishment. Black are statistically55 less likely than whites to be referred for kidney transplants or early-stage cancer surgery.
36. To the author, the auction of his great-grandfather is a typical example of _______.
A ) crime against humanity B ) unfair business transaction
C ) racial conflicts in Georgia D ) racial segregation in America
37. The barrier to democracy in 21st century America is ______.
A ) widespread use of racist stereotypes
B ) prejudice against minority groups
C ) deep-rooted socio-economic inequality
D ) denial of legal rights to ordinary blacks.
38. What problem remains56 unsolved in the two Reconstructions57?
A ) Differences between races are deliberately58 obscured.
B ) The blacks are not compensated59 for their unpaid labor.
C ) There is no guarantee for blacks to exercise their rights.
D ) The interests of blacks are not protected by law.
39. It is clear that the wealth enjoyed by most whites ________.
A ) has resulted from business successes over the years
B ) has been accompanied by black capital formation
C ) has derived60 from sizable investments in education
D ) has been accumulated from generations of slavery
40. What does the author think of the current situation regarding racial discrimination?
A ) Racism is not a major obstacle to blacks’ employment.
B ) Inequality of many kinds remains virtually untouched.
C ) A major step has been taken towards reparations.
D ) Little has been done to ensure blacks’ civil rights.
Part Ⅲ Vocabulary ( 20 minutes )
41. Because of the ________ of its ideas, the book was in wide circulation both at home and abroad.
A ) originality B ) subjectivity C ) generality D ) ambiguity
42. With its own parliament and currency and a common _______ for peace, the European Union declared itself — in 11 official languages — open for business.
A ) discrete B ) assimilation C ) intuition D ) aspiration
43. America has now adopted more _______ European-style inspection61 systems, and the incidence of food poisoning is falling.
A ) discrete B ) solemn C ) rigorous D ) autonomous
44. Mainstream62 pro-market economists63 all agree that competition is an ______ spur to efficiency and innovation.
A ) extravagant B ) exquisite C ) intermittent D ) indispensable
45. In the late 19th century, Jules Verne, the master of science fiction, foresaw many of the technological64 wonders that are ______ today.
A ) transient B ) commonplace C ) implicit D ) elementary
46. I was so _______ when I used the automatic checkout65 lane in the supermarket for the first time.
A ) immersed B ) assaulted C ) thrilled D ) dedicated
47. His arm was _______ from the shark’s mouth and reattached, but the boy, who nearly died, remained in a delicate condition.
A ) retrieved B ) retained C ) repelled D ) restored
48. Bill Gates and Walt Disney are two people America has _______ to be the Greatest American.
A ) appointed B ) appeased C ) nicknamed D ) nominated
49. The _______ majority of citizens tend to believe that the death penalty will help decrease the crime rate.
A ) overflowing B ) overwhelming C ) prevalent D ) premium
50. We will also see a _______ increase in the number of televisions per household, as small TV displays are added to clocks, coffee makers66 and smoke detectors67.
A ) startling B ) surpassing C ) suppressing D ) stacking
51. The advance of globalization is challenging some of our most _______ values and ideas, including our idea of what constitutes “home”.
A ) enriched B ) enlightened C ) cherished D ) chartered
52. Researchers have discovered that _______ with animals in an active way may lower a person’s blood pressure.
A ) interacting B ) integrating C ) migrating D ) merging
53. The Beatles, the most famous British band of the 1960s, traveled worldwide for many years, _______ cultural barriers.
A ) transporting B ) transplanting C ) transferring D ) transcending
54. In his last years, Henry suffered from a disease that slowly _______ him of much of his sight.
A ) relieved B ) jeopardized C ) deprived D ) eliminated
55. Weight lifting, or any other sport that builds up your muscles, can make bones become denser68 and less _______ to injury.
A ) attached B ) prone C ) immune D ) reconciled
56. He has _______ to museums hundreds of his paintings as well as his entire personal collection of modern art.
A ) ascribed B ) attributed C ) designated D ) donated
57. Erik’s website contains _______ photographs and hundreds of articles and short videos from his trip around the globe.
A ) prosperous B ) gorgeous C ) spacious D ) simultaneous
58. Optimism is a _______ shown to be associated with good physical health, less depression and longer life.
A ) trail B ) trait C ) trace D ) track
59. The institution has a highly effective program which helps first-year students make a successful _______ into college life.
A ) transformation B ) transmission C ) transition D ) transaction
60. Philosophers believe that desire, hatred69 and envy are “negative emotions” which _______ the mind and lead it into a pursuit of power and possessions.
A ) distort B ) reinforce C ) exert D ) scramble
61. The term “glass ceiling” was first used by the Wall Street Journal to describe the apparent barriers that prevent women from reaching the top of the corporate70 _______.
A ) seniority B ) superiority C ) height D ) hierarchy
62. Various efforts have made over the centuries to predict earthquakes, including observing lights in the sky and _______ animal behavior.
A ) abnormal B ) exotic C ) absurd D ) erroneous
63. Around 80 percent of the _______ characteristics of most white Britons have been passed down from a few thousand Ice Age hunters.
A ) intelligible B ) random C ) spontaneous D ) genetic
64. Picasso gained popularity in the mid-20th century, which was _______ of a new attitude towards modern art.
A ) informative B ) indicative C ) exclusive D ) expressive
65. The country was an island that enjoyed civilized71 living for a thousand years or more with little _______ from the outside world.
A ) disturbance B ) discrimination C ) irritation D ) irregularity
66. Fashion designers are rarely concerned with vital things like warmth, comfort and _______.
A ) stability B ) capability C ) durability D ) availability
67. Back in the days when people traveled by horse and carriage, Karl Benz _______ the world with his extraordinary three-wheeled motor vehicle.
A ) inhibited B ) extinguished C ) quenched D ) stunned
68. If we continue to ignore the issue of global warming, we will almost certainly suffer the _______ effects of climatic changes worldwide.
A ) dubious B ) drastic C ) trivial D ) toxic
69. According to the theory of evolution, all living species are the modified _______ of earlier species.
A ) descendants B ) dependants C ) defendants D ) developments
70. The panda is an endangered species, which means that it is vary likely to become _______ without adequate protection.
A ) intact B ) insane C ) extinct D ) exempt
Part Ⅳ Error Correction ( 15 minutes )
Until recently, dyslexia and other reading problems were
a mystery to most teachers and parents. As a result, too many
kids passed through school without master the printed page. S1. _______________
Some were treated as mentally deficient72; many were left
Functionally illiterate73（文盲的）, unable to ever meet their
potential. But in the last several years, there’s been a
revolution in that we’ve learned about reading and dyslexia. S2. _______________
Scientists are using a variety of new imaging techniques to
watch the brain at work. Their experiments have shown that
reading disorders74 are most likely the result of what is, in an effect, S3. _______________
faulty wiring in the brain — not lazy, stupidity or a poor home S4. _______________
environment. There’s also convincing evidence which dyslexia S5. _______________
is largely inherited. It is now considered a chronic problem
for some kids, not just a “phase”. Scientists have also
discarded another old stereotype46 that almost all dyslexics are
boys. Studies indicate that many girls are affecting as well — S6. _______________
and not getting help.
At same time, educational researchers have come up S7. _______________
with innovative75 teaching strategies for kids who are having
trouble learning to read. New screening tests are identifying
children at risk before they get discouraged by year of S8. _______________
frustration and failure. And educators are trying to get the
message to parents that they should be on the alert for the
first signs of potential problems
It’s an urgent mission. Mass literacy is a relative new S9. _______________
social goal. A hundred years ago people didn’t need to be
good readers in order to earn a living. But in the Information
Age, no one can get by with knowing how to read well and S10. _______________
Understand increasingly complex material.
Part Ⅴ Writing ( 30 minutes )
题目：国外旅游
1。近十年来某城市越来越多人选择出去旅游
2。出现这种现象的原因
3。这种现象可能产生的影响
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