1、 The little boy was so fascinated by the mighty river that he would spend hours sitting on its bank and gazing at the passing boats and rafts.
A．very strong
B．very long
C．very great
D．very fast
2、Only a small minority of the mentally ill are liable to harm themselves or others,
A．easy
B．possible
C．likely
D．difficult
3、 Formulated in 1823, the Monroe Doctrine asserted that the Americas were no longer open to European colonization,
A．stated firmly
B．argued light-mindedly
C．thought seriously
D．announced regrettably
4、 This is not typical of English, but is a feature of the Chinese language.
A．particular
B．characteristic
C．remarkable
D．idiomatic
5、 Her sister urged her to apply for the job.
A．advised
B．caused
C．forced
D．promised
6、 It is virtually impossible to persuade him to apply for the job,
A．simply
B．almost
C．totally
D．completely
7、 She has proved that she can be railed on in a crisis.
A．lived on
B．depended on
C．lived off
D．believed in
8、 John removed his overcoat.
A．took away
B．left aside
C．took off
D．washed off
9、 The most crucial problem any economic system faces is how to use its scarce resources.
A．puzzling
B．difficult
C．terrifying
D．urgent
10、 The latest census is encouraging.
A．count
B．statement
C．agreement
D．estimate
11、 While serving in the Senate in the early 1970s, Barbara Jordan supported legislation to ban discrimination and to deal with environment problems.
A．list
B．forbid
C．handle
D．investigate
12、 The stories of Sarah Orne Jewett are considered by many to be more authenticallyregional than those of Bret Harte.
A．elegantly
B．genuinely
C．intentionally
D．thoroughly
13、 I won't tolerate that kind of behavior.
A．bear
B．receive
C．admit
D．take
14、 It is postulated that population trends have an effect on economic fluctuations.
A．challenged
B．assumed
C．deducted
D．decreed
15、 The leaves have been swept into huge heaps.
A．loads
B．layers
C．pyramids
D．piles
下面的短文后列出了7个句子，请根据短文内容对每个句子作出判断：如果该句提供的是正确信息，请选择A；如果该句提供的是错误信息，请选择B；如果该句的信息文中没有提及，请选择C.
16、回答16-22题：
Will We Take Vacation in Spaces?
When Mike Kelly first set out to build his own private space-ferry service, he figured his bread-and-butter business would be lofting satellites into high-Earth orbit. Now he thinks he may have figured wrong. "People were always asking me when they could go," says Kelly, who runs Kelly Space & Technology out of San Bernardino, California. "I realized that real market is in space tourism."
According to preliminary market surveys, there are 10,000 would be space tourists willing to spend $1 million each to visit the final frontier. Space Adventure in Arlington, Virginia, has taken more than 130 deposits for a two-hour, $98,000 space tour tentatively (and somewhat dubiously) set to occur by 2005. Gene Meyers of the Space Island Group says: "Space is the next exotic vacation spot."
This may all sound great, but there are a few hurdles. Putting a simple satellite into orbit -with no oxygen, life support or return trip necessary-already costs an astronomical $22,000/kg. And that doesn't include the cost of insuring rich and possibly litigious passenger. John Pike of the Federation of American Scientists acerbically suggests that the entire group of entrepreneurs trying to corner the space-tourism market have between them "just enough money to blow up one rocket." The U.S. space agency has plenty of money but zero interest in making space less expensive for the little guys. So the little guys are racing to do what the government has failed to do: design a reusable launch system that's inexpensive, safe and reliable. Kelly Space's prototype looks like a plane that has sprouted rocket engines. Rotary Rocket in Redwood City, California, has a booster with rotors make a helicopter-style return to Earth; Kistler Aerospace in Kirkland, Washington, is piecing together its versions from old Soviet engines, shuttle-style thermal protection tiles and an elaborate parachute system. The first passenger countdowns are still years away, but bureaucrats at the Federal Aviation Administration in Washington are already informally discussing flight regulations. After all, you can't be too prepared for a trip to that galaxy far, far away.
For those who are intent on joining the 100-mile high club, Hilton and Budget are plotting to build space hotels. Before the Russian space Mir came down, some people were talking about using it as a low-rent space motel to reduce the cost. If a space hotel is finally built in space, and if you're thinking of staying in it, you may want to check the Michelin ratings before booking yourself a suite.
Mike Kelly planned to turn his business of making bread and butter into a business that is engaged in space tourism.
A．True
B．False
C．Not mentioned
17、 Kelly hoped to develop space tourism, which he thought would be a good market.
A．True
B．False
C．Not mentioned
18、 Space Adventure in Arlington has taken 130 deposits totaling $98,000 for a two hour space tour.
A．True
B．False
C．Not mentioned
19、 It sounds great that soon there will be space residence, although it is still a tentative plan.
A．True
B．False
C．Not mentioned
20、 Some of the hurdles space tourism faces include a lack of oxygen and life support equipment.
A．True
B．False
C．Not mentioned
21、 Little guys, who do not have plenty of money but have great interest in space tourism, are trying to make the space travel less expensive but more reliable.
A．True
B．False
C．Not mentioned
22、 We can infer from the context that the Michelin ratings can help people to find prices of hotels.
A．True
B．False
C．Not mentioned[page]
下面的短文后有两项测试任务：(1)第23～26题要求从所给的6个选项中为第2-5段的每段选择l个最佳标题；(2)第27～30题要求从所给的6个选项中为每个句子确定1个最佳选项。
23、回答23-30题：
Washoe Learned American Sign Language
1 An animal that influenced scientific thought has died. A chimpanzee named Washoe and horn in Africa died of natural causes late last month at the age of 42 at a research center in the American state of Washington. Washoe had become known in the scientific community and around the world for her ability to use American Sign Language. She was said to be the first non-human to learn a human language. Her skills also led to debate about primates and their ability to understand language.
2 Research scientists Allen and Beatrix Gardner began teaching Washoe sign language in 1966. In 1969, the Oardners described Washoe's progress in a scientific report. The people who experimented with Washoe said she grew to understand about 250 words. For example, Washoe made signs to communicate when it was time to eat. She could request foods like apples and bananas. She also asked questions like, "Who is coming to play?" One the news about Washoe spread, many language scientists began studies of their own into this new and exciting area of research. The whole direction of primate research changed.
3 However, critics argued Washoe only learned to repeat sign language movements from watching her teachers. They said she had never developed true language skills. Even now there are some researchers who suggest that primates learn sign language only by memory, and perform the signs only for prizes. Yet Washoe's keepers disagree. Roger Fours is a former student of the Gardners. He took Washoe to a research center in Ellensburg, Washington. There, Washoe taught sign language to three younger chimpanzees, which are still alive.
4 Scientists like private researcher Jane Goodall believe Washoe provided new information about the mental workings of chimpanzees. Today, there are not as many scientists studying language skills with chimps. Part of the reason is that this kind of research takes a very long time.
5 Debate continues about chimps' understanding of human communication. Yet, one thing is sure-Washoe changed popular ideas about the possibilities of animal intelligence.
A．Reason Why Not Many Scientists Carry out This Rcsearch Nowdays
B．Report about Washoe`s Progress in Learning Sign Language
C．Gencral Information about Washoe
D．The Gardeners` Contributions Recognized
E．Dabate on Chimps` Intelligence
F．Washoe`s Love for Three Young Chimps
Paragraph 1__________
24、 Paragraph 2__________
25、 Paragraph 3__________
26、 Paragraph 4__________
27、 Washoe could make signs to communicate__________
28、 Some scientists doubted__________
29、 Washoe taught three younger chimps sign language__________
30、 The experimenters thought Washoe was intelligent__________
A．if the Gardeners` argument was sound
B．becaues she was cleverer than other chimps
C．when she wanted to cat
D．whilc she was at a research center in Ellensburg
E．because she could use sign language to ask for fruits
F．while Washoe was lcarning sign language
下面有3篇短文，每篇短文后有5道题。每道题后面有4个选项，请仔细阅读短文并根据短文内容回答其后面的问题，从4个选项中选择l个最佳答案涂在答题卡相应的位置上。
31、回答31-45题：
The United States perceives itself to be a middle-class nation, However, middle class is not a real designation,nor does it carry privileges. It is more of a perception, which probably was as true as it ever could be right after World War II. The economy was growing,more and more people owned their own homes,workers had solid contracts with the companies that employed them, and nearly everyone whowanted a higher education could have one. Successful people enjoyed upward social mobility. They may have started out poor,but they could become rich. Successful people also found that they had greater geographic mobility. In other words,they found themselves moving to and living in a variety of places.
The middle class collectively holds several values and principles. One strong value is the need to earn enough money to feel that one can determine one's own economic fate. In addition,middle class morality embraces principles of individual responsibility, importance of family, obligations to others,and believing in something outside oneself.
But in the 1990s those in the middle class found that there was a price for success. A U. S. News & World Report survey in 1994 indicated that 75 percent of Americans believed that middle class families could no longer make ends meet. Both spouses now worked,as did some of the children; long commutes became routine; the need for child care put strains on the family; and public schools were not as good as they once were. Members of the middle class were no longer financing their lifestyles through earnings but were using credit to stay afloat. The understanding of just what middle class meant was changing.
The information in this passage deals with
A．an individual
B．a social and economic group
C．a political organization
D．government
32、 A common middle class value is that
A．people should always have fun
B．children should be seen and not heard
C．debt is nothing to worry about
D．the family is very important
33、 In the years after World War II,the middle class could be defined as
A．overburdened and in debt
B．hard working and suspicious
C．prosperous and optimistic
D．young and foolish
34、 The phrase "In other words" in the first paragraph means that the following statement is
A．an exception to the previous idea
B．a denial of the previous idea
C．a restatement of the previous idea
D．a contrasting idea
35、 The word collectively means
A．as a group
B．hesitatingly
C．unknowingly
D．weakly
36、回答36-50题：
attitudes to aids now
most people say that the usa is making progress in fighting aids, but they don’t know there’s no cure and strongly disagree that "the aids epidemic is over," a new survey finds.
the findings, released thursday by the kaiser family foundation, reassure activists who have worried that public concern about aids might disappear in light of recent news about advances in treatment and declines in deaths.
"while people are very optimistic about the advances, they’re still realistic about the fact that there is no cure" says sophia chang, director of hiv programs at the foundation.
the kaiser survey, like a recent usa today gallup poll, does find that the number of people ranking aids as the country’s top health problem has fallen. in the kaiser poll, 38% say it’s the top concern, down from 44% in a 1996 poll; in the gallup poll, 29% say aids in no.1, down from 41% in 1992 and 67% in 1987.
other findings from kaiser, which polled more than 1,200 adults in september and october and asked additional questions of another 1,000 adults in november:
52% say the country is making progress against aids, up from 32% in 1995.
52% say the government spends too little on aids.
86% correctly say aids drugs can now lengthen lives; an equal number correctly say that the drugs are not cures.
67% incorrectly say that aids deaths increased or stayed the same in the past year; 24% know deaths fell.
daniel zingale, director of aids action council, says, "i’m encouraged that the american people are getting the message that the aids epidemic isn’t over. i hope the decision-makers in washington are getting the same message… we have seen signs of complacency.
what do activists worry about?
A．recent news about aids is not true.
B．people may stop worrying about aids.
C．deaths caused by aids may not decline.
D．advances in aids treatment are too slow.
37、 according to the passage, people’s attitude toward the cure of aids is
A．optimistic.
B．realistic.
C．pessimistic.
D．hopeless.
38、 the gallup poll shows that the number of people
A．who suffer from the worst disease--- aids has fallen.
B．who think aids threatens the countryside has fallen.
C．who worry about aids and health problems has fallen.
D．who think aids is the country’s top health killer has fallen.
39、 according to the kaiser poll, which of the following is not correct?
A．the country is making progress against aids.
B．aids drugs still cannot save people’s lives.
C．aids drugs can now make people live longer.
D．more and more people die of aids now.
40、 the work "massage" in the last paragraph means
A．printed new.
B．contact.
C．meaning.
D．central idea.
41、回答41-55题：
My Fast Job
I was six when I joined my father and two elder brothers at sunrise in the hayfields of Eufaula, Oklahoma. By the time I was eight I was helping Dad fix up low-income rental properties. He gave me a penny for every nail I pulled out of old boards.
I got my first real job, at JM's Restaurant in town, when I was 12. My main responsibilities were clearing tables and washing dishes, but sometimes I helped cook.
Every day after school I would head to JM's and work until ten. Saturdays I worked from two until eleven. At that age it was unlucky going to work and watching my friends run off to swim or play. I didn't necessarily like work, but I loved what working allowed me to have. Because of my job I was always the one buying when my friends and I went to the local bar Tastee Freez. This made me proud.
Word that I was honest and hardworking got around town. A local clothing store extended credit to me although I was only in the seventh grade. I immediately charged a $ 68 sports coat and a $ 22 pair of trousers. I was making only 65 cents an hour, and I was already $ 90 in debt! So I learned early the danger of easy credit. I paid it off as soon as I could.
My first job taught me discipline, responsibility and brought me a level of personal satisfaction few of my friends had experienced. As my father, who worked three jobs, once told me, "If you understand sacrifice and commitment, there are not many things in life you can't have." How right he was!
When the author was a child, he was made to help his father work because___________
A．the restaurant was short of hands.
B．his family belonged to the low-income group.
C．he wanted to earn some money.
D．he was stronger than his two brothers.
42、 At the age of 12, the author got a job at a restaurant and often worked till late at night because___________
A．he liked that work.
B．he didn't like playing.
C．he was hard-working.
D．he felt rewarded by doing that work.
43、 The word "Word" in the sentence "Word that I was honest and-hard-working got around town in the fourth paragraph means___________
A．statement.
B．advice.
C．news.
D．promise.
44、 When the author was in the seventh grade, he was in debt because___________
A．he did not work any more.
B．he bought clothes on credit.
C．he was charged too much for the sports coat.
D．he made little money at that time.
45、 What does the author want to tell the reader by this text?
A．If you know sacrifice and responsibility, you can have many things in life.
B．Children from poor families usually have a very unhappy childhood.
C．Children should be made to work and earn some money by themselves.
D．You will learn discipline and responsibility by working early in life.[page]
阅读下面的短文，文章中有5处空白，文章后面有6组文字，请根据文章的内容选择5组文字，将其分别放回文章原有位置，以恢复文章原貌。请将答案涂在答题卡相应的位置上。
46、回答46-50题：
Read With Greater Speed
Do you have difficulty reading in class? If so, a special reading program that helps match sounds with letters could speed up your brain.
At least one out of every five elementary school students in the US has trouble learning to read, even when the students are good at other subjects. (46)
Researchers from Yale University, US, studied a group of children from New York and Connecticut State. As part of the study, 37 struggling readers received special tutoring.
Every day, instructors worked with them on recognizing how written letters represent units of sound called phonemes (音素). (47)
By the end of the school year, these children could read faster than before. They also made fewer mistakes, and understood more of what they read than they could earlier in the year.
As part of their study, the researchers used a special machine to take action photos of the students' brains.
(48) This is the same part of the brain that becomes active when good readers read. This activated brain area appears to include a structure that helps people recognize familiar written words quickly. In lower level readers, this structure remains inactive.
A year later, the brain structure was still working hard in the students who had gore through the special tutoring, and they continued to do well in reading tests 。(49)
However, some researchers still doubt the study. (50)
A．Many adults are interested in matching sounds with letters
B．The students also practiced reading aloud and spelling
C．The biggest challenge for many of these kids, scientists say, is matching sounds with letters.
D．Another group in the study who went through a more traditional reading program didn't show the same progress.
E．The pictures showed an increase in activity in the back of the brain on the left side.
F．They believe that reading without making any noise or linking words to sounds is more efficient.
________
47、 ________
48、 ________
49、 ________
50、 ________
阅读下面的短文，文中有15处空白，每处空白给出了4个选项，请根据短文的内容从4个选项中选择l个最佳答案，涂在答题卡相应的位置上。
51、回答51-65题：
Cost as a Factor in Supply
In a purely competitive market, the supplier of goods and services has no control over the market price, because he produces too little to influence market conditions. With no difference between his products and the products___________ (51) his competitors, he will sell nothing if he charges above the market price and he will sell all if he charges at or___________(52) the market price. However, in considering the price, he must take the___________(53) of production into consideration. There are times when he may be willing to sell below his cost. This might happen when prices tumble for___________(54) he believes will be a short time. However, no business person can ___________(55) to lose money for a prolonged period. He must be constantly ___________(56) of his costs in relation to the market price if he is to compete successfully and earn a profit.
Many people have the impression that as production increases, costs per unit decrease. ___________(57) mass production has made this true in certain industries and at certain levels of production, ___________(58) logic and practical experiences have shown that costs per unit begin to rise beyond a certain level of production. Some economists___________(59) to this principle as the law of increasing costs.
The reason costs rise as production goes up is ___________(60). However, it is easy to recognize that as production goes up, the need for additional factors of production will also grow, ___________ (61) competitive bidding in the marketplace for the factors of production. If a producer needs ___________(62) skilled labor to produce more, and none of this labor is unemployed, the producer will have to get___________ (63) from other sources. This can be done by___________(64) higher wages. Higher bidding would also apply to the other factors of production. We must also recognize that not all labor is equally productive, ___________(65) not all land is equally fertile and not all ore (矿石) is equally rich in the mineral wanted.
A．to
B．at
C．of
D．on
52、
A．below
B．beneath
C．over
D．above
53、
A．price
B．cost
C．worth
D．profit
54、
A．that
B．why
C．what
D．if
55、
A．afford
B．pretend
C．offer
D．decide
56、
A．sure
B．afraid
C．aware
D．suspicious
57、
A．Because
B．since
C．When
D．While
58、
A．both
B．neither
C．none
D．any
59、
A．resort
B．refer
C．turn
D．attend
60、
A．clear
B．simple
C．difficult
D．complex
61、
A．bringing
B．resulting in
C．including
D．carrying out
62、
A．less
B．numerous
C．more
D．many
63、
A．them
B．these
C．it
D．those
64、
A．offering
B．cutting
C．reducing
D．having
65、
A．as if
B．just as
C．because
D．while
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