B
Personal computers and the Internet give people new choices about how to spend their time.
Some may use this freedom to share less time with certain friends or family members, but new technology will also let them stay in closer touch with those they care most
about. I know this from personal experience.
E-mail makes it easy to work at home, which is where I now spend most weekends and evenings. My working hours aren’t necessarily much shorter than they once were but I spend fewer of them at the office. This lets me share more time with my young daughter than I might have if she’d been born before electronic mail became such a practical tool.
The Internet also makes it easy to share thoughts with a group of friends. Say you
do something fun see a great movie perhaps-and there are four or five friends who might want to hear about it. If you call each one, you may tire of telling the story.
With E-mail, you just write one note about your experience, at your convenience, and address it to all the friends you think might be interested. They can read your message when they have time, and read only as much as they want to. They can reply at their convenience, and you can read what they have to say at your convenience.
E-mail is also an inexpensive way stay in close touch with people who live far away. More than a few parents use E-mail to keep in touch, even daily touch, with their children off at college.
We just have to keep in mind that computers and the Internet offer another way of
staying in touch. They don’t take the place of any of the old ways.
39. The purpose of this passage is to ________.
A. explain how to use the Internet
B. describe the writer’s joy of keeping up with the latest technology
C. tell the merits(价值) and usefulness of the Internet
D. introduce the reader to basic knowledge about personal computers and the Internet
40. The use of E-mail has made it possible for the writer to ________.
A. spend less time working
B. have more free time with his child
C. work at home on weekends
D. work at a speed comfortable to him
41. According to the writer, E-mail has an obvious advantage over the telephone because the former helps one ________.
A. reach a group of people at one time conveniently
B. keep one’s communication as personal as possible
C. pass on much more information than the later
D. get in touch with one’s friends faster than the later
42. The best title for this passage is ________.
A. Computer: New Technological Advances
B. Internet: New Tool to Maintain Good Friendship
C. Computers Have Made Life Easier
D. Internet: a Convenient Tool for Communication
C
The greatest recent changes have been in the lives of women. During the twentieth
century there was an unusual shortening of the time of a woman’s life spent in caring for children. A woman marrying at the end of the 19th century would probably have been
in her middle twenties, and would be likely to have seven or eight children, of whom
four or five lived till they were five years old. By the time the youngest was fifteen, the mother would have been in her early fifties and would expect to live a further twenty
years, during which custom, chance and health made it unusual for her to get paid work. Today women marry younger and have fewer children. Usually a woman’s youngest child will be fifteen when she is forty-five and is likely to take paid work until retirement at sixty. Even while she has the care of children ,her work is lightened by household
appliances（家用电器）and convenience foods.
This important change in women’s way of life has only recently begun to have its
full effect on women’ s economic position. Even a few years ago most girls left school
at the first opportunity and most of them took a full-time job. However, when they
married, they usually left work at once and never returned to it. Today the school-leaving age is sixteen, many girls stay at school after that age ,and though women tend to
marry younger ,more married women stay at work at least until shortly before their first
child is born. Many more after wads, return to full or part-time work.Such changes have
led to a new relationship in marriage, with both husband and wife accepting a greater
share of the duties and satisfaction of family life, and with both husband and wife
sharing more equally in providing the money and running the home, according to the
abilities and interest of each of them.
43. We are told that in an average family about 1990________.
A. many children died before they were five
B. the youngest child would be fifteen
C. seven of eight children lived to be more than five
D. four or five children died when they were five
44. When she was over fifty, the late 19th century mother________.
A. would expect to work until she died
B. was usually expected to take up paid employment
C. would be healthy enough to take up paid employment
D. was unlikely to find a job even if she is now likely
45. Many girls, the passage says, are now likely to ________.
A. marry so that they can get a job
B. leave school as soon as they can
C. give up their jobs for good after they are married
D. continue working until they are going to have a baby
46. According to the passage, it is now quite usual for women to ________.
A. stay at home after leaving school
B. marry men younger than themselves
C. start working again later in life
D. marry while still at school

卷 II
一. 单词拼写 (10分)
1. The company in Nanjing e______ about 20,000 boxes of wine to the UK last year.    
2. The bad weather r______  grain harvests in the last couple of years.
3. In order to keep your body healthy, you should take the advice on diet and n______
4. We should make a s______  of the results of the exam briefly and report to the headmaster.
5. Yuan Long ping has devoted himself to finding ways to raise rice o______ .
6. We had a______ (努力)to stop the criminal.
7. They couldn’t afford to ______ (装备) their laboratories properly because of lack of money.
8. People are ______ (困惑的) about all the different labels on food these days.
9. I’ll type your report if you’ll baby-sit in ______ . (交换)
10. The document will be ______ to all members. (传阅)

二. 翻译下面短语 (15 分)
1．毕业于…                     2．寻找, 搜寻
3．多亏,由于                    4．摆脱;除去
5．对…感到满意的               6．关心               
7．宁愿;宁可                    8．过着…的生活 
9．查阅,提到                    10．供给某人某物
11. 把…献给…                  12. 怀着…的希望
13. 每两三年                    14. 对…适合的
15. 在许多方面
 
 
参考答案
卷I
一、单项选择
1-5 C B B B D     6-10 B C B D C    11-15 B C D B D
二、完形填空
16－20 ABCAD    21－25ACBCB     26－30 CBDDC     31－35 CBACD
三、阅读理解
36-38 CAD        39-42CBAD       43-46DDDC
 
卷 II
一、单词拼写
1. exported     2. reduced       3. nutrition        4. summary      5. output
6. struggle     7. equip       8. confused       9. exchange     10. circulated
二、词组翻译
1．毕业于…  graduate from             2．寻找, 搜寻 search for
3．多亏,由于 thanks to                 4．摆脱;除去 (get) rid of
5．对…感到满意的 be satisfied with      6．关心 care about              
7．宁愿;宁可 would rather              8．过着…的生活  lead/live a…life
9．查阅,提到 refer to                  10．供给某人某物 supply sb with sth
11. 把…献给… devote to               12. 怀着…的希望 with the hope of…
13. 每两三年 every two or three years     14. 对…适合的 be suitable for…
15. 在许多方面 in many ways

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