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第一篇 Hercules
Once upon a time there was a great Greek hero, Hercules. He was taller and stronger than anyone you have ever seen. On his shoulder he carried a club and in his hand he held a bow. He was known as the hero of a hundred adventures.
Hercules served a king. The king was afraid of him. So again and again he sent him on difficult tasks. One morning the king sent for him and told him to fetch three golden apples for him from the garden of the Singing Maidens (歌女). But no one knew where the garden was.
So Hercules went away. He walked the whole day and the rest day and the next. He walked for months before he saw mountains far in the distance one fine morning. One of the mountains was in the shape of a man, with long, long legs and arms and huge shoulders and a bugs head. He was bolding up the sky. Hercules knew it was Atlas, the Mountain God. So he asked him for help.
Atlas answered, "My head and arms and shoulders all ache. Could you hold up the sky while I fetch the golden apples for you?"
Hercules climbed the mountain and shouldered the sky. Soon the sky grew very heavy. When finally Atlas came back with three golden apples, he said, "Well , you are going to carry the mountain for ever. I'm going to see the king with the apples." Hercules knew that he couldn't fight him because of the sky on his back. So he shouted:
" Just one minute's help. My shoulders are hurting. Hold the sky for a minute while I make a cushion (垫子) for my shoulders."
Atlas believed him. He threw down the apples and help up the sky.
Hercules picked up the apples and ran back to see the king.
1. What do you know about Hercules according to the first paragraph?
○A. He was a Greek hero.
○B. He was a king.
○C. He was the Mountain God.
○D. He was a man of adventures.
2. Hercules was given many difficult tasks because __________.
○A. he was the strongest man.
○B. the king wanted to get rid of him.
○C. the king wanted to test his strength.
○D. those tasks had to be done anyway
3. Which of the following can best describe Atlas according to the text?
○A. He looked like a mountain.
○B. He was a man with bug shoulders and arms.
○C. He was a man with long legs and a huge head.
○D. He was the giant who bled up the sky.
4. Atlas got the golden apples for Hercules because __________.
○A. he wanted to help Hercules
○B. he was afraid of Hercules.
○C. he did not want to hold the sky any more.
○D. he wanted to be the king himself
5. Hercules finally managed to get the apples ___________.
○A. by fooling Atlas
○B. by defeating Atlas
○C. because he ran faster than Atlas
○D. because Atlas threw down the apples
第二篇 Tokyo
Tokyo is one of those places that you can love and hate at the same time.
In Tokyo there are always too many people in the places where I want to be. Of course there are too many cars. The Japanese drive very fast when they can. But in Tokyo they often spend a long time in traffic jams. Tokyo is not different when one wants to walk.
At certain times of the day there are a lot of people on foot in London's Oxford Street. But the streets near Ginza in Tokyo always have a lot of people on foot, and sometimes it is really difficult to walk. People are very polite; there are just too many of them.
The worst time to be in the street is at 11:30 at night. That is when the night-clubs are closing and everybody wants to go home. There are 35,000 night-clubs in Tokyo, and you do not often see one that is empty.
Most people travel to and from work by train. Tokyo people buy six million train tickets every day. At most stations, trains arrive every two or three minutes, but at certain hours there do not seem to be enough trains. Although they are usually crowded, Japanese trains are very good. They always leave and arrive on time. On a London train you would see everybody reading a newspaper. In Tokyo trains everybody in a seat seems to be asleep, whether his journey is long or short.
In Tokyo, I stood outside the station for five minutes. Three fire-engines raced past on the way to one of the many fires that Tokyo has every day. Tokyo has so many surprises that none of them can really surprise me now. instead, I am surprised at myself: I must go there next year on business. I know I hate the overcrowded city. But I feel like a man who is returning to his long-lost love.
6. Tokyo is different from London in that ____________.
○A. it has a smaller population
○B. it is an international city
○C. it is more difficult to go somewhere on foot in Tokyo
○D. its people are friendlier and more polite.
7. What time does the writer think is the worst time to go into the street?
○A. When the night-clubs are closing.
○B. At 8 o'clock in the morning.
○C. When the train is overcrowded.
○D. At 11:30 a.m.
8. What does the writer say about Japanese trains?
○A. They are very nice and comfortable.
○B. There are not enough trains.
○C. They often run behind schedule.
○D. They leave and arrive at the right time.
9. From the writer's observation, we can see that fires break out in Tokyo _______.
○A. occasionally.
○B. quite frequently
○C. not very often
○D. twice a day
10. The writer hates Tokyo mainly because the city _________.
○A. is dirty and the people are impolite
○B. has been seriously polluted
○C. is crowded and noisy
○D. is not modern enough
第三篇 The Child Witness
Going to court can be frightening, especially if you are a child. You may have to stand up in the witness (证人) box, and swear (发誓) to tell the truth and answer questions is front of a crowd of adults. It would be even more frightening if you were the victim of a crime and you had to sit in the same courtroom (法庭) as the person accused of attacking you, for instance.
So the law in Britain has made it easier for children to act as witnesses. Children are allowed to tell what they know, from another room in the same courthouse. This way they do not have to face all those people in the courtroom.
It works on a closed-circuit (闭路的) television link, which means that the TV only operates inside the court. The child witness sits in a room with a social worker in front of a TV camera. Everyone in the courtroom can see the child on a TV screen, but the child can only see the judge and the lawyers who will ask him or her questions. The system has been so successful that is will be extended to more courts this year.
Another way to make it easy for a child to act a witness is to set up a screen is the court room around the witness box so that the child cannot see the defendant (被告).
Information given by children can be very important to a court trial (审判), but before 1988 the law did not really recognizes that children told the truth. It stated that anything a child said in court had to be supported by other evidence in the case.
11. A child witness, if he were the victim of the crime, would be frightened most by ____________.
○A. all the questions he had to answer
○B. the crowd of adults he had to face
○C. the judge and the lawyers
○D. the person accused of attacking him
12. The most important point of the new system that made things easier for a child witness is that ______________.
○A. he does not see the defendant
○B. he speaks in front of a TV camera
○C. he is in another room is the same courthouse
○D. everyone in the courtroom can see the child
13. What does the author think of the new system according to the third paragraph?
○A. Not very good.
○B. Very successful.
○C. Just an experiment.
○D. Hardly acceptable.
14. Has the law always recognized the importance of children's information in court?
○A. No.
○B. Yes.
○C. Not until 1988.
○D. Before 1988, yes.
15. The word "case" in the last paragraph means __________.
○A. a particular situation
○B. a particular incident
○C. a trial
○D. a box
第二部分 完成句子 (25分)
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Television is the USA
Thirty-four percent of the world's television sets are in the USA. But it is not fair that some foreigners have concluded that America has a TV culture. Still it is true that American TV has great power and can make or break well-known people in front of the camera. There are a thousand stations in the 50 states, and in most places there is a choice of five or six channels. The major networks (National Broadcasting Company, Columbia Broadcasting System and the American Broadcasting Company) introduce a lot of new shows of every kind. Those dramas, soap operas, talk shows, news shows, and sport shows which are successful, are relayed (转播) throughout America and are often sold abroad. Roots, by the black writer Ales Haley, for example, was sold all over the world.
Nearly all TV in the USA is commercial, and programs are interrupted every quarter of an hour or so for advertisements. These breaks make people upset, especially during some exciting action in a good film. However, commercials do make it possible to show programs on TV that are expensive to produce.
There is one channel where there are no commercial breaks. Programs on this channel are run by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and can be seen all over the USA. Although the PBS gets a grant from the government, the government does not interfere in any way in the organization of its programs. There are programs on everyday affairs, music, the arts, as well as serious discussions on al kinds of topics. Some programs are supported by companies or institutions, but these organizations are not allowed to influence the content of program.
16. The conclusion made by some foreigners that America has a television culture is not f .
17. A great number of new shows are introduced by t he leading n in the USA.
18. There is just one c without breaks for advertisements in the USA.
19. While people are watching TV programs, breaks for advertisements can make them w .
20. Although some companies supply money for some programs, they are not a to have influence upon the content of the programs in any way.
第三部分 阅读理解 (80分)
第一篇 How to Find the Best Book Reviews
Normally, you will want the sources for a paper to be the best ones possible. Since there is a great deal of material available on most subjects, you don't want to waste your time reading an inaccurate or superficial book. It is sometimes wise, therefore, to first evaluate a book for accuracy and thoroughness. If you are unfamiliar with the subject of executive power, for example, you may wonder whether or not the book President and Congress; Power and Police, by L. Fisher (1972), will be a good source of information. The essayist way to find it out is to read some reviews of the book.
Book reviews appear in almost every newspaper and magazine. To quickly find the reviews you want, use a reference book such as Book Review Digest. Beginning in 1905, its editors annually compile (编辑) book reviews from about seventh-five periodicals (期刊) and newspapers and need to know two things to use this tool: the year the book was published and the correct spelling of the author's name.
A reference book with slightly broader coverage (覆盖面) is Book Review Index (1966-). In it, however, summaries of the reviews are not included. A newcomer, Current Book Review Citations (引证), is even better for books published from 1976 on, since it indexes the book reviews that are listed in many major periodicals, indexes. One caution (警告) when searching for reviews in this : if you don't find one under the year a book was published, look at the following year or years. Reviews like college students, sometimes fall behind in their writing schedules.
21. It is necessary to read reviews because you want to ___________.
○A. know everything about a book
○B. find a reliable source of information
○C. know if the book is too easy or hard
○D. fine the author's educational background.
22. where can you very quickly find the book reviews you want?
○A. In newspapers.
○B. In magazines.
○C. In Book Review Digest.
○D. In newspaper supplements.
23. IF you want to find reviews on a book published in 1920, which of the following will you go to?
○A. Book Review Digest.
○B. Book Review Index.
○C. Current Book Review Citations.
○D. Both A and B.
24. If you need the most thorough information of reviews on a recent book, which of the following do you go to?
○A. Book Review Digest.
○B. Book Review Index.
○C. Both A and B.
○D. Current Book Review Citations.
25. The last sentence of this passage implies that college students in the West ______.
○A. often hand in their written work late.
○B. do not like making plans.
○C. always finish their homework on time.
○D. usually follow schedules.