V. READING COMPREHENSIONThere are 4 reading passages inthissection.Each passage is followed by some questions. For each question there are 4 suggested answers marked A),B),C) and D). Choose the ONE best answer and blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
Passage 1
I was telling my boy Sonny the story of the hare(野兔) and the tortoise(乌龟).At the end I said."Son, remember: slow and steady wins the race.Don't you think there's something to learn from the tortoise?"
He opened his eyes wide."Do you mean next time when I'm entering for the 60-metre race I should wish that Billy and Tony and Sandy would all fall asleep half-way?"
I was shocked. "But the tortoise didn't wish the hare would fall asleep!"
"He must have wished that," Sonny said."Otherwise how could he be slo stupid as to race with the hare? He knew very well the hare ran a hundred times faster than he himself did."
"He didn't have such a wish," I insisted."He won the race by perseverance(坚韧不拔), by pushing on steadity."
Sonny thought for a while. "That's a lie," he said. "He won because he was lucky. If the hare hadn't happened to fall asleep, the tortoise would never have won the race. He could be as steadyas you like, or a hundred times steadier, but he'd never have won the race. That's for sure."
I gave up. Today's children are not like what we used to be.
They're just hopeless.
81. The writer argued with his son because ( ).
A) he liked tortoises while his son liked hares
B) they disagreed about whether the tortoise was stupid
C) he liked the story of the hare and the tortoise while his son didn't
D) he tried to teach his son the moral lesson of the story but the son rejected it
82. Sonny believed that the tortoise ( ) .
A) won the race by his own effort
B) took a risk by agreeing to race
C) was not given a fair chance in the race
D) won the race by chance
83. Billy, Tony and Sandy must be ( ).
A) boys who were unknown to Sonny's father
B) boys Sonny had run races with before
C) boys Sonny had never raced with before
D) boys Sonny did not expect to race with again
84. When the writer says "I gave up" at the end, he means ( ).
A) he gave up his belief in the moral idea of the hare-and-tortoise story
B) he gave up arguing with Sonny
C) he gave up Sonny as a hopeless child
D) he gave up trying to keep up with the new generation
85. According to the passage, who do you think learnt a lesson?
A) The tortoise. C) Sonny.
B) The hare. D) Sonny's father.
Passage 2
Are you forty years old and fat? Do you wear fine clothes? Do you look rich? If so, be careful. There is a pickpocket(扒手)looking for you. World travelers, away from home and usuallycarrying much money, are often troubled by pickpockets in foreign countries, but they should remember that there are pickpockets in their own country, too.
A typical pickpocket is under forty years of age, usually a male. He has nimble(灵敏的) fingers and has trained himself in running. Generally, he carries a newpaper or magazine in his hand.
He may appear fairly clever and pretend to be calm. He has learned his job from another pickpocket, and he repays his "teather" by giving him a percentage of the money or things which he steals.
The good pickpocket always operates in crowded places. Very well-dressed men and slightly drunken men the favorite objects of the pickpocket.
An average-sized department store hires about six or seven full time detectives. These men and women are constantly looking for pickpockets and thieves. Many police districts have detectives whose only job is to catch the pickpockets quickly.
But a good pickpocket knows these things and is very careful. He is especially busy on buses, trains and subways(地铁) between 11:00 a.m and 3:00 p.m. when there are many shoppers with much money to spend. He carefully remembers the payday and bonus(奖金) times of companies.
Pickpocketing and stealing from a shop together represent about 75% of daytime petty crime in America. The sentence for these crimes is usually from three to five years in prison. After
finishing their sentence, pickpockets and thieves seldom reform; they usually advance to more serious crimes.
86. According to the author, a typical pickpocket looks like ( ).
A) an old world traveler C) a slightly drunken man
B) a well-dressed rich man D) a clever and calm man
87. If a pickpocket is caught in America, he will be ( ).
A) fined heavily
B) beaten and then set free
C) sent to a reform campus
D) sent to prison for three to five years
88. According to the author, a pickpocket will most probably ( )after he leaves the prison.
A) commit more serious crimes
B) work hard to make up for what he has done
C) change and improve greatly
D) do everything more carefully
89. The job of the detectives in a department store is ( ).
A) to find out information about thieves
B) to help the police
C) to get the department store in good order
D) to find and catch pickpockets and thieves
90. The author is attempting to ( ).
A) tell us how pickpockets steal things
B) help us to learn some pickpockets' skills
C) warn us against pickpockets
D) prove himself to be a good detective
Passage 3
A good teather is many things to many people. In my own experience, I think that the people I respect the most and think about the most are those who demand the most discipline from
their students.
I think of one teather in particular that I had in high school. I think she was a good teather because she was a very strict person. I remember very vividly a sign over her classroom door. It was a simple sign that said:"laboratory--inthis room the first five letters of the word are emphasized, not the last seven." In other words, I guess, labor for her was more important
than oratory, which means making speeches.
She always prepared for her lectures and work for the day, and she demanded that her students do the same. We got lots of homeworks from her. One time when she had broken her arm,everybody in the class thought that maybe the homework load wouldbe reduced, but it continued just the same. Since she couldn't write, she stamped her name at the bottom of the papers to show
that she had read them.
I think sometimes teathers who demand the most are perhaps likes the least.But as time goes by, this discipline really seems to benefit the students.
91. What is the main idea of this passage?
A) A good teather should be intelligent.
B) A good teather should be honest.
C) A good teather should be strict.
D) A good teather should be helpful.
92. The teather put up the sign over her classroom door ( ).
A) to inform her students of the laboratory rules
B) to tell her students that they should study hard
C) to remind her students that she was strict
D) to show her students how to work in a laboratory
93. What does the word "oratory" in the second paragraph mean?
A) The art of making experiments.
B) The way of guessing the meaning of letters.
C) The sign of emphasis.
D) The art of delivering speeches.
94. What did the students expect to have when their teather had broken her arm?
A) No class. C) Less written exercises.
B) No homework. D) Less reading passages.
95. It can be inferred from the passage that the author thinks ( ) .
A) discipline is of no use if it is too strict
B) students will benefit much from discipline in the long run
C) students suffer a lot under a strict teather
D) discipline will limit students' imagination
Passage 4
A scientist who does research in economic psychology(心理学) and who wants to predict the way in which consumers(消费者) will spend their money must study consumer behavior. He must obtain
data both on the resources of consumers and on the motives that tend to encourage or discourage money spending.
If an economist were asked which of three groups borrow most-people with rising incomes, stable incomes, or declining(下降的) incomes--he would probably andwer: those with declining incomes.
Actually, in the years 1947-1950, the answer was: people with rising incomes. People with declining incomes were next and people with stable incomes borrowed the least. This shows us that traditional assumptions(假设) about earning and spending are not always reliable. Another traditional assumption is that of people who have money expect prices to go up, they will hasten to buy.
If they expect prices to go down, they will postpone buying. But reseach surveys have shown that this is not always true. Theexpectations of price increases may not stimulate(刺激) buying.
The investigations mentioned above were carried out inAmerica. Investigations conducted at the same time in Great Britain, however, yielded results that were more in agreement with traditional assumptions about saving and spending patterns.
The condition most favoutable to spending appears to be price stability. If prices have been stable and people consider that they are reasonable, they are likely to buy. Thus, it appears
that the common business policy of maintaining stable prices is based on a correst understanding of consumer psychology.
96. Accoring to the passage, if one wants to predict the way consumers will spend their money, he should ( ).
A) rely on traditional assumptions about earning and spending
B) try to encourage or discourage consumers to spend money
C) carry out investigations on consumer behavior
D) do researches in consumer psychology in a laboratory
97. According to paragraph 2, one traditional assumption is that people with ( ) incomes borrow most.
A) average
B) rising
C) stable
D) declining
98. The results of the investigations on consumer psychology carried out in America were ( ) those of the investigations made at the same time in Greet Britain.
A)somewhat different from
B)must better than
C) exactly the same as
D) not as good as
99. From the results of the surveys, the writer of this article( ) .
A) cincludes that the saving and spending patterns in Greet Britain are better than those in America
B) concludes that the consumers always expect prices to remain stable
C) concludes that maintaining stable prices is a correct business policy
D) does not draw any conclusion
100. Which of the following statements is always TRUE according to the surveys mentioned in the passage?
A) Consumers will put off buying things if they expect prices to decrease.
B) Consumers will spend their money quickly if they expect prices to increase.
C) The price condition has an influence on consumer behavior.
D) Traditional assumptions about earning and spending are reliable.
VI. TRANSLATION
A.Thanslate the following sentences into English. You can use the word,phrase or sentence pattern in the brackets after the sentence. Write your answer on the Answer Sheet.
101. 你最好还是试验一种新的教学方法.(had better)
102. 如果不戒烟,你的咳嗽还会加重.(unless)
103. 经过这场地震以后,该地区的房屋已所剩无几.(remain)
104. 这个青年工程师把全部空余时间用于科学研究.(employ)
105. 不注意英语的习惯说法我们就不可能把英语学好.(cannot...without...)
B.Translate the underlined sentences in the following passageinto Chinese. Write your answers to the Answer Sheet.
How often one hears children wishing they were grown up,and old people wishing they were young again.( 106Each age has it pleasures and its pains,and the happiest person is the one who enjoys what each age gives him without washing his time in useless regrets.)( 107 Childhood is a time when there are few responsibilities to make life difficult.) If a child has good parents,he is fed, looked after and loved,whatever he may do. It is impossiblethat he will ever again in his life be given so much without having todo anything in return. In addition, life is always presenting new things to the child --- things that have lost their interest forolder people because they are too well-known. ( 108 But a child has his pains: he is not so free to do what he wishes to do; he is continually being told not to do things, or being punished for what he has done wrong.)
When the young man starts to earn his own living, he can no longer expect others to pay for his food, his clothes, and his room, but has to work if he wants to live comfortably. If he
spends most of his time playing about in the way that he used to as a child, he will go hungry. And ( 109 if he breaks the laws of society as he used to break the laws of his parents, he may go to prison.) ( 110 If, however, he works hard, keeps out of trouble
and has good health, he can have the great happiness of building up for himself his own position in society.)
