|
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C), and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
Passage One
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
Teachers always plan down to the minute what their students will be doing. This is good for kids, because it teaches them to stay on task and follow a schedule.But most homes aren’t run this way. If parents do plan their children’s lives minute by minute, what happens when that child grows up and goes to college? At some point, kids need to learn to manage their own time. This can be one of the valuable skills you help your kids develop outside of school. But it generally won’t happen all by itself, because there’s a big transition that happens when kids leave the structured school environment and come home.
If you have kid stay alone at home, think hard about trying to find an adult whocan be there and provide the support your child needs. If a supportive adult isn’t available, an expert named Martin recommends you find an after-school program led by experienced professionals who will engage them in creative activities, nourish them with healthy snacks, and assist them with their schoolwork. If you are at home on the contrary, to take some break after the guys get started on diversions, because it’s hard to stop and do something like homework. “If that little bit of downtime is television, good luck ... getting them to do their homework.” says a professor of child development at California State University, “TV is addictive.” A better way to help your child unwind is with a healthy snack. “Wait until dinner, make a plate full of energizing food. You could even dish up part of the dinner you’re preparing a little early for the kids,” she says.
While you’re sharing a snack, you can make a list of what your kids will get to do during their study breaks. The types of breaks recommended include shooting baskets, getting a drink, using the bathroom, or even playing a quick card game with parents. Your kids can be the ones to decide which breaks they’d like to take. But, as Freimuth says, your children will have to be honest about what kind of break will energize them and not upset their momentum.
21. The main purpose of this passage is ____.
A) to provide some advice for the parents about children’s education
B) to explain how to prepare a pretty snack for your children
C) to explain why the parents spoil their children
D) to describe children’s lives after school
22. The words “this way” in the sentence “But most homes aren’t run this way” in the first paragraph most possibly means ____.
A) to stay on the task
B) to arrange everything in details
C) to give some lessons to children
D) to behave in the structured school
23. According to the passage, the expert named Martin, appearing in the second paragraph, most probably takes up the following jobs EXCEPT ____.
A) a specialist in children education
B) a professional consultant in a after-school program
C) the leader of a research group about sports, such as basketball
D) mostly the same as what Freimuth (in the last paragraph) does
24. According to the last two paragraphs, the appropriate snacks that the
parents provide will ____.
A) upset the children’s momentum
B) exhaust them by lots of dirty dishes
C) make the children get addicted to TV
D) bring more energy to children
25. Which of the following is NOT recommended for the break during the children’s study after class?
A) Shoot baskets.
B) Play some games with parents.
C) Go out to drink some beverage in a bar for a long time.
D) Relax a bit by using the bathroom.
Passage Two
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
Doors and windows can’t keep them out; airport immigration officers can’t stop them and the Internet is an absolute reproduction soil. They seem harmless in small doses, but large imports threaten Japan’s very uniqueness, say critics. “They are foreign words and they are infecting the Japanese language”.
“Sometimes I feel like I need a translator to understand my own language,” says Yoko Fujimura with little anger, a 60-year-old Tokyo restaurant worker. “It’s becoming incomprehensible.”
It’s not only Japan who is on the defensive. Countries around the globe are wetthrough their hands over the rapid spread of American English. Coca-Cola, for example, is one of the most recognized terms on Earth.
It is made worse for Japan,however, by its unique writing system. The country writes all imported utterances - except Chinese - in a different script called katakana（片假名）. It is the only country to maintain such a distinction. Katakana takes far more space to write than kanji - the core pictograph（象形文字）characters that the Japanese borrowed from China 1,500 years ago. Because it stands out, readers complain that sentences packed with foreign words start to resemble extended strings of lights. As if that weren’t enough, katakana terms tend to get confusing. For example, digital camera first appears as degitaru kamera. Then they became the more ear-pleasing digi kamey. But kamey is also the Japanese word for turtle. “It’s very frustrating not knowing what young people are talking about,” says humorously Minoru Shiratori, a 53-year-old bus driver. “Sometimes I can’t tell if they’re discussing cameras or turtles.”
In a bid to stop the flood of katakana, the government has formed a Foreign Words Committee to find suitable Japanese replacements. The committee is slightly different from French-style language police, which try to support a law that forbids advertising in English. Rather, committee members and traditionalists hope a sustained campaign of persuasion, gentle criticism and leadership by example can
turn the tide.
26. According to the author, the reason why the Japanese is infected greatly by English is ____.
A) that nothing can prevent it from entering into Japan
B) that English is the most recognized language in the world
C) that the government has not set up a special administration department to control this trend before it becomes popular in Japan
D) not clearly mentioned in this passage
27. By saying “countries around the globe are wet through their hands over the rapid spread of American English,” the author implies that ____.
A) even a restaurant worker in Japan may feel the English infection on Japanese
B) the flood of katakana has covered most of countries in the world
C) Coca-Cola is the most popular brand of beverage on the earth and this product occupy all the global market
D) many other countries are influenced greatly by American English
28. According to the passage, the following statements are true EXCEPT ____.
A) now there are two language systems, Kanji and katakana in Japan
B) the word “digital camera” appears very different in Japanese
C) people are always confused by the young Japanese pronunciation of “turtle” and “camera”
D) Foreign Words Committee is engaged in finding suitable Japanese replacements for the foreign words
29. According to the author, the last paragraph mainly deals with ____.
A) how French-style language police has prevented the influence of English
B) how Japanese Foreign Words Committee prevents the infection of foreign words
C) the suitable Japanese replacements
D) why committee members and traditionalists launch a war against the infection of foreign words
30. Which conclusion can be drawn based on the opinions from the Japanese people (in paragraph 2 and 4 of this passage)?
A) The elders are more strongly in favor of replacing the foreign words than young people.
B) All the people dislike speaking the foreign words, such as “digi kamey”.
C) They are so old that it is necessary to give some language assistance by a specialist.
D) People’s work determines the language they speak.
Passage Three
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.
The Security Council is the most powerful body in the UN. It is responsible for maintaining international peace, and for restoring peace when conflicts arise. Its decisions are binding on all UN members. The Security Council has the power to define what is a threat to security, to determine how the UN should respond, and to enforce its decisions by ordering UN members to take certain actions.
The Council convenes（召集）any time there is a threat to peace. A representative from each member country who sits on the Council must be available at all times so that the Council can meet at a moment’s notice. The Security Council also frequently meets at the request of a UN member - often a nation with a grievance about another nation’s actions.
The Security Council has 15 members; five of which hold permanent seats. The Assembly elects the other ten members for two-year terms. The five permanent members - the United States, Britain, France, Russia (formerly the Soviet Union), and China - have the most power. These nations were the winning powers at the end of World War II, and they still represent the bulk of the world’s military might.
Decisions of the Council require nine votes. But any one of the permanent members can veto an important decision. This authority is known as the veto right of the great powers. As a result, the Council is effective only when its permanent members can reach a consensus（一致同意）.
The Council has a variety of ways it can try to resolve conflicts among countries. Usually the Council’s first step is to encourage the countries to settle their disagreements without violence. The Council can mediate a dispute or recommend guidelines for a settlement. It can send peacekeeping troops into a distressed
area. If war breaks out, the Council can call for a ceasefire. It can enforce its decisions by imposing economic sanctions on a country, or through joint military action.
31. Which is TRUE in the following statements according to the passage?
A) The Security Council convenes annually.
B) All UN members should abide by the decisions adopted by the Security Council.
C) Although one member seriously complains about another member’s action, the Security Council will not convene at its request.
D) The five permanent members of the Security Council hold less than one half armed forces in the world.
32. The Security Council is effective only when its permanent members can
reach a consensus because ____.
A) every permanent member has the veto right of great powers
B) all the permanent members won in the World War II
C) the other members of the Security Council are in the charge of the permanent members
D) of some other reasons not mentioned in this passage
33. One motion（提议）is adopted by the Security Council only if ____.
A) 14 of 15 members accept this motion
B) all the members have no objection to the motion
C) 9 members agree on it and all the permanent members approve of it
D) all the permanent members pass it
34. The passage introduces all things about the Security Council EXCEPT____.
A) mission B) membership
C) rights D) history
35. The last paragraph of this passage may be concluded with the statement that ____.
A) UN gives priority to peaceful settlement of the conflicts among countries
B) the peacekeeping troops are most powerful in the conflicts between countries
C) economic sanction will be imposed on the countries involved in war
D) joint military action is the last resort of the Security Council in dealing with conflicts between among countries
Passage Four
Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.
Few observers have a better view of that ocean of exchanging gossip called E-mail than Mark Sunner. The chief technology officer of E-mail management company MessageLabs, Sunner oversees a network that processes 4.5 million letters each day. Servers operated and maintained by MessageLabs manage mail delivery and routing for a number of companies, including Bank of England and Condé Nast Publications.
In fact, all of MessageLabs’ customers are corporations whose daily E-mail output and inflow has soared with the growth of the Web. “E-mail usage has increased massively in the last couple of years,” he says. Indeed, MessageLabs estimates that it has gone from 10 a day per employee as recently as two years ago to more
like 20 or 30 now.
The implications for Corporate America are equally huge. According to E-mail researcher and consultant David Ferris, companies can expect the volume of E-mail coursing through their servers to grow 60% to 80% in 2002. And as individual messages grow in size - they’re now more likely to contain memory - companies could
end up paying 100% to 150% more just this year on systems to store and manage those messages. That’s why tech consultancy Radicati Group expects demand for software that manages E-mail, such as Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes, to grow from $2.6 billion in sales today to $4.4 billion by 2005.
Too much of this money will be spent in controlling pure junk. About 20% of the E-mail MessageLabs manages is unwanted, according to Sunner - who adds that about 1.25% of all the E-mail his company moves contains useless attachments. Already, the cost of handling spam（垃圾邮件）is estimated at $8.6 billion worldwide, according to a 2001 European Union study. And the barrage of pornographic spam has made some companies worried that employees might sue on grounds of disturbance arising from exposure to unwanted unpleasantness.
36. The first sentence of this passage “Few observers have a better view of that ocean of exchanging gossip called E-mail than Mark Sunner” most probably means ____.
A) Mark Sunner clearly know the E-mail is wasting resources
B) no one knows the fact that E-mail is gossip exchanging way but Mark Sunner
C) Mark Sunner does not know anything about the E-mail
D) the Mark Sunner always concentrated on the ocean of the junk E-mail
37. Which of the following is NOT true about MessageLabs?
A) It is an E-mail management company.
B) All of MessageLabs’ customers are corporations.
C) Mark Sunner is the chief technology officer of MessageLabs.
D) The company puts the great emphasis on dealing with the junk E-mail.
38. The word “that” in the last sentence of the third paragraph most possibly means ____.
A) it is expected that Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes grow from $2.6 billion in sales today to $4.4 billion by 2005
B) the junk E-mail has been overloaded in the Internet
C) the increase of individual messages needs more staff
D) the company has paid 100% to 150% for individual message storage
39. The following statements about the E-mail have been mentioned EXCEPT ____.
A) Sunner oversees a network that processes 4.5 million letters each day
B) according to David Ferris, companies can expect the volume of E-mail passing through their servers to grow not more than 50% in 2002
C) too much money has been spent in controlling the junk E-mail
D) some employees might take legal action in accordance with annoyance arising from exposure to some unpleasant resources
40. What is the best title for the passage?
A) The E-mail Monster.
B) MessageLabs Business Introduction.
C) To Avoid E-mail Surge.
D) E-mail Destroys Everything.
|
