PART THREE READING COMPREHENSION

Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage.

A

However important we may regard school life to be, there is always the fact that children spend more time at home than in the classroom. Therefore, the teacher should realize that parents have a great influence on their children. Parents can become strong allies (助手) of the school or they can get in the way of the school education.

Experts have realized the need to keep parents informed of the newer methods used in schools. Many headmasters have conducted workshops explaining such matters as the reading readiness, program writing and mathematics to parents.

Moreover, the classroom teacher, with the permission of the supervisors(管理者), can also play an important part in giving more knowledge to reporting pupils progress, teachers can help parents a lot in educating their children and parents can give much help to teachers.

Suppose that a father has been drilling Junior arithmetic lessons night after night. In a friendly talk between the teacher and the father, the teacher can help the parent to make Junior interested in it. He might be persuaded to let Junior join in discussing the family budget, buying the food, using a ruler or measuring cup at home, setting the clock, calculating the distance of a trip and engaging in scores of other activities that have a mathematical basis.

If the father follows the advice, it is reasonable to say that he will soon realize that his son is making satisfactory progress in mathematics, and at the same time, enjoying the work.

Too often, however, teachers’ talks with parents are devoted to small accounts of children’s misdemeanors(不良行为). They talk about the laziness and poor work habits of the children.

What is needed is a more creative way in which the teacher, as an adviser, plants ideas in parents’ minds to make sure that the child spends the many hours out of the classroom learning something useful.

In this way the school and the home join forces in educating children.

56. The main idea of the passage is that ____.

      A. home training is more important than school training

      B. parents should help their children to do their homework

      C. there’re many ways in which the mathematics program can be carried out at home

      D. teachers can and should help parents to use better ways to teach their children

57. From this passage we can know that the writer ____.

       A. is satisfied with the relationship between school and home

       B. feels that parent-teacher talks can be made much more constructive

       C. believes that schools can’t teach pupils well

       D. calls on parents to teach their children mathematics at home

58. What way that the writer doesn’t talk about can improve the present situation?

       A. Classes for parents.                       B. New type of report card.

    C. Parent-teacher talk.                        D. Dinner or party.

59. The writer implies that ____.

       A. interesting activities can improve one’s achievement

       B. too many children are lazy and have poor work habits

       C. teachers should often make home visits to parents

       D. headmasters do more than teachers in this area

60. We can infer from the passage that the writer does not favor ____.

       A. father’s helping his son with his study    

    B. written reports to the parents from the teachers

       C. talking about children’s shortcomings

    D. having the parents help their children with their lessons

PART  FOUR: WRITING

Section A

Directions: Read the following passage and complete the abstract by using the information for the passage. Write NO MORE THAN 3 WORDS for each answer.

Unlike in our country, violence against women is very fierce in some western and African countries. The basic cause of it lies in discrimination, which refutes women equality with men in all spheres of life. Violence is both underlies in discrimination and serves to strengthen discrimination.

Violence against women is a display of historically unequal status of women compared to men, which have resulted into domination and discrimination against women by men and to the prevention of the full development of women. Violence against women is one of the important social mechanisms by which women are constrained into a subordinate position in comparison with men.

As violence against women is spread worldwide, many women are targets because of their ethnicity, class, sexual orientation or disability status.

Many women think that the psychological consequences of abuse are even more dangerous than its physical effects. The experience of abuse often shakes women's self-esteem (自尊) and puts them at great risk of a number of mental health problems, such as:

Depression is becoming broadly recognized as a main health problem in the world. Women who are abused by their partners suffer more depression, anxiety, and phobias than women who have not been abused, according to studies in Australia, Nicaragua, Pakistan, and the US.

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a strong anxiety disorder that can happen when people go through or witness a traumatic event in which they feel disappointed and helpless or fear death or injury. The symptoms of PTSD contain mentally reliving the traumatic event by means of flashbacks; avoiding anything that would remind one of the events; experiencing discomfort in sleeping and concentrating; and being easily alarmed or frightened.

The severe violence is also likely to lead to suicide. Some women kill themselves or try to do so. Researches from some countries, including Sweden, and the US, have displayed that domestic violence is closely connected with suicide. Battered women who have PTSD symptoms prove to be most likely to try suicide.

Abused women are more likely than other women to misuse alcohol and drugs.

When a person's everyday life functioning or life alternatives continue to be influenced, a post-traumatic stress disorder may be the problem, requiring professional treatment.

71.__________

Ⅰ．72. __________

●Historically unequal status

 73. __________ from men

 Subordinate position

Ⅱ．74. __________

●Women’s self-esteem shake and 75. __________

 76. __________

 Post-traumatic stress disorder: 77. __________, helplessness, fear of 78. __________

 79. __________

 Alcohol and drug use

Ⅲ．80. __________

 Professional treatment

PART TWO  LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE

SECTION A

Directions: Beneath each of the following sentences there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the one answer that best completes the sentence.

21. People always hate betting on football.  ______ to our joy, however, our legal authority took action at length.

A．Ever       B．Little  C．Much    D．Even

24．—Guess what! I have got A for my term paper.

    —Great! You  _______  read widely and put a lot of work into it.

A. must          B. should            C. must have     D. should have

27. The SAT is an excellent means of testing students. _____, it shouldn’t be only one of the many methods used.

   A. Therefore             B. And                     C. However             D. Besides

30. Pupils usually would like to take ________ advice their teachers give.

A. whichever      B. however         C. whatever          D. Whenever

33. Is this hospital ________ you once worked for 10 years?

A. the one        B. that              C. in which         D. the one where

第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）

第一节  （共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。

A

A businessman walks into a bank in San Francisco and asks for the loan officer. He says he is going to Europe on business for two weeks and needs to borrow $5,000．The bank officer says  the bank will need some kind of security for such a loan. So the businessman hands over the keys to a Rolls Royce parked on the street in front of the bank. Everything checks out, and the bank agrees to accept the car as collateral for the loan. An employee drives the Rolls into the bank’s underground garage and parks it there.

Two weeks later, the businessman returns, and repays the $5,000 and the interest, which comes to $15.41.

The loan officer says, “We are very happy to have had your business, and this transaction(业务) has worked out very nicely, but we are a little puzzled. While you were away, we checked you out and found that you are a multimillionaire. What puzzles us is that why would you bother to borrow $5,000?”

Laughing, the businessman replies, “Where else in San Francisco can I park my car for two weeks for $15?”

46．The businessman walks into the bank with the true purpose of _________.

      A．borrowing $5,000                      B．meeting the loan officer

      C．finding a place to park his car        D．showing how rich he is

47．The loan officer is puzzled because _________.

      A．he never thought he could meet a multimillionaire in his bank   

       B．he thinks the businessman is crazy to leave his car in the bank

       C．he never thought the businessman could drive a Rolls Royce  

       D．he thinks $5,000 is so small a sum of money to the businessman

48．The underlined word “collateral” in Paragraph 1 most probably means “_________”.

      A．security           B．payment        C．reward      D．deal

49．Which of the following words can best describe the businessman according to the story?

      A．Honest.           B．Clever.            C．Rich.              D．Kind.

Directions: Read the following passage. Answer the questions according to the information given in the passage and the required words limit. Write your answers on your answer sheet.

Meeting people from another culture can be difficult. From the beginning, people may send the wrong signal. Or they may pay no attention to signals from another person who is trying to develop a relationship.

Different cultures emphasize the importance of relationship building to a greater or lesser degree. For example, business in some countries is not possible until there is a relationship of trust. Even with people at work, it is necessary to spend a lot of time in "small talk", usually over a glass of tea, before they do any job．In many European countries -- like the UK or France -- people find it easier to build up a lasting working relationship at restaurants or cafes rather than at the office.

Talk and silence may also be different in some cultures. I once made a speech in Thailand．I had expected my speech to be a success and start a lively discussion; instead there was an uncomfortable silence. The people present just stared at me and smiled．After getting to know their ways better, I realized that they thought I was talking too much. In my own culture, we express meaning mainly through words, but people there sometimes feel too many words are unnecessary.

Even within Northern Europe, cultural differences can cause serious problems. Certainly, English and German cultures share similar values; however, Germans prefer to get down to business more quickly. We think that they are rude. In fact, this is just because one culture starts discussions and makes decisions more quickly.

People from different parts of the world have different values, and sometimes these values are quite against each other. However, if we can understand them better, a multicultural environment will offer a wonderful chance for us to learn from each other.

81. What is a good way to develop better working relations in France? (no more than 4 words)

82. Why did the author mention his experience in Thailand?  (no more than 10 words )

83. How can people from different cultures understand each other better according to the text?

(no more than 4 words )

84. What would be the best title for the text?  (no more than 2 words )

--- Pardon? I didn’t quite catch you.

    --- I said our foreign guests        to Dalian the nigh before.

       A． had come       B．came C．would come     D．were coming