阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A，B，C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

　　The most important messages that humans deliver to one another often come in just three words. Think of“I love you”, or“There is no charge”. One of the phrases that I've found most useful is this: I'll be there.“I'll be there”, if you've ever had to call a plumber(水管工人)over a weekend, you know how good these words can feel. If you've heard them after a car trouble on the road, and used your last coin to call a friend, you have the feeling, too.“Grandma, I'm graduating in June”.“I'll be there”.“Honey, I'm stuck at the office and can't get to the airport to meet my sister”.“I'll be there”.“Mum, the baby cries all night, and if I don't get some sleep, I'll be tired out”.“I'll be there”. One person who really knows how to be there is Elizabeth, the Queen mother of England. During the sir attack on London in 1940, she was asked whether the little princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose would leave England for their safety. The Queen replied,“The children will not leave unless I do. I shall not leave unless their father does, and the king will not leave the country in any situation whenever I'll be there”. Another important three-word phrase is one of the hardest to learn to say.“I know it was for me, it is, maybe you're right.”If more people would say“Maybe you're right”, the marriage councilors would go out of business. I know from experience, it can have a disarming effect in an argument.

1．From what the Queen said, we know that she was full of ________.

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2．Why is the phrase“Maybe you're right”one of the hardest to learn to say? Because ________.

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A．it can't often be understood

B．few people would like to say it

C．it is too difficult to grasp its meaning

D．it would make some people go out of business

3．All the three-world phrases in the passage are ________ to hear.

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4．The purpose of the writer is to tell us ________.

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A．what is hard to say

B．how to comfort others

C．three-word messages

D．why there are arguments

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A，B，C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

　　When your parents advise you to“get an education”in order to raise your income, they tell you only half the truth. What they really mean is to get just enough education to provide manpower for your society, but not so much that you prove an embarrassment to your society.

　　Get a high school diploma, at least. Without that, you will be occupationally dead unless your name happens to be George Bernard Shaw or Thomas Alva Edison, and you can successfully drop out in grade school. Get a college degree, if possible. With a B. A. , you are on the launching pad. But now you have to start to put on the brakes. If you go for a master's degree, make sure it is an M. B. A% . , and is famous law of diminishing returns begins to take effect.

　　Do you know, for instance, that long haul truck drivers earn more per year than full professors? Yes, the average 1977 salary for those truckers was $ 24,000. While the full professors managed to earn just $ 23,030. A Ph. D. is the highest degree you can get. Except for a few specialized fields such as physics or chemistry where the degree can quickly be turned to industrial or commercial purposes, if you pursue such a degree in any other field, you will face a dim future. There are more Ph. D. s unemployed or underemployed in this country than any other part of the world.

　　If you become a doctor of philosophy in English or history or anthropology (人类学) or political science or languages orworst of allin philosophy(哲学), you run the risk of becoming overeducated for our national demands. Not for our needs, mind you, but for our demands. Thousands of Ph. D. s are selling shoes, driving cars, waiting on table, and endlessly filling out applications month after month. They may also take a job in some high school or backwater college that pays much less than the janitor(看门人) earns.

　　You can equate the level of income with the level of education only so far. Far enough, that is, to make you useful to the gross national product, but not so far that nobody can turn much of a profit on you.

1．According to the writer, what the society expects of education is to turn out people who ________.

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A．will not be a disgrace to society

B．will become loyal citizens

C．can take care of themselves

D．can meet the nation's demands as a source of manpower

2．Many Ph. D. s are out of job because ________.

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A．they are improperly educated

B．they are of little commercial value to their society

C．there are fewer jobs in high schools

D．they prefer easier jobs that make more money

3．The nation is only interested in people ________.

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A．with diplomas

B．who specialize in physics and chemistry

C．who are valuable to the gross national product

D．both A and C

4．Which of the following is NOT true?

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A．Bernard Shaw didn't finish high schools, nor did Edison.

B．One must think carefully before pursuing a master degree.

C．The higher your education level, the more money you will earn.

D．If you are too well-educated, you'll be overeducated for　society's demands.

5．The writer sees education as ________.

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A．a means of providing job security and financial security and a means of meeting a country's demands for technical workers

B．a way to broaden one's horizons(见识)

C．more important than finding a job

D．an opportunity that everyone should have

　　A good modern newspaper is an extraordinary piece of reading. It's remarkable first for what it contains: the range of news from local crime to international politics, from sports to business to fashion to science, and the range of comment and special features (特写) as well, from editorial page to feature articles and interviews to criticism of books, art theatre and music. A newspaper is even more remarkable for the way one reads it never completely, never straight through, but always by jumping from here to there, in and out, glancing at one piece, reading, another article all the way through, reading just a few paragraphs of the next. A good modern newspaper offers a variety to attract many different reader, but far more than any reader is interested in. What brings this variety together in one place is its topicality (时事性), its immediate relation to what is happening in your world and your locality now. But immediacy and the speed of production that goes with it mean also that much of what appears in a newspaper has no more than transient (短暂的) value. For all these reasons, not two people really read the same paper: what each person does is to put together, out of the pages of that day's paper, his own selection and sequence, his own newspaper. For all these seasons, reading newspapers efficiently, which, means getting what you want from them without missing things you need and without wasting time, skill and self-aware-ness as you modify and apply the techniques of reading.

1．A modern newspaper is remarkable for all the following except its ________.

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A．wide coverage

B．uniform style

C．speed in reporting news

D．popularity

2．According to the passage, the reason why no two people really read the“same newspaper”is that ________.

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A．people scan for the news they are interested in

B．different people prefer different newspapers

C．people are rarely interested in the same kind of news

D．people have different views about what a good newspaper is

3．It can be concluded from the passage that newspaper readers ________.

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A．apply reading techniques skillfully

B．jump from one newspaper to another

C．appreciate the variety of a newspaper

D．usually read a newspaper selectively

4．The best title for this passage would be ________.

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A．The Importance of Newspaper Topicality

B．The Characteristics of a Good Newspaper

C．The Variety of a Good Newspaper

　　Our little boy came up to his mother in the kitchen one evening while she was preparing supper, and handed her a piece of paper that he had been writing on: After his mom dried her hands on an apron, she read it, and this is what it said:

　　For going to the store for you $4.00.

　　For cutting the grass in the garden $4.00.

　　For cleaning up the yard this week $3.00.

　　For cleaning up my room this week $2.00.

　　For setting the table for meals this week $1.00.

　　For baby-sitting my kid brother while you went slipping $1.50.

　　For getting a good report card $5.00.

　　Total owed: $17.00.

　　Well, I'll tell you, his mother looked at him standing there with expectation, and boy, I could see the memories flashing through her mind. So, she picked up the pen, turned over the paper he had written on, and this is what she wrote:

　　For the nine months I carried you while you were growing inside me, No Charge. For all the nights that I've sat up with you, doctored you and prayed for you, No Charge. For all the tiring times and all the tears that you've caused through the years, there's No Charge.

　　When you add it all up, the cost of my love is No Charge.

　　For all the nights that were filled with fear, and for the worries I knew were ahead, No Change. For the toys, food, clothes, and even wiping up your nose, there's No Charge. And when you add it all up, the full cost of real love is No Charge, Son.

　　Well, friends, when our son finished reading what his mother had written, there were great big old teats in his eyes, and he looked straight up at his mother and said,“Mom, I am sure do love you.”And then he took the pen and in great big letters he wrote:“PAID IN FULL”.

1．What might the mother be doing when the boy came into the kitchen?

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A．Getting the dishes ready.

B．Repairing the cooker.

C．Washing the dishes.

D．Setting the table for supper.

2．The underlined word“I”in the second paragraph refers to ________.

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3．According to the boy's bill, his mom owed him ________ for his helping with the house work.

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4．The writer's purpose of writing this story is to ________.

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A．show real love is priceless

B．show housework is endless

C．prove the mother is wise

D．prove the boy is selfish

　　Tens of thousands of baby penguins face starvation after two giant icebergs broke off the Antarctic ice sheet and blocked their parents' way to feeding areas.

　　Adelie and emperor penguins nesting on the Ross Island are now forced to walk long distances over the icebergs to obtain food for their chicks, born during the NovemberDecember breeding season.

　　“The penguins are having to walk 50 km further than usual to reach the sea.”said Dean Peterson. The flightless birds travel on land at just one to two km per hour.

　　The problem could halve the chick survival (存活) rate at the three Adelie penguin colonies on Ross Islandestimated at 130,000 breeding pairs. In all Antarctica, there is an estimated three million Adelie penguin breeding pairs.

　　Around 12,000 breeding pairs of emperor penguins, the largest penguin species at up to four feet tall, are also affected.

　　The iceberg broke from the vast Ross Ice shelf, south of New Zealand, in March 2000 and are now sandwiched between Ross Island and Franklin Island, 93 miles to the earth.

　　Scientist Peterson estimated that penguins were taking days to make the round trip to the sea to fish, and then back to their casts to regurgitate(反刍) food for their chicks.

　　“At that point they were quite tired and probably don't have much to regurgitate,”he said. Penguins already have long odds on reaching adulthood, with only 10 percent surviving beyond adolescence (青春期).

　　“We are probably looking at halving that againwe are sitting down at maybe the five percent rate.”Peterson said, adding some penguins already appeared to be leaving the Ross Island to breed elsewhere.

　　Penguins come ashore to breed and then take it in turns to leave the nest to fetch fish and other sea food to feed their young.

　　Researchers say large blocks of the Antarctic ice sheet are breaking off for several reasons, including global warming.

　　Emperor and Adelie penguins are limited to Antarctica. The emperors weigh up to 66 pounds while Adelie penguins are much smaller, weighing around 11 pounds.

1．After the long trip, the mother penguins ________.

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A．are too tired to feed their young

B．can't bring up much to feed their young

C．are too hungry themselves

D．have already eaten up all the food

2．The underlined phrase“have long odds on”probably means ________.

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A．have little chance of

B．have no difficulty in

C．spend long time in

D．have great hope of

3．From what scientist Peterson said, we infer that ________.

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A．the survival rate of penguins is dropping

B．there are few penguins left on Ross Island

C．the present situation can cause the penguins to die out

D．penguins usually have a high survival rate

4．Which of the following best supports the main idea of the passage?

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A．Global warming caused the icebergs to break off.

B．The long trip made mother penguins too tired to feed their young.

C．The change of weather affects penguins.

D．Broken icebergs endanger penguin chicks.

　　Mr. Scott lived in a small town. He had studied in a famous university and learned a lot there before he returned to his hometown where his father had a few factories. He began to manage them and they were all developed. In a few years he became one of the richest men there. He was often asked to the important meetings and talked voluby or bombastically. The people in the small town respected him and often asked him for some advice. So he always thought himself clever and right.

　　One autumn morning Mr. Scott went to the capital on business. On his way there he wanted to visit some places of interest. He drove well and got to the biggest city in his country successfully. And after he finished his work, he began to call on some of his old friends who worked there. They were happy to see each other and drank much. On his way to his hotel, he drove his car fast and knocked an old woman down who was crossing the street. The old woman was sent to a hospital and he was sent to the police station. A policeman asked him several questions and left him in a cold and wet room alone in order to make him regain consciousness(清醒). About two hours later he began to shout loudly in the room. The policeman let him out.“I didn't think I would be insulted here!”Mr. Scott called out angrily.“Where are you usually insulted, then?”asked the policeman.

1．The phrase“talked voluby or bombastically”means ________.

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2．Mr. Scott went to the capital ________.

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3．Mr. Scott knocked the old woman down because ________.

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A．he had drunk much by then

B．he didn't drive very well

C．there were lots of people in the street

D．he hurried to get to hotel

4．The policeman left Mr. Scott in the cold room because ________.

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A．he had something important to do

B．the man was too drunk to answer him

C．the man wouldn't answer his questions

D．he wanted to insult the man

　　Without proper planning, tourism can cause problems. For example, too many tourists can crowd public places that are also enjoyed by the inhabitants (居民) of a country. If tourists create too much traffic, the inhabitants become annoyed and unhappy. They began to dislike tourists and to treat them impolitely. They forget how much tourism can help the country's economy. It is important to think about the people of a destination (目的地) country and how tourism affects them. Tourism should help a country keep the customs and beauty that attract tourists. Tourism should also advance the well-being of local inhabitants.

　　Too much tourism can be a problem. If tourism grows too quickly, people must leave other jobs to work in the tourism industry. This means that other parts of the country's economy can suffer.

　　On the other hand, if there is not enough tourism, people will lose jobs. Businesses will also lose money. It costs a great deal of money to build large hotels, airports, sir terminals, first-lass roads, and other facilities (设施) needed by tourist attractions. For example, a major international-class tourism hotel needs as much as 50 thousand dollars per room to build. If this room is not used most of the time, the owners of the hotel will lose money.

　　Building a hotel is just a beginning. There must be many support facilities as well, including roads to get to the hotel, electricity, sewers to handle waste and water. All of these support facilities cost money. If they are not used because there are not enough tourists, jobs and money are lost.

1．Which of the following has most probably been discussed in the paragraph that goes before this passage?

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A．It is extremely important to develop tourism.

B．Building roads and hotels is essential (必不可少的).

C．Support facilities are highly necessary.

D．Planning is of great importance to tourism.

2．Too much tourism can cause all these problems EXCEPT ________.

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A．a bad effect on other industries

B．a change of tourists' customs

C．overcrowdedness of places of interest

D．pressure on traffic

3．Not enough tourism can lead to ________.

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A．an increase of unemployment

B．a decrease in tourism attractions

C．the higher cost of support facilities

D．a rise in price and a fall in pay

4．The word“handle”in the last paragraph most probably means ________.

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　　Sandeep Mukerji was on his first visit to Thailand but would leave the“Land of Smiles”with a frown and an empty pocket.

　　A stone's throw from the Grand Palace in Bangkok, the 26-year-old Canadian ran into a monk in a robe. The monk told him that the attraction he was hoping to visit had been closed.

　　The monk then introduced Mukerji to a jewellery store instead. On the way there, three different people told him that it was the last day of a once-a-year, tax-free jewellery promotion to encourage tourism.

　　They said that tourists can make a lot of money by buying gems(宝石) in Thailand and selling them once at home.

　　Two hours later, Mukerji had spent US $ 1,250 on a set of almost worthless jewellery.

　　“The whole process took me by surprise. They take advantage of your greed,”he said.

　　In fact, Mukerji is just one of a huge number of tourists who are cheated by the promise of making a fortune. The scam (诡计) brings Thailand more than US $ 10 million each year.

　　Although tourist police station has displayed posters to warn of the scam, many fresh-faced tourists still fall prey to the trick.

　　The police say they receive 5～10 complaints a day. Many more may not realize they have been cheated until they go back home.

　　Thai authorities say that the jewellery scam is harmful to Thailand's image(形象), but getting rid of the cheats is hard.

　　Sanit Miphan, head of the police, said the scam has been running for about 15 years but not one jewellery shop owner has been arrested. The shops usually open for two weeks and then close. They reopen and register under a new name. What's more, overcharging (要价过高) itself is not breaking the law.

　　Yet, to keep the tourism business alive, the police said they would take action against any shop receiving more than 10 complaints.

1．Sandeep Mukerji was cheated probably because of all the following except that ________.

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A．he was young

B．he believed that the monk wouldn't cheat others

C．he had more or less the wish to try his fortune

D．the cheat scam was too skillful to be found out

2．How many people at least together cheated Sandeep Mukerji?

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3．Suppose everyone who was cheated lost as much as Mukerji did, how many visitors to Bankok would be cheated each year?

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A．About 6,000.

B．About 8,000.

C．About 10,000.

D．More than 10,000.

4．Which of the following statements is TRUE?

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A．Thai tourist police are carrying out their task very efficiently.

B．The management of Thai tourist market is very strict.

C．Any shop receiving complaints will be punished as seriously as possible.

D．It is hard for the police to crack down the cheats efficiently partly because many cheats' deeds seem not to break the law.

5．The underline phrase“take advantage of”(Paragraph 6 ) probably means ________.

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　　Germans Prefer Cozy Life, Saty With Pals.

　　HAMBURGGermans like to spend their leisure time with friends in a generally cozy atmosphere, according to a nationwide survey published in the mass-circulation Bildam Sonntag newspaper.

　　Four out of five of those asked put meeting friends at the top of the list of things they like doing most in their spare time (78 percent). Visits to a restaurant are popular too (71 percent), followed by going to the cinema (62 percent), or going out for a drink at a pub or bar (61 percent).

The top of the after-work pursuits list for the 21 to 30-year-old is visiting friends (90 percent) compared to 78 percent for the 14 to 20-year-olds.

　　“In the 1990s a person's circle of colleagues(同事)was his modern family. Now it's his or her friends,”said Hamburg trend scout, professor Peter Wippermann, 52.

　　Life in the workplace is getting increasingly faster with the emphasis on efficiency (效率). People now see free time as a chance to sit back and enjoy life.

　　Among people over 45, a trip to a restaurant is the favorite leisure pursuit. Older people are particularly partial (偏爱) to a night out at the opera or theatre (53 percent).

1．What most Germans like to do with their leisure time is ________.

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A．go to parks with their families

B．go to restaurants

C．spend their leisure time in the theatre

D．stay with their friends

2．We can infer from the passage that ________.

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A．only old people enjoy going to the theatre

B．because of fast life pace, Germans pursue more forms of leisure to get relaxed

C．more young people would like to go to the restaurants in their leisure time

D．the younger Germans are more likely to meet friends

3．It seems that ________.

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A．family is not important to Germans at all

B．family is not more important to Germans than before

C．friends are their life

D．friends have taken the place of families in Germany

4．If Whitsman is a man of 48, what does he probably do in his leisure time?

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A．To stay at home.

B．To go to see the opera.

C．To go to the restaurant.

D．To meet his friends in the bar.

　　A few years ago, a pilot had to have perfect eyesight and a college degree if he or she wanted to land a job with an American airline. But today, airlines do not stick to those requirements because they can't find enough qualified pilots.

　　Airlines must hire up to 62,000 new pilots in the next decade. But qualified pilots are few and far between in the United States. Every year there are more planes being flown. At the same time, 12 to 15 foreign countries are recruiting American pilots.

　　As a result, pilots are earning spectacular salaries. The going rate for skilled pilots is well over $90,000 a year. Some pilots can earn about $ 160,000 plus fire housing working for foreign airlines.

　　Because of the shortage, some People say unqualified Pilots are being allowed to fly planes. They fear the number of crashes will skyrocket. Each year, more and more pilots with less than 2,000 hours of experience are being hired. Airlines are also bringing on board many more pilots who are older than 50, although law requires pilots to retire at age 60.

　　Being an airline pilot is a difficult job that requires people to make life and death decisions under pressure. Some pilots crack under the pressure.

　　The military is also having a hard time keeping pilots. Air Force pilots must commit to spending at least six years in the Air Force. The Air Force invests millions of dollars to train each pilot, so it doesn't want to lose them.

　　Experts say this problem is going to get a lot worse. Congress may establish a commission to study the country's pilot needs. In the mean-time, salaries of pilots will continue to rise and the number of crashes may keep pace.

1．The main idea of the article is ________.

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A．a shortage of pilots is caused by airlines and military

B．there have been more crashes because pilots have worse eyesight and higher salaries

C．a shortage of pilots may lead to more crashes

D．airlines should hire more pilots even if they're unqualified

2．Today a pilot no longer needs ________.

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A．perfect eyesight

B．military training

C．two college degrees

D．to be recruited

3．Air Force pilots should stay in the Air Force because ________.

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A．the Air Force is a good place to work

B．the Air Force pays more than airlines

C．the military should have hard time keeping pilots

D．the Air Force spends a lot of money training them

4．Some people wouldn't be good pilots because ________.

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A．they can't make decisions quickly

B．they don't earn spectacular salaries

C．they weren't recruited by foreign countries

D．the number of crashes keeps pace with them