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　　A 32-year-old Hong Kong man, Cheng Limin, was arrested yesterday morning on charges of stealing female sightseers' property at tourist spots by taking pictures for his victims.

　　The bust was reportedly the first of its kind in the area.

　　Cheng told the police that his crimes started in July this year. He said that after that he went to locations that appealed to tourists and targeted women by telling them he was a university graduate who would like to take pictures for them.

　　Then, Cheng said, he would begin to chat with the women, and after gaining their confidence, he took photos and took the opportunity to steal their belongings.

　　The police urge that those victims who have been robbed by a similar method contact them as soon as possible.

1．From the passage above, we may infer that ________.

[　　]

A．Cheng Limin is truly a university graduate

B．the police have Cheng Limin's previous criminal record

C．the vicitims are mostly women

D．many tourists like to ask Cheng Limin to take pictures of them

2．The method Cheng Limin uses to steal is reportedly ________.

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3．The phrasal verb “appeal to” most probably means “________”.

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　　“I would like to get married and have children,”says Mary Ott. “But I expect to make sacrifices in my career, It's going to be difficult.”

　　Ott has just finished college and plans to go to medical school.

　　William Lynch has also just graduated and started working. “I certainly want a family,” he said. “But I don't see how raising kids would interfere with my career.”

　　Ott and Lynch disagree on their visions of family and work life. Such split views are common among today's young men and women.

　　The New York Times interviewed young people who were beginning their careers. Most of the young women were concerned about balancing their careers and families. Most of the young men focused just on careers. Experts say today's young women don't want to be “super-women”. They don't expect to “have it all”, the way women of the 1970s expected to.

　　Instead, these women want help from the government and employers. They want child care, leaves of absence, and other family benefits.

　　Ellen Futter praised young women for “asking more questions” about the family and the society. She's president of Barnard College.

　　But Futter admits there are no easy answers. “Society is still evolving,”she said.

1．In what way do young men and women differ?

[　　]

A．In their views of work and families.

B．In their points of view as to careers.

C．In raising children.

D．In the way they look at the world.

2．Do today's young women try to make sacrifices in their careers?

[　　]

A．No, most of them balance careers and families.

B．Yes, most of them prefer families to careers.

C．The answer differs from country to country.

D．We don't know because the information isn't given.

3．What are today's young men concerned about?

[　　]

A．Parenthood.

B．Work life.

C．Family life.

D．Both breadwinners and care-givers.

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　　Today, less than three Americans in ten smoke. That means that about 50 million adults are still hooked on cigarettes.

　　The social pressures to stop smoking are growing. Many workplaces ban or limit smoking. Other public places such as shopping halls and supermarkets are smoke-free.

　　About 80 percent of smokers say they would like to kick the habit. But they know it is not an easy task.

　　Research shows that it takes 4 to 10 tries before a person takes his last puff. Two researchers, John Farquhar and Gene Spiller, interviewed 30 people who had given up smoking for keeps. They found that each person discovered his or her own reason for giving up tobacco.

　　One woman said she quit after she took a hard look at one of her smoking friends. She reported that her friend “was beginning to look like an ashtray”. The friend had gray skin, yellow teeth, and limp hair.

　　One man quit after his wife agreed that they should buy a fancy new car. The catch was that she didn't want him to smoke in it. The car arrived and they took a three-week, smoke-free trip in it. Most those who gave up smoking thought about it for a long time. Many found it easier to do when they were on vacation.

　　Ninety percent of those who quit did so on their own. They simply stopped cold turkey.

　　Smoking causes about 1, 000 deaths every day in the United States. It causes an even greater number of serious illnesses in smokers as well as in non-smokers. If you live or work with a smoker, your own health may suffer. The Environmental Protection Agency now lists tobacco as a serious health hazard.

1．As used in the passage, “take one's last puff” means ________.

[　　]

A．to stop smoking

B．to kick a habit

C．to be hooked on cigarettes

D．to have one's last try

2．How did most smokers give up tobacco?

[　　]

A．They did unwillingly.

B．They were forced to do so.

C．Simply by smoking no more.

D．By encouraging each other.

3．What's the attitude of the Environmental Protection Agency toward tobacco?

[　　]

4．The best title for this selection is ________.

[　　]

A．Health Hazard

B．No Smoking

C．Adults Smoke No More

D．People Choose to Quit Smoking

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　　Courses in English for overseas students, particularly for entry into higher education at higher degree such as Master's degree and Doctor's degree

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　　42, 43, 44 Park Place,

　　Cardiff CF1 1XL

　　Tel: Cardiff 44311 Extn. 2224

1．If you want to attend a course in the evening, you'd better dial ________.

[　　]

2．For the students who'd like to study in an American university, you'll choose ________.

[　　]

A．University College Cardiff

B．Sels English Language College

C．Language Center in High Street, Cirton, Cambridge

D．None of the above

3．The course(s) given in a small class is (are) in ________.

[　　]

4．The three language schools have one in common, which is ________.

[　　]

A．to teach business English

B．only to take in the foreign students

C．to have very good teachers

D．to provide dormitories

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　　The American Museum of National History is on Central Park west at 79th Street, New York, telephone 21769-51000. On the Upper West Side of Manhattan, it is conveniently reached by bus, subway or car. There is a small parking place, which charges $ 7.75 per day, but it is often full. Parking in the neighborhood is also limited.

　　Museum hours: 10-5:45 Sunday through Tuesday and 10-9 Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Admission is on a pay-what-you-wish basis, $ 3.20 suggested for grown-ups. One fourth for children and free on Friday and Saturday evening from 5 to 9. The museum is open every day of the year except on Christmas and Thanksgiving.

1．From the passage, we can see that ________.

[　　]

A．the museum lies to the west of New York

B．the small parking place charges more money for each car than any other parking place

C．one can get to the museum easily by car or by bus

D．the museum is the most popular in America

2．If four grown-ups and four children pay a visit to the museum at 3 p. m. on Friday, they will pay ________.

[　　]

3．If one visits the museum, the suggestion is given that ________.

[　　]

A．either money or a check can be paid

B．a grown-up can pay at least $ 3.20

C．only a check is demanded

D．you needn't pay any money

4．The museum is closed to anyone ________.

[　　]

A．at 7 p. m. on Monday

B．at 2 p. m. on Saturday

C．on New Year's Day

D．at 11 a. m. on Sunday

5．The passage suggests that ________.

[　　]

A．the museum lies in the suburbs of New York

B．the museum charges each visitor little

C．one can pay a visit to the museum any day in the year except two days

D．quite a few people go to the museum each day

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　　Your mind like your body, is a thing, the powers of which are developed by effort. That is major use, as I see it, of hard work in studies. Unless you train your body you can't be an athlete, and unless you train your mind you can't be much of a scholar. The four miles a runner covers at top speed is in itself nothing to the good, but the physical capacity (耐力) to hold out over the course is thought to be of some worth. So a good part of what you learn by hard study may not be kept forever in your mind, and may not seem to be of much final value, but your mind is a better and more powerful instrument because you have learned it. “Knowledge is power”, but still more, the faculty (能力) of using knowledge is power. If you have a trained and powerful mind, you are sure to have stored it with something, but its value is more in what it can do, what it can grasp and use, than in what it contains and if it were possible, as it is not, to come out of college with a trained mind and nothing useful in it, you would still be ahead, and still, in a manner, educated.

1．The writer tells us in the passage that many of the facts you get by hard study ________.

[　　]

A．will be forgotten

B．deal with rules of health

C．will be very useful to you in later life

D．will help you to understand the meaning of life

2．The man leaving college with a trained mind ________.

[　　]

A．is certain to succeed

B．can grasp any problem

C．has finished his education

D．is educated

3．The best title for this passage is ________.

[　　]

A．Knowledge Is Power

B．How to Get and Use Facts

C．The Trained Mind

D．Physical and Mental Efforts

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　　Finally Keith bought a plastic duck. He knew as he bought it that it was much too young a present for a child of ten, but he bought it feeling that somehow it might be the right thing in the situation.

　　He got back to the flat in Ealing early in the afternoon, carrying the duck in a paper bag. He had thought of stopping at the store in Ealing Broadway and discussing the situation across the counter with Katie, but he had given up the idea. Katie would want to come home early in order to be at home when Janice got back from school, and it did not seem quite fair to him to throw all the dirty work on Katie. He felt that he would rather tell Janice himself before Katie got home; enough would fall upon her later anyway.

　　He was sitting in his chair before the fire when Janice came back from school. He called, “That you, Jan? Take off your coat and come in here. I've got something to tell you.”

　　She came in, and he sat up in his chair. “What do you want to tell me?”she asked.

　　“You know, Jan, ”he said, “the people in the boats sometimes get drowned when the storm sinks them.”

　　She stared at him, and he knew that realization was already with her. “Has that happened to my mummy and daddy?”she asked.

　　“I'm afraid it has, Jan,”he said gently.

　　He had thought that she would burst into tears, but that did not happen. She came up on his knee and he held her close, and so they sat in silence for ten minutes.

1．Keith bought that particular present for Janice because ________.

[　　]

A．she liked babyish presents although she was ten already

B．once he had given it to her, she wouldn't listen to the news

C．he didn't really look at anything else

D．he thought it would best help to soften the blow of the news

2．What does the passage tell us about Katie?

[　　]

A．She was a shop assistant in Ealing Broadway.

B．She wouldn't want to tell Janice the facts.

C．She wouldn't know how to break news to Janice.

D．She depended on Keith to do all the dirty work.

3．Janice didn't cry. The reason for this was probably that ________.

[　　]

A．she didn't like her parents very much

B．she didn't realize that her parents were dead

C．she was far too interested in the plastic duck

D．she had already been away from her parents for quite some time

4．“Dirty work”refers to ________.

[　　]

A．having to tell Janice the bad news

B．returning the duck to the store

C．buying a better present for Janice

D．washing and cleaning

5．When Keith mentioned the people getting drowned, Janice ________.

[　　]

A．wasn't sure of the meaning of “drowned”

B．came to know that her parents had died

C．didn't understand at once what he meant

D．didn't believe what he said was true

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　　In a good cartoon, the artist can tell in a few lines as much as writer can tell in half a dozen paragraphs. The cartoonist not only tells a story but he also tries to persuade the reader to his way of thinking. He has great influence on public. He plays an important part in politics. Different opinions in Congress or at meetings of the United Nations may keep the cartoonist well-supplied with current materials.

　　A clever cartoonist may cause laughter because he often uses humor in his drawings. If he is drawing a famous person, he takes a prominent feature(突出的人物形象) and exaggerates(夸张) it. Cartoonists, for instance, like to lengthen an already long nose and to widen an already broad grin. This exaggeration of a person's appearance is called caricature. The artist uses such exaggeration to put his message across.

1．According to the passage, a good cartoon is like ________.

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2．Cartoonists influence people through ________.

[　　]

3．The best title for the passage is ________.

[　　]

A．The Cartoonist's Exaggeration

B．The Art of the Cartoonist

C．The Cartoonist and Congress

D．The Importance of the Cartoonist

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　　Some people believe that international sports bring about goodwill between the nations and that if countries play games together they will learn to live together. Others say that the opposite is true: that international contests encourage false national pride and lead to misunderstanding and hatred. There is probably some truth in both arguments, but in recent years the Olympic Games have done little to support the view that sports encourage international brotherhood. Not only was there the terrible incident with the murder of athletes, but the Games were also ruined by those incidents caused mainly by minor national contests.

　　One country received its second-place medal with great anger after the hockey (曲棍球) final. There had been noisy scenes at the end of the hockey match, the losers objecting to the final decisions. They were certain that one of their goals should not have been dismissed and that the opposite side's victory was unfair. Their manager was angry when he said, “This wasn't hockey. Hockey and the International Hockey Society are finished.” The president of the society said later that such words could result in the pause of the team for at least three years.

　　The American basketball team announced that they would not give away first place to Russia, after a fighting end to their contest. The game had ended in quarrelling. It was thought at first that the United States had won, by a single point, but it was announced that there were three seconds still to play. A Russian player then threw the ball from one end of the court to the other, and another player beat it into the basket. It was the first time that the USA had ever lost an Olympic basketball match. The judges discussed the matter for four and a half hours before announcing that the result would stand. The American players then decided not to receive the silver medals.

　　Incidents of this kind will continue as long as sports are played for honor or money rather than for the love of the game. The suggestion that sportsmen should compete (竞赛) as individuals (个人), or in non-national teams, might be too much to hope for. But in the present organization of the Olympics there is far too much that encourages dangerous nationalism.

1．According to the author, recent Olympic Games have ________.

[　　]

A．brought about goodwill between the nations

B．made only false national pride

C．hardly showed any international friendship

D．led to more and more misunderstanding and hatred

2．What did the manager mean by saying “Hockey and the International Hockey Society are finished”?

[　　]

A．His team would no longer take part in international games.

B．Hockey and the Society are both ruined by the unfair decisions.

C．There should be no more hockey matches organized by the Society.

D．The Society should be dismissed.

3．The author gives the two examples in Paragraphs 2 and 3 to show ________.

[　　]

A．how false national pride leads to undesirable incidents in international games

B．that sportsmen have been more troublesome than they used to be

C．that competitiveness in the games discourages international friendship

D．that unfair decisions are common in the Olympic Games

4．What conclusion can be drawn from the passage?

[　　]

A．The organization of the Olympic Games must be improved.

B．Athletes should compete as individuals in the Olympic Games.

C．Sports should be played competitively rather than for the love of the game.

D．International contests lead to misunderstanding between nations.

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　　Are some people born clever, and others born stupid? Or is intelligence developed by our environment and experiences? Strangely enough, the answer to both these questions is Yes. To some extent our intelligence is given to us at birth, and no amount of special education can make a genius out of a child born with low intelligence. On the other hand, a child who lives in a boring environment will develop his intelligence less than one who lives in rich and varied surroundings. Thus the limits of a person's intelligence are fixed at birth, but whether or not he reaches those limits will depend on his environment. This view, now held by most experts, can be supported in a number of ways.

　　It is easy to show that intelligence is to some extent something we are born with. The closer the blood relationship between two people, the closer they are likely to be in intelligence. Thus if we take two unrelated people at random from the population, it is likely that their degrees of intelligence will be completely different. If on the other hand we take two identical (完全相同的) twins, they will very likely be as intelligent as each other.

　　Imagine now that we take two identical twins and put them in different environments. We might send one, for example, to a university and the other to a factory where the work is boring. We would soon find differences in intelligence developing, and this indicates that environments as well as birth play a part. This conclusion is also suggested by the fact that people who live in close contact with each other, but who are not related at all, are likely to have similar degrees of intelligence.

1．Which of these sentences best describes the writer's point on intelligence?

[　　]

A．Intelligence is determined at birth.

B．Intelligence is mainly developed by environment.

C．Some people are born clever and others born stupid.

D．Intelligence is given at birth, but can be developed by environment.

2．It is suggested in the passage that ________.

[　　]

A．twins always have the same intelligence

B．intelligence doesn't depend on the blood relationship

C．unrelated people can never have similar intelligence

D．people in the same circle are likely to have similar intelligence

3．Which of the following can be the best title for this passage?

[　　]

A．On Intelligence

B．What Does Intelligence Mean?

C．We Are Born with Intelligence

D．Environments Plays a Part in Developing Intelligence