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　　Becket not only traveled light, but also lived light. In all the world, he owned just the clothes he stood up in, a full suitcase and a bank account. Arriving anywhere with these possessions, he might just as easily put up for a month or a year as for a single night. For long stays, not less than a month, he might take a furnished flat, sometimes even a house. But whatever the length, he rarely needed anything he did not have with him. Becket had one occasional anxiety: the suspicion (怀疑) that he owned more than would fit comfortably into the case. The feeling, when it came, was the signal for him to throw something away or just leave it lying about. This was the automatic fate of his worn-out clothes for example. Having no use for choice or variety, he kept just a raincoat, a suit, a pair of shoes and a few shirts, socks (短袜) and so on; no more in the clothing line. He thought and read many books, and left them wherever he happened to he sitting when he finished them. They quickly found new owners.

　　Becket was a professional traveler, interested and interesting. He was not one to “do” a country in a week or a city in three days. He liked to get the feel of a place by living in it, reading its newspapers, watching its TV, discussing its affairs. He always tried to make a friend-if necessary even by stopping a suitable-looking person in the street and talking to him. It worked well in about one case in ten. Though Bechet's health gave him no cause for alarm (惊慌), he made a point of seeing a doctor as soon as he arrived anywhere. “A doctor knows a place and its people better than anyone,” he used to say. He never went to see a doctor; he always sent for one; that, he found, was the quickest way to confidences, which came out freely as soon as he mentioned that he was a writer. Becket was an artist as well. He painted pictures of his places and, when he had gathered enough information, he wrote about them. He sold his work, through an agent (经纪人), to newspapers and magazines. It was an agreeable sort of life for a good social mixer (与他人接触的人), lived nearly always in fine weather; and as Becket never stayed anywhere for long, he enjoyed the satisfying advantage of paying very little in tax.

1．What do you know about Becket's possessions?

[　　]

A．He had enough baggage to stay for one night.

B．He carried all of them around with him.

C．He had throw or given around with him.

D．He left most of his things at home when he traveled.

2．Becket might take over a flat when

[　　]

A．there were no suitable hotels

B．he meant to stay somewhere for several nights

C．he was sure of staying a year or more

D．he expected not to move on for a month at least

3．What was the usual result when Becket talked to strangers in the street.?

[　　]

A．People thought he was ill and sent for a doctor.

B．He made many new friends that way.

C．The people he spoke to felt annoyed with him.

D．The approach failed in its purpose.

4．It can be learned from the passage that Becket was

[　　]

A．a travel agent

B．a journalist

C．a spy

D．a social worker

5．How did Becket feel about taxation?

[　　]

A．It worried him, so he kept moving from place to place.

B．He hated it, so he broke the tax laws.

C．He was pleased that he could honestly avoid it.

D．He felt ashamed of not paying taxes.

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　　Daphne asked Jim, a friend of Walter's, for some extra help on her political science homework. On Friday, they agreed to meet at his dormitory study room at 8 Sunday night. It was 8:05 when Jim arrived. He wasn't on time as he usually is, because he had been out enjoying the spring weather after eating at Mac Donald's. But he wasn't worried, because he knew from Walter that Daphne was usually late. When Daphne hadn't arrived by 8:25, Jim was a little surprised. He decided to go to the dorm lounge and watch his favourite Sunday night TV shows. It started at 8:30, so he had to hurry.

　　When he got to the lounge, Walter was just leaving. “Hey, Jim, your favourite TV show just finished. Where were you? It was wonderful!”

　　“What do you mean, Walter? It's 8:30, so I'm just in time to watch it!” Jim replied, looking a little confused. “Did you adjust your watch last night?” Walter asked. Then he explained, “Last night you were supposed to move your watch ahead one hour. We do this every year on the last Sunday in April. Then, on the last Sunday in October, everyone moves clock back an hour. We say spring ahead, fall back to help us remember which way to adjust our clocks.” Walter stopped to see if Jim had understood his explanation. “ You don't do that in Indiana, I guess.”

　　“No, we don’t,” Jim said, shaking his head. “In that case, I was over an hour late for my appointment with Daphne, not only five minutes. Wow! She'll never let me forget this!”

1．What is an important idea of this story?

[　　]

A．Daphne is usually late.

B．There are no time changes in Indiana.

C．Jim likes his favourite Sunday night TV show.

D．Jim was late because he didn't know about the time changes.

2．Why did Jim look confused when learned the TV show had just finished?

[　　]

A．Because he missed the wonderful TV show.

B．Because he thought he was just in time to watch his favorite TV show.

C．Because be was late for the show.

D．Because he forgot the time of the show.

3．All the citizens in the United States are supposed to move their watches ahead in spring and back in fall, aren't they?

[　　]

A．Certainly they are.

B．No, they are not.

C．No, those who live in Indiana do not do that.

D．Certainly they are besides those living in Indiana.

4．Imagine you are going to a party at 2 p. m. on the last Sunday in April. If you forget about time change, what time will you arrive?

[　　]

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　　There are two basic differences between the large and the small firms. In the small firm you operate primarily through personal contacts. In the large firm you have established “policies”, “channels” of organization, and fairly rigid procedures. In the small firm you have, moreover, immediate effectiveness in a very small area. You can see the effect of your work and of your decisions right away, once you are a little above the ground floor. In the large firm even the man at the top is only a cog in a big machine. To be sure, his actions affect a much greater area than the actions and decisions of the man in the small organization, but his effectiveness is remote, indirect, and difficult to see at first sight. In a small and even in a middle-sized business you are normally exposed to all kinds of experiences, and expected to do a great many things without too much help or guidance. In the large organization you are normally taught one thing thoroughly. In the small one the danger is of becoming a jack-of-all-trades and master of none. In the large one it is of becoming the man who knows more and more about less and less.

　　There is one other important thing to consider: do you derive a deep sense of satisfaction from being a member of a well-known organization-General Motors, the Bell Telephone System, the government? Or is it more important to you to be a well-known and important figure within your own small pond? There is a basic difference between the satisfaction that comes from being a member of a large, powerful, and generally known organization, and the one that comes from being a member of a family; between impersonal grandeur (大的) and personal of too much too personal-intimacy; between life in a skyscraper and life in a crossroads gas station.

1．In a large enterprise, ________.

[　　]

A．new technology is employed quickly

B．all people work efficiently

C．one's effectiveness is felt very slowly

D．one can get promotion easily

2．In the first paragraph, a “jack-of-all-trades” means ________.

[　　]

A．a person who doesn't know anything about business

B．a person who is very capable as a businessman

C．a person who knows a little bit of everything

D．a person who is very knowledgeable about trade

3．We can conclude from the first paragraph that the writer ________.

[　　]

A．prefers to work for a large firm

B．does not mention his own preference

C．prefers to work for a small firm

D．is against anything that goes to its extreme

4．In the second paragraph, the contrast (对比) between the organization and the family is employed to show ________.

[　　]

A．how necessary a deep sense of satisfaction is

B．what satisfaction means to different types of people

C．how families may differ from one another

D．what large firm can offer to ordinary families

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　　Betty and Harold have been married for years. But one thing still puzzles old Harold. How is it that he can leave Betty and her friend Joan sitting on the sofa, talking, go out to a ballgame, come back three and a half hours later, and they're still sitting on the sofa? Talking?

　　What in the world, Harold wonders, do they have to talk about?

　　Researching this matter called friendship, Psychologist Lillian Rubin spent two years interviewing more than two hundred women and men. No matter what their age, their job, their sex, the results were completely clear: women have more friendships than men, and the difference in the content and the quality of those friendships is “marked and unmistakable.”

　　More than two-thirds of the single men Rubin interviewed could not name a best friend. Those who could were likely to name a woman. Yet three-quarters of the single women had no problem naming a best friend, and almost always it was a woman. More married men than women named their wife/husband as a best friend, most trusted person, or the one they would turn to in time of emotional distress (情感危机). “Most women,” says Rubin, “identified (认定) at least, one, usually more, trusted friends to whom they could turn in a troubled moment, and they spoke openly about the importance of these relationships in their lives.”

　　“In general,” writes Rubin in her new book, “women's friendships with each other rest on shared emotions and support, but men's relationships are marked by shared activities.” For the most part, Rubin says, interactions (交往) between men are emotionally controlled—a good fit with the social requirements of manly behavior.

　　“Even when a man is said to be a best friend,” Rublin writes, “the two share little about their innermost feelings. Whereas a woman's closest female friend might be the first to tell her to leave a failing marriage, it wasn't unusual to hear a man say he didn't know his friend's marriage was in serious trouble until he appeared one night asking if he could sleep on the sofa.”

1．What old Harold cannot understand or explain is the fact that ________.

[　　]

A．he is treated as an outsider rather than a husband

B．women have so much to share

C．women show hide interest in ballgames

D．he finds his wife difficult to talk to

2．Rubin's study shows that for emotional support a married woman is more likely to turn to ________.

[　　]

3．According to the text, which type of behavior is NOT expected of a man by society?

[　　]

A．Ending his marriage without good reason.

B．Spending too much time with his friends.

C．Complaining about his marriage trouble.

D．Going out to ballgames too often.

4．Which of the following statements is best supported by the last paragraph?

[　　]

A．Men keep their innermost feelings to themselves.

B．Women are more serious than men about marriage.

C．Men often take sudden action to end their marriage.

D．Women depend on others in making decisions.

5．The research done by psychologist Rubin centers around ________.

[　　]

A．happy and successful marriages

B．friendships of men and women

C．emotional problems in marriage

D．interactions between men and women

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　　“Maybe I'll just move him right out the door,” the boss replied. Ray was very glad and no longer worried. The boss was mad at Don now, not at him. Sure enough, within a month of that meeting, Don was looking for a new job. “Serves him right,” Ray thought. Unfortunately, the guy who was brought in to take Don's place wasn't much better.

　　Well, then an astonishing thing happened. Ray's department was working on a box design for a toy. A new employee named Jack was doing the artwork. He had designed something in bright red and blue. Ray looked at it and said, “Sorry. Red and blue is not good. Change it to brown and purple.” Actually, the design was very nice. But Ray didn’t want Jack to get too proud. He also wanted him to know who was in charge. Jack wasn't happy about it, but he changed everything to brown and purple.

　　Two weeks later, 500,000 new brown and purple boxes arrived from the printing company. While Ray was leading a staff meeting, the boss came bursting in.

　　“What is this?” he shouted, waving one of the new boxes. “You call this artwork? Look at these ridiculous colors! This is the ugliest box I've ever seen. Who did this, anyway?”

　　All eyes, except Jack's were upon Ray. Then Jack spoke. “I did, sir,” he said, “I'm sorry you don't like it. I'll try to do better next time.”

　　Ray was deeply touched by Jack's act of mercy. And it changed his life.

1．What kind of man was Ray's boss?

[　　]

A．Impatient and quick to get angry.

B．Kind and always ready to help his staff.

C．Shy and afraid to talk about problems.

D．Cruel and hard to deal with.

2．How did it make Ray feel when his staff did something well?

[　　]

A．Happy and proud to be their boss.

B．Afraid of losing face and control.

C．Angry because they didn't ask him first.

D．Puzzled and very disappointed.

3．When all the other staff looked at Ray, why didn't Jack?

[　　]

A．He was afraid that Ray would start to blame him.

B．He didn't want to start laughing in front of the boss.

C．He didn't want the boss to think it was Ray's fault.

D．He was afraid that Ray would be fired.

4．What was Jack's act of mercy?

[　　]

A．He took the blame for Ray's mistake.

B．He didn't blame Ray for the mistake.

C．He told the boss he was sorry for Ray's mistake.

D．He wanted to help Ray to change his life.

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　　The U.S. Department of Labor statistics (统计数字) indicate (表明) that there is an oversupply of college - trained workers and that this oversupply is increasing. Already there is an overabundance of teachers, engineers, physicists, aerospace experts , and other specialists (专家(尤提医科)). Yet colleges and graduate schools continue every year to turn out highly trained people to compete for jobs that aren’t there. The result is that graduates cannot enter the professions for which they were trained and must take temporary jobs which do not require a college degree. These “temporary” jobs have a habit of becoming permanent.

　　On the other hand, there is a tremendous need for skilled workers of all sorts: carpenters, electricians, mechanics, plumbers (铅管工人), TV repairmen. These people have more work than they can handle, and their annual incomes are often higher than those of college graduates. The old distinction (区分) that white - collar workers make a better living than blue - collar workers no longer holds true. The law of supply and demand now favors the skilled workmen.

　　The reason for this situation is the traditional belief that college degree is a passport to a prosperous (繁荣) future. A large part of American society equates (认为相等) success in life with a college degree. Parents begin indoctrinating (灌输) their children with this belief before they are out of grade school. High school teachers play their part by acting as if high school education were a preparation for college rather than for life. In this case, whether the kids themselves want to go to college or not doesn’t matter. Everybody should go to college, so of course they must go. And every year college enrollments go up and up, and more and more graduates are overeducated for the kinds of jobs available to them.

　　One result of this emphasis on a college education is that many people go to college who do not belong there. Of the sixty percent of high school graduates who enter college, half of them do not graduate with their class. Many of them drop out within the first year. Some struggle on for two or three years and then give up.

1．What do you think would be the best title for the passage?

[　　]

A．Educational Problems in America.

B．College Education in America.

C．Graduate Schools in America.

D．Workers in America.

2．The oversupply of higly - trained people directly caused the problem that ________.

[　　]

A．college graduates cannot find ideal jobs

B．none of the college graduates can find permanent jobs

C．none of the college graduate can find temporary jobs

D．skilled workers have more work than they can handle

3．From the passage, we can know that skilled workers ________.

[　　]

A．have become white - collar workers now

B．can’t find permanent jobs

C．have not much difficulty finding a job

D．used to have a higher annual income than college graduates

4．The problem of the oversupply of college - trained workers is mainly caused by ________.

[　　]

A．the fact that white - collar workers can make a better living

B．the fact that college graduates can find permanent jobs

C．the fact that college enrollments go up every year

D．people’s overemphasis on a college degree

5．The sentence “Many of them drop out within the first year” (Sentence 3, Last Paragraph) means that ________.

[　　]

A．many high school graduates cannot enter college at the very beginning

B．many high school graduates fail in the exams within the first year

C．many college students give up their study within the first year

D．many college students fail in the exams within the first year

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　　If you ask people to name one person who had the greatest effect on the English language, you will get answers like“Shakespeare,” “ Samuel Johnson,” and “Webster,” but none of these men had any effect at all compared to a man who didn’t even speak English—William the Conqueror.

　　Before 1066, in the land we now call Great Britain lived peoples belonging to two major language groups. In the west - central region lived the Welsh, who spoke a Celtic language, and in the north lived the Scots, whose language,though not the same as Welsh was also Celtic. In the rest of the country lived the Saxons, actually a mixture of Angles, Saxons, and other Germanic and Nordic peoples, who spoke what we now call Anglo- Saxon (or Old English), a Germanic language. If this state of affairs had lasted, English today would he close to German.

　　But this state of affairs did not last. in 1066 the Normans led by William defeated the Saxons and began their rule over England. For about a century, French became the official language of England while old English became the language of peasants. As a result, English words of politics and the law come from French rather than German. In some cases, modern English even shows a distinction (区别) between upper - class French and lower - class Anglo Saxon in its words. We even have different words for some foods, meat in particular, depending on whether it is still out in the fields or at home ready to he cooked, which shows the fact that the Saxon peasants were doing the farming, while the upper - class Normans were doing most of the eating.

　　When Americans visit Europe for the first time, they usually find Germany more “foreign than France because the German they see on signs and advertisements seems much mare different from English than French does. Few realize that the English language is actually Germanic in its beginning and that the French influences are all the result of one man’s ambition.”

1．The two major languages spoken in what is now called Great Britain before 1066 were ________.

[　　]

A．Welsh and Scottish

B．Nordic and Germanic

C．Celtic and Old English

D．Anglo- Saxon and Germanic

2．Which of the following groups of words are, by inference, rooted in French?

[　　]

A．president, lawyer, beef

B．president, bread, water

C．bread, field, sheep

D．folk, field, cow

3．Why does France appear less foreign than Germany to Americans on their first visit to Europe?

[　　]

A．Most advertisements in France appear in English.

B．They know little of the history of the English language.

C．Many French words are similar to English words.

D．They know French better than German.

4．What is the subject discussed in the text?

[　　]

A．The history of Great Britain.

B．The similarity between English and French.

C．The rule of England by William the Conqueror.

D．The French influences on the English language.

阅读理解

　　In order to make a good impression during a job interview, you need to prepare yourself for the interview. You must arrive in plenty of time for the interview, so that you give yourself a little time to relax before the interview begins.

The impression you make as you walk into the room is very important. Try to find out if the company or organization has rules about dress. Then try to dress according to their regulations.

　　You also need to plan what you are going to say. In some interviews you will have to do a lot of talking, and in others you will only have to answer a few questions about your education and experience. You need to have answers ready about yourself, your schoolwork, your strong points, your reasons for applying for the job, and the salary you expect.

　　You will also be allowed to ask some questions of your own. The questions you ask will show the interviewer that you have given careful thought to the position. You can ask questions like these: What duties will I have to do in the job? Will I be allowed to join a health insurance program? Does the company provide opportunities for further education?

1．What has this passage talked about?

[　　]

A．How to find a job.

B．A future job you will take.

C．Suggestions about job interview.

D．Your future boss.

2．What kind of questions will be asked?

[　　]

A．Your education and your reasons for applying for the job.

B．Your school work and family.

C．Your strong points and age.

D．Your education and your further education.

3．About what topic can you ask questions?

[　　]

A．Duties and further education.

B．Chances to travel.

C．Desired salary.

D．Promotion in your job.

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　　Booking opens for Beckett Short on 8 September

BY TELEPHONE

　　For credit card(信用卡)bookings. Calls are answered.

BOX OFFICE

　　1789 295623 9 A．B．—8 p.m. (Mon—Sat) 0541 541051 (24 hours, 7 days, no booking charge)

BY FAX

　　For credit card bookings. Please allow at least 48 hours for reply, if required.

BOX OFFICE

　　01789 261974 or 01862 387755

BY POSY

　　Please enclose (附上) a cheque or credit card details together with an SAE or add 50p to the total amount to cover postage. Please send to the Box Office, RST, Stratford - upon - Avon,

CV376BB

　　Booking opens for all other plays on 19 September.

IN PERSON

BOX OFFICE

　　FST hall, 9:30 A．m.—8 P. M. (Mort—Sat) (6:00 p.m. when theatres are closed)

OVERSEAS BOOK1NG

　　The easiest method of payment is by credit card. You can also pay by: Eurocheque (up to &500) with your card number written on the back.

PAYING FOR YOUR TICKEIS

CREDIT CARDS

　　We accept Visa, Master Card, American Express and Diners Club. Please give the card number, name and address of cardholder.

CHEQUES

　　Cheques and postal orders should be payable to: Royal Shakespears Theatre.

1．In which of the following ways of booking does one probably have to pay extra money?

[　　]

2．One has to wait for 2 days or longer for a reply if he/she pays ________.

[　　]

3．What is a useful number to call at 11 A.m. Sunday?

[　　]

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　　Excused from recycling (回收利用) because you live in a high rise with a rubbish chute (垃圾道)? You won’ t be for long. Miami’s Marks Shantzis has made it simple for those living in tall buildings to use the chute and recycle too.

　　In Shantzis’ Hi - Rise Recycling system, a chute leads to a pie - shaped container with six boxes that can turn around when operated. The system, which fits in the same space as the chute and container now in use, enable glass, plastic, paper, metal and other rubbish to go into separate boxes.

　　The system is controlled from a, board fixed next to the chute door. The board has a bottom for each class of recycling materials (as well as for unrecyclables). At the press of a button, a microcomputer locks all other floors’ chute doors and sets the recycling container turning until the right box comes under the chute. The computer also counts the loads and gives a signal by phone when the box is full. And a particular piece of equipment breaks up the nonrecyclables.

　　Sorting (分类) recyclables before they are collected saves the use of expensive material recovery equipment which otherwise has to do the sorting. Such equipment often makes recycled materials very expensive, so expensive that tons of recyclables remain wasted.

　　Shantzis believes his system could help recycled materials become more cost - effective.

1．The purpose in writing this text is ________.

[　　]

A．to encourage people to recycle their rubbish

B．to introduce a recycling system for high rises

C．to describe the use of computer technology in recycling

D．to explain the need for rubbish collection in high rises

2．When he says “you won’t be for long” the writer means that ________.

[　　]

A．you’ll soon be living in a cleaner building

B．rubbish chutes will become out of date before long

C．you won’t wait long for your turn to recycle rubbish

D．it won’t be long before you’ll have to recycle your rubbish

3．Before dropping rubbish into the chute you have to ________.

[　　]

A．lock the other floor’s chute doors

B．check if the container is full

C．press the correct button

D．break up the rubbish

4．The biggest advantage of this new system is that ________.

[　　]

A．it reduced the cost of recycling

B．it saves time and space

C．it saves money for people living in high rise

D．it makes better use of the existing recovery equipment