题目内容
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Being probably the most complex female character in Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Ophelia deserves special attention because she is treated as a substitute for Stowe’s intended audience．Ophelia __1_ what Mrs．Stowe, the author, considered a widespread Northern problem: the white person who opposes slavery but feels __2_ prejudice and hatred in the presence of a black slave．Ophelia hates slavery, but she considers it almost _3__ for blacks, against whom she harbors a deep-seated prejudice．And she doesn’t want them to touch her．Stowe stresses that much of Ophelia’s prejudice _4__ from unfamiliarity and ignorance rather than from actual _5__ Because Ophelia has seldom spent time along with __6_, she finds them uncomfortably alien （不相容） to her．
But Ophelia seems to be one of the only characters in the novel whose character _7__ as the story progresses．Once St．Clare puts Topsy in her care, Ophelia is forced to be in _8__ with a slave．At first she begins to teach Topsy __9_ out of duty．But Stowe suggests that duty alone will not root out slavery and that those against slavery must act out of love．Eva’s death leads to Ophelia’s change, and she comes to love Topsy as an actual human being and not just a slave．She _10__ her racial prejudice and offers herself as a model to Stowe’s Northern readers．
11A．reflects B．supposes C．suspects D．provides
12A．various B．arbitrary C．racial D．awful
13A．impossible B．necessary C．unfair D．important
14A．suffers B．differs C．releases D．results
15A．practice B．performance C．experience D．application
1.A．slaves B．readers C．Stowe D．characters
2.A．increases B．disappears C．refreshes D．develops
3.A．trouble B．danger C．contact D．comparison
4.A．hardly B．merely C．specially D．properly
5.A．hides B．overcomes C．reserves D．prohibits
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Poor student behavior seems to be an ____6.___ （increase） widespread problem and I think that modern lifestyles are probably responsible for this．
In many countries, the birth rate is decreasing so that families are smaller with ____7.children．These children are often spoilt, not in terms of love and attention because ____ 8.__ （work） parents do not have the time for this, ____ 9._ in more material ways．They are allowed to have ____ 10._ they want, regardless of price, and to behave as they please．This means that the children grow up ____ 11.consideration for others and without any understanding of __12._their standard of living comes from．
When they get to school age they have not learnt any self control or discipline．Teachers continually complain ____ 13.___ this problem and measures ____ 14.___ （take） to combat the situation．But I think the situation to the problem lies with the families, ____15.___ need to be more aware of the future consequences of spoiling their children．
I’m a commercial fisherman in Alaska. It was an eye-opener to see the destruction and waste popular in the world’s fisheries. The Alaska fishery is very well managed and we do not see the damage occurring elsewhere. Many local people complain of the many restrictive (限制) laws in the fishery, but after reading these articles, I’m in favor of even stricter regulation. The sea is the basis for life on Earth, and we must take care of it.
Tom Hagen
Craig, Alaska
Your report presents an overly hopeless future. Here in New England where I have fished commercially for 45 years, we are beginning a recovery from years of over fishing. Under the newly authorized Magnuson-Stevens Act, fishermen are forming partnerships with scientists for the purpose of developing fishing-gear modifications (减少) to reduce by-catch and reduce impacts (冲击) to fish habitat. Additionally, we are collecting information on fish stock abundance, population, and ecosystems. The New England Regional Fishery Management Council is supporting the formation of harvest districts, which enables fishermen to have changing market conditions.
Frank Mirarchi
Scituate, Massachusetts
You described fishing around the world, but not here in the United States. There is no support for the American fisherman who is working under the harshest regulations on Earth and the strictest restrictions. We are fishing in a fashion that is completely suitable as required in the Magnuson-Stevens Act. The U.S. keeps importing more fish from countries that have no requirements on gear or on their catch. U.S. fishermen cannot compete with foreign prices, so the fishermen’s numbers have been reduced. There are no young people who will take our place.
Jeremiah O’Brien
MorroBay, California
68. How is the situation about fishery in Alaska according to Tom Hagen?
A. There is too much waste in fishery.
B. The fishery is balanced well there.
C. Many local fishermen liked the fishery laws before.
D. The government is not doing their best to limit fishing.
69. Jeremiah O’Brien does not agree with ______.
A. the opinion of Tom Hagen’s
B. the opinion of Frank Mirarchi’s
C. Magnuson-Stevens Act
D. all the ideas in the article mentioned
70. We can see from the above passage that ______.
A. fishery in the United States is controlled by the U.S.A government
B. fishery in the world is running well by the Magnuson-Stevens Act
C. in some countries there is less limitation in fishing
D. importing fish pays more for the fishermen in the U.S.A.
71. Which of the following might serve as the best title of the above passage?
A. Fishery in the World B. Fishery in the United States
C. Fishery, a World Problem D. Fishery Limitation, Stricter or Not
In her new book, “The Smartest Kids in the World,” Amanda Ripley, an investigative journalist, tells the story of Tom, a high-school student from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, who decides to spend his senior year in Wroclaw, Poland. Poland is a surprising educational success story: in the past decade, the country raised students’ test scores from significantly below average to well above it. Polish kids have now outscored American kids in math and science, even though Poland spends, on average, less than half as much per student as the United States does. One of the most striking differences between the high school Tom attended in Gettysburg and the one he ends up at in Wroclaw is that the latter has no football team, or, for that matter, teams of any kind.
That American high schools spend more time and money on sports than on math is an old complaint. This is not a matter of how any given student who plays sports does in school, but of the culture and its priorities (优先考虑的事). This December, when the latest Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) results are announced, it’s safe to predict that American high-school students will once again display their limited skills in math and reading, outscored not just by students in Poland but also by students in places like South Korea, Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland, Singapore, and Japan. Meanwhile, they will have played some very exciting football games, which will have been breathlessly written up in their hometown papers.
Why does this situation continue? Well, for one thing, kids like it. And for another, according to Ripley, parents seem to like the arrangement, too. She describes a tour she took of a school in Washington D.C., which costs thirty thousand dollars a year. The tour leader — a mother with three children in the school — was asked about the school’s flaws (瑕疵). When she said that the math program was weak, none of the parents taking the tour reacted. When she said that the football program was weak, the parents suddenly became concerned. “Really?” one of them asked worriedly, “What do you mean?”
One of the ironies (讽刺) of the situation is that sports reveal what is possible. American kids’ performance on the field shows just how well they can do when expectations are high. It’s too bad that their test scores show the same thing.
47. Tom decides to spend his senior year in Poland because _______.
A. he intends to improve his scores
B. Polish kids are better at learning
C. sports are not supported at schools in Gettysburg
D. there are striking differences between the two countries
48. According to Paragraph 2, we know that _______.
A. PISA plays a very important role in America
B. little time is spent on sports in Japanese schools
C. American high schools complain about sports time
D. too much importance is placed on sports in America
49. The underlined sentence in the last paragraph means _______.
A. American students’ academic performance worries their parents a lot
B. high expectations push up American students’ academic performance
C. low expectations result in American students’ poor PISA performance
D. lacking practice contributes to American students’ average performance
50. The purpose of this text is to _______.
A. compare Polish schools with those in America
B. call on American schools to learn from the Polish model
C. draw public attention to a weakness in American school tradition
D. explain what is wrong with American schools and provide solutions
