题目内容

Modern society cannot well do without the contribution that women can make in the professions and other kinds of work. There is a serious shortage of nurses and teachers, to mention only two of the occupations followed by women. It is a waste to give years of training at public expense only to have the qualified teacher or nurse marry after a year or two and be lost forever to her profession. The training, it is true, will help her in her duties as a mother, but if she continued to work, her service would be more widely useful. Many factories and shops, too, are largely staffed by women, many of them married. While here the question of training is not so important, industry and trade would be seriously short of staff if married women did not work.
We can see then that there are good reasons for regarding it as desirable that married women should have some occupation outside the home. However, there are serious objections. Schools do not keep children occupied the whole day and school holidays are long. The mother’s working day will almost certainly end well after the school day and her holiday will not begin at the same time as her children’s. There will be therefore a period when children are not taken care of unless a substitute for the mother can be found, or unless it becomes more generally possible for women to work part-time. There seem to be some grounds for believing that there is more bad behavior among the children of working mothers than among those of mothers who stay at home, but more evidence is required before we can be certain of this. What we can be certain of, however, is that many more will continue to do so.
【小题1】According to the writer, women nurses and teachers ought to carry on their occupation after marriage because______.

A．they are not allowed to give up their jobs

B．their training should not be wasted

C．they want to make a living by themselves

D．they must still improve themselves as mothers

【小题2】According to the writer, one possible way for the children of working mothers to be attended to is that________.

A．schools keep children occupied the whole day

B．their mothers change their occupation

C．their mothers do not work full time

D．their mothers should stay at home

【小题3】The clause “unless a substitute for the mother can be found” means_______.

A．if someone takes over the mother’s occupation

B．if no mother works all day

C．if no one takes care of the children for the mother

D．if someone takes care of the children for the mother

【小题4】The writer believes that bad behavior among the children of mothers who do not work is _________ among the children of working mothers.

A．possibly less than	B．about the same as
C．a little greater than	D．certainly more than

【小题1】B
【小题2】C
【小题3】C
【小题4】A

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College was the best of times and the worst of times for me. I met the best friends of my life, had1experiences, but I also folded under more2than I ever had to deal with before.3bad grades, I ended up being asked to take a semester off at the end of the first semester of my senior year.
So I went back home to4with my father and stepmother. To their credit, they understood me and were very cool about my coming back. I felt their5from the moment I walked in the door. They6to let me feel like a failure.
One morning not long after I had come home, my father woke me up saying that my stepmother7on the kitchen floor. I went downstairs trying to perform CPR on her8it was too late. She was already dead of a massive heart attack.
I’11 never9the look on my father’s face when he was given the official news of her passing. I knew at that moment that I had to be10because he needed someone to lean on. It was as if our roles had11and I was being the protective parent while he took the time to12.
I guess the lesson I took from it is that even in our13moments we can still be of help to someone who is14something much harder. It’s so easy to close ourselves off to the things going on around us, and15feel that we are the only ones16. Helping someone else could actually help us17ourselves.
Needlessly to say I went back to college the next semester, and I studied harder and got my18. My father and I developed a bond that was19closer than it already was, and I have a much better ability to keep20times in perspective.(适当地)

1.
1. A.
  hopeful
2. B.
  careful
3. C.
  difficult
4. D.
  enjoyable
2.
1. A.
  chance
2. B.
  stress
3. C.
  doubt
4. D.
  pleasure
3.
1. A.
  Because of
2. B.
  In spite of
3. C.
  Instead of
4. D.
  For fear of
4.
1. A.
  talk
2. B.
  share
3. C.
  live
4. D.
  help
5.
1. A.
  despair
2. B.
  panic
3. C.
  support
4. D.
  hope
6.
1. A.
  expected
2. B.
  attempted
3. C.
  pretended
4. D.
  refused
7.
1. A.
  fell over
2. B.
  passed out
3. C.
  turned over
4. D.
  broke out
8.
1. A.
  for
2. B.
  so
3. C.
  but
4. D.
  and
9.
1. A.
  forget
2. B.
  repeat
3. C.
  imagine
4. D.
  recognize
10.
1. A.
  selfless
2. B.
  wealthy
3. C.
  healthy
4. D.
  strong
11.
1. A.
  shaken
2. B.
  exchanged
3. C.
  begun
4. D.
  strengthened
12.
1. A.
  react
2. B.
  relieve
3. C.
  change
4. D.
  improve
13.
1. A.
  special
2. B.
  last
3. C.
  darkest
4. D.
  busiest
14.
1. A.
  going through
2. B.
  searching for
3. C.
  looking through
4. D.
  preparing for
15.
1. A.
  probably
2. B.
  eagerly
3. C.
  strangely
4. D.
  naturally
16.
1. A.
  falling
2. B.
  hurting
3. C.
  working
4. D.
  thinking
17.
1. A.
  teach
2. B.
  enjoy
3. C.
  fool
4. D.
  heal
18.
1. A.
  degree
2. B.
  lesson
3. C.
  job
4. D.
  prize
19.
1. A.
  enough
2. B.
  ever
3. C.
  even
4. D.
  still
20.
1. A.
  bad
2. B.
  free
3. C.
  poor
4. D.
  modern

完型填空（共20小题；每小题1。5分，满分30分）
Every human being, 36 what he is doing, gives off body heat. The usual problem is 37 dispose of it. But the designers of the Johnstown campus of the University of Pittsburgh set themselves the 38 problem — how to collect body heat. They have designed a collection system which utilizes 39 body heat, but the heat given off by such objects 40 light bulbs and refrigerators as well. The system works so well 41 no conventional fuel is needed 42 the campus’ six buildings comfortable.
Some parts of most modern buildings — theatres and offices 43 classrooms — are more than amply heated by people and lights and sometimes must be air-conditioned 44 in winter. The technique of 45 heat and redistributing it is 46 “heat recover”. A few modern buildings recover 47 , but the university’s system is the first to recover heat 48 some buildings and re-use it in 49 . Along the way, Pitt has learned a great deal about some of its heat producers. The 50 a student studies, the more heat his body 51 . Male students emit more heat than 52 students, and the larger a student, the more heat he 53 . It is tempting to 54 that the hottest prospect for the Johnstown campus would be a 55 , over-weight male genius.

【小题20】A. easy-going . fun-making C.hard-working D. good-for-nothing

College was the best of times and the worst of times for me. I met the best friends of my life, had    21   experiences, but I also folded under more   22   than I ever had to deal with before.     23   bad grades, I ended up being asked to take a semester off at the end of the first semester of my senior year.
So I went back home to   24  with my father and stepmother. To their credit, they understood me and were very cool about my coming back. I felt their    25   from the moment I walked in the door. They   26   to let me feel like a failure.
One morning not long after I had come home, my father woke me up saying that my stepmother   27  on the kitchen floor. I went downstairs trying to perform CPR on her   28   it was too late. She was already dead of a massive heart attack.
I’ll never   29  the look on my father’s face when he was given the official news of her passing. I knew at that moment that I had to be   30  because he needed someone to lean on. It was as if our roles had    31  and I was being the protective parent while he took the time to   32   .
I guess the lesson I took from it is that even in our   33   moments we can still be of help to someone who is   34   something much harder. It’s so easy to close ourselves off to the things going on around us, and   35  feel that we are the only ones   36  . Helping someone else could actually help us   37  ourselves.
Needlessly to say I went back to college the next semester, and I studied harder and got my    38    . My father and I developed a bond that was    39   closer than it already was, and I have a much better ability to keep   40  times in perspective.（适当地）

完形填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）
People of Burlington are being disturbed by the sound of bells. Four students from Burlington College of Higher Education are in the bell tower of the    36   and have made up their minds to ring the bells nonstop for two weeks as a protest（抗议）against heavy trucks(卡车) which run    37   through the narrow High Street.
“They not only make it    38   to sleep at night, but they are    39   damage to our houses and shops of historical interest,” said John Norris, one of the protesters.
“    40   we must have these noisy trucks on the roads,” said Jean Lacey, a biology student，“why don’t they build a new road that goes    41   the town？Burlington isn’t much more than a    42   village．Its streets were never meant for heavy traffic．”
Harry Fields also studying    43   said they wanted to make as much    44   as possible to force the    45   to realise what everybody was having to    46  ．“Most of them don’t    47   here anyway，” he said，“they come in for meetings and that，and the Town Hall is soundproof（隔音），    48   they Probably don’t    49   the noise all that much．It’s high time they realised the    50  ．”
The fourth student，Liza Vernum，said she thought the public were mostly on their side，and even if they weren’t they soon would be.
   51   asked if they were afraid that the police might come to    52   them．
“Not really，” she said，“actually we are    53   bell-ringers．I mean we are assistant bell-ringers for the church．There is no    54   against practising．”
I    55   the church with the sound of the bells ringing in my ears.

A．now and then	B．day and night
C．up and down	D．over and over

A．townspeople	B．other students
C．government officials	D．truck drivers

Whitman(惠特曼)was one of the most original and inspiring American poets, true to his art and to his role as a poet. He devoted himself to poetry praising the native American experience. As America’s first epic poem, Leaves of Grass(《草叶集》)ran nine editions with more than 400 poems all written in free verse(诗)form, that is, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme. The tide implies rebirth, renewal, or green life. As Whitman once said, “Leaves of Grass was the outcropping of my own emotional and other personal nature―an attempt, from first to last, to put a person, a human being freely, fully and truly on record.”

For Whitman, science, democracy[民主] and spirituality(灵性)were the three things that founded the base (构成……基础)of modern poetry. Whitman tried to mix the world of science, the philosophy of democracy and the spiritual feeling of life into one, to incorporate(合并)these into his poetry. For Whitman, the poetic form was to be organic, not limited(受限制的). Therefore, he threw aside the traditional ornaments(修饰)and prettiness of verse and had his own form. Both the form and content of his poems are revolutionary. With its frequent use of common language and everyday events, his poems represents a turning point in the history of American poetry―poetry fashioned out of specially American experience in a clearly American idiom. Whitman’s unique poetic creation has developed a very significant tradition in American poetry.

In his poems, he celebrated new America rather than regretted it. He was against slavery, admired Lincoln, supported strikes, and combined the ideal of the democratic common people and that of the ragged individual.

62、Whitman wrote poems mainly to .

A．praise the rich people in the USA

B．call on others to turn against the government

C．let others know more about the native American experience

D．make more money and become famous

63、The poet threw aside the traditional ornaments and prettiness of verse and had his own form because .

A．he thought the poetic form was not limited but organic

B．all the poets did so

C．the readers didn’t like the traditional ornaments and prettiness of verse

D．he wanted to make his poems special

64、According to the passage, we know Whitman was a poet who .

A．didn’t like common people B．was a selfish man

C．cared for common people D．didn’t have his own ideal

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