第二卷

第一节 短文改错（10×1分）

Between Virginia and Maryland on the Potomac River lie                  76. _______

Washington D.C. It is about 220 miles in the south                              77. ______

of New York City. The pleasantest and easiest ways to                       78 ______

get there is by long-distance bus, or by the fast

(125-mile-an-hour) train which spends a little more money than          79. ______

the bus journey and a little less money than flying. I could travel far

more than 220 miles to see Washington. It’s not city that has             80. ______

been grown up accidently as most big cities have done.                    81. ______

It was carefully planned for the nation’s capital by a                            82. ______

Frenchman, Perril Enfant. The city was named                                  83. ______

George Washington, the much-loved, much-admired,

much-respected first president of the United States.                          84. ______

In 1791 he himself arranged to buy the land which it stands.             85. ______

CBC is a famous air company which has over twenty planes carrying passengers and goods, flying along 12 fixed lines all over the world. Its service is very good but some passengers are still not satisfied with it and that is why in 2004 and 2005 the company received letters of complaints from consumers or passengers who pointed out over a dozen kind of problems which are divided in groups in the following table. Those concerning passengers' things carried on the plane are baggage problems. Customer service refers to service work which passengers are not satisfied with. Overselling of tickets is about the fact that more seats are sold and as a result the plane is too crowded to be safe. Refund problems appear when passengers fail to receive the money paid back to them because of what they have lost. Fares are problems concerning the price of tickets.  

Consumer Complaints Received By the CBC

1. About how many complaints about Credit were received by the CBC in 2004?

A. 28                B. 29              C. 30               D. 31

2.By about what percentage did the total number of complaints decrease from 2004 to 2005?

   A. 40%              B. 60%            C. 75%             D. 100%

3.If the circle graphs below show total consumer complaints for 2004, which graph shows a dark part that is about Flight problems and Refund problems together?

4.Which of the following statements can be inferred from the table?

    a. In 2004 and in 2005, complaints about Flight problems, Baggage, and Customer service

   together took more than 40 percent of all consumer complaints received by the CBC Company.

   b .The number of special passengers complaints was unchanged from 2004 to 2005.

   c .From 2004 to 2005 the number of Flight problems complaints increased by more than 2 percent.

     A．only a       B．only b        C．a and b          D．a and c

5.From the passage we can know that _______ .

   A. customers are not satisfied with CBC

   B. sometimes CBC sells more tickets than its plane's fixed seats

   C. CBC has more than twenty planes which fly to all the capital cities of the world

   D. customers can only buy tickets with cash

China recorded fewer traffic accidents in 2001 than in 2000 and a lower going continued in January this year .

The traffic accidents in 2001 totaled 270, 000 , fewer by 20, 000 than in 2000 .

But the number of the dead for 2001 was 54, 000 , an increase of 1, 000 from the year before . The increase was not as slow as that in recent years .

A government official said in Beijing yesterday that 3, 821 persons were killed in highway traffic accidents last month , a drop of 12.8 percent from January 2001 . He also said there were 21, 201 traffic accidents in the first month of the year , 10.1 percent fewer than January last year , and 11, 700 people injured .

The traffic accidents last year caused a loss worth 27.32 million yuan , about 2.9 million US dollars .

Economic Daily also said 170, 000 persons were injured in the traffic accidents in 2001 , fewer by 10, 000 than in 2000 .

( From China Daily , February 16 , 2002)

1. In 2000 the total number of the traffic accidents was ________ .

A. 290, 000     B. 250, 000      C. 270, 000      D. 20, 000

2. In 2000 ________ persons were killed in the traffic accidents .

A. 1, 000     B. 53, 000      C. 54, 000      D. 55, 000

3. Which is true according to the news report ?

A. The traffic accidents in 2002 will go up continuously .

B. Economic Daily said the traffic accidents caused a loss worth 2.9 million US dollars in 2000 .

C. In January 2002 , there were 3, 821 highway traffic accidents .

D. There were more traffic accidents in January 2001 than in January 2002 .

4. The best title for this news report should be ________ .

A. Road Accidents 2001        B. Road Accidents 2000

C. Death Up or Down This Year  D. $ 2.9 Million Loss in Traffic Accidents

V. 单词拼写 （10×1）

1. He is seen as a ________ (潜在的) leader of our party.

2. We will _____（任命） him as your secretary, for his carefulness.

3. Because of _______（采用） the new teaching methods, the students feel at easy to study.

4. They have made a _______（灵活的） holiday plan to satisfy everyone.

5. It is against my will if I _______（反对） you.

6.In summer, fruit _____ （易于）to decay, so you had better not to buy so much at one time.

7. People  don’t listen to him, for he is always ________（神经兮兮）.

8. You should make a _______（具体的） analysis on the problem.

9. Some officials should not ______ （滥用）their authority.

10. Under the _____（压力） of life, he had to go abroad.

Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature yesterday, honored for work that "with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, describes the landscape of the dispossessed(被流放者)," the Swedish Academy said.

   The 56-year-old author, who immigrated to Germany from Romania in 1987, first gained public attention in 1982 with a collection of short stories titled Niederungen, or Lowlands in English, which was promptly censored(审查通过) by her government.

   In 1984 an uncensored version was smuggled to Germany where it was published and her work describing life in a small, German-speaking village in Romania was popular with the readers there. That work was followed by Oppressive Tango in Romania.

  "The Romanian national press was very critical of these works while, outside of Romania, the German press received them very positively," the Academy said. "Because Mueller had publicly criticized the dictatorship(独裁) in Romania, she was prohibited from publishing in her own country.” In 1987 she immigrated to Germany with her husband two years before dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was toppled from power.

   Mueller's parents were members of the German-speaking minority in Romania and father served in the Waffen SS during World War II. After the war ended, many German Romanians were deported(放逐) to the Soviet Union in 1945, including her mother, who spent five years in a work camp in what is now Ukraine.

   Most of her works are in German, but some works have been translated into English, French and Spanish, including The Passport, The Land of Green Plums, Traveling on One Leg and The Appointment.

   Mueller has given guest lectures at universities, colleges and other venues in Paderborn, Warwick, Hamburg, Swansea, Gainsville (Florida), Kassel, Gottingen, Tubingen and Zurich among other places. She lives in Berlin. Since 1995 she has served as a member of Deutsche Akademie fur Sprache und Dichtung, in Darmstadt."

   Mueller is the 12th woman to win the literature prize. Recent female winners include Austria's Elfriede Jelinek in 2004 and British writer Doris Lessing in 2007.

   The award includes a $1.4 million prize and will be handed out on December 10

1．Herta Mueller was awarded Nobel Prize in literature because of____________.

A．her public criticism upon the dictatorship in Romania

B．her works with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose

C．her works describing the life of the dispossessed in Germany 

D．the popularity of her works with the readers in the German-speaking village

2．Which of the following statements is mentioned by the author?

    A．German Romanians were treated unfairly in Germany in the 1940s.

B．Her parents were dispossessed to Ukraine after the World War II.

C．Her first work was published in Germany in the early 1980s.

D．Her works were all translated into versions in different languages.

3．It can be inferred from the fourth paragraph that _____.

    A．people then in Romania had the right to say whatever was true.

    B．Herta Mueller left her home country after the dictatorship was ended.

    C．Herta Mueller immigrated to Germany together with her parents.

    D．Romanian citizens lived a hard life without democracy in the 1980s.

4．According to the passage, which of the following works has an English version? 

    A．Lowlands in English                  B．Oppressive Tango in Romania.  

C．Traveling on One Leg                 D．The Land of Green Plums

5．What is the passage mainly about?

    A．Mueller made great contribution to literature through hard work

B．Mueller won the Nobel Prize for her great literature works.

C．Mueller gained great popularity by describing dictatorship.

D．Mueller was treated badly in Romania and immigrated to Germany.