71. From Paragraph 1, we learn that ________.

A. diet products fail to bring out people’s potential

B. people have difficulty in choosing diet products

C. diet products are misleading people

D. people are fed up with diet products

70. What is the best title for the passage?

A. Unforgettable Experiences　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. Remarkable Imagination

C. Lifelong Friendship　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. Noble Companions

答案　 66.D　 67.A　 68.C　 69.B　 70.D

Passage 33

(08·北京E篇)

The Diet Zone: A Dangerous Place

　 Diet Coke, diet Pepsi, diet pills, no-fat diet, vegetable diet… We are surrounded by the word “diet” everywhere we look and listen. We have so easily been attracted by the promise and potential of diet products that we have stopped thinking about what diet products are doing to us. We are paying for products that harm us psychologically and physically(身体上).

　 Diet products significantly weaken us psychologically. On one level, we are not allowing our brains to admit that our weight problems lie not in actually losing the weight, but in controlling the consumption of fatty, high-calorie, unhealthy foods. Diet products allow us to jump over the thinking stage and go straight for the scale(秤)instead. All we have to do is to swallow or recognize the word “diet” in food labels.

　 On another level, diet products have greater psychological effects. Every time we have a zero-calorie drink, we are telling ourselves without our awareness that we don’t have to work to get results. Diet products make people believe that gain comes without pain, and that life can be without resistance and struggle.

　 The danger of diet products lies not only in the psychological effects they have on us, but also in the physical harm that they cause. Diet foods can indirectly harm our bodies because consuming them instead of healthy foods means we are preventing our bodies from having basic nutrients(营养成分). Diet foods and diet pills contain zero calorie only because the diet industry has created chemicals to produce these wonder products. Diet products may not be nutritional, and the chemicals that go into diet products are potentially dangerous.

　 Now that we are aware of the effects that diet products have on us, it is time to seriously think about buying them. Losing weight lies in the power of minds, not in the power of chemicals. Once we realize this, we will be much better able to resist diet products, and therefore prevent the psychological and physical harm that comes from using them.

69. In the darkest moments, the author would prefer to ______.

A. seek professional help　 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. be left alone

C. stay with her best friend　 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. break the silence

68. According to Paragraph 4, the author and her friend _______.

A. call each other regularly　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. have similar personalities

C. enjoy writing to each other　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. dream of meeting each other

67. In Paragraph 3, “We gave London to each other” probably means ______.

A. our exploration of London was a memorable gift to both of us

B. we were unwilling to tear ourselves away from London

C. our unpleasant feelings about London disappeared

D. we parted with each other in London

66. In the eighth grade, what the author did before developing proper social behavior was to ______.

A. become serious about her study　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. go to her friend’s house regularly

C. learn from her classmates at school　　　　　　　　 D. share poems and stories with her friend

65. This is basically a letter of ________.

A. apology　　 　　　　　　　　　 B. sympathy　　　　　 C. appreciation　 　　　　 D. dissatisfaction

答案　 63.A　 64.B　 65.D

Passage 32

(08·北京D篇)

When it comes to friends, I desire those who will share my happiness, who possess wings of their own and who will fly with me. I seek friends whose qualities illuminate(照亮)me and train me up for love. It is for these people that I reserve the glowing hours, too good not to share.

　　 When I was in the eighth grade, I had a friend. We were shy and “too serious” about our studies when it was becoming fashionable with our classmates to learn acceptable social behaviors. We said little at school, but she would come to my house and we would sit down with pencils and paper, and one of us would say: “Let’s start with a train whistle today.” We would sit quietly together and write separate poems or stories that grew out of a train whistle. Then we would read them aloud. At the end of that school year, we, too, were changed into social creatures and the stories and poems stopped.

　 When I lived for a time in London, I had a friend.He was in despair(失望)and I was in despair. But our friendship was based on the idea in each of us that we would be sorry later if we did not explore this great city because we had felt bad at the time. We met every Sunday for five weeks and found many excellent things. We walked until our despairs disappeared and then we parted. We gave London to each other.

　　 For almost four years I have had a remarkable friend whose imagination illuminates mine. We write long letters in which we often discover our strangest selves. Each of us appears, sometimes in a funny way, in the other’s dreams. She and I agree that, at certain times, we seem to be parts of the same mind. In my most interesting moments, I often think: “ Yes, I must tell….”We have never met.

　　 It is such comforting companions I wish to keep. One bright hour with their kind is worth more to me than the lifetime services of a psychologist(心理学家)，who will only fill up the healing(愈合的)silence necessary to those darkest moments in which I would rather be my own best friend.

64. Hamilton is expected to _______.

A. show more kindness　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. discontinue the present practice

C. quit being the organizer for gift giving　　　　　 D. know more about co-workers’ families

63. The underlined word “contributions” probably means ________.

A. money　 　　　　　　　　 B. suggestions　 　　　　　 C. reports　　 　　　　　　　　　　 D. understanding

75．The writer seems to believe that Asian governments should＿＿＿．

A．let women stay at home and have a baby

B．allow only one of the parents to go out to work

C．care for the growing needs of women for jobs

D．punish the companies that permit women to leave

答案　 72.A　 73.D　 74.D　 75.C

Passage 31

(08·北京C篇)

Dear Hamilton,

　　 We are fortunate that in such a large, high-pressure office we all get along so well. You are one of the people who keep the social temperature at such a comfortable setting. I don’t know anyone in the office who is better liked than you.

　　 You can perhaps help with this. The collection of contributions towards gifts for employees’ personal-life events is becoming a little troubling. Certainly, the group sending of a gift is reasonable now and then. In the past month, however, there have been collections for two baby shower gifts, one wedding shower gift, two wedding gifts, one funeral(葬礼)remembrance, four birthday gifts, and three graduation gifts.

　 It’s not only the collected-from who are growing uncomfortable (and poor), but the collected-for feel uneasy receiving gifts from people who don’t know them outside the office, who wouldn’t even recognize their graduating children, their marrying daughters and sons, or their dead relatives.

　　 This is basically a kind gesture (and one that people think well of you for), but the practice seems to have become too wide-ranging and feels improper in today’s office setting.

　　 Thank you for understanding.