70. What can we conclude from the text?　

A. Most people believe we think in symbols. 　

B.Loving our own writing is scientifically reasonable. 　

C.The writers and critics can never reach an agreement. 　

D.Thinking and writing are different stages of mind at work. 　

答案　 68.C　 69.A　 70.D

Passage 10

(09·全国ⅡD篇)

The American newspaper has been around for about three hundred years. In 1721, the printer James Franklin. Benjamin's older brother, started the New England Courant, and that was what we might recognize today as a real newspaper. He filled his paper with stories of adventure, articles on art, on famous people, and on all sorts of political subjects. 　

Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's Courant. few believe that newspapers in their present printed form will remain alive for long Newspaper complies are losing advertisers (广告商), readers, market value. and. in some cases, their sense of purpose at a speed that would not have been imaginable just several years ago The chief editor (主编) of the times said recently, "At places where they gather, editors ask one another, 'How are you?', as if they have just come out of the hospital or a lost law came. “An article about the newspaper appeared on the website of the Guardian, under the headline “NOT DEAD YET.”　

perhaps not, but the rise of the Internet which has made the daily newspaper look slow and out of step with the world, has brought about a real sense of death. Some American newspapers have lost 42% of their market value in the past thee years The New York Times Company has　 seen its stock (股票) drop by 54% since the end of 2004, with much of the loss coming in the past year A manager at Deutsche Bank suggested that stock-holders sell off their Times stock The Washington Post Comply has prevented the trouble only by changing part of its business to education its testing and test-preparation service now brings in at least half the company's income. 　

69. What do people generally believe about the way human minds work?　

A. People think in words and sentences. 　

B.Human ideas are translated into symbols　

C. People think by connecting threads of ideas. 　

D.Human thoughts are expressed through pictures. 　

68. What do we learn from the text about those famous writers?　

A.They often regret writing poor works　

B.Some of them write surprisingly much. 　

C.Many of them hate reading their own works　

D.They are happy to review the publishers’ opinions. 　

63. How does eBay make money from its website7?　

A. By bringing callers together. 　

B. By charging for each sale　

C. By listing items online　

D. By making e-photos. 　

答案　 60.A　 61.A　 62.D　 63.B

Passage 9

(09·辽宁D篇)

It is true that good writers rewrite and rewrite and then rewrite some more. But in order to work up the desire to rewrite, it is important to learn to like what you write at the early stage. 　

I am surprised at the number of famous writers I know who say that they so dislike reading their own writing later that they even hate to look over the publishers’ opinions. One reason we may dislike reading our own work is that we’re often disappointed that the rich ideas in our minds seem very thin and plain when first written down. Jerry Fodor and Steven Pinker suggest that this fact may be a result of how our minds work. . 　

Different from popular belief ,we do not usually think in the works and sentences of ordinary language but in symbols for ideas (known as “mentalese”), and writing our ideas down is an act of translation from that symbolic language . But while mentalese contains our　 thoughts in the form of a complex tapestry (织锦)，writing can only be composed one thread at a time . Therefore it should not be surprising that our first attempt at expressing ideas should look so simple. It is only by repeatedly rewriting that we produces new threads and connect them to get closer to the ideas formed in our minds. 　

When people write as if some strict critics (批评家) are looking over their shoulder , they are so worried about what this critic might say that they get stuck before they even start. Peter Elbow makes an excellent suggestion to deal with this problem. When writing we should have two different minds. At the first stage, we should see every idea, as well as the words we use to express it ,as wonderful and worth putting down . It is only during rewrites that we should examine what we excitedly wrote in the first stage and check for weaknesses. 　

62. From “he has never looked back “in Paragraph 2 we learn that peter_　

A. did not feel lonely　

B. was always hopeful　

C. did not think about the past　

D. became more and more successful　

61. Why did Peter create eBay after graduating from university?　

A. For fun　

B. To make money　

C. For gathering the engineers　

D. To fulfill a task of his company　

60. We learn from the text that eBay provides people with__　

A. a way of buying and selling goods　

B. a website for them to upgrade　

C. a place to exhibit their own photos　

D. a chance to buy things at low prices　

75. Historians have always considered Zhang Qian’s mission important because they believe　　　　　　 .

A. be brought back knowledge of Rome to the emperor

B. be discovered the Silk Road

C. be helped establish East-West trade

D. be travelled as far as Afghanistan

答案　 72.D　 73.B　 74.A　 75.C

Passage 8

(09·辽宁B篇)

What is Bay? The simple answer is that it is a global trading platform where nearly anyone can trade practically anything. People can sell and buy all kinds of products and goods. Including cars, movies and DVDs, sporting goods, travel tickets, musical instruments, clothes and shoes- the list goes on and on　

The idea came from Peter Omidyar, who was born in Paris and moved to Washington when he was still a child, At high school, be became very interested in computer programming and after graduating from Tuft University in 1988, He worked for the next few years as a computer engineer. In his free time he started Bay as a kind of hobby, at first offering the service free by word of mouth. By 1996 there was so much traffic on the website that he had to upgrade(升级) and he began charging a fee to members. Joined by a friend, Peter Skill. and in 1998 by his capable CEO, Meg Whitman, he has never looked back. . Even in the great. com crashes of the late 1990s,abay has gone from strength to strength ,. It is now one of the ten most visited online shopping websites on the Internet　

eBay sells connections, not goods, putting buyer and seller into contact with each other. All you have to do is lake an e-photo, write a description, fill out a sales form and you are in business: the world is your market place. Of course for each item (商品)sold eBay gets a percentage and that is great deal of money. Every day there are more than sixteen million items listed on eBay and eighty percent of the items are sold　

74. Until recently most historians believed that trade along the Silk Road　　　　 .

A. originated in the 2^nd century BC

B. extended human migration into eastern Asia

C. began a million years ago

D. primarily benefited the Egyptians

73. The silk thread found in the hair of an Egyptian mummy suggests that　　　　　 .

A. Egyptians had probably travelled to China to buy silk

B. trade along the Silk Road began earlier than once thought

C. historical research often achieves fascinating results

D. new light can now be thrown on ancient trading practices