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In some countries where
racial prejudice is acute, violence has so come to be taken for granted as a
means of solving differences that it is not even questioned. There are
countries where the white man imposes his rule by brute force; there are
countries where the black man protests by setting fire to cities. Important
people on both sides, who would in other respects appear to be reasonable men,
get up and calmly argue in favor of violence--- as if it were a legitimate
solution, like any other. What is really frightening, what really fills you
with despair, is the realization that when it comes to the crunch(关键时刻), we have made no actual
progress at all. We may wear collars and ties instead of war-paint, but our
instinct remain basically unchanged. The whole of the recorded history of the
human race, that tedious documentation of violence, has taught us absolutely
nothing. We have still not learned that violence never solves a problem but makes
it even acute. The sheer horror, the bloodshed(流血),
the suffering mean nothing. No solution ever comes to light the morning after
when we dismally contemplate the smoking ruins and wonder what hit us.
The truly reasonable men
who know where the solutions lie are finding it harder and harder to get a hearing.
They are despised, mistrusted and even persuaded by their own kind because they
advocate such apparently outrageous things as law enforcement(执行). If half the energy that goes
into violent acts were put to good use, if our efforts were directed at cleaning
up the slums and ghettos, at improving living standards and providing education
and employment for all, we would have gone a long way to arriving at a
solution. Our strength is sapped by having to mop up the mess that violence
leaves in its wake. In a well-directed effort, it would not be impossible to
fulfill the ideals of a stable social programme. The
benefits that can be derived from constructive solutions are everywhere
apparent in the world around us. Genuine and lasting solutions are always possible,
providing we work within the framework of the law.
72. What is the best
title for this passage?
A. Advocating
Violence.
B. Violence Can Do
Nothing to Diminish Race Prejudice
C. Violence as a
Legitimate Solution
D. Violence: The Instinct
of Human Race
73. Recorded history has
taught us __________.
A. violence never solves
anything B. nothing
C. the bloodshed means
nothing D.
everything
74. It can be inferred
that truly reasonable men ________.
A. can’t get a
hearing B. are looked down
upon
C. are persecuted D. have
difficulty in advocating law enforcement
75. According to the
author, the best way to solve race prejudice is ________.
A. law enforcement B. knowledge C. nonviolence D. mopping up the violent mess
Section C
Directions: Read the
following text and choose the most suitable heading from the list A-F for each
paragraph. There is one extra heading which you do not need.
A. The Decade of
Internet Revolution
B. The Era of National
Misfortune
C. The Era of Misplaced
Anxiety
D. The Decade of Great
Feats
E. The Decade of Youth
Heroism in Distress
F. The Decade of Great
Imbalances
The first decade of the
new millennium has come to an end. It’s become a sort of habit to give a
representative name to each decade, so, once again, an effort is under way to
find a term to fit the years from 2000 to 2009.
80. __________
That shouldn’t be too
hard a job for us here in China.
First, no country has seen economic growth in the last decade like this. The
economy quadrupled, with almost double-digit annual growth, and GDP went from
No.6 to No.3. It’s now only slight below that of Japan, and many are saying that it
will only be another year or two before we have the world’s second largest
economy. In addition, in 2008, China
was host to the Olympics, possibly the best organized and hosted Games over,
and that impressed the world and boosted Chinese confidence.
81. _________
The economy developed at
a breakneck pace, and personal wealth mushroomed--- for many, anyway. Salaries
multiplied, stock market investment and real estate were a bubble, then burst,
then became a bubble again. China
now has one of the largest collections of millionaires and billionaires in the
world, and has helped keep the world’s luxury products industry from going
under. Meanwhile, the earnings gap has widened in an unprecedented way.
Millions are still living near the poverty line and the urban poor has become
an obvious problem.
82. _________
Yet, how could we think
of the changes without including the Internet? If one thing can be credited
with making the most changes in people’s lives, it should be the World Wide
Web. We learned to use e-mail, chatrooms, and BBS at
the beginning of the decade, and, after witnessing one dotcom burst, it’s time
for the second Internet entrepreneurial wave. This time, however, it’s in the
form of social networking sites like Facebook,
Twitter, and Kaixin, as well as video-sites like Youtube and Tudou.
83. __________
Oh, and who could forget
the many misfortunes, and the tragedies, that befell China in the last 10
years: mining accidents that killed dozens at a time, a public health crisis
like SARS, or the disastrous Wenchuan earthquake that
destroyed towns and thousands of family. We seem to have a disproportionate
share of tragic things happening here. At the same time, the Chinese,
especially younger ones, have shown
an amazing ability to recover from these disasters and be stronger and more
unified. Millions of young volunteers poured into Sichuan to offer their help, as they did in
other emergencies.
84. ___________
The West has a generally
darker view of this past decade. One of The New York Times articles in
mid-November said that, in thinking about a name from the American point of
view, it seems difficult to find the right expression for so much upheaval,
change, and worry: the Y2K millennium bug, which never caused much damage and
chaos, the alleged weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, which were never found;
and so on. The United
State launched two wars
after 9/11, but never realized that the real threat to American interests lay
in its own economy and finances until the sub-prime crisis, erupted in 2007.
Others find it an almost
impossible job to name the decade, saying it will take many years to name the
2000s because it will take many years to figure out what we feel that we lost
during that period.
SectionD
Directions: Read the
passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in NO
MORE THAN 25 WORDS.
As skies fill with
millions of migrating birds, European scientists say the seasonal miracle
appears to depend on a seeming contradiction: The fatter the bird, the more
efficiently it flies. The results of their study contradict a central theory of
aerodynamics(空气动力学),
which predicts that the power needed to fly increases with weight.
For birds, apparently,
the cost of flying with heavy fuel loads is considerably smaller than
previously thought. Researchers found that red knot wading birds double their
normal body weight of 100 grams before making their twice-a-year, nonstop
commute between the British Isles and the
Russian Arctic. Distance: 5,000 kilometres.
Another study in the
journal Nature measured the benefits of flying in an aerodynamic V formation,
which allows birds to save energy by gliding in the lead bird’s air stream.
Flying in formation,
their heart rates were as much as 14.5 per cent lower than flying solo,
according to Henri Wimerskirch, a French scientist.
The findings help explain how birds complete difficult migrations. Researchers
had assumed that thinner, more athletic birds would have the best chance of
survival.
The first study suggests
that building up fat deposits to be burned as fuel during the migration is
worth more than the energy it takes to carry the additional weight. Heavier
birds apparently use their muscles more efficiently.
In the study,
researchers said their team studied the birds flown at different body masses
during 28 simulated flights. They were injected with a small amount of water
containing a radioactive element that enabled the team to measure the amount of
energy burned.
85. How much will a red
knot wading bird probably weigh before making its nonstop migrating flight?
86. The additional
weight gained before the flight won’t increase the powered needed to fly; on
the contrary, it works as _____________________.
87. How did scientists
successfully conduct the first study?
88. We can infer from
the studies on fat deposits and V formation flying that both factors _____________________________.
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