Self-employed private physicians who charge a fee for each patient visit are the foundation of medical practice in the United States. Most physicians have a contract relationship with one or more hospitals in the community. They send their patients to this hospital, which usually charges patients according to the number of days they stay and the facilities(operating room, tests, medicines that they use). Some hospitals belong to a city, a state or, in the case of veteran's hospitals, a federal government agency. Others are operated by religious orders(教会) or other non-profit groups.

Some medical doctors are on salary. Salaried physicians may work as hospital staff members, or residents, who are often still in training. They may teach in medical schools, be hired by corporations to care for their workers or work for the federal government's Public Health Service.

Physicians are among the best paid professionals in the United States. In the 1980s, it was not uncommon for medical doctors to earn incomes of more than $ 100,000 a year. Specialists, particularly surgeons, might earn several times that amount. Physicians list many reasons why they deserve to be so well rewarded for their work. One reason is the long and expensive preparation required to become a physician in the United States. Most would-be physicians first attend college for four years, which can cost nearly $ 20,000 a year at one of the best private institutions. Prospective physicians then attend medical school for four years. Tuition alone can exceed $ 10,000 a year. By the time they have obtained their medical degrees, many young physicians are deeply in debt. They still face three to five years of residency(实习阶段) in a hospital, the first year as an apprentice physician. The hours are long and the pay is relatively low.

Setting up a medical practice is expensive, too. Sometimes several physicians will decide to establish a group practice, so they can share the expense of maintaining an office and buying equipment. These physicians also take care of each other's patients in emergencies.

Physicians work long hours and must accept a great deal of responsibility. Many medical procedures, even quite routine ones, involve risk. It is understandable that physicians want to be well rewarded for making decisions which can mean the difference between life and death.

51. According to the passage, it is very unlikely that an American hospital is owned by _______.

A. a church       B. a corporation    C. a city                 D. a state

52. The expenses for becoming a doctor are spent on _______.

A. setting up a medical practice           B. practice in a hospital

C. facilities he or she uses                D. education he or she receives

53. According to the passage, how long does it take for a would-be physician to become an independent physician in the USA?

A. About seven years.                  B. About eight years.

C. About ten years.                      D. About twelve years.

54. Sometimes several physicians set up a group medical practice mainly because __.

A. there are so many patients that it is difficult for one physician to take care all of them

B. they can take turns to work long hours

C. facilities may be too much of a burden for one physician to shoulder

D. no one wants to assume too much responsibility

55. Which of the following statements could fully express the author's view towards physicians’ payment in the USA?

A. For their expensive education and their responsibility, they deserve a handsome pay.

B. It is reasonable for physicians to have a large income because their work is very dangerous.

C. Physicians should be better paid because they work long hours under bad conditions.

D. Physicians have great responsibility, so it is understandable that they should be well rewarded.

— Have you thought of a theme for your poster yet?

   — No, I ______ a lot about it, but I haven’t decided.

   A. will think           B. have been thinking          C. had thought      D. was thinking

I would like a new job which pays more, but ______ I enjoy the work I’m doing at the moment.

   A. in other words     B. on the other hand    C. for one thing   D. as a matter of fact

Lang Lang is a famous young pianist from Shenyang. He went to a ___16___ school in Beijing when he was just eight years old. “You need fortune, but if you don’t work hard, no fortune will come,” his father said.

What made him sad was ___17___ his piano teacher in Beijing didn’t like him. “You don’t have a ___18___ for playing the piano. You will never be a pianist.”  As a nine-year-old boy, Lang Lang was badly ___19___. He didn’t want to be a ___20___ any more. For the next two weeks he didn’t touch the piano. ___21___, his father didn’t say anything about it. He waited.

Luckily, the day came when his teacher asked him to ___22___ some holiday songs. He didn’t want to, but as he placed his fingers on the piano keys, he ___23___ that he could show others that he had talent. That day he told his father that he wanted to study with a new ___24___. His father had been waiting to the very words for ____25_____ . From that day on, everything turned around.

He started win competitions（比赛）. In the 1994 International Young Pianists Competition, when it was ___26___ that Lang Lang had won the first prize, he was too ___27___ to hold back his tears. From 1997 to 1999, Lang Lang spent two years practicing hard in Philadelphia, U.S.. In 1999 he gave a ___28___ performance at Chicago’s Ravinia Festival. He was invited to play at gigs（特邀演出）in Lincoln Center ___29___. Lang Lang finally managed to win ___30___ with his self-confidence and hard work..

16. A. football    B. piano    C. middle    D. actors

17. A. whether    B. why    C. when    D. that

18. A. story    B. picture    C. idea    D. talent

19. A. hurt    B. puzzled     C. encouraged    D. terrified

20. A. singer     B. pianist    C. dancer    D. athlete

21. A. So    B. Because    C. However     D. If

22. A. play    B. sing     C. write    D. make

23. A. apologized    B. told a lie    C. chatted    D. realized

24. A. teacher    B. classmate    C. minister    D. waiter

25. A. two years    B. two weeks    C. two months    D. two hours

26. A. told    B. shouted    C. announced    D. smiled

27. A. excited    B. sad    C. shocked    D. satisfied

28. A. successful    B. cheerful    C. respectful    D. meaningful

29. A. eastwards    B. towards    C. upwards    D. afterwards

30. A. food    B. fortune    C. knowledge    D. money

"A survey was conducted in Shanghai where interviewees were asked if they wanted to be a factory worker. One percent of all people interviewed said “YES," Wang Hongjun, a technician, said, raising his voice for dramatic effect. "But I can tell you, only a small part of that 1 percent are telling the truth."

I've met colorful people like Wang all over China. They are cynical (玩世不恭的) yet warmhearted, plain spoken but smart. And many of them are confined (局限于) to work in factories.

Wang is a top technician but also represents manual factory workers, who are China's most important natural resource. Their energy is powering China's economic boom, and their muscle is turning the wheel of the world's factory.

But does their unskilled labor give their life meaning? At school, did they tell their friends: "When I grow up I want to work in a factory making socks?" Did you?

Factory work has always been a stepping-stone from farm life to the city and a modern life. It's been happening for centuries, but today, with our space-age technology, it's outdated. Earning 1,200 yuan ($169) per month working in a factory is better than that on a farm, but as Wang points out, it's not a dream career. There should be better ways to earn your rice.

Many modern factories no longer have production line workers. Robots do the assembly (装配). People just do the monitoring. In this age of technology, in which China is now working smarter and not just harder, why are people still standing in production lines?

But life is cheap in China. So why not continue to exploit the low-cost labor situation and keep the economy growing fast, some entrepreneurs may ask.

But have these businessmen ever labored in a factory?

How many people surveyed really like to be factory workers?    

A. One percent                          B. Only a small part

C. Only a small part of that one percent        D. The writer didn’t mention it. 

Which is NOT the writer's opinion of factory workers?

   A. cynical               B. unimportant

C. warmhearted         D. plain spoken

Wang Hongjun is a person who is         .   

A. difficult to get along with

B. humorous but serious

C. cynical but warmhearted, plain spoken but smart

D. full of energy but doesn't want to work hard

Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage? 

A. Factory workers make contributions to China's economic boom.

B. Working in a factory is better than that on a farm.

C. Factory workers are satisfied with their living conditions.

D. Some entrepreneurs exploited the low-cost labor situation.

The writer uses          to begin the passage.  

A. a lot of figures B. many examples

C. some dialogue    D. the result of a survey  

A．You and Me, Baby

B．Ruff! Ruff! Where's Scruff?

C．The Giving Tree

D．Where the Wild Things Are

64．Little Tom who likes to read picture books with a hide-and-seek adventure will be likely to buy _____．

      A．Ruff! Ruff! Where’s Scruff? B．You and Me, Baby    

       C．The Giving Tree                     D．Where the Wild Things Are

65．How much will you pay if you order three books named Where the Wild Things Are?

       A．$16．26       B$ 75          C．$ 50．58            D．$34．59

66．Which of the following is not true according to the passage?

       A．The language of four kinds of books is English．

       B．Four kinds of books are available at present．

       C．The cover of four kinds of books is hardcover．

      D．The reading level of four kinds of books are the same．

67．Where would this advertisement probably appear?

      A．In a children’s story-book              B．On the front page of a newspaper．

      C．On the Internet．                D．In a popular magazine．．

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Dear Mr. Smith,

How are you! I’m very happy to write this letter to you.                  76．      

I r      the admission notice to Beijing University last                  77．      

W      . As you know, my major is Foreign Language Literature.         78．      

       I have been dreaming about. Mr. Smith, I still remember            79．      

The first day when you began to teach us. When a     to introduce         80．      

Ourselves, we were quite nervous, b      we were poor at listening        81．      

And speaking. However, you patiently        （鼓励） us to practice 82．      

As much as possible. Your class was so        （生动）that all of        83．      

Us were interested. With your        I improved my English step         84．      

       step；otherwise, in NMET I wouldn’t have got a satisfactory             85．      

result. Mr. Smith, thank you very much indeed.       I miss you!         86．      

Hope to see you soon!

Tom had prepared carefully for his driving test so that he could be sure of passing it on his first        .

A. attention               B. expectation                             C. attempt                         D. desire

There aren’t many seats left for the play; you had better make sure that you        two today.

         A．get     B．will get       C．are getting         D．will have got

     Taste is such a subjective matter that we don’t usually conduct preference tests for food. The most you can say about anyone’s preference, is that it’s one person’s opinion. But because the two big cola  companies—Coca-Cola and Pepsi Cola--- are marketed so aggressively, we’ve wondered how big a role taste preference actually plays in brand loyalty. We set up a taste test that challenged people who identified themselves as either Coca-Cola or Pepsi fans: Find your brand in a blind tasting.

We invited staff volunteers who had a strong liking for either Coca-Cola Classic (传统型) or Pepsi, Diet (低糖的) Coke, or Diet Pepsi. These were people who thought they’d have no trouble telling their brand from the other brand.

We eventually located 19 regular cola drinkers and 27 diet cola drinkers. Then we fed them four unidentified samples of cola one at a time, regular colas for the one group, diet versions for the other. We asked them to tell us whether each sample was Coke or Pepsi; then we analyzed the records statistically to compare the participants’ choices with what mere guess-work could have accomplished.

Getting all four samples right was a tough test, but not too tough, we thought, for people who believed they could recognize their brand. In the end, only 7 out of 19 regular cola drinkers correctly identified their brand of choice in all four trials. The diet-cola drinkers did a little worse-only 7 of 27 identified all four samples correctly.

Both groups did better than chance would predict,but nearly half the participants in each group made the wrong choice two or more times. Two people go all four samples wrong. Overall, half the participants did about as well on the last round of tasting as on the first, so tiredness, or taste burnout, was not a factor. Our preference test results suggest that only a few Pepsi participants and Coke fans may really be able to tell their favorite brand by taste and price.

67.   According to the passage the preference test was conducted in order to ________.

A.show that a person’s opinion about taste is mere guesswork

B.compare the ability of the participants in choosing their drinks（A）

C. find out the role taste preference plays in a person’s drinking

D.reveal which cola is more to the liking of the drinkers

68.   The statistics recorded in the preference tests show that________.

A. there is not much difference in taste between Coca-Cola and Pepsi

B. few people had trouble telling Coca-Cola from Pepsi

C. people’s tastes differ from one another

D. Coca-Cola and Pepsi are people’s two most favorite drinks

69.   It is implied in the first paragraph that ________.

A. the competition between the two colas is very strong

B. blind tasting is necessary for identifying fans

C.  the purpose of taste tests is to promote the sale of colas

D. the improvement of quality is the chief concern of the two cola companies

70.   The author’s purpose in writing this passage is to ________.

A. emphasize that taste and price are closely related to each other

B. recommend that blind tasting be introduced in the quality control of colas

C. show that taste preference is highly subjective

D. argue that taste testing is an important marketing strategy