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The trees arrived by post, a half-open parcel. They were thin and straight, rather like arrows but with shiny leaves at one end and muddy roots at the other. Terry and his father took them down the garden and planted them in their prepared places. Terry had great hopes of the middle tree, now set in the memorial spot where Herry, his cat, run over, had been laid to rest a year before. The pine trees made an avenue down one side of the garden, where there was already a fifteen-foot stone wall between the garden and the back-yards of the Jenkins Street houses.

“Why do we want a row of trees as well as a wall?”Terry asked his father.

His father said,“For privacy. These trees grow very thickly.”

His father's love of privacy often puzzled Terry, who was not one to keep himself to himself, but he could see part of the point here. The houses in Jenkins Street were on higher ground. His friend Leslie lived in number twelve, and Leslie had only to stand on a box to see right over the wall.

“Will the trees grow higher than the wall?” Terry asked then.

“Oh yes, twice as high if not more. It'll take a few years but they'll grow.”

So they were going to have nine trees thirty feet tall, to keep them from being overlooked. Terry wondered why this was so desirable. He said, “Our garden is very pretty. Why can't we let the people over the wall see it? That wouldn't be showing off, would it?”

“No, I don't think it would be,” his father said. “Yet some people might feel a bit less happy if they can always see a good thing that isn't theirs. We don't want to be the cause of any jealousy if we can help it.”

This consideration for other people's feelings must be a grown-up thing, Terry thought. It was not his idea of how to run things. He said, “These trees? It seems a lot of trouble to go just to stop people being jealous of us.”

His father looked at him. “It isn't much trouble, Terry,” he said. “These trees will grow without help from us. They'll be beautiful. And listen to them. You can already hear them whispering to us in the wind.”

(1) The passage mainly deals with the topic of ________.

[　　]

A．protection of environment

B．relationship between neighbours

C．generation gap

D．cause of jealousy

(2) Part of the garden is called a memorial spot because ________.

[　　]

A．a cat was buried there

B．Herry had been run over there

C．Terry's own tree was planted there

D．it was in front of Leslie's house

(3) The word “privacy” in the third paragraph most probably means “________”.

[　　]

A．to keep away from thieves

B．to avoid being disturbed

C．to keep the air fresh

D．to avoid being polluted

(4) Terry's father was a man who ________.

[　　]

A．was proud of his garden and liked showing it off

B．was very sociable towards his neighbours

C．preferred to keep himself to himself

D．felt jealous of the people in Jenkins street

(5) What did Terry not approve of?

[　　]

A．Letting outsiders see the garden.

B．The height of the houses in Jenkins Street.

C．The way Leslie managed to look over the wall.

D．His father's concern for other people's feelings.

　　Time spent in a bookshop can be most enjoyable, whether you are a book-lover or merely you are there to buy a book as a present. You may even have entered the shop just to find shelter from a sudden shower. Whatever the reason, you can soon become totally unaware of your surroundings. The desire to pick up a book with an attractive dust-jacket is irresistible , although this method of selection ought not to be followed, as you might end up with a rather dull book. You soon become engrossed in some book or other, and usually it is only much later that you realize you have spent far too much time there and must dash off to keep some forgotten appointment—without buying a book, of course.

　　This opportunity to escape the realities of everyday life is, I think, the main attraction of a bookshop. There are not many places where it is possible to do this. A music shop is very much like a bookshop. You can wander round such places to your heart's content. If it is a good shop. no assistant will approach you with inevitable greeting:“Can I help you, sir?”You needn't buy anything you don't want. In a bookshop an assistant should remain in the background until you have finished browsing. Then, and only then, are his services necessary. Of course you may want to find out where a particular section is, but when he has led you there, the assistant should retire carefully and look as if he is not interested in selling a single book.

　　You have to be careful not to be attracted by the variety of books in a book shop .It is very easy to enter the shop looking for a book on ancient coins and to come out carrying a copy of the latest best selling novel and perhaps a book about brass-rubbing-something that had only vaguely interested you up until then. This volume on the subject, however, happened to be so well illustrated and the part of text you read proved so interesting that you just had to buy it. This sort of thing can be very dangerous. Apart from running up a huge account, you can waste a great deal of time wandering from section to section.

(1) “Dust-jacket”in the first paragraph probably means“________”.

[　　]

A．a kind of clothes

B．protecting paper cover of a book

C．book cover full of dust

D．title of a book

(2) You may spend too much time in a book shop because ________.

[　　]

A．the dust-jackets of some books are very attractive

B．you start reading one of the books

C．it keeps raining outside

D．you have to make sure you don't buy a dull book as a present

(3) In a good bookshop ________.

[　　]

A．nobody takes any notice of you

B．the assistant greets you in a friendly way

C．you feel as if you are in a music shop

D．you find yourself satisfied with browsing

(4) An assistant's help is needed ________.

[　　]

A．as soon as you have entered the shop

B．before you start browsing

C．only when you have finished browsing

D．when you have determined your choice

(5) Picking up books that vaguely interest you can be dangerous because ________.

[　　]

A．you may forget about the book you plan to buy

B．you have to give up the best-selling book

C．in makes you break your appointment

D．it costs you too much money and time

　　There are two basic differences between large and the small enterprise. In the small enterprise you operate primarily through personal contacts. In the large enterprise you have established“policies”,“channels”of organization, and fairly rigid procedures. In the small enterprise you have, moreover, immediate effectiveness in a very small area. You can see the effect of your work and of your decisions right away, once you are a little above the ground floor. In the large enterprise even the man at the top is only a cog(嵌齿) in a big machine. To be sure, his actions affect a much greater area than the actions and decisions of the man in the small organization, but his effectiveness is remote, indirect, and difficult to see at first sight. In a small and even in a middle-sized business you are normally exposed to all kinds of experiences, and expected to do a great many things without too much help or guidance. In the large organization you are normally taught one thing thoroughly. In the small one the danger is of becoming a jack-of-all-trades and master of none. In the large one it is of becoming them an who knows more and more about less and less.

　　There is one other important thing to consider: do you derive a deep sense of satisfaction from being a member of a well-known organization-General Motors, the Bell Telephone System, the government? Or is it more important to you to be a well-known and important figure within your own small pond? There is a basic difference between the satisfaction that comes from being a member of a large, powerful, and generally known organization, and the one that come from being a member of a family; between impersonal grandeur(伟大) and personal-often much too personal-intimacy(亲密); between life in a small office on the top floor of a skyscraper and life in a crossroads gas station.

(1) In a large enterprise, ________.

[　　]

A．new technology is employed quickly

B．all people work efficiently

C．one's effectiveness is felt very slowly

D．one can get promotion easily

(2) In the first paragraph, a “jack-of-all-trades”means“________”.

[　　]

A．a person who is very capable as a businessman

B．a person who is very capable as a businessman

C．a person who knows a little bit of everything

D．a person who is very knowledgeable about trade

(3) We can conclude from the first paragraph that the writer ________.

[　　]

A．prefers to work for a large enterprise

B．does not mention his own preference

C．prefers to work for a small enterprise

D．is against anything that goes to its extreme

(4) In the second paragraph, the contrast between the organization and the family is employed to show ________.

[　　]

A．how necessary a deep sense of satisfaction is

B．what satisfaction means to different types of people

C．how families may differ from one another

D．what large enterprises can offer to ordinary families

(5) It seems that the writer ________.

[　　]

A．is giving advice to applicants for jobs

B．is commenting on the country's industry

C．has written the passage from an economist's view

D．has been working for many enterprises

　　A British sociologist has advanced the theory that many working-class children are unsuccessful at school because of the nature of their language. They use what he terms a “restricted” code of speech, whereas most teachers use an“elaborated” code, which is familiar to middle-class children.

　　Working-class language is a language of personal experience and direct command, rather than rationalization and distinction between subtleties. In school, however, the latter abilities are demanded of children. Middle-class children, who have been brought up in such a way as to enable them to respond to argument and reasoning, are able to cope with the classroom situation much better than their teacher's saying.

　　So it seems that working-class children fail to take full advantage of the educational system, not because they are less bright than middle-class children, but because the language of the classroom is alien to them.

(1) How is working-class said to differ from middle-class language?

[　　]

A．Working-class language is poor and limited.

B．Working-class language is not good for children.

C．Working-class language is easy to learn.

D．Working-class language is difficult to understand.

(2) What advantage do middle-class children have over working-class children at school?

[　　]

A．Middle-class children can do much better in the classroom.

B．Middle-class children can't understand what teacher said.

C．Middle-class children are cleverer than working-class children.

D．Teachers care more about middle-class children.

(3) Why is the language of the classroom alien to working-class children?

[　　]

A．Because teachers' language is not easy to learn.

B．Because teachers are middle-class people.

C．Because teachers' language is close to the middle-class language.

D．Because working-class children are less bright.

(4) Why do middle-class children seem to be more intelligent than working-class children?

[　　]

A．Because their parents are more strict with them.

B．Because they have been brought up by their parents.

C．Because working-class children are not working hard.

D．Because they can understand their teachers better.

(5) How might the gap between working-class children and their teachers be narrowed?

[　　]

A．Working-class children should be kept away from their families.

B．Teachers should learn the working-class language.

C．Both the working-class children and their teachers should learn from each other.

D．Working-class parents should receive more education.

　　British tourists going abroad are often advised to drink only boiled or bottled water. The few occasions when I have ignored this have been followed by expensive visits to the doctor's .

　　Now it seems visitors to Britain may soon be given a similar warning. At present, we take for granted our endless supply of fresh, clean tap-water, but this may alter unless farmers can be persuaded to change the fertilizers they use.

　　These fertilizers contain nitrates , which also occur naturally and are essential to life, but are poisonous in excess . It is the farmers who are responsible for the dangerous increase in the amount of nitrates absorbed into our water supply.

　　As it is very different and expensive to remove nitrates from our drinking water, the authorities believe that the nitrates should be prevented from getting into our water in the first place. This, they say, is the farmers' responsibility. While changing farming methods may well reduce the amount of crops we grow, the expense of importing food will probably be less than that of purifying the water.

(1) What warning may visitors to Britain soon be given?

[　　]

A．Please drink boiled or bottled water only .

B．Please don't drink water.

C．Please drink our fresh, clean tap-water.

D．Please follow the doctor's advice .

(2) What does the writer mean by“we take for granted”?

[　　]

A．We are not worried about it .

B．We are trying to use it.

C．We think it is natural and safe to drink tap-water.

D．We don't think it is safe to use tap-water.

(3) When are nitrates dangerous?

[　　]

A．When there are too many nitrates in water.

B．When there are a few in water.

C．When people drink the nitrates absorbed into the water supply .

D．When people drink the water which contains too many nitrates.

(4) What do the authorities claim is the farmers' responsibility?

[　　]

A．Farmers are using the fertilizers which contain nitrates .

B．It is difficult and expensive to remove nitrates from our drinking water.

C．Nitrates should be prevented from getting into the drinking water.

D．Farmers should change their way of farming by stopping using nitrate-containing fertilizers .

(5) Why may farmers reluctant to stop using nitrate-containing fertilizers?

[　　]

A．Because they don't want to import food .

B．Because they can't make enough money .

C．Because they may reduce their agricultural production .

D．Because they may not increase the amount of the nitrates in the water.

　　Doctors estimate that about 40 % of women over thirty in Britain are overweight . This figure may well be misleading as certainly large numbers of overweight people never seek medical advice .

　　Many women are very worried about being overweight . They feel that it shows a lack of will-power or self-control on their part. In addition, fat women do not conform to the modem ideal of beauty exemplified by fashion models and young film stars who are all incredibly thin.

　　Apart from aesthetic reasons, there are strong medical grounds for not overeating. Overweight people are prone to heart disease and are easily tired by physical activity . Losing weight would certainly make them feel healthier and increase their life expectancy .

　　Some women feel guilty about being fat and their guilt is repressed by eating more. It is a vicious circle. On the other hand, there are women who unnecessarily lose weight in order to conform to a model of social acceptability. Some of them end up by starving themselves to death! So perhaps it might be better to try to remove fat people's unhappiness than to try to remove the fat .

(1) Why may doctors underestimate the percentage of overweight women?

[　　]

A．Because large numbers of overweight people never seek medical advice .

B．Because about 40 % of women over thirty in Britain are overweight .

C．Because many women are very worried about being overweight ,

D．Because the number of overweight women is reducing.

(2) Why are many women worried about being overweight?

[　　]

A．Because they feel it wrong to be overweight .

B．Because they feel guilty when others say they are overweight .

C．Because they think fat women are not as beautiful as young film stars .

D．Because they can't control themselves ,

(3)What are the medical advantages of losing weight for fat people?

[　　]

A．It would help people to live a long life .

B．It would make them more happier .

C．It would make them feel healthier and live a happier life .

D．It would make them feel tired .

(4) Explain what the writer means by“a vicious circle” .

[　　]

A．Some women are worried about eating more .

B．Some women are unhappy in order to remove fat .

C．Some women are not healthy in order to lose weight .

D．Most of the women have starved to death .

(5) Why might it be better to try to remove fat people's unhappiness than to try to remove the fat?

[　　]

A．Because eating less can not bring them happiness .

B．Because eating enough food to keep themselves alive is more important .

C．Because they can not lose weight by eating less .

D．Because fat people can also live a happy life.

　　Marriage brings as much happiness as an additional U. S. $ 100 000 in income , two researchers reported last week in a study called “Well-Being in Britain and the U.S. ”.

　　Dartmouth College economist David Blanch flower and colleague, Andrew Oswald from Warwick University in Britain, studied 100 000 people over a 25-year period.

　　They found that the overall level of happiness among Americans has declined in the last 25 years while the level for Britons has remained “relatively flat”, Blanch flower said in a telephone interview .

　　“Women are happier than men, but the gap is closing. Women have more equality now but they are less happy than they were, ”Blanch flower said, attributing the drop to increased pressures and opportunities. “You are more equal, but life is tougher.”

　　Money does buy happiness, but less than is generally thought, Blanch flower noted, saying, “You have to have a lot of money to compensate for a family breakdown. ”

　　When the amount of happiness generated by a lasting marriage was compared to the happiness produced by financial circumstances, the author's statistical calculations showed that a lasting marriage brought as much happiness as an additional U.S. $ 100 000 in annual income .

　　And, the chance of subsequent marriages making people happy were slimmer.

　　“Most people said they were less happy in their second marriage than in their first and being separated is worse than being divorced," he said.

(1) The researchers found that ________.

[　　]

A．Marriage brings an additional U.S. $ 100 000 in income every year.

B．Americans are as happy as the Britons in the last 25 years .

C．Americans are much happier than the Britons .

D．Americans are less happy than the Britons in the last 25 years .

(2)“Women are happier than men, but the gap is closing .”It means“________.”

[　　]

A．Women don't have more freedom and equality now.

B．Women are no longer as happy as they used to be .

C．They are more happy than they were .

D．They have less pressures and opportunities .

(3) According to the passage, a lasting marriage compared to the happiness produced by financial circumstances ________.

[　　]

A．brought U.S. $ 100 000 in all .

B．brought an additional U.S.$ 100 000 in income .

C．is worth U.S.$ 100 000 every year.

D．brought as much happiness as a second marriage did .

(4) Most people said that ________.

[　　]

A．They were less happy now.

B．They were less happy in their first marriage .

C．Being alone is worse than being divorced.

D．Marriage can't bring them happiness.

(5)The passage intends to tell us that ________

[　　]

A．Money can buy happiness .

B．Lasting marriage can be more valuable.

C．An ever lasting marriage can bring people more happiness.

D．Marriage can always bring as much happiness as it is.

　　Millions of people pass through the gates of Disney's entertainment parks in California, Florida and Japan each year. What makes these places an almost universal attraction? What makes foreign kings and queens and other important people want to visit these Disney parks? Well, one reason is the way they' re treated once they get there. The people at Disney go out of their way to serve their“guests”, as they prefer to call them, and to see that they enjoy themselves.

　　All new employees, from vice presidents to part-time workers, begin their employment by attending Disney University and taking “Traditions I”. Here, they learn about the company's history, how it is managed and why it is successful. They are shown how each department relates to the whole. All employees are shown how their part is important in making the park a success.

　　After passing “Traditions I”, the employees go on the more specialized training for their specific(具体的) jobs. No detail is missed. A simple job like taking tickets requires four eight-hour days of training. When one ticket taker was asked why it took so much training for such a simple, ordinary job, he replied, “What happens if someone wants to know where the restrooms are, when the parade starts or what bus to take back to the campgrounds? …We need to know the answers or where to get them quickly. Our constant aim is to help our guests enjoy the party. ”

　　Even Disney's managers get involved in the daily management of the park. Every year, the managers leave their desks and business suits and put on special service clothes. For a full week, the bosses sell hot dogs or ice cream, take tickets or drive the monorail(单轨车) , and take up any of the100 jobs that make the entertainment park come alive. The managers agree that this week helps them to see the company's goals more clearly.

　　All these efforts to serve the public well have made Walt Disney Productions famous. Disney is considered by many as the best mass service provider in America or the world. As one long-time business observer once said, “How Disney treats people, communicates with them, rewards them, is in my view the very reason for his fifty years of success… I have watched, very carefully and with great respect and admiration, the theory and practice of selling satisfaction and serving millions of people on a daily basis, successfully. It is what Disney does best.”

(1)The first day they come to Disney parks, all new employees ________.

[　　]

A．begin by receiving on-the-job training

B．must learn several jobs

C．begin as ticket takers

D．have already attended Disney University

(2)The main objective of the Disney employees is to ________.

[　　]

A．learn ail parts of the business

B．see that their guests enjoy themselves

C．be able to answer all kinds of questions

D．keep their important guests happy

(3)Each year, managers wear special service clothes and work in the park to ________.

[　　]

A．set a good example for employees

B．remind themselves of their beginnings at Disney

C．gain a better view of the company's objectives

D．replace employees on holiday

(4)Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

[　　]

A．Tourists learn the history of Disney in its entertainment parks.

B．Disney attracts people almost from all over the world.

C．Parades are regularly held in Disney's entertainment parks.

D．Disney's managers are able to do almost all kinds of work in the Disney parks.

(5)This passage is mainly about ________.

[　　]

A．how Disney employees are trained

B．the history and traditions of the Disney enterprises

C．why Disney enterprises make a lot of money

D．the importance Disney places on serving people well

　　Time talks. It speaks more plainly (明白地)than words. Time communicates (交流) in many ways.

　　Consider the different parts of the day, for example. The time of the day when something is done can give a special meaning to the event. Factory managers in the United States fully realize the importance of an announcement made during the middle of the morning or afternoon that takes everyone away from his work.

　　In the United States, it is not customary (通常的，习惯的) to telephone someone very early in the morning. If you telephone him early in the day, while he is shaving(刮脸) or having breakfast, the time of the call shows that the matter is very urgent(紧急的) and requires immediate attention. It is the same with telephone calls made after 11:00 p. m. If someone receives a call during sleeping hours, he probably thinks it is a matter of life or death. The time chosen for the call communicates is important.

　　The meanings of time differ in different parts of the world. Thus, misunderstanding arises (出现) between people from cultures(文化) that treat time differently. In the United States, people tend (趋向于) to think of time as something fixed in nature, something from which one can not escape. As a rile, Americans think of time as a road into the future, along which one progresses. The road has many sections(段) , which are to be kept separate…“one thing at a time”. Thus, an American may feel angry when he has made an appointment (约会) with someone and then finds a lot of other things happening at the same time.

　　Americans look ahead and are concerned(与……有关系)almost entirely with the future. The American idea of the future is limited, however. It is the foreseeable future and not the future of involving(牵连) many centuries.

　　Since time has much different meanings in different cultures, communication is often difficult. We will understand each other a little better if we can keep this fact in mind.

(1)According to the passage, an announcement made during the day in a factory must be very important because ________.

[　　]

A．it interrupts the work of all employees

B．it is made by the manager

C．it makes everyone lose his job

D．it communicates in many ways

(2)In the United States, a phone call made after 11:00 p. m. is considered ________, in the view of the writer.

[　　]

A．as important as one made in the morning

B．impolite since it disturbs the receiver's sleep

C．to be a threat (恐吓) to the receiver's life

D．even more urgent than one made early in the morning

(3)An American may feel angry if ________.

[　　]

A．he is to deal with many things at one appointed time

B．people from different cultures misunderstand him

C．he cannot escape from something fixed in nature.

D．others do not keep things separate

(4)The expression “the foreseeable future” could be most suitably replaced by ________.

[　　]

A．the future that will not be far away

B．the future that one looks forward to

C．the future toward which one makes progress

D．the future which involves centuries

(5)The writer concludes that people of different countries will understand each other better if ________.

[　　]

A．they know how to communicate with each other

B．they are concerned with the future

C．they learn the way time communicates

D．they keep in mind that different cultures treat time differently

　　The world's greatest basketball player walked away from the game eighteen months ago. And now he takes to air once again.

　　Mickael Jordan was the greatest player in the basketball game, and after he retired at the top of his game he vowed, “I'm never coming back to play basketball. Not in this lifetime. Never. Unless I change my mind. ” Sometimes in February this year, Jordan did change his mind.

　　For the league, the timing couldn't be better. Without Jordan, ratings for the last season's playoff finals dropped 31 per cent. This season, things have only gotten worse. Despite the coming out of nice new stars like Shaquille O' Neal and Detroit's Grant Hill. The game's image has been riddled (full of something bad) with the cries of spoil sports and dissatisfaction.

　　For the Bulls, the question is whether Jordan is in shape. According to reports, Jordan has in recent months worked out with the same personal trainer he used during his basketball career. And even in his retirement, he occasionally dropped by practice to train with the team. But that still doesn't mean he's in game shape. In workouts last month, Jordan's shot was off, but team-mate says his intensity was there. The Bulls players all say unhesitatingly they want him back.

　　But to another audience, Jordan's career and comeback mean more than baskets and championships and market share. Now all across America, kids in struggling neighborhoods are his family and especially about his relationship with his father, James Jordan, who was murdered in 1993. Out here, to “be like Mike” can mean a lot more than knowing how to handle a basketball.

(1)Which title best gives the idea of the passage?

[　　]

A．Michael Jordan, A Big Star and Hero

B．Basketball in the United States

C．Jordan Is Coming Back to the Court

D．Jordan Changed His Mind

(2)When did Jordan retire from the basketball court?

[　　]

A．He retired eighteen months before he vowed.

B．After his father died, he was too sad to continue playing basketball.

C．After a game, he walked away.

D．When he was the most successful, he retired.