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　　Computer programmer David Jones earned $35, 000 a year designing new computer games, yet he cannot find a bank prepared to let him have a check card. Instead, he has been told to wait another two years until he is 18.

　　He works for a small firm in Liverpool, where most young people of his age are finding jobs. David's biggest headache is what to do with his money. Though he has high payment, he cannot drive a car, or get credit cards.

　　David got his job four months ago, a year after leaving school with six O-levels(普通成绩)and working for a time in a computer shop. “I got the job because the people who run the firm knew I had already written some programs. ”He said.

　　“I suppose $35, 000 sounds a lot but I hope it will cane to more than that this year. ”He spends sane of his money on records and clothes, and gives his mother $20 a week as he lives with his parents. But most of his spare time is spent working. “Unfortunately, computing was not part of our studies at school, ”he said. “But I had been studying it in books and magazines for four years in my spare time. ”I knew what I wanted to do and never considered staying on at school. Most people in this business are fairly young, anyway. 1 would like to earn a million and I suppose early retirement is a possibility. You never know when the market might disappear.

1．David Jones has to wait ________ in all before he can get a credit card.

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A．until 16

B．for more than two yeas

C．for less than two years

D．for no more than two years

2．David is different from other school boys because ________.

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A．he got six 0-levels at school

B．he could write some programs

C．he earns a lot of money now

D．he wants to be a millionaire

3．Which of the following is true?

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A．David enjoyed his school life very much.

B．David took up computing at school.

C．David is satisfied with the money he earns.

D．His interest results in his success.

4．David said“ I never considered staying on at school”. He meant ________.

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A．he should have left school earlier

B．he didn't want to have further studies

C．there was no lessor he wanted to learn at school

D．what was learned at school was useless

5．David wants to retire early, he thinks ________.

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A．he has earned enough money

B．he is unable to design new computer games

C．computer games might not be so popular in future

D．marry young people will do much better than he

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　　Imagine a sports stadium filled with national soccer team colors. They are on flags, on fan's clothing, and even painted on faces and hair. Imagine the roar of the crowd when the ball flies past the goalkeeper to score. Imagine victory parties in streets and restaurants.

　　All this is more than just imagination for nearly a million World Cup ticket holders. Fans have paid between US $300 and US $750 to watch their teams perform all sorts of fancy footwork this month. When it's all over, only one team will become the new world soccer champion.

　　The world has been gearing up for the World Cup for two years. National teams from every continent competed first in their own regions. Then World Cup action kicked off on May 31 in Seoul before a crowd of almost 65, 000.

　　For a whole month, 32 teams will compete. They'll play in 10 cities in Korea and in 10 cities in Japan. On June 30, more than 70, 500 fans will pack Yokohama's International Stadium to watch the best two teams vie for the World Cup trophy.

　　But the playing field isn't the only battleground. Contending for TV rights is just as hard a game. Kirch, a German company, owns the rids. They sold the rights among various South American countries for a total of US $944 million. And the United Kingdom may have paid up to US $240 million(the price was not revealed).

　　So if you're not lucky enough or rich enough to be a ticket holder, just turn on the 1'V. See the colors, hear the roar, watch the footwork, and imagine being there yourself.

1．They in the first paragraph refers to ________.

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A．many football players

B．the teams from all over the world

C．different colors of each team

D．many football fans

2．The competition will last for ________.

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A．two months

B．one month

C．less than one month

D．less than two months

3．The final will be held ________.

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A．in Seoul

B．in Yokohama

C．between Seoul and Yokohama

D．in a unknown stadium

4．From the passage we know ________.

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A．competitions for TV rights is no less fierce than football ones

B．UK has paid $240 million to Germany for TV rights

C．only Germany has got the TV rights

D．Kirch is interested in football

5．Which of the following is right?

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A．It took Japan and Korea two years to get ready for the World Cup.

B．Nearly one million football fans have been waiting for two years.

C．The competitions began two yeas ago in each region.

D．It is the same to enjoy the World Cup by watching TV.

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　　A bill passed by the U. S. Senate(参议院)shows that limiting student visas(签证)may affect the admission of international students at colleges across the nation. The bill was passed with an unanimous(一致) vote by the senate and now awaits President George W. Bush's approval before becoming law. The Congressional measure puts restrictions(限制)on visas to students from Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Sudan and North Korea countries. The bill does not restrict regular immigrants from those countries. The bill was put forward when it was discovered that one of the hijackers(劫机犯)had cane to the U. S. on a student visa. This man, who was not a national of any of the seven countries on the State Department list, never actually arrived on his college campus.

　　John Pearson, Director of the International Center: background checks will be carried out for anyone from these countries. My hope is that there won't be a full-out denial of visas, just the background checks. The objective now is to reach a compromise (折中)whereby students from these countries won't be denied entry if they have undergone and passed sufficient background checks. It is unclear what the final process will be for determining visa issuance to students from the seven countries. There won't be a visa denial for students from these countries, the process will just take longer. I don't like this word-tracking system to report data on all foreign students. If the bill becomes law, universities will be asked to report foreign students not showing up for classes to immigration authorities.

　　John Hennessy, University President: Since several departments accept a number of students from these countries, some of our programs will be significantly weakened if these students can no longer enter the country, The University will offer its support for students already here from these seven countries. We will, of course, try to continue to work with students here to ensure that they will be able to continue their studies.

1．The bill was passed to ________.

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A．refuse international students

B．check the background of international students

C．to turn down students from the seven countries

D．restrict students visas

2．The senate passed the bill with an unanimous vote because of ________.

[　　]

A．too many immigrants

B．Sept. 11th attack

C．too many international students

D．political reasons

3．What is the result of the bill?

[　　]

A．It will become law.

B．It is going to come into effect.

C．It will be denied.

D．The passage doesn't give us definite answer.

4．John Pearson thinks ________.

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A．all the students from the seven countries should not be given background checks

B．all the students from the seven countries should not be turned away

C．universities should report students not turning up for classes to the government

D．the bill is sure to become law

5．From what John Hennessy said, we can infer ________.

[　　]

A．there are some students from the seven countries in his university

B．they will help those students to continue their studies

C．they will suffer some loss if those students no longer cane

D．students from those countries will be sent back home

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　　Harry Potter is becoming more and more popular among children nowadays. Publishers of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, who plan to translate the adventures of the schoolboy wizard into Latin and ancient Greek, think it might help, the Daily Telegraph newspaper reported. Author J. K. Rowling and her publishers Bloomsbury hope the translations will help children overcome the dread of studying the two ancient languages, the newspaper said. “We aren't under any illusions that the Latin and Greek will be best-sellers but we think that it will mean much more fun lessons for anyone studying Latin and Greek, ”said Emma Matthewson, Rowling's editor at Bloomsbury. Peter Needham, who taught Latin and Greek at top boys' school Eton College, was translating the first of Rowling's books “This is going to be a wonderful thing for children. It has got very witty dialogue… ”He was quoted as saying. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is not the first children's book to be translated into Latin. Paddington Bear, Alice in Wonderland and Winnie the Pooh have all had the Latin treatment, the newspaper said.

1．The publishers plan to translate Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone into Latin and ancient Greek in order to ________.

[　　]

A．let children enjoy the witty dialogue

B．help children learn the two languages

C．give children a chance to read original books

D．attract more children to read the book

2．The children's book which has been translated into Latin is ________.

[　　]

A．Alice in Wonderland

B．Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

C．Daily Telegraph

D．All the above

3．Harry Potter and Philosopher's Stone is written by ________.

[　　]

A．J. K. Bowling

B．Bloomsbury

C．Emma Matthewson

D．Peter Needham

4．We can infer from the passage that ________.

[　　]

A．more and more children are learning the two ancient languages

B．the book in Latin will sell very well

C．many children have trouble in learning the two languages

D．the plan will fail in the end

5．The best title for this passage is ________.

[　　]

A．Magic can save a dead language

B．Magic can't save a dead language

C．Can magic save a dead language

D．Harry Potter and Latin

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　　A UFO cult said on Saturday the world's second cloned(克隆)baby had been born to a Dutch woman but cloning experts swiftly dismissed the claim as a baseless stunt. (花招)

　　“A baby girl was born yesterday evening. The baby is healthy and the mother, too. ”Bart Overvliet, head of the Raelian movement's Dutch branch, told Reuters by telephone.

　　The woman was now in the Netherlands with her partner, he said, although he did not know where the birth had actually taken place, or even if it had been in the Netherlands itself.

　　The birth resulted from a procedure by Clonaid, the cloning firm that said it had organized the birth of the first human clone, named Eve, to a 31-year-old American on Tuesday, December 26.

　　But Harry Griffin, head of Britain's Roslin Institute which cloned the fist adult mammal, Dolly the sheep, in 1996, said the group had provided no proof that two cloned babies existed.

　　“There is no mason to believe this is anything other than a long drawn-out publicity stunt, ”he told Reuters.

　　Colnaid's claims have led to widespread doubt among mainstream scientific experts and the company has not yet to provide DNA samples or other evidence to support its claim.

　　Severino Antinori, an Italian fertility doctor involved in separate human cloning projects, said he thought the report of the record clone's birth was as fake as the first.

　　“This news makes me laugh. It's a mystery to me how anybody could believe these people who have no scientific track record. It is an absolute lie. ”He told Reuters.

1．According to the news, the second cloned baby was born ________.

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2．The two cloned baby were born ________.

[　　]

3．The underlined word“fake”means ________.

[　　]

4．What is the attitude of other scientists?

[　　]

A．They laugh at the news

B．They think cloning baby is impossible

C．They want some further evidence

D．They regard it as a joke

5．Which of the following is true?

[　　]

A．the cloned baby named Eve was healthy

B．The cloned sheep was born in Britain

C．The cloning firm promised to give proof

D．Bart Overvliet dismissed the claim

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　　On the back streets of cities and villages in China, doorways are a unique sight for a visitor like me. The doorways that interested me most were in the small lanes, called“hutongs”.

　　In other cities I saw the doorways were different from those in Beijing. In the country villages, farmers have words expressing good luck written on red paper and placed on both sides of their front doorways. This creates a festive atmosphere with a uniquely Chinese flavor. It was the harvest season when I visited. Farmers put wheat straw on the street outside their houses to dry. The straw will later be used to make artwork to sell in the market. The wheat straw leaning on the wall outside the old farmhouses makes a pretty picture of country life. On these back streets, I see people enjoy a peaceful and relaxed life style, different from the fast paced life in the city. I saw some older people playing chess and cards. I saw some tend their birds or other pets and some were just chatting amiably.

　　Most of the houses in back streets are for residents, but some are for businesses or government offices, even restaurants. I cannot say that the people still living there are the ones who are unable to move to a new place. Perhaps it is a life style they prefer, for some residents there drive expensive cars and dress fashionablely.

　　Whith the rapid progress of city development, more people will move into new homes and these hutongs will not be seen in a few years. It is true that in recent years, many houses on these back streets have been pulled down and replaced by modem buildings. It is not easy to renovate the old houses, so it is natural that they are torn down and replaced. In fact in some cities I see that everyone lives in new apartment buildings in residential areas. Hutongs are quickly becoming a part of the past.

1．The writer is probably ________.

[　　]

A．a foreign visitor

B．a Chinese tourist

C．a visitor from Beijing

D．a visitor from London

4．The previous part must be about ________.

[　　]

A．houses in Beijing

B．buildings in China

C．doorways in Beijing

D．doorways in country

3．What is the unique sight for the writer?

[　　]

A．words written on red paper and placed on the front doorways

B．harvest season

C．straw outside the houses

D．a festive atmosphere

4．In the writer's eyes, ________.

[　　]

A．only poor people live in back streets

B．most old people enjoy living in back streets

C．those old houses should be pulled down

D．those old houses should be taken good care of

5．Which of the following is not true?

[　　]

A．The hutongs will become fewer and fewer

B．Doorways are a kind of Chinese culture

C．Hutongs will only exist in Beijing

D．Doorways impress the writer most

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　　The interview has been going on for about twenty minutes and everything seems to be going well. Then, suddenly, the interviewer asks an unexpected question. “Which is more important, law or love?”

　　Job applicants(申请者) in the west increasingly find themselves asked strange questions like this. And the signs are that this is beginning to happen in China. Employers want people who are skilled, enthusiastic(热情的)and devoted. So these are the qualities that any reasonably smart job applicant will try to show no matter what his or her actual feelings are. In response(应答), employers are increasingly using questions which try and show the applicant's true personality.

　　The question in the first paragraph comes from a test called the Kiersey Personality Sorter. It is an attempt to discover how people solve problems, rather than what they know. This is often called aptitude testing(潜能测试).

　　According to Mark Baldwin of Alliance many job applicants in China are finding this type of questions difficult. “When a Chinese person fills out an aptitude test he or she will think there is a right answer and they may well fail because they try to guess what the examiner wants to see. ”

　　This is sometimes called the prisoner's dilemma(窘境). Applicants are trying to act cleverly in their own interest. But they failed because they don't understand what the interviewer is looking for. Remember that in an aptitude testing, the correct answer is always the honest answer.

1．The writer wrote the passage to ________.

[　　]

A．give you a piece of advice on a job interview

B．tell you how to meet a job interview

C．describe an aptitude test

D．advise you how to find a good job

2．Now employers want to hire workers ________.

[　　]

A．who know much more than others

B．who are better skilled than others

C．who are able to solve different problems

D．who will work harder than others

3．According to the writer, in an aptitude testing, Chinese job applicants should ________.

[　　]

A．not tell the truth

B．learn to tell what they really think

C．be more enthusiastic

D．try to find out what the examiner really wants to know

4．From the passage we know that ________.

[　　]

A．job applicants are always asked such questions

B．more Chinese applicants fail to find a job

C．applicants should not act as reasonably as a prisoner

D．aptitude testing is becoming popular the world wide

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　　If it Takes Kate twenty seconds to add 12 and 26, while Terry can do the sum in a quarter of the time on his pocket calculator, how much better grades will Terry get than Kate in the maths exam?

　　Pocket calculators are as cheap to buy as a pair of shoes, and as necessary to thousands of school children as a pencil and an eraser. Schools have tried to limit their use, by allowing them in science lessons, to save time, but by not allowing them to be used in maths classes. When children do their homework, a pocket calculator is a must. Nowadays in Britain, calculators can be used freely in school examinations, and already in many schools the only sound to he heard during a maths examination is the sound of children tapping out their answers.

　　Many parents feel that their children are being given a basic understanding of the facts of maths. “The process(过程)of addition, subtraction(减), multiplication, and division (除) is part of a training in logic (逻辑) which is important for every child. It teaches them to take the series of steps necessary in coming to a conclusion, ”says a local maths teacher. “With a calculator, the child can reach a right answer, but have no idea at all how he gets there. ”

　　Another teacher in the same school disagreed.

　　“Of course, the children understand the principles(原则) behind what they do on the calculator. It makes no difference to the mental processes they go through, except to make them much faster, and less boring. ”

　　“It's far easier to teach them to gasp the idea d division and multiplication by making them understand which button they need to push than to talk about apples being cut in pieces, ”said another teacher, who uses calculator to keep the interest of his class.

　　In any case, the pocket calculator is here to stay: it's taking them too much hard work out of mental arithmetic(算术) in all sorts of ways,. ..

1．From the passage we can know that ________.

[　　]

A．in Britain pupils are encouraged by schools to use pocket calculators

B．parents use the calculators to keep the interest of their children

C．people have different opinions on whether pocket calculators should be used in maths classes

D．all the teaches agree that pocket calculators should be used in classes but not in school examinations

2．As a local maths teacher says, children can reach the right answer with a calculator, but they ________.

[　　]

A．really don't know how they can get better grades

B．have no idea how to use the calculator properly

C．can't understand whether the answer is right

D．don't know how they get it

3．Which of the following is NOT true?

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A．Calculators used to be as cheap as a pair of shoes.

B．Some schools don't allow the students to use pocket calculators in maths class.

C．How to add, divide, subtract and multiply is a question of maths.

D．It's easy to calculate with a calculator.

4．The author stands for the opinion that ________.

[　　]

A．students should be allowed to use pocket calculators freely except in maths classes

B．since the pocket calculator has been invented, it should be made use of

C．pocket calculators shouldn't be used by students in maths classes

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　　When I asked my daughter which item she would keep: the phone, the car, the cooker, the computer, the TV, or her boyfriend, she said“the phone”. Personally, I could do without the phone entirely, which makes me unusual. Because the telephone is changing our lives more than any other piece of technology.

　　Point 1 The telephone creates the need to communicate, in the same way that more roads create more traffic. My daughter comes home from school at 4: 00 p. m. and then spends an hour on the phone talking to the very people she has been at school with all day. If the phone did not exist, would she have anything to talk about?

　　Point 2 The mobile phone means that we are never alone. “The mobile saved my life, ”said Crystal Johnstone. She had an accident in her Volvo on the A45 between Otley and Skipton. Trapped inside, she managed to make the call that brought the ambulance to her rescue.

　　Point 3 The mobile removes our privacy. It allows Marketing Manager of Haba Deutsch, Carl Nicolaisen, to ring his sales workers all round the world at any time of day to ask where they are, where they are going, and how their last meeting went.

　　Point 4 The telephone separates us. Antonella Bramante in Rome says, “We worked in separate offices but I could see him through the window. It was easy to get his number. We were so near but we didn't meet for the first two weeks ! ”

　　Point 5 The telephone allows us to reach out beyond our own lives. Today we can talk to several complete strangers simultaneously(同时地)on chat lines(at least my daughter does. I wouldn't how what to talk about). We can talk across the world. We can even talk to astronauts( if you know any)while they're space-walking. And, with the phone line hooked up to the computer, we can access(存取) the Internet, the biggest library on Earth.

1．How do you understand“Poirn 1—The telephone creates the need to communicate,…”

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A．People don't communicate without telephone.

B．People communicate because of the creating of the telephone.

C．People communicate more since telephone has been cheated.

D．People communicate more because of more traffic.

2．Which of the following best shows people's attitude towards mobile phones?

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A．Mobile phones help people deal with the emergency.

B．Mobile phones bring convenience as well little privacy to people.

C．Mobile phones are so important and should be encouraged.

D．Mobile phones are part of people' a life.

3．Which points do you think that support the idea that phones improve people's life?

a. Point 1. b. Point 2. c. Point 3. d. Point 4. e. Point 5 .

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4．It is possible to talk to several complete strangers simultaneously through ________.

[　　]

A．the TV screen

B．a fax machine

C．the phone line hooked up to the computer

D．a microphone

5．The best headline for the passage is ________.

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A．Phone Power

B．Kinds of Phone

C．How to Use Phones

D．Advantages of Phones

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　　In 1826, a Frenchman named Niepce needed pictures for his business. But he was not a good artist. So he invented a very simple camera. He put it in a window of his house and took a picture of his yard. That was the first photograph.

　　The next important date in the history of photography was 1837. That year, Daguerre, another French, took a picture of his studio. He used a new kind of camera and a different process. In his pictures, you could see everything very clearly, even the smallest details. This kind of photograph was called a daguerreotype.

　　Soon, other people began to use Daguerre's process. Travelers brought back daguerreotypes from all mound the world. People photographed famous buildings, cities and mountains.

　　In about 1840, the process was improved. Then photographers could take pictures of people and moving things. The process was not simple. The photographers had to carry lots of films and processing equipment. But this did not stop the photographers, especially in the United States. After 1840s daguerreotype artists were popular in most cities.

　　Mathew Brady was a well-known American photographer. He took many pictures of famous people. The pictures were unusual because they were very life-like and full of personality.

　　Brady was also the first person to take pictures of a war. His 1862 Civil War pictures showed dead soldiers and ruined cities. They made the war seem more real and more terrible.

　　In the 1880s, new inventions began to change photography. Photographers could buy films ready-made in rolls. So they did not have to make the film themselves. Also, they did not have to process the film immediately. They could bring it back to their studios and develop it later, meaning that they did not have to carry lots of equipment. and finally, the invention of the small handheld camera made photography less expensive. With the small camera, anyone could be a photographer. People began to use cameras just for fun. They took pictures of their families, friends and favorite places. They called these pictures“snapshot”.

　　Photographs became very popular in newspapers in the 1890s. Soon magazines and books also used documentary photographs. These pictures showed true events and people. They were much more real than drawing.

　　Photography also turned into a kind of art by the end of the 19th century. Some photographs were not just copies of the real world. They showed ideas and feelings. like other art forms.

1．The passage is mainly about ________.

[　　]

A．the invention of cameras

B．a kind of new art—photography

C．the development of photography

D．the important dates in the history of photography

2．The first pictures of a war were taken by ________.

[　　]

A．a French photographer in the 1840s

B．an American photographer in the 1860s

C．a German reporter in the 1880s

D．a French artist in the 1890s

3．The invention of small cameras made it possible for ________.

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A．anyone to be a photographer

B．people to use daguerreotypes

C．the rich to afford to take pictures

D．people to buy films ready-made in rolls

4．Photography can also be an art form because artists can ________.

[　　]

A．take anything they like

B．keep a record of real life

C．take photos of the famous

D．show ideas and feelings in pictures

55. According to the passage, which of the followings shows the correct order ________.

a. Photographs became popular in newspapers.

b. Photographers carried processing equipment while taking pictures.

c. The invention of small handheld cameras made photography easier.

d. Daguerre invented a kind of photograph called daguerreotype.

e. Brady took pictures of famous people.

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