What makes the ideal(理想的) man？

    The following diagram is the result of a random survey of 1,530 citizens in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangdong.

“Mr. Right in My Eyes”

1. The survey shows that both men and women consider ________ important to a man.

A．responsibility, enterprise and sense of humor

B．responsibility, enterprise and understanding

C．responsibility, being wise and generosity

D．responsibility, caliber and sense of humor

2. ________qualities are thought to be almost equally important by men?

A．Caliber, generosity and sense of humor

B．Enterprise, wisdom and caliber

C．Responsibility, enterprise and wisdom

D．Understanding, wisdom and sense of style

3. According to the diagram, which of the following statements is NOT true?

A．More than half of women favor understanding in a man.

B．Less than 40 percent of men would like to be understood by women.

C．Some 30 percent of men consider creativity indispensable(不可缺少)to a man.

D．Sense of humor and a sense of style, qualities that are important to men, are thought less important by women.

    When the handicapped students were included on an archeological dig last summer, there were those who predicted that they might not be able to keep up with the able-bodied．But they. worked side by side with other high school and college students, surviving the mosquitoes, flies, heat, and backaches, meticulously sifting sand and searching for the jasper rock and day pottery that could indicate ancient Indian structures. The group of handicapped students included or orthoepically handicapped as well as vision impaired youngsters.

1. The author of the passage emphasizes that ________.

A．archeological digs are best conducted in the summer months

B．archeology is more interesting to handicapped than to able bodied students

C．given the opportunity, the handicapped can often perform beyond stereotyped expectations

D．only able - bodied students can participate in field activities

2. From this passage the reader could infer that archeology is ________.

A．the study of weather

B．the study of ancient civilizations

C．the study of clay pottery

D．the study of Indians

    Long ago, there lived in Greece a learned man. He was so well-known for his wide knowledge of almost everything that lots of people from all over the country came to learn things from him. The great man taught his students wholeheartedly and answered their questions with great patience.

    One day a student asked him “My dear teacher, didn’t you say you yourself have many more questions about things than we do? On the contrary, we students have far more than you.”

    With a smile, the teacher drew two circles—one as large as a big wheel, the other smaller.

    “Of course, I’ve learned much more. But a teacher does not necessarily have fewer questions than his students. Now, look at these two circles, within the big one is my knowledge of things, and within the smaller one yours. Out of the circles is what is still unknown to us. Since mine is larger, the line that marks out the circle is longer. That means I have more opportunities to face what is still unknown. And that’s why I myself have more questions than you do. The more you learn, the more questions you have. You will never learn enough, you know. ”

1. One of his students didn’t agree that ________.

A．the teacher should have so many questions

B．the teacher had as many questions as the students

C．the students had more questions than the teacher

D．the teacher had more questions than the students

2. Which of the following pictures tell rightly what the teacher drew?

3. The teacher drew two circles in order to show ________.

A．why he had more questions than the students

B．how one could gain more knowledge

C．he knew a lot and was good at drawing

D．what the students learned had something to do with the circle

4. The passage mainly tells us that ________.

A．we should learn from a learned man

B．we’ll never learn enough

C．a teacher should be patient

D．it is never too old to learn

5. The teacher was very famous for ________.

A．his patience

B．the drawing of two circles

C．his knowledge

D．his service to the students

    We usually say that people have five senses. Senses are the way that we learn what is happening around us. The five main senses are sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell.

    Each sense depends on a certain part of the body. This part of the body receives information and then this information is sent to the brain. For example, we use eyes to see things around us. With ears we can hear the sounds. That is to say, eyes control sighting and ears control hearing. Skin control touch. Taste depends on tongue while smell depends on nose: Besides, there are also other senses which are as important as these five senses. There is a sense of balance which stops us from failing down. We also have senses of hunger, thirst and cold.

A good title for this passage is ________.

A．Seeing and Hearing are Important

B．The Parts of the Body

C．Getting Information for Our Body

D．On Health

　　 New York City is not only the biggest city in the country; it is also the biggest port and the biggest center of industry. New York City is one of the biggest business centers in the world．Here are all the big banks and the offices of most of the big capitalist companies. Tens of thousands of tourists visit New York every year. The city is a big tourist center. The tourists come to see the skyscrapers of Manhattan. The city is famous for its many very tall buildings. New York City is of international importance, too. It is the home of the United Nations.

1. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A．New York City is the biggest port in the country.

B．New York City is the biggest center of industry in the country.

C．New York City is the biggest business center in the world.

D．New York City is the biggest city in the country.

2. Most of the people who come to New York City will go to ________.

A．Staten Island

B．Manhattan

C．Bronx

D．Long Island

3. New York City is a very important city because ________.

A．it’s one of the biggest business centers in the world

B．it’s the capital of the U. S. A

C．the headquarters (总部) of the UN is there

D．A and C

    The tick in food photography is to show the food looking fresh, so many dishes have stand - ins, just as movie stars do. “When I get my lights and camera set up, I remove the stand- in and put in the real thing.” explains Ray Webber, who photographs food for magazine advertisements. “Something I have to brush the meat with its juices because it may have dried out a bit. And when I’m shooting (拍照) something like tomatoes, I always carry water to spray them with dew just before I shoot.”

    Shooting food outdoors has special problem. “I’m always worrying about flies or worms crawling (爬) up a glass.” Webber explains. “My worry is that someday a dog will come up from behind and run off with the food.” Once Webber was shooting a piece of cheese outdoors and needed something to make its color beautiful. Finally he found it: a weed (杂草) with lively blue flowers. When the shot appeared, several people were horrified—the weed was deadly night-shade!

1. Foods probably look best in photographs if they have been ________。

A．prepared recently

B．kept warm

C．salted properly

D．cooked thoroughly

2. Just before being photographed, some meats and vegetables are

A．fanned

B．dyed

C．frozen

D．made wet

3. The second paragraph deals mostly with the

A．differences between indoor and outdoor photography

B．problems of outdoor food photography

C．ways of keeping food fresh outdoors

D．combinations of colors outdoors

4. Webber is afraid dogs might ________.

A．bark while he is shooting

B．get into his picture

C．steal the food

D．upset his camera

5. From the article we can conclude that deadly night- shade is probably a kind of plant that is ________.

A．colorful

B．poisonous

C．ugly

D．both A and B

　　 Nike is one of the world’s best - known sports shoe and clothing companies with over $1 billion of income each year. It markets running shoes, walking shoes, basketball shoes, jogging(慢跑) suits and many other related products. Yes, despite its success, Nike (like many of its competitors) depends heavily on famous people to increase sales.

　　 And over the past few years, Nike has made use of one of the best known people in sports history: Michael Jordan for Air Jordan basketball shoes and clothing. In the first two years on the market, sales from the shoes and clothing reached$100 million. Michael Jordan’s fee? $2.5 million over five years, a royalty(专利的使用费) on all items sold, and a number of other benefits(益处).

    Nike’s promotion efforts for Air Jordan have been impressive. It decided to hire Michael Jordan after he starred for and co-captained the gold - medal winning 1984. U. S. Olympic basketball team. He has since become an exciting all-pro(人人称赞) player in the National Basketball Association. The name Air Jordan came from the shoe’s air sole and Michael Jordan’s name. Magazine and television commercials, for which Nike has invested $5 million, have shown Jordan leaping, blocking shots, and “slam dunking.” Huge bill- boards(户外广告牌) of him in action also have appeared in major cities. McDonald’s and coke commercials featuring Jordan have added to his public status.

1. The passage mainly tells us that ________.

A．Nike is a success

B．Nike is a model company

C．firms can make use of famous people to increase sales

D．Michael Jordan is a famous basketball player

2. It can be known from this passage that

A．Michael Jordan made a great contribution to American basketball in 1984

B．the name Air Jordan came from Michael Jordan’ s name

C．the name Air Jordan came from the shoe’ s name

D．Nike designed the shoes for pilots

3. In some major cities, there are advertisements that feature Jordan

A．drinking Coke and coffee

B．playing basketball

C．playing with children

D．drinking wine

4. It can be concluded from this passage that

A．both Jordan and Nike benefited from advertising

B．Nike could not have survived without Jordan, the basketball star

C．The American National Basketball Association also depends heavily on Jordan

D．The American National Basketball Association benefited from Jordan

Holidaymakers who are bored with baking beaches and overheated hotel rooms head for a big igloo. Swedish businessman Nile Bergqvist is delighted with his new hotel, the world’s first igloo hotel. Built in a small town in Lapland, it has been attracting lots of visitors, but soon the fun will be over.

    In two week’s time Bergqvist’s ice creation(作品)will be nothing more than a pool of water. “We don’t see it as a big problem,” he says. “We just look forward to replacing it.”

　　 Bergqvist built his first igloo in 1991 for an art exhibition. It was so successful that he designed the present one, which measures roughly 200 square meters. Six workmen spent more than eight weeks piling 1,000 tons of snow onto a wooden base; when the snow froze, the base was removed．“The only wooden thing we have left in the igloo is the front door,” he says.

　　 After their stay, all visitors receive a survival certificate recording their success. With no windows, nowhere to hang clothes and temperatures below 0℃, it may seem more like a survival test than a relaxing(轻松的) hotel break. “Its great fun,” Bergqvist explains, “as well as a good start in survival training.”

　　 The popularity of the igloo is beyond doubt: it is now attracting tourists from all over the world． At least 800 people have stayed at the igloo this season even though there are only 10 rooms. “You can get a lot of people in,” explains Bergqvist, “The beds are three meters wide by two meters long, and can fit at least four at one time.”

1. Bergqvist designed and built the world’s first igloo hotel because ________.

A．he believed people would enjoy trying something new

B．he wanted to make a name for the small town

C．an art exhibition was about to open

D．more hotel rooms were needed

2. When the writer says “the fun will be over,” he refers to the fact that________.

A．hotel guests will be frightened at the thought of the hard test

B．Bergqvist’s hotel will soon become a pool of water

C．holidaymakers will soon get tired of the big igloo

D．a bigger igloo will replace the present one

3. According to the text, the first thing to do in building an igloo is ________.

A．to gather a pool of water

B．to prepare a wooden base

C．to cover the ground with ice

D．to pile a large amount of snow

4. When guests leave the igloo hotel they will receive a paper stating that ________.

A．they have visited Lapland

B．they have had an ice-snow holiday

C．they have had great fun sleeping on ice

D．they have had a taste of adventure

5. Which of the four pictures below is the closest to the igloo hotel as described in the text?

Computer Fiction (小说)

　　 Now computer fiction is popular in more than 80 countries.

　　 To write computer fictions, the authors don’ t have to rack (绞尽) their brains to make any plot, like journalists, they just go to a lot of places and collect materials: what most women want, their ideas about life and love, their happiness and sufferings and emotions. All these materials are led into the computer to be processed and classified(分类). Then some of the writers just pick some material from every part and fill in some details and a story is made up.

    The first computer fiction was edited by 13 editors and published in Canada in 1976. It was a great success and 45 million copies were sold．Seeing this new process as profit making (获利的) a big American publishing company bought over the majority of the 13 Canadian editors and soon a series of computer fictions were published in the United States.

    All the computer fictions have very romantic titles. The heroine is invariable about 20 while the hero is a 30 to 40 bachelor (单身), handsome, with money and power. The hero and heroine have a happy reunion after all kinds of misunderstandings and setbacks(挫折). Computer fictions appeal to most women readers of the west. But people doubt if they have literary value.

1. When writing computer fictions, the authors

A．think hard

B．collect materials from many places

C．express what they want to

D．describe women’s sufferings and emotions

2. How do writers write computer fictions?

A．They classify the materials and make up a story according to the information put into the computer.

B．They pick up some useful materials.

C．They make up the story in detail.

D．They are no more than typists.

3. The first computer fiction was published in Canada and now computer fiction has spread in________ countries.

A．13

B．45

C．20

D．80

4. Computer fictions are all about ________.

A．Romantic stories

B．20 year - old beautiful women

C．rich, strong and handsome young men

D．the happy life of heroines and heroes

5. Computer fictions are popular for the following possible reasons EXCEPT that ________.

A．readers like them

B．they are easily sold

C．people are curious about the written by computers

D．people doubt if they have literary value

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　　The New York Institute for Special Education (NYISE) used to be a school for the blind. It was established in 1831, and it was one of the first places in the USA to offer education to blind children. Today NYISE's students are blind or learning disabled and aged between 3 and 21. they can attend school as day students or they can board on a weekly basis.

　　Another special institution is Gallaudet University in Washington D. C.. This is the only university in the world that is exclusively for the deaf and hearing-impaired. It was founded in the 1850s, but it was only permitted to award degrees to its graduates after 1863．

　　Some special schools cater for people with particular skills. Established in 1984 for students with artistic or musical talent, La Gauardia High School of Music and Performing Arts in Mew York was the first public school of this type. The school has an excellent reputation both in the United States and internationally.

　　When they are 14 or 15 years old, students living in New York can take the Specialized High Schools Examination. If they pass, they are allowed to study at one of the city's special high schools. The Bronx High School of Science is one of these institutions. Bronx Science had only 300 pupils when it was founded in 1938. the school used to exclusively for boys, but today it has over 3,000 male and female students specializing in science.