Interviewing is one of those skills that you can only get better at. You will never again feel so ill at ease as when you try it for the first time, and you'll probably never feel entirely comfortable trying to get answers from another person that he or she may be too shy to reveal. But at least half of the skill is mechanical. The rest is instinct（天赋）, which can all be learned with experience.

　　The basic tools for an interview are paper and two or three well-sharpened pencils. But keep your notebook or paper out of sight until you need it. There's nothing less likely to relax a person than the arrival of someone with a notetaking pad. Both of you need time to get to know each other. Take a while just to chat, judging what sort of person you're dealing with, getting him or her to trust you.

　　Never go into an interview without doing whatever homework you can. If you are interviewing a town official, know his voting record. If it's an actor, know what plays he has been in. You will not be liked if you inquire about facts that you could have learned in advance.

　　Many beginning interviewers are afraid that they are forcing the other person to answer questions and have no right to inquire about his personal secrets. The fear is almost 100 percent unnecessary. Unless the person really hates being interviewed, he is delighted that somebody wants to interview him.

　　Most men and women lead lives that are uninteresting, and they grasp any chance to talk to an outsider who seems eager to listen.

　　This doesn't necessarily mean that it will go well. In general you will be talking to people who have never been interviewed before, and they will get used to the process（程序）awkwardly（笨拙）， perhaps not giving you anything that you can use Come back another day; it will go better. You will both even begin to enjoy it——provided that you aren't forcing your victim to do something he doesn't really want to.

(1) The underlined word reveal' in the first paragraph could best be replaced by“___________”.

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(2) According to the passage, during an interview notebooks or paper should ______________.

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A．never be used

B．be used only when necessary

C．be kept at home

D．be given to the interviewer

(3) It can be inferred from Paragraph 4 that most men and women __________.

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A．are afraid to meet interviewers

B．hate being interviewed

C．like being interviewed

D．fear to speak to outsiders

(4) According to the passage, if a person being interviewed is too uneasy to give you anything useful, what should you do?

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A．Arrange another interview.

B．Give him or her the process.

C．Wait until he or she calms down.

D．Try to make him or her trust you.

　　There are two elements in life that Americans do save carefully: time and labor. Americans are“slaves to nothing but the clock”, it has been said. Time is treated as if it were an almost tangible（看得到的）entity. In their language, there are words associated with it: time can be budgeted（预算）, saved, wasted, stolen, killed, and cut. Americans also charge for time. It is a precious commodity (product) to them. Many people have a rather acute sense of the shortness of each lifetime. Once the sands have run out of a person's hourglass, they cannot be matter of patience. In the American system of values, patience is not a high priority. Many of them have what might be called “a short fuse”They begin to splutter（快速地说话）and move restlessly about if they feel time is slipping away without some return——be this in terms of pleasure, work value or rest.

　　Normally Americans do not assess （评定）their visitors in relaxed surroundings over prolonged small talk; much less do they take out for dinner, while they develop a pre-business sense of trust and rapport（和睦关系）. Rapport to most of them is less important than performance. They seek out credentials（证明文件）of past performance rather than evaluating a business colleague through social manners. Since they generally assess and probe professionally rather than socially, they start talking business very quickly.

　　Most Americans live in time segments（parts）by engagement calendars. These calendars may be divided into intervals as short as fifteen minutes. They often “give” a person two or three (or more) segments of their calendar, but in the business world they almost always have other appointments following “hard on the heels of” whatever they are doing. Time is therefore always ticking in their inner ear.

(1) Which of the following is true according to the passage?

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A．Americans value time so mush that they use the hourglass to count their time.

B．In the Americans' eyes, patience is of less importance than performance.

C．Americans are likely to prolong the talk in business.

D．Americans usually save time as much as possible to work.

(2) Time is so important in American values that___________.

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A．they even ask for money if you waste their time

B．they may become very impatient if they get nothing whatsoever in return for their time

C．they did not take their visitors out for din net

D．they seldom develop a rapport with their business colleagues

(3) What does the author mean by “a short fuse”(Para.2)?

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A．An impatient person who quickly gets impatient.

B．Person who likes to splutter.

C．A person who is very mean about his time.

D．A thing that is used to light a fire.

(4) In the last paragraph, the underlined phrase “on the heels of”means __________.

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A．being controlled by

B．behaving excitedly

C．time-controlled

D．close behind

　　We were on tour a few summers ago, driving through Chicago, when right outside of the city, we got pulled over. A middle-aged policeman came up to the car and was really being troublesome at first. Lecturing us, he said, “You were speeding. Where are you going in such a hurry ?”Our guitarist, Tim, told him that we were on our way to Wisconsin to play a show. His way towards us totally changed. He asked,“Oh, so you boys are in a band（乐队）?”We told him that we were. He then asked all the usual band questions about the type of music we played, and how long we had been at it. Suddenly, he stopped and said,“Tim, you want to get out of this ticket, don't you ?”Tim said, “Yes.”So the officer asked him to step out of the car. The rest of us, inside the car, didn't know what to think as we watched that policeman talk to Tim. Next thing we knew, the policeman was putting Tim in the back of the police car he had parked in front of us. With that, he threw the car into reverse（倒车）, stopping a few feet in back of our car. Now we suddenly felt frightened. We didn't know if we were all going to prison, or if the policeman was going to sell Tim on the black market or something. All of a sudden, the policeman's voice came over his loudspeaker. He said, “Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time ever, we have Tim here singing on Route 90.”Turns out, the policeman had told Tim that the only way he was getting out of the ticket was that he sang part of one of our songs over the loudspeaker in the police car. Seconds later, Tim started screaming into the receiver. The policeman enjoyed the performance, and sent us on our way without a ticket.

(1) The policeman stopped the boys to _________.

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A．put them into prison

B．give them a ticket

C．enjoy their performance

D．ask some band questions

(2) The policeman became friendly to the boys when he knew they _________.

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A．had long been at the band

B．played the music he loved

C．were driving for a show

D．promised him a performance

(3) The boys probably felt _____________ when they drove off.

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　　Do you find getting up in the morning so difficult that it's painful? This might be called laziness, but Dr. Kleitman has a new explanation. He has proved that everyone has a daily energy cycle.

　　During the hours when you labour through your work you may say that you're “hot”. That's true. The time of the day when you feel most energetic is when your cycle of body temperature is at its peak. For some people the peak comes during the forenoon. For others it comes in the afternoon or evening. No one has discovered why this is so, but it breeds such familiar monologues as “Get up, John! You'll be late for work again! “The possible explanation to the trouble is that John is at his temperature-and-energy peak in the evening. Much family quarrelling ends when husbands and wives realize what these energy cycles mean, and which cycle each member of the family has.

　　You can't change your energy cycle, but you can learn to make your life fit it better. Habit can help, Dr. Kleitman believes. Maybe you're sleepy in the evening but you must stay up later anyway. Counteract your cycle to some extent by habitually staying up later than you want to. If your energy is low in the morning but you have an important job to do early in the day, rise before your usual hour. This won't change your cycle, but you'll get up team and work better at your low point.

　　Get off to a slow start which saves your energy. Get up with a leisurely yawn and stretch. Sit on the edge of the bed a minute before putting your feet on the floor. Avoid the troublesome search for clean clothes by laying them our the night before. Whenever possible, do routine work in the afternoon and save tasks requiring more energy or concentration for your sharp hours.

(1) If a person finds getting up early is a problem, most probably ________.

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A．he is a lazy person

B．he refuses to follow his own energy cycle

C．he is not sure when his energy is low

D．he is at his peak in the afternoon or evening

(2) Which of the following may lead to family quarrels according to the passage?

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A．Unawareness of energy cycles.

B．Familiar monologues.

C．A change in a family member's energy cycle

D．Attempts to control the energy cycle of other family members.

(3) If one wants to work more efficiently at his low point in the morning, be should _________.

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A．change his energy cycle

B．overcome his laziness

C．get up earlier than usual

D．go to bed earlier

(4) You are advised to rise with a yawn and stretch because it will _______.

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A．help to keep your energy for the day's work

B．help you to control your temper early in the day

C．enable you to concentrate on your routine work

D．keep your energy cycle under control all day

　　Faced with the threat of water shortages, Beijing and Shanghai will take effective measures to save water and protect water resources.

　　Beijing will stick more strictly to water saving policies through the readjustment（重新调整）of industrial structures. Beijing is expected to be short of 1 185 billion cubic meters of water by 2020. Beijing will shut down factories with high water consumption（消耗）and pollution including electric power, steel and paper manufacturing equipment. Advanced and water-saving technology will be introduced to new industrial projects in the capital city.

　　Grain-growing areas will be reduced to save ground water and more trees will be planted. Animal breeding and other “high efficient” agriculture with modern water-saving irrigation methods will be developed.

　　It is said that water used in agriculture will drop to 35 percent of the city's water consumption in 2010 from 43 percent in 1998,and the figure will continue to drop to 28~30 percent in 2020. Beijing will increase the speed of renovation（修复）of its urban water supply equipment. It is reported that more than 15 percent of water is lost during distribution（分布）. Water saving equipment and efficient management can save Beijing more than 537 million cubic meters by 2010.

　　Shanghai still faces key problems connected with its water resources and environments. Since 1998, the city has invested nearly US $ 169 million to treat its rivers, especially Suzhou Creek. The city's rivers have become noticeably clearer since putting it into action.

　　The government will provide a further US $ 24 million for the treatment of rivers and US $ 12 million to treat sewage（污物）.

　　This year's task is to improve the water quality at the three ports of Longhua, Yangshupa and Hongkou. Another emphasis to raise the water system is Songjiang New Area with a project worth US $ 4.8 million. Efforts will be made to improve public awareness about the need to protect water resources.

(1) How many measures has Beijing taken to save water and protect water resources?

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(2) Grain-growing areas in Beijing will be reduced because __________.

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A．grain can't fetch a good price in China

B．a lot of ground water will be saved by this means

C．Beijing helps to develop advanced industry

D．highly effective agriculture needs less farmland

(3) Beijing can save over 537 million cubic meters by 2010 by means of __________.

A．water-saving equipment

B．effective management

C．artificial rain fall

D．reducing water pollution

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　　There are a lot of dangerous and terrible pests in India, but the tree-bees are the most terrible. They are killers.

　　Last year I was on holiday there. Riding along a road one sunny morning, I found the air above me suddenly became thick with bees. Although it was hot, I went cold all over. To run away fast seemed the only thing to do, but my horse was frightened, too. He jumped and kicked out in all directions to get rid of the bees that were attacking him, and then threw me to the ground.

　　The village was about half a mile away. I began to run. But by now I was covered from head to foot with bees. They crawled（爬行）all over me, stinging （刺）with terrible pain. I tore them away, but made room for others. Each time I opened my lips for breath, more bees entered my mouth. I could hardly breathe.

　　Then I reached the village. I ran towards a house that was being built. As soon as the men working there saw the bees, they ran for safety at top speed.

　　My eyes had completely closed. I fell into a pile of something soft. I pushed myself down into this until my head and shoulders were covered. This made bees angry and they began to attack my legs. I struggled but soon became tired out. The bees had won.

　　At last I was saved by two clever soldiers. They ran to a pile of dry grass and quickly surrounded me with a thick wall of fire and smoke until the bees were driven away. They remained with me, I later learned, looking after me for the next three hours until a doctor was found and brought.

(1) When the air suddenly became thick with bees one morning last year,______.

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A．it became cold

B．the writer went cold with fear

C．it was rather cold, though fine

D．the horse threw the writer to the ground

(2) The writer tore the bees away ______.

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A．in order to make room for other bees 

B．but other bees took the space again

C．but they flew away slowly

D．in order to let his breath out

(3) When the men building the house saw the bees they ran away quickly ______.

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A．in order not to be attacked by the bees

B．to look for something to drive the bees away

C．to help the writer to cover his head and shoulders with soft things

D．because they were afraid of the writer

　　①Brain-injured boy set for ￡ 1.75m payout

　　A YOUNGSTER who was knocked off his bicycle by a taxi and left with a serious brain injury is set to be awarded ￡ 1.75 million.

　　Fourteen-year-old George Currie, from Dalkeith, was living in country Durham with his parents Allister and Paula at the time of the accident in September 1993.

　　George, who was then three years old, was riding his small tricycle along the pavement when he lost control and swerved on to the road into the path of an on-coming taxi.

　　The driver's insurance company has now ac cepted responsibility for the accident and New Castle County Court is expected to rule on the payout on Monday.

　　②Boating accidents reduce

　　Lee and Collier counties tied at No. 10 for boating accidents in Florida in 2004, an improvement for both.

　　But because the counties remained in the top 10 among Florida's 67 counties, safety continues to be a concern, officials said.

　　③Teens react to new law on driving permit

　　Lawmakers may hope to make teenage drivers drive more safely, but some local teens behind the wheel feel angry following the passing of Senace Bill 36 last week.

　　SB 36 is a law that limits times new teen drivers can drive and the number of passengers

　　④Road accidents take costly toll

　　Traffic accidents kill more than one million people each year, injure tens of millions more and cost developing countries twice as much as they receive in international aid, the leader of a research body said Wednesday.

　　The figures have led experts to form an international road safety network to choose the most important research areas, inform policy makers and help develop ways to prevent accidents, particularly in poor nations.

　　pavement: 人行道

　　swerve: 突然转

　　insurance: 保险.

　　Florida counties with the most accidents in 2004:

　　1．Monroe (98)

　　2．Palm Beach (65)

　　3．Pinellas (64)

　　4．Broward (59)

　　5．Miami-Dade (54)

　　6．Okaloosa (34)

　　7．Orange (24)

　　8．Bay (22)

　　9．Lee (21)

　　10．Collier (21)

(1) What does Passage ① tell us about the boy?

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A．He was injured in the head when he was 14.

B．He has waited for the payout for a long time.

C．He has lived in the same place since the accident.

D．He was run over by a taxi when riding on the pavement.

(2) What can we learn about Lee and Collier counties from Passage ②?

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A．They both became safe places.

B．They won the same place in race.

C．They had the same number of accidents.

D．They joined hands in reducing accidents.

(3) Which passage would give more information on the prevention of road accidents?

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　　Most people feel lonely sometimes, but it usually only lasts between a few minutes and a few hours. This kind of loneliness is not serious. In fact, it is quite normal. For some people, though, loneliness can last for years. Now researchers say there are three different types of loneliness.

　　The first kind of loneliness is temporary（暂时的）. This is the most common type．It usually disappears quickly and does not require any special attention. The second kind, situational loneliness, is a natural result of a particular situation for example, a family problem, the death of a loved one, or moving to a new place. Although this kind of loneliness can cause physical problems, such as headaches and sleeplessness, it usually does not last for more than a year.

　　The third kind of loneliness is the most serious. Unlike the second type, chronic（长期的）loneliness usually lasts more than two years and has no specific cause．People who experience habitual loneliness have problems socializing and becoming close to others. Unfortunately, many chronically lonely people think there is little or nothing they can do to improve their condition.

　　Psychologists agree that one important factor in loneliness is a personal social contacts, e.g. friends, family members, co-workers, etc.. We depend on various people for different reasons. For instance, our families give us emotional support, our parents and teachers give us guidance, and our friends share similar interests and activities. However, psychologists have found that, though lonely people may have many social contacts, they sometimes feel they should have more．They question their own popularity.

　　Psychologists are trying to find ways to help habitually lonely people for two reasons：they are unhappy and unable to socialize and there is a connection between chronic loneliness and serious illness such as heart disease．While temporary and situational loneliness can be a normal, healthy part of life, chronic loneliness can be very sad, and sometimes dangerous condition.

(1) How would you treat temporary loneliness according to the passage?

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A．Talk to friends.

B．Just ignore it.

C．Go to see a doctor.

D．Ask your teachers for guidance.

(2) “It” in the last sentence of the second paragraph refers to _____________

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A．temporary loneliness

B．situational loneliness

C．a new place

D．sleeplessness

(3) The topic of the 4th paragraph is that ___________.

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A．one problem of loneliness is a person's social contacts

B．we depend on various people for different reasons

C．lonely people have many social problems

D．lonely people don't have many friends

(4) Why do psychologists want to help chronically lonely people?

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A．Chronic loneliness can cause family problems.

B．Chronic loneliness can cause serious illness.

C．Chronic loneliness can not be overcome.

D．Chronic loneliness can cause dangerous social problems.

(5) What is the best title for the passage?

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A．Three Kinds of Loneliness.

B．Loneliness and Diseases.

C．Loneliness and Social Contacts.

D．Chronic Loneliness

　　Britain has laws to make sure that women have the same chances as men in education, jobs and training．But it's still unusual to find women doing dirty or heavy jobs.

　　 Nikki Henriques is a car maintenance engineer in London. She used to be a secretary. Barty Phillips, a journalist of The Observer, a Sunday newspaper, asked her why she wanted to work with cars.

　　 “My first reason was independence（独立）,”she said,“I also wanted to use my hands, and I like learning about how things work. Many people prefer to have a woman repair their cars, too.”

　　Nikki didn't find it easy to become a car maintenance engineer. She went to a Government Skill Center——a special sort of college where people can learn a new job——for twenty weeks. “For ten weeks I was the only woman among four hundred men, and some of them were rude to me．It was also very tiring——from 8 in the morning to 5 in the afternoon, with only 30 minutes for lunch.”

　　Now Nikki works freelance, that is, she's self-employed, working for herself and not for a garage or a compare

　　Barty Phillips, also spoke to Rose, who works as a general builder in Sheffield, an industrial town in the north of England．Like Nikki, Rose used to be a secretary.“I didn't enjoy it at all,” she said．“I wanted to do more practical work, and I wanted to be self-employed.”

　　Rose joined a women's building cooperative, and she learnt her job from other people and from experience．However, many of the women in her group have been specially trained．Most of the jobs they do are improvements to buildings and general repairs.

　　“People often say, 'Oh, women aren't strong enough,' but I don't think strength is important,” said Rose．“The important thing is to get used to doing a different sort of work”

　　Rose would like more women to come into the building industry, “Everything built at the moment is a product of men's world．If women become builders, they will be able to understand the production of their houses and their towns.”

(1) There are laws in Britain to help women _________.

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A．get higher pay than men

B．enjoy more freedom than men

C．do dirty or heavy jobs

D．have equal chances with men in education and work

(2) The job of a car maintenance engineer is to _________.

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A．make cars

B．sell cars

C．repair cars

D．keep cars for others

(3) According to Rose, a woman wishing to be a general builder _________

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A．must be specially trained

B．should be strong enough

C．can learn her job either from others or by experience

D．must get used to doing a different sort of work

(4) The best title for this passage might be _________

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A．Nikki Henriques, A Car Maintenance Engineer

B．Rose, A General Builder in Sheffield

C．Women at Work

D．British Women

　　The Internet is a way of life for US college students, with research showing them to be one of the most connected groups.

　　A recent study by Harris Interactive and 360 Youth found that 93 per cent of American college students visit the Internet, and this market is expected to grow from 15.2 million in 2003 to 16.4 million in 2007. That is slow but could be the result of the already high number of college Internet users.

　　About 88 per cent of American college students own a computer and more than half broadband（宽带）connections. Furthermore, 67 per cent own cell phones and 36 per cent use their mobile devices to visit the Internet. Study findings are that 42 per cent go online mainly to communicate socially, and 72 per cent of college students check emails at least once a day, with 66 per cent using at least two email addresses.

　　The most popular online social activity is forwarding messages to friends or family, with 37 per cent of college students saying they do so. The study also looked beyond the Internet surfing（冲浪）habits and into the buying habits of this group, and found them responsible for more than US $ 210 billion in sales last year alone.

　　College students have learned how to spend their money, with 93 per cent saying low prices were important when shopping.

　　The study also showed that 65 per cent make loan（货款）payments, 41 per cent of freshmen have a credit card; and 79 per cent of seniors have a credit card. A significant number of charges on these credit cards are likely to be for entertainment and leisure expenses.

(1) College students in the US, as this passage shows, ________.

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A．waste much time visiting the Internet

B．lead an exciting life by using the Internet

C．don't have to learn their lessons in their classrooms

D．spend too much time visiting the Internet

(2) We can find from the third paragraph, that in the US__________.

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A．most college students are from rich families

B．cell phones will take the place of computers in colleges

C．mobile phones make Internet life easy for college students

D．college students can have a computer from their colleges

(3) To communicate with friends, nearly half of the college students use____

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A．letters

B．telephones

C．text messages on mobile phones