1、 4 25 (0.65) CABDBBasketball and baseball are sports that are very much alike and very different in numerous ways. Sports like these two are played all over the world on a daily basis. They are played as professions, in schools, and just for fun. So sit back and enjoy two of the most admired sports.
2、 Basketball and baseball both use fields and/or courts for there recreational purposes. In contrast, basketball uses a wooden court. Its found indoors and its glazed so the players dont slide. Basketball isnt played on the grass because it would be impossible to bounce the ball. Although it is playe
3、d at times outside on cement courts, baseball is played on a grassy field, much unlike basketball. The fields are large and have 4 bases, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and home base. It is also marked with chalk for the runners. Baseball players wouldnt have the ability to play on a wooden court because they have
4、to have a firm surface when they are running.Another thing, that is unlike in the two sports is the players uniforms. The baseball players wear taut pants and tight long sleeve shirts. Sometimes they wear baseball hats. Of course they wear shoes, but the shoes they wear are special shoes called clea
5、ts. These shoes have spikes at the end to keep you in place when you are running. Basketball players wear thin material shorts that fall to their knees. To go along with this they wear a sleeveless shirt made of the same thin material. For shoe wear they sport off high top sneakers.1. Basketball isn
6、t played on the grass because _.A) its found indoors B) players dont slide on itC) it cant bounce the ball D) players can run fast 2. Which of the following should baseball be played on?A) A grassy field. B) A wooden court.C) A cement court. D) An indoor court. 3. The word “recreational” in LINE 4 m
7、eans _.A) Serious. B) Entertaining. C) Professional. D) Special.4. Which of the following is NOT true about baseball?A) The fields have 4 bases. B) The players shoes have spikes.C) It has a firm surface. D) The players wear high top sneakers. 5. Which of the following may be the best title for this
8、passage?A) Differences between Basketball and Baseball B) Basketball VS BaseballC) The Field of Basketball and BaseballD) The Uniform of Basketball and Baseball4 30 (0.60) BDCDBShots ring out in South Central Los Angeles. A man screams in horror. This man has been shot in a heated gang war. This is
9、everyday life for gang members. Gang members are used to cold blooded murder and most attend at least 5 funerals a week. Similar situations occur in Harlem, New York and in other places around the country.Why is this happening? Many people think that rap music is making kids more violent. They think
10、 that rap music is just a praise of violence. All rap music is doing to show how horrible and inhuman life is in the ghettos (犹太人区) across the country. This is whats really happening out there. Its not fake.Right now, there is a major conflict between West Coast and East Coast rappers. East and West
11、 are fighting in an evil battle that leaves hundreds of poor, helpless people dead in the street. Theres no reason for this to be going on.Back in the early 1990s, when rap was beginning to become popular, the East/West war wasnt quite there yet but it was slowly becoming more and more obvious that
12、there was a conflict between rappers. Part of the reason that the war started was that West Coast rap dominated and nobody questioned their superior position. Ice Cube, Ice T, and Eazy E were the rappers of the moment. The war slowly went worse when East Coast rappers began to get more publicity. We
13、st Coast rappers were upset that they werent 100% in the spotlight so they started to make fun of East rappers in their music proclaiming that East Coast rap was fake and couldnt top West Coast. Then, East Coast rappers fired back at West Coast rappers and it kept up like that until someone decided
14、that the other coast had gone too far.1. Whats everyday life for gang members? A) They scream in horror.B) Their members are always live a dangerous life.C) Violence made by them only happens in New York and Los Angeles. D) They had been cold blooded murderers once.2. According to the passage, rap m
15、usic is _.A) popular among kids B) a tool to make conflictsC) praised by gang members D) all the above 3. Which of the description is true about the East/West war? A) West Coast rappers won all the time.B) East Coast rap was just fake and couldnt top West Coast. C) Both sides used rap music to fight
16、 back each other.D) The conflicts between West Coast and East Coast only happened in the early 90s. 4. The word “inhuman” in Para. 2 means _.A) terrible B) strong C) cold D) cruel5. The best title of this passage should be _.A) Rap Music B) Violence Caused by Rap MusicC) War between West and East D)
17、 Major Conflicts4 - 33 (0.60) BCDCDAlbert Einstein was a German-American physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. Recognized in his own time as one of the most creative intellec
18、ts in human history, in the first 15 years of the 20th century Einstein advanced a series of theories that proposed entirely new ways of thinking about space, time, and gravitation. His theories of relativity and gravitation were a profound advance over the old Newtonian physics and revolutionized s
19、cientific and philosophic inquiry.Herein lay the unique drama of Einsteins life. He was a self-confessed lone traveler; his mind and heart soared with the universe, yet he could not protect himself from the intrusion of the often-horrible events of the human community. Almost reluctantly he admitted
20、 that he had a “passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility.” His celebrity gave him an influential voice that he used to champion such causes as pacifism and liberalism. The irony for this idealistic man was that his famous postulation of an energy-mass equation, which states that
21、a particle of matter can be converted into an enormous quantity of energy, had its spectacular proof in the creation of the atomic and hydrogen bombs, the most destructive weapons ever known.1. Why did Albert Einstein win Nobel Prize in 1921? A) For his special and general theories of relativity. B)
22、 For his explanation of the photoelectric effect.C) For his new ways of thinking about space, time, and gravitation. D) For he was a German-American physicist.2. According to the passage, compared Albert Einsteins theories of relativity and gravitation to the old Newtonian physics, the former one we
23、re _.A) more profound B) easierC) more advanced D) more well-known 3. The author implies that _.A) Einstein liked to be with many people B) Einstein enjoyed traveling very much C) Einstein didnt like travelingD) Einstein loved to be alone4. According to the passage, the italic word champion (Line 5,
24、 Para.2) means _.A) winner B) soldier C) support D) lose 5 .Einsteins famous postulation of an energy-mass equation _.A) was originally presented for pacifism and liberalism B) was the only novel written by EinsteinC) states that an enormous quantity of energy can be converted into a particle of mat
25、ter D) caused the creation of the atomic and hydrogen bombs4 35 (0.63) DBCADIn the 1950s and 1960s a number of far-reaching changes occurred in Chinas economic policies and priorities. During the First Five-Year Plan period (1953-1957), emphasis was placed on rapid industrial development, partly at
26、the expense of other sectors of the economy. The bulk of the states investment was channeled into the industrial sector, while agriculture, which occupied more than 80 percent of the economically active population, was forced to rely on its own poor capital resources for a substantial part of its fu
27、nd requirements. Within industry, iron and steel, electric power, coal, heavy engineering, building materials, and basic chemicals were given first priority; in accordance with Soviet practice, the aim was to construct large, sophisticated, and highly capital-intensive plants.This program could not
28、be financed out of domestic resources, and a large number of the new plants were built with Soviet technical and financial assistance. The policy led to a rapid growth in heavy industry, but a few months after the introduction of the Second Five-Year Plan in 1958which was to be on the same lines as
29、its predecessor the policy of the Great Leap Forward was an-nounced. In agriculture, this involved the formation of communes. In industry, the construction of large plants was to continue; but it was to be supplemented by a huge small-industry drive, making use of a large number of small, simple, lo
30、cally built and run plants. The Chinese peasant, however, was not ready for the communes. Meanwhile, the backward production drive failed to achieve the desired effects and yielded large quantities of expensively produced, unqualified goods. These difficulties were aggravated by the withdrawal of So
31、viet aid and technicians, who made a point of taking their blueprints with them. In consequence, by late 1960 the country faced an economic crisis of the first order.1. During the First Five-Year Plan period, the Chinese government paid their attention to _.A) the development of agricultureB) the im
32、provement of peoples housing conditions C) the marketing economyD) the rapid industrial development2. Which sector occupied 80% Chinese economically active population?A) Business. B) Agriculture. C) Industry. D) Students. 3. What does the word sophisticated (Line 9, Para. 1) mean in the passage?A) P
33、hysical. B) Powerful. C) Complicated. D) Secondary. 4. According to the passage, why did Soviet assist China?A) Because the program of the government could not be financed out of domestic resources. B) Because the policy led to a rapid growth in heavy industry.C) Because of the introduction of the S
34、econd Five-Year Plan in 1958. D) Because of the policy of the Great Leap Forward.5. In the end, what was caused by the assistance of Soviet? A) The Chinese peasant was not ready for the communes. B) The backyard production drive failed to achieve the desired effects.C) Chinese workers yielded large
35、quantities of expensively produced, unqualified goods. D) By late 1960 the country faced an economic crisis of the first order.4 36 (0.60) ACACCHalloween (万圣节) had its origins in the festival of Samhain among the Celts of ancient Britain and Ireland. November 1st was considered the end of the summer
36、 period, the date on which the herds were returned from pasture and land tenures were renewed. It was also a time when the souls of those who had died were believed to return to visit their homes. People set bonfires (篝 火 ) on hilltops for relighting their hearth fires for the winter and to frighten
37、 away evil spirits, and they sometimes wore masks and other disguises to avoid being recognized by the ghosts thought to be present. It was in these ways that beings such as witches, fairies, and demons came to be associated with the day. The period was also thought to be favourable for prediction o
38、n matters such as marriage, health, and death. When the Romans conquered the Celts in the 1st century AD, they added their own festivals of Feralia, commemorating the passing of the dead, and of Pomona, the goddess of the harvest.In the 7th century AD, Pope (教 皇 ) Boniface IV established All Saints
39、Day, originally on May 13, and in the following century, perhaps in an effort to supplant the pagan holiday with a Christian observance, it was moved to November 1st. The evening before All Saints Day became a holy, or hallowed, eve and thus Halloween. By the end of the Middle Ages, the secular and
40、the sacred days had merged. The Reformation essentially put an end to the religious holiday among Protestants, although in Britain especially Halloween continued to be celebrated as a secular holiday. Along with other festivities, the celebration of Halloween was largely forbidden among the early Am
41、erican colonists, although in the 1800s there developed festivals that marked the harvest and incorporated elements of Halloween. When large numbers of immigrants, including the Irish, went to the United States beginning in the mid 19th century, they took their Halloween customs with them, and in th
42、e 20th century Halloween became one of the principal U. S. holidays, particularly among children.1. According to the passage, why people sometimes wore masks on Halloween? A) To avoid being recognized by the ghosts thought to be present.B) To frighten away evil spirits.C) Because souls of those who
43、had died were believed to return to visit their homes. D) To relight their hearth fires for the winter.2. What was the festival Feralia for in Roman Conquerors custom? A) Commemorating the passing of the dead.B) Commemorating the passing of Pomona.C) Commemorating the passing of the dead and Pomona.
44、 D) Commemorating Roman emperor.3. In which place did Halloween first appear?A) Ancient Britain and Ireland. B) Roman.C) America. D) Greece. 4. How many festivals composed Halloween?A) One B) Two C) Three D) Four 5. Why Halloween was largely forbidden in America during 1800s?A) Because early America
45、n colonists didnt like it. B) Because Pope Boniface IV forbade it.C) Because the Reformation essentially put an end to the religious holiday among Protes-tants.D) The passage doesnt tell us.4 43 (0.60) DCCABBrazil has become one of the developing countries which make great successes at reducing popu
46、lation growth but more by accident than design. While countries such as India have made efforts to reduce birth rates, Brazil has had better result without really trying, says George Martine at Harvard.Brazils population growth rate has dropped from 2.99 % a year between 1951 and 1960 to 1.93% a yea
47、r between 1981 and 1990, and Brazilian women now have only 2.7 children on average. Martine says this figure may have fallen still further since 1990, and achievement that makes it the envy of many other Third World countries.Martine thinks that soap operas (肥 皂 剧 ) and installment plans introduced
48、in the 1970s played an important, although indirect, role in lowering the birth rate. Brazil is one of the worlds biggest producers of soap operas. Globo, Brazils most popular television network, shows three hours of soaps six nights a week, while three others show at least one hour a night. Most so
49、aps are based on wealthy characters living the high life in big cities.“Although they have never really tried to work in a message towards the problems of reproduction, they describe middle and upper class values not many children, different attitudes towards sex, women working,” says Martine, “They sent this image to all parts of Brazil and made people know other patterns and other values, which were put into a very attractive package.
