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[单项选择]Questions 17—20 are based on the following passage about a sad mother. You now have 20 seconds to read Questions 17—20.What was the significant change in Jenny’s life
A. She became a public figure.
B. She made a successful speech.
C. She had a terrible lesson.
D. She was hurt in the accident.
[单项选择]Questions 18-21 are based on the following passage.Why is the black walnut tree so valuable7
A. Because of its hardwood and its beauty.
B. Because of its historic value.
C. Because of its great age.
D. Because of its great size.
[单项选择]Questions 22-25 are based on the following passage.What was the dream of the early miners.*
A. They wanted to get as much diamond as they could.
B. They wanted to make their fortunes.
C. They wanted to find a large diamond.
D. They wanted to find the Cullian Diamond.
[填空题]Questions 74-78 are based on the following passage.
Tea drinking was common in China for nearly one thousand years before anyone in Europe had ever heard about tea. (74) , mainly because tea was very expensive. It could not be bought in shops and even those people who could afford to have it sent from Holland did so only because it was a fashionable curiosity. (75) . They thought it was a vegetable and tried cooking the leaves. Then they served them mixed with butter and salt. They soon discovered their mistake but (76) and give them to their children as sandwiches.
Tea remained scarce and very expensive in England until the ships of the East India Company began to bring it direct from China early in the 17th century. During the next few years so much tea came into the country that (77) .
At the same time people on the Continent were becoming more and more fond of tea. Until then tea had been drunk without m
[填空题]Questions 61-67 are based on the following passage.
Sports is one of the world’s largest industries, and most athletes are professionals who are paid for their efforts. Because an athlete succeeds by achievement only--not by economic background or family connections--sports can be a fast route to wealth, and many athletes play more for money than for love.
This has not always been true. In the ancient Olympics the winner got only a wreath of leaves (花冠). Even though the winners became national heroes, the games remained amateur for centuries. Athletes won fame, but no money. As time passed, however, the contests become increasingly less amateur and cities began to hire athletes to represent them. By the fourth century A.D., the Olympics were ruined, and they were soon ended.
In 1896, the Olympic Games were revived with same goal of pure amateur competition. The rules bar athletes who have ever received a $50 prize or an athlete scholars or who have
[填空题]Questions 68-73 are based on the following passage.
Normally a student must attend a certain number of courses in order to graduate, and each course which he attends gives him a credit which he may count towards a degree. In many American universities the total work for a degree consists of thirty-six courses each lasting for one semester. A typical course consists of three classes per week for fifteen weeks; while attending a university a student will probably attend four or five courses during each semester. Normally a student would expect to take four years attending two semesters each year. It is possible to spread the period of work for the degree over a longer period. It is also possible for a student to move between one university and another during his degree course, though this is not in fact done as a regular practice.
For every course that he follows a student is given a grade, which is recorded, and the record is available for the student to s
[单项选择]Questions 56-60 are based on the following passage.
On Thursday afternoon Mrs. Clarke, dressed for going out, took her handbag with her money and her key in it, pulled the door behind her to lock it and went to the Over 60s Club. She always went there on Thursday. It was a nice outing for an old woman who lived alone.
At six o’clock she came home, let herself in and at once smelt cigarette smoke. Cigarette smoke in her house How Had somebody got in She checked the back door and the windows. All were locked or fastened, as usual. There was no sign of forced entry. Had anything been taken She went from room to room, checking. Yes, some things were missing--her small radio, her spare watch, a camera. That was all, she thought; but she couldn’t be sure just yet. She was annoyed, of course, but rather glad that nothing had been thrown about.
Over a cup of tea she wondered whether someone might have a key that fitted her front door--"a master key" perhaps. So
A. he went to have his hand treated at a clinic
B. the police found his fingerprints on the wire
C. he complained to the police about the wound inflicted upon him
D. the old lady gave the police a detailed description of the thief
