[单项选择] Questions 17 to 20 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions.
Now listen to the passage.

How did John Adams make his living
A. He trained soldiers.
B. He was a smith.
C. He was a silversmith.
D. He was a politician.

[单项选择]Questions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage.
Picasso’s art was not just a pleasant distraction. The artist believed that art helps to penetrate further into the world and into men for understanding. With his unusually acute senses, with his intense, black eyes, Picasso saw every subject as no one else did. He tried to express the essence of his subject. He showed people how to grasp a new concept of beauty. He made them realize that beauty can have a diversity of forms. "Now is the time in this period of change and revolution to use a revolutionary manner of painting and not to paint like before." That was Picasso’s idea. Believing it is the artist’s function to discover new forms of expression, he liberated art and made our feelings about it more acute.
Picasso keeps all of art alive. His work encompasses ’all of the past and foretells the future of art. His early paintings were sober and sensible, in the academic style. But Picasso was among the first
A. It is the world of dreams experienced by Picasso.
B. It expresses the painters’ good will for world peace.
C. It had never been explored by anyone before Picasso.
D. Guernica was the best illustration of the surrealist world.

[单项选择]Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.
A Census Bureau (人口调查局) survey released Thursday shows a college graduate can expect to earn $2.1 million working full-time between 25 and 54, which demographers (人口学家) call a typical work-life period. A master’s degree-holder is projected to earn 2.5 million, while someone with a professional degree, such as a doctor or lawyer, could make even more-- $4.4 million. In contrast, a high school graduate can expect to make $1.2 million during the working years, according to the bureau report that tracked the influence of education on lifetime earnings.
Not all students look at college as an Investment," but I am sure parents do," said Jacqueline King, policy analyst with the American Education Council, a higher education advocacy (拥护) group. "The college is to convince those high school students on the margins that it is really worth their time to go to college. " Kevin Malecek, a graduate student in Am
A. higher-degree-holders are surely going to make more money
B. college graduates in different majors usually get paid differently
C. a master’s degree-holder in social work will surely make more money than a bachelor’s degree-holder in computer science
D. if one wants to earn $4.4 million, he or she has to try to get a professional degree such as a doctor or lawyer

[填空题]Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.
When Toyota Motor Corp. moved one of its divisions into an environmentally friendly, or“green”, building in Torrance three years ago, it expected to save on its energy bills. The building offered natural lighting, electricity-generating rooftop solar panels and water recycling.
But something else also happened. Employee morale jumped while absenteeism(旷工) fell. The overall energy and worker productivity savings more than offset the added cost of making the facility environmentally friendly. “The lighting is easier on the eyes and on the nerves, ”Toyota employee Mary Jo Moutsios said. “I take a sense of pride in working in this building. It’s pleasant and feels more productive. ”
Results like Toyota’s are helping to spark a budding“green revolution”in American workplaces. The movement is starting to change how office buildings are designed and could render thousands of existing offices obso

[单项选择]Questions 11 to 14 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions.
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"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" meant that
A. Americans would lose if they gave way to fear.
B. Americans have no real troubles during the 1930s.
C. D.R. would solve America’s problems because he was not afraid.
D. Americans were in trouble because they hadn’t looked at their troubles with clear heads.

[单项选择]Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
From bankers to factory staff, employees in the West face the bleak prospect of losing their jobs as a global recession starts to bite. For colleagues in the East, the pain is more likely to come through a pay cut.
Human resource experts say cultural differences explain why Asian firms try harder to preserve jobs in difficult times, which will stem unemployment and may help keep Asian economies afloat at a time of slowing exports. The East Asian attitude may also make it easier for firms to recover quickly from the economic downturn since they will not need to rehire or train new staff, leaving some experts predicting a Western shift to Eastern flexibility.
"In the Confucian mindset, the right thing to do is to share the burden. There’s that sense of collective responsibility whereas in the West, it’s more about individual survival," said Michael Benoliel, associate professor of organizational
A. the development of global economy
B. the introduction of the best principles
C. the expansion of multinational firms
D. the furious competition

[单项选择]Questions 17 to 20 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions.
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At first country music was popular mainly in the ______.
A. South
B. Northeast and West
C. factories in Midwest
D. South and Northeast

[单项选择]Questions 14 to 16 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.
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Which of the following statements is NOT true
A. The ship described in this article was crossing the Arctic Ocean.
B. The men, women, and children on the boat were very frightened.
C. The hole in the boat opened into the engine room.
D. The captain’s arm was in the icy water for an hour.

[单项选择]Questions 11 to 13 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.
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Why does the Big Ben enjoy such a reputation
A. Because of its location.
B. Because of its weight and accuracy.
C. Because of its designers.
D. Because of the delicate design and its historical significance.

[单项选择]Questions 18 to 20 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.
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Most of the Olympics ceremonies are to
A. emphasize the justice and peace
B. promote the international friendship and peaceful cooperation
C. promote the ideals of sportsmanship in competition
D. insist on the mutual understanding and international aid