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[单项选择]Questions 14 to i6 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the passage.
What is the main purpose of the talk
A. To explain the importance of learning rhythm and harmony in jazz.
B. To show that jazz is not really music at all.
C. To point out similarities between jazz and classical music.
D. To describe what makes a good jazz performanc
[单项选择]Questions 14 to 17 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 Gabriela Mistral become famous all over the world
A. She won the 1945 Nobel Prize in literature.
B. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.
C. She translated her books into many languages.
D. She advised many statesmen on international affairs.
[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.
Now, listen to the passage.
What was NOT mentioned in the lecture as one of the main elements to be considered by an architect
A. Function.
B. Appearance.
C. Tradition.
D. Durability.
[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.
During parties, the speaker used to
A. enjoy the wine and delicious foods.
B. pretend to be lonely.
C. sit alone and wait someone to talk to him.
D. talk to the interesting looking peopl
[填空题]Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.
With the global economy now taking more executives to far-away places like Beijing and Mumbai, jet lag is becoming a bigger problem, leading sleep researchers to work harder than ever to find suitable remedies.
Trips to the other side of the globe make adjusting a traveler’s body clock a more lasting process. Jet lag experts say they believe it takes one day for each time zone away from home, up to a maximum of six or seven days, to get fully in sync (同步) with local time.
There is no easy remedy. One problem in developing solutions is all the variation in travelers’ ability to handle jet lag. Sleep researchers have found that people who have dealt with sleep loss over long periods—on night shifts, for example can tolerate jet lag better than most. And older travelers also tend to get harder hit than the young by jet lag. About eight million corporate travelers made overseas trips last year, most of whom were
[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.
Why was the speed limit first reduced to 55 miles-per-hour
A. The older people wanted it.
B. The voters decided on it.
C. It was decided that speeds above that were not safe.
D. The US had a fuel crisis.
[填空题]Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
There is progress toward a possible treatment for lung diseases such as SARS ( severe acute respiratory syndrome ). Researchers have learned more about how the SARS virus works: it (47) with a system in the body that uses enzymes (酶) to control blood pressure and fluid balance. Scientists say the virus (48) to an enzyme known as ACE-two. The virus blocks the enzyme, permitting fluid to enter the lungs.
A team from Europe and Asia reported the (49) in Nature Medicine. Doctor Josef Penninger of the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology in the Austrian Academy of Sciences was the (50) writer of the report. The discovery could lead to a new (51) of treating not just SARS but also other diseases that can cause lung failure. These include avian flu (禽流感) and influenza in humans.
The first (52) of SARS were discovered in Guangdong provi
[单项选择]Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.
Car crashes are the leading cause of injury and death among U.S. children, and though most of us now think of car seats as standard baby equipment, about half of all children under the age of four who died in vehicle accidents last year were not restrained. It is calculated that only about two-thirds of children aged five to fifteen buckle their seat belts.
Moreover, the traffic-safety agency estimates that even among parents who always strap their children in, 85% are not doing t properly. They often don’t know where best to place the kids, don’t use the proper restraint for their age and weight, or don’t install the safety seats properly. Despite the reports about front seats collapsing onto back seats when certain car models get in accidents, the safest place in the car for any child up to the age of 12 is Still the back seat. Babies up to 9 kg and one year old should ride in rear-facing infant sea
A. might not be dangerous if switched off
B. is designed for the safety of children
C. is discharged at 320 km/h and will not triggered by other factors
D. is not working ifa child sits in the seat
[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. one has only himself to blame for not being able to understand something
B. he didn’t expect that everyone could understand the surrealist art
C. everybody should be able to learn to appreciate the surrealist art
D. the intricacy of the surrealist art should not be blamed on the artists
[单项选择]Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
Although there are body languages that can cross cultural boundaries, culture is still a significant factor in all body languages. This is particularly true of personal space needs. For example, Dr. Edward Hall has shown that in Japan crowding together is a sign of warm and pleasant intimacy. In certain situations, Hall believes that the Japanese prefer crowding.
Donald Keene, who wrote Living Japan, notes the fact that in the Japanese language there is no word for privacy. Still, this does not mean that there is no concept of the need to be apart from others. To the Japanese, privacy exists in terms of his house. He considers this area to be his own, and he dislikes invasion of it. The fact that he crowds together with others does not contradict his need for living space.
Dr. Hall sees this as a reflection of the Japanese concept of space. Westerners, he believed, see space as the distance between objec
A. the Japanese keep their closeness within limits while the Arabs don’t
B. the Arabs like to touch their companions but the Japanese don’t
C. the Arabs require more space in privacy than the Japanese
D. the Japanese do not mind being alone while the Arabs do
