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[填空题] Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
The partnership between humans and animals dates back to the first domestication of animals in the Stone Age, as long as 9,000 years ago. But never have animals provided such (47) and particular help to humans as they do today in the form of trained (48) to people with disabilities. These animals, usually dogs, help people (49) tasks that would otherwise be difficult or even impossible. Service animals are not (50) but working animals doing a job; thus, (51) such as the Americans with Disabilities Act(1990) in the United States and the Disability Discrimination Act (1995) in the United Kingdom make service animals exempt from rules that (52) animals from public places and business.
The most familiar service animals are guide dogs whose job is to help people with (53) weakness or disability move about safely. Systematic training of
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Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage:
Adam Smith was the first person to see the importance of the division of the labor. He gave us an example of the process by which pins were made in England.
"One man draws out the wire, another strengthens it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, and a fifth gives it a head. Just to make the head requires two or three different operations. The work of making pins is divided into about eighteen different operations, which in some factories are all performed by different people, though in others the same man will sometimes perform two or three of them.
Ten men, Smith said, in this way, turned out twelve pounds of pins a day or about 4, 800 pins a worker. (79) But if all of them had worked separately and independently without division of labor, they certainly could not have made twenty pins in a day and not even one.
There can be no doubt that division of labor is an efficient w
A. Division of labor can enable fewer people to make more pins.
B. Division of labor helps people to produce more of what they already have.
C. Division of labor is by no means responsible for economic growth.
D. Division of labor is an efficient way of organizing work.
[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.
According to the speaker, which of the following are important in the process of doing Yoga
A. Concentration and breathing.
B. Meditation and comfort.
C. Breathing and moving smoothly.
D. Flexibility and breathin
[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.
[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. rough
B. accurate
C. incorrect
D. perfect
[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. Arabs and Japanese have different ideas of privacy.
B. Body languages reflect cultural concepts.
C. Cultural differences between the West and the East.
D. People in different cultures have different concepts of space.
[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.
Now, listen to the passage.
Bob climbed an ice pinnacle
A. to look for his companion.
B. to look for seal.
C. to look for a polar bear.
D. to see the beautiful scene.
[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.
The proper title for this passage would be
A. Rat the Cleverest.
B. The Largest Grain Eater.
C. Our Most Dangerous Enemy--the Rat.
D. The Dangerous Diseases Carrier.
