[单项选择]Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
The current emergency in Mexico City that has taken over our lives is nothing. I could ever have imagined for me or my children. We are living in an environmental crisis, an air-pollution emergency of severity. What it really means is that just to breathe here is to play a dangerous game with your health.
As parents, what terrorizes us most are reports that children are at higher risk because they breathe more times per minute. What more can we do to protect them and ourselves Our pediatrician’s(儿科医师的) medical recommendation was simple：abandon the city permanently. We are foreigners and we are among the small minority that can afford to leave. We are here because of my husband’s work. We are fascinated by Mexico—its history and rich culture. We know that for us, this is a temporary danger. However, we cannot stand for much longer the fear we feel for our boys. We cannot stop them from br
A. Kids are in fewer dangers than grown-ups in Mexico City.
B. The author is a native Mexican.
C. The author’s husband is a pediatrician.
D. The Mexican history and culture appeal to the author.

[单项选择]Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.
Proper arrangement of classroom space is important to encouraging interaction. Most of us have noticed how important physical setting is to efficiency and comfort in our work. College classroom space should be designed to encourage the activity of critical thinking.
We have entered the twenty-first century, but step into almost any college classroom and you step back in time at least a hundred years. Desks are normally in straight rows, so students can clearly see the teacher but not all their classmates. The assumption behind such an arrangement is obvious. Everything of importance comes from the teacher.
With a little imagination and effort, unless desks are fixed to the floor, the teacher can correct this situation and create space that encourages interchange among students. In small or standard-size classes, chairs, desks and tables can be arranged in a variety of ways. The primary goal should be for everyo
A. the teacher saves the trouble in doing that
B. learning is made comfortable in this way
C. the teacher can easily remember students’ names and faces
D. brighter students can help slower ones

[填空题]Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.
Motorways are no doubt the safest roads in the country. Mile for mile, vehicle for vehicle you are much less likely to be killed or seriously injured than on an ordinary, road. On the other hand, motorways have a far better accident record than any other part of our national road system because of the speed and volume of traffic. If you do have a serious accident on a motorway, fatalities are much more likely to occur than in a comparable accident elsewhere on the roads. It is reported that motorway accidents account for some 10% of all injuries out side urban areas.
Motorways have no sharp, bends, no roundabouts or traffic lights and thus speeds are much greater than on other roads. Though the 70 m.p.h, limit is still in force, it is often treated with the contempt that most drivers have for the 30 m.p.h, limit applied in built-up areas in Britain. Added to this is the fact that motorway drivers seem to like t

[单项选择] Questions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage.
The poor old consumer! We’d have to pay a great deal more if advertising didn’t create mass markets for products. It is precisely because of the heavy advertising that consumer goods are so cheap. But we get the wrong idea if we think the only purpose of advertising is to sell goods. Another equally important function is to inform. A great deal of the knowledge we have about household goods derives largely from the advertisements we read. Advertisements introduce us to new products or remind us of the existence of ones we already know about. Supposing you wanted to buy a washing machine, it is more than likely you would obtain details regarding performance, price, etc, from an advertisement.
Lots of people pretend that they never read advertisements, but this claim may be seriously doubted. It is hardly possible not to read advertisements these days. And what fun they often are, too! Just think what a railw
A. we have cheap goods because of heavy advertising
B. we know to inform is one of the functions of advertising
C. we have much knowledge about household goods
D. we believe the only purpose of advertising is to sell goods

[单项选择]Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
Do you want to live forever By the year 2050, you might actually get your wish — providing you are willing to leave your biological body and take up residence in silicon circuits. But long before then, perhaps as early as 2005, less radical measures will begin offering as semblance (外表) of immortality.
Researchers are confident that technology will soon be able to track every waking moment of your life. Whatever you see and hear, plus all that you say and write, can be recorded, analyzed and automatically indexed, and added to your personal chronicles (历代记 ). By the 2030s, it may be possible to capture your nervous system’s electrical activities, which would also preserve your thoughts and emotions. Researchers at the Laboratories of British Telecommunications have defined this concept as Soul Catcher.
Small electronic equipment will pave the way for Soul Catcher. It would use a wearable supercomputer, perhaps
A. human beings long for an immortal life
B. there are many difficulties in making the Soul Catcher
C. people can live immortally as technology develops
D. the invention of Soul Catcher has great significance

[填空题]Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
Language barriers present a variety of challenges for children of any age. In Houston alone, bilingual education programs have helped many grade-school students (47) the trials that accompany not being able to speak English.
In the past, such vital curriculum was not always readily (48) for children who needed it. One person who experienced the (49) of school life without a bilingual program was UH education professor Yolanda Padr6n.
As a child, Padr6n and her family moved from Cuba to the United States. Settling in Landover, Mass., she was placed into elementary school, but had no working (50) of English. With that, she found herself at a (51) disadvantage.
"When I came here, I was in the fifth grade, but because I didn’t speak English, they put me back a year," she said. "We lived there for about six months before we moved to Houston. When I came h

[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.

The word "wristwatch" first appear in the English language
A. until the 1850s.
B. in the late 1700s.
C. well into the 1800s.
D. until nearly 1900.

[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.

______ is the driving force of the formation of a typhoon.
A. Water
B. Heat
C. Air
D. Wind

[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.

How does GDP differ from GNP
A. GNP does not include earnings of companies operating in foreign countries.
B. GDP counts only goods and services produced within the nation’s borders.
C. GDP refers to earnings from home-made products.
D. Earnings by foreign-owned companies are not included in GDP.

[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.
Now, listen to the passage.
About ______ American homes have the habit of keeping pets.
A. 43%
B. 57%
C. 75%
D. 25%

[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.

When a consumer finds that his purchase has a fault in it, what is the first thing he should do
A. Complain personally to the manager.
B. Threaten to take the matter to court.
C. Write a firm letter of complaint to the store of purchase.
D. Show some written proof of the purchase to the stor