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[简答题]Questions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage:
Reading is not the only way to acquire knowledge of preceding work. There is another large reservoir which may be called experience, and the college student will find that every craftsman has something he can teach and will teach gladly to any college student who does not look down upon them.
The information from these quarters differs from that in textbooks and papers chiefly in that its theoretical part -the explanations of why things happen — is frequently quite fantastic. But the demonstration and report of what happens, and how it happens, are sound even if the reports are in completely unscientific terms. Presently the college student will learn, in this case also, what to accept and what to reject. One important thing for a college student to remember is that if Aristotle could talk to the fisherman, so can he.
Another source of knowledge is the vast store of traditional practices handed down
A. A.The college students have trouble separating good plants from wild weeds.
B.Craftsman’s experience is usually unscientific.
C.The contemptuous college students will receive no instructions from craftsmen.
D.Traditional practices are as important as experience for the college students.
[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.What will the counselors at the office help students do
A. Refine their interviewing techniques.
B. Arrange their work schedules.
C. Select appropriate courses.
D. Write cover letters.
[简答题]Questions 13 to 15 are based on the following passage:
A. A.They put out fire and rescue people.
B.They answer fire alarms.
C.They have to stay at the fire house until they are off duty.
D.They are proud of their job.
[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.
The term "mummy" was used to describe ______.
A. kings of ancient Egypt
B. the place where Egyptian kings were buried
C. the preserved body of a dead person
D. one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world
[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.
Jules Verne’s descriptions about future inventions were
A. often correct.
B. totally accurate.
C. entirely wrong.
D. merely fairy stories.
[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.
Americans ensure proper respect for the national flag by
A. making laws.
B. enforcing discipline.
C. educating the public.
D. holding ceremonies.
[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.
When did the greatest numbers of immigrants reach the United States of America
A. From 1840 to 1880.
B. From 1880to 1914.
C. From 1818to 1914.
D. From 1820to 1890.
[填空题]Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
If our society ever needed a reading renaissance(复兴), it’s now.The National Endowment for the Arts released "Reading at Risk" last year, a study showing that adult reading 47 have dropped 10 percentage points in the past decade, with the steepest drop among those 18 to 24. “Only one half of young people read a book of any kind in 2002. We set the bar almost on the ground. If you read one short story in a teenager magazine, that would have 48 , ”laments a director of research and analysis. He 49 the loss of readers to the booming world of technology, which attracts would-be leisure readers to E-mail, IM chats, and video games and leaves them with no time to cope with a novel.
“These new forms of media undoubtedly have some benefits,” says Steven Johnson, author of Everything Bad Is Good for You. Video games 50 problem solving skills; TV shows promote mental gymna
[单项选择]Questions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage.
One of the world’s most profitable news organizations is Fox News, an American cable-news channel that is part of Rupert Murdoeh’s News Corporation. Fox was set up in 1996 by Roger Ailes, a former media adviser to three Republican presidents, specifically to appeal to conservative viewers. Fox is famous for being opinionated (固执己见的) rather than for being profitable.
In a world where millions of new sources are emerging on the Internet, consumers are overwhelmed with information and want to be told what it all means. Fox is not the only news organisation that is unafraid to say what it thinks and is prospering as a result. Perhaps significantly, MSNBC, which has lately been positioning itself to appeal to a left-wing crowd, is picking up viewers. "It’s not quite as political as what Fox does, "says Phil Griffin, the president of MSNBC," but we definitely have a progressive sensibility. a sensibility to
A. It was created by journalists in recent years.
B. It was proposed by America’s Founding Fathers.
C. Its effectiveness varies from country to country.
D. It only serves certain economic and historical context.