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[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.
What kind of sounds is harmful for your hearing
A. Traffic on a busy street.
B. Jet plane taking off.
C. Sound that the average person can hear.
D. Sounds up to 80 decibels.
[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.
Greeks must ______ to keep the dead resting in everlasting peace.
A. rent a grave
B. bum the body
C. bury the dead near a church
D. buy a piece of land for a grave
[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.
I’ve always been an optimist and I suppose that is rooted in my belief that the power of creativity and intelligence can make the world a better place.
For as long as I can remember, I’ve loved learning new things and solving problems. So when I sat down at a computer for tile first time in seventh grade, I was hooked. It was a clunky old teletype machine and it could barely do anything compared to the computers we have today. But it changed my life.
Computers have transformed how we learn, giving kids everywhere a window into all of the world’s knowledge. They’re helping us build communities around the things we care about and to stay close to the people who are important to us, no matter where they are.
Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it "tap-dancing to work." My job at Microsoft is as challenging as ever, but what
A. It was old but inspirational.
B. It was curious but beautiful.
C. It was the most practical tool he had ever used.
D. It was the source of his knowledge and power.
[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.
What is the problem of brown rice
A. It has much lower production.
B. It has less starch than white rice.
C. It is shorter in releasing sugar than white rice.
D. It is less available to people in poor countries.
[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.
What kind of food can be kept when flooding happens
A. Boxes of juice.
B. Food in soft packaging.
C. Food in a waterproof container.
D. All-mental cans in good condition.
[单项选择]Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.
One principle of taxation, called the benefit principle, states that people should pay taxes based on the benefits they receive from government services. This principle tries to make public goods similar to __36__ goods. It seems reasonable that a person who often goes to the movies pays more in __37__ for movie tickets than a person who rarely goes. And __38__ a person who gets great benefit from a public good should pay more for it than a person who gets little benefit.
The gasoline tax, for instance, is sometimes __39__ using the benefits principle. In some states, __40__ from the gasoline tax are used to build and maintain roads. Because those who buy gasoline are the same people who use the roads, the gasoline tax might be viewed as a __41__ way to pay this government service.
The benefits principle can also be used to argue that wealthy citizens should pay higher taxes than poorer ones, __42__ because the wealthy benefi
[单项选择] Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
Some families in America and elsewhere have started buying child friendly mobile phones outfitted with GPS (Global Positioning System) technology.
These phones and their related tracking services allow parents to pinpoint the location of their children with ease. Parents agree to pick up the phone bill in return for the reassurance of knowing where their children are; children are prepared to put up with the watching if they are allowed to have a phone.
Mobile operators in America are now launching tracking services. Under a federal decree known as E911, they had to upgrade their networks to ensure that anyone dialing the 911 emergency number could be located to within 100 metres. Some operators opted for triangulation technology, which determines the location of the handset by comparing the signals received by different base stations. But Verizon and Sprint chose to adopt the more expensive but more
A. The prospect of tracking services.
B. Mobile phones with GPS functions.
C. The application of location services.
D. The dominating tracking systems.
[填空题]Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.
According to the latest OECD Migration Outlook, America received 1,107,000 permanent immigrants in 2008. About 73% of them came for family re-unification, which often means they are unskilled. About 15% came as refugees, and only 7% were labour migrants, meaning they came for work. There were also 340,700 temporary migrants who came on student visas. So much family and refugee migration makes sense for humanitarian reasons, but does it make sense economically The American economy would benefit from more skilled workers, so why do they make up such a small fraction of migrant flows
The low fraction of labour migrants in America is due to the few work visas available. Most labour migrants must have an American employer sponsor them. Most skilled workers initially come as temporary migrants under an H1-B visa. After a few years, if your employer sponsors you, this can be converted into permanent reside
[单项选择]Questions 27 to 31 are based on the following passage．
It is universally known that friendship is one of the ever—going themes in the literature of all languages．This is because human beings were born to need the warmth and respect from friends．Indeed，people，old and young，male and female，at work or at leisure， unsurprisingly or unexpectedly，are meeting new people and making new friends every day．However，it is impossible for US to make friends with everybody．We have to choose true friends．Some of US like similar friends，while others different friends．Personally，I prefer both．
It goes without saying that having similar friends has many advantages．We can feel a sense of strength when we have a group of old friends who share our suffering and happiness．Naturally，anybody with an ambition in life，either to become an artist or all engineer or a politician，will feel a special need to be surrounded by friends whose assistance and encouragement will add to his confid
A. receive their assistance
B. be exposed to new things
C. develop the trust to them
D. share your suffering and happiness
