上海中学2011学年高三年级摸底考试英语试卷
Section A
Direction: beneath each of the following
sentences there are four choices marked A, B, C and
D.
Choose the other answer that best
completes the sentence.
25. The strength of
a family, like the strength of an army, is__________ its loyalty to
each other.
A. of
B. in
C. on
D. with
26. The single
biggest problem with communication is the illusion that__________
has taken place.
A. it
B. one
C. latter
D. lately
27. A retired
Army Sergeant, who is used to people being on time, will probably
have less of a tolerance for employees who are__________ than
someone who has worked at home for the last 10 years.
A. late
B. later
C. latter
D. lately
28. Where we love
is home, home that our feet__________ leave, but not our
hearts.
A. must
B. should
C. shall
D. may
29. What we do for
ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the
world__________ and is immortal.
A. remained
B. has been remained
C. remains
D. is remained
30. We didn’t
understand__________ he said meant.
A. what
B. all that
C. all what
D. what all
31. Pretending he
hadn’t notice her__________ expressions, he sat down as usually to
his breakfast
A. shocking
B. shocked
C. having shocked
D. being shocked
32. He got
well-prepared for the job interview, for he couldn’t risk__________
the good opportunity.
A. to lose
B. losing
C. to be lost
D. being lost
33. __________
snacks and drinks, but they also brought cards for entertainment
when they had a picnic in the forest.
A. Not only they brought
B. Not only did they bring
C. Not only brought they
D. Not only they did bring
34. Tragedy is a
tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a
guide__________.
A. which to live by
B. by which to live
C.
which live by
D. by which one live
35. The
African Union was unable to decide on the countries__________ to
have permanent seats, but
South Africa, Nigeria and Egypt are said to be leading
candidates.
A. they want
B. want
C. it wants
D. that wants
36. __________ the
water has become polluted is a matter of grave concern.
A. If
B. When
C. /
D. That
37. The life
he had lost had hardly ever seemed so real to him__________ at this
moment when he knew he was about to see the place where it had been
taken from him.
A. that
B. like
C. as
D. while
38. Jasmine was
holidaying with her family in a wildlife park__________ she was
bitten on the leg by at lion.
A. when
B. while
C. since
D. once
39. The flowers
__________ sweet in the botanic garden attract the visitors to the
beauty of nature.
A. to smell
B. smelling
C. smelt
D. to be smelt
40. Wearing
school uniforms is not __________ we call a fashion but something
that can promote the school price and reputation.
A. how
B. whether
C. what
D. That
41. Of all
the preposterous（荒谬的）
assumptions of humanity nothing
exceeds the criticisms made of the habits of the poor__________ the
well-housed, well warmed, and well-fed.
A. of
B. in
C. for
D. by
42. No matter how
fast light travels, it find the darkness__________ there first and
is waiting for it.
A. is always
B. will always get
C. is always getting
D. has always got
Section B
Direction: Complete the following passage
by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once.
Note that there is one word more than you need.
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A.
purpose
B.
occurs
C.
active
D.
simply
E.
feedback
AB. polite
AC.
interpretation AD.
intelligently BC.
requires
BD.
motivation
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Hearing
and listening are not the same thing. Hearing is the act of
perceiving（感觉，认知）sound. It is involuntary and 43__________ refers
to the reception of aural stimuli（听觉刺激）. Listening is a selective activity that involves
the reception and the 44__________ of aural stimuli. It involves
decoding the sound into meaning.
Listening
is divided into two main categories: passive and active.
Passive
listening is little more than hearing. It 45__________ when the
receiver or the message has little 46__________to listen carefully,
such as music, story telling, television, or being 47__________.
People speak at 100 to 175 words per minute, but they can listen
48__________at 600 to 800 words per minute. Since only a part of
our mind is paying attention, it is easy to go into mind
drift—thinking about other things while listening to
someone.
The cure for
this is active listening—listening with a 49__________. It may be
to gain information, obtain directions, understand others, solve
problems, share interest, see how another person feels, show
support, etc. I t 50__________that the listener attend to the words
and feelings of the sender for understanding. It takes the same
amount or more energy than speaking as it requires the receiver to
hear the various parts of the message, understand the meaning, and
then verify（核实）the meaning by offering 51__________ .
Ⅲ. Reading
Comprehension
Section A
Direction: For each blank in the following
passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill
in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the
context.
(A)
Proverbs
are the popular sayings that brighten so much Latin American
talk—the boiled-down wisdom that you are as apt（易于）to hear from ___52____as from peasants,
from beggars as from elegants. Brief and colorful, they more often
than not carry a sting.
When
a neighbor’s dismally ___53____daughter an hounced her
___54____, Imelda remarked, “you know what they say: There
is no pot so ugly that it can’t find a lid.” And when her
son-in-law blustered about how he was going to
___55____the boss who had cut his pay, Imelda fixed him with
a cold eye and said,“Little fish does not eat big
fish.”
One afternoon, I heard
Imelda and her daughter ___56____in the kitchen. Her
daughter had ___57____her husband’s parents and Imelda was
___58____she apologize to them. Her daughter
___59____,“But, Mama, I just can’t ___60____ them, not
even with ___61____. They talk so big until we need
something; then they’re too poor. So today when they wouldn’t even
lend us enough to pay for a new bed, all I did was say something
that I’ve heard you say a hundred time:‘If so grand, why so poor? If so poor, why so
grand?’”
“Impertinent（真无礼）!”snorted Imelda.
“Have I not have
___62____you, ‘What the tongue says, the neck pays for ’ ? I
will not have it said that I could never teach my daughter proper
___63____for her elders. And before you go to
___64____their pardon, change those trousers for a dress.
You know how mother-in-law feels about pants on a woman. She always
says, ‘What was hatched a hen must not cry to be a
rooster!’”
Her daughter made one
more ___65____. “But Mama, you often
say, ‘if the saint is annoyed, don’t pray to him until he
___66___it.’Can’t I leave it for tomorrow?”
52. A. students
B. workers
C.
clerks
D. professors
53. A. appealing
B. unattractive
C. plain
D. common
54. A. engagement
B. marriage
C. divorce
D. proposal
55. A.
reward
B. beg
C. revenge
D. leave
56. A. talking
B. arguing
C. discussing
D. laughing
57. A. talked with
B. met with
C. turned down
D. quarreled with
58. A.
begging
B. suggesting
C. blaming
D. insisting
59. A.
complained
B. asked
C. objected
D. bragged
60. A. ignore
B. bear
C. believe
D. swallow
61. A.
honey
B. money
C. water
D. milk
62. A. taught
B. reminded
C. informed
D. convinced
63. A. care
B. respect
C. gratefulness
D. patience
64. A.
return
B. ask
C. beg
D. gain
65. A. reply
B. move
C. cry
D. suggestion
66. A. gets
over
B. gets into
C.
gets off
D. gets up
(B)
The private
automobile has long played an important role in the United States.
In fact it has become an integral part of the American
___67____In 1971 eighty-three percent of American families.
owned at least one car, and twenty-eight percent had more than one.
By giving workers rapid, convenient transportation, the automobile
has ___68____hem from having to live
near their place of work. This has fostered(促进) the growth of the ___69____, but it has
also led to traffic problems in the city. In addition, the
automobile has contributed to the ___70____, of neighborhood
ties by making it easy to ___71____ friendships at a
distance and to enjoy leisure activities far from home.
For farm families the automobile is a great boon
（恩惠）. It has relieved
their ___72____, making it possible for them to travel to
town ___73____for business and for pleasure, and also to
transport their children to distant schools.
Family life has been affected in various ways. The car helps to
keep families together when it is used for picnics, outings,
camping trips, and other ___74____experiences. However, when
teenage children have the use of the car (or own one): they can
easily ___75____family supervision. If they are immature,
they sometimes become ___76___situations which lead to
serious trouble. For some – young or old - having the use of an
automobile leads to dangerous traffic accidents, caused by
carelessness or by deliberate breaking of the ___77____laws.
In 1971, over 5000 people were killed in auto accidents in the
United States, and many more were injured_ This toll has been
somewhat reduced by the gasoline shortage which has decreased
driving __78____and has also ___79____the speed
limit.
For many Americans the automobile is a necessity as well as a (n)
___80____. But for some, it is also a mark of social status,
an important middle-class ___81____; and for young people, a
sign of becoming an adult. Altogether, cars mean very much to
Americans.
67. A.
economy
B lifestyle
C. people
D. culture
68. A.
prevented
B. discouraged
C. prohibited
D. freed
69. A. city
B. countryside
C suburbs
D. downtown
70. A.
breaking
B.
strengthening
C. emerging
D. weakening
71. A. keep
up
B. set up
C. make up
D. put up
72. A.
separation
B. departure
C. isolation
D. desperation
73. A. frequently
B. occasionally
C. suddenly
D. generally
74. A.
common
B. shared
C. particular
D. unusual
75. A. turn
against
B.
escape from
C. engage in
D. stick to
76. A. involved in
B. addicted to
C. attached to
D. intended for
77. A.
constitutional
B. criminal
C. driving
D. strict
78. A. in
particular
B. in some
degree
C in general
D in public
79. A.
prevented
B. narrowed
C shortened
D. lowered
80. A.
must
B. glory
C. honors
D convenience
81. A. symbol
B. signal
C. gesture
D. indication.
Section B
Direction: Read the following passages.
Each
passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements.
For each of them in passage A, B and C, there are four choices
marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to
the information given in the passage you have just
read.
(A)
Doctors have been advising us for years to "use it or lose it":
that is, to stay as intellectually active as possible into our
waning years in order to avoid dementia. But the latest research
shows that brain training comes at a price.
In a study of 1,157
men and women age 65 or older, researchers led by Dr. Robert Wilson
at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago found that people who
remained intellectually stimulated — by playing cards or other
games, reading or visiting museums — were diagnosed with dementia
later than those who were not as cognitively active. But once
dementia set in, the group who participated in mentally stimulating
activities experienced a much more rapid cognitive decline. Over
the 12-year study, for each additional point they gained on a
measure of cognitive activity, the intellectually stimulated group
experienced a 52% greater decline in cognitive impairment, after
being diagnosed with dementia.
“Brain
activity is not stopping the underlying neurobiology of dementia,
but for a while, it seems to be effective in delaying the
additional appearance of symptoms," says Wilson. "But the benefit
of delaying the initial symptoms comes at the cost of more rapid
progression of dementia once it makes its appearance."
While
brain exercises can help the brain continue to function despite the
accumulating biological changes underlying dementia and
Alzheimer's, at some point, says Wilson, the scales tip — that
activity can no longer compensate for the growing volume of
deteriorating alterations in the brain. "At that point, the patient
is pretty much at the mercy of the pathology," he says. And that's
why, once the symptoms of dementia become obvious, those who were
able to push off their diagnosis are likely to be at a more
advanced stage of disease.
The findings,
published Wednesday in Neurology, should not discourage people from
remaining cognitively active, says Dr. William Thies, chief medical
officer of the Alzheimer's Association, and in fact raises
interesting questions about how we as a society should approach
age-related brain changes. Surveys consistently show that most of
us would prefer to remain as functionally intact as possible and
experience a short period of physical or mental disability before
death. Gradual cognitive decline, which is the hallmark of
Alzheimer's disease, is challenging for patients, their caregivers
and society, as the health costs of chronic care continue to climb.
But the current study suggests that more people may be able to
telescope their mental decline into a shorter and more concentrated
time period. "I think the results suggested by this paper are
something that people would regard as positive," he says. "And this
is the sort of study we really need if we are ever going to
understand how to manage all aspects of dementia as a
society."
82. The word
“dementia” can be best replaced by
A. mental disease
B. brain damage
C. cognitive decline D.
Biological changes
83. The
sentence underlined suggests that when the brain exercises can no
longer compensate for the worsening alterations in the brain,
__________.
A. the volume of the worsening alterations in brain determines the
seriousness of the disease
B. the patient no longer needs to do brain exercises and has to be
taken care of by the doctors
C. the doctors can only treat the patient
based on his pathological conditions
D. the accumulating biological changes underlying dementia can’t be
ignored by the patient
84. According to
Dr. William Thies, the findings should be viewed
as__________.
A. discouraging
B. interesting
C. challenging
D. positive
85. What can we
infer from the passage?
A. Brain training is very expensive for those who want to stay
cognitively active.
B. The costs of taking care of an Alzheimer’s patient continue to
go up.
C. Those who do brain exercises will definitely suffer from
dementia at last.
D. We need more studies to understand how
to manage dementia as a society.
(B)
When I was a
child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my
pocket with coppers. I went at once to a shop where they sold toys
for children. Being charmed with the sound of a whistle that I had
seen by the way, in the hands of another boy, I handed over all my
money for one. I then came home, and went whistling all over the
house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family.
My brothers and sisters and cousins, when I told of the bargain I
had made, said I had given four times as much as the whistle was
worth. They put me in mind of what good things I might have bought
with the rest of the money, and laughed at me so much for my folly
that I cried with vexation. Thinking about the matter gave me more
chagrin than the whistle gave me pleasure.
This,
however, was afterwards of use to me, for the impression continued
on my mind, so that often, when I was tempted to buy something I
did not need, I said to myself, "Don't give too much for the
whistle," and I saved my money. As I grew up, came into the world,
and observed the actions of men, I thought I met with many, very
many, who "gave too much for the whistle".
If I knew
a miser who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the
pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow
citizens and the joys of friendship, for the sake of gathering and
keeping wealth—"Poor man," said I, "you pay too dear for your
whistle." When I met a man of pleasure, who did not try to improve
his mind or his fortune but merely devoted himself to having a good
time, perhaps neglecting his health, "Mistaken man," said I, "you
are providing pain for yourself, instead of pleasure; you are
paying too dear for your whistle." If I saw someone fond of
appearance who had fine clothes, fine houses, fine furniture, fine
earrings, all above his fortune, and for which he had run into
debt, "Alas," said I, "he has paid dear, very dear, for his
whistle." In short the miseries of mankind are largely due to their
putting a false value on things—to giving "too much for their
whistles".
86. What is the
“whistle” of a mister?
A. Every kind of comfortable living
B. All the pleasure of doing good to others
C. The joys of friendship
D. Gathering and keeping
wealth
87. A man of
pleasure pays too dear for his whistle by__________.
A. caring about having a good time
B. not trying to making his fortune
C. neglecting his mind, fortune and
health
D. ending up by providing himself with pain
88. From the
author’s childhood experience, he finally learned
to__________.
A. manage money wisely
B. to observe people around
C. to put a reasonable value on things
D. to avoid all the miseries in life
(C)
On a sunny
morning last week, I went out and put up a swing for a little girl,
age three, under an apple tree-the tree being much older than the
girl, the sky being blue, the clouds white. I pushed the little
girl for a few minutes, then returned to the house and settled down
to an article on death dust, or radiological warfare, in the July
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Volume V1, No.7.
The
article ended on a note of disappointment. “The area that can be
poisoned with the fission（分裂）products available to us today is disappointingly
small; it amounts to not more than two or three major cities per
month.” At first glance, the sentence sounded satirical, but a
rereading convinced me that the scientist’s disappointment was real
enough-that it had the purity of detachment. The world of the
child in the swing（the trip to the blue sky and back
again）seemed, as I studied the ABC of death dust, more
and more a dream world with no true relation to things as they are
or to the real world of discouragement over the slow rate of the
disappearance of cities.
Probably the
scientist-author of the death-dust article,, if he were revising
his literary labors with a critical eye, would change the working
of that queer sentence. But the fact is, the sentence got written
and published. The terror of the atom age is not the violence of
the new power but the speed of man’s adjustment to it-the speed of
his acceptance. Already, bomb proofing is on approximately the same
level as mothproofing（防蛀）.Two or three major cities per month isn’t much of
an area, but it is a start. To the purity of
science（which hopes to enlarge the area）there seems to be no corresponding purity of
political thought, never the same detached in its way as the
statement of the scientist on the death dust. This
delegate（and it makes no difference what nation he draws
his pay from）must be a man who has not adjusted to the age of
dust. He must be a person who still dwells in the mysterious dream
world of swing, and little girls in swings. He must be more than a
good chess player studying the future; he must be a memoirist
remembering the past.
I couldn’t seem to
separate the little girl from radiological warfare-she seemed to
belong with it, although inhabiting another sphere. The article
kept getting back to her. “This is a novel type of warfare, in that
it produces no destruction, except to life.” The weapon, said the
author, can be regarded as a remarkably humane one. In a sense, it
gives each member of the target population（including each little girl）a choice of whether he will live or die.” It turns
out that the way to life-if that be your choice-is to leave the
city as soon as the dust arrives, holding ‘a folded, dampened
handkerchief” over your nose and mouth. I went outdoors again to
push the swing some more for the little girl, who is always
forgetting her handkerchief. At lunch I watched her try to fold her
napkin. It seemed to take forever.
As I lay in bed that
night, thinking of cities and target populations, I saw the child
again. This time she was with the other little girls in the subway.
When the train got to
Street,
which is as far as it goes into unreality, the children got off.
They started to walk slowly north. Each child had a handkerchief,
and every handkerchief was properly moistened and folded neatly-the
way it said in the story.
89. The word
〝detachment〞in the second paragraph is closest in meaning
to
.
A. irony
B. discouragement
C. disappointment
D. indifference
90. The
ultimate reason why the sentence of the scientist-author of the
death-dust article was written and published is
that__________.
A. the scientist-author had no true
relation with the real world
B. the scientist-author hadn’t revised it with a critical
eye
C. man had quickly accepted and adjusted to the new
power
D. the scientist-author was inhabiting another sphere
91 The author of
this passage appeals to the delegates of the Security Council
to
.
A. agree with the scientist on the death dust
B. dwell in the mysterious dream world of
swing
C. be good chess players studying the future
D. issue a statement to disagree with the
scientist-author
92. What does the
author imply in the last paragraph?
A. Cities will finally disappear and people will all leave as a
result of death dust.
B. Our kids will have to suffer and flee
for life if we really let it happen.
C. The Security Council didn’t take any steps to stop death
dust.
D. People are willing to leave with moistened and folded
handkerchief.
(D)
A train
whistle always brings on a feeling of nostalgia. Perhaps it’s
because many of us remember a favorite novel or movie that occurred
on a train and the story of danger and excitement. There’s a sense
of romance about a train that simply doesn’t exist on a modern jet
plane, which, though, is way faster than a train. Several railroad
companies are taking advantage of the nostalgia for train travel:
They are offering unique tours for travelers who aren’t in a hurry
and who enjoy the romance of the past.
For almost a
hundred years, the famous Orient Express carried royalty, the rich,
spies like Mata Hari and Sydney Reilly, and dangerous international
criminals. It was the scene of mystery, crime, and often history.
But after World War Ⅱ, when air travel became popular, it never
got back its old sense of romance, and it finally went out of
business in 1977. Soon after that, however, an American businessman
began to buy the old Orient Express cars and fix them up. He
restored the train to its former condition, and, since 1982,the
Venice Simplon Orient=Express（V.S.O.E）has run twice a week from London to Venice and
back. Although the twenty-four-hour trip doesn’t offer the danger
and excitement-the adventure-of the past, it offers luxury: rich
dark wood, fresh flowers, champagne, very special food, and live
entertainment in a bar car with a piano.
Another
famous excursion by train is the Trans-Siberian Special, which
makes just three trips each summer from Mongolia to Moscow. As
passengers board the train at the beginning of their trip, they
toast one another with Russian vodka at a welcoming party. For the
next week they cross Russia with occasional stops for sightseeing
in big cities and small villages. In addition, there is a bonus on
this trip; this extra advantage is a daily lecture on board the
train in which an expert on Russian life explains Russian history
and culture to the passengers.
If you are looking for
fun and adventure, you might want to try the “Mystery Express,”
which runs from New York to Montreal, Canada. This trip interests
people who have always wanted to play a role in an Agatha Christie
play or a Sherlock Holmes detective novel. A typical journey on the
Mystery Express offers the opportunity to solve a challenging
murder mystery right there on the train. In the middle of the
night, for instance, there might be a gunshot; soon, the passengers
learn that there has been; “murder” on board. For the rest of the
trip, everyone on board participates in solving this mystery by
exchanging information and opinions about the crime. By the time
the train has pulled into Montreal, the traveling “detectives” will
have figured it out and caught the “criminal”. Of course, no real
crime takes place. The “murderer”-as well as several other
passengers- are actually actors. The trip is a safe, entertaining.
And very creative weekend game.
If you’re’
looking for variety and beauty on a train journey, you might want
to try the trains of India. The Indian government offers several
special tours. One, a fifty-mile trip on the famous “Toy Train”,
takes seven hours one way. The train travels through rich,
luxurious forests with flowers trees, and more than six hundred
varieties of birds. Before it reaches its destination, it makes
several stops so that passengers can take photos or have picnics if
they want to.
Another
tour, “Palace ON Wheels”, is for travelers with more time and
money. Each of the luxurious cars on this train used to belong to a
maharajah, or Indian prince. For seven days, passengers go
sightseeing to palaces and cities where musicians, camels, and
women with flowers meet them.
Perhaps
the most unusual Indian train is “The Great Indian Rover”, for
travelers who are interested in religion. On this six-day tour from
Calcutta, passengers travel to famous places such as
Lumbini（in Nepal）,where Buddha was born, and Bodhgaya, where Prince
Gautama sat under the bodhi tree and became Buddha.
93. The famous
Orient Express went out of business in 1977
because__________.
A. World War Ⅱbroke out
B. it carried too many criminals
C. train travel was out of fashion
D. the trains were too broken to function
94. By taking the
Trans-Siberian Special, people can
.
A. get closer to Russian life and
culture
B. get to know each other very well
C. visit a lot of small villages
D. spend their whole summer on the train
95. What will
happen on “Mystery Express”?
A. Passengers will read a detective novel
B. A challenging crime will occur
C. Passengers will watch a new role play
D. Passengers will participate in a role play
96. John is a
very rich man who loves reading detective stories. He would like to
spend his summer vacation traveling and learning about Buddism.
Which train travel would you recommend to him?
A. Orient Express
B. Mystery Express
C. Palace on the Wheels.
D. The Great Indian rover
(E)
Crippling health care
bills, long emergency-room waits and the inability to find a
primary care physician just scratch the surface of the problems
that patients face daily.
Primary care should be
the backbone of any health care system. Countries with appropriate
primary care resources score highly when it comes to health
outcomes and cost. The U.S. takes the opposite approach by
emphasizing the specialist rather than the primary care
physician.
A recent study
analyzed the providers who treat Medicare
beneficiaries（老年医保受惠人）. The startling finding was that the average
Medicare patient saw a total of seven doctors-two primary care
physicians and five specialists in a given year. Contrary to
popular belief, the more physicians taking care of you don’t
guarantee better care. Actually, increasing fragmentation of care
results in a corresponding rise in cost and medical
errors.
How
did we let primary care slip so far? The key is how doctors are
paid, Most physicians are paid whenever they perform a medical
service. The more a physician does, regardless of quality or
outcome, the better he’s reimbursed（返还费用）. Moreover, the amount a physician receives leans
heavily toward medical or surgical procedures. A specialist who
performs a procedure in a 30-minute visit can be paid three times
more than a primary care physician using that same 30 minutes to
discuss a patient’s disease. Combing this fact with annual
government threats to indiscriminately cut reimbursements,
physicians are faced with no choice but to increase quantity to
boost income.
Primary
care physicians who refuse to compromise quality are either driven
out of business or to cash-only practices, further contributing to
the decline of primary care.
Medical
students are not blind to this scenario. They see how heavily the
reimbursement deck is stacked against primary care. The recent
numbers show that since 1997, newly graduated U.S. medical students
who choose primary care as a career have declined by 50%. This
trend results in emergency rooms being overwhelmed with patients
without regular doctors.
How
do we fix this problem?
It
starts with reforming the physician reimbursement system. Remove
the pressure for primary care physicians to squeeze in more
patients per hour, and reward them for optimally（最佳地）
managing their diseases and
practicing evidence-based medicine. Make primary care more
attractive to medical students by forgiving student loans for those
who choose primary care as a career and reconciling the marked
difference between specialist and primary care physician
salaries.
We’re
at a point where primary care is needed more than ever. Within a
few year, the first wave of the 76 million Baby Boomers will become
eligible for Medicare. Patients older than 85, who need chronic
care most, will rise by 50% this decade.
Who
will be there to treat them?
97. The author’s
chief concern about the current U.S. health care system
is
.
A. the inadequate training of physicians
B. the declining number of doctors
C. the shrinking primary care
resources
D. the ever-rising health care costs
98. We learn from
the passage that people tend to believe that
.
A. the more costly the medicine, the more
effective the cure
B. seeing more doctors may result in more diagnostic
errors
C. visiting doctors on a regular basis ensures good
health
D. the more doctors taking care of a patient, the better
99. Why do many new
medical graduates refuse to choose primary care as their
career?
A. They find the need for primary care declining
B. The
current system works against primary care
C. Primary care physicians command less
respect
D. They think working in emergency rooms tedious
100. What
suggestion does the author give in order to provide better health
care?
A. Bridge the salary gap between specialists and primary care
physicians
B. Extend primary care to patients with
chronic diseases
C. Recruit more medical students by offering them loans
D. Reduce the tuition of students who choose primary care as their
major
Section C
Directions: Read the following text and
choose the most suitable heading from A-F for each
paragraph.
There is one extra heading which you do
not need.
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A. Do
established musicians have a responsibility to guide and assist
young up-and-coming musicians?
B.
Did anyone promote your musical education when you were growing
up?
C. What
kind of “world music” do you enjoy'?
D. What's
your comment on pop music?
E. Does the contemporary music press give jazz the coverage it
deserves?
AB. What's wrong with the music on the radio?
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An interview with Wynton Marsalis, a noted
jazz musician
101. ( )
( B
)
There were
the older Jazz musicians who hung around our house when I was
young. I saw how much they practiced, how serious they were about
their art. I knew then I had to work just as hard if I wanted to
succeed. Of course, my father inspired me a lot, and many teachers
took the time to nurture my talent and the talents of other
students in our
school.
102. ( )
( A
)
Yes. We've done such a poor job with music education because, as a
society, we haven't maintained the kind of education that a true
artist and musician needs. Young people haven't been able to equate
romance and talent with music. For instance, most of the people who
make it in the music industry today have to look good. How they
sound is secondary. Sarah Vaughan, Bessie Smith, Ella Fitzgerald –
those big, romantic queens of jazz music wouldn't make it in
today's music industry, and that's a shame. We need to teach young
people about the alternatives.
103. (
)
( C )
Around the world people make music that, if you listen carefully to
it, sounds a little like the cadence of their language. I'd call it
folk music. When I'm away from home, I make a point of listening to
regional folk music, not what's on the radio.
104. (
)
( AB )
The same music is on the radio all over the world, and the American
sound is overwhelming. Even the pop music that's produced and
created in foreign countries has that American beat, that
underscore of funk. As a musician, I'm not interested in hearing
recycled versions of the same genre over and over. Any music that
doesn't have a development section just isn't interesting to
me.
105. ( )
( E
)
The music press bas so much to introduce these days, and jazz is
just a small fraction of it. Because some people
arc intimidated by jazz, they don't cover it unless it's a big
name. new jazz musicians don't get much of break. A lot of editors
don't say anything about jazz these days unless it's Marsalis.
That's a shame. What VHI is doing with their Save the Music
campaign is phenomenal. 'They're getting all these instruments out
to needy kids. It’s the kind of thing all networks should be
doing.
第Ⅱ卷
Ⅰ.Translation
Directions: Translate the following
sentences into English, using the words given in the
brackets
1、拯救溺水儿童使他付出了生命的代价。（cost）
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2、听到这令人尴尬的消息，大家都陷入了尴尬的沉默之中。（fall into）
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3、虽然他已经老得跳不动舞了，却仍然很热衷于参加各种派对。（keen）
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4、如果你要让别人信任你，你就必须真诚地对待别人，并证明你是值得信任的。（worth）
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5、
我不在家的这段时间里，你一定要按时吃三餐，每周浇一次花，并且记得每天晚上要锁门以防被偷哦。（make sure）
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6、
直到实验室进行了一半他才意识到他刚开始时对教授的忠告置若罔闻是一个巨大的错误。（It was not until…）
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