Who won the World Cup 2004 football game？ What happened at the United Nations？ How did the

第1题

Who won the 2008 World Cup soccer game? What happened at the United Nations? How did t

Who won the 2008 World Cup soccer game？ What happened at the United Nations？ How did the critics like the new play？ Just when an event takes place, newspapers are on the streets to give the details. Wherever anything happens in the world, reporters are on the spot to gather news.

Newspapers have one basic purpose – to get news as quickly as possible from their source, from those who make it to those who want to know it. Radio, television, and other inventions brought competition for newspapers, so did the development of magazines and other means of communication. However, this competition merely stimulated the newspapers to quickly make use of the newer and faster means of communication to improve the speed of their own operations. Today more newspapers are printed and read than ever before. Competition also led newspapers to branch out into many other fields. Besides keeping readers informed of the latest news, today’s newspapers educate and influence readers about politics and other important and serious matters.

Newspapers influence readers’ economic choices through advertising. Most depend on advertising for their very existence. Newspapers are sold at a price that fails to cover even a small part of the production cost. The main source of income for most newspapers is advertising. The success in selling advertising depends on a newspaper’s value to advertisers. This is measured in terms of circulation (发行量): How many people read the newspaper？ Circulation depends, to some extent, on the work of the circulation department and on the services or entertainment offered in a newspaper’s pages. But for the most part, circulation depends on a newspaper’s value to readers as a source of information about the community, city, country, state, nation, and world – and even outer space.

45.According to the passage, the basic purpose of newspapers is to ________.

A.cover the cost of production

B.inform. readers of the latest news

C.influence readers’ economic choices

D.educate readers about important matters

46.What does the author try to tell us in the first paragraph？()

A.Important events take place every day

B.Newspapers should give details to the public

C.Newspapers tell us what happens in the world

D.Reporters should go to the spot to collect news

47.Which of the following is a consequence of competition for newspapers？()

A.Newspapers serve other purposes than reporting news

B.Newspapers are read by less people than ever before

C.Newspapers have to have entertainment pages

D.Newspapers have to sell at a very low price

48.The most important factor in selling newspapers successfully is to ________.

A.improve the work of the circulation department

B.provide attractive and special services to readers

C.offer more interesting and entertaining information

D.provide valuable information to attract more readers

49.What can we learn about advertising in newspapers？()

A.Advertising adds a lot of value to newspapers

B.Newspapers would not exist without advertising

C.Newspapers depend on advertising to keep going

D.Advertising makes newspapers sell at a good price

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第2题

Who is the only woman writer that has won both Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize？（)

A.Pearl Buck

B.Virginia Woolf

C.Tony Morrison

D.Katharine Mansfield

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第3题

Workers in （) nations who need jobs that pay （) than their counterparts in other parts of the world are sometimes replaced by foreign workers.

A.developing;worse

B.developing;better

C.developed;worse

D.developed;better

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第4题

_____are established everywhere in the world, to help the people who are interested in learning Chinese language.

A、Mo-tse institutes

B、Laozi institutes

C、Mencius institutes

D、Confucius institutes

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第5题

Break-upOnce in a person's lifetime, everyone finds this one perfect person whom they fall

Break-up

Once in a person's lifetime, everyone finds this one perfect person whom they fall hopelessly in love with and live happily with ever after. That is a mere fallacy. In the real world, this simply does not happen. Yes, people do have common interests and therefore develop romantic involvement, but it is basic common sense that these relationships have a life span and simply cannot last. Real life relationships are definitely more like "The Real World" rather than "Romeo and Juliet".

Romanticism is wonderful in itself, and thus two people can live in heavenly bliss, but it all must come to an end somehow. It is a fact of life that couples do break up, and there are many reasons why. There are countless reasons, ranging from cheating to abuse, attributing to breakups.

Wealth

One reason why couples might break up is money or a lack thereof. If one partner in a relationship is always paying or keeping up all the bills, his/her partner just might grow tired of it and decide that it is a valid reason to separate. For example, a woman who is always lending her boyfriend money for his rent, car note, and social expenses will probably eventually grow tired of it and leave him.

Addiction

More reasons why couples separate, addictions often result in ugly breakups. Whether it is an addiction to drugs, gambling, or whatever, hardly anyone would be willing to take that on an everyday basis. Most people would agree that it is not pretty to see someone throw their life away on addictions. It is simply not attractive and thus, not many people would want to be with someone with an extreme problem like that.

Physical Assets

An unfortunate reason for a breakup, physical disabilities, also occurs at times. This can range from a paralyzing accident to infertility. To some people, having children is the most important priority in their adult life. Having a partner who is unable to have children can very much hinder a relationship. Thus, it will not last. Likewise, having a partner who has a paralyzing disability might be too much for someone to take. Being with a person, who becomes handicapped, though unfortunate, is a big burden to place on a person.

Test of Time and Distance

Growing apart, an instance in which two people just do not feel attraction towards each other anymore is very commonplace, resulting in an end of a relationship. Some couples simply "fall out of love". Some people can only stand so much of another person before they grow tired of the situation. Also, it could be as a result to distance. For example, when a couple who were together in high school go their own ways in choosing colleges, this, more often than not, results in the couple breaking up. A long distance relationship like that simply does not work out often.

"I Want the Better."

In direct relation to growing apart, a person sometimes finds another person besides their boy/ girlfriend who they are attracted to. Finding somebody "better" will kill a relationship quickly, and start a new relationship, If a person finds someone more attractive than the person they are currently with, they might have to weigh their options and decide that they want to go another direction.

Cheating

Likewise, when a person finds someone they like, this could result in cheating, another reason why couples break up. If a guy catches his girlfriend cheating on him, or vice versa, this could very well be a valid reason to end that relationship. Finding someone cheating leads to a lack of trust and thus, kills the relationship.

Abuse

Also, another very serious reason resulting in a break-up is abuse. When someone abuses his or her girlfriend, spouse, or children, a break-up is definitely necessary. Someone who is taking abuse is playing with f

A．Y

B．N

C．NG

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第6题

根据下面材料，回答第 1～20 题： Millions of Americans and foreigners see GI.Joe as a min

根据下面材料，回答第 1～20 题：

Millions of Americans and foreigners see GI.Joe as a mindless war toy, the symbol of American military adventurism, but that’s not how it used to be. To the men and women who 1 in World WarⅡand the people they liberated, the GI. was the 2 man grown into hero, the poor farm kid torn away from his home, the guy who 3 all the burdens of battle, who slept in cold foxholes, who went without the 4 of food and shelter, who stuck it out and drove back the Nazi reign of murder. This was not a volunteer soldier, not someone well paid, 5 an average guy up 6 the best trained, best equipped, fiercest, most brutal enemies seen in centuries.

His name isn't much. GI. is just a military abbreviation 7 .Government Issue, and it was on all of the articles 8 to soldiers. And Joe？ A common name for a guy who never 9 it to the top. Joe Blow, Joe Palooka. Joe Magrac...a working class name. The United States has 10 had a president or vice-president or secretary of state Joe.

G.I. Joe had a 11 career fighting German, Japanese, and Korean troops. He appears as a character. or a 12 of American personalities, in the 1945 movie The Story of G.I. Joe, based on the last days of war correspondent Emie Pyle. Some of the soldiers Pyle 13 portrayed themselves in the film. Pyle was famous for covering the 14 side of the war, writing about the dirt-snow-and-mud soldiers not how many miles were 15 or what towns were captured or liberated. His reports 16 the “Willie” cartoons of famed Stars and Stripes artist Bill Maulden. Both men 17 the dirt and exhaustion of war, the 18 of civilization that the soldiers shared with each other and the civilians: coffee, tobacco, whiskey, shelter, sleep. 19 Egypt, France, and a dozen more countries, G.I. Joe was any American soldier, 20 the most important person in their lives.

第 1 题 [A] performed

[B] served

[C] rebelled

[D] betrayed

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第7题

Hemingway was born in 1899 in Oak Park,Illinois,a prosperous suburb of Chicago.His fat

her,a physician,was an enthusiastic hunter and fisheman who taught his son to handle a rod and a gun.Hemingway's respect for these skills and his love of the open air run through his writing.He has tired to capture the point of view,actions,feelings,and speech of men who excel in the activities he admires.In school Hemingway was a good student,with a wide range of interests beyond the classroom.He was known as a boxer,a football player,a member of the swimming team,and manager of the track team.For 3 years he played in the school orchestra.But much of his activity was connected with words,which were to be his lifelong preoccupation.First as reporter,then as editor,he gained experience on the school paper,to which he contributed articles and stories.When Hemingway graduated from high school in 1917,World War I was still being fought.After a few months as a reporter on the Kansas City Star,he sailed for Europe in May,1918,as a volunteer ambulance driver and later transferred to the Italian infantry.Two weeks before his 19th birthday a leg wound brought him close to death.War and death have been recurrent themes in Hemingway's writing.Of war he has said," I thought about Tolstoi and about what a great advantage an experience of war was to a writer.It was one of the major subjects and certainly one of the hardest to write truly of ... "

Immediately after graduation from high school, Hemingway ()

A、worked as a reporter for a newspaper

B、sailed for Europe

C、became a volunteer ambulance driver

D、served in the Italian army

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第8题

Man cannot continue【C1】______his numbers at the present rate. In the【C2】______thirty years

man will face a period of crisis.【C3】______experts believe that there will be a widespread food【C4】______Other experts think this is【C5】______pessimistic, and that man can keep things【C6】______worse than they are now. But【C7】______that two-thirds of the people in the world are undernourished or starving now.

One thing that man can do is to limit【C8】______of babies born. The need【C9】______this is obvious, but it is【C10】______to achieve. People have to【C11】______to limit their families. In the countries of the population【C12】______, many people like big families. The parents think that this【C13】______a bigger income for the family and ensures there will be someone in the family who will look【C14】______them in old age.

Several governments have【C15】______birth control policies in recent years.【C16】______them are Japan, China, India and Egypt. In some【C17】______the results have not been【C18】______. Japan has been an exception. The Japanese adopted a birth control policy in 1948. People【C19】______to limit their families. The birth rate fell from 34. 3 per thousand per year to about 17. 0 per thousand per year【C20】______.

【C1】

A．increasing

B．to increase

C．and increase

D．with increasing

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第9题

In 1933 an unknown American called Clarence Nash went to see the filmmaker Walt Disney

. He had an unusual voice and he wanted to work in Disney's cartoon（动画片） film for children. When Walt Disney heard Nash's voice, he said,"Stop! That's our duck!"

The duck was the now-famous Donald Duck, who first appeared in 1934 in the film The Wise Little Hen. Donald lived in an old houseboat and wore his sailor jacket and hat. Later that year he became a star after an eight-minute Mickey Mouse film. The cinema audience liked him because he was lazy and greedy, and because he lost his temper very quickly. And they loved his voice when he became angry with Mickey's eight nephews. Soon Donald was more popular than Mickey Mouse himself, probably because he wasn't a goody-goody like Mickey.

In the 1930s, 40s and 50s Donald and his friends Mickey, Goofy and Pluto made hundreds of Disney cartoons. He also made educational films about the place of the USA in the world and safety in the home. Then in 1966 Donald Duck and his voice disappeared---there were no more new cartoons.

Clarence Nash died in February, 1985. But today's children can still see the old cartoons on television and hear that famous voice.

(1)Walt Disney made Donald Duck film.（）

(2)The first Donald Duck film was made in 1934.（）

(3)Clarence Nash was a film-maker.（）

(4)The underlined word "audience" in the second paragraph means readers.（）

(5)The underlined word "goody-goody" in the second paragraph means a person who likes to appear to be faultless in behavior.（）

此题为判断题(对，错)。

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第10题

Do you want to say what you think in a letter to the President of the United States？ You'l

l get a reply from him—written in ink, not typed—after only a few days.

The President gets about 4,000 letters every week. He answers everyone who writes to him on special White House Paper. But he doesn't need a lot of time for it. In fact, he only gives 20 minutes a week to looking at his personal correspondence. He has the most modern secretary in world to help him.

His computer, worth ￡ 800,000; which has its own room on the first floor of the White House. It has a bank of electronic pens which write like the President writes, in his favorite light blue ink. Each letter the President receives gets a number, according to the type of answer it needs. The pens then write the correct reply for it, according to the number. Each letter takes less than a second to write. A White House official said, "It's not important that the letters come from a computer. Each letter says what the President wants to say. "

______for a reply from the President.

A．You have to wait a long time

B．You have to wait at least one month

C．You only have to wait several days

D．You only have to wait a few weeks

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第11题

填句补文Biological ClockWhen the sun rises on a warm and sunny day, you can see some flo

填句补文

Biological Clock

When the sun rises on a warm and sunny day, you can see some flowers open up. When they close late in the afternoon, other flowers open.

Biological rhythms(生物节律), like the opening and closing of flowers, happen all over nature. But not all of them are daily rhythms. Some, like the beating of our heart, happen every second. （1）Scientists use the term biological clock to describe the timing that controls biological rhythms. （2） In some animals it is probably controlled by the brain. In plants and other living things that have no brain, it must be something else.

The migration of animals happens when a signal is sent out. For example, when days become shorter, birds leave the northern parts of the world and fly south where it is warm. （3）Humans also have biological clocks that control their daily rhythms. When people travel by plane from one continent to another, they often cross many time zones. Their internal clocks don’t seem to work correctly. We call this jet lag(时差). （4）People who work night shifts also have problems with their biological clocks. They may not be as active as people who work during the daytime.

Biological clocks control many rhythms of life. （5） Doctors are looking for new ways to make travelling more comfortable and medical treatment more effective.

A. But where can you find it？

B. This makes them feel tired.

C. In the summer they fly back to have babies.

D. We are learning more and more about them.

E. Biological clocks can be adjusted.

F. Other rhythms are based on months, seasons or years.

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