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Improvement in reading efficiency has several major benefits. We need reading skills to benefit from the wealth of information that is now available in printed form. Most people get the rough outlines of their daily news from television and radio. However, the printed word still provides the in-depth coverage of topics that really produces well-informed people. Reading is also a great source of entertainment for many people. For students, it is the primary method of studying.
The time you now spend reading can be made much more productive by increasing your reading rate. For some people this will mean that they can obtain more information in the same length of time. For others it will mean that time now devoted to reading can be used in other more interesting and profitable ways.
To determine how fast you are reading, you first have to get some idea of the number of words in a given passage. Then you simply divide the number of words by the number of minutes it takes to read. That will give your rate in words per minute.
1、The passage is taken from.()
A、a story book
B、a news report
C、a report on a scientific research
D、a book on reading
2、Which of the following statements is NOT a benefit from reading according to the passage？()
A、Reading will help readers get more information
B、By reading readers will have an in-depth coverage of daily news
C、Students must read so that they can master knowledge
D、Improvement of reading helps readers get outlines of daily news
3、This passage mainly discusses.()
A、different kinds of reading
B、the importance of improving reading skills and how to calculate reading rate
C、reading as a source of entertainment
D、different ways to improve reading speed
4、"reading efficiency" in Paragraph 2 means.()
A、the average reading rate
B、the ability of reading fast with a good understanding
C、reading materials readers like
D、reading habits
5、Reading speed can be calculated by.()
A、counting how many words a reader has read
B、dividing the total number of words a reader read by the time he spends on reading
C、timing how many minutes a reader has read
D、asking help from the teacher
Regardless of whether you want to admit it, a lot of us are like that old Finnish woman. When it comes to new mobile applications, many of us do not realize the capability and power that we hold, literally, in our hands.
What we are looking at today is the mobile Internet in its infancy. Now that using the Internet from home or work has saturated much of society, the next logical step is to be able to use the Net when you are far away from your desktop or laptop. Speech recognition is one way to do this, and there are a number of services, collectively called the “voice Web”, that will make this possible. All you do is to use a phone or wireless device to call a phone number, and speak commands to an intuitive system. It will then give you the information you’re seeking, using either a synthesized voice or an audio file.
In the United States and Europe, the hot technology for wireless devices is called WAP (Wireless Application Protocol), which is being considered as the world standard. WAP is supported by major phone companies including Nokia, Motorola and Ericsson, and is simply a means of transmitting information, much like HTML which is a means of communicating on the Internet.
Currently, wireless Internet connections may give you news, sports scores, stock quotes, and the weather if you’re lucky. But if you’ve ever used this technology, you know it’s slow, costly and doesn’t seem worth the time and effort, if it works at all. All of this technology points to easier living. Perhaps you’ll need to find a restaurant for an occasional business meeting. You’ll press a button on your mobile phone, and access the Internet to pull up a list of great restaurants in your immediate area. You’ll hit another button, say a few words into the handset and you’ve got a reservation for four.
1.The author uses the story of an old Finnish woman to indicate that __________.
A.she is ignorant of some common knowledge
B.public transit system contains the accessory to Internet
C.many people are unaware of the function of the new appliances being used
D.the Internet is experiencing rapid growth
2.The word “saturate”(Para. 3) most probably means _________.
A.state
B.utilize
C.despise
D.fill
3.According to the text, WAP is a __________.
A.technology standard set by major phone companies
B.substitution of HTML which can be applied on the Internet
C.means of exchanging information
D.software application for transmitting voice over telephone lines
4.We can infer from the passage that the mobile Internet is different from the previous Internet in that the former __________.
A.can be accessed by desktop computers
B.has no need for wire appliances
C.can be used to book a table in a restaurant
D.is equipped with speech recognition systems
5.What is the attitude of the author towards the future of mobile Internet？
A.Indifferent
B.Neutral
C.Optimistic
D.Pessimistic
26.Man cannot prevent the world from being plluted because（）.
A. the pllution of the world is increasingly fast
B. people use too many man-made materias
C. we have more industry
D. we are producing more cars, trucks and buses
27.People crowd into the cities for（）.
A. they want very much to find well-paid jobs
B. they are anxious to enjoy the achievements of our society
C. they have become tired of their homeland
D. they have a strong wish to become industrial workers
28.Acorcrno 10 he ps what does man ole (重) most among tner fllowing?
A. Industry.
B. Health.
C. Clean air.O
D. The future of the children.
29.The story about the airie pilot tlls us that.（）
A. man knows where the society is going
B. people do not welcome the rapid development of moderm society
C.man can do ittle about the problem of pllution
D.the writer is woried about the future of our society
30.Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage? （）
A.With the development of technology, pollution has become a serious problem.
B. Lower the speed of development to stop pollution. .
C.It's time we did something to reduce pollution.
D.As industry is growing fast, pollution is the natural result.
But, beyond the philosophical dimensions of global television communications there are some dramatic, political implications. Even before today's worldwide satellite links were possible, the growing effect of broadcast news technology on national and international politics was becoming increasingly evident.
Because television is a close-up medium and a medium that seems to most readily involve emotions, it is most effective when it is revealing the plights of people. It was probably the appalling footage of the Nazi death camps that first demonstrated the power of motion pictures and television to affect the collective consciousness of a world audience. In the United States during the 50's and 60's the power of television to stir the consciousness of large numbers of people was demonstrated in another way. Night after night graphic news footage of the civil rights struggle was brought into U.S. homes.
Years later, this role was to take on a new and even more controversial dimension during the Vietnam War. Reading about war was one thing; but war took on a deeper and more unsavory dimension when it was exported directly into U.S. living rooms night after night by television. Public opinion eventually turned against the war and to some measure against President Johnson who was associated with it. As a result of the public opinion backlash during these times, the Pentagon was thereafter much more careful to control what foreign correspondents and TV crews would be allowed to see and report.
It was during this time that President Carter brought the issue of human rights to the centre of his foreign policy, and, to some degree, to the centre of international politics. "Human rights are the soul of our foreign policy," Carter said. "Of all human rights the most basic is to be free of arbitrary violence, whether that violence comes from government, from terrorists, from criminals, or from self-appointed messiahs operating under the cover of politics or religion. "
Although political viewpoints have changed since then, because of the emotional nature of human rights, this has emerged as the "soul" of television news. The transgression of human rights has been the focus of many, if not most, major international television news stories. The reporting of these stories has created outrage in the world, prompted attempts at censorship by dictators, and in many cases resulted in the elimination of human rights abuses.
The passage is mainly about ______.
A．the evolution of international politics in the United States
B．the broadcast media's growing role in international politics
C．the concern for human rights as is shown in broadcast media
D．the impact of global television communication on viewers' emotions
What can explain and settle this problem？ The fact is that pollution is caused by man by his desire for a modem way of life. We make "increasing industrialization" our first aim. So we can often ready to offer everything:clean air, pure water, good food, our health and the future of our children. There is a constant(不断的) flow of people from the countryside into the cities, eager for the achievements of our modem society. But as our technological (技术的) achievements have grown in the last twenty years, pollution has become a serious problem.
Isn't it time we stopped to ask ourselves where we are going — and why？ It makes one think of the story about the pilot who told his passengers over the loudspeaker(扩音器) :"I've some good news and some bad news. The good news is that we were making rapid progress at 530 miles per hour. The bad news is that we are lost and don't know where we're going." The sad fact is that this becomes a true story when speaking of our modem society.
Man cannot prevent the world from being polluted because_________.
A．people use too many man-made materials
B．the pupulation of the world is increasing faster
C．we are producing more cars, trucks and buses
D．we have more and more industry.
听力原文： The two most famous faces in Britain today belong to two women who appear on television almost every night. If you open any popular magazine or newspaper you'll almost certainly see an article about one of them, with lots of photographs. Their names are Susan Rippon and Anna Ford. Susan reads the 9 o'clock news on BBC Television, and Anna reads the 10 o'clock news on Independent Television.
Most news announcers on British television are men, and when Susan began her job at the BBC three ago, she was the first woman news announcer. Newspapers and magazines started to take an interest in her and reporters started to write about her. Last year, Independent Television also decided to have a woman news announcer and they chose Anna Ford. Newspapers and magazines showed a great interest in her, too.
When Anna read the news for the first time on the 10 o'clock program, millions of people who don't normally watch the program decided to watch it that night, to see Anna ford.
(23)
A．They are the most attractive women in Britain.
B．They are the most popular film stats.
C．They are the first women news announcers on Britain television.
D．They appear almost every night in TV plays.
The boys organized concerts in the area and even produced their own CDs to sell locally. This local success led to an appearance on TV that was to prove extremely important. Among the viewers who saw the trio perform. in a children’s hospital was Boyzone’s manager, Louis Walsh. Soon after Shane’s mother contacted him about I.O.U. and found he had been desperately trying to get in contact with them.
Louis Walsh decided to hold auditions to recruit two new members in Jude of 1998. This is when Nicky Byme and Bryan McFadden, two Dublin boys and friends entered the picture. A quick name change and Westside was born. Yes, WESTSIDE. This was to be the quintet’s name until they discovered another band already using the name and a final change to Westlife was called for, The final link in the chain was Ronan Keating, Boyzone’s lead singer, who at Louis Walsh’s request joined him to help and nurtured this raw talent. His experience proved an invaluable help.
The next step was to secure a record deal. The band organized a showcase in Dublin and soon reprentatives of every, major record label were offering the bewildered boys contracts. In October 1998 Westlife signed to RCA, a label that had a proven track record with the successful marketing of both Take That and Five,
Barely had the ink on the contract dried when they headed out on tour as part of the Smash Hits Show, which led to them winning the Best New Tour Act in December 1998 (this was an award Boyzone themselves had won in 1994 which seemed like a pretty good omen).
Styled by Kenny Ho, who was responsible for The Spice Girls image, Westlffe’s first single Swear It Again was released in March 1999. In their native Ireland it went straight to number one and became the biggest selling debut single in the history of the Irish charts. A month later Swear It Again repeated the feat in the UK, staying at number one for two weeks and following on from Boyzone’s dominance of the UK top spot. This success was soon matched all around Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. They look set to repeat their success now in the USA. A tour throughout the States has meant Swear It Again is rapidly climbing the Billboard charts. This is the good news the boys needed as Bryan McFadden recently suffered nervous exhaustion and had to miss some shows while recuperating back in Ireland with his family, blot only that but Ronan Keating’s solo plans have forced him to give up his co-managing duties due to lack of time. More good news, though, is they have recently recorded with Mariah Carey and are due to begin work on their second album.
Before the I.O.U. was formed, its members were
A．neighbors.
B．classmates.
C．co-performers.
D．playmates.
听力原文： (33) Our environment is being polluted faster than nature and man's present efforts can prevent it. Time is bringing us more people, and more people will bring us more industry, more motor vehicles, larger cities, and the growing use of man-made materials. What can explain and solve this problem？ The fact is that pollution is caused by man--by his desire for a modern way of life. (34)We make "increasing industrialization" our chief aim. For its sake, we are willing to sacrifice everything: clean air, pure water, good food, our health and the future of our children. There is a constant flow of people from the countryside into the cities, eager for the benefits of modern society. But as our technological achievements have grown in the last twenty years, pollution has become a serious problem. Isn't it time we stopped to ask ourselves where we are going and why？
It is like the story about the airline pilot who told his passengers over the loudspeaker: "I've some good news and some bad news. The good news is that we're making rapid progress at 530 miles per hour. The bad news is that we're lost and don't know where we're going." (35)The sad fact is that this becomes a true story when applied to our modern society.
(30)
A．Because there are many developing nations.
B．Because people use so many motor vehicles.
C．Because we have more and more industry.
D．Because we are building more vehicles.
A Mess on theLadder of Success
A) Throughout Americanhistory there has almost always been at least one central economic narrativethatgave the ambitious or unsatisfied reason to pack up and seek their fortuneelsewhere. For the first 300or so years of European settlement, the story wasabout moving outward: getting immigrants to thecontinent and then to thefrontier to clear the prairies (大草原), drain thewetlands and build new cities.
B) By the end of the 19thcentury, as the frontier vanished, the US had a mild panic attack. What wouldthisenergetic, enterprising country be without new lands to conquer？ Some people,such as Teddy Roosevelt, decided to keep on conquering (Cuba, the Philippines,etc.), but eventually, in industrialization, the US found a new narrative ofeconomic mobility at home. From the 1890s to the
1960s,people moved from farm to city, first in the North and then in the South. Infact, by the 1950s,there was enough prosperity and white-collar work that manybegan to move to the suburbs. As the population aged, there was also a shift from the cold Rust Belt to the comforts of the Sun Belt, Wethink of this as anold persons migration, but it created many jobs for the young in coustructionand health care, not to mention tourism, retail and restaurants.
C) For the last 20 years-from the end of the coldwar through two burst bubbles in a single decade--theUS has been casting aboutfor its next economic narrative. And now it is experienc.ing another periodofpanic, which is bad news for much of the workforce but particularly for itsyoungest members.
D) The US has always been a remarkably mobilecountry, but new data from the Census Bureau indicatethat mobility has reachedits lowest level in recorded history. Sure, some people are stuck in homesvaluedat less than their mortgages (抵押贷款), but many youngpeople,-who dont own homes anddont yet have famihes--are staying put, too.This suggests, among other things, that people arentpacking up for neweconomic opportmtities the way they used to. Rather than dividing the countryintothe 1 percenters versus (与……相对) everyone else, the split in our economy is really between twootherclasses: the mobile and immobile.
E) Part of the problem is that the countryslargest industries are in decline. In the past, it was perfectlyclear whereyoung people should go for work (Chicago in the 1870s, Detroit in the 1910s,Houston inthe 1970s) and, more or less, what theyd be doing when they gotthere (killing cattle, building cars,~selling oil). And these industries werelarge enough to offer jobs to each class of worker, fromunskilled laborer tomanager or engineer. Today, the few bright spots in our economy are relativelysmall (though some promise future growth) and decentralized. There are greatjobs in Silicon Valley, in the biotech research capitals of Boston andRaleigh-Durham and in advanced manufacturing plantsalong the southern 1-85corridor. These companies recruit all over the country and the globe forworkerswith specific abilities.(You dont need to be the next Mark Zuckerberg, founderofFacebook, to get a job in one of the microhubs (微中心), by the way. But youwill almost certainlyneed at least a B, A. in computer science or a year or twoat a technical school.) This newer, select job market is national, and itoffers members of the mobile class competitive salaries and higherbargainingpower.
F) Many members of the immobile class, on theother hand, live in the America of the gloomy headlines.If you have nospecialized skills, theres little reason to uproot to another state and be thelast in linefor a low-paying job at a new auto plant or a green-energy startup.The surprise in the census (普查)data, however, is that the immobile workforce is not limited tounskilled workers. In fact, many have a college degree.
G) Until now, a B.A. in any subject was a near-guarantee of at least middle-class wages.But today, aquarter of college graduates make less than the typical workerwithout a bachelors degree. David Autor, a prominent labor economist at M. I.T., recently told me that a college degree alone is nolonger a guarantor of agood job. While graduates from top universities are still likely to get a goodjobno matter what their major is, he said, graduates from less-famous schoolsare going to be judged onwhat they know. To compete for jobs on a nationallevel, they should be armed with the skills thatemerging industries need,whether technical or not.
H) Thosewithout such specialized skills--like poetry, or even history, majors--arealready competing with their neighbors for the same sorts of second-rate,poorer-paying local jobs like low-levelmanagement or big-box retail sales. Andwith the low-skilled labor market atomized into thousands ofmicroeconomies,immobile workers are less able to demand better wages or conditious or toacquire valuable skills.
I) Sowhat, exactly, should the ambitious young worker of today be learning？Unfortunately, its hard tosay, since the US doesnt have one clear nationalproject. There are plenty of emerging, smaller industries, but which ones arethe most promising？ (Nanotechnologys (纳米技术) moment of remarkable growth seems to havebeen 5 years into the future for something like 20 years now.) Itsnot clearexactly what skills are most needed or if they will even be valuable in adecade.
J) Whatis clear is that all sorts of government issueseducation, health-insuranceportability, worker retraining--are no longer just bonuses to alreadyprosperous lives but existential requirements. Its inall of our interests tomake sure that as many people as possible are able to move toward opportunity,and, Americas ability to invest people and money in exciting new ideas isstill greater than that of most other wealthy countries. (As recently as fiveyears ago, US migration was twice the rate of EuropeanUnion states.) That, atleast, is some comfort at a time when our national economy seems to besearchingfor its next story line.
Unlike in the past, a college degree alone does not guarantee a good job for its holder.
The census data is surprising in that college graduates are also among the immobile workforce.
New figures released by the government show that Americans today are less mobile than ever before.
The migration of old people from cold to warm places made many jobs available to the young.
America is better at innovation than most other rich nations.
Early American history is one of moving outward.
Young people dont know what to learn because it is hard to predict what skills are most needed orvalued ten years from now.
Computer or other technical skills are needed to get a well-paying job in high-tech, or advancedmanufacturing.
When the frontier vanished about a century ago, America found new economic mobility inindustrialization.
America today can be divided into two classes., those who move and those who dont.
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Rumor is the most () way of spreading stories---by passing them on from mouth () month.But civilized countries in normal times have better () of news than rumor. They have radio, television, and newspapers. In times of stress and (), () , rumor () and becomes widespreaD、At such () the different kinds of news are in () ,the press, television, and radio versus the grapevine.Especially () rumors spread when war requires censorship (审查, 检查 ) on many important matters. The customary news sources no longer ()enough information. Since the people cannot learn () legitimate(合法的，正规的) channels all () they are anxious to learn, they pick up "news" () they can and when this () , rumor thrives. Rumors are often repeated () by those who do not believe the tales. There is a fascination about them. The reason is () the cleverly designed rumor gives expression to something deep in the hearts of the victims--the fears, suspicions, forbidden hopes, or daydreams which they hesitate to () directly. Pessimistic(悲观的) rumors about defeat and disasters show that the people who repeat them are ()and anxious. () rumors about record production or peace soon coming point to complacency (满足的，自得) or confidence--and often to ().
1.A.primitive
B.important
C.impossible
D.outstanding
2.A.means
B.ways
C.sources
D.resource
3.A.and
B.however
C.So
D.therefore
4.A.time
B.the times
C.times
D.the time
5.A.do
B.did
C.are
D.were
6.A.through
B.by
C.across
7.A.wherever
B.where
C.whatever
D.what
8.A.ever
B.even
C.forever
D.much
9.A.act
B.voice
C.behave
D.do
10.A.Bad
B.Pessimistic
C.Optimistic
D.Good
