1.
Prior to the successful completion of the Panama Canal, ________.
A. France bought a strip of land across the Isthmus of Panama
B. Malaria was wiped out as a killer disease
C. one country failed in its attempts to build a canal
D. American doctors were honored for their work 2.
B. man's unceasing thirst for danger
C. man's ability to resist disease
D. man's spirit of invention 3.
B. Starting the building the canal immediately.
C. the prevention of illness.
D. the Spanish-American War. 4.
B. spatial (空间的) order
C. simple listing
The author presents details according to ________. A. order of importance
What was given priority by the United States? A. Buying a strip of land.
The building of the Panama Canal represents ________. A. man's unyielding desire for progress
D. time order 5.
B. The discovery of gold in California.
C. The efforts recorded in the building of the Panama Canal.
D. The work of American medical heroes.
Questions 6 to 10 are based on the same passage or dialog. At one time a traveler could learn about a region by looking at the houses. For example, he or she could understand what building materials were available. In areas with many wood houses, the traveler would have guessed that there were nearby forests. Stone houses would have indicated that stones were easy to get. However, a closer look at the houses would have told the traveler even more about the area.
People used to build houses that fitted the climate of their areas. For example, in desert regions there is a big difference between daytime and nighttime temperatures. Therefore, many desert people built houses with very thick walls. These thick walls served a useful purpose in the houses. For example, in the winter the thick walls absorbed the sun's warmth during the day and radiated the heat at night. Desert people were relatively comfortable in their homes, or residences, at all times because they built them to fit the desert climate.
Then the supply of fuel for electricity became both cheap and easy to get. The effect on housing was immediate. People began to build their homes according to fashion instead of utility. Houses no longer reflected the availability of building materials or climate. Houses with steep roofs could be found in the tropics, the warm regions of the Earth, even though these pointed roofs originated in snowy regions of the world. Heavy snow falls off a slanted (歪斜的) roof. Another example is the use of glass. Houses made almost completely of glass could be found in very cold places. Yet ordinary glass does not insulate (绝缘) well because it neither keeps out cold air nor keeps in warm air. As long as fuel was cheap and easy
What is the main idea of the passage? A. The elimination of yellow fever.
to get, people could build any type of house any place. 6.
What are two things that a traveler could learn about an area by looking at the houses?
A. The climate is poor and so are the people living in it.
B. The climate in the area and the kind of building materials easy for the people to reach.
C. There is a forest nearby and they are on the top of a mountain.
D. They are near a house and its owner is not there at the moment. 7.
B. there are no stones in forests
C. houses used to tell about a region
D. people used to travel to learn about houses 8.
B. people built houses to fit the climate
C. people are comfortable in their houses
D. in the desert, daytime temperatures are lower than nighttime temperatures 9.
B. ordinary glass does not insulate well
C. fuel is used to produce electricity
The main idea of Paragraphs 3 and 4 is that ________. A. heavy snow does not stay on steep roofs The main idea of Paragraph 2 is that ________. A. thick walls absorb heat from the sun
The main idea of Paragraph 1 is that ________. A. wood is a forest product
D. the supply of fuel affects home building
10. What does \
A. Give off.
B. Absorb.
C. Gather.
D. Consume.
Questions 11 to 15 are based on the same passage or dialog. Real policemen, both in Britain and the United States, hardly recognize any resemblance (相似) between their lives and what they see on TV-if they are even able to watch TV.
The first difference is that in real life a policeman has been trained in criminal law. He has to know exactly what actions are crimes and what evidence can be used to prove them in court.
He will spend most of his working life typing millions of words on thousands of forms about hundreds of sad, unimportant people who are guilty-or not-of stupid, petty (不重要的) crimes.
Most television crime drama is about finding the criminal: as soon as he's arrested, the story is over. In real life, finding criminals is seldom much of a problem. Except in very serious cases like murders and terrorist attacks-where failure to produce results reflects on the standing of the police-little effort is spent on searching.
A third big difference is between the drama detective and the real life ones. Detectives are subject to two opposing pressures: first, as members of a police force they always have to behave with absolute legality (合法); secondly, as expensive public servants they have to get results. They can hardly ever do both. Most of the time some of them have to break the rules in small ways. If the detective has to deceive the world, the world often deceives him. Hardly anyone he meets tells him the truth. And this separation the detective feels between himself and the rest of the world is deepened by the simplemindedness-as he sees it-of
citizens, social workers, doctors, law-makers, and judges, who, instead of stamping out crime, punish the criminals less severely in the hope that this will make them reform. The result, detectives feel, is that nine-tenths of their time is spent re-catching people who should have stayed behind bars. This makes them rather cynical.
11. It is essential for a policeman to be trained in criminal law
________.
A. so that he can catch criminals in the streets
B. because many of the criminals he has to catch are dangerous
C. so that he can justify his arrests in court
D. because he has to know nearly as much about law as a professional lawyer
12. The everyday life of a policeman or detective is ________.
A. exciting and mysterious
B. full of danger
C. devoted mostly to routine matters
D. wasted on unimportant matters
13. When murders and terrorist attacks occur the police
________.
A. prefer to wait for the criminal to give himself away
B. work hard to track down the criminals
C. try to make a quick arrest in order to keep up their reputation
D. usually fail to produce results
14. The real detective lives in an unusual moral climate because
________.
A. he is an expensive public servant
B. he must always behave with absolute legality
C. he is obliged to break the law in order to preserve it
D. he feels himself to be cut off from the rest of the world
15. Detectives are rather cynical because ________.
A. nine-tenths of their work involves arresting people
B. hardly anyone tells them the truth
C. society does not punish criminals severely enough
D. D too many criminals escape from jail
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