Directions: There is 1 passage in this part with 5 questions or unfinished statements. For each of them, there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.
Halloween is an autumn holiday the Americans celebrate every year. It means “holy evening”, and it comes every October 31, the evening before All-Saints' Day. However, it's not really a church holiday, it's a holiday for
children.
Every autumn, when the vegetables are ready to eat, children pick large orange pumpkins. Then they cut faces in the pumpkins and put lights inside. It looks like there is a person looking out of the pumpkin!
The children also put on strange masks and frightening clothes every Halloween. Some children paint their faces to look like monsters. They carry boxes for UNICEF (the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund). They ask for money to help poor children all around the world. Of course, every time they help UNICEF, they usually receive a treat for themselves, too.
Questions:
56. The Americans celebrate Halloween on ________ .
A. October 31
B. the evening of October 31
C. October 30
D. November 1
57. Which of the following can explain the word “pumpkin”?
A. A large, round vegetable with thick, orange skin.
B. A kind of round orange fruit.
C. An unusual frightening mask.
D. A kind of popular toy among children.
58. On Halloween children do the following things except they _______ .
A. wear strange masks and frightening clothes
B. carry boxes or bags from door to door
C. paint their faces to be more beautiful
D. put candles in the pumpkins
59. What will happen to the money which children have collected from the people?
A. Some of the money will go to UNICEF.
B. Children will keep the money for themselves.
C. The money will be handed to their parents.
D. The article doesn't mention anything about it.
60. The best title for the passage probably is .
A. An Autumn Holiday
B. A Church Holiday
C. Children's Day
D. Halloween
Section B Short Answer Questions (20 points)
Directions: In this part, there are 2 passages followed by 10 questions or unfinished statements. Read the passages carefully, then answer the questions in the fewest possible words (not exceeding 10 words). Remember to write the answers on the Answer Sheet.
Questions 61 to 64 are based on the following passage.
London's public transport system is no longer the “sick man” but the “jewel in the crown” of the capital's 2012 Olympic dream, bid chiefs said last night.
Transport experts told the International Olympic Committee scrutinizing Britain's chances that London's railways and roads would soon be the envy of the world.
Once improvements were in place, athletes would spend time “competing not commuting”, bid leader Lord Coe told the IOC panel on the first day of their visit.
The need for an overhaul came after the IOC criticised London's “obsolete” public transport systems in a report last May.
Yesterday the London 2012 bid made a series of promises including:
￡10 billion of investments including a ￡1 billion East London line extension, longer Jubilee line trains and Northern line upgrades.
A train serving the main Olympic Park at Stratford, East London, every 15 seconds, on ten different rail lines.
Twelve-carriage, 225kph (140mph) javelin trains using the Channel Tunnel Rail Link and taking passengers between Straford and King's Cross in six-and-a-half minutes.
Tube trains running until 2:30 a.m. every day of the Olympics.
Connecting services which will allow visitors to reach the Olympic Park from 309 stations.
The 13-member IOC panel will today have its first taste of the Underground, with a Jubilee line trip to the Millennium Dome. They will also treavel on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, watching a video outlining the transport improvements to be delivered every year up to 2012.
But they will spend most of their time on coaches as they travel to such key sites as Wembley and Wimbledon.
Transport Minister Tony McNulty admitted there were concerns about how London would cope with 500,000 extra visitors a day. But Transport for London said the Olympic fortnight in August would lead to only a five percent increase in passengers—when 20 percent of London's commuters were on holiday.
Questions:
61. According to Paragraph 1, London's public transport system used to be ________ .
62. The word “scrutinizing” in Line 1, Paragraph 2 means ________ .
63. The need for an overhaul came because of a report given by the ________ .
64. The title of the passage probably is ________ .
Questions 65 to 70 are based on the following passage.
Just as you will have to prepare yourself for a period of psychological disorientation when you leave the USA, you should know that after your time abroad, you may also have to prepare yourself for a parallel period of readjustment when you return “home”. Why? Simply because, if you have had a full experience living and learning overseas, you are likely to have changed some while you have been away. So the place you return to may itself appear to have changed, as indeed it might have. Even though these changes are seldom huge, and may not be apparent to others, you are likely to be very aware of them, and this can be confusing, all the more so because it is unexpected. Brigham Young University's Culture Grams offer many insights on customs and lifestyles of individual countries. Phone 1-800-528-6279 or visit the website at http://www.culturegram.com.
Immediately after you return, you can probably expect to go through an initial stage of euphoria and excitement. Most people are overwhelmed by the sheer joy of being back on their native land. But as you try to settle back into your former routine, you may recognize that your overseas experiences has changed some of many of your perceptions and assumptions, your ways of doing things, even what it means to “be yourself”. You might have become, in a sense, a somewhat new person. After all, that is what education is all about! But this intellectual and personal growth means that you can expect a period of disorientation as you adjust to the “new” environment at home.
The readjustment period is usually rather short-lived, since “home” will never be as “foreign” to you as the foreign environment you adjusted to overseas. Also, your experience of dealing successfully with culture shock abroad will have provided you with the psychological tools for dealing with the challenges of readjustment. Obviously, the more you have immersed yourself, the more difficult it will be to have things go back to a previous notion of normality. However, if you are aware of the changes (and seek to learn from them), smooth adaptation is more likely.
Questions：
65． What is the main idea of the first paragraph？
66． For what reason do you have to readjust yourself after returning from abroad？
67． The word “euphoria”（Para. 2）probably means ________ .
68． The readjustment will not take much of your time. Why?
69. ________ is more likely if you are conscious of the changes.
70． Give a proper title for this passage.
Section C True (T) or False (F) (10 points)
Directions: In this part, there is 1 passage followed with 10 statements. Read the passage and decide which of the statements at the end of the
passage are true and which are false. Remember to write the answers on the Answer Sheet.
Questions 71 to 80 are based on the following passage.
Enya was born in 1961, 17 May, and spent her childhood in Gweedore. There are nine brothers and sisters in the family, four other girls and four boys. All the family have won many competitions and are famous in national traditional music circles.
Whilst at school, Enya studied the piano and classical music. Three of her brothers and sisters, formed, together with their uncles, a folk music group (at first with a certain American feel and then more purely Irish, though influenced by jazz and by others such as Pentangle). The group was named Clannad, a contraction of “the family from Gweedore” in Irish. In 1980, at the suggestion of their manager, Fachtna O'Kelly, Enya became a member of the group. She performed with Clannad on many occasions, until, in February 1982, on completing a European tour, she left the group, no one really knowing why.
It was also Fachtna O'Kelly who suggested to Enya after she left Clannad, that she devote herself to composing for films. And so, in 1984, she approached her first important task. Roma Ryan had sent a cassette of Enya to film producer David Puttnam. Puttnam asked her to compose dreamy and romantic music with a sixties feel for the feature film The Frog Prince.
Having a studio at her disposal, Enya worked almost always at home with the Roland Juno 60 synthesizer or the Kurzweil sampler, and then added piano and voice. Nicky Ryan recorded everything and helped to put the compositions into their final form.
Enya's first record subsequently climbed to number one in the Irish charts, which started the commercial rise of Enya. She collaborated with the singer Sinéad O'Connor reciting a short text on “Never Get Old” from her album The Lion And The Cobra.
She signed with an important multinational, and had a resounding success with her second album Watermark, which has passed 10 million sales worldwide, and has gone platinum in 14 different countries, helped by the single“Orinoco Flow”, a No 1 hit in Britain. Then she repeated her world success with Shepherd Moons, which spent an amazing 199 weeks on the Billboard charts in the USA and has sold over 11 million copies.
Statements:
71. All the family are well known in national traditional music circles.
72. Three of Enya's brothers and sisters with their uncles formed a purely American folk music group at first.
73. In 1982, Enya left Clannad.
74. It was Fachtna O'Kelly who suggested Enya join Clannad and then quit it.