well depends heavily on its policies, institutions and management. Where a country scores well on these criteria, foreign assistance can be highly effective.
51. In the first paragraph, the author suggests that a quality education can __________ . A. free countries from foreign rules B. speed up social progress C. give people freedom
D. liberate people from any exploitation
52. Ideally, the goal of the program of Education for All is to ______ by 2015. A. get all the world’s children to complete primary school B. enroll all the world’s children into primary school C. give quality education to people of 88 countries
D. support those committed to transforming their education systems
53. _________ countries are now at risk of not achieving education for all on the basis of completion rates. A. 32
B. 59
C. 29
D. 88
54. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT mentioned as the right policy? A. Raising the efficiency of education systems. B. Improving the quality of education. C. Using information technologies. D. Building more primary school.
55. As can be gathered from the last paragraph, foreign aid _________ . A. may not be highly effective
B. is provided only when some criteria are met C. alone makes development possible
D. is most effective for those countries lagging farthest behind
Passage 3
Most people think of lions as strictly African beasts, but only because they’re been killed off almost everywhere else. Ten thousand years ago lions spanned vast sections of the globe. Now lions hold only a small fraction of their former habitat, and Asiatic lions, a subspecies that spit from African lions perhaps 100,000 years
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ago, hang on to an almost impossibly small slice of their former territory.
India is the proud steward of these 300 or so lions, which live primarily in a 560-square-mile sanctuary (保护区) . It took me a year and a half to get a permit to explore the entire Gir Forest---and no time at all to see why these lions became symbols of royalty and greatness. A tiger will hide in the forest unseen, but a lion stands its ground, curious and unafraid---lionhearted. Though they told me in subtle ways when I got too close, Gir’s lions allowed me unique glimpses into their lives during my three months in the forest. It’s odd to think that they are threatened by extinction; Gir has as many lions as it can hold----too many, in fact. With territory in short supply, lions move about near the boundary of the forest and even leave it altogether, often clashing with people. That’s one reason India is creating a second sanctuary. There are other pressing reasons: outbreaks of disease or natural disasters. In 1994 a serious disease killed more than a third of Africa’s Serengeti lions----a thousand animals----a fate that could easily happen to Gir’s cats. These lions are especially vulnerable to disease because they descend from as few as a dozen individuals. “If you do a DNA test, Asiatic lions actually look like identical twins,” says Stephen O’Brien, a geneticist (基因学家) who has studied them. Yet the dangers are hidden, and you wouldn’t suspect them by watching these lords of the forest. The lions display vitality, and no small measure of charm. Though the gentle intimacy of play vanishes when it’s time to eat, meals in Gir are not necessarily frantic affairs. For a mother and her baby lion sharing a deer, or a young male eating an antelope (羚羊), there’s no need to fight for a cut of the kill. The animals they hunt for food are generally smaller in Gir than those in Africa, and hunting groups tend to be smaller as well.
56. In the first paragraph, the author tells us that Asiatic lions ______ . A. have killed off other lions B. have descended from African lions C. used to span vast sections of the globe D. have lost their habitat
57. What impressed the author most when he went to watch the lions in the Gir Forest? A. Their friendliness. B. Their size. C. Their intimacy. D. Their vitality
58. What does the sentence “…meals in Gir are not necessarily frantic affair” mean?
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A. The lions do not show intimacy among them any more. B. The lions may not deed to fight for food. C. Food is not readily available in that region. D. Meals can be obtained only with great effort
59. The lions in the Gir Forest are especially vulnerable to disease because ______ . A. they have descended from a dozen or so ancestors B. they are smaller than the African lions C. they do not have enough to eat
D. they are physically weaker than the African lions
60. One of the reasons why India is creating a secondary sanctuary for the Asiatic lions is that ___ A. the present sanctuary is not large enough B. scientists want to do more research on them C. they have killed many people D. the forest is shrinking in size
Passage 4
After retirement from medical, my wife and I built our home in a gated community surrounded by yacht clubs and golf courses on Hilton Head Island. But when I left for the other side of the island, I was traveling on unpaved roads lined with leaky cottages. The “lifestyle” of many of the native islanders stood in shocking contrast to my comfortable existence.
By talking to the local folks, I discovered that the vast majority of the maids, gardeners, waitresses and construction workers who make this island work had little or no access to medical care. It seemed outrageous to me. I wondered why someone didn’t do something about that. Then my father’s words, which he had asked his children daily when they were young, rang in my head again: “What did you do for someone today?”
Even though my father had died several years before, I guess I still didn’t want to disappoint him. So I started working on a solution. The island was full of retired doctors. If I could persuade them to spend a few hours a week volunteering their services, we could provide free primary health care to those so desperately in need of it. Most of the doctors I approached liked the idea, so long as they could be relicensed without troubles. It took one year and plenty of persistence, but I was able to persuade the state legislators to create a special license for doctors volunteering in not-for-profit clinics.
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The town donated land, local residents contributed office and medical equipment and some of the potential patients volunteered their weekends ornamenting the building that would become the clinic. We named it volunteers in Medicine and we opened its doors in 1994, fully staffed by retired physicians, nurses and dentists as well as nearly 150 nonprofessional volunteers. That year we had 5,000 patient visits; last year we had 16,000. Somehow word of what we were doing got around. Soon we were receiving phone calls from retired physicians all over the country, asking for help in starting VIM clinics in their communities. We did the best we could----there are now 15 other clinics operating----but we couldn’t keep up with the need. Yet last month I think my father’s words found their way up north, to McNeil Consumer Healthcare, the maker of Tylenol (泰诺：一种感冒药). A major grant from McNeil will allow us to respond to these requests and help establish other free clinics in communities around the country.
61. What is the passage mainly about?
A. The contrast between the rich and the poor on an island. B. The story of a man who likes to give others advice. C. The life and work of a great father. D. The inspiration of a father’s words 62. The author of the passage is ________. A. a retired physician B. a retired teacher
C. a retired medical researcher D. a retired construction worker
63. The purpose of Volunteers in Medicine is to ________. A. help retired medical workers improve their incomes B. provide free medical services to those who need them C. urge the government to set up non-profit clinics D. make the dream of the author’s father come true 64. Which of the following has been done by the author himself? A. Buying the medical equipment B. Finding the land and the office.
C. Decorating the building that would become the clinic.
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D. Getting a special license for the retired doctors.''''
65.In the last paragraph, “I think my father’s words found their way up north to McNeil” implies that ______. A. my father’s words finally reached McNeil
B. McNeil decided to do something for the needy people
C. My father decided to assist us in opening more clinics in the north D. McNeil community was badly in need of free health care programs
Passage 5
Even before Historian Joseph Ellis became a best-selling author, he was famous for his vivid lectures. In his popular courses at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, he would often make classroom discussion lively by describing his own combat experience in Vietnam. But as Ellis’s reputation grew-his books on the Founding Fathers have won both the prestigious National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize ——the history professor began to entertain local and national reporters with his memories of war. Last year, after The Boston Globe carried accounts of Ellis’s experience in the Vietnam war, someone who knew the truth about Ellis dropped a dime(揭发) . Last week The Boston Globe revealed that Ellis, famous for explaining the nation’s history, had some explaining to do about his own past.
“Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made,” said a wretched Ellis . It turned out that while the distinguished historian had served in the Army, he’d spent his war years not in the jungles of Southeast Asia , but teaching history at West Point(西点军校). He’d also overstated his role in the antiwar movement and even his high-school athletic records. His admission shocked colleagues, fellow historians and students who wondered why someone so accomplished would beautify his past. But it seems that success and truthfulness don’t always go hand in hand. Even among the distinguished achievers, security experts say, one in ten is deceiving—indulging in everything from empty boasting to more serious offenses such as plagiarism(剽窃), fictionalizing military records, making up false academic certificates or worse . And, oddly, prominent people who beautify the past often do so once they’re famous, says Ernest Brod of Kroll Associates, which has conducted thousands of background checks. Says Brod: “It’s not like they use these lies to climb the ladder.”
Then what makes them do it? Psychologists say some people succeed, at least in part, because they are uniquely adjusted to the expectations of others. And no matter how well-known, those people can be haunted by a sense of their own shortcomings. “From outside, these people look anything but fragile,” says Dennis Shulman, a New York psychoanalyst. “But inside, they feel hollow, empty.”
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