D．many young people are immigrants from different backgrounds
33．Ethnic minority groups will make up——of the London population in the future． A．3.8％ B．40％ C．39% D．36％ 34．The last paragraph mainly tells US in London A．young people are from different backgrounds
B．young people are raised in a multicultural environment
C．young people find it hard to adapt themselves to hybrid cultures D．young people feel at ease wit h a large number of diversified cultures 35. The passage mainly deals with
A. the advantage of hybrid cultures in London B. the composition of the population in London C. the cultural diversity in London
D. the contribution made by the new arrivals to London
Passage 20 31．D 32．D 33．B 34．D 35．C
Passage 21
Anna is our only daughter. My wife and I have two sons, and Anna is the youngest
in the family, but she's twenty-five now. Anna was not well when she was little. It was a very worrying time and she stayed at home a lot. She was seen first by the local doctors, and then she was sent to a specialist in Cardiff where she was diagnosed as diabetic. It was my wife who mainly took care of her then. I am not very good at looking after little children. I suppose I am a bit traditional in that way. But when she grew up a bit, we spent a lot of time together. We loved walking and talking and discussing life. We still love it today. We get on very well.
Although she looks like me (tall, dark hair, dark eyes and dark skin), she takes after her mother: she is artistic and musical, and like her mother she's attractive.
She loves looking after animals- she has two dogs, three cats and a goat. She lives in a little house in the country. I like animals too. I like riding and hunting, but Anna hate shunting. She thinks it's cruel. We discuss it a lot.
She is quiet and a bit shy with strangers. I am more outgoing and I love meeting new people. But she's not boring- actually, she's very funny. She always has lots of stories of her life in the country. She's an art and music teacher in a little village school.
She is very good-natured. Anna says we brought her up well, and she's going to bring her children up to be honest and loyal. But I think she was easy to bring up. I don't remember ever telling her off.
26. According to the passage, when Anna was a child, she _
A. got an illness B. was very queer C. didn't look like the author
27. It can be inferred from the passage the author thinks looking after little children is A. his advantage B. mainly a woman's responsibility C. really enjoyable 28. What does \A. Look after. B. Be different from. C. Look like. 29. My daughter and I have little in common in terms of
A. loving walking and talking B. character C. loving animals
30. From the passage, we can see the author's description of his daughter is----------- .
A. affectionate B. humorous C. critical
Passage 21 26．A 27．B 28．C 29．B 30．A
Passage 22
A funny thing happened on the way to the communication revolution: we stopped
talking to each other.
1 was walking in the park with a friend recently, and his mobile phone rang,interrupting our conversation. There we were, walking and talking on a beautiful sunny day and - poof! -1
was cut off as if I had become absent from the conversation.
The park was filled with people talking on their cell phones. They were passing people without looking at them, saying hello, noticing their babies or stopping to pat their dogs. It seems that the limitless electronic voice is preferred to human contact.
The telephone is used to connect you to the absent. Now it makes people feel absent.
Recently l was in a car with three friends. The driver hushed the rest of us because he could not hear the person on the other end of his cell phone. There we were, four friends driving down the highway, unable to talk to each other because of the small thing designed to make communication easier.
Why is it that the more connected we get, the more disconnected I feel? Every advance in communication technology is a setback（退步）to the closeness of human interaction. With e-mail and instant message over the Internet, we can now communicate without seeing or talking to one another. With voice mail, you can make entire conversations without ever reaching anyone. If my mom has a question, I just leave the answer on her machine.
As almost every contact between human beings gets automatic, the emotional distance index goes up. Pumping gas at the station? Why say good-morning to the assistant when you can swipe you credit card at the pump and save yourself the bother of human contact?
Making a deposit at the bank? Why talk to the clerk who lives in the neighborhood when you can put your card into the ATM?
More and more, I find myself hiding behind e-mail to do a job meant for conversation or being relieved that voice mail picked up because I didn't really have time to talk. The technology devoted to helping me keep in touch is making me lonelier.
I own a mobile phone, an ATM card, a voice-mail telephone, and an e-mail account. Giving them up isn't a choice. They are great for what they are intended to do. It's their
unintended results that make me upset. What good is all this gee-whiz technology if there is no one in the room to hear you crying out \
26. The author's experience of walking in a park with a friend recently made him feel A. unhappy B. funny C. wonderful
27. According to the author, human contact in a park means A. Iookmg at each other and saying hello when passing B. noticing their babies and stopping to pat their dogs C. both A and B
28. According to the author, the more connected we get in communication technology, the we are.
A. more automatic B. easier C. more disconnected
29. What are the examples the author gives to explain his idea that every advance in communication technology is a setback to the closeness of human interaction? A. With e-mail and instant message over the Internet, we can now communicate without seeing or talking to one another.
B. With voice mail, you can make entire conversations without ever reaching anyone. C. Both A and B.
30. What is the unintended result of communication technology, according to the author? A. It makes communication easier and conversation possible everywhere.
B. It actually creates a distance between people instead of bringing them together.
C. It makes every contact between human beings automatic and makes people feel connected. Passage 22 26．A27.C 28.C 29．C 30.B
Passage 23
We have two cats at home. One is named Milo and the other Mamma. Milo is a boycat.
Boy cats are called 'Toms'. We think that Mamma is Milo's mother. That is why wegave her the name Mamma. We didn't buy Milo or Mamma. They were stray cats anddidn't have anywhere to live. They started coming into our garden. They did not look veryhealthy, so
we started giving them milk. Then they started coming into the house, so weadopted them. Because he didn't have a home when he was a kitten, Milo is not very fit. Wehave to take him to the vet once every three months for a special injection. They have lived with us now for 5 years.
26. Sarah got the cats
A. before she moved into her house B. after she moved into the house C. when she moved into the house 27. Sarah thinks A. Milo is a boy B. both cats are boys C. both cats are girls 28. Mamma was named 6 Mamma' because A. Sarah likes the name B. she is a girl C. they think she is Milo's mother 29. Milo and Mamma were A. free to get B. cheap to get C. expensive to get 30. Milo is not very fit because A. he visits the vet for an injection B. he was a stray C. he is old now Passage 23 26.B 27.A 28.C 29.A 30.B
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Passage 1
Social change is more likely to occur in societies where there is a mixture of different
kinds of people than in societies where people are similar in many ways. The simple reason for this is that there are more different ways of looking at things present in the first kind of society. There are more ideas, more disagreements in interest, and more groups and organizations with different beliefs. In addition, there is usually a greater worldly interest and greater tolerance in mixed societies. All these factors tend to promote social change by opening more areas of life to decision. In a society where people are quite similar in many ways, there are fewer occasions for people to see the need or the opportunity for change because everything seems to be the same. And although conditions may not be satisfactory, they are at least customary and undisputed. ? Within a society, social change is also likely to occur more frequently and more readily in the material aspects of the culture than in the non-material, for example, in technology rather than in values; in what has been learned later in life rather than what was learned early; in the less basic and less emotional aspects of society than in their opposite; in the simple elements rather than in the complex ones; in form rather than in substance; and in elements that are acceptable to the culture rather than in strange elements. ? Furthermore, social change is easier if it is gradual. For example, it comes more readily in human relations on a continuous scale rather than one with violent changes. This is one reason why change has not come more quickly to Black Americans as compared to other American minorities, because of the sharp difference in appearance between them and their white counterparts.
1. Different conditions tend to promote social change.
2. The expression ―greater tolerance‖(Line 8,Para.1) refers to quicker adaptation to changing circumstances.
3. According to the passage, the basic and emotional aspects of society tend to slow down social change.
4. Social change is easier if it takes place between Black Americans and other Americans minorities.
5. The passage mainly discusses certain factors that determine the ease with which social change occurs.
Passage 1 F F T F T
Passage 2
Many scientists think that all living things are able to act on a regular timetable. However,
it is not easy to explain why this is so. These scientists have only suggested that living things must have built-in biological clocks.
Biological clocks resist most efforts of scientists to experiment with them. This, of course, makes it very difficult to learn anything about them. However, they can be reset. For example, a human being‘s clock is reset every time he flies from New York to London. In New York his normal 24-hour rhythm of sleep and working and all his other important body activities are set to the daylight hours eastern part of the United States. When he gets to London, the day begins 5 hours earlier. The New Yorker‘s rhythms are out of step with London by about the same amount of time. In other words, his clock is still working, but it is set for New York rather than London. However, within a few days his body rhythm will gradually shift into step with the sun time in England.
The same kind of resetting also takes place in the biological clocks of other animals and plants. This may be shown in a simple experiment. An animal or plant is placed in a laboratory, shut off from outside natural light influences. Light is turned on during the daylight house of some other part of the world. It is turned off during the night hours. After a few such 24-hour days the clock of the animal or plant will be set to the laboratory-produced hours of light and dark. A biological clock can be reset so that activities start and stop at any hour of the day. However, the time between starting on one day and starting on the next day always remains about the same. An experiment with mussels makes this clear.
Mussels are moved from one beach to another. At the second beach the tides rise and fall about 6 hours later than they do at the home beach. For a few days the mussels open at the wrong times-but always with the same amount of time between these openings. Finally the mussels become adjusted to their new beach. Their clocks have become reset to the tidal rhythm of the new beach.
An experiment with honeybees also shows how the biological rhythm continues. Honeybees normally stay in their hives at night and feed during the day. They can be trained to come to a dish of sugar and water at any particular time during the daylight hours-or at any two times. Once they have been trained to come to the dish at certain times, they will continue to do so even if the sugar and water have been taken away. But this training will work only if the experiment follows the honeybees‘ natural 24-hour rhythm. They cannot be taught to feed every 19 or 20 hours.
1. Living things are thought to be able to act on a regular timetable.
2. When one flies from New York to London, his body rhythms will change within a few days. 3. Your normal rhythms of when to sleep and wake up does not have anything to do with sunrise and sunset.
4. When mussels are moved to a new beach at which the tides rise and fall several hours later than they do at the original beach, they will not open at regular intervals. 5. It takes some time for living things to reset their biological clocks. Passage 2 T T F T F
Passage 3
Linda Down, a 26-year –old New Yorker, began an exercise program to lose weight. She
started with sit-ups, and then began long walks. When she saw that there was a women‘s mini-marathon in Central Park in May 1982, she decided to try it. Linda finished last in that 26.2-mile race ----for she was born with cerebral palsy (脑麻痹) and can walk and run only on crutches（蹲下）.
―I guess I‘ll always finish last,‖ She said. ―But that‘s not the point.‖ The New York Marathon scheduled for that October attracted Linda, and she began training by running down Fifth Avenue. Doormen cheered for her.
The 26.2-mile marathon, which winds through New York City, began at 10:30 a.m. on the
bridge between Staten Island and Brooklyn. Linda was in the back of the pack, and by the time she got over the bridge, no one else was in sight.
Moving the crutches like ski poles, and pushing off with her legs, Linda fell six times. But along the way, people cheered, and that made her feel good. A Hispanic family had driven over to meet her at the 20-mile banner, and they all stood around their car and clapped. A little boy shouted, ―Come on, you can make it!‖ Linda was numb with pain, but with that kind of support she had to make it. And pounding down the street she went.
Many hours later, it was dark. Cleanup groups had begun taking down barriers along the streets. Then they discovered that the race was not over. Here came a woman alone on crutches under the streetlights.
Wearing No.831 on the front of her sweat suit, Linda crossed the finish line shortly after 9:30 at night. She came in a full four hours after the next-to-last runner. Linda‘s arms were black and blue from the rubbing of the crutches. Her body ached. She was sweaty and exhausted. The next evening, President Reagan telephoned and invited Linda to lunch at the White House. She began receiving letters from people telling her how she had given them inspiration. A woman stopped her on the street and asked, ―Aren‘t you the one who ran in the marathon?‖ Linda said yes. The woman said she had been suffering low-spiritedness, but seeing Linda run gave her added drive to rise above it.
1. If Linda was not included, the last runner took 7 hours to cover the race. 2. People wrote to Linda because they did not appreciate her spirit.
3. The woman stopped Linda on the street to tell her that she was greatly encouraged by Linda‘s deeds.
4. Linda trained herself by running down Fifth Avenue for the New York Marathon. 5. Cleanup groups discovered that the race was not over. Passage 3 T F T F T
Passage 4
John Preston lives in a flat in north London. He moved there after his wife died four
years ago to be closer to his daughter‘s family, and because his big detached house and garden were too much work for him as she got older. It‘s easier in the flat because the letting agent does everything that needs doing. The agent had had the roof repaired and got the gutter replaced, but at the moment John is not satisfied because the window frame need painting and the garden looks neglected. The agent had windows painted two years ago, but the painters didn‘t do it very well, so they need doing again. John pays over ￡1,500 a year for service and maintenance, and he thinks that it‘s not good enough because the flats look shabby and a lot of things need repairing.
His daughter, June, and her husband, Pete, on the other hand, have to do everything themselves or find builders to do it. They live in a larger semi-detached house further out from the centre of London than John, but they are still near enough to see him often. They live in the suburbs with a nice garden where their children play. They moved there four years ago to have more space. The only drawback is that June‘s husband has to commute into the centre of London every day, but, overall, they are happy with their decision. When they bought the house, a lot needed doing to it and it sill does. June says, ―we have a list of things to do so long as your arm --- the roof needs repairing and the chimney needs mending. The bedrooms need decorating and we haven‘t had the broken windowpanes replaced yet in the observatory. We need to fix the gate and repair the path --- I looks dreadful when you arrive. 1. John lives in the centre of London.
2. The agent hasn‘t done anything to John‘s flat.
3. John pays extra money for service and maintenance of his flat. 4. June and Pete live near to John. 5. Pete lives near to work.
6. They still have a lot of work to do on the house.