7. There are broken windowpanes in the conservatory. 8. The front of the house is in a good state. Passage 4 F F T T F T T F
Passage 5
When a consumer finds that an item she or he bought is faulty or in some other way
does not live up to the manufacturer‘s claims, the first step is to present the warranty, or any other records which might help, at the store of purchase. In most cases, this action will produce results. However, if it does not, there are various means the consumer may use to gain satisfaction.?
A simple and common method used by many consumers is to complain directly to the store manager. In general, the ―higher up‖ the consumer takes his or her complaint, the faster he or she can expect it to be settled. In such a case, it is usually settled in the consumer‘s favor, assuming he or she has a just claim.?
Consumers should complain in person whenever possible, but if they cannot get to the place of purchase, it is acceptable to phone or write the complaint in a letter.?
Complaining is usually most effective when it is done politely but firmly, and especially when the consumer can demonstrate what is wrong with the item in question. If this cannot be done, the consumer will succeed best by presenting specific information as to what is wrong, rather than by making general statements. For example, ―The left speaker does not work at all and the sound coming out of the right one is unclear‖ is better than ―This stereo does not work‖.? The store manager may advice the consumer to write to the manufacturer. If so, the consumer should do this, stating the complaint as politely and firmly as possible. If a polite complaint does not achieve the desired result, the consumer can go to a step further. She or he can threaten to take the seller to court or report the seller to a private or public organization responsible for protecting consumer‘s rights.?
1. When a consumer finds that his or her purchase has a fault in it, the first thing he or she should do is to show some written proof of the purchase to the store?
2. According to the passage, a consumer can make his or her complaint more effective to threaten to take the seller to court.
3. According to the passage, the last alternative that consumers may turn to is turn to the Consumers‘ Rights Protection Organization for help.?
4. The phrase ―live up to‖ in this context means realize the purpose of.
5．The passage tells us how to make an effective complaint about a faulty item.? Passage 5 T F T F T
Passage 6
For years, children in the industrial areas of Europe and America seldom left their smoky
cities to see the beauties of the countryside. This was not because the woods and fields were always far away, but because they were too far from the city to permit people to make a day trip between morning and night.
In 1907, a young German schoolmaster had an idea which changed this state of affairs. He decided to turn his little schoolhouse into a dormitory for the summer holidays. Anyone who brought his sleeping bag and cooking equipment along could stay there for a very small quantity of money. The idea was a success. A few years later, the schoolhouse was much too small to hold the many young people who wanted to stay there. As a result, a dormitory was set up in an old castle nearby. This was the first Youth Hostel. Today, young students and workers of every country can meet in the hostels and get to know each other. When young people arrive at a hostel, they have only to show their card of membership in a hostel organization in their own country. This card will permit them to uses the facilities of hostels all over the world for a very low price.
Often, at the evening meal, a group of boys and girls from various parts of the country or the
world will happen to meet at the same hostel. They may put their food together and prepare a dinner with many kinds of dishes. Sometimes a program will be organized after the meal, with dances, songs, or short talks followed by a question period. One can learn a lot of things about other places, just by meeting people who come from those places. For this reason, a few weeks spent ―hostelling‖ can be just as useful a part of one‘s education as classes in school. 1. The word ―hostel‖ is closest in meaning to school. 2. The first youth hostel was opened in Asia.
3. The price of hostels was low because people brought their own equipment.
4. According to the passage, young people can pay less for their stay in a hostel if they arrived early enough.
5. From the passage we may see that hostels are important mainly because they get people from different places to meet each other. Passage 6 F F T F T
Passage 7
He was a funny looking man with a cheerful face, good natured and a great talker. He was described by his student, the great philosopher Plato, as ―the best and most just and wisest man‖. Yet this same man was condemned to death for his beliefs. The man was the Greek philosopher, Socrates, and he was condemned for not believing in the recognized gods and for corrupting young people. The second charge stemmed from his association with numerous young men who came to Athens from all over the civilized world to study under him.?
Socrates method of teaching was to ask questions and, by pretending not to know the answers, to press his students into thinking for themselves. His teachings had unsurpassed influence on all the great Greek and Roman schools of philosophy. Yet, for all his fame and influence, Socrates himself never wrote a word. Socrates encouraged new ideas and free thinking in the young, and this was frightening to the conservative people. They wanted him silenced. Yet, many were probably surprised that he accepted death so readily.?
Socrates had the right to ask for a lesser penalty, and he probably could have won over enough of the people who had previously condemned him. But Socrates, as a firm believer in law, reasoned that it was proper to submit to the death sentence. So, he calmly accepted his fate and drank a cup of poison hemlock in the presence of his grief-stricken friends and students.?
1. In the first paragraph, the word ―yet‖ is used to introduce a sequence. 2. Socrates was condemned to death because he was a philosopher.?
3. The word ―unsurpassed‖ in the third paragraph is closest in meaning to unequalled.?
4. By mentioning that Socrates himself never wrote anything, the writer implies that Socrates was not so learned as he is reputed to have been.?
5. Socrates accepted the death penalty to show that he was not afraid of death.? Passage 7 F F T F T
Passage 8
A study has shown that fitness is the key to long life, irrespective of body shape or even
smoking habits. Researchers discovered that people who exercise love longer than those who do not, even they are overweight and smoke.
The study found that the least fir of the 6,000 middle-aged men in the study were five times more likely to die within six years of the start of he research than the fittest. This was true whether or not the men had heart problems, smoked or were overweight. Scientists conclude that it was better to be fat and active than skinny and sedentary. Dr. Ken Cooper, a fitness expert, said, ―You are better off smoking a packet of cigarettes a day and exercising regularly rather than being a non-smoker and sedentary.‖ Although he adds, ―But don‘t misunderstand me. I am not endorsing smoking. I am trying to tell you how dangerous it is to be sedentary.
However, the study appears to fly in the face of research last year which concluded that more than 30,000 people die prematurely every year in Britain from illness caused by being overweight.
The British government is putting pressure on manufacturers to reduce high levels of sugar in food and to restrict the hard-well of junk food to children in order to improve the nation‘s health. But the new study suggests that Government should encourage more people to exercise.
1. The study shows that only body shape and smoking habits influence fitness.
2. Those who smoke and are overweight but exercise live longer that those who do not. 3. Skinny and sedentary people live longer than those fat and active. 4. Dr. Ken Cooper advocates people to smoke but keep sedentary.
5. The British Government attempt to improve people health by taking some measure such as against hard-selling junk food to children. Passage 8 F T F F T
Passage 9
―Get up, the water is coming.‖ Yan Xinzhi, director of the neighborhood committee of
Chaoyang Street, Taiyuan, capital of Shanxi Province, would knock at the door of every household at midnight to have people collect water; otherwise, the tap water would soon run dry when everyone in the city got up and joined the ―water rush‖ in the morning. Yan, an elderly lady about 60, had served as committee director for more than 20 years; her major work was to rouse her neighbors from their sleep to get water. As time went by, residents could not go to sleep before one o‘clock in the morning.
Chaoyang Street was not the only street in Taiyuan that lacked water, and Taiyuan was not the only city in China with water in short supply.
Niu Maosheng, Minister of Water Resources, told China Today that more than 300 cities nationwide lack water; in 108 cities the situation has become critical. The annual deficit of water has reached 6 billion cubic meters, leading to a loss of RMB 200 billion (approximately US $24 billion) in industrial output.
1. As neighborhood committee director, the major part of Yan Xinzhi‘s job was to wake up her neighbors at midnight to get water.
2. The passage reveals that all the cities in China suffer from water shortage. 3. The passage is written by a water expert.
4. The lack of water has lead to a loss of US $24 billion in industrial output. 5. Xi‘an is another city with water in short supply. Passage 9 ( T F FTNG )
Passage 10
People who cannot tell all colors apart are said to be color blind. Most color-blind people
can see yellow and blues, but confuse reds with greens. It is very rare for a person to be blind to all colors, but they may see everything in shades of black, white, and gray.
It is interesting to note that many color-blind people don‘t even realize that they are color-blind. They don‘t know that the colors they are seeing and naming are not the actual colors that people with normal vision can see. This can be particularly dangerous when a color-blind person confuses the red and green of a traffic light.
Color blindness is thought to be inherited (遗传). And although doctors have thought up tests to determine（测定）color blindness, there is no cure to treatment for it. 1. A color-blind person can tell correctly red and green.
2. Many color-blind people are unaware (没意识到) that they are color-blind.
3. It‘s especially dangerous for a color-blind person to cross a street when there are no traffic lights at the cross of the streets.
4. A person who is color-blind is not allowed to drive.
5. Up to now, doctors have found a way to free a person from his color blindness. Passage 10 ( F T F NG F )
Passage 11
Lily is 70 years old and she takes care of her 91-year-old mother. She told us about caring
for her mother.
I wake up early every day, it‘s usually about 6.30 am, and wait until I hear Tilly, my mum, moving about. Then I make her a cup of tea. At about half past seven she gets up and we have breakfast together. We normally just have toast, but on Sundays we always have bacon and eggs. After breakfast she reads the newspaper, then she sits by the window and waves to the neighbors as they walk by.
She hardly ever goes out but she is very proud of her personal appearance, so she goes to the hairdresser once a month.
She doesn‘t like being left on her own for very long, so I always arrange for a neighbour to come and sit with her when I go out. Now and again, my friend and neighbour, Joan, comes to spend the day with her, and I can go and have lunch with another friend, May, who lives in town.
I have a brother, Syd. He comes to stay two or three times a year. He is very good and keeps in touch, but he lives 300 miles away. Once a year, he collects mum and takes her to stay with him in London for a week. She doesn‘t really like going because it‘s a long journey, but I need the rest.
Sally, the nurse, comes to see mum regularly. My next-door neighbour, Jack, often calls in. In the evening we usually watch TV and we sometimes play cards. Mum is fantastic for her age. But I can never decide to go anywhere spontaneously. I always have to plan it, so I feel a bit trapped. But what is the alternative? An old people‘s home? I couldn‘t do that to my mother. 1. Lily wakes before her mother.
2. Tilly is satisfied with her hairdresser.
3. Joan sometimes spends the day with Lily's mother. 4. Lily's brother comes to visit every three weeks.
5. Lily and her mother play cards more than they watch TV. Passage 11 ( T NG T F F )
Passage 12
Benjamin Disraeli, the famous nineteenth century prime minister, said, ―London is not a
city, it is a nation.‖ Today this is an understatement; London, with its vast range of different ethnic groups, is a world.
Certainly, London is the most culturally diverse city in the world. The city was founded by the Romans and since then new arrivals have constantly added to its character and prosperity. Within 10 years 40% of Londoners will be from ethnic minority groups, including the growing number of Londoners of mixed ethnic origin, but most of them will have been born in Britain. Children of Caribbean-Chinese marriages will go to school with children of Russian-Irish couples. None of them will be English, but all of them will be Londoners.
Most of Britain's ethnic minority residents live in the capital, speaking over 300 languages. Nearly all of the African population and many of the Caribbean population of Britain live in London (83% and 58% respectively); 39% of the Chinese population of Britain and 36% of the Asian population of Britain live in London. The largest migrant community is from the Irish Republic with 256,000 people, 3.8% of the total population of London.
There are an estimated 330,000 refugees and asylum seekers living in London, with most recent arrivals coming from Eastern Europe, North Africa and Kurdistan.
Young people, in particular, are skilled at dealing with a large number of different and hybrid cultures. They themselves often have several different ethnic identities since their parents and grandparents may come from several different backgrounds, and their friends and partners
do also. They are ―skilled cross-cultural travellers‖ without leaving their home-town. 1. London is a nation.
2. The city of London was founded by the Romans. 3. All African population live in London.
4. 39% of the total population of London are Chinese. 5. Old people are also ―skilled cross-cultural travelers‖. Passage 12 ( F T F F NG )
Passage 13
My grandfather was a very interesting man．He died when l was 11，but I remember he
used to tell me stories about his early life．He told me one about how he used to race dogs．They raced greyhound，a very fast type of dogs．My grandfather had a dog that was very fast and usually won the races．The men used to bet on the dogs and try to win money．One day before a race，a friend of my grandfather‘s suggested that they bet on a different dog and make my grandfather's dog lose the race．My grandfather had no job，so this seemed an easy way to make money．On the day of the race，my grandfather and his friend fed the dog lots of cakes so it wouldn‘t want to run．Then they took it for a long walk so it was tired．They bet on another dog，but when the race was run，my grandfather‘s dog won anyway，so they lost all their money and didn‘t win anything!
36. The author‘s grandfather doesn‘t tell stories now． （ ） 37. His dog always won when it raced． （ ） 38. The author‘s grandfather usually won lots of money． （ ） 39. The author‘s grandfather and his friend fed the dog cakes to make it strong （ ） 40. The author‘s grandfather and his friend bet on a dog which didn‘t win （ ） Passage 13 36．T 37．F 38．NG 39．F 40．T
Passage 14
Speedway racing is a type of motorcycle racing that is done on a track with a special
motorcycle．It was introduced to Britain in l 928．The first races were held at High Beech in Epping Forest．Now races are held in special stadiums，but then fl track was made in the forest behind fl pub called the Royal Oak．The track was not concrete or tarmac，but was made from cinders．The first races were organized by Jack Hill—Bailey．He had visited Australia and seen speedway racing there．When he returned to Britain，he decided to introduce the sport to Britain and started organising the first races with his friends in the Ilford Motorcycle Club．They expected 3，000 people to come and watch the races，but．over 30，000 people arrrived tO see the first races l 31．You need a special motorcycle for fl speedway race． 32．Speedway races are held on the road．
33．Speedway races were held in Australia before they were held in Britain． 34．Jack Hill—Bailey organised the first races by himself． 35．There were not many people come to see the first race． Passage 14 31．T 32．F 33．T 34．F 35·F
Passage 15
The ancient Olympic Games were part of a religious festival in honour of the Greek
godZeus, the father of all Greek gods and goddesses. The festival and games were held in olympia, a religious sanctuary. The athletes came to Olympia from all parts of the Greek world, from as far as Spain in the west and Turkey in the east.
The ancient Olympic Games began in the year 776 BC when Koroibos, a cook from the
city of Elis, won a 200-metre-long race. They took place for a period of 617 years until the last games were held in AD 393.
In the ancient games, athletes received prizes worth large amounts of money. In fact the