morning, he should ________. A. change his energy cycle
B. overcome his laziness
C. wake up earlier
D. go to bed earlier 9.
You are advised to rise with a yawn and stretch because it will ______.
A. help to keep your energy for the day's work
B. help you to gain steam for work early in the day
C. enable you to concentrate on your routine work
D. keep your energy cycle under control all day
10. When should you do routine work?
A. During your sharpest hours.
B. During the afternoon.
C. Just after getting out of bed.
D. When you have the most energy.
Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage or dialog. I don't have a strong village feeling. There is a little pub and that is where most people go, although I tend to avoid it. The village always wants to know what you are doing and if you don't have too much contact with it in the pub, then they don't learn too much. I just keep them guessing.
The new people want a great community center. People who have just arrived in a village always want to do something in it or to it. What exactly they are going to have in this center I don't know. They keep talking about \(公共设施). I suppose they mean a car-park and a big smart room. The young village people don't want this. When their work is over they want to go off in their cars to the
bright lights of Ipswich. The new people are often just kidding themselves that they are real village people. They don't just want to be accepted; they really want to take over the traditions. This is why they have come to live in a village. They want to do things \village\and it is all very exhausting if you happen to be an \villager\is why a person who has got the wit (才智) to make enough money to come and live comfortably in the country, and have a centrally-heated house and a car, should want to put on entertainment in a hut (小屋). These people are just playing at village life—kidding themselves that they are genuine country folk. They wear us out. When their work is done they want to play in the village and when our work is done we want to play outside it. I suppose that sums it up.
11. We can learn from this passage that the writer ______.
A. doesn't learn about what village people are doing
B. tells the other village people about the pub
C. never tells people anything about himself
D. doesn't often go to the village pub
12. According to the passage, the young village people _______.
A. want their pleasure outside the village
B. don't like going to the community center
C. don't like the new people
D. want to see the latest group in the village
13. In the writer's opinion, the new people _______.
A. want to get rid of the old ways of the village
B. want to be left alone by people in the village
C. know that they aren't accepted by people in the village
D. do things that change the village from how it is
14. The old village people _______.
A. don't want to get rid of their old things for new things
B. are not ready to accept the new people in their village
C. want a new community center with a place to park
D. want to go back to their own traditions
15. It can be inferred from this passage that the author _______.
A. likes to play at village life
B. disagrees with the new people
C. likes laughing at the new people
D. wants the new people to go away
Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage or dialog. The great river Nile (尼罗河) flows gently in its course through the hot plains in the first half of the year but later on when the melting (融化) snows and the rains on the mountains far to the south swell its tributaries (支流), the Nile overflows (泛滥). It spreads rich, muddy (泥泞的) soil from Ethiopia over its valley and forms deep stretches of green, fertile (肥沃的) lands along its banks. The settlers found that in the soft rich earth wheat and other crops could be planted, even without the use of the plough, and they began to make many settlements of farmers.
In these early times they did not of course understand why the river overflowed each year. But they knew that their crops and, therefore, their lives, depended upon its magic (魔术似的) floods, and they explained the miracle as the work of gods.
But there came some years when there was a \the floods were not full and did not bring enough soil; the crops were poor and the people starved. At other times the waters were so great that they destroyed houses and villages, and drowned (淹死) men and beasts (牲畜). It took perhaps many centuries before the farmers learned how to control the Nile waters.
Wise men among them watching the position of the stars year by
year found that they could predict when the annual rising of the Nile would come. Thus they began to learn about the scientific study of the sun, earth, moon, and stars and could make a calendar of the years. They also learnt how to measure out the land so that it could be divided fairly again after the boundaries of the farms had been washed away by great floods. In this way, there came about ancient knowledge of engineering and of geometry.
16. We can learn from this passage that the Nile is ______.
A. always a gentle flowing river
B. hot in the first half of the year but cold later on
C. likely to overflow at unknown times of the year
D. a life-giving river that makes the land rich
17. The settlers began farming in the Nile valley because ______.
A. they discovered that their crops could grow well in the soil there
B. they did not realize that the river would overflow sometimes
C. they found many settlements of farmers in the valley
D. they realized that their crops depended on the floods
18. The Nile was called the \
A. the floods made the river difficult to control
B. the floods could only be predicted by wise men
C. the river sometimes flooded too little or too much
D. the river took the good soil away to Ethiopia
19. The Egyptians of that time learned to predict the floods by
_______.
A. studying the flooding of the Nile year by year
B. observing the position of the stars year by year
C. inventing some maps of the Nile floods
D. developing engineering and measuring land
20. According to the passage, the ancient Egyptians ________.
A. had studied the stars and made their own calendar of the years
B. watched the fall and rise of the Nile and learned how to control the flood
C. discovered science before the peoples of other nations
D. learned a lot about geometry and spread the knowledge all over the world
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage or dialog. The cost of helping someone with AIDS drugs is high. Pills cost a lot of money. In Africa, AIDS drugs may cost more than a person makes in one year. At the same time, some American hospitals throw away a lot of pills. One man, named Lee Wildes, didn't think this was fair, so he decided to do something about it.
Wildes lives in a small apartment in San Francisco. Every month, he sends AIDS drugs, which would've been thrown away, to Africa. His act of kindness has not been noticed much in his home country. In Africa though, he is well known. Many people in Africa send him e-mails, asking him for the medicine they need.
Lee was a nurse. He knows that millions of dollars worth of drugs are thrown away. Five years ago he learned he was sick with HIV. Following this discovery, he took a vacation to Africa and saw many people there with AIDS. His visit caused him to begin sending drugs to Africa.
Lee talks with doctors in Africa by mail, e-mail and telephone. With their help, he has gotten the names and addresses for a hundred people in six African countries. He fills the pill orders and he records what pills he sends to them. He even returns to Africa, once a year, to see the people he's helping.
Giving left over drugs away is against the law, as is giving out drugs without a license. However, it is not likely he'll be taken to court for his kindly efforts. People who have discovered his actions have not caused problems for him. They know that 25 million Africans are sick with AIDS, and they don't want to prevent him from helping. 21. Why aren't more Africans taking AIDS drugs?
A. They don't want to take something that was thrown away.