A) disasters B) relative C) necessarily D) involved E) denominator F) contrast G) results H) values I) relevant J) participated K) numerator L) contrary M) permanently N) question O) regularly Section Three Translation from English into Chinese
Directions: Translate the following passage into Chinese.
By reducing all risks to ratios or fractions of this sort, we can begin to compare different sorts of risks—like mining versus riding in a car. The larger this ratio, that is, the closer it is to 1, the riskier the activity in question. In the case just discussed, we would find the relative safety of car travel and coal mining by dividing the numbers of lives lost in each by the number of people participating in each. Here, it is clear that the riskiness of traveling by car is about 1 death per 10,000 passengers; with mining, the risk level is about 4 deaths per 10,000 miners. So although far more people are killed in car accidents than in mining, the latter turns out to be four times riskier than the former. Those ratios enable us to compare the risks of activities or situations as different as apples and oranges. If you are opposed to risks, you will want to choose your activities by focusing on the small-ratio exposures. If you are reckless, then you are not likely to be afraid of higher ratios unless they get uncomfortably large.
通过减少一切险比率或分数的这类,我们开始比较不同种类的risks-like挖掘与坐进一辆汽车。更大的这一比率,即是接近1,风险活动问题。如先前讨论的,我们会发现相对安全的汽车旅行和煤矿除以丧生的人数在各参与的人数每件。在这里,很明显,乘汽车旅行的风险性约为每10000名乘客的死亡;开采、风险水平是每10000名矿工大约4人死亡。所以尽管更多的人死于车祸比采矿,后者,原来是4倍的风险比前者。那些使我们比较比率的风险情况不同的活动或苹果和橘子。如果你反对风险,你要选择你的活动所关注的,主要集中在small-ratio暴露。如果你是不计后果的,那你就不太可能会害怕更高的比率,除非他们得到令人不安的大。
Section Four Writing
Directions: Your essay should be no less than 150 words. You are to write an essay on the topic
“Proper Use of Mobile Phones”. You should base your essay on the outline below: 1) 手机在人们生活中起的作用；
2) 手机使用不当对生活造成的干扰；
3) 使用手机时需要注意的事项。
Proper Use of Mobile Phones
Now, the topic of whether the students can use mobile phones in school is becoming more and more heat(heated). Different people have different opinions on it. some are for it and some are against it. As for me, I think students should be allowed to use mobile phones. High-tech
communicational machines are needed for students to get more news around the world, especially for the ones living in school. With mobile phones, we can learn more things about outer world more quickly .Mobile phones play an important role among the young, too. They can help us to communicate with friends that are away from us easily. And they can help us to tell our parents whether we're in danger, in trouble, or meeting with other problems.
so I think our students should be allowed to use moble phones in school, anyhow, its advantages have an advantage over its disadvantages.
Unit 7 College Life
Section One Reading Comprehension
Directions: There are 2 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or
unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
Passage One
Questions 1-5 are based on the following passage:
It came as something of a surprise when Diana, Princess of Wales, made a trip co Angola in 1997, to support the Red Cross campaign for a total ban on all anti-personnel landmines. Within hours of arriving in Angola, television screens around the world were filled with images of her comforting victims injured in explosions caused by landmines. \knew the statistics,\she said. \year-old girl who had lost her leg, and people like her.\
The Princess concluded with a simple message: \must stop landmines\And she used every opportunity during her visit to repeat this message.
But, back in London, her views were not shared by some members of the British government, which refused to support a ban on these weapons. Angry politicians launched an attack On the Princess in the press. They described her as \乱放跑的人) The Princess responded by brushing aside the criticisms: \I‘m trying to do is help.\
Opposition parties, the media and the public immediately voiced their Support for the Princess. To make matters worse for the government, it soon emerged that the Princess‘s trip had been approved by the Foreign Office, and that she was in fact very well-inf0rmed about both the situation in Angola and the British governments policy regarding landmines. The result was a severe embarrassment for the government.
To try and limit the damage, the Foreign Secretary, Malcolm Rifkidnd, claimed that the Princess‘s views on landmines were not very different from government policy, and that it was \was \
For the Princess, the trip to this war-torn country was an excellent opportunity to use her popularity to show the world how much destruction and suffering landmines can cause. She said that the experience had also given her the chance to get closer to people and their problems. 1. Princess Diana paid a visit to Angola in 1997 ________. A) to clarify the British governments stand on landmines B) to establish her image as a friend of landmine victims C) to investigate the sufferings of landmine victims there D) to voice her support for a total ban of landmines
2. What did Diana mean when she said \to me\
A) Meeting the landmine victims in person made her believe the statistics.
B) She just couldn‘t bear to meet the landmine victims face to face.
C) The actual situation in Angola made her feel like going back home.
D) Seeing the pain of the victims made her realize the seriousness of the situation. 3. Some members of the British government criticized Diana because ________. A) she had not consulted the government before the visit B) she was ill-informed of the governments policy C) they were actually opposed to banning landmines
D) they believed that she had misinterpreted the situation in Angola 4. How did Diana respond to the criticisms? A) She made more appearances on TV. B) She paid no attention to them.
C) She rose to argue with her opponents.
D) She met the 13-year-old girl as planned.
5. What did Princess Diana think of her visit to Angola? A) It had caused embarrassment to the British government. B) It had greatly promoted her popularity.
C) It had brought her closer to the ordinary people.
D) It had affected her relations with the British government.
Passage Two
Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage:
As soon as it was revealed that a reporter for Progressive magazine had discovered how to make a hydrogen bomb, a group of firearm (火器) fans formed the National Hydrogen Bomb Association, and they are now lobbying against any legislation to stop Americans from owning one.
\It doesn‘t spell out what kind of arms. But since anyone can now make a hydrogen bomb, the public should be able to buy it to protect themselves.\
\larly where there are children around?\
\National Hydrogen Bomb Association hopes to educate people in the safe handling of this type of weapon. We are instructing owners to keep the bomb in a locked cabinet and the fuse (导火索 ) separately in a drawer.\
\ The spokesman said, \gen bombs don‘t kill people -- people kill people. The bomb is for self-protection and it also has a deterrent effect. If somebody knows you have a nuclear weapon in your house, they‘re going to think twice about breaking in.\
\in the cabinet, with the fuse in a drawer, you would never be able to assemble it in time to stop an intruder\
\expensive to build one. So what your association is backing is a program which would allow the middle and upper classes to acquire a bomb while poor people will be left defenseless with just handguns.\
6. According to the passage, some people started a national association so as to ________. A) instruct people how to keep the bomb safe at home
B) coordinate the mass production of the destructive weapon C) promote the large-scale sale of this newly invented weapon D) block any legislation to ban the private possession of the bomb
7. Some people oppose the ownership of H-bombs by individuals on the grounds that ________. A) they may fall into the hands of criminals
B) peoples lives will be threatened by the weapon C) most people don‘t know how to handle the weapon
D) the size of the bomb makes it difficult to keep in a drawer
8. By saying that the bomb also has a deterrent effect the spokesman means that it ________. A) can kill those entering others houses by force B) will threaten the safety of the owners as well C) will frighten away any possible intruders D) can show the special status of its owners
9. According to the passage, opponents of the private ownership of H-bombs are very much worried that ________.
A) the cost of the weapon will put citizens on an unequal basis
B) the wide use of the weapon will push up living expenses tremendously C) poorly-educated Americans will find it difficult to make use of the weapon D) the influence of the association is too powerful for the less privileged to overcome 10. From the tone of the passage we know that the author is ________. A) not serious about the private ownership of H-bombs B) concerned about the spread of nuclear weapons
C) doubtful about the necessity of keeping H-bombs at home for safety D) unhappy with those who vote against the ownership of H-bombs
Section Two Blank-filling (20 points)
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word
for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Neusner believes that in college we are trained to think that ―failure leaves no record‖ because we can O get away with mistakes easily. I have news for him. If you fail a test, you can‘t take it again, or the teacher won‘t F the grade even if he thinks you will hate him for the rest of your life. If you drop out of a class, next semester you will have to take more courses. If you get low grades, your _A___ of getting into a fine graduate school are almost none. If your grade-point average is not B high for a number of classes, you just don‘t get your _M_. When midterms and finals come, no one can avoid C them. When the 7 gets tough, the tough have to get down to work because, D what Neusner believes, college does not give ―painless‖ solutions to mistakes (paragraph 1). It is not ―an altogether G world,‖ and by no means have teachers ―pretended not to care‖ (paragraph 3) when J are not kept or when