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discussion about the company?s future. A. affordable B. harmful C. relevant D. poor
48. “To tell you the ,” Mr. Smith told his wife, “I will never forgive you.” A. claim B. passion C. truth D. astonishment 49. To her simple and mind, the remembrance of her mother brought no other feeling than a gentle sorrow. A. sensitive B. innocent C. dramatic D. broad 50. Certain forms of illness can be by food allergies. A. arose B. raised C. triggered D. prevented 51. He made a brilliant speech, but it did not attract the ________. A. anxiety B. evidence C. frustration D. audience
52. Success doesn?t only depend on what you do; what you don?t do is important. A. equally B. regardless C. belly D. broad 53. In a(n) -conscious society like the U. S, thin is “in”, fat is “out”. A. image B. response C. safety D. hinder 54. Her husband?s involvement with another woman led to their . A. frustration B. shelter C. divorce D. breeze
55. After a brief encounter — dinner, dancing, and a moonlit walk along the riverbank, she from my life and I never saw her again. A. vanished B. settled C. depended D. whispered
Section B: Banked Cloze（每小题0.5分，共5分）
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with 10 blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in the box. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please choose the best answer and mark the corresponding letter for each item on the Answer Sheet. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
“Today I want to tell you three stories from my life,” he said.
“The first story is about connecting the 56 . I 57 out of Reed College after the first 6 months. That allowed me to take the classes I wanted. I decided to take a 58 class. Ten years later, it all came back to me and we 59 it all into the Mac. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on that calligraphy class, and 60 computers might not have the wonderfully-shaped letters that you see on the screen. You can?t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your 61 , destiny, life, whatever.”
“My second story is about love and 62 . I got fired. During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in
love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to the world?s first computer-animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most 63 animation studio in the world. Then, Apple bought NeXT, and I returned to Apple. The technology 64 at NeXT was put into the iPod and future Apple products. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together. I?m pretty sure none
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of this would have happened if I hadn?t been fired from Apple. It was awful-tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. You?ve got to find what you love. So keep looking until you find it. Don?t 65 .”
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡上作答。 A. dots B. personal C. loss D. calligraphy E. designed F. successful G. developed H. instincts I. settle J. dropped 得 分 Part III Reading Comprehension（共30分）
Section A: Timed Reading（每小题1分，共10分）
Directions: In this section, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on the Answer Sheet.
Questions 66 to 75 are based on the following passage.
The internet slang term, LOL (laughing out loud), has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), with the mild disapproval of language purists. But where did the term originate? And is it really a threat to our language?
“OMG! LOL?s in the OED. LMAO!”
If you find the above string of letters completely meaningless, you are clearly not familiar with the internet. Let me get back to the point.
The OED defines LOL as an exclamation, “used mainly in electronic communications to draw attention to a joke or humorous statement or to express amusement”.
It can be pronounced either as individual letters, LOL, or as a complete word, lol. The phrase was included in the OED alongside OMG (Oh My God), with language experts noting their growing popularity “in e-mails, texts, social networking... and even in spoken use”.
As well as on school playgrounds, words like “lolz” and “lolling” can be heard in pubs and offices — though often to show irony.
Love it or hate it, LOL is here to stay, says Graeme Diamond, the OED?s principal editor for new words. “The word is common, widespread, and people understand it,” he explains. “The word serves a real purpose — it conveys tone in text, something that even most critics accept.”
“I don?t LOL. I?m basically someone who kind of hates it,” says Rob Manuel of the internet humor site b3ta.”But the truth is, we do need words to express emotions in tweets and emails, just as conversations have laughter. LOL might make me look like an idiot, but at least you know when I?m being playful.”
But for young internet entrepreneurs like Ben Huh, LOL is much more than a necessary evil. It?s both a tool and a toy.” LOL is a part of everyday life. I use it all the time in e-mail exchanges. It?s a polite way of acknowledging someone,” he says. “It means ?yes, I understand that was funny, but I?m not really laughing.?”
But no matter how often it is used, LOL is still not accepted by many people over the age of 25. On Facebook, there are at least half a dozen anti-LOL groups. “If
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something is funny, ?ha?, ?hehehehe?, or ?hee hee? is perfectly fine depending on the joke and more descriptive than LOL,” writes one hater.
Another, Marie Clair, believes that LOL “is a sign of growing illiteracy. Adults are using slang words and ignoring grammar. Their ability to communicate is getting worse.”
But is LOL really a lazy, childish invention? Opinions will continue to vary. So why has LOL, above all other web phrases, become such a phenomenon? Because it?s simple yet multipurpose, says Tim Hwang, founder of ROFLCon, an event that brings together computer programmers and computer enthusiasts. “The magic of LOL is that it?s both exclusive and inclusive,” he says. “On one level, it?s simple to understand.”
“But it also conveys something subtle — depending on the situation. It means more than just ?funny?. For example, it might be used to help overcome an awkward moment.”
“For school kids, new words and phrases like LOL and NBD (no big deal) are a kind of secret code, a way of saying they are part of a new generation, young, fresh, and unique,” says Tony Thorne, author of the Dictionary of Contemporary Slang.
“I go into schools and record slang words — all the new terms kids are saying — words like ?lolcano?. And if you talk to kids they will say this is our language — this is what identifies us.”
But aren?t these slang words also harmful to children?s vocabulary? Not at all, say many experts.
“Government education theorists get all worked up about words like LOL — they see them as signs of laziness,” says Thorne. “But the small amount of research on this issue shows that kids who use slang actually have better communicative skills. If we have a literacy crisis, it?s among adults as well as children. And slang is not the cause. In fact, it is enriching the language.”
Diamond agrees: “There will always be a minority who want the English language to remain frozen, that doesn?t admit changes,” he says.”But language is alive. It is evolving.”
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡上作答。
66. Which of the following is NOT true about the slang term “LOL”? A. It is an Internet term for “laughing out loud”.
B. It has been added to an authoritative English dictionary, together with “OMG”. C. It is used on the Internet mainly to draw people?s attention or to make fun. D. It is rarely used in real-life public places.
67. What do the language purists think of the Internet slang term “LOL”? A. They want to find out where the term originates. B. They disapprove of LOL being added to the OED.
C. They need to make sure whether LOL is a threat to our language. D. They never use LOL under any circumstances.
68. Which of the following is NOT the evidence of growing popularity of the slang
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terms like “LOL”?
A. The OED defines LOL as an exclamation.
B. School kids think the new terms like “LOL” are what identify them.
C. People use LOL in e-mails, texts, social networking... and even in spoken use. D. As well as on school playgrounds, LOL can be heard in pubs and offices.
69. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Graeme Diamond regards it as a word with no real meaning but carrying tone. B. Rob Manuel hates it and doesn?t understand why people use it. C. Ben Huh uses it all the time as a toy and a tool.
D. Marie Clair believes that the use of “LOL” will make people more literate.
70. Who would most likely to accept “LOL” as part of our language? A. The language purists. B. The language experts.
C. Young internet entrepreneurs. D. People over the age of 25.
71. According to Tim Hwang, why has “LOL” become widely accepted by people? A. Because it?s simple yet multipurpose. B. Because it?s both exclusive and inclusive.
C. Because it conveys something subtle and means more than just “funny”. D. All the above.
72. According to Thorne, which of the following is TRUE about slang words like “LOL”?
A. They will do great harm to children?s vocabulary. B. They are signs of laziness.
C. They will generate an illiteracy crisis.
D. They help children develop better communication skills.
73. Who has the different attitude towards the Internet slang term compared with the other three persons?
A. Graeme Diamond. B. Ben Huh. C. Marie Clair. D. Tony Thorne.
74. Which of the following is TRUE about the literacy crisis mentioned in this passage?
A. The literacy crisis occurs among adults as well as children.
B. The literacy crisis occurs only among the young surfing the Internet. C. The Internet slang is the cause of the literacy crisis. D. The Internet slang is a sign of growing illiteracy.
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75. What can be inferred from the passage?
A. Web phrases will soon be eliminated from dictionaries.
B. More and more people will use web phrases in their real lives. C. No more web phrases will be added to dictionaries in the future. D. English language will remain unchanged for a long time.
Section B: Reading in Depth（每小题2分，共20分）
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them 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.
Passage One
Questions 76 to 80 are based on the following passage.
Everyone remembers the tragic love story of Jack and Rose in the Hollywood film, Titanic, but few people know that the character, Rose, was based on an actual Titanic survivor, Margaret Delia Devaney. In 1974, she gave one final interview, retelling the story of that fateful night, April 14, 1912, the night the Titanic sank.
Miss Margaret Delia Devaney, 20, boarded the Titanic at Queenstown as a third class passenger together with her friends Mary Delia Burns and Kate Hargadon.
“I was a 3rd class passenger aboard the Titanic, cramped for space in one of the lower cabins. On that particular night, I found myself drawn to what sounded like the singing of morning doves coming from above. Always curious about what the rest of the ship was like, I made my way up past the 2nd class deck, through a room filled with men smoking and playing cards, and up to the main ballroom. There, the orchestra was playing the most beautiful music, and I remained for almost an hour, unseen by anyone, before returning to my cabin to sleep. I must have been exhausted for I never heard or felt the ship hit anything. My friends and I were actually awakened and alerted to the disaster by an older male friend from our homeland, Jack. We ran to the aft deck to see what had happened; there, we saw it, the iceberg, a ghost in the night, white, cold, and sinister. We hurried back to retrieve our lifejackets, while others stood motionless, crying, screaming, or laughing. No one knew how to react, no one knew if the danger was real. We lost track of Jack amidst the confusion and never saw him again.”
“As we made our way up towards the lifeboats, we found the gate leading to the 2nd class deck above already locked. Many were pushing against the gate, animals trapped inside a cage. Bam! Bam! Bam! Over and over, I could feel it in my chest, the sound of the metal gate slamming against its steel frame. Besides the terrified screams of those trapped in the crowd, it was the only sound that could be heard. Water had already reached the deck of the 3rd class cabins, a small, sliver of water, silently slithering past me. The lights were going on and off in no recognizable pattern. It was like a storm in the early spring, lightning flashing, and everyone sensing the thunder was soon to follow. We avoided the crowd and ran to a rope ladder in the aft deck that led to the decks above. One of my friends began suffering from seasickness and had
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