remarkable shortening of the time of a woman's life spent in caring for children．…… and wife sharing more equally in
providing the money，and running the home，according to the abilities and interests of each of them．仿5最近最大的社会变化发生在女人生活中,19世纪末女人结婚大约在25岁，19世纪末许多小孩约在五岁就死去，如今女人结婚在25岁前，更多女人生完孩子后还继续做全职或兼职工作。
1．According to the passage，around the year 1900 most women married A．at about twenty-five 2．We are told that in all ordinary family about 1900 A．many children died before they were five
3．When she was over fifty，the late nineteenth-century mother D．was unlikely to find a job even if she wanted one 4．According to the passage，the women of today usually B．marry before they are twenty-five ___
5．Which of the following statements is not true? C．Today more married women leave work long before their first child is born．
Telecommuting(远程办公)
It's 8．30，time…..Jobs that are suited to telecommuting include writing，design work，computer programming and
accounting(会计)．If a job involves working with information，a telecommuter can probably do it．仿8：远程办公--通过因特网--远程办公人员可以自己制定他们的时间表--节省了雇主的费用--远程办公是一个新的工作方式
1．From the passage we know that John dues his job_ D. through the Internet _2. Which of the following is mentioned as one of the advantages of telecommuting? B．Onc can work on one's own schedule . 3. The passage tells US that telecommnters change jobs less often and so C．their employers can save more money 4．The phrase“suited to”in the third paragraph means_ C．fit for _． 5．The passage is mainly about A．a new way to work ．
This is an age of knowledge economy．The world changes every minute．New things appear everyday:telecommunication through man-made satellites；personal computer；info-highway；……they will become very popular in the 21st century to make every citizen keep pace with the world social and economic develop-ment. 仿15：知识经济时代--不断增长的知识以前所未有的速度推动全球经济发展--学习型社会里每个人都需要不断地学习新东西--知识需要更新,因此开放大学诞生了—这个大学在21世纪非常受欢迎
1.Why does the author say that this is an age of knowledge economy? A.Because the world economy develops ever faster due to new knowledge． 2.Traditionally，only teenagers go to school every day，because_ D.both B and C_______________.
3.According to the author，learning society is one in which everyone_ C.needs to keep on learning new things 4. In the third paragraph，the sentence“Thus open universities come into being”means B．as a result，people start to set up open universities . 5.Open universities，according to some experts，will B．be very popular in the 21 century
The AIDS virus has been around for a very long time，but the spread of the disease within the last twenty ……. AIDS patients，while there are others where too little care is taken to prevent the spread of the disease．仿18艾滋病已经存在很久了--同性恋者、吸毒者和妓女、异性恋、刚出生的孩子也可能携带这种病毒—世怀组织认为加强防艾教育
1．Which of the following statements is true according to the passage? C．AIDS is a disease which has existed for a long time．
2．Who are easily infected with AIDS? D．All of the above．
3．In WHO's opinion，what will help most effectively in fighting against the spread of AIDS? A．More education． 4．From the passage．we can see that the writeris not happy about_ B. the education the medical staff get on AIDS 5．Which of the following statements is not true according to the passage? C. Great care has been taken to prevent the spread of AIDS everywhere in the world now . U
Until the twentieth century cigarette smoking was not a widespread habit．The cigarette industry started in the 系1870，………Children are most likely to start smoking if one or both of their parents smoke．练习6：直到20世纪机器能大批量地生产香烟吸烟才成为的世界范围内的习惯--男女性吸烟者的年龄主要集中在24-44岁之间--收入、教育和职业决定一
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个人的抽烟习惯--越是那些受过高等教育的女性吸烟越严重--青少年吸烟习惯与面人类似 1．When did cigarette smoking begin to become a widespread habit among men and women according to the author?_________ C．When cigarettes were made in large numbers_______. 2．Among which age group of people are you likely to find the highest proportion of cigarette smokers according to the passage?____ B．People in their thirties______
3. Which of the following has little to do with a persons smoking habit? D．How long he has worked__ 4. Which of the following is true according to the passage?______ B．Women with high family incomes and good education are more likely to smoke.____ 5．What does the author mean by saying“Among teenagers the picture is similar.”in the last paragraph?___C. Family income and education have much the same effect on forming smoking habits among teenagers___
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When companies need new employees，they usually place advertisements in newspapers in order tO attract as many applicants as possible. ……So，a person has nothing to lose and everything to gain by sending in his resume．仿9公司常在报纸上登广告来吸引尽可能多的应聘者—但是许多大的知名的公司不这样做--正在找工作的人最好连同简历附上一份求职信一起寄给一家知名大公司--寄履历表是最好的办法。
1．What kind of companies are the best choice for a person to write to find a job? C．Larger，well-known companies．___ 2．Which of the following is not true? A．A person looking for a job should only apply to companies that advertise in newspapers． 3．When people are looking for jobs，what should they send to companies，according to the passage?_ C．A resume and a cover letter．___ 4．If you send your resume to a company that isn't hiring at the time，what might the company do?_ D．The company might write back and tell you that there are no positions available at the time．_____ 5．According to the author，B．it is always a good idea to send in one?s resume whether or not one is certain there is a job available．
We often use gestures to express our feelings．but the problem is that the gestures Call be understood in different
ways．……..Other studies show that older people usually find it easier to recognize or understand body language than younger people do．仿10：我们常用手势来表达自己的情感,有时手势表达真正的含义是困难的，不同文化对面部情感有不同的理解，手势通常可以表达感觉，在相同文化下，人们理解和表达感情的能力是不一样的，本段主要讲手势和情感。 1. Which of the following is true according to the passage? D．It is difficult to tell what people’s gestures really mean sometimes. 2．People's facial expressions may be misunderstood in different cultures because D.People from different cultures have different meanings about some facial expressions 3．From the passage．we can conclude that_ A．gestures can be used to express feelings 4．In the same culture,people_ D．may have different abilities to understand and express feelings 5．The best tide for this passage can be C．Gestures and Feelings
第三部分 词汇与结构练习题
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___C．Above ______all we should put the theory into practice． Ancient Greece is theA .origin of western civilization．
A lecture hall is_____C．one _______where students attend lectures An adviser said in China_____A．a sandwich _______course should be developed in some
A 15-year-old boy was_______C．arrested _____for stealing 22 charity boxes from local shops． At present，the most important thing is that Britain needs___A．to do _______more to improve the Although I am a good swimmer，I don?t like_____B．swimming ____in the sea．
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All the fruits must______B．be weighed _____before they are paid for. All I?m trying to do is to__B．find out ___why your condition has not improved． Any student who_D．neglects _his homework is unlikely to pass the examination．
________B．As a rule ____,we keep records on all the experiments so that we may have enough data. After stopping for a few minutes，the bus moved__D．on __to its next stop． All the team members tried their best．We lost the game,___ A.however __ B
Boggis?little secret was that she wanted to see herseIf the___ C．twelve-year-old ____girl． By next year，he__ D．will have worked ______in New York for five years．
Before joining the army．He spent a lot of time in the village____B．to which _______he belonged· By next year he____D．will have worked _____in New York for five years． Before I got to the cinema．The film _____A had begun ___________ ．
Bush?s farm ____C．lane _____is said to be at bottom of the state of Texas in north America． Bill doesn?t__C．care __what people say about him．
But____B．what _______hurt our feelings most was the personal comment of the judge．
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Do you think Tommy is_ C．telling _______the truth?
Don't worry, your watch___D．is being repaired ___and you Call have it in no time． Dr.Hoffman proposed that we__A．put off ____the meeting until next week． Dont forgett to write to me_ A.will you ________?
Don?t forget__A．to close __the window before leaving the room．
Did you have a neighbor who was always________D．poking his nose into ________your business? Do you know who are____D．conducting _______the survey? Do you feel like______B having something to eat ______today? Don?t you think the small donkey can really pull the heavy____D．cart ____? E
Edgar began___B．work __as an office boy years ago．
Everything___D．would have been destroyed ___if Albert hadn?t called the fire brigade． ___ C．Each ___of them has a besroom and a study．
Every year when the flu is___D．going around __I?m boundto get sick．
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Frank plays___C．a lot better than _______Alex．
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Give me one good reason___C．why ____I should help you．
“Good bye，Miss Liu．I?m very pleased____D. to have met you _______．”
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He has lived here for years B．though ______nobody knows what he is． B
____ C．Having received _____an answer，he decided to write another letter to them． He spoke so quickly that I didn't_ D．make Out ________what he said．
Having heard so much about Mr.Smith，they were_ A.eager _to meet and have a chat with him． Hardly______A．had I got _______home when it began to rain． How the fire in the dance hall started__B．remains _a mystery He．aswell as I，___D．is ____ a student
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He was_D.engaged in __ the preparation of an international conference when I arrived in Beijing． He has been teaching for 2 years，but being a teacher is not his____C．choice _____· _____B．Having been trained ___twice，he is a safe efficient driver． His attitude toward US seems____D．friendly ___. He seldom does his homework at school on weekdays，___C．does ___he? He speaks so quickly that I didn?t_____D.catch _______what he said. He___B.treated _____the children so badly that they were terrified of him.
History is the story of_____C．whatever _______happened to the people before today. He is a kind-hearted and______B．respectable _______ gentleman. He__________C．adjusted _______himself quickly to the new condition of his work． He is over fifty，but he looks as though he___A．were _____only in his thirties． He was____A．over the moon _______about his new job． He is standing with____A．both _____hands in his pockets．
_ _D．Having grown up __mostly in a small town I?d only recently fallen in love with cities． Having finished the letter，he___A. folded ___it carefully and sealed the envelop with a kiss. __A．Having suffered __such heavy pollution already，it may now be too late to clean up the river.
_____D. Had he taken ______the advice of his friends，he would not have suffered such a heavy loss in his business．
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In addition to rice，we need to___A．supplement ___our diet with fish，meat and vegetable. I?d like to know what you_D．did with __the plants I gave you. It is_____D．such a big job _______ that he has to ask for help． I don?t think this kind of medicine has any___C．effect __．
If you want to learn something，you had better pay__C．attention ___in class． If a man____B．is to ____succeed，he must work as hard as he can.
It___D．happened ______that I met one of my old classmates on my way home yesterday．
I prefer to live in the countryside．Country life has a lot of__C．advantages ______over city life． It was well known that Thomas Edison_______A．invented _________ the electric lamp. I don?t think he will be back in an hour,_____D. will he ______.
I saw she was in a difficulty with all those parcels，so I offered my____A．services ____． It is hoped that the weather will________D．stay ____warm for three more days．
If you want to visit someone in England，you?d better make arrangement__C．in advance __． I?d rather stay at home than_____C．take _______a walk．
I am pleased to take___A．this opportunity ____to exchange views with you． In the fifties Iast century many new cities_____C．grew up _______in the desert．
It is assumed that students at an intermediate level will have a good__A．command __of the basic structures and vocabulary of English．
I thought that this would be a funny trick__A．to play on ___Jim．
If you have made a decision，please stick______A．to ________what you want. I prefer classic music_______D．to _____pop music．
If I had more money．I______C．would _______ travel around the world．
I was busy with my paper when I heard someone_D．moving about _in the room above．
I am very surprised that even an expert on foreign affairs can know the painting is forgery(赝品)___D．Moreover ____,he can tell who painted it．
I don?t know why he____D．broke off ___in the middle of a sentence．
It is so hot．You should put the food into the refrigerator now．Otherwise，it will_C．spoil _soon． I have taken many photos．I?m going to get the film_____B．developed __. If the weather had been good，the children____C．could have gone _____out for a walk． It is not that I do not like plays．The reason why I did not go to the theater last night was that I could not__C．afford __the time．
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I think 1 have lent you this book before，__B．haven?tI ____? I believe you have____D．left out ______some important points in the report． I didn?t know the Word；I had to_____C．refer to ____a dictionary． I cannot tell the______A．slight _________difference between the twins． I___D．assure ___you that I had no intention of offending you．
I leave it to your own judgment_______C．whether _____you should do it or not．
I，d like to take_____A.advantage _____of this opportunity to thank you for your co-operation． Income tax rates are_____B．related ______to one?s annual income．
If you suspect that the illness might be serious，you should notD．put ofgoing to the doctor It is important to remember the saying that____A. prevention __is better than cure．
I was doing my homework and I wasn?t sure about it，so I stopped___C．to check ___the answers with afriend． I___B．would have finished __my composition by now if I had stopped talking with him. It was aminor illness，and she soon___C．got over _____it． If they__C．had given up ____searching，I would have died．
I can?t get used to__A．writing ___emails to people in the same room． If I had put my passport in my pocket，I__B．wouldn?t have lost _it. I prefer to live in the countryside．Country life has a lot ofC．advantages _over city life． In that examination students were allowed__C．to bring __their dictionaries. In fact he had done___A．what ___he could do to help the poor．
I know this is the secret between you and me，and I promise never to_Amention __it to anyone else． If there were life on Mars．such life forms ____C．would be _____ unable to survive on earth In this factory each worker must receive a__A．two-month ___training course．
I don?t want you to make any trouble，___C. On the contrary __，I urge you to solve the problem In China，children___C．have to start _____school at seven．
I haven't read___B．the whole _book，but I read half of it．At least I know something about the subject now． I tried___ B．finishing ___the book in a few days，but actually I couldn't，just because of too much work for me． If you go to America, you will find that there are better_ C．communications _by road，rail and air than in London． If you don?t promise to help build more houses，ordinary people__ A．will not benefit __ John___ C．used _to be a teacher before the War，but now he works in a hospital． I__ A scarcely __know him，so I can't tell you anything about him． I wonder why they__ D．charged __you so much money for such a book.
I will never forget the time_ A.when __________we both stayed in the little village． If we___ D．adopt ___the plan you suggest，we are more likely to be successful.
I'm old enough to wash______．my ___clothes by myself．You can just wash____ yours ____. It was unwise of him。to_ B．refer to ______the unreliable data in his speech． I spent half an hour__ A.working on ____,this difficult math problem
It is difficult to___ A.carry on ___a conversation with all this noise around us．A It is because English is useful_ B.that we study hard ________. I didn't know what to do but then an idea suddenly___ A. occurred to ___me． I hope he's remembered_ B．to buy ___some bread，there's hardly any left.
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John fell asleep_ C．while __he was listening to the music．
John，__ B. having lost _______the bet，had to pay for the dinner．
Jean could be a very attractive girl，but she___A．pays no attention ______to her clothes. John and Mary_____A．had been in love _____for years before they got married．relationshipwith the USA． John Preston was tired____B．of _living in east London，in which he had moved after his wife?s death．
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