Written in large letters, even the old men can easily read the word.

2 Replace the underlined part in each of the following sentences with a word or phrase from the box below. Change the form where necessary. make waves unlike turn out unique detail 1. Different from her father, who is a remarkable writer, Ella doesn’t seem to have any interest in reading and writing. （）

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Back in the old days， when I was a child， we sat around the family round table at dinnertime and exchanged our daily experiences. It wasn"t very organized， but everyone was recognized and all the news that had to be told was told by each family member.

We listened to each other and the interest was not put-on; it was real. Our family was a unit and we supported each other， and nurtured each other， and liked each other， and——we were even willing to admit——we loved each other.

Today， the family round table has moved to the local fast-food restaurant and talk is not easy， much less encouraged.

Grandma， who used to live upstairs， is now the voice on long distance， and the working parents far too beaten down each day to spend evening relaxation time listening to the sandbox experience of an eager four-year-old.

So family conversation is as extinct as my old toys and parental questions such as "What have you been doing， Bobby?" have been replaced by "I"m busy， go watch television. "And watch TV they do; count them by the millions.

But it"s usually not children"s television that children watch. Saturday morning， the children"s hour， amounts to only about 8 percent of their weekly viewing.

Where are they to be found? Watching adult television， of course， from the Match Game in the morning， to the afternoon at General Hospital， from the muggings and battles on the evening news right through the family hour and past into Star sky and Hutch. That"s where you find our kids， over five million of them， at 10 p.m.， not fewer than a million until after midnight! All of this is done with parental permission.

Television， used well， can provide enriching experiences for our young people， but we must use it with some sense. When the carpet is clean， we turn off the vacuum cleaner. When the dishes are clean， the dishwasher turns itself off.

Not so the television， which is on from the sun in the morning to the moon at night and beyond!

Parents must exercise some control and show some concern about the cultural influence on the child when a program not intended for that child is viewed. Parents need to intervene. Nonintervention may be a wise policy in international affairs， but the results of parental nonintervention will not be wise at all.

From the first two paragraphs one may infer that the writer‘s attitude towards "the old days" is__________. 查看材料

A.preferring

B.hating

C.being tired of

D.disappointing

The word "university" comes from the Latin word "universitas", meaning "the whole". The modern definition of a university is an institution that teaches and examines students in many branches of advanced learning, awarding degrees and providing facilities for academic research. The origins of universities can be traced back to the Middle Ages, with the earliest European centers at Bologna, Italy, for law, founded in 1088. The first universities in England were established at Oxford in 1185 and at Cambridge in 1209. By comparison, the oldest universities in the U.S.A. are at Harvard, founded in 1636, and Yale, established in 1701. The English university in London was not founded until 1836. However, it was in the 1960s that the largest single expansion of higher education took place in Britain. One of the largest university developments was the foundation of the Open University in 1969. It is a nonresidential university which provides for life- long education of various backgrounds with part-time degree and other courses. It uses a combination of correspondence courses, television, radio broadcasts and the Internet, and summer schools for organization on a regional basis.

&8226;Read the text below from a brochure.

&8226;For each question (31-40), write one word in CAPITAL LETTERS on your Answer Sheet.

Paragon: great business space

A new concept for the twenty-first century, Paragon is a totally unique showpiece development of high-quality office and call centre buildings, hotel and leisure facilities. Many cities find (31) increasingly difficult to allocate office space, but the city of Wakefield is already ahead (32) the game with Paragon.

Paragon offers an extensive parkland setting with low-density buildings, and room to expand in the future. Yet, (33) the vast majority of business parks, Paragon has not been exiled to the distant edges of the city. Instead, this large site is only I km from the centre of Wakefield. This offers massive advantages: employees can easily walk or cycle to work, saving stress and pollution, and significantly cutting (34) on commuting time. There is (35) more driving along the motorway to distant outposts of business empires for the Paragon worker. But Paragon's location sacrifices nothing (36) terms of communications. It is perfectly placed for road and rail networks. A further attraction of Wakefield for Paragon is the ready avail- ability of a skilled workforce. (37) are more than 233,000 people available for work within an hour's journey, and an enormous catchment population of 20 million within two hours' travel. The city has a long history (38) an administrative centre, and its recent success in attracting top-name companies is evidence of its solid business credentials. Figures from the developers suggest that up (39) 5,000 jobs could be available in the initial phase of its development, with more to follow, making it (40) of the most significant areas of employment in the region.

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The moment two humans lay eyes on each other has incredible. The first sight of you is a brilliant holograph.It burns its way into your new acquaintance ’s eyes and can stay printed in his or her memory forever.

Artists are sometimes able to capture this quicksilver, short emotional response. I have a friend, Robert Grossman, an accomplished artist who draws regularly for Forbes, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, Rolling Stone, and other popular publications. Bob has a unique gift for capturing not only the physical appearanceof his subjects, but zeroing in on the essenceof their personalities. The bodies and souls of hundreds of figures radiate from his sketch pad（素描侧） . One glance at his pictures of famous people, you can see,for instance, the insecure of arrogance of Madonna, the boyishnessof Clinton, the awkwardness of GeorgeBush.

Sometimes at a party, Robert will do a quick sketch on a cocktail napkin of a guest. When he ’s finished drawing, he puts his pen down and hands a napkin to the guest. Often a puzzled look comes over the subject ’s face. He or she usually mumbles some politeness like, “ Well, er, that ’s great. But it really isn ’t me. ”The crowd ’s convincing echo of “ Ohyes it is! ” drowns down the subject, who is left to stare back at the world ’s view of himself or herself in the napkin. Once I askedRobert how he could capture people ’s personalities so well. He said, “ It ’s simple. I just look at them. ” Almost every fact of people ’s personalities is evident from their appearance, their posture, the way they move.

First impressions are indelible. Because in our fast-paced information-overload world, multiple stimuli bombard us every second, people ’s heads are spinning. They must form. quick judgments to make senseof the world and get on with what they have to do. Whenever people meet you, they take an instant mental snapshot.That image of you becomesthe datathey deal with for a long time.

People usually get the first impression of a person through---------- .

A.reading an article about him or her in a famous magazine

B.getting acquainted with his or her beat friends

C.taking a brief look at his or her appearance

D.studying his or her personality carefully

Why doesthe author saythat Robert hasaunique gift?A.He can draw the subject carefully

B.He can memorize the namesof people instantly

C.He can illustrate the subject ’s characteristic

D.He cancommunicate with the famous people effectively

What does the phrase“ zeroing in on ”most probably mean?A.relying on

B.responding on

C.acknowledging on

D.grasping

The puzzled look on the subject ’s face suggests that_____________ .A.the artist ’s drawing is out of subject ’s expectation

B.the crowd treated the subject rudely

C.the artist failed to show his respectfor the subject

D.the image of the drawing was too real to believe

We can conclude from the passage that___________ .A.one should never trust a person by his or her appearance

B.the first impression usually hasalong lasting influence

C.the judgment basedon the first impression is always reliable

D.we canno longer make any senseof the information an hand

请帮忙给出每个问题的正确答案和分析，谢谢！

The oldest university in New Zelnd isthe University of Edinburgh.B．the University ofThe oldest university in New Zelnd isthe University of Edinburgh. B．the University ofucklnd. C．the University of Otgo. D．Hrvrd University.

A．the University of Edinburgh．

B．the University of AucklanD

C．the University of Otago．

D．Harvard University．

根据以下材料，回答题

Science Fiction

（1） Amongst the most popular books being written today are those which are usually classified as science fiction. Hundreds of titles arepublished every year and are read by all kinds of people.

Furthermore， some of the most successful films of recent years have been based on science fiction stories.

（2） It is often thought that science fiction is a fairly new development in literature， but its ancestors can be found in books written hundreds of years ago. These books were often concerned with the presentation of some form. of ideal society， a theme which is still often found in modem stories.

（3） Most of the classics of science fiction， however， have been written within the last hundred years. Books by writers such as Jules Verne and H. G Wells， to mention just two well-known authors， have been translated into many languages.

（4） Modern science fiction writers don"t write about men from Mars（ 火星）or space adventure stories. They are more interested in predicting the results of technical developments on society and the human mind; or in imagining future worlds which are a reflection of the world which we live in now. Because of this， their writing has obvious political undertones （含义） .

（5） In an age where science fact frequently overtakes （超过） science fiction， the writers may find it difficult to keep ahead of scientific advances. Those who are sufficiently clear-sighted to see the way we are going， however， may provide a valuable lesson on how to deal with the problems which society will inevitably face as it tries to master its new technology.

Paragraph 2 __________ 查看材料

A.A Fairly New Development

B.Classics of Science Fiction

C.Difficulty in Keeping ahead of Scientific Advances

D.Origins of Science Fiction

E.Themes of Modern Science Fiction

F.Pooularitv of Science Fiction

?Read the text below about labor shortage.

?For each question (31-40), write one word in CAPITAL LETTERS on your Answer Sheet.

Wish little service productivity growth, the principal way of expanding output has been to add more bodies. Politicians love to take credit (31) an 18. 2 million increase in jobs in this decade, (32) in the service businesses firms essentially have been digging the Grand Canyon with millions of people equipped only with picks and shovels-more production but achieved by the brute-force technique of adding bodies, rather (33) by improving efficiency.

The opportunities (34) improve service productivity through office automation, better management, etc. are tremendous, even (35) an increase in the skills of the rank and file. The pressure to get that improvement will come from the customers, themselves facing excruciating global competition. A manufacturer can be, doing a bang-up job of raising his own productivity.

Furthermore, (36) the globalization of almost everything, service industries from finance (37) airlines are now experiencing direct international competition. And the deregulation of banking, trucking, telecommunications and other service industries has freshened the bracing winds of competition, forcing companies (38) AT￡T and U. S. West to slash their workforces to dramatically improve productivity.

A speed-up in productivity growth means that fewer additional service workers will be hired (39) non-manufacturing productivity had grown on trend in the last decade, jobs would have been creeled, and the current unemployment rate would be 13%, and if overall productivity growth in the next ten years averages 2%, the unemployment rate will still average about 10%.

So forget about labor shortages in the 1990s. Any slowdown in the labor supply will be more than compensated (40) by increased use of machinery and computers, and by people working better and smarter.

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