E. M. Forster's two most noted works, A Passage to India and Howards End, explore the irreconcilability of class differences.

In the specific recession years noted in the passage, it can be inferred that______.

A．the rate of unemployment grew

B．the rate of employment rose

C．labor force growth exceeded final expenditure for goods

D．full employment was attained

In the specific recession years noted in the passage, it can be inferred that ______.

A．the rate of unemployment grew

B．the rate of employment rose

C．labor force growth exceeded final expenditure for goods

D．full employment was attained

听力原文： Elephants live mostly on grass, leaves and fruit. They also eat the twigs and bark of trees. The quantity of food and water which they consume is enormous, and they can be very destructive in their search for food, There are two main types of elephants. There is the Asiatic elephant, which is found in India, for example, and the African elephant. Superficially they are very much alike, but the African elephant is generally larger. One characteristic of Asiatic elephants is that they do not like being exposed to the sun, and consequently they prefer to live in shady places. They are also very fond of bathing. Apart from that, the most important difference between the two varieties is that the Asiatic elephant is more easily trained. Elephants in India, for example, have been caught and tamed for many hundreds of years. We have already noted that they have good memories, and it is this that makes them easy to train. Since they are immensely strong, they can carry and drag huge objects, such as the trees and rocks. This makes them extremely valuable as beasts of burden.

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A．Asiatic elephants are larger.

B．African elephants do not like being exposed to the sun.

C．African elephants prefer to live in shady places.

D．Asiatic elephants are fond of bathing.

What was the main difference , the speaker noted on returning to his hometown?

A．It was busy early in the morning.

B．The school had become better than it used to be.

C．The "Shakespeare industry" has grown more important.

D．Many Americans now lived there.

The dog has always been considered man' a best friend. Always noted for being particularly faithful in watching over children, he also has his place by fireside, in the cow pasture, on the sheep range, and beside the hunter in forest or blind. He is easy to train, works hard, and often performs astonishing feats. And in the frozen polar regions he was once the principal motive power, before being largely displaced by the plane and helicopter

Because he howls or whines( 哀鸣) in the presence of impending (即将发生的) death, the dog was once thought to have supernatural powers and believed to be capable of seeing gods and ghosts invisible to people. Actually, the basis for these beliefs lies in the dog's sensitivity to people's feelings and his superior hearing ability and sense of smell, which enable him to detect signs hidden from human observation. His record of saving lives is outstanding, for he often gives warning of fire and other dangers not noticed by his master

The dog, s major contribution, however, has been to medical research. Both his diet and his structure are comparable to those of the human being, and so he has been the su 灼 ect of countless demonstrations and experiments. Open-heart surgery has been made possible largely because of the dog. But his sacrifice has repaid his own species as well by safeguarding it from rabies (狂犬病) ,distemper, and other disease

26. The dog has always been noted for _______

A. protecting children B. assisting shepherds

C. helping hunters D herding a cattle

27. The dog is useful to herders because he is _________

A. loyal B. easily trained

C. hardworking D all of the above

28. The dog probably whines in the presence of death because he can ________

A. see ghosts and spirits

B. give warning of danger

C. sense unhappiness around him

D. perform. astonishing feats

29. The dog has been of most value to people in the development of____________

A a treatment for rabies B. open-heart surgery

C. a cure for distemper D all of the above

30. The article does not say whether the scientists' experiments with dog have

A. benefited animals other than dogs

B. served people

C. helped other dogs

D contributed to medical knowledge

SECTION 3

Directions: Each passage in this group is followed by questions based on its content. After reading a passage, choose the best answer to each question. Answer all questions following a passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage.

Researchers have noted that ants arrange their dead using the same

principles thought to produce the markings on animal skin and on tropical sea

shells, a first clear example of so-called Turing patterns in higher organisms.

Line Turing argued that activation occurs through a feedback process that amplifies

(5) small variations in the concentration of one of the ingredients, while inhibition

causes a concentration of activity to suppress the appearance of similar

concentrations nearby. Ant graveyards are an example of a self-amplifying

activation process: ants are more likely to drop a corpse on a pile than

elsewhere, and because collecting bodies and adding them to a pile sweeps the

(10) surrounding space clear, new cemeteries are inhibited from appearing in the

vicinity of existing ones. While activator-inhibitor mechanisms have previously

been proposed to explain how predators and prey distribute themselves across an

ecosystem, it is the first time such a system has conclusively proven that

Turing's process operates at the level of colonies and ecosystems.

The main idea of the passage is that

A．explanations of the process by which higher organisms explain themselves have remained elusive until now

B．self-amplifying activation processes may one day explain most natural processes

C．scientists have discovered the first proof of Turing patterns to higher organism communities

D．explanations of how organisms organize themselves into patterns are no longer so elusive as they once were

E．activation processes are essential to the survival of many ant species

Last year was the fourth warmest since recordkeeping began in the 1880s and 2005 could go down as the warmest ever recorded, NASA scientists reported in a new analysis of temperature data.

"There has been a strong warning trend over the past 30 years, a trend that has been show, to be due primarily to increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere," said James Hansen of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, based in New York. The most common greenhouse gas emitted by human activity is carbon dioxide. The burning of fossil fuels and trees, both Of which store carbon, have added CO2 emissions to Earth's natural levels.

Hansen and NASA colleague Makiko Sato noted that two additional factors are expected to play in- to 2005 temperatures. One is the presence of El Nino, when warm water spreads over much of the tropical Pacific Ocean. The other, they said, is that the Earth's surface now absorbs more of the sun's energy than gets reflected back to space. "The Earth is now out of energy balance," Hansen and Sato wrote. "One result of this imbalance is that it makes it likely that global temperature in 2005, aided also by a weak El Nino, will exceed those of 21lB and 2(104 and perhaps even the temperature of 1998, which had stood out far above the temperature of any year in the preceding century."

Last year was the fourth-warmest on record, with a global mean temperature of 57 degrees Fahrenheit. That's about 1.5 degrees warmer than the middle of the century, said NASA scientist Drew Shindell. A third of the sun's energy is reflected back into space after hitting Earth's upper atmosphere, but two thirds gets through, driving Earth's weather engine.

A delicate balance of gases gives Earth its livable temperature. Known as "greenhouse" gases because they trap heat inside the atmosphere, they send a portion of that heat back to Earth's surface. The gases include water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide. Covering two thirds of Earth, oceans are the key source of moisture in the air and they store heat efficiently, transporting it thousands of miles. The oceans and marine life also consume huge amounts of carbon dioxide.

Which of the following is NOT the cause mentioned in the passage that leads to the warm tem- perature in 2005?

A．the increasing greenhouse gases

B．the presence of El Nino

C．the imbalance of the earth's energy

D．the Earth's increasing absorption of the Sun's energy.

Education is not an end, but a means to an end. In other words, we do not educate children only for the purpose of educating them; our purpose is to prepare them for life. As soon as we realize this fact, we will understand that it is very important to choose a system of education which will really prepare children for life. It is not enough just to choose the first system of education one finds, or to continue with one's old system of enducation without examining it to see whether it is in fact suitable or not.

In many modem countries it has for some time been fashionable to think that, by free education for all-whether rich or poor, clever or stupid--one can solve all the problems of society and build a perfect nation. But we can already see that free education for all is not enough; we find in such countries a far larger number of people with university degrees than there are jobs for them to fill. Because of their degrees, they refuse to do what they consider" low" work; and, in fact, work with the hands is thought to be dirty and shameful in such countries.

But we have only to think a moment to understand that the work of a completely uneducated farmer is far more important than that of a professor, We can live without education, but we die if we have no food. If no one cleaned our streets and took the rubbish away from our houses, we would have terrible diseases in our towns. In countries where there are no servants because everyone is ashamed to do such work, scientists have to waste much of their time doing housework.

In fact, when we say that all of us must be educated to prepare for life, it means that we must be educated in such a way that, firstly, each of us can do whatever job is suited to his brain and ability and, secondly, that we can realize that all jobs are necessary to society, and it is very bad to be ashamed of one's work, or to scorn someone else's. Only such a type of education can be called valuable to society.

Education is ______.

A．a means

B．a purpose

C．fashionable

D．the first system