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　　A

　　America is growing older. Fifty years ago, only 4 out of every 100 people in the United States were 65 or older. Today, 10 out of every 100 Americans are over 65. The aging of the population will affect American society in many　ways — edu-cation, medicine, and business. Quietly, the aging of America has made us a very different society — one in which people have a quite different idea of what kind of behavior is suitable at various ages.

　　A person’s age no longer tells you anything about his/ her social position, marriage or health. There’s no longer a particular year in which one goes to school or goes to work or gets married or starts a family. The social clock that kept us on time and told us when to go to school, get a job, or stop work-ing isn’t as strong as it used to be. It doesn’t surprise us to hear of a 29-year-old university president or a 35-year-old grandmother, or a 70-year-old man who has become a father for the first time. Public ideas are changing.

　　Many people say, “I am much younger than my mother or my father was at my age.” No one says “Act your age” any more. We’ve stopped looking with surprise at older people who act in youthful ways.

　　1. It can be learned from the text that the aging of the popula-tion in America ________.

　　A. has made people feel younger

　　B. has changed people’s social position

　　C. has changed people’s understanding of age

　　D. has slowed down the country’s social development

　　2. The underlined word “one” refers to ________.

　　A. a society          B. America           C. a place                D. population

　　3. “Act your age” means people should ________.

　　A. be active when they are old

　　B. do the right thing at the right age

　　C. show respect to their parents young or old

　　D. take more physical exercises suitable to their age

　　4. If a’ 25-year-old man becomes general manager of a big firm, the writer of the text would most probably consider it _________.

　　A. normal               B. wonderful         C. unbelievable      D. unreasonable

　　B

　　Bill Javis took over our village’s news-agency at a time of life when most of us only wanted to relax. He just thought he would like something but not too much to do, and the news-a-gency was ready-made. The business produced little enough for him, but Bill was a man who only wanted the simplicity and order and regularity of the job. He had been a long-serving sailor, and all his life had done everything by the clock.

　　Every day he opened his shop at 6:00 a. m. to catch the early trade; the papers arrived on his doorstep before that. Many of Bill’s customers were city workers, and the shop was convenient for the station. Business was tailing off by 10 o’clock, so at eleven sharp Bill closed for lunch. It was hard luck on anybody who wanted a paper or magazine in the after-noon, for most likely Bill would be down on the river bank, fishing, and his neatest competitor was five kilometers away. Sometimes in the afternoon-, the evening paper landed on the doorway, and at 4 o’ clock Bill reopened his shop. The evening rush lasted till seven, and it was worthwhile.

　　He lived in a flat above the ship, alone. Except in the very bad weather, you always knew where to find him in the af-ternoon, as I have said. Once, on a sunny afternoon, I walked home along the river bank from a shopping trip to the village. By my watch it was three minutes past four, so I was aston-ished to see Bill sitting there on his little chair with a line in the, water. He had no luck, I could, see, but he was making no effort to move.

　　“What’s wrong, Bill?” I called out from the path.

　　For answer, he put a hand in his jacket and took out a big, golden object. For a moment I had no idea what it could be, and then it suddenly went off with a noise like a fire en-gine. Stopping the bell, Bill held the thing up and called back, "Ten to four, you see, and this is dead right. "

　　I had never known anyone carrying a brass alarm clock round with him before.

　　5. Bill Javis became a news-agent when ________.

　　A. he need the money.                        B. he decided to take things easy

　　C. he was quite an old man                 D. he gave up clock-repairing

　　6. Bill opened the shop so early in the day because ________.

　　A. he liked to do as much as possible before he went to work

　　B. the shop had to be open when the morning papers came

　　C. he was never sure of time

　　D. it was then that he did a lot of business

　　7. On that sunny afternoon, the writer was surprised when he saw Bill because ________.

　　A. he thought it was late for Bill to be still fishing

　　B. he thought Bill was ill, since he was not moving at all

　　C. Bill had not caught anything, and that seemed strange

　　D. Bill stayed in his flat

　　8. From the information given in the passage, who or what do you think was wrong?

　　A. The bell was; it must have gone off at the wrong time.

　　B. Bill was; he had dropped off to sleep.

　　C. The writer’s watch was fast.

　　D. Bill’s clock was wrong; it was old.

　　C

　　The Western has been the favorite type for American adventure story since the nineteenth centu-ry. While the American West was being settled, newspapers and "dime novels" could depend on stories of the frontier settlements and tell tales about living in the untamed wilderness to sell. The public back East was eager to read about the West, even if the stories were more fiction than fact.

　　In 1902, Owen Wister published his novel The Virginian, which was one of the first novels to treat the Western as a serious literary form; the novel still sold well and had inspired several movies and a television series. In 1905, Bertha H. Bower and Zane Grey published their first novels, and the popular Western novels had continued to flourish from that day on, with current novels by Luke Short, Max Brand, and Louis L’ Amour carrying on the tradition.

　　The first Western movie appeared even earlier than these serious Western novels. Before the turn of the century, an associate of Edison’s had filmed Cripple Creek Barroom Scene, a few seconds of film showing the inside of a saloon, to help publicize the invention of the movie camera. In 1903 the Edison’ company filmed the first "full-length" Western — The Great Train Robbery. The film lasts less than fifteen minutes, but a story is told its entirety. In the movie, bandits (強盜) rob a train and its passengers, killing the engineer, and find themselves tracked down by a posse. Audiences loved the movie. Some theaters were actually opened for the single purpose of showing The Great Train Rob-bery and only later realized that they could do equally well showing other movies. The film was so suc-cessful that other companies, and finally even the Edison company itself, began producing copies and other versions of The Great Train Robbery. Ironically, in" an era when the West was still very real —-Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma were all territories rather than states in 1903 — The Great Train Robbery was filmed in New Jersey.

　　9. The purpose of this passage is to________.

　　A. discuss the making of the movie The Great Train Robbery

　　B. discuss the early Western novels

　　C. discuss the art of movie making

　　D. trace the development of the Western as an American adventure story tradition

　　10. We can conclude from this passage that________.

　　A. people lost interest in the West after 1903

　　B. Owen Wister was an ex-cowboy

　　C. New Jersey was still "untamed wilderness" in 1903

　　D. films were fairly uncommon at the time The Great Train Robbery was made

　　11. The passage suggests that________.

　　A. Edison’s invention of the movie camera happened;by accident

　　B. movie houses didn’t make much-money in the early days

　　C. Easterners were fascinated by the " wild West"

　　D. The Great Train Robbery was poorly received by the public because it lacked a plot

　　12. As used in this passage, the word “literary” means________.

　　A. humorous         B. financial             C. appropriate to literature      D. amateur

　　D

　　There are various reasons why cancers appear to be on the increase. For one thing, though their sufferers are to be found in all age groups, cancers are particularly likely to attack persons in their middle and advanced years. Naturally, since people live longer these years, there are more cancer sufferers than before. Again, with better methods of diagnosis (診斷), doctors can more easily recog-nize cancerous growths that would formerly have passed unnoticed or that would have been wrongly di-agnosed. It is also believed that certain habits and conditions of modem living, including heavy smok-ing and the pollution of the air, may leave people living in more cancer-causing conditions than before.

　　We all look forward to the day when a simple medical test can find cancer while it is still small. Researchers around the world are working on such a test. Most of their work deals with the examina-tion of the blood.

　　Researchers in Boston have found something in the blood of cancer patients that does not appear in healthy persons. The test showed which persons had cancer and which did not. It was correct more than 90 percent of the time.

　　The researchers believe the test may be able to show cancer very clearly in its development. Cancers discovered early usually can be treated successfully.

　　The test examines very small bits of fat in the blood called lipids (脂質(zhì)). Cancers seem to change lipids although doctors do not know why. The test showed differences between the lipids of the persons with cancer and the lipids of those without cancer.

　　The researchers say the new test could be a step to develop a simple way to check patients for cancer before the disease shows on an X-ray.

　　13. Who will fail cancer from the study of the researchers?

　　A. The young.                            B. The middle age and the older.

　　C. The man.                               D. The woman.

　　14. The underlined words "such a test" refer to________.

　　A. the test that shows which persons have cancer and which don’t     .

　　B. the test that may be able to show cancer very early in its development,.

　　C. a simple medical test that cannot find cancer when it is -small

　　D. a new test that could be a step to develop a difficult way

　　15. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

　　A. Cancers have much to do with something in patients’ blood.

　　B. People living in better conditions are most likely to be attacked by cancer.

　　C.X-raying is the best way to determined whether a person has cancer or not.

　　D. Cancers have nothing to do with a person’s habits and living conditions.

　　16. What would be the best title for the passage?

　　A. A simple way to cancer              B. Cancers can be cured

　　C. How to find cancer                    D. Early discovery of cancer

　　E

　　What does it mean to say that we live in a world of persuasion? It means that we live among competing interests. Your roommate’s need to study for an exam may take priority (優(yōu)先) over pizza. Your instructor may have good reasons not to change your grade. And the object of your romantic/inter-est may have other choices.

　　In such a world, persuasion is the art of getting others to give fair and favorable consideration to our points of view. When we persuade, we want to influence how others believe and behave. We may not always prevail — other points of view may be more persuasive, depending on the listener, the situ-ation, and the merit of the case. But when we practice the art of persuasion, we try to ensure that our position receives the attention it deserves.

　　Some people, however, object to the very idea of persuasion. They may regard it as an unwelcome interruption into their lives. Just the opposite, we believe that persuasion is unavoidable — to live is to persuade. Persuasion may be ethical (合乎道義的) or unethical, selfless or selfish, inspiring or degrad-ing. Persuaders may enlighten our mind or prey on our vulnerability. Ethical persuasion, however, calls on sound reasoning and is sensitive to the feelings and needs of listeners. Such persuasion can help us apply the wisdom of the past to the decisions we now must make. Therefore, the most basic part of edu-cation is learning to resist the one kind of persuasion and to encourage and practice the other.

　　Beyond its personal importance to us, persuasion is necessary to society. The right to persuade and be persuaded is the bedrock of the American political system, guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution (美國憲法).

　　17. according to the passage, persuasion means ________.

　　A. changing others’ points of view

　　B. exercising power over other people

　　C. getting other people to consider your point of view

　　D. getting people to agree with you and do what you want

　　18. The underlined word in the second paragraph “prevail” means________.

　　A. win           B. fail                  C. speak              D. listen

　　19. The passage states that some people object to persuasion because they think it is ________.

　　A. a danger to society                B. difficult to do well

　　C. unwelcome behavior              D. never successful

　　20. The passage mainly discusses ________.

　　A. how people persuade

　　B. why people persuade

　　C. that persuasion is both good and bad

　　D. that persuasion is important and it is all around us

　　答案簡析

　　(A)主要講述美國社會老齡化這一事實以及這一變化對人們的行為、思想等各方面都產(chǎn)生了極大的影響，其中第一、二段的最后一句話尤為重要。

　　1. C 主旨題。根據(jù)第一、二段的最后一句及第三段可判斷。

　　2. A 細(xì)節(jié)題。one是a society的同位語且后面跟了一個定語從句，可以通過分析句子結(jié)構(gòu)得出正確答案。

　　3. B 細(xì)節(jié)題。全文最后一句話給出了提示。

　　4. A 推理題�？勺屑�(xì)閱讀第二段中倒數(shù)第二句話。

　　(B)講述了Bill Javis開報亭的事情以及他的生活規(guī)律。

　　5. C 推斷題。at a time of life when most of us only wanted to relax和He had been a long-serving sailor這兩點說明他已上了年紀(jì)。

　　6. D 推斷題。第二段開頭說他6點開門，報紙在這之前已送到，而且還可以catch the early trade。

　　7. A 推斷題。Bill通常4點會重新開店，而那天作者的表已過4點，Bill還沒有離開的意思，所以他非常驚訝。

　　8. C 細(xì)節(jié)題。A項中g(shù)o off是爆發(fā)，產(chǎn)生很大聲音；B項中drop off to sleep是不知不覺入睡；文章中倒數(shù)第二段最后一句話this is dead right 中dead是“非常，完全”的意思，可見，Bill的clock沒錯。

　　(C)文章主要敘述了自本世紀(jì)初以來的美國冒險故事發(fā)展史。

　　9. D 推斷題。從1902年出版的小說，1903年拍的一部電影，到1905年的第一批小說等，作者如此不吝惜筆墨，是為了追溯具有冒險故事傳統(tǒng)的美國西部發(fā)展史。故D項是正確答案。

　　10. D 推斷題。第三段，通過The Great Train Robbery影片的成功放映，人們才開始認(rèn)識到在影劇院也可以同樣放映一些其它影片,于是其它制片公司甚至于the Edison公司本身便開始生產(chǎn)其副本及The Great Train Robbery的其它譯本。通過以上信息，我們得出的結(jié)論應(yīng)是D項所表達的內(nèi)容，那一時期的電影并非相當(dāng)普及。

　　11. C 推斷題。第一段最后一句的was eager to read about the West(渴望看一些有關(guān)西部的書)，與題中were fascinated by the wild West (對荒蕪的西部著了迷)表達了同樣的信息，故C項為正確答案。

　　12. C 詞義題。根據(jù)上下文關(guān)系以及關(guān)鍵詞語novels和form可推知literary的詞義。因為“小說”與“形式”應(yīng)屬于“文學(xué)”范圍。

　　(D)本文為說明文。主要介紹了現(xiàn)在科學(xué)家對于破解癌癥問題所取得的一些研究成果。

　　13. B 細(xì)節(jié)題。從第一段中的cancers are particularly likely to attack persons in their middle and advanced years可以知道癌癥尤其容易在中年人和老年人的身體上發(fā)生。

　　14. B 詞義題。第二段中的a simple medical test can find cancer while it is still small；test與后面的such a test指的是同樣的一種方法，所以這里的test指的是上句的“用最簡單的方法診斷早期的癌癥”。

　　15. A 細(xì)節(jié)題。第三段中提到了cancer病人血液中的有些東西在健康人中沒有，并且百分之九十以上的情況是這樣的。B項與D項的意思與文章第一段中的certain habits and conditions of modern living including heavy smoking and pollution of the air may leave people living in more cancer-causing conditions不符；C項內(nèi)容與文章最后一段的意思不符。

　　16. D 主旨題。文章在開頭就交代了寫作的目的，有各種不同的理由說明了為什么癌癥似乎在上升，而從后面的幾段我們知道科學(xué)家們正在研究一種新的早期診斷cancer的方法。

　　(E)說明建議(勸說)的重要性。

　　17. C 細(xì)節(jié)題。將第二段中persuasion is the art of getting others to give fair and favorable consideration to our points of view與各選項進行比較可知。

　　18. A 詞義題。由破折號后面的句子other points of view may be more persuasive可知，我們不一定占上風(fēng)，故選A。

　　19. C 細(xì)節(jié)題。由第三段中第一二句Some people…into their lives可知。(from www.nmet168.com)

　　20. D 主旨題。根據(jù)第一段對we live in a world of persuasion的理解，第三段中we believe that persuasion is unavoidable-to live is to persuade 及最后一段中persuasion is necessary to society與各選項進行比較可確定選D。