Part A
Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage
is followed by some questions or unfinished statements.
For each of them there are four choices marked A ， B， C，
and D， you should decide on the best choice and blacken
the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET I with a pencil.
Questions 51 to 54 are based on the following passage:
It is a fact that young men are more romantic than young
women.Young men fall in love at the drop of a hat.’
Young women, on the other hand, are much more pragmatic
when it comes to choosing marriage partners. Men consider
that being with their partners is sufficient to express their love.
Whereas women consider a man romantic only if the word love
is always on his lips.
Men attach more importance to marriage than women do, and
there are fewer male celibates （独身者）. Moreover, men find
more satisfaction in marriage. A survey found that 87% of the
men questioned said that if they married again they would
choose the same partners, whereas 76% of the women
questioned said the same.
Men feel pain, but they handle it in a different way from
women. It is true that after divorce they will not lose control
of themselves by crying bitterly, but they suffer more from
stomach disorders, plunge into alcoholism and cause traffic
accidents. Another survey found that divorced men can only
overcome their emotional pain by means of physical exercise.
Men generally dislike admitting that they need other people.
They regard admitting loneliness as weakness, as ridiculous
and as an expression of a lack of manliness. The fact that men
do not like to talk about loneliness does not mean that they
never feel lonely. And men do have a good reason for avoiding
the topic of loneliness, because they fear that others will
usually look down on them.
However, if a woman confides in someone that she is lonely,
far from looking down on her, people will be very willing to
help her.
Ninety-four percent of men wish to change their image.
A study found that a man’s self-esteem is often directly
connected with his outward appearance. Thin and small
men often regard themselves as punny and easily sink into
depression.
Men generally think of themselves as decision-makers,
and not as shoulders to cry on. So when a person pours
out his or her troubles to a man, the latter hastens to give
advice. It would be better if he simply lent a sympathetic ear.
51. Which of the following is a proper title of the passage?
A. Do You Really Understand Men? B. The difference between men and women
C. Do you want to change your gender? D. Men versus women
52. According to the passage, _______
A. men are more romantic than women
B. men are more likely to be satisfied with marriage than
women
C. men do not like handling things in a different way from
women
D. men are more likely to divorce than women
53. Usually a man thinks that admitting loneliness
may_______
A. make him become more lonely B. show that he is not manly C. make others look down upon themselves D. lead to the help from others
54. According to the author, men________when a person
talks with them about his or her worries.
A. always like to give some advices
B. simply listen carefully
C. will never be a listener
D. are policy makers
Questions
55 to 58 are based on the following passage:
Do people who choose to go on exotic, far-flung
holidays deserve free health advice before they travel?
And even if they pay, who ensures that they get good,
up-to-date information?
Who,for that matter, should collect that information in the
first place? For a variety of reasons, travel medicine in Britain
is a responsibility nobody wants. As a result, many travelers
go abroad ill prepared to avoid serious disease.
Why is travel medicine so unloved? Partly there’s
an identity problem.
Because it takes an interest in anything that impinges on
the health of travelers, this emerging medical specialism
invariably cuts across the traditional disciplines. It delves
into everything from seasickness, jet lag and the hazards
of camels to malaria and plague. But travel medicine has
a more serious obstacle to overcome. Travel clinics are meant
to tell people how to avoid ending up dead or in a tropical
diseases hospital when they come home. But it is notoriously
difficult to get anybody to pay out money for keeping people
healthy.
Travel medicine has also been colonized by commercial
interests —— the vast majority of travel clinics in Britain
are run by airlines or travel companies, And while travel
concerns are happy to sell profitable injections, they may be
less keen to spread bad news about travelers’ diarrhea in
Turkey, or to take the time to spell out preventive measures
travelers could take. "The NHS finds it difficult :to define
travelers’ health," says Ron Behrens, the only NHS consultant
in travel and tropical medicine and director of the travel clinic
of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in London. "Should it
come within the NHS or should it be paid for? It’s
a gray area, and opinion is split. No one seems to
have any responsibility for defining its role," he says.
To compound its low status in the medical hierarchy, travel
medicine has to rely on statistics that are patchy at best.
In most cases we just don’t know how many Britons
contract diseases when abroad. And even if a disease is
linked to travel there is rarely any information about
where those afflicted went, what they ate, how they
behaved, or which vaccinations they had. This shortage
of hard facts and figures makes it difficult to give detailed
advice to people, information that might even save their
lives.
A recent leader in the British Medical Journal argued: "
Travel medicine will emerge as a credible discipline only
if the risks encountered by travelers and the relative benefits
of public health interventions are well defined in terms of
their relative occurrence, distribution and control." Exactly
how much money is wasted by poor travel advice? The real
figure is any bodys gues s, but it could easily run into
millions.
Behrens gives one example. Britain spends more
than ~ 1 million each year just on cholera vaccines that
often don’t work and so give people a false sense of
security: "Information on the prevention and treatment
of all forms of diarrhea would be a better priority," he says.
55. According to the passage, travel medicine in Britain
is_______
A. not something that anyone wants to manage.
B. the responsibility of the government.
C. administered by private doctors.
D. handled adequately by travel agents.
56. The main purpose of travel companies’ dealing with
travel medicine is to_______
A. prevent people from falling ill. B. make money out of it.
C. give advice on specific countries. D. get the government to pay for it.
57. In Behren s opinion the question of who should run
travel medicine________
A. is for the government to decide. B. should be left to specialist hospitals. C. can be left to travel companies. D. has no clear and simple answer.
58. People may think better of travel medicine if_______
A. it is given more resources by the government.
B. more accurate information on its value is available.
C. the government takes over responsibility from the NHS.
D. travelers pay more attention to the advice they get.
Questions 59 to 62 are based on the following passage:
In a recent survey, 25 per cent of Americans said they
believed that NASA（US National Aeronautics and Space Administration）
had faked landing on the moon and humans had yet to walk
upon its surface. Why do so many people believe such a
foolish idea and is there any real evidence to support it?
Perhaps the most persuasive evidence that the Apollo missions
were faked comes from inconsistencies in the photographs
and films taken on the moon. Shadows in many of the pictures
are cast not in straight parallel lines as from the Sun but as if
they were from a nearby floodlight.
The list Of Apollo inconsistencies goes on and on, and so
does NASA’s explanations for them.
As with most conspiracy theories, it’s just a case of
who you want to believe. So is there any unquestionable
evidence that the Apollo missions really took place, that
the most momentous landmark event in human history
actually happened? Luckily the answer is in the rocks.
The Apollo missions returned 382 kilograms of rock and
there is one thing that is absolutely clear: They are not from
Earth. The oldest Apollo rocks, for example, are 4.44billion
years old and thus formed some 640 million years before the
oldest rocks found on Earth. The great age of the lunar rocks
is because the moon, unlike our planet, is geologically dead.
There would be no way to fake these rocks. Perhaps then the
Apollo samples really aren’t Earth rocks at all but some
rare meteorite cleverly used by NASA? However, the oxygen
they contain is very different from known meteorites
（except those from the moon） and similar to that of the
Earth.
59. The word "fake"can be replaced by __
A. fate B. counterfeit C. taken D. supported
60. Why is it sure that the Apollo rocks are not from Earth?
A. They are too heavy.
B. They are too huge.
C. They are older than the oldest rocks on Earth.
D. They are NASA samples.
61. Which of the following adjectives may best describe the
author’s view about the faking of the Apollo landings?
A. Negative. B. Subjective.
C. Objective. D. Confirmative.
62. Which of the following best summarizes the main idea
of the passage?
A. Apollo missions were faked.
B. Moon rocks offer proof of landings of Apollo.
C. Apollo inconsistencies offer proof of landings.
D. A is not favored by common people.
Questions 63 to 65are based on the following passage:
Social change is more likely to occur in heterogeneous
societies than in homogeneous ones,simply because there
are more diverse points of view available in the former.
There are more ideas,more conflicts of interest, and more
groups and organizations of different persuasions. In addition,
there is usually a greater worldly interest and tolerance in
heterogeneous societies. All these factors tend to promote
social change by opening more areas of life to decision rather
than subjecting them to authority. In a quite homogeneous
society, there are fewer occasions for people to perceive the
need or the opportunity for change, because everything seems
to be the same and, if not satisfactory, at least customary and
undisputed.
Within a society, social change is also likely to occur more
frequently and more readily in the material aspects of the
culture than in the non-material ,for example, in technology
rather than in values; in what has been learned later in life
rather than what was learned early; in the less basic,
less emotional, or less sacred aspects of society than in
their opposites, like religion or a system of prestige; in the
simple elements rather than in the complex ones; in form
rather than in substance; and in elements congenial to the
culture rather than in strange elements.
Furthermore, social change is easier if it is gradual. For
example, it comes more readily in human
63. According to the passage, the main difference between
a homogeneous society and a heterogeneous one lies
in_________
A. the number of opportunities offered B. the nature of conflicts of interest
C. the awareness of the need for change D. the role of social organizations
64. The author would most probably agree that changes are
more likely to be successful in_______
A. production methods B. ideological concepts
C. religious beliefs D. social behaviour
65. The passage is mainly about_______
A. the nature of social changes
B. certain factors that determine social changes
C. certain factors that facilitate social changes
D. the difference between different social groups
Part. B
Directions: Read the following passage carefully and then
give short answers to the five questions.
Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET 2.
The construction of extremely bright sources of x-rays has been one of the great– and infrequently told——success stories of science and technology over the past few
decades. These facilities, based on evacuated （抽成真空的） , circular tubes several hundred meters in diameter, carry
electrons at nearly the speed of light, giving off brilliant bursts
of radiation that enable experimenters to examine matter on a
scale measured in atoms. Using this extraordinary light,
scientists have gained invaluable insights into diverse objects
and phenomena, including the structure of molecules,
advanced semiconductors and magnetic materials, and the
details of complex chemical reactions.
Such scientific achievements have been made possible by
equally impressive engineering ,advances. Using the brightness
of these x-ray sources as a yardstick （测量的尺度） ,
their rate of improvement since the early 1960s is matched
by few other technologies. For example, the increase in
computational speed available with the highest-performance
computers is often mentioned as an example of the rapid pace
of information-age progress.
Yet the increase in brightness of the x-ray sources over the
same period has occurred far faster.
The latest devices, examples of which have come on line over
the past five years in various countries, are nearly 100 times
brighter than anything built in the previous generation. In fact,
these new sources are producing radiation a billion times
brighter than that from the sun. Eight of these facilities are
now operating, and another two are to begin operating in the
near future.
Fueling this surge （高潮） in construction of new sources,
despite price tags in the range of $100 million to $1 billion
per site, is the promise of the most intimate look yet at the
structure, composition and chemical bonding of crystals and
molecules, in materials ranging from semiconductors to
proteins.
The astonishing brightness of these devices means that
their x-rays come from a source with an extremely small
cross-sectional area and that they shine in a very narrow
cone （圆锥体） . The x-rays come from electrons traveling in
a bunch with a diameter about the same as that of a human
hair.
66. The extremely bright sources of x-rays are based
on_________
67. What has this extraordinary light helped scientists do?
68. The new sources of x-rays are producing radiation
_________ than that from the sun.
69. All together, there are about_________ new sources
operating or to begin operating around the world.
70. What is the size of the bunch of electrons ——
the source of X-rays?
Part A
51.A 52.B 53.B 54.A 55.A 56.B 57.D 58.B 59.B 60.C 61.A 62.B 63.C 64.A 65.C
Part B
66.evacuated,circular tubes several hundred meters in diameter
67.With it scientists have gained invaluable insights into
diverse objects and phenomena.
68.a billion times brighter
69.10
70.It has a diameter about the same as that of a human hair.
