第三部分 阅读理解 (共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
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Restaurant Assistant manager
Waiting staff Telephonist
The ideal persons must have certain experience gained in a high quality hotel. Please call personnel on 071-722-77333, or send your CV (履历) to :
Regents Park Hilton, Lodge Road,
London NW87 JT LONDON
REGENTS PARK HILTON
JOIN THE STARS! FOOD SERVERS
The biggest and busiest restaurant in London is seeking additional stars for its team of devoted professionals. If you have experience in high volume restaurants and are looking for a challenge, then come on down for an interview. Interview day is on Friday, 26th MAY from 12 noon to 7 pm.
Planet Hollywood is located at 13 Coventry Street, London, WI
SECRETARY
Busy chartered lawyers require experienced/efficient secretary, accounts, typing experience and an excellent telephone manner; essential shorthand useful.
Please send CV to: Box No.9246 o/o evening standard classified, 2 Derry Street, Kensington W85EE.
USE YOUR LANGUAGES AND EARN
450-1200 P.W
We are one of the largest business publishers, in Europe and have limited vacancies for intelligent young students in our London advertisement sales office.
Enquiries from German, Spanish and eastern European speakers especially welcome.
Phone Andrew Warburton on 071-753-4300
NURSE WANTED
For 9-month-old boy.Artist/Prof family Notting Hill.
3 days per week. Some extra hours possibly required.
Knowledge German/Hungarian advantage not must
071-221-7375
TRAVEL COMPANY
Vacancy for self-confident person to look after booking for our Caribbean hotels.
Salary based on applicant’s experience & suitability.
Please send CV to:
Lan Taplin, MRILTD, 9 Galena Road, London, WGOLX
Or telephone 071-721-43642
56．The reading materials above offer information most useful to a person who _____.
A．works for business companies
B．speaks several foreign languages
C．is just out of work
D．runs a hotel or restaurant
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57．Most of the advertisements emphasize the importance of _____.
A．knowledge B．techniques
C．diligence D．experience
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58．If you are a student studying in London and want a part-time job, you’d better telephone ____.
A．071-722-77333 B．071-221-7375
C．071-753-4300 D．071-721-43642
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59．Which of the following does NOT agree with what is said in the above advertisements?
A．THE STARS is the name of a famous restaurant in London.
B．CV might refer to a brief self-introduction.
C．Andrew Warburton’s office prefers those who speak other European languages besides English.
D．The secretary for the third advertisement must be energetic.
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B
When I asked my daughter which item she would keep; the phone, the car, the cooker, the computer, the TV, or her boyfriend, she said“the phone”. Personally, I could do without the phone entirely, which makes me unusual, because the telephone is changing our lives more than any other piece of technology.
Point 1 The telephone creates the need to communicate, in the same way that more roads create more traffic. My daughter comes home from school at 4:00 pm and then spends an hour on the phone talking to the very people she has been at school with all day. If the phone did not exist, would she have anything to talk about?
Point 2 The mobile phone means that we are never alone.“The mobile saved my life,”says Crystal Johnstone. She had an accident in her Volvo on the A45 between Otley and Skipton. Trapped inside, she managed to make the call that brought the ambulance(救护车) to her rescue.
Point 3 The mobile removes our secret. It allows marketing manager of Haba Deutsch, Carl Nicolaisen, to ring his sales staff all round the world at any time of day to ask where they are , where they are going, and how their last meeting went.
Point 4 The telephone separates us. Antonella Bramante in Rome says,“We worked in separate offices but I could see him through the window. It was easy to get his number. We were so near——but we didn’t meet for the first two weeks!”
Point 5 The telephone allows us to reach out beyond our own lives. Today we can talk to several complete strangers simultaneously (同时地) on chat lines (at least my daughter does. I wouldn’t know what to talk about). We can talk across the world. We can even talk to astronauts (if you know any) while they’re space-walking. And, with the phone line hooked up to the computer, we can access the Internet, the biggest library on Earth.
60．How do you understand ‘Point 1 —The telephone creates the need to communicate,…’？
A．People don’t communicate without telephone.
B．People communicate because of the creating of the telephone.
C．People communicate more since telephone has been created.
D．People communicate more because of more traffic.
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61．Which points do you think support the idea that phones improve people’s life?
a．Point 1. b．Point2. c．Point3. d．Point 4. e．Point 5.
A．c, d B．a, e
C．a, c D．b, e
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62．It is possible to talk to several complete strangers simultaneously through ______..
A．the TV screen
B．a fax machine
C．the phone line hooked up to the computer
D．a microphone
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63．The best heading for the passage is_______ .
A． Phone Power B．Kinds of Phone
C．How to Use Phones D．Advantage of Phones
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C
Today, the town of Silver Cliff, Colorado, has a population of only 100 people. Once, however, it was a rich mining town where thousands came with dreams of finding silver and making their fortune.
Late one night in 1880, a group of miners headed back to their camp after a good time in town. They were still laughing and joking as they approached the graveyard (墓地) on a hill outside Silver Cliff. Then one of the men screamed and pointed toward the graveyard. The others looked and fell suddenly silent. On top of each grave, they saw flame – like blue lights. These strange and frightening lights seemed to be dancing on the graves, disappearing and then appearing again.
This was the first time that people had seen the blue lights of Silver Cliff. There have been many other sightings over the years. In 1969, Edward Lineham from National Geographic Magazine visited the graveyard. Lineham’s article tells of his experience:“I saw them … Weak, round spots of blue – white light among the graves. I … stepped forward for a better look. They disappeared. I aimed my flashlight at one and turned it on. It showed only a tombstone.” Lineham and others have suggested various explanations for the blue lights of Silver Cliff: The lights might have been images of lights from the town, but Silver Cliff’s lights seemed too weak to have this effect. They could have been caused by the burning of gases from things that have gone bad, but this usually happens in swamps (沼泽), and the area around Silver Cliff is dry. Or, perhaps, the lights are lights used by dead miners wandering the hills in search of the fortune they had come for.
64．What is strange about Silver Cliff?
A．It used to be a place where people went to make their fortune.
B．People have been seeing strange lights from the graveyard.
C．It was a rich mining town.
D．It is no longer a town of silver.
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65．What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 show?
A．It suggests that they were too frightened to speak.
B．It shows that they were a bit curious.
C．It means they were ready to do some research work.
D．It explains how interested they were in the flame.
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66．Which of the following does NOT belong to people’s explanations of the blue lights?
A．The lights might be from city lights.
B．The burning of gases caused those lights.
C．The lights might be from the lights used by the dead miners.
D．Something in the grave gives out lights.
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67．What can we infer from the passage?
A．Things easily go wrong in Silver Cliff.
B．The blue lights have something to do with silver.
C．Many people left Silver Cliff because of the blue lights.
D．Most of the people who saw the blue lights died.
[答案]
D
There is no doubt about it. The best way to learn new words is to do it unconsciously. I don’t mean while you’re unconscious. I mean while you are unconscious of the fact that it is sinking in.
That is how I learnt the 30,000 words in my vocabulary by living in an English-speaking world, mother tongue. I just pick them up. But some of them may be misunderstood. Now, to misunderstand does not mean not to understand. To misunderstand is to understand but incorrectly.
The 5 % mislearnt of all the words we “know”will be the least frequently used words, as the more frequently used words are less likely to be mislearnt. Some of the misunderstandings may live with all our lives, without knowing that we got them wrong.
Many English teachers think that this natural method of learning words in one’s own mother tongue can be used for a second language learning. They teach their students how to play the Guessing Game.“There is no time to look up in your dictionaries all the new words you come across,”they will say.“You have to practise guessing what the word means from the context.”
This method of guessing in a second language learning does not work. It may succeed in many cases, but results in hundreds or thousands of wrongly-guessed meanings of words.
And what’s more, there are more separate meanings than there are words themselves. Our learners’ dictionaries usually have many meanings. A good dictionary is what makes self-learning possible.
Don’t guess! Look it up!
68．It is certain that the best way to learn new words is _____________.
A．to learn them by oneself
B．to learn by living in an English-speaking world and using them frequently
C．to guess them from the context
D．to get more separate meanings of each word
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69．The underlined word“them”in Paragraph 2 refers to _________.
A．the 30,000 words
B．English teachers
C．misunderstood words
D．frequently used words
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70．Which of the following is most likely NOT true?
A．Some of the words the writer knows must have been misunderstood.
B．Most of the 30,000 words the writer learned are frequently used ones.
C．How many words the writer got wrong are not known.
D．All the words the writer knows were learned by reading them.
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71．It can be inferred that _________.
A．when somebody is conscious, he or she usually can’t learn new words by heart
B．we must use the words as often as possible in order to master them
C．it’s the best way to learn new words that one should only guess their meanings from the context
D．only dictionaries can help us learn language well
[答案]
E
China news, Nanjing, Nov. 14 – “People who suffer from mental illness are able to draw. Actually, they can draw very well,”said Guo Haiping, a contemporary artist in Nanjing.
Recently, Guo spent three months living with the mentally retarded people at Nanjing Zu Tang Shan Psychiatric Hospital (精神病医院). When he was there, he taught them how to draw pictures. In three months, he collected more than 100 paintings drawn by the mentally retarded people, the Yangtze Evening News reported.
The paintings shocked the artistic circle. This has raised a question to the normal people in society: how can we give up our prejudices against the mentally retarded people and view them from a totally new perspective (看法)?
Before, the mentally retarded people in Nanjing had never touched painting brushes, nor did they know any painting techniques. Now, artists have begun to speak highly of their paintings. After seeing their works, Guo Haiping said this group of people and their works should“deserve more attention from society.”
“In China, no one believes that they can draw paintings. We have so many prejudices against this group of people and we really don’t know anything about their mysterious mental world,”Guo said.
At Nanjing Zu Tang Shan Psychiatric Hospital, Guo let the mentally retarded people see some paintings and gave them water color brushes, color pencils, oil chalk and clay. He told them they could do whatever they wanted with these materials. He didn’t teach them how to draw. He just encouraged them to pick up some of these materials and draw something. About 100 mentally retarded people in the hospital participated in the activity. During the three months’ stay in the hospital, Guo Haiping had seen them complete more than 300 works.
Guo Haiping also came to know about these mentally retarded people and their mental world through the event. He had collected all the patients’ paintings and made them into a book. Many works drawn by the patients will be exhibited in Beijing this month.
72．You can most probably read the text in ________.
A．a newspaper B．a hospital guide
C．a science book D．a medicine book
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73．The underlined word“mentally retarded” means ______.
A．depressed B．talented
C．cautious D．slow-minded
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74．Nobody in China believes the mentally retarded people can draw paintings because _______.
A．they think the mentally retarded people’s works are boring
B．the mentally retarded people really have no such special ability
C．they know little about the mentally retarded people’s mental world
D．the mentally retarded people’s works have never been collected by artists
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75．It can be inferred from the passage that ________.
A．people will surely give up prejudices against the mentally retarded people
B．Guo Haiping collected all the patients’ paintings and made them into a book
C．people have begun to change their opinions about the mentally retarded people
D．as a mentally retarded artist, Guo Haiping hopes to be considered a normal person
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