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Which fiction is this excerpt from?
Which fiction is this excerpt from?
第1题
The author of the passage implies that ________.
A) all Africans are musical and therefore much music is performed in Africa
B) not all Africans are born with musical talent although music is important in their lives
C) most Africans are capable of joining in the music by playing musical instruments
D) most Africans perform. as well as professional musicians
第2题
Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A.Thomas Edison invented more than one thousand things in his life.
B.Thomas Edison mostly taught himself, although his mother also taught him some things.
C.Thomas Edison invented a vote recorder and turned out to be a great success.
D.Thomas Edison always worked for a long time and even forgot to sleep and eat.
第3题
The author of the passage implies that______.
A.all Africans are musical and therefore much music is performed in Africa
B.not all Africans are born with musical talent although music is important in their lives
C.most Africans are capable of joining in the music by playing musical instruments
D.most Africans perform. as well as professional musicians
第4题
According to the passage, which of the following is not true?
A.Some Americans would not accept the value of conservation and environment protection, because this value would probably make them unemployed.
B.Many Americans have been used to wasting, so it will be difficult for them to accept the new value of conservation.
C.Some old values are still having a very strong influence on American people, although they are harmful in this new age.
D.Most Americans have fully realized, the need to protect the environment, so they have taken measures to recycle junked goods.
第5题
听力原文: The need to feed a growing population is putting much pressure on the world's supply of water. With 97% of the world's water too salty to be drunk or used in agriculture, the worldwide supply of water needs careful management, especially in agriculture. Although the idea of a water shortage seems strange to someone fortunate enough to live in a high rainfall country, many of the world's agricultural industries experience constant water shortages.
Although dams can be built to store water for agricultural use in dry areas and dry seasons, the costs of water redistribution are very high. Not only is there the cost of the engineering itself, but there is also an environmental cost to be considered. Where valleys are flooded to create dams, houses are lost and wildlife homes destroyed. Besides, water may flow easily through pipes to fields, but it cannot be transported from one side of the world to the other. Each country must therefore rely on the management of its own water to supply its farming requirements.
This is particularly troubling for countries with agricultural industries in areas dependent on irrigation. In Texas, farmers' overuse of irrigation water resulted in a 25% reduction of the water stores. In the Central Valley area of southeastern USA, a huge water engineering project provided water for farming in dry valleys, but much of the water use has been poorly managed.
Saudi Arabia's attempts to grow wheat in desert areas have been the pumping of huge quantities of irrigation water from underground reserves. Because there is no rainfall in these areas, such reserves can only decrease, and it is believed that fifty years of pumping will see them run dry.
Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
32. What is the passage mainly about?
33. What do we learn from the passage?
34. What can be learned from the passage?
35. What is most likely to be discussed next?
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A.Water supply and increasing population.
B.Water use management and agriculture.
C.Water redistribution and wildlife protection.
D.Water shortages and environmental protection.
第6题
Passage One
Every morning, kids from a local high school are working hard. They are making and selling special coffee at a coffee cafe. They are also making a lot of money.
These students can make up to twelve hundred dollars a day. They are selling their special coffee to airplane passengers. After the students get paid, the rest of the money goes to helping a local youth project.
These high school students use a space in the Oakland airport. It is usually very crowded. Many people who fly on the planes like to drink the special coffee.
One customer thinks that the coffee costs a lot but it is good and worth it. Most customers are pleasant but some are unhappy. They do not like it if the coffee cafe is not open for business.
The students earn $ 6.10 an hour plus tips. They also get school credit while they learn how to run a business. Many of the students enjoy the work although it took some time 1o learn how to do it.
They have to learn how to steam milk, load the pots, and add flavor. It takes some skill and sometimes
mistakes are made. The most common mistake is forgetting to add the coffee.
36. Based on the passage, it seems that the purpose of the cafe is to______.
A. learn a skill
B. help a youth project
C. do business
D. earn school credit
第7题
Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item with a single line through the center. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
Reading involves looking at graphic symbols and formulating mentally the sounds and ideas they re- present. Concepts of reading have changed【S1】______ over the centuries. During the 1950&39;s and 1960&39;s especially, increased attention bas been devoted to defining and describing the reading process. Although specialists agree that reading involves a complex organization of higher mental【S2】______ , they disagree a- bout the exact nature of the process. Some experts, who regard language primarily us a code using symbols to represent sounds,【S3】______ reading as simply the decoding of symbols into the sounds they stand for. These authorities【S4】______ that meaning, being concerned with thinking, must be taught independently of the decoding process. Others maintain that reading is【S5】______ related to thinking, and that a child who pronounces sounds without【S6】______ their meaning is not truly reading. The reader, according to some, is not just a person with a theoretical ability to read but one who actually reads.
Many adults, although they have the ability to read, have never read a book in its entirety. By some expert they would not be【S7】______ as readers. Clearly, the philosophy, objectives, methods and materials of reading will depend on the definition one use. By the most【S8】______ and satisfactory definition, reading is the ability to【S9】______ the sound-symbols code of the language, to interpret meaning for various【S10】______ at various rates, and at various levels of difficulty, and to do so widely and enthusiastically. In short reading is the interpretation of ideas through the use of symbols representing sounds and ideas.
A contempt B substantially C reassure D explaining
E interpreting F functions G inexplicably H inclusive
I view J purposes K conclusive L unlock
M contend N classified O opinions
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请帮忙给出每个问题的正确答案和分析,谢谢!
第8题
A.135,000.
B.350000
C.515,000.
D.531000
第9题
Fatherhood is going to have a different meaning and bring forth a different response from every man who hears these words. Some feel pride when they receive the news, while others worry, wondering whether they will be good father. Although there are some men who like children and may have had considerable experience with them, others do not particularly care for children and spend little time with them. Many fathers and mothers have been planning and looking forward to children for some time. For other couples, pregnancy (怀孕) was an accident that both husband and wife have accepted willingly or unwillingly.
Whatever the reaction to the birth of a child, it is obvious that the shift from the role of husband to that of father is a difficult task. Yet, unfortunately, few attempts have been made to educate fathers in this resocialization process. Although numerous books have been written about American mothers, only recently has literature focused on the role of a father.
It is argued by some writers that the transition to the father’s role, although difficult, is not nearly as great as the transition the wife must make to the mother’s role. The mother’s role seems to require a complete transformation in daily routine (生活规律) and highly innovative (创新的) adaptation, on the other hand, the father’s role is less demanding and immediate. However, even though we mentioned the fact that growing numbers of women are working outside the home, the father is still thought by many as the breadwinner in the household.
第26题:According to the author, being a father ________.
A) brings a feeling of excitement to some men
B) has a different meaning for those who have daughters
C) makes some men feel proud and others uneasy
D) means nothing but more responsibilities
第10题
Brazil’s population growth rate has dropped from 2.99% a year between 1951 and 1960 to 1.93% a year between 1981 and 1990, and Brazilian women now have only 2.7 children on average. Martine says this figure may have fallen still further since 1990, an achievement that makes it the envy of many other Third World countries.
Martine puts it down to, among other things, soap operas (通俗电视连续剧) and installment (分期付款) plans introduced in the 1970s. Both played an important, although indirect, role in lowering the birth rate. Brazil is one of the world’s biggest producers of soap operas. Globo, Brazil’s most popular television network, shows three hours of soaps six nights a week, while three others show at least one hour a night. Most soaps are based on wealthy characters living the high life in big cities.
“Although they have never really tried to work in a message towards the problems of reproduction, they describe middle and upper class values-not many children, different attitudes towards sex, women working,” says Martine. “They sent this image to all parts of Brazil and made people conscious of other patterns of behavior. and other values, which were put into a very attractive package.”
Meanwhile, the installment plans tried to encourage the poor to become consumers. “This led to an enormous change in consumption patterns and consumption was incompatible (不相容的) with unlimited reproduction,” says Martine.
第31题:According to the passage, Brazil has cut back its population growth ________.
A) by educating its citizens
B) by careful family planning
C) by developing TV programmes
D) by chance
第11题
A.They are self-evident.
B.They are yet to be proved.
C.They are to be further studied.
D.They are supported by scientific evidence.