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A. look in the card catalog

B. look in the periodical indexes D. go to the reference room

C. search through the bookshelves

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180. The passage is taken from an introduction of a chapter, and the title of the chapter is probably _____ ,

A. Save Your Study Time C. Using the Library Efficiently

B. Using the Library for Your Term Paper

D. Library--- An Information Source

Passage Five

Every year just after Christmas the January Sales start. All the shops reduce their prices and for two weeks, they are full of people looking for bargains. My husband and I do not normally go to the sales as we don have to buy lots of Christmas presents.

Last year, however, I took my husband with me to the sales at the large shop in the center of London. We both needed some new clothes and

were hoping to find a television set. When we got to Oxford Street, it was so crowded that we decided to split up and meet again at the underground station. So I left my husband and started looking around the shops. Unfortunately all the clothes were in very large sizes and so were not suitable for me. But I did buy a television at a very cheap price, so I felt quite pleased with myself.

When I arrived at the station, my husband was not there. So I sat down in a nearby cafe to have a cup of tea. I quickly finished my tea when I saw my husband and went out to meet him. He looked very happy. Then I saw he was carrying a large and heavy cardboard box. “ Oh, dear! ” I thought. Yes, we had no new clothes but two televisions. We shall not be going to the sales again. 181. I n January ___________ .

A. lots of people go shopping for discount

B. people have a lot of money to spend after Christmas C. all the shops close for a two-week Christmas holiday

D. people don ' t have enough money to go looking for bargains 182. In this passage, the word

A. given to people

“ bargain ” could best be replaced by

“ something _____ ”.

s and in'an ytaaseard short of money as we

B. offered at a reduced price

C. offered, sold or bought which is expensive D. sold for the purpose of reaching an agreement 183. The husband and wife in the story ________ .

A. wished to buy a TV

C. often went to the sales to buy clothes

B. went to the sales the year before

D. were usually not short of money after Christmas

184. The phrase “ split up in the second paragraph means “_____________ ”.

A. break apart B. cause to break C. become pieces D. go indifferent directions 185. After their day ' s shopping, they _____________ .

A. were happy with their bargains

B. had got everything they wanted

C. got more than they had hoped for D. had to go back to the sales the next day

Passage Six

In order to learn a foreign language well, it is necessary to overcome the fear of making mistakes. If the primary goal of language use is

communication, then mistakes are secondary considerations that may be dealt with gradually as awareness of those mistakes increases. On the other hand, students should not ignore their mistakes. The language learner may observe how native speakers express themselves, and how native expressions differ from the way the learner might say them. For examp le, a Spanish speaker who has been saying

“I do it

to exp

willingness to do something in the immediate future, could, by interacting with native speakers of English, observe that native speakers actually say “I ' ll do it ” . The resulting diffeevceacanbasis for the student to modify his way of using the present tense in English. But a student who is unwilling to interact in the first place would lose this opportunity to learn by trial of an error. 186. According to the passage, the present tense in English is _____ .

A. not used to express a desire to do something in the immediate future B. used with some verbs but not with others to express future intention C. basically the same in English as it is in Spanish

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D. speaking without regard for native speakers

187. According to the passage, language learners can reduce the number of their mistakes by _____ .

A. asking native speakers for explanations B. reading good books in the foreign language C. comparing their speech with that of native speakers D. learning through trial of an error

188. According to the passage, foreign language students who do not interact with native speaker will NOT ____ .

A. learn very much about the foreign culture B. learn about the history of the foreign language C. have to worry about making mistakes D. take advantage of available language models

189. According to the passage, foreign language students should not worry too much about making mistakes because _____ ,

A. native speakers like foreign students who try to learn their language B. communication is the primary goal of language learning C. native speakers will ignore their mistakes

D. everyone makes mistakes when trying to communicate in a strange language

190. The author's major conclusion about the function of mistakes in foreign language learning is that _____ .

A. mistakes are not important in the process of learning a language B. learners are often very afraid of making mistakes

C. making mistakes can help the learner discover the rules of the language D. native speakers often do not tell foreign language learners about their mistakes

Passage Seven

I found my father a very hard man to understand when I was young. He was very short and thin and had large blue eyes. I could have loved him as I did my mother, but he seemed to hold us off so that we could not approach him or sit on his knee as love to do. I believe he had a hard life as a child, and I know that he left school at the age of ten and started to work. This made him an unsociable man, unfriendly even to the people closest to him. I never knew him to have a close friend as the other men did.

Everything he did had to be precise. If he chopped the sticks for the fire, each stick would be the same length and thickness as all the others, and they would all be stacked without one out of place. His motto was \dared dispute it.

He worked hard when in a job and saw to it that we children learned the meaning of work. My mother did not have much pleasure but I do not remember her ever complaining ---except on Sunday afternoons when father would take off his clothes and get into bed, leaving her to mend his working clothes while he had his rest. This she disliked very much, for the clothes were dirty from the work he had been doing and she hated handling anything that was not clean.

191. The writer found it difficult to understand her father because he ___ .

A. looked distant C. ill-treated the family

B. rejected affection

D. hated keeping company with children

192. What did the writer think made her father unsociable?

A. An unhappy childhood. C. No interest in hobbies.

B. A lack of friends. D. Not smoking or drinking.

193. What was particular about the sticks for the fire?

A. They were arranged in a pattern. C. They were similar in length.

B. They were chopped in only one place. D. They all weighed the same.

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194. The writer's father believed that _____ .

A. you should only do things for which you have the ability B. only important jobs are worth doing well C. you should only attempt worthwhile jobs

D. anything you do should be done to your best ability 195. What did the writer's mother dislike about Sunday afternoons?

A. Working while her husband rested. B. Repairing her husband's clothes.

C. Not being able to derive any pleasure from what she herself found delightful. D. Touching unclean clothes.

Passage Eight

Have you ever wondered why different animals or pests have their particular colors? Colors in them seem to be used mainly to protect themselves. Birds, especially seagulls, are very fond of locusts, but birds cannot easily catch locusts because locusts change their colors together with the change of the color of crops. When crops are green, locusts look green. But when crops are ripe, locusts take on exactly the same brown color as crops have. Some other pests with different colors from plants are usually easily found and eaten by their enemies. So they have to hide themselves in terror for lives and appear only at night.

If you study the animal life in any part of the world, you will find the main use of coloring is to protect themselves. Bears, wolves and other beasts move quietly through forests. They are usually invisible to the eyes of hunters, because they have the color much like the barks of trees.

An even stranger act remains to be noticed. A kind of fish living in seas can send out a kind of very black liquid when it faces danger. While the liquid spreads over, its enemies cannot find it, and it immediately swims away. Thus, it has existed up to now though it is not powerful at all. 196. This passage mainly talks about _____ .

A. the change of color in locusts C. how a certain sea fish protects itself

B. the protective coloration of animals and pests D. animals or pests can dye themselves different colors

197. Locusts are not easily wiped out by their enemies because _____ .

A. they are powerful enough

C. they take on the same colors as crops

B. they are dangerous to their enemies D. they fly extraordinary fast

198. The pests that have different colors from plants usually appear at night because _____ .

A. birds take their rest when night comes

B. their enemies can easily find them and eat them C. they have the habit of coming out in darkness D. it ' s easythem to destroy plants in darkness

199. Bears and wolves have the same colors as barks of trees because ____ .

A. they fear other beasts B. they prefer brown or grey colors C. they enjoy walking through forests quietly

D. the colors help prevent themselves from being noticed

200. A certain fish living in seas has lived through millions of tears because _____ .

A. it is the most powerful in the sea

B. it can swim much faster than any other fish

C. it can send out a kind of liquid which makes its enemies unable to find it D. it can send out a kind of liquid which can kill its enemies