best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Passage One
1. A) To build Project Hope primary schools in poor rural areas. B) To establish Project Hope scholarships. C) To carry out distance education initiatives and training rural teachers. D) All the above.
2. A) 93.9 percent. B) 63.5 percent. C) 80 percent. D) 16 percent. 3. A) All the money that Project Hope received is domestic donations. B) All Project Hope primary schools and students aided by the project are in China's middle and western regions. C) There are still some 34 million students from poor families that need aid nationwide. D) Project Hope is the largest and most influential non-government welfare project in China.
Passage Two
1. A) She is a resident in the neighborhood. B) She is an education official. C) She is a school teacher. D) She is a City Councilwoman.
2. A) Because the plan would further divide the 1.1 million-student school system into layers. B) Because they wanted neighborhood children to have priority in admission to the new school. C) Because in the original plan, the new high school is a 1,650-student school. D) Because the new high school would bring an influx of teenagers and traffic to the already crowded area.
3. A) The students living in all the Queens school districts. B) The students living in three of the Queens school districts. C) The students attending five schools that Ms. Crowley had specified. D) The students in Maspeth.
4. A) It is expected to open in 2012. B) It is to be built on the site of the former Restaurant Depot. C) It is to be built on 74th Street and 57th Avenue. D) The land on which the new school is to be built has been purchased by the city. Passage Three
1. A) University of Southern California. B) U.S.C.'s Office of International Services. C) California State Government. D) The Institution of International Education in New York.
2. A) Because the American students don't want to make friends with them. B) Because international students often want to spend their free time with friends from their own country or group. C) Because the offices do not look for ways to help them. D) Because they have language problems.
3. A) Helping international students work out their course schedule. B) Helping international students get involved in school life and make American friends. C) Helping family members who come to the United States with international students.
D) Organizing programs to help foreign students feel more at ease in their new surroundings. Listening Comprehension
Listen to 8 short conversations. At the end of each conversation, one question will be asked. Choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). 1. A) He had been thinking about finding a new job. B) He had been thinking of the position in the accounts department. C) He had been thinking of getting promoted. D) He had been thinking of stepping into big business. 2. A) He should ask the girl on a date directly. B) He should sit down next to the girl and begin a conversation naturally. C) He should invite the girl to a cafeteria. D) He should ask the girl to go out with him.
3. A) Looking for a restaurant. B) Discussing on an address. C) Waiting for a male friend. D) Waiting for a female friend. 4. A) Pan seared salmon steak. B) Sweet and sour shrimp. C) Tip of sirloin with sauted mushrooms. D) A vegetarian entr閑. 5. A) Tennis. B) Karate. C) Windsurfing. D) Judo.
6. A) In the city. B) In the country. C) With her family. D) With the man. 7. A) A desk. B) A coffee table. C) A bookshelf D) A high chair. 8. A) Because the salary is not good. B) Because he prefers to stay at university. C) Because he is so busy that he does not have time to enjoy life. D) Because he does not like his current job.
阅读 Passage One
College students who want to be rich with lifelong friends need to invest time and seek out opportunities to develop their interests now, says a Purdue University communication expert. \there are many technological and media distractions,\says Glenn Sparks, a professor of communication who studied the 19-year friendships of a group of 1983 college graduates. The geographic and personal distance between people continues to grow, and there are some harmful effects for those who lack quality relationships. Friends are essential because they provide emotional stability in a person's life. \make investments, and it is never too early to start.\
Sparks was part of a research team that followed the friendships of 32 pairs of same-sex and 13 pairs of male-female best friends from 1983 to 2002. The initial quality and closeness of their friendships were measured in different ways, including how well they played a game that assessed levels of communication and understanding. Follow-up studies took place in 1987 and 2002. Sixty-four of the individuals, including at least one friend from 38 of the pairs, participated in the 2002 study.
On average, the participants in this study moved six times during 19 years, and the typical distance between friends was 895 miles. In addition to geographic distance, friendships also were affected
by romantic relationships, careers and children.
\can be a rarity in today's changing environment,\in this age of constant mobility. When something good or bad happens, pick up the phone to share the news with a close friend. Every time you do this it reinforces the friendship, and that can add up over the years.\
Sparks said he is concerned that today's college students' emerging friendships will be influenced by technological distractions, such as the Internet, television and online games. Some college students may not be as likely to meet new people because they are using the Internet to communicate with friends at home. \offers great capabilities to keep in touch with people, but it also can keep us from really getting to know someone,\
And for those no longer in college, Sparks says there is indirect evidence from this study that lapsed friendships may be restarted successfully even after a lull in communication for years. \find a friendship that will last your whole life, and that is a great thing.\
1. Which of the following factors is NOT mentioned to lead to the difficulty in maintain long-term true friendships? A) Marriage distraction. B) Technological distraction. C) Distance distraction. D) Media distraction.
2. What kind of research method is adopted by Spark's team? A) Longitudinal study(历时研究). B) Experiment. C) Interview. D) Questionnaire.
3. According to Spark's study, all of the following are factors affecting relationships except __________. A) geographic distance B) romantic relationship C) career D) personality
4. What is the possible meaning of the underlined word \ A) secure B) host C) attach D) fasten 5. Which of the following statements is true? A) There are no harmful effects for those who lack quality friends. B) It is too late to make investments to friendship for a college student. C) From Spark's study, it is obvious that one can maintain the lost friendship even after a lack of communication for years. D) To some extent, the Internet strengthens the affectionate ties between college students and their friends because of its convenience. Passage Two
I remember the day I found out Ross and Rachel were going to kiss. It was two days before the episode(电视剧集), and I was at lunch with some friends. The word was: Don't miss this week's show. I know how strange that may sound. It certainly wasn't one of the more significant events of the past 10 years, and it was, you know, fictional. But every decade has its defining pop culture moments, and for millions of us who were 20-somethings in the 1990s, that was one.
From the moment Friends first appeared on our screens in 1994, it stood out. The six characters
were friends of mine from college, friends from high school, peers from just being a middle-class, white American entering the post-college world. And I always felt Friends respected me -- and my intelligence. Mostly because the show never seemed to be trying to make the audience laugh. It was more like the characters were laughing with us.
Friends helped restore the \jokes -- and almost always came from situations that the characters themselves didn't realize were funny. To me, that's always been one of the greatest strengths of the show's writing, and has put so many other comedies to shame. After 10 years, according to my math, I've spent more than 85 hours of my life watching Friends. And I don't regret a second.
Whenever newspapers and magazines have written about the Friends phenomenon, they've inevitably followed up with some perplexing letters to the editor. People write in decrying the \like the show, don't watch it.
Of course, some of the complaints do touch on truths. Yes, Friends isn't actually real, and has taken pains to avoid anything remotely controversial -- no real talk about politics or religion -- and has had a notable paucity(少量) of racial diversity. It's not a complete picture of anything in the real world, and it's not supposed to be. However, it has successfully captured a slice of life. And if, decades from now, people look back on this show -- among other things, of course -- to get some insight into the pop culture zeitgeist(时代精神) of 1994?004, that's fine by me.
So now I say goodbye to the program that's achieved so much. It's sad, but not because I'll miss the show. It really is time for it to end. It's sad because the end of Friends means, in this one little way, the end of an era. Basically, it's a reminder that my friends and I are growing up. We're not 20-somethings in coffee shops anymore.
1. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage? A) The author was probably born in 1970s, and is in his thirties with the end of Friends. B) The six characters in Friends were the author's schoolmates and friends in college. C) The author cannot agree with some people's complaints about Friends. D) The author holds that in Friends, characters were laughing at the audience rather than make them laugh.
2. Which of the following statements is NOT the correct understanding of paragraph three? A) In the first sentence, the first \means \development and status of comedies\characters\ B) In the comedy Friends, humor almost came from natural situations and thus doesn't sound pretentious and artificially-made. C) Characters in Friends themselves do not think the humor they present are funny. D) The author's distribution of long hours on Friends shows his strong affection with Friends.
3. What is the possible meaning of the underlined word \ A) Laugh. B) Condemn. C) Disbelieve. D) Disagree.
4. According to the author, which of the following is NOT the weakness of Friends? A) Avoidance of controversial social issues. B) Enlightenment to the popular culture spirit. C) Fiction rather than actual reality.