37. A. reported B. appointed C. known D. served 38. A. alleged B. accused C. suspicious D. disgusted 39. A. approved B. responsible C. objective D. feasible 40. A. activities B. adventures C. criminals D. restrictions 41. A. sabotage B. destruction C. disaster D. situation 42. A. courageous B. glorious C. suspicious D. ridiculous 43. A. search B. struggle C. attack D. fight 44. A. ringing B. cutting C. tapping D. calling 45. A. course B. result C. trigger D. create 46. A. ministers B. agents C. employers D. secretaries 47. A. dismissed B. registered C. eliminated D. promoted 48. A. wired B. shut C. bugged D. covered 49. A. forwarded B. suggested C. insisted D. accounted 50. A. researches B. inquiries C. acts D. strikes PART IV READING COMPREHENSION (45 MINUTES, 30 POINTS) Directions: In this part of the test, there are five passages for you to read. Read each passage carefully, and then do the questions that follow. Choose the best answer A, B, C or D, and mark the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. Passage 1
Rumor is the most primitive way of spreading stories -- by passing them on from mouth to mouth. But civilized countries in normal times have better sources of news than rumor. They have radio, television, and newspapers. In times of stress and confusion, however, rumor emerges and becomes widespread. At such times the different kinds of news are in competition; The press, television and radio versus the grapevine. Especially do rumors spread when war requires censorship on many important matters. The customary news sources no longer give out enough information. Since the people cannot learn through legitimate channels all that they are anxious to learn, they pick up \wherever they can and when this happens, rumor thrives. Rumors are often repeated even by those who do not believe the tales. There is a fascination about them. The reason is that the cleverly designed rumor gives expression to something deep in the hearts of the victims--the fears, suspicions, forbidden hopes, or daydreams which they hesitate to voice directly. Pessimistic rumors about defeat and disasters show that the people who repeat them are worried and anxious. Optimistic rumors about record production or peace soon coming point to complacency or confidence--and often to overconfidence.
51. The author suggests that rumors usually _______. A. alarm their hearers B. are hardy in their growth C. are disheartening D. are short-lived
52. According to the passage, people who repeat a rumor as truth want to do so because they _________.
A. have a strong desire to hurt other people B. are naturally gullible C. are pessimistic by nature
D. find that the rumor reflects their own unexpressed beliefs
53. The author states that during wartime the regular sources of news present only
________.
A. pessimistic reports B. false information C. limited information D. government propaganda
54. The author suggests that, in times of stress, man frequently _______. A. reverts to primitive techniques B. becomes more closemouthed C. distrusts his fellow man D. loses complete control of himself
55. In Line 7, the word \ A. established newspapers B. third class magazines C. secret source of news D. opinions for common people Passage 2
One of the most popular literary figures in American literature is a woman who spent about half of her long life in China, a country on a continent thousands of miles from the United States. In her lifetime she earned this country's most highly acclaimed literary award, the Pulitzer Prize, and also the most prestigious form of literary recognition in the world, the Nobel Prize for Literature. Pearl S. Buck was almost a household word throughout much of her lifetime because of her prolific literary output, which consisted of some eighty -five published works, including several dozen novels, six collections of short stories, fourteen books for children and more than a dozen works of nonfiction. When she was eighty years old, some twenty-five volumes were awaiting publication. Many of those books were set in China, the land in which she spent so much of life. Her books and her life served as a bridge between the cultures of the East and the West. As the product of those two cultures she became, as she described herself, \bifocal.\ Her unique background made her into an unusually interesting and versatile human being. As we examine the life of Pearl Buck, we cannot help but be aware that we are in fact meeting three separate people: a wife and mother, an internationally famous writer, and a humanitarian and philanthropist. One cannot really get to know Pear; Buck without learning about each of the three. Though honored in her lifetime addition to the Nobel and Pulitzer prizes, Pearl Buck as a total human being, not only a famous author, is a captivating subject of study.
56. What is the author's main purpose in the passage? A. To offer a criticism of the works of Pearl Buck B. To illustrate Pearl Buck's views on Chinese literature
C. To indicate the background and diverse interests of Pearl Buck D. To discuss Pearl Buck's influence on the cultures of the East and the West 57. According to the passage, Pearl Buck is known as a writer of all the following except _______.
A. novels B. children's books C. poetry D. short stories
58. According to the passage, Pearl Buck was an unusual figure in American literature in that she _______.
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A. wrote extensively about a very different culture B. published half of her books abroad
C. won more awards than any other woman of her time D. achieved her first success very late in life
59. According to the passage, Pearl Buck described herself as \suggest that she was _______.
A. capable of resolving the differences between two distinct linguistic systems B. keenly aware of how the past could influence the future C. capable of producing literary works of interest to both D. equally familiar with two different cultural environments
60. The author's attitude toward Pearl Buck could best be described as _______. A. indifferent B. admiring C. sympathetic D. tolerant Passage 3
Some of you, we all know, are poor, find it hard to live, are sometimes, as it were gasping for breath. I have no doubt that some of you who read this book are unable to pay for all the dinners which you have actually eaten, or for the coats and shoes which are fast wearing or are already worn out, and have come to this page to spend borrowed or stolen time, robbing your creditors of an hour. It is very evident what mean and sneaking lives many of your live, for my sight has been whetted by experience; always on the limits, trying to get into business and trying to get out of debt, a very ancient sloughs, called by the Latin as alien, another's brass, for some of their coins were made of brass; still living, and dying and buried by this other's brass; always promising to pay, promising to pay, tomorrow, and dying today, insolvent; seeking to curry favor, to get custom, by how many modes, only not state-prison offenses; lying, flattering, voting, contracting yourselves into a nutshell of civility or deleting into an atmosphere of thin and vaporous generosity, that you may persuade your neighbor to let you make his shoes, or his hat, or his coat, or his carriage, or import his groceries for him. I sometimes wonder that we can be so frivolous, I may almost say, as to attend to the gross but somewhat foreign form of servitude called Negro Slavery, there are so many keen and subtle masters that enslave both North and South. It is hard to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are the slave-driver of yourself. Talk of divinity in man! Look at the teamster on the highway, wending to market by day or night; does any divinity stir within him? His highest duty to fodder and water his horses! What is his destiny to him compared with the shipping interests? Does not he drive for Squire Make-a-stir? How godlike, how immortal, is he? See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
61. The expression \ A. man's difficulty in breathing our polluted air B. the highest rate of interest creditors demand of us C. how difficult it is for poor people to live
D. the sloughs (swamp) our whole civilization has fallen into 62. \ A. borrowed money
B. the arrogance of some people C. a special kind of metal used in building
D. the sound of a different music some of us march to
63. The author's purpose in referring to Negro Slavery is to illustrate _______. A. how frivolous our attitude is toward this very serious social problem B. that Northern overseers are meaner than Southern overseers
C. that the worst slave-driver of all is the slave-driver who drives himself D. the foreign origin of Negro Slavery
64. There is no \ A. man has rejected God
B. man is the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself C. most men choose menial vocations for themselves D. man was born evil and will remain evil
65. \ A. nobody else knows us as well as we know ourselves B. public opinion tends to ignore the average man C. the average man leads a mean and sneaking life
D. what man thinks of himself determines or indicates his fate
66. In general, the author believes that in order to be a man one must _______. A. not have a low opinion of himself
B. not borrow money, either for daily living or to get into business C. be self-employed D. be an active nonconformist
67. As a member of today's society, the author would probably be a(n) _______. A. conservative B. reactionary
C. uncommitted individual D. active dissenter Passage 4
There are various ways in which individual economic units can interact with one another. Three basic ways may be described as the market system, the administered system and the traditional system. In a market system individual economic units are free to interact among each other in the marketplace. It is possible to buy commodities from other economic units or sell commodities to them. In a market, transactions may take place via barter or money exchange. In a barter economy, read goods such as automobiles, shoes and pizzas are traded against each other. Obviously, finding somebody who wants to trade my old car in exchange for a sailboat may not always be an easy task. Hence the introduction of money as a medium of exchange eases transactions considerably. In the modern market economy, goods and services are bought or sold for money. An alternative to the market system is administrative control by some agency over all transactions. This agency will issue edicts or commands as to how much of each good and service should be produced, exchanged, and consumed by each economic unit. Central planning may be one way of administering such an economy. The central plan, drawn up by the government, shows the amounts of each commodity produced by the various firms and allocated to different households for consumption. This example of complete planning of production, consumption, and exchange for the whole economy. In a traditional society, production and
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