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1、英语进阶综合练习题Part I WritingTopic oneDirections: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Stress and Relaxation in Life by commenting the saying, “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.Topic twoDirectio

2、ns: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay. You should start your essay with a brief description of the picture and then express your view on the popularity of wifi. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.Topic threeDirections: For this part, you are

3、 allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the following question. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words. Suppose a foreign friend of yours wants to experience a traditional Chinese festival. Which festival is the most interesting one you would like to introduce to him/he

4、r and why? Part II Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections: 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

5、choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet . You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.(1)Its is easy to look at todays women and think weve come a long way. On the one hand, weve reaped the 1 our feminist mother

6、s fought for, and were encouraged, time and again, to “be whatever we want to be”. We 2 boys in graduation rates, college enrollment, and school leadership positions, and have 3 ourselves professionally. Things look promising; to the point that even a beauty queen can 4 on stage and declare “there a

7、re no longer any 5 against us ,” as did the winner of Miss Universe this month.But all those ribbons and medals dont translate to the real world if women are too afraid to ask for what they 6 . As Simmons puts it, “Girls collect achievements by the handful, but often dont have the 7 to own them.” Su

8、re, we may outpace the guys around us in school, but by the time we 8 college, well have given up our leadership roles. Well make up just a third of business-school students and 9 a quater of law-firm partners. We invalidate ourselves through speech, body language, and weak handshakes. And we still

9、earn less-77 cents to every dollar-and ask for 10 less frequently. “If you look at girls on paper, theyre terrific,” says Simmons, who runs a leadership institute for girls and has also written on female aggression. “But get them into a job interview or negotiating a raise, and its another story.”A）

10、 almost B）barely C）barriers D）benefits E）climbF）confidence G）deserve H）enter I）graduate J）hiddenK）influence L）outnumberM）proven N）raisesO）salaryIts easy to look at todays women and think weve come a long way. On one hand, weve reaped the benefits our feminist mothers fought for, and were encouraged,

11、 time and again, to be whatever we want to be. We outnumber boys in graduation rates, collegeenrollment, and school leadership positions, and have proven ourselves professionally. Things look promising; to the point that even a beauty queen can climb on stage and declare there are no longer any barr

12、iers against us, as did the winner of Miss Universe this month. (Though apparently she doesnt see the irony of announcing this while being judged and rated on her appearance and poise.)But all those ribbons and medals dont translate to the real world if women are too afraid to ask for what they dese

13、rve. As Simmons puts it, Girls collect achievements by the handful, but often dont have the confidence to own them. Sure, we may outpace the guys around us in school, but by the time we enter college, well have given up our leadership roles. Well make up just a third of business-school students and

14、barely a quarter of law-firm partners. We invalidate ourselves through speech, body language, and weak handshakes. And we still earn less77 cents to every dollarand ask for raises less frequently. If you look at girls on paper, theyre terrific, says Simmons, who runs a leadership institute for girls

15、 and has also written on female aggression. But get them into a job interview or negotiating a raise, and its another story.(2)India has come up with the worlds cheapest “laptop”, a touch-screen computing device that costs $35. Indias Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal this week O the l

16、ow-cost computing device that is designed for students, saying his department had started talks with global manufacturers to start J production. “We have reached a E stage that today, the other board, its chip, the processing, connectivity, all of them cumulatively C around $35, including memory, di

17、splay, everything,” he told a news conference. He said the touchscreen gadget was L with Internet browsers, PDF reader and video conferencing facilities but its hardware was created with M flexibility to incorporate new components according to user requirement. Sibal said the Linux based computing d

18、evice was expected to be introduced to higher education institutions from but the aim was to drop the price further to $20 and N to $10. The device was developed by research teams at Indias premier technological institutes, the Indian Institute of Technology and the Indian Institute of Science.The l

19、aptop is one effort made by India to improve basic facility in schools. It spends about three percent of its A budget on school education and has improved its G rates to over 64 percent of its 1.2 billion population but studies have shown many students can B read or write and most state-run schools

20、have inadequate facilities.A）annual B）barely C）cost D）critical E）developmentalF）invented G）literacy H）literate I）manual J）massK）massiveL）packed M）sufficient N）ultimately O）unveiled(3)It has long been known that high-calorie food can act as a balm（镇痛软膏） for anxiety and bad moods, but now a series of

21、new studies published in Psychological Science 1 that high-calorie food may be a balm for economic anxiety, too, and one that we are prepared to apply whenever we perceive 2 in the world.In one of the experiments, people who were exposed to words suggesting tough times, like disaster, suffer, and st

22、ruggle, were promoted to eat more high-calorie food and 3 low-calorie food than a control group did-even though these words were in the background, on a poster, and not 4 understand. Taste didnt come into it; neither did pleasure. The cues I used did not change peoples 5 , says lead author Juliano L

23、aran, a University of Miami marketing professor who 6 in consumer psychology and self-control, and I specifically found that people were not looking for pleasure, but rather for food items that can 7 them fed for longer period of time.The inspiration for the studies came from New York Citys policy o

24、f posting calorie counts in restaurants, which Laran noticed did nothing to 8 the consumption of high-calorie food. This signaled, he says , that misinformation was not the 9 issue, that there was something else 10 on.A） decrease 减少 B）directly 直接地 C）going出行，拜别 D）keep 保持 B） E）lessF）main G）mind 心，精神，心

25、力，知，智力，智慧 H）mood I）occasionally偶尔 J）pleasure快乐K）psychological心理的 L）specializes专门从事，专攻( specialize的第三人称单数 ) M）succeeds成功( succeed的第三人称单数 ) N）suggests O）troubleSection BDirections: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information

26、given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet .(1) Endangered PeoplesA) Today, it is not distanc

27、e, but culture that separates the peoples of the world. The central question of our time may be how to deal with cultural differences. So begins the book, Endangered Peoples, by Art Davidson. It is an attempt to provide understanding of the issues affecting the worlds native peoples. This book tells

28、 the stories of 21 tribes, cultures, and cultural areas that are struggling to survive. It tells each story through the voice of a member of the tribe .Mr. Davidson recorded their words. Art Wolfe and John Isaac took pictures of them. The organization called the Sierra Club published the book.B) The

29、 native groups live far apart in North America or South America, Africa or Asia. Yet their situations are similar. They are fighting the march of progress in an effort to keep themselves and their cultures alive. Some of them follow ancient ways most of the time. Some follow modern ways most of the

30、time. They have one foot in ancient world and one foot in modern world. They hope to continue to balance between these two worlds. Yet the pressures to forget their traditions and join the modern world may be too great.C) Rigoberta Menchu of Guatemala, the Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1992, offers he

31、r thoughts in the beginning of the book Endangered Peoples. She notes that many people claim that native people are like stories from the past. They are ruins that have died. She disagrees strongly. She says native communities are not remains of the past. They have a future, and they have much wisdo

32、m and richness to offer the rest of the world.D) Art Davidson traveled thousands of miles around the world while working on the book. He talked to many people to gather their thoughts and feelings. Mr. Davidson notes that their desires are the same. People want to remain themselves he says. They wan

33、t to raise their children the way they were raised. They want their children to speak their mother tongue, their own language. They want them to have their parents values and customs. Mr. Davidson says the peoples cries are the same: Does our culture have to die? Do we have to disappear as a people?

34、E) Art Davidson lived for more than 25 years among native people in the American state of Alaska. He says his interest in native peoples began his boyhood when he found an ancient stone arrowhead. The arrowhead was used as a weapon to hunt food. The hunter was an American Indian, long dead. Mr. Davi

35、dson realized then that Indians had lived in the state of Colorado, right where he was standing. And it was then, he says, that he first wondered: Where are they? Where did they go? He found answers to his early question. Many of the native peoples had disappeared. They were forced off their lands.

36、Or they were killed in battle. Or they died from diseases brought by new settlers. Other native peoples remained, but they had to fight to survive the pressures of the modern world.F) The Gwichin are an example of the survivors. They have lived in what is now Alaska and Canada for 10,000 years. Now

37、about 5,000 Gwichin remain. They are mainly hunters. They hunt the caribou, a large deer with big horns that travels across the huge spaces of the far north. For centuries, they have used all parts of the caribou: the meat for food, the skins for clothes, the bones for tools. Hunting caribou is the

38、way of life of the Gwichin.G) One Gwichin told Art Davidson of memories from his childhood. It was a time when the tribe lived quietly in its own corner of the world. He spoke to Mr. Davidson in these words: As long as I can remember, someone would sit by a fire on the hilltop every spring and autum

39、n. His job was to look for caribou. If he saw a caribou, he would wave his arms or he would make his fire to give off more smoke. Then the village would come to life! People ran up to the hilltop. The tribes seemed to be at its best at these gatherings. We were all filled with happiness and sharing!

40、H) About ten years ago, the modern world invaded the quiet world of the Gwich in. Oil companies wanted to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Preserve. This area was the please where the caribou gave birth to their young. The Gwichin feared the caribou would disappear. One Gwich in woman d

41、escribes the situation in these words: Oil development threatens the caribou. If the caribou are threatened, then the people are threatened. Oil company official and American lawmakers do not seem to understand. They do not come into our homes and share our food. They have never tried to understand

42、the feeling expressed in our songs and our prayers. They have not seen the old people cry. Our elders have seen parts of our culture destroyed. They worry that our people may disappear forever.I) A scientist with a British oil company dismisses (驳回，打消) the fears of the Gwichin. He also says they hav

43、e no choice. They will have to change. The Gwich in, however, are resisting. They took legal action to stop the oil companies. But they won only a temporary ban on oil development in the Arctic National Wildlife Preserve. Pressures continue on other native people, as Art Davidson describes in his bo

44、ok. The pressures come from expanding populations, dam projects that flood tribal lands, and political and economic conflicts threaten the culture, lands, and lives of such groups as the Quechua of Peru, the Malagasy of Madagascar and the Ainu of Japan.J) The organization called Cultural Survival ha

45、s been in existence for 22 years. It tries to protect the rights and cultures of peoples throughout the world. It has about 12,000 members. And it receives help from a large number of students who work without pay. Theodore MacDonald is director of the Cultural Survival Research Center. He says the

46、organization has three main jobs. It does research and publishes information. It works with native people directly. And it creates markets for goods produced by native communities.K) Late last year, Cultural Survival published a book called State of the Peoples: a Global Human Rights Report on Socie

47、ties in Danger. The book contains reports from researchers who work for Cultural Survival, from experts on native peoples, and from native peoples themselves. The book describes the conditions of different native and minority groups. It includes longer reports about several threatened societies, inc

48、luding the Penan of Malaysia and the Anishina be of North American. And it provides the names of organizations similar to Cultural Survival for activists, researchers and the press.L) David May bury-Lewis started the Cultural Survival organization. Mr. May bury-Lewis believes powerful groups rob nat

49、ive peoples of their lives, lands, or resources. About 6,000 groups are left in the world. A native group is one that has its own langue. It has a long-term link to a homeland. And it has governed itself. Theodore MacDonald says Cultural Survival works to protect the rights of groups, not just indiv

50、idual people. He says the organization would like to develop a system of early warnings when these rights are threatened .Mr. MacDonald notes that conflicts between different groups within a country have been going on forever and will continue. Such conflicts, he says, cannot be prevented. But they

51、do not have to become violent. What Cultural Survival wants is to help set up methods that lead to peaceful negotiations of traditional differences. These methods, he says, are a lot less costly than war.1. Rigoberta Menchu, the Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1992, writes preface for the book Endangere

52、d Peoples.2. The book Endangered Peoples contents not only words, but also pictures.3. Art Davidsons initial interest in native people was aroused by an ancient stone arrowhead he found in his childhood, which was once used by an American Indian hunter.4. The native groups are trying very hard to ba

53、lance between the ancient world and the modern world.5. By talking with them, Art Davidson finds that the native people throughout the world desire to remain themselves.6. Most of the Gwichin are hunters, who live on hunting caribou.7. Cultural Survival is an organization which aims at protecting th

54、e rights and cultures of peoples throughout the world.8. According to Theodore MacDonald, the Cultural Survival organization would like to develop a system of early warnings when a societys rights are to be violated.9. The book State of the Peoples: a Global Human Rights Report on Societies in Dange

55、r describes the conditions of different native and minority groups.10. The Gwichin tried to stop oil companies from drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Preserve for fear that it should drive the caribou away.CAEBD FJLKH(2) Jaguars Dont Live Here AnymoreA)Earlier this month, the United S

56、tates Fish and Wildlife Service announced it would appoint critical habitat for the endangered jaguar. Jaguars-the worlds third-largest wild cats, weighing up to 250 pounds, with distinctive black rosettes ( 玫瑰花色 ) on their fur-are a separate species from the smaller, tawny (黄褐色的 ) mountain lions, w

57、hich still roam large areas of the American West in the United States and take the first steps toward mandating (批准) a jaguar recovery plan. This is a policy reversal and, on the surface, it may appear to be a victory for the conservation community and for jaguars, the largest wild cats in the Weste

58、rn Hemisphere.B) But as someone who has studied jaguars for nearly three decades, I can tell you it is nothing less than a slap in the face to good science. Whats more, by changing the rules for animal preservation, it stands to weaken the Endangered Species Act.C)The debate on what to do about jagu

59、ars started in 1997, when, at the urging of many biologists ( including me), the Fish and Wildlife Service put the jaguar on the United States endangered species list, because there had been occasional sightings of the cats crossing north over the United States-Mexico border. At the same time, howev

60、er, the agency ruled that it would not be prudent (谨慎的 ) to declare that the jaguar has critical .habitat-a geographic area containing features the species needs to survive-in the United States. Determining an endangered species critical habitat is a first step toward developing a plan for helping t

61、hat species recover.D)The 1997 decision not to determine critical habitat for the jaguar was the right one, because even though they cross the border from time to time, jaguars dont occupy any territory in our country-and that probably means the environment here is no longer ideal for them.E)In preh

62、istoric times, these beautiful cats inhabited significant areas of the western United States, but in the past 100 years, there have been few, if any, resident breeding populations here. The last time a female jaguar with a cub ( 幼兽 ) was sighted in this country was in the early 1900s.F)Two well-inte

63、ntioned conservation advocacy groups, the Center for Biological Diversity and Defenders of Wildlife, sued the Fish and Wildlife Service to change its ruling. Thus in , the agency reassessed the situation and again determined that no areas in the United States met the definition of critical habitat f

64、or the jaguar. Despite occasional sightings, mostly within 40 miles of the Mexican border, there were still no data to indicate jaguars had taken up residence inside the United States.G ) After this second ruling was made, an Arizona rancher ( 牧场主 ), with support from the state Game and Fish Department, set infrared-camera (红外摄像机 ) traps to gather more data, and essentially confirmed the Fish and Wildlife Services findings. The cameras did capture transient jaguars, including one male jaguar, nick