In this section you will find after each of the passages a number of questions or unfinished statements about the passage, each with four (A, B, C and D) suggested answers or ways of finishing. You must choose the one which you think fits best.第1题

　　Phyllis Wheatley is regarded as America\\\\\\'\\\\\\'s first black poet. She was born in Senegal, Africa, about 1753 and brought to America aboard a slave ship at about the age of seven. John and Susannah Wheatley bought her for three pounds at a slave auction in Boston in 1761 to be a personal servant of Mrs. Wheatley. The family had three other slaves, and all were treated with respect. Phyllis was soon accepted as one of the family, which included being raised and educated with the Wheatley\\\\\\'\\\\\\'s twin 15-year-old children, Mary and Nathaniel. At that time, most females, even from better families, could not read and write, but Mary was probably one of the best educated young women in Boston. Mary wanted to become a teacher, and in fact, it was Mary who decided to take charge of Phyllis\\\\\\'\\\\\\'s education. Phyllis soon displayed her remarkable talents. At the age of twelve she was reading the Greek and Latin classics and passages from the Bible. And eventually, Mrs. Wheatley decided Phyllis should become a Christian.At the age of thirteen Phyllis wrote her first poem. She became a Boston sensation after she wrote a poem on the death of the evangelical preacher George Whitfield in 1770. It became common practice in Boston to have "Mrs. Wheatley\\\\\\'\\\\\\'s Phyllis" read poetry in polite society. Mary married in 1771, and Phyllis later moved to the country because of poor health, as a teacher and caretaker to a farmer\\\\\\'\\\\\\'s three children. Mary had tried to interest publishers in Phyllis\\\\\\'\\\\\\'s poems but once they heard she was a Negro they weren\\\\\\'\\\\\\'t interested.

　　Then in 1773 Phyllis went with Nathaniel, who was now a businessman, to London. It was thought that a sea voyage might improve her health. Thirty-nine of her poems were published in London as Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. It was the first book published by a black American. In 1775 Phyllis wrote a poem extolling the accomplishments of George Washington and sent it to him. He responded by praising her talents and inviting her to visit his headquarters. After both of her benefactors died in 1777, and Mary died in 1778, Phyllis was freed as a slave. She married in 1778, moved away from Boston, and had three children. But after the unhappy marriage, she moved back to Boston, and died in poverty at the age of thirty.What does the passage mainly discuss?

　　A Slavery and the treatment of the black people in America.

　　B The Wheatley family, including their slaves.

　　C The life of America\\\\\\'s first black poet.

　　D The achievements of Phyllis Wheatley.

　　【正确答案】：C

　　【答案解析】

　　主旨题型。本文首先谈及她是美国第一个黑人诗人，后描写了她出生在非洲，被贩卖黑奴的船只带到美国，被John and Susannah Wheatley买去，与其他黑奴一样在这家受到尊重;跟从John and Susannah Wheatley的女儿Mary受教育……;十三岁写出她的第一首诗……;后结婚生子，最终三十岁时穷困而死;因此选项C是答案。

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　　第2题

　　The word "respect" in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to________.

　　A consideration

　　B disregard

　　C punishment

　　D behavior

　　【正确答案】：A

　　【答案解析】

　　词义题型。从第一段可以看出她虽被卖为奴隶，却受到良好的对待，甚至不久就被当作是家庭的一员(Phyllis was soon accepted as one of the family)，因此respect在此应为consideration体贴，照顾;选项A正确。其余几个选项全是反义。

　　第3题

　　According to the passage, how many slaves did the Wheatley\\\\\\'s have?

　　A One.

　　B Two.

　　C Three.

　　D Four.【正确答案】：D

　　【答案解析】

　　细节题型。见第一段第四句：The family had three other slaves….她也是被买为奴隶的，……因此这家有4个奴隶;选项D为答案。

　　第4题

　　According to the passage, an unusual feature of Mary was that she________.

　　A was not much older than Phyllis

　　B wanted to become a teacher

　　C was comparatively well educated

　　D decided to take charge of Phyllis\\\\\\'s education

　　【正确答案】：C

　　【答案解析】

　　细节题型。尽管选项B、c、D都与文章内容相符，但本题问的是Mary本身拥有的与众不同的特点，所以选项C为答案。

　　第5题

　　The word "eventually" in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to________.

　　A ultimately

　　B slowly

　　C reluctantly

　　D gradually

　　【正确答案】：A

　　【答案解析】

　　词义题型。eventually最后，终于;文章提到Mrs. Wheatley一家将她买为奴隶，却抚养教育她，最终Mrs. Wheatley决定让她成为一个基督徒。选项B.缓慢地;C.不情愿地;D.逐渐地;均不符合题意;因此只有选项A是答案。

　　第6题

　　Which of the following is NOT true about Phyllis in the early 1770s?

　　A She wrote her first poem when in her teens.

　　B She married in 1771.C She became a teacher.

　　D She was able to get her poems published.

　　【正确答案】：B

　　【答案解析】

　　细节题型。选项A在第二段第一句中提及;选项c在第二段倒数第二句中提及;选项D在第三段第三句中提及;只有选项B是错误的;因此B为答案。

　　第7题

　　The word "they" in the last sentence Paragraph 2 refers to________.

　　A publishers

　　B poems

　　C children

　　D black people

　　【正确答案】：A

　　【答案解析】

　　细节题型。此句意为：Mary试图使出版商对Phyllis的诗感兴趣，但一旦他们听说Phyllis是个黑人时，就兴趣索然。因此此处的they指的应是选项A。

　　第8题

　　It can be inferred that Phyllis\\\\\\'s trip to England with Nathaniel in 1773________.

　　A did not improve her health

　　B was for business reasons

　　C led to books of her poems being available in America

　　D led to the publication of her poems because the English were more interested in religious and moral subjects

　　【正确答案】：A

　　【答案解析】

　　推断题型。由第三段第二句(It was thought that a sea voyage might improve her health.)可知这只是人们的希望，并不见得能实现;因此选项A为答案。第9题

　　The word "extolling" in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to________.

　　A welcoming

　　B stating

　　C bemoaning

　　D praising

　　【正确答案】：D

　　【答案解析】

　　词义题型。根据上下文，她写诗“extolling”华盛顿的成就并将诗送给他。因此，extolling应为“赞美”之意，选项D正确。

　　第10题

　　Which of the following conclusions about Phyllis is supported by the passage?

　　A She would have been more recognized as a poet if she had not been black.

　　B She would have written poetry if she had stayed in Africa.

　　C She went unrecognized as a poet during her lifetime.

　　D She only wrote religious poetry.

　　【正确答案】：A

　　【答案解析】

　　主旨题型。根据全文得知：她才华横溢，十二岁时即能看希腊、罗马名著和圣经，十三岁时写出第一首诗……;但当出版商们得知她是黑人就对她不感兴趣了……。因此我们可总结出：如果她不是黑人，她会得到更多的认可。选项A正确。

　　第11题

　　Electronic mail has become an extremely important and popular means of communication.

　　The convenience and efficiency of electronic mail are threatened by the extremely rapid growth in the volume of unsolicited commercial electronic mail. Unsolicited commercial electronic mail is currently estimated to account for over half of all electronic mail traffic, up from an estimated 7 percent in 2001, and the volume continues to rise. Most of these messages are fraudulent or deceptive in one or more respects.The receipt of unsolicited commercial electronic mail may result in costs to recipients who cannot refuse to accept such mail and who incur costs for the storage of such mail, or for the time spent accessing, reviewing, and discarding such mail, or for both. The receipt of a large number of unwanted messages also decreases the convenience of electronic mail and creates a risk that wanted electronic mail messages, both commercial and noncommercial, will be lost, overlooked, or discarded amidst the larger volume of unwanted messages, thus reducing the reliability and usefulness of electronic mail to the recipient. Some commercial electronic mail contains material that many recipients may consider vulgar or pornographic in nature.

　　The growth in unsolicited commercial electronic mail imposes significant monetary costs on providers of Internet access services, businesses, and educational and nonprofit institutions that carry and receive such mail, as there is a finite volume of mail that such providers, businesses, and institutions can handle without further investment in infrastructure. Many senders of unsolicited commercial electronic mail purposefully disguise the source of such mail.Many senders of unsolicited commercial electronic mail purposefully include misleading information in the messages\\\\\\'\\\\\\' subject lines in order to induce the recipients to view the messages. While some senders of commercial electronic mail messages provide simple and reliable ways for recipients to reject (or \\\\\\'\\\\\\'opt-out\\\\\\'\\\\\\' of) receipt of commercial electronic mail from such senders in the future, other senders provide no such \\\\\\'\\\\\\'opt-out\\\\\\'\\\\\\' mechanism, or refuse to honor the requests of recipients not to receive electronic mail from such senders in the future, or both.

　　Many senders of bulk unsolicited commercial electronic mail use computer programs to gather large numbers of electronic mail addresses on an automated basis from Internet websites or online services where users must post their addresses in order to make full use of the website or service.The problems associated with the rapid growth and abuse of unsolicited commercial electronic mail cannot be solved by the government alone. The development and adoption of technological approaches and the pursuit of cooperative efforts with other countries will be necessary as well.

　　According to the passage, efficiency of e-mail is threatened by________.

　　A heavy e-mail traffic

　　B fraudulent e-mail messages

　　C large volume of messages

　　D increasing amount of unwanted e-mail

　　【正确答案】：D

　　【答案解析】

　　细节题型。见第二段第一句：The convenience and efficiency of electronic mail are threatened by......unsolicited commercial electronic mall.从第三段得知unsolicited commercial electronic mail指的是unwanted messages;因此选项D为答案。

　　第12题

　　Which of the following is NOT true about unwanted e-mail?

　　A It costs money to receive them.

　　B It\\\\\\'s free to store them.C It takes time to access them.

　　D It takes time to throw them away.

　　【正确答案】：B

　　【答案解析】

　　是非题型。见第三段第一句：The receipt of unsolicited commercial electronic mail may result in costs to recipients who......，or for the time spent accessing，reviewing，and discarding such mail，or for both.分别是选项A、C、D的内容，因此只有选项B为答案。

　　第13题

　　Unwanted e-mail may________.

　　A cause companies to fail in business

　　B cause wanted e-mail messages to lose

　　C damage the credit of a company

　　D do good to a small company

　　【正确答案】：B

　　【答案解析】

　　细节题型。见第三段第二句：The receipt of a large number of unwanted messages also decreases the convenience of electronic mail and creates a risk that wanted electronic mail messages，both commercial and noncommercial，will be lost, overlooked，or discarded amidst…因此选项B为答案。

　　第14题

　　Pornographic in Paragraph 3 probably means________.A decent

　　B instructional

　　C sexual

　　D commercial

　　【正确答案】：C

　　【答案解析】

　　词义题型。本文第三段主要谈及unsolicited commercial electronic mail带来的害处，且根据上下文，pornographic应与or前面的vulgar(粗俗的)近义;因此选项A. decent正派的，有分寸的、B.instructional指导的，教育的、D.commercial商业的，贸易的，均不符合题意;只有选项、C.sexual(性的)符合题意，是答案。pornographic色情的，色情作品的。

　　第15题

　　What does unwanted e-mail messages do to the providers of the Internet services?

　　A Raising their cost.

　　B Raising the Internet speed.

　　C Improving their business.

　　D Attracting investment.

　　【正确答案】：A

　　【答案解析】

　　细节题型。见第四段第一句：The growth in unsolicited commercial electronic mail imposes significant monetary costs on providers of Internet access services, businesses，and educational and nonprofit institutions that…因此选项A是答案。

　　第16题

　　Disguise in Paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to________.

　　A reveal

　　B hide

　　C deliver

　　D post

　　【正确答案】：B

　　【答案解析】

　　词义题型。见第四段最后一句：Many senders of unsolicited commercial electronic mail purposefully disguise the source of such mail.根据前面提及的unsolicited commercial electronic mail会带来许多危害，可推断出发送人当然不希望人们知道他们的地址了;因此选项B.hide(隐藏，掩饰)是答案。disguise隐瞒，掩饰;reveal展现，揭示;deliver递送，陈述;post邮递，张贴，揭示。

　　第17题

　　The word "induce" in Paragraph 5 is closest in meaning to________.

　　A cheat

　　B introduce

　　C provide

　　D harm

　　【正确答案】：A

　　【答案解析】

　　词义题型。从第五段第一句：Many senders of unsolicited commercial electronic mail purposefully include misleading information in the messages\\\\\\' subject lines in order to induce the recipients to view the messages.得知：这些人故意在邮件主题栏中使用一些会误导的信息来......收件人观看信息;四个选项中A.cheat(欺骗，骗取)用在划线部分最符合题意。选项B(介绍)和C(提供)都不如A的意思恰当。

　　第18题

　　Opt-out mechanism is probably________

　　A a machine that can be attached to your computer

　　B a button that you can make a choice to read or not to readC a software that you can play a computer game

　　D an e-mail that says some good words to you

　　【正确答案】：B

　　【答案解析】

　　细节题型。第四段第二句是个对比句：while some senders…provide simple and reliable ways for recipients to reject(or‘opt—out’of)receipt of…，other senders provide no such‘opt-out’mechanism…从中得知‘opt—out’应是reject的近义词;而‘opt—out’mechanism应是前半句中提到的simple and reliable ways for recipients to reject receipt of…;因此选项B最符合题意。

　　第19题

　　It can be inferred from Paragraph 6 that bulk unsolicited commercial e-mail will probably spread________.

　　A harmful virus

　　B unpleasant news

　　C advertisements

　　D adult jokes

　　【正确答案】：C

　　【答案解析】

　　推断题型。从第六段得知：发送这些unwanted messages的人利用电脑程序自动从国际互联网站或在线服务来收集大量的e-mail地址……，由此推知：他们会向这些地址发送unwanted messages，目的当然应是发送广告了;因此选项C是答案。

　　第20题

　　The unwanted e-mail problem can be solved if________.

　　A the government takes actionB a new technology is adopted

　　C more people are aware of the problem

　　D joint efforts are made and new technology is used

　　【正确答案】：D

　　【答案解析】

　　细节题型。见最后一段。选项A、B、C的内容都对，但都不全面;只有选项D(人们共同的努力和新技术的使用)最全面，是答案。

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