1[单选题]The Forbidden Apple

　　New York used to be the city that never sleeps. These days it’s the city that never smokes, drinks or does anything naughty(at least, not in public). The Big Apple is quickly turning into the Forbidden Apple.

　　If you wanted a glass of wine with your picnic in Central Park, could you have one? No chance.Drinking alcohol in public isn’t allowed. If you decided to feed the birds with the last crumbs of your sandwich, you could be arrested. It’s illegal. If you went to a par for a drink and a cigarette, that would be OK, wouldn’t it? Er...no. You can’t smoke in public in New York City.

　　What's going on? Why is the city that used to be so open-minded becoming like this?The mayor of New York is behind it all. He has brought in a whole lot of new laws to stop citizens from doing what they want, when they want.

　　The press are shocked. Even the New York police have joined the argument. They recently spent $100,000 on a “Don’t blame the cop”campaign. One New York police officer said, “We raise money for the city by giving people fines for breaking some very stupid laws.It"s all about money.”

　　The result is a lot of fines for minor offences. Yoav Kashida, an Israel tourist, fell asleep on the subway. When he woke up, two police officers fined him because he had fallen asleep on two seats( you mustn’t use two seats in the subway ). Elle and Serge Schroitman were fined for blocking a driveway with their car. It was their own driveway.

　　The angry editor of Vanity Fair magazine, Graydon Carter, "says. Under New York City law it is acceptable to keep a gun in your place of work, but not an empty ashtray. "He should know. The police came to his office and took away his ashtray.

　　But not all of New York’s inhabitants are complaining. Marcia Dugarry, 72, said, "The city has changed for the better. If more cities had these laws. America would be a better place to live. "Nixon Patrick. 38, a barman, said, "I like the new laws. If people smoked in here.we’d go home smelling of cigarettes."

　　Recent figures show that New York now has fewer crimes per 100, 000 people than 193other US cities. And it’s true—it’s safer, cleaner and more healthy than before. But let’s be honest—who goes to New York for its clean streets?

　　No one will visit a city just because it is clean.()。

　　A、Right

　　B、Wrong

　　C、Not mentioned

　　参考答案：A

　　2[单选题]The Forbidden Apple

　　New York used to be the city that never sleeps. These days it’s the city that never smokes, drinks or does anything naughty(at least, not in public). The Big Apple is quickly turning into the Forbidden Apple.

　　If you wanted a glass of wine with your picnic in Central Park, could you have one? No chance.Drinking alcohol in public isn’t allowed. If you decided to feed the birds with the last crumbs of your sandwich, you could be arrested. It’s illegal. If you went to a par for a drink and a cigarette, that would be OK, wouldn’t it? Er...no. You can’t smoke in public in New York City.

　　What's going on? Why is the city that used to be so open-minded becoming like this?The mayor of New York is behind it all. He has brought in a whole lot of new laws to stop citizens from doing what they want, when they want.

　　The press are shocked. Even the New York police have joined the argument. They recently spent $100,000 on a “Don’t blame the cop”campaign. One New York police officer said, “We raise money for the city by giving people fines for breaking some very stupid laws.It"s all about money.”

　　The result is a lot of fines for minor offences. Yoav Kashida, an Israel tourist, fell asleep on the subway. When he woke up, two police officers fined him because he had fallen asleep on two seats( you mustn’t use two seats in the subway ). Elle and Serge Schroitman were fined for blocking a driveway with their car. It was their own driveway.

　　The angry editor of Vanity Fair magazine, Graydon Carter, "says. Under New York City law it is acceptable to keep a gun in your place of work, but not an empty ashtray. "He should know. The police came to his office and took away his ashtray.

　　But not all of New York’s inhabitants are complaining. Marcia Dugarry, 72, said, "The city has changed for the better. If more cities had these laws. America would be a better place to live. "Nixon Patrick. 38, a barman, said, "I like the new laws. If people smoked in here.we’d go home smelling of cigarettes."

　　Recent figures show that New York now has fewer crimes per 100, 000 people than 193other US cities. And it’s true—it’s safer, cleaner and more healthy than before. But let’s be honest—who goes to New York for its clean streets?

　　New York is always a busy city.()。

　　A、Right

　　B、Wrong

　　C、Not mentioned

　　参考答案：B

　　3[单选题]Travel across Africa

　　For six hours we shot through the barren landscape of the Karoo desert in South Africa. Just rocks and sand and baking sun. Knowing our journey was ending.Daniel and I just wan​ted to remember all we had seen and done. He used a camera. I used words. I had already fin​ished three notebooks and was into the fourth,a beautiful leather notebook I’d bought in a market in Mozambique.

　　Southern Africa was full of stories and visions. We were almost drunk on sensations, the roaring of the water at Victoria Falls, the impossible silence of the Okavango Delta in Bot​swana.

　　And then the other things：dogs in the streets, whole families in Soweto living in one room,a kilometre from clean water.

　　As we drove towards the setting sun,a quietness fell over us. The road was empty—we hadn’t seen another car for hours. And as I drove,something caught my eye,something mov​ing close enough to touch them, to smell their hot breath. I didn’t know how long they had been there next to us.

　　I shouted to Dan："Look!"But he was in a deep sleep, his camera lying useless by his feet. They raced the car for a few seconds,then disappeared far behind us,a memory of heroic forms in the red landscape.

　　When Daniel woke up an hour later I told him what had happened.

　　“Wild horses?”he said.“Why didn’t you wake me up,Sophia?”

　　"I tried. But they were gone after a few seconds."

　　"Are you sure you didn’t dream it?"

　　“You were the one who was sleeping!”

　　“Typical”,he said. "The best photos are the ones we never take."

　　We checked into a dusty hotel and slept the sleep of the dead.

　　Daniel and Sophia often drunk a lot of alcohol when traveling.()。

　　A、Right

　　B、Wrong

　　C、Not mentioned

　　参考答案：B

　　4[单选题]The Inventor of LED

　　When Nick Holonyak set out to create a new kind of visible lighting using semiconductor(半导体)alloys (合金),his colleagues thought he was unrealistic. Today, his discovery of light-emitting diodes,or LEDs,is used in everything from DVDs to alarm clocks to airports. Dozens of his students have continued his work, developing lighting used in traffic lights and other everyday technology.

　　On April 23,2004, Holonyak received the $ 500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize at a ceremony in Washington. This marks the 10th year that the Lemelson-MIT Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has given the award to prominent inventors.

　　“Anytime you get an award，big or little,it’s always a surprise,” Holonyak said.

　　Holonyak,75 ,was a student of John Bardeen,an inventor of the transistor(晶体管),in the early 1950s. After graduate school, Holonyak worked at Bell Labs. He later went to General Electric, where he invented a switch now widely used in house dimmer switches. Later, Holonyak started loo​king into how semiconductors could be used to generate light. But while his colleagues were looking into how to generate invisible light, he wanted to generate visible light. The LEDs he invented in 1962 now last about 10 times longer than incandescent bulbs,and are more environmentally friendly and cost effective.

　　Holonyak，now a professor of electrical and computer engineering and physics at the University of Illinois，said he suspected that LEDs would become as commonplace(平凡的)as they are today， but didn’t realize how many uses they would have.

　　“You don"t know in the beginning. You think you’re doing something important，you think it’s worth doing，but you really can’t tell what the big payoff(成果)is going to be，and when，and how. You just don’t know，” he said.

　　The Lemelson-MIT Program also recognized Edith Flanigen ,75 , with the $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Lifetime Achievement Award for the work on a new generation of “molecular(分子)sieves(滤网)” that can separate molecules by size.

　　The Lemelson-MIT Prize has a history of over 100 years.

　　A、True

　　B、False

　　C、Not Given

　　参考答案：C

　　5[单选题]第一部分：阅读判断

　　下面的短文后列出了10个句子，请根据短文的内容对每个句子作出判断：如果该句提供的是正确信息，选择A;如果该句提供的是错误信息，选择B;如果该句的信息文中没有提及，选择C。

　　They Say Ireland's the Best

　　Ireland is the best place in the world to live for 2005 , according to a life quality ranking(排名)

　　that appeared in Britain's Economist magazine last week.

　　The ambitious attempt to compare happiness levels around the world is based on the principle that wealth is not the only measure of human satisfaction and well-being.

　　The index of 111 countries uses data on incomes, health，unemployment, climate, political stability ,job security , gender(性别) equality as well as what the magazine calls “freedom, family and community life".

　　Despite the bad weather , troubled health service ，traffic congestion(拥挤) , gender inequality ,and the high cost of living , Ireland scored an impressive 8. 33 points out of 10.

　　That put it well ahead of second-place Switzerland , which managed8.07. Zimbabwe troubled by political insecurity and hunger，is rated the gloomiest(最差的) ,picking up only 3. 89 points.

　　“Although rising incomes and increased individual choices are highly valued," the report said,

　　some of the factors associated with modernization such as the breakdown in traditional institutions

　　and family values in part take away from a positive impact.”

　　“Ireland wins because it successfully combines the most desirable elements of the new with the preservation of certain warm elements of the old , such as stable family and community life.”

　　The magazine admitted measuring quality of life is not a straightforward thing to do, and that its

　　findings would have their critics.

　　No.2 on the list is Switzerland. The other nations in the top 10 are Norway , Luxembourg , Sweden，Australia , Iceland , Italy , Denmark and Spain.

　　The UK is positioned at No. 29 , a much lower position chiefly because of the social and family

　　breakdown recorded in official statistics. The US，which has the second highest per capita GDP after Luxembourg, took the 13th place in the survey. China was in the lower half of the league at 60th.

　　Ireland is positioned at No.1 because it combines the most desirable elements of the new with some good elements of the old.

　　A、True

　　B 、False

　　C 、Not Given

　　参考答案：A

　　6[单选题]Friendship

　　Friends play an important part in our lives, and although we may take the fact of friendship for granted, we often don"t clearly understand how we make friends. While we get on well with a number of people,we are usually friends with only a very few—for example,the average among students is about 6 per person.

　　Moreover,a great many relationships come under the blanket term "friendship". In all cases, two people like each other and enjoy being together, but beyond that, the degree of intimacy between them and the reasons for their mutual interest vary enormously.

　　Initially, much depends on how people meet, and on favourable first impressions. As we get to know people, we take into account things like age, race, physical attractiveness, economic and social status,and intelligence. Although these factors are not of prime importance, it is more difficult to relate to people when there is a marked difference in age and back ground.

　　On a more immediate level, we are sensitive to actual behaviour, facial expression, and tone of voice. Friends will stand closer together and will spend more time looking at each other than mere acquaintances. Smiles and soft voices also express friendliness, and it is because they may transmit the wrong signals that shy people often have difficulty in making friends. A friendly gaze with the wrong facial expression can turn into an aggressive stare, and nervousness may be misread as hostility. People who do not look one in the eye are mistrusted when, in fact, they simply lack confidence.

　　Some relationships thrive on argument and discussion, but it is usual for close friends to have similar ideas and beliefs, to have attitudes and interests in common-they often talk about "being on the same wavelength". It generally takes time to reach this point;sometimes people "click" immediately. The more intimately involved people become, the more they rely on one another. People want to do friends favours and hate to let them down. Equally, friends have to learn to make allowances for each other,to put up with irritating habits,and to tolerate differences of opinion. Imagine going camping with someone you occasionally meet for a drink!

　　In contrast with marriage, there are no friendship ceremonies, no rituals to strengthen the association between two people. But the mutual support and understanding that results from shared experiences and emotions does seem to create a powerful bond, which can overcome differences in background, and break down barriers of age, class or race.

　　There are apparently no bonds between friends as there are between husband and wife. ()。

　　A、Right

　　B、Wrong

　　C、Not mentioned

　　参考答案：B

　　7[单选题]The Inventor of LED

　　When Nick Holonyak set out to create a new kind of visible lighting using semiconductor(半导体)alloys (合金),his colleagues thought he was unrealistic. Today, his discovery of light-emitting diodes,or LEDs,is used in everything from DVDs to alarm clocks to airports. Dozens of his students have continued his work, developing lighting used in traffic lights and other everyday technology.

　　On April 23,2004, Holonyak received the $ 500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize at a ceremony in Washington. This marks the 10th year that the Lemelson-MIT Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has given the award to prominent inventors.

　　“Anytime you get an award，big or little,it’s always a surprise,” Holonyak said.

　　Holonyak,75 ,was a student of John Bardeen,an inventor of the transistor(晶体管),in the early 1950s. After graduate school, Holonyak worked at Bell Labs. He later went to General Electric, where he invented a switch now widely used in house dimmer switches. Later, Holonyak started loo​king into how semiconductors could be used to generate light. But while his colleagues were looking into how to generate invisible light, he wanted to generate visible light. The LEDs he invented in 1962 now last about 10 times longer than incandescent bulbs,and are more environmentally friendly and cost effective.

　　Holonyak，now a professor of electrical and computer engineering and physics at the University of Illinois，said he suspected that LEDs would become as commonplace(平凡的)as they are today， but didn’t realize how many uses they would have.

　　“You don"t know in the beginning. You think you’re doing something important，you think it’s worth doing，but you really can’t tell what the big payoff(成果)is going to be，and when，and how. You just don’t know，” he said.

　　The Lemelson-MIT Program also recognized Edith Flanigen ,75 , with the $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Lifetime Achievement Award for the work on a new generation of “molecular(分子)sieves(滤网)” that can separate molecules by size.

　　Holonyak’s colleagues thought he would fail in his research on LEDs at the time when he started it.

　　A、True

　　B、False

　　C、Not Given

　　参考答案：A

　　8[单选题]The Inventor of LED

　　When Nick Holonyak set out to create a new kind of visible lighting using semiconductor(半导体)alloys (合金),his colleagues thought he was unrealistic. Today, his discovery of light-emitting diodes,or LEDs,is used in everything from DVDs to alarm clocks to airports. Dozens of his students have continued his work, developing lighting used in traffic lights and other everyday technology.

　　On April 23,2004, Holonyak received the $ 500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize at a ceremony in Washington. This marks the 10th year that the Lemelson-MIT Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has given the award to prominent inventors.

　　“Anytime you get an award，big or little,it’s always a surprise,” Holonyak said.

　　Holonyak,75 ,was a student of John Bardeen,an inventor of the transistor(晶体管),in the early 1950s. After graduate school, Holonyak worked at Bell Labs. He later went to General Electric, where he invented a switch now widely used in house dimmer switches. Later, Holonyak started loo​king into how semiconductors could be used to generate light. But while his colleagues were looking into how to generate invisible light, he wanted to generate visible light. The LEDs he invented in 1962 now last about 10 times longer than incandescent bulbs,and are more environmentally friendly and cost effective.

　　Holonyak，now a professor of electrical and computer engineering and physics at the University of Illinois，said he suspected that LEDs would become as commonplace(平凡的)as they are today， but didn’t realize how many uses they would have.

　　“You don"t know in the beginning. You think you’re doing something important，you think it’s worth doing，but you really can’t tell what the big payoff(成果)is going to be，and when，and how. You just don’t know，” he said.

　　The Lemelson-MIT Program also recognized Edith Flanigen ,75 , with the $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Lifetime Achievement Award for the work on a new generation of “molecular(分子)sieves(滤网)” that can separate molecules by size.

　　Holonyak was the inventor of the transistor in the early 1950s.

　　A、True

　　B、False

　　C、Not Given

　　参考答案：B

　　9[单选题]Friendship

　　Friends play an important part in our lives, and although we may take the fact of friendship for granted, we often don"t clearly understand how we make friends. While we get on well with a number of people,we are usually friends with only a very few—for example,the average among students is about 6 per person.

　　Moreover,a great many relationships come under the blanket term "friendship". In all cases, two people like each other and enjoy being together, but beyond that, the degree of intimacy between them and the reasons for their mutual interest vary enormously.

　　Initially, much depends on how people meet, and on favourable first impressions. As we get to know people, we take into account things like age, race, physical attractiveness, economic and social status,and intelligence. Although these factors are not of prime importance, it is more difficult to relate to people when there is a marked difference in age and back ground.

　　On a more immediate level, we are sensitive to actual behaviour, facial expression, and tone of voice. Friends will stand closer together and will spend more time looking at each other than mere acquaintances. Smiles and soft voices also express friendliness, and it is because they may transmit the wrong signals that shy people often have difficulty in making friends. A friendly gaze with the wrong facial expression can turn into an aggressive stare, and nervousness may be misread as hostility. People who do not look one in the eye are mistrusted when, in fact, they simply lack confidence.

　　Some relationships thrive on argument and discussion, but it is usual for close friends to have similar ideas and beliefs, to have attitudes and interests in common-they often talk about "being on the same wavelength". It generally takes time to reach this point;sometimes people "click" immediately. The more intimately involved people become, the more they rely on one another. People want to do friends favours and hate to let them down. Equally, friends have to learn to make allowances for each other,to put up with irritating habits,and to tolerate differences of opinion. Imagine going camping with someone you occasionally meet for a drink!

　　In contrast with marriage, there are no friendship ceremonies, no rituals to strengthen the association between two people. But the mutual support and understanding that results from shared experiences and emotions does seem to create a powerful bond, which can overcome differences in background, and break down barriers of age, class or race.

　　The degree of intimacy between friends is largely determined by their social status. ()。

　　A、Right

　　B、Wrong

　　C、Not mentioned

　　10[单选题]The Forbidden Apple

　　New York used to be the city that never sleeps. These days it’s the city that never smokes, drinks or does anything naughty(at least, not in public). The Big Apple is quickly turning into the Forbidden Apple.

　　If you wanted a glass of wine with your picnic in Central Park, could you have one? No chance.Drinking alcohol in public isn’t allowed. If you decided to feed the birds with the last crumbs of your sandwich, you could be arrested. It’s illegal. If you went to a par for a drink and a cigarette, that would be OK, wouldn’t it? Er...no. You can’t smoke in public in New York City.

　　What's going on? Why is the city that used to be so open-minded becoming like this?The mayor of New York is behind it all. He has brought in a whole lot of new laws to stop citizens from doing what they want, when they want.

　　The press are shocked. Even the New York police have joined the argument. They recently spent $100,000 on a “Don’t blame the cop”campaign. One New York police officer said, “We raise money for the city by giving people fines for breaking some very stupid laws.It"s all about money.”

　　The result is a lot of fines for minor offences. Yoav Kashida, an Israel tourist, fell asleep on the subway. When he woke up, two police officers fined him because he had fallen asleep on two seats( you mustn’t use two seats in the subway ). Elle and Serge Schroitman were fined for blocking a driveway with their car. It was their own driveway.

　　The angry editor of Vanity Fair magazine, Graydon Carter, "says. Under New York City law it is acceptable to keep a gun in your place of work, but not an empty ashtray. "He should know. The police came to his office and took away his ashtray.

　　But not all of New York’s inhabitants are complaining. Marcia Dugarry, 72, said, "The city has changed for the better. If more cities had these laws. America would be a better place to live. "Nixon Patrick. 38, a barman, said, "I like the new laws. If people smoked in here.we’d go home smelling of cigarettes."

　　Recent figures show that New York now has fewer crimes per 100, 000 people than 193other US cities. And it’s true—it’s safer, cleaner and more healthy than before. But let’s be honest—who goes to New York for its clean streets?

　　Some activities have recently become illegal in New York.()。

　　A、Right

　　B、Wrong

　　C、Not mentioned

　　参考答案：A

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