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Works of taste can（)the mind.
A.confine
B.define
C.refine
D.fine
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C.refine
D.fine
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Actually, soaps are more than a college favorite; they're a youth favorite.When school is out, high-school students are in front of their TV sets.One young working woman admitted that she turned down a higher paying job rather than give up watching her favorite serials.During the 1960's, it was uncommon for young people to watch soap operas.The mood of the sixties was very different from now.It was a time of seriousness, and talk was about social issues of great importance.
Now, seriousness has been replaced by fun.Young people want to be happy.It may seem strange that they should turn to soap opera, which is known for showing trouble in people's lives.But soap opera is enjoyment.Young people can identify with the soap opera character, who, like the college-age viewer, is looking for happy love, and probably not finding it.And soap opera gives young people a chance to feel close to people without having to bear any responsibility for their problems.
36.What is soap opera？ ()
A.Plays based on science fiction stories
B.Plays based on non-fiction stories
C.The daytime serial dramas on TV
D.Popular documentary films on TV
37.What can be the best title of the passage？ ()
A.College student viewers
B.Favorite TV serials
C.Soap opera fans
D.College-age viewers
38.Which is not the reason why the soap opera suddenly becomes "in" according to the passage？ ()
A.Because the viewers want to be happy and to enjoy themselves
B.Because the soap opera makes young people feel close to their people
C.Because the viewers can find themselves in the soap opera characters
D.Because the young people have to bear the responsibilities for their troubles
39.What can we learn from the passage？()
A.College students like soap operas more than any other social groups
B.Young people of sixties liked soap operas more than people today
C.Young viewers have turned themselves from the seriousness of sixties to enjoyment now
D.The young as a whole are trying to look for happy love but in vain
40.What message does the author want to convey to us？()
A.The people's favor toward drama works has been changed for a long time
B.The people's favor toward drama works changes along with the times
C.The people's favor toward drama works is changed by the soap opera
D.The people's favor has changed the drama works
Yet, when one becomes rich, he wants people to know it.And even if he does not become very rich, he wants people to think that he is.That is what “keeping up with the Joneses” is about.It is the story of someone who tries to look as rich and as successful as his neighbors.
The expression was first used in 1913 by a young American by the name of Arthur Momand.He told this story about himself: he began earning $125 a week at the age of 23.That was a lot of money in those days.Young Momand was very proud of his riches.He got married and moved with his wife to a very wealthy neighborhood outside New York City.But just moving there was not enough.When he saw that rich people rode horses, Momand went horse riding every day.When he saw that rich people had servants, Momand and his wife also hired a servant and gave big parties for their new neighbors.
It was like a race, but one could never finish this race because one was always trying to keep up.Momand and his wife could not do that.
The race ended for them when they could no longer pay for their new way of life.They left their wealthy neighborhood and moved back to an apartment in New York City.
Momand looked around him and noticed that many people do things just to keep up with their neighbors.He saw the funny side of it and started to write a series of short stories.He called it “keeping up with the Joneses”, because “Jones” is a very common name in the United States.“Keeping up with the Joneses” came to mean keeping up with the people around you.Momand’s series appeared in different newspapers across the country for over 28 years.
Every city has an area where people want to live because others will think better of them if they do.And there are “Joneses” in every city of the world.But one must get tired of trying to keep up with the Joneses, because no matter what one does, Mr.Jones always seems to be ahead.
1.The writer of the selection believes ().
A.anyone in the United States can become rich
B.anyone in the United Sates can become rich if he works hard and has some good luck
C.he can become rich in the future
D.many people in the United States think anyone can become rich if he works hard and has some good luck
2.Some people want to keep up with the Joneses because ().
A.they want to be as rich as their neighbors
B.they want to be happy
C.they don’t want others to know they are rich
D.they want others to know or to think that they are rich
3.It can be inferred from the story that rich people ().
A.like to live in apartments
B.like to live in New York City
C.like to live outside New York City
D.like to have many neighbors
4.Arthur Momand used the name “Jones” in his series of short stories because Jones is ().
A.an important name
B.his neighbor’s name
C.a popular name in the United States
D.not a good name
5.According to the writer, it is ().
A.correct to keep up with the Joneses
B.interesting to keep up with the Joneses
C.impossible to keep up with the Joneses
D.good to keep up with the Joneses
After graduating, he landed on Wall Street, but every night he dreamed of working for himself.During the booming (繁荣的) 1990s, he gave it a try when he and a partner started govWorks - a software company that helped city government go online.
They raised $60 million and expanded like crazy.Then dotcoms started turning into dotbombs - govWorks broke up too.Says Isaza Tuzman, "Entrepreneurs (创业人) have to be ready for both success and failure.In Columbia if you fail, you become a pariah and no one will do business with you.The wonderful thing about this country is you can get up again."
From national parks to moon landings, America has given the world some amazing ideas.But the American Dream is still the biggest - the idea that with hard work and a bit of luck you can be whoever you want to be.Historian James Truslow Adams once wrote that Americans believe "life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement."
These days there's pressure on the dream idea.A 1978 study of boys born and raised after World War II found an astonishing 23% of the poorest had reached the top of the income heap by 1973.Now, in a typical generation, only 10% work their way from bottom to top.
But every day, some still do make it.After govWorks went bankrupt, Isaza Tuzman built on what he had learned.His new company, Recognition Group, restructures (重组) firms and finds them venture capital？–？nearly $150 million so far.Last year, "Hispanic Business" magazine named him to its 100 Most Influential list.Not bad for a dreamer, in a country built on dreams.
41.What did Kaleil Isaza Tuzman dream of after graduating from college______
A.Working in the Wall Street stock market.
B.Starting a business of his own.
C.Climbing to the top of society.
D.Entering the IT industry.
42.The word "pariah" in " if you fail, you become a pariah" (Line 3,Para.3) most likely means "________."
A.a person who has no future
B.a person to be pitied
C.a person to be condemned
D.a person to be avoided
43.What does the author mean by the American Dream______
A.Everyone can reach the top of the social ladder.
B.People will have a better, richer, and fuller life than their parents.
C.A lucky poor boy can move to the top if he works hard.
D.Everyone enjoys equal opportunity and share in the wealth.
44.Which of the following statements is true of the American Dream these days______
A.It is becoming more and more difficult for one to work their way from the bottom to the top.
B.More and more people are feeling the pressure to work harder in order to realize their dreams.
C.It is becoming more and more unpopular because few people today can move up the social ladder.
D.If one works hard enough, he will eventually make his dreams come true.
45.To Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, the wonderful thing about America is that ________.
A.there is equal opportunity for everyone
B.everyone can get rich if they work hard
C.you can get capital if you want to start a business
D.you can start all over again after failure
Television works in much the same way as radio.In radio, sound is changed into electromagnetic waves which are sent through the air.Experiments leading to modern television took place more than a hundred years ago.By the 1920s inventors and researchers had turned the early theories into working models.Yet it took another thirty years for TV to become industry.
The influence of TV on the life of the people is incalculable: it can influence their thoughts and their way of life.It can also add to their store of knowledge.Educational TV stations offer teaching in various subjects.Some hospitals use TV for medical students to get close-up views of operations.At first television programs were broadcast in black-and-white.With the development of science and technology, the problem of how to telecast them in full color was solved and by the middle 1960s the national networks were broadcasting most of their programs in color.
The programs that people watch are not only local and national ones.Since the launching of the first communications satellite, more and more programs are telecast ‘live’ from all over the world.People in San Francisco were able to watch the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo.And live telecasts now come form. outer space.In 1969, the first astronauts to land on the moon televised their historic ‘moon walk’ to viewers on the earth.Since then, astronauts have regularly sent telecast to the earth.
1.The launching of communications satellites make it possible for people in San Francisco to ________.
A.get close-up views of operations
B.watch the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo
C.store knowledge
D.watch national programs
2.The development of science and technology made it possible for television programs to ______.
A.be telecast in San Francisco B.be telecast in full color
C.be telecast in Tokyo D.be telecast in black-and-white
3.The word ‘incalculable’ means _____.
A.easy to tell
B.difficult to tell
C.very great
D.very small
4.Television is said to be the modern wonder of electronics, because_____.
A.it influences people’s way of life
B.it brings the world into people’s own home in sight and sound
C.it works as radio
D.it makes people see far
5.Television became an industry in ______.
A.1950
B.the 1950s
C.the 1920s
D.the 1960s
Dear Mr. Brown,
Thank you for your letter of 6 September regarding Mr. John Green who has been employed by this company for the past 10 years.
Mr. Green served his apprenticeship (学徒) with Vickers Tools Ltd. in Manchester, followed by a three-year course of engineering for Production Engineers. He is technically well—qualified and for the past five years has been our Assistant Works Manager responsible for production and related business in our Sheffield factory. In all his job duties he has shown himself to be hard-working, responsible and in every way a very dependable employee.
I can strongly recommend Mr. Green as I feel sure that if he were to be chosen to manage your factory in Nairobi he would bring to his work a true atmosphere of teamwork, which would be found necessary and helpful by all who would work with him.
Sincerely yours，
Tom Smith
1. How long has Mr. Green been employed by the writer's company？
For ().
2. What kind of course did Mr. Green take？
A three-year course in engineering for ().
3. What job position has Mr. Green held in the past five years？
4.What does the writer think of Mr. Green as an employee？
He is hard-working, () and dependable.
5.What is the purpose of this letter？
To () Mr. Green to manage a factory in Nairobi.
Now I do not think software （72） have less inherent courage and firmness than chefs, nor than other engineering managers. But false （73） to match the patron's desired date is much more common in our discipline than elsewhere in engineering. It is very （74） to make a vigorous, plausible, and job risking defense of an estimate that is derived by no quantitative method, supported by little data, and certified chiefly by the hunches of the managers.
Clearly two solutions are needed. We need to develop and publicize productivity figures, bug-incidence figures, estimating rules, and so on. The whole profession can only profit from （75） such data. Until estimating is on a sounder basis, individual managers will need to stiffen their backbones and defend their estimates with the assurance that their poor hunches are better than wish derived estimates.
（71）
A. no
B. the same
C. other
D. lots of
（72）
A. testers
B. constructors
C. managers
D. architects
（73）
A. tasks
B. jobs
C. works
D. scheduling
（74）
A. easy
B. difficult
C. simple
D. painless
（75）
A. sharing
B. excluding
C. omitting
D. ignoring
Many public service providers have developed management information systems to morutor and control the services that they provide. Both the US (73) UK Social Security agencies have developed MIS to report on the welfare payments and services that they provide . The British public healthcare system has also been a major investor in MIS as it 1ries to control healthcare costs and simultaneously improve delivery standards .
Individual schools can also(74)use of MIS. Hobmoor Junior and Infant School, a public school in Birmingham, UK, introduced a computerised attendance system to produce MIS reports that monitor pupil attendance. This improved the Principal's ability to understand and control absence patterns, resulting in a 2.5 per cent (75) in attendance rates.
(71) A.what
B.that
C.which
D.this
(72) A.look
B.understand
C.get
D.familar
(73) A.with
B.and
C.also
D.to
(74) A.make
B.get
C.take
D.go
(75) A.pass
B.increase
C.decrease
D.rise
A.delicious
B.dilicious
C.taste
D.well
A、alchoholic flush
B、red-green color-blindness
C、taste blindness
D、slow dark adaptation
