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D:windy
参考答案为:A
13、The walls are made of hollow concret blocks.
A:big
B: long
C:new
D:empty
参考答案为:D
14、Our aim was to update the health service, and we succeeded.
A:modernize
B: offer
C:provide
D:fund
参考答案为:A
15、Her comments about men are utterly ridiculous.
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A:slightly
B:partly
C:completely
D:faintly
参考答案为:C
第2部分:阅读判断(第16~22题,每题1分,共7分)
下面的短文后列出了7个句子,请根据短文的内容对每个句子做出判断;如果该句提供的是正确信息,请选择A;如果该句提供的是错误信息,请选择B;如果该句的信息文中没有提及,请选择C。
Brotherly Love
Adidas and Puma have been two of the biggest names in sports shoe manufacturing for over half a century.
Since 1928 they have supplied shoes for Olympic athletes, World Cup-winning football heroes, Muhammad Ali, hip hop stars and rock musicians famous all over the world. But the story of these two companies begins in one house in the town of Herzogenaurach, Germany.
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Adolph and Rudolph Dassler were the sons of a shoemaker. They loved sport but complained that they could never find comfortable shoes to play in. Rudolph always said, ‘You cannot play sports wearing shoes that you'd walk around town with.' So they started making their own. In 1920 Adolph made the first pair of athletics shoes with spikes(钉),produced on the Dasslers' kitchen table.
On lst July 1924 they formed a shoe company, Dassler Brothers Ltd and they worked together for many years. The company became successful and it provided the shoes for Germany's athletes at the 1928 and 1932 Olympic Games.
But in 1948 the brothers argued. No one knows exactly what happened, but family members have suggested that the argument was about money or women. The result was that Adolph left the company. His nickname was Adi, and using this and the first three letters of the family name, Dassler, he founded Adidas.
Rudolph relocated across the River Aurach and founded his own company too. At first he wanted to call it Ruda, but eventually he called it Puma, after the wild cat. The famous Puma logo of the jumping cat has hardly changed since.
After the big split of 1948 Adolph and Rudolph never spoke to each other again and their companies have now been in competition for over sixty years. Both companies were for many years the market leaders, though Adidas has always been more successful than Puma. A hip hop group, Run DMC, has even written a song
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called \company.
The terrible family argument should really be forgotten, but ever since it happened, over sixty years ago, the town has been split into two. Even now, some Adidas employees and Puma employees don't talk to each other.
16. Adidas and puma began to make sports shoes at the end of the 19th century.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
17. The brothers’ father was a ball maker.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
18. The brothers first made sports shoes at home.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
19. The brothers argues about the shoes.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
20. The brothers decided to start up their separate companies after the argument.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
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21. Nike sells more shoes than Adidas.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
22. People in the town have now forgotten the argument.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
参考答案:
16 B 17 B 18 A 19 B 20 A 21 C 22 B
第3部分:概括大意和完成句子(第23~30题,每题1分,共8分)
下面的短文后有2项测试任务:(1)第23~26题要求从所给的6个选项中为指定段落每段选择1个小标题;(2)第27~30题要求从所给的6个选项中为每个句子确定一个最佳选项。
How Technology Pushes Down Price
1 Prices have fallen in the food business because of advances in food production and distribution technology. Consumers have benefited greatly from those advances. People who predicted that the world would run out of food were wrong. We are producing more and more food with less and less capital. Food is therefore more plentiful and cheaper than it has ever been. Spending on food compared with other goods has fallen for many years, and continues to drop.