A. innocent B. ignorant C. guilty D. illegal 98. The design of modern building should concentrate more on usefulness ______ luxurious decoration.
A. more than B. other than C. rather than D. better than 99. His letters ______ a different side of his personality.
A. imagine B. devote C. reveal D. dominate
100. When exploring in the rainforest, we should be very ______ of the possible dangers.
A. capable B. cautious C. alert D. ignorant 91,95 CADBA 96,100 DCCCB Part II Reading Comprehension Passage 1
Although the relaxed American style is well known, many new visitors think that it shows a “lack of respect”. This is especially true in the business world. Americans often use first names
upon meeting a stranger and do not always shake hands. They often just smile and say “Hi” or “Hello”, rather than using a more formal handshake. It is good to remember that to an American such a relaxed greeting really means the same thing as a more official handshake somewhere else. In a similar way, Americans do not usually give a special “good-bye” or shake hands to each
person when they leave a party or business meeting. They will often just wave good-bye to the whole group and perhaps say, “Well, so long everybody, I’ll see you tomorrow.” They then will leave. No handshakes.
Americans seem either totally hurried and hard-working or totally relaxed and at ease. Often you will see men working at office desks without their chairs and even putting their feet up on the desk while they talk on the telephone. This is not meant to be offensive. Once Americans leave the busy streets, they are easy and relaxed.
A visitor to the United States should, therefore, understand that being in a great hurry does not show unfriendliness, and being relaxed and being at ease does not show a lack of respect. Americans have a great range of customs and habits that at first may seem strange to a visitor. In time you will learn these new ways.
1. What do many visitors think about the relaxed American style? A. They think it’s quite normal. B. They consider it disrespectful. C. They view it as totally strange. D. They believe it to be surprising. 2. Why do Americans often use first names upon meeting a stranger?
A. Because they get used to this way of greeting. B. Because they are very friendly. C. Because they like strangers very much. D. Because they want to make a friend. 3. To whom do Americans use “Hi” and “Hello” in greeting?
A. The people they know well. B. Anyone they meet. C. Their best friends. D. Their family members. 4. What’s the subject of this passage? A. American Way of Greeting. B. American Style. C. Americans’ Busy Life. D. Americans’ Friendliness.
5. The best way a visitor should do when he/ she goes to the United States is ______. A. respecting the Americans’ way of life
B. feeling hostile to Americans C. learning Americans’ way of life
D. adjusting himself/ herself to be the same as Americans are 1—5 BABBA Passage 2
Told as a flashback, this is an uncomplicated love story between two students, Harvard pre-law hockey player Oliver and a music student Jenny. Their love triumphs over different economic-class backgrounds (he is a “preppie (大学预科生) millionaire”, she a smart-mouthed
“social zero” from a blue-collar Italian/ American family). Their main obstacle to romance is that his rich, powerful and snobbish father objects and threatens to cut off funding: “Oliver, if you
marry her now, I’ll not give you the time of day.” To which the younger, bull-headed Oliver
defiantly (对抗地) asks: “What offends you more, Father, that she’s Catholic, or poor?” He ultimately responds: “Father, you don’t know the time of day.” The two young lovers marry anyway and first move into a small apartment in Cambridge before Oliver is hired by a New York law firm and they move to the city.
The film’s two most touching and remembered scenes are their prolonged kissing scene and the montage (蒙太奇) of the couple tossing snowballs at each other. After meeting many obstacles and making
sacrifices, she is diagnosed as terminally ill when she is tested for pregnancy, and dies in his arms at the hospital in a tear-inducing closing. She makes a last request of him: “You, after
all—you’re going to be a merry widower.” “I won’t be merry,” he responds. She replies: “Yes, you will be. I want you to be merry. You’ll be merry, okay?”
In the final scene, Oliver quotes his late wife, when speaking to his father about their past misunderstandings. After his father tells him he’s sorry that she has died, Oliver responds in the last memorable line of the film, quoting an earlier remark of Jenny’s: love means never having to say you’re sorry.
He then walks out into a snowy Central Park to think of what life might have been in a touching climax, as the award-winning musical score builds in the background. 1. What is this passage mainly about?
A. A love story between two students from different backgrounds. B. A love story between two students from the same backgrounds. C. A love story between a teacher and a student in Harvard University.
D. A love story between two students from Italy. 2. Which one is true according to the story? A. Oliver is a music student. B. Jenny is a preppie millionaire.
C. The couple study in Harvard University and both like music very much. D. Their romance is strongly opposed to by Oliver’s father.
3. Which one can be inferred from the story?
A. In the end, Oliver’s father shows his sympathy for Oliver because of Jenny’s death.
B. Jenny doesn’t think that Oliver will marry someone else. C. Jenny does not think that Oliver loves her before her death. D. At the end, Oliver doesn’t forgive his father because of his objection to their marriage.
4. The reason why Jenny says in the ending that Oliver will be a merry widower is that .
A. she knows Oliver doesn’t love her any more
B. she hopes Oliver to live a happy life after her death C. she wonders if she still loves him
D. she knows Oliver will be happy after her death because he doesn’t love her any more
5. When Oliver’s father expresses sorrow to him for his wife’s death, he responses with Jenny’s words: love means never having to say you’re sorry. What does it really mean?
A. It means that he forgives his father in the ending. B. It means that his father does not love him. C. It means that he does not love his father. D. It means that he never forgives his father. 1—5 ADABA Passage 3
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