第二部分:阅读判断
第一篇 TV Game Shows
1. TV can make a beggar word-famous overnight. A. Right
2. The principle behind “quiz” or “game” shows is to put ordinary people on TV to play a game for prizes and money. B. Wrong
3. Prizes and money for winners are usually provided by TV stars and large companies. C Not mentioned
4. One of the TV personalities, Charles Van Doren, was proved to be cheating by persuading the Show’s producers to give him the answers beforehand. B. Wrong
5. The huge scandal of cheating on TV game shows was not exposed until 40 years later in the movie “Quiz Show”. B. Wrong
6. Nowadays game shows are not treated as seriously as they used to be. A. Right
7. Winners of present-day TV game shows on longer get money from the shows. B. Wrong
第二篇:Smoking
1. It is easy to determine whether smoking is hazardous. B. Wrong
2. Smoking reduces one’s life expectancy. A. Right
3. Smoking may induce lung cancer. A. Right
4. There is evidence that smoking is responsible for breast cancer. C. Not mentioned
5. Male smoking have a lower death rate from heart disease than female smoking. B. Wrong
6. Nicotine is poisonous. A. Right
7. Filters and low tar tobacco make smoking safe. B. Wrong.
第三篇:Plants and Mankind
1. It is logical that a detailed leaning of plants and their properties must be extremely ancient. A. Right
2. People cannot survive without plants. A. Right
3. Tribes living today in the jungle of the Amazon teach botany to their children at school. B. Wrong
4. Our direct contact with plants grows with the process of industrialization. B. Wrong
5. Today people usually acquire a large amount of botanical knowledge from textbooks. B. Wrong
6. People living in the Middle East first learned to grow plants for food about 10,000 years ago. A. Right
7. Once mankind began farming, they no longer had to get food from many varieties that grew wild . B. Wrong
第四篇 : Brands
1. “Brand” is a general term which covers marrower terms such as “brand name”, “brand mark”, and “trademark.”A Right
2. A brand name is intended to impress customers with an attractive and original design while a trademarks is intended to be so with a peculiar sound. B .wrong
3. Trademarks are protected by law while brand names are not. B. Wrong
4. Some people identify the brand mark with the trademark. A. Right
5. Among various methods of classifying brands, the one bases on ownership is widely accepted. A. Right
6. Penncrest is a national brand. B. Wrong
7. When classifying brands, marketing people tend to employ the categories of “producer-owned” and “middlemen-owned”. A. Right
第五篇: Computers
1. Epuipped with computers, managers today operate their with higher efficiency and less cost than they used to be.A. right
2. Today, conventional financial controls are still exercised in some minor areas such as billing and vocational training. B. Wrong
3. It is unnecessary for a neighborhood baker to use a computer in his shop. B. Wrong
4. At present about 10% of American possess citizens possess a microcomputer. A. Right
5. One thing managers do not have to understand is how computers work. B. Wrong
6. In some cases managers have to learn how to write programs so as to work out computerized information systems that suit their own computers best. C. Not mentioned
7. Computerized firms would rather employ business than computer science graduate because it is easier to train the into qualified employees. A. Right
第六篇:American Sports
1. Hunting and fishing are mainly favored by men, young and old, in the US. C. Not mentioned
2. Professional baseball teams can continue to play for a long period of time in the fall after the regular baseball seasons of spring and summer. A. Right
3. Baseball shares many features with the English game of cricket. A. Right
4. Football can be classified as a spectator sport. A. Right
5. Many Americans like basketball better than football because the latter is so harsh that players have to wear special uniforms. B. Wrong
6. Basketball in American is so popular with universities that nationwide university matches are held yearly. C. Not mentioned
7. Horse-racing fans cannot be considered sportsmen because they are spectators whose primary interest is gambling. A. Right.
第七篇: Why Is the Native Learnt So Well
1. Compared with adults learning a foreign language, children learn their native language with ease. A. Right
2. Aduits’ knowledge and mental powers hinder their complete mastery of a foreign language. C. Not mentioned
3. The reason why children learn their mother tongue so well lies solely in their environment of learning. B. Wrong
4. Full exposure to the language spoken during the fiest years of life partly ensures the shild’s success of learning his mother tongue. A. Right
5. A child learning his native language has the advantage of having private lessons all the year round. B. Wrong
6. Gestures and facial expressions may assist a child in mastering his native language . A. Right
7. So far as language teaching is concerned , the teacher’s close personal relationship with the student is more important than the professional language teaching training he has received . C. Not mentioned
第八篇;A Dog’s Dilemma
1. The African wild dog has been endangered. A Right
2. The spotted hyena is on the verge of extinction. B Wrong
3. The remaining lions will die out within decades. C Not mentioned
4. The dominant female is always left behind to protect the young. B Wrong
5. There is a tension between babysitting and hunting. A Right
6. The size of a pack must be big enough for it to survive. A Right
7. Steps will be taken to protect the African wild dog. C Not mentioned
第九篇: Easy Listening
1. Babies can learn language even in their sleep. A.right
2. An infant can recognize a lot of vowels by the time he or set is a years old. C. Not mentioned
3. Finnish vowels are easy to distinguish. C. Not mentioned
4. The three vowels mentioned in this article are all Finnish sounds. B.Wrong
5. The study shows that the infant’s cerebral cortex is working while he is asleep. A. Right
6. If an adult wants to learn a language faster, he can put a language tape under his pillow. B. Wrong
7. Cheour’s finding is worthless. B. Wrong.
第十篇;Dangers Await Babies with Altitude
1. According to the passage, one of reasons why newborns in mountain communities are underweight is that their mothers are underweight. B Wrong.
2. Giussani’s team members are all British researchers and professors from Cambridge University. C Not mentioned
3. Giussani did not expect to find that the weight of a baby had little to do with the financial conditions of the family he was born into. A Right
4. The weight of a newborn has to do with the supply of oxygen even when he was still in his mother’s womb. A Right
5. High-altitude babies have heads that are large than their bodies. B Wrong
High-altitude babies have longer but thinner limbs than average. C Not mentioned
6. Giussani has arrived at the conclusion that babies in high-altitude regions are more likely to have heart trouble when they grow up. B Wrong