Part IV reading comprehension(reading in depth)[『沸腾年代』http://www.feitium.org].86017572008-7-13

　　Section A

　　Directions: you may not use any of the words in the bank more than true.

　　Question 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.

　　EI Nino is the name given to the mysterious and often unpredictable change in the climate of the world. This strange   47   happens every five to eight years. It starts in the pacific Ocean and is thought to be caused by a failure in the trade winds, which affects the ocean currents driven by these winds. As the trade winds lessen in   48  , the ocean temperatures rise, causing the Peru current flowing in from the east to warm up by as much as 5ºC.

The warning of the ocean has far-reaching effects. The hot, humid air over the ocean causes severe  49   thunderstorms.The rainfall is increased across South America,   50   floods to Peru. In the West Pacific, there are droughts affecting Australia and Indonesia. So while some parts of the world prepare for heavy rains and floods, other parts face drought, poor crops and   51  .

EI Nino usually lasts for about 18 months. The 1982-83 EI Nino brought the most   52    weather in modern history. Its effect was worldwide and it left more than 2,000 people dead and caused over eight billion pounds   3   of damage. The 1990 EI Nino lasted until June 1995. Scientists   54   this to be the longest EI Nino for 2,000 years.

Nowadays, weather experts are able to forecast when an EI Nino will   55  , but they are still not   56   sure what leads to it or what affects how strong it will be.

A)estimate    B)strength   C)deliberately　  D)notify      E)tropical    F)phenomenon  G)stable      H)attraction  I)completely   　J)destructive 　K)starvation  L)bringing  M)exhaustion  N)worth    O)strike

　　Section B

　　Directions: There are 2 passage in this section .Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A) B) C)and D) .You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.

Passage One

　　Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.

　　Communications technologies are far from equal when it comes to conveying the truth. The first study to tell lies in phone conversations as they are in emails. The fact that emails are automatically recorded-and can come back to haunt(困扰)you. Appears to be the key to the finding.

　　Jeff Hancock of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, asked 30 students to keep a communications diary for a week. In it they noted the number of conversations or email exchanges they had lasting more than 10 minutes, and confessed to how many lies they told. Hancock then worked out the number of lies per conversation foe each medium .He found that lies made up 14 per cent of emails,21 per cent of instant messages,27 per cent of face-to-face interactions and an astonishing 37 per cent of phone calls.

　　His results to be presented at the conference on human-computer interaction in Vienna, Austria, in April, have surprised psychologists. Some expected emailers to be the biggest liars, reasoning that because deception makes people uncomfortable, the detachment(非直接接触）of emailing would make it easier to lie. Others expected people to lie more in face-to-face exchanges because we are most practiced at that form of communication.[『沸腾年代』http://www.feitium.org].86017572008-7-13

　　But Hancock says it is also crucial whether a conversation is being recorded and could be reread, and whether it occurs in real time. People appear to be afraid to lie when they know the communication could later be used to hold them to account, he says. This is why fewer lies appear in email than on the phone.

　　People are also more likely to lie in real time in a instant message or phone call say-than if they have time to think of a response, says Hancock. He fond many lies are spontaneous(脱口而出的)responses to an unexpected demand, such as:” Do you like my dress?"

　　Hancock hopes his research will help companies work our the best ways for their employees to communicate. For instance, the phone might be the best medium foe sales where employees are encouraged to stretch the truth. But ,given his result, work assessment where honesty is a priority, might be best done using email.

　　注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

　　57.Hancock's study focuses on ____________.

　　A)the consequences of lying in various communications media.

　　B)the success of communications technologies in conveying ideas.

　　C)people are less likely to lie in instant messages.

　　D)people 's honesty levels across a range of communications media.

　　58.Hancock's research finding surprised those who believed that________________.

　　A)people are less likely to lie in instant messages.

　　B)people are unlikely to lie in face-to-face interactions.

　　C)people are most likely to lie in email communication

　　D)People are twice as likely to lie in phone conversations.

　　59. According to the passage, why are people more likely to tell the truth through certain media of communication?

　　A)They are afraid of leaving behind traces of their lies.

　　B)They believe that honesty is the best policy.

　　C)They tend to be relaxed when using those media.

　　D)They are most practiced at those forms of communication.

　　60. According to Hancock the telephone is a preferable medium for promoting sales because____________.

　　A) Salesmen can talk directly to their customers.

　　B)Salesmen may feel less restrained to exaggerate.

　　C)Salesmen can impress customers as being trustworthy.

　　D)Salesmen may pass on instant messages effectively.

　　61. It can be inferred from the passage that_____________.

　　A)Honesty should be encouraged in interpersonal communications

　　B)more employers will use emails to communicate with their employees

　　C)suitable media should be chosen for different communication purposes

　　D) email is now the dominant medium of communication within a company.

　　Passage Two

　　Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.[『沸腾年代』http://www.feitium.org].86017572008-7-13

　　In a country that defines itself by ideals, not by shared blood, who should be allowed to come work and live here? In the wake of the Sept.11 attacks these questions have never seemed more pressing.

　　on December .11,2001,as part of the effort to increase homeland security ,federal and local authorities in 14 states staged "Operation Safe Travel" -raids on airports to arrest employees with false identification(身份证明).In Salt Lake City there were 69 arrests. But those captured were anything but terrorists, most of them illegal immigrants from Central or South American .Authorities said the undocumented worker's illegal status made them open to blackmail(讹诈)by terrorists Many immigrants in Salt Lake City were angered by the arrests and said they felt as if they were being treated like disposable goods.

　　Mayor Anderson said those feelings were justified to a certain extent.” We’re saying we want you to work in these places, we’re going to look the other way in terms of what our laws are, and then when it's convenient for us, or when we can try to make a point in terms of national security, especially after Sept.11,then you’re disposable There are whole families being uprooted for all of the wrong reasons,” Anderson said.

　　If Sept.11 had never happened the airport workers would not have been arrested and could have gone on quietly living in America, probably indefinitely .Ana Castro, a ,manager at a Ben & Jerry’s ice cream shop at the airport. had been working 10 years with the same false Social Security card when she was arrested in the December airport raid. Now she and her family are living under the threat of deportation(驱逐出境)。Castro's case is currently waiting to be settled. While she awaits the outcome ,the government has granted her permission to work here and she has returned to her job at Ben Jerry’s.

　　62.Accroding to the author ,the United States claims to be a nation____________.

　　A)composed of people having different values

　　B)encouraging individual pursuits

　　C)sharing common interests

　　D)founded on shared ideals

　　63.How did the immigrants in Salt Lake City feel about "Operation Safe Travel" ?

　　A)Guilty

　　B)Offended

　　C)Disappointed

　　D)Discouraged

　　64.Undocumented workers became the target of” Operation Safe Travel" because__________.

　　A)evidence was found that they were potential terrorists

　　B)most of them worked at airports under threat of terrorists

　　C)terrorists might take advantage of their illegal status

　　D) they were reportedly helping hide terrorists around the airport.

　　65.By saying"...we're going to look the other way in terms of what our laws are"(Line 2 ,Para.4),Mayor Alderson means"________________".

　　A)we will turn a blind eye to your illegal status

　　B)we will examine the laws in a different way

　　C)there are other ways of enforcing the law

　　D) the existing laws must not be ignored

　　66.What do we learn about Ana Castro from the last paragraph?

　　A)she will be deported sooner or later.

　　B)She is allowed to stay permanently .

　　C)Her case has been dropped

　　D)Her fate remains uncertain.

　　Part V Cloze (15 minutes)

　　Do you wake up every day feeling too tired ,or even upset? if so .then a new alarm clock could be just for you .The clock ,called Sleep Smart, measures your sleep cycle, and waits ___67___you to be in your lightest phase of sleep ____68___rousing you. Its makers say that should ____69____you wake up feeling refreshed every morning.

　　As you sleep you pass ___70___a sequence of sleep states-light sleep, deep sleep and REM(rapid eye movement)sleep-that ____71___approximately every90 minutes .The point in that cycle at which you wake can ___72____how you feel later ,and may ____73____have a greater impact than how much or little you have slept, Being roused during a light phase____74____you are more likely to wake up energetic.

　　SleepSmart____75____the distinct pattern of brain waves____76____dring each phase of sleep, via a headband equipped ____77____electrodes(电极)and a microprocessor. This measures the electrical activity of the weather's brain, in much the ____78____way as some machines used for medical and research ____79____, and communicates wirelessly with a clock unit near the bed. You ____80____the clock with the latest time at ____81____you want to be wakened, and it ____82____duly(适时地)wakes you during the last light sleep phase before that.

　　The ____83____was invented by a group of students at Brown University in Rhode Island____84____a friend complained of waking up tired and performing poorly on a test." ____85____sleep deprived people ourselves, we started thinking of ____86____to do about it," says Eric Shashoua, a recent college graduate and now chief executive officer of Axon Sleep Research Laboratories, a company created by the students to develop their idea.

　　67.A)beside B)near C)for D) around

　　68.A)upon B)before C)towards D) till

　　69.A)ensure B)assure C)require D) request

　　70.A)through B)into C)about D) on

　　71.A)reveals B) reverses C)resumes D) repeats

　　72.A)effect B)affect C)reflect D) perfect

　　73.A)already B)every C)never D) even

　　74.A)means B)marks C)says D) dictates

　　75.A)removes B)relieves C)records D) recalls

　　76.A)proceeded B)produced C)pronounced D)progressed

　　77.A)by B)of C)with D)over

　　78.A)familiar B) similar C)identical D) same

　　79.A) findings B) prospects C)proposals D)proposes

　　80.A) prompt B)program C)plug D) plan

　　81.A)where B)this C)which D) that

　　82.A)then B)also C)almost D) yet

　　83.A)claim B)conclusion C)concept D)explanation

　　84.A)once B)after C)since D) while

　　85.A)Besides B)Despite C)To D) As

　　86.A)what B)how C)whether D) when

　　part VI Translation

87. Having spent some time in the city, he had no trouble ________________(找到去历史博物馆的路).

88. ______________________(为了挣钱供我上学)， Mother often takes on more work than is good for her.

89. The professor required that __________________(我们交研究报告)。

90. The more you explain, _________________(我愈糊涂).

91. Though a skilled worker, _______________(他被公司解雇了).