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SECTION B
Directions: Read the following passage. Answer the questions according to the information given in the passage and the required words limit. Write your answers on your answer sheet.
The unsteady housing market is showing a rare sign of strength: waiting home sales were up significantly in February, a report released Monday said, suggesting that Americans took advantage of a tax credit for home buyers.
Sales rose 8.2 percent in February, the National Association of Realtors(房地产经纪人) said. Analysts had expected sales to stay flat.
Economists said Monday’s data suggested buyers were re-entering the market as the April 30 deadline approached for a government tax credit of up to $8,000. The tax credit drove up sales rapidly in the fall, when it was originally set to end, but it has been slow to push the market this spring.
Lawrence Yun, chief economist for the association, said Monday’s report “may signal the early stages of a second wave of home sales.”
A separate report on Monday showed the service division in the United States was improving, driven in part by gains in employment.
The Institute for Supply Management’s non-manufacturing barometer(晴雨表) rose to 55.4 in March, up from 53 in February, going beyond expectations. Much of the energy came from a rush in new orders and business activity.
It was the highest reading(测量或调查的读数) for the survey since May 2006. While employment rose, it was short of the break-even point, signaling the service division was still losing jobs. Exports also rose significantly.
“This is a very encouraging report, which indicates acceleration in demand growth from both domestic and foreign customers,” Barclays Capital researchers wrote in a note on Monday.
The jump in waiting home sales was a rare bit of good news for the housing market, which remains in a deep rut(车辙). Home prices have shown little change.
Analysts expect the housing market to gradually improve as unemployment becomes less and the broader recovery gains steam. But so far, relief has been slow to come.
Monday’s report showed sales rose even in areas hit hard by poor weather in February. Sales climbed 9 percent in the Northeast and South, which were blanketed by snow in February.
The Realtors association bases its data on signed contracts, which usually take one or two months to translate into final sales.
81. What is the effect of the government tax credit? (No more than 5 words)
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82. Who is chief economist for the National Association of Realtors? (No more than 2 words)
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83. What could be a surprise according to Monday’s report? (No more than 10 words)
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84. If you are asked to describe the rise in home sales in February, which word do you think is the most appropriate? (No more than 1 word)
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答案
81. It drove up sales rapidly.
82. Lawrence Yun.
83. Sales rose in areas hit hard by poor weather.
84. Sharp / Fierce.
解析
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试题【SECTION BDirections: Read the following passage. Answer the questions according 】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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IV. 阅读理解(共15小题;每小题2分,满分30分)
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
After working a whole day, when Lois, a nurse for thirty years, left the hospital, she was asked to take part in a rescue of a car accident.
They soon arrived at the accident site. While doctors attended to an injured man in one car, Lois checked a woman sitting in the other vehicle. There was no blood or visible sighs lf injury and the woman said nothing, but stared at Lois with vacant eyes.
On the way to the hospital, Lois held the patient’s hands and comforted her by telling her that everything was going to be fine.
The following morning Lois entered the room and introduced herself. “I’m Lois, your nurse. How are you feeling?”
The patient blinked her eyes and her face turned white. “Are you real or am I hallucinating?”
“Oh, I’m real, I assure you.” Lois gently held the woman’s hand and checked her pulse.
“A…are you sure you are not a …an angle?”
Lois smiled, “Nurses are often referred to as angels of mercy.”
Her patient continued to stare at Lois and whispered, “I mean a real angel.”
Lois raised her eyebrows. “A pair of wings would be handy, but, believe me, I’m just as human as you are,”
The woman shook her head. “Last night I was in an auto accident and thought I might die. Suddenly an angel appeared. When she touched me, I knew God sent her to
reassure me that I’d live.” She held Lois’ hands tightly. “You look and sound exactly like her except that you don’t have wings!”
56.According to the passage, what was Lois?
A. An angel sent to the human world by the God.
B. The woman’s daughter.
C. A passerby on the road.
D. A nurse who has worked for many years.
57.We can infer from the passage that _____.
A. the doctor were treating an injured man
B. the woman got badly hurt.
C. the car accident happened two years ago
D. Lois treated the woman kindly and carefully
58.The underlined phrase “ referred to” has the same meaning as ______.
A. thought of B. talked about C. looked up D. said
59.What’s the main idea of the passage________.
A. One should do good deeds and helped others like angels.
B. One should become an angel with two wings.
C. After work one should arrived at the accident site.
D. One should be a nurse to help others
You check in the fridge for something to eat, but you are out of food. Time to go shopping . But where’s a pencil for the shopping list? Luckily, there’s a gadget that will let you dictate it.
Hit a button on the SmartShopper and say what you need in to its built-recognition software will turn your words into text.
SmartShopper recognizes 2,500 item names and common errands (including “dry cleaners” and “post office”), and lets you add items of your own. It also shows each new entry so you can correct it if it is wrong.
When you are going out to shop, it prints out the list, in alphabetical order. Errands are followed by your list of things to get.
SmartShopper can be set on a table, hung on the wall or magnetically attached to a refrigerator-wherever you are most likely to be when you realize something is running low. Available from www.smartshopperusa.com .The cool new gadget costs $149.95 and comes with three rolls of paper, It also needs four AA batteries.
60.The SmartShopper can _________.
A. help you to remember and make a shopping list
B. go to the post office for you
C. turn all your words into te
D. help you to dry your clothes
61.The new gadget is designed mainly for ________.
A. students B. housewives C. managers D. shop assistants
62.. If you would like to buy a SmartShopper, you can contact at_____.
A. www.smartshopperusa.com B. four AA batteries
C. the supermarket D. the post office
I have studied in the boarding school in UK for about two years, and I really like it very much.
I always wanted to run a business of some sort; and finally I got such a good chance to do
so at the beginning of the summer term. The business project is called Young Enterprise, where we set up a small company called “Limitless” and sold the products to the school and public. I was appointed deputy director and financial director of the company, in which my role was to manage the financial activities.
I have learn so much from this experience, for I could put what I has learnt into practice in a real life and learn to work with different people, which improved my skills in management and communication.
In this school we students can organize out own activities if we want to, and the school is usually highly supportive: so this term I have organized an Engineering Society in school, which arranges regular visits to local industries. So far, the society which has only 10 members has proved to be really “popular”. Well, it is always the quality, not the quantity, that matters, isn’t it?
I have had many opportunities to challenge myself since I got to the school, and I do think it is all of these challenges that make me more and more mature. Perhaps one of the most important lessons I have learned in this school is to have the initiative (主动) to look for any possible challenges.
63. Why does the writer like this boarding school so much?
A. Because he has learned there for about two years.
B. Because he ran a business of his own.
C. Because he has many opportunities to look for any possible challenges initiatively.
D. Because he was promoted to be deputy director and financial director of the company.
64. What’s the writer’s duty in the small company called “Limitless”?
A. To be in charge of the finance of the business.
B. To put what he has learned into practice.
C. To work with people from different backgrounds.
D. To find out how the consumers bought their products.
65. He has learnt a lot about _______ from the experience of running a small company.
A. what the teacher don’t know B. what can’t be learned from books
C. financial knowledge D. management and communication skills
66. From the passage, we know that ________.
A. the school usually supports the students activities
B. all of the students’ activities are supported by the school.
C. the school usually organize the students’ activities directly
D. the writer is not the organizer of the Engineering Society in the school
Exposure to the radio frequently fields(射频场)generated by mobile phones does not cause head pain or increase blood pressure, according to a Norwegian study. Instead, people
who experience such symptoms(征兆)do so because they expect that they will occur, the findings suggested.
Dr Gunnhild Oftedal and colleagues at the Norway University of Science and Technology in Trondheim experimented on 17 subjects who “ regularly experienced pain or discomfort in the head during or shortly after mobile phone calls lasting between 15 and 30 minutes.”
The participants were tested during mobile phone radiofrequency exposure and sham exposure(假性辐射), without knowing which sessions was which. Each session lasted 30 minutes. and 65 pairs of trials were conducted.
As reported in the medical magazine Cephalalgia, the subjects said they felt an increase in pain or discomfort during 68 per cent of all trials. The degree of not associated with the order of trials.
The researchers observed no significant correlations between actual exposures and the subjects’ reports of symptoms, and no effects of exposure on changes in heart rate or blood pressure.
Oftedal’s team concludes that the most likely explanation for the headaches and discomfort reported by the subjects “is that the symptoms are due to negative expectations.”
67. According to the report, people using mobiles feel affected by exposure to the radiofrequency fields because __________
A. they have merely imaginary expectations
B. some symptoms just occur in their body
C. there are negative effects produced by mobiles
D. radiofrequency generated by mobiles is too high
68. Which word in the report refers to the same as the underlined word “subjects”?
A. researchers B. symptoms C. trials D. participants
69. Dr Gunnhild Oftedal and his colleagues _______.
A. find effects of exposure on changes in heart rate or blood pressure
B. test the participants in two different situations
C. feel an increase in pain or discomfort during most trials
D. conclude that the symptoms do result from the radiofrequency fields
70. We can infer from the report that _____.
A. Dr Gunnhild Oftedal and his colleagues are strongly against the use of mobiles
B. the subjects share the same discomfort in both mobile radiofrequency exposure and sham exposure
C. the subjects are told in advance which section they will be in and which order they will follow
D. Dr Gunnhild Oftedal and his colleagues fail to find the side effects caused by exposure to the radiofrequency fields
VI.阅读表达(共5小题;每小题2分,满分10分)
阅读下面一篇短文,然后按照各小题的题目要求和括号内的词数要求回答问题。
People say teenagers are no good. They make too much noise in shops; they drive wildly up and down the streets. And at times, some of these things are true. But there are also hard moments in the life of a teenager
A teenager is neither a lovely child, nor a respectable grown-up person. The numbers of his family consider a teenager a source of trouble. He feels that he has grown up. But he is told that he is just a child and he knows nothing. He sees his elders doing what they like. When he _______, the elders tell him that he should do only what he is told to do. To be a teenager means to be everybody’s servant and nobody’s master. Elders in the family and in the neighborhood order a teenager to run errands(跑腿)for them. If he refuses to carry out the orders, he is scolded. He may even be punished. He is criticized for all that he says and does. If he behaves like a child, he is told that he is grown-up and that he should not be childish. If he behaves like a grown-up man, he is told that he is disrespectful(无礼的).
A teenager becomes a lonely creature in the family. Children enjoy all the
love of the elders in the family. The teenagers get no love and no respect. So they often run away from home and find some joy in the company of the other teenagers of their age.
The trouble with teenagers is that they haven’t learnt to controlled and there are too many rules and regulations for them to obey. Although they teenagers have a miserable time with their family members and elders, they have a very good time with their friends in schools and colleges. So they spend most of their good time and have fun with their friends and classmates rather than with their parents.
81. What’s the best title of the passage? (Please answer within 10 words)
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82. Which sentence in the passage can be placed by the following one?
Teenagers have troubles with the elders because they haven’t formed the habit of obeying.
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83. Please fill in the blank in the second paragraph with proper words or phrases
to complete the sentence. (Please answer within 10 words)
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84. Why do you think teenagers often run away from home? (Please answer within 30 words)
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85. Translate the underlined sentence in the second paragraph into Chinese.
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