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India is traditionally a tea-drinking country. But, it is now gaining a new taste for coffee. This has led international coffee companies to consider opening businesses in the huge market. Local business people are also hoping to profit from the country’s tea-drinking habits. They want to open new stores that offer tea.
It is ten thirty in the morning in India. Two cafes are within meters of each other, near a college in New Delhi. And they are selling a lot of tea. Their main customers are undergraduate students.
“We have a lot of break between classes, so whenever we get time, we just go and we enjoy ourselves. It’s a lot of fun , especially when you are with people you enjoy spending time with.”
In the past ten years , cafes have become increasingly popular in India. The country’s huge young population have quickly taken to the coffee culture.
Coffee stores have spread from major cities like New Delhi and Mumbai to smaller towns. Coffee use has doubled in the last ten years . It is the success of this market that has gained the attention of companies like the American-based coffee chain Starbucks. The company will open its first store in India later this year. Other companies like Lavazza and Costa Coffee are already there.
Yet, the growth of coffee will not reduce the popularity of tea. Indians drink eight times more tea than coffee. They have been drinking tea for more than one hundred and fifty years. India is one of the world’s biggest producers of tea, which is known locally as “chai”. Outside homes and offices, it is mostly sold by small businesses on the street.
小题1:Why do international coffee companies consider opening businesses in India?
| A．India consumes very little coffee. | B．India has a large population. |
| C．People in India now prefer coffee to tea. | D．Indians come to like the taste of coffee. |
| A．They only have tea in the cafes. |
| B．They are the main customers in the cafes. |
| C．They like enjoying coffee with friends in cafes. |
| D．They like to go to the cafes to escape lessons. |
| A．Coffee is consumed more than tea in India now. |
| B．Coffee is much more welcomed by young Indians than tea. |
| C．Coffee consumed today doubles that of ten years ago. |
| D．The growth of coffee will reduce the consumption. |
| A．Coffee stores have spread to small towns in India. |
| B．Some foreign coffee companies are trying to open Indian coffee market. |
| C．Local people worry about losing profit on tea. |
| D．Indians drink eight times more tea than coffee. |
| A．Undergraduate students are main coffee consumers in India. |
| B．Indians mainly consume both tea and coffee. |
| C．India is traditionally a tea-drinking country. |
| D．India is becoming a big new coffee consuming country. |
答案
小题1:D
小题2:B
小题3:C
小题4:C
小题5:D
解析
小题1:细节题。根据第一段第一行it is now gaining a new taste for coffee。
小题2:细节题。根据第二段第二行Their main customers are undergraduate students.
小题3:细节题。根据第五段第二行Coffee use has doubled in the last ten years。
小题4:推理题。根据最后一段第1,2行the growth of coffee will not reduce the popularity of tea. Indians drink eight times more tea than coffee.可知茶得销量仍然很大，不会受咖啡的影响，所以不用担心。
小题5:主旨大意题。通读全文可知文章讲述的就是在印度咖啡的流行。
核心考点
试题【India is traditionally a tea-drinking country. But, it is now gaining a new tast】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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Many rural areas in the United States have no doctor. Some medical schools are trying different ways to treat the problem . One idea is to educate doctors in smaller communities and hope they stay. Dr. William Cathcart-Rake heads a new program at the University of Kansas in the Midwest.
“We need more doctors. There’s somewhere like a quarter of all of our physicians in Kansas who are sixty years of age or older. So we need to be replacing physicians, too.”Says Dr. William Cathcart. He also says medical students from rural areas now typically study in Wichita or Kansas City, two of the biggest cities in Kansas. They say, “You know, I really have every intention of coming back to rural Kansas,”but they meet a soul mate, they get married, their soul mate happens to be from a big city and we never see them again. They get captured in the big city. Hopefully, if we train them in smaller communities, they can meet the future spouses here , they can network here, and they have those connections which can hopefully be lifelong.
The program is based in Kansas’ tenth largest city , Salina, home to about fifty thousand people. Salina is about a three-hour drive from Kansas City, past fields of corn, soybeans and cattle.
Student Claire Hinrichsen grew up in a town of about six hundred people. She attended the University of Kansas, or KU, as an undergraduate. One reason why the chose the Salina program is because of the size. There are only eight students—the smallest medical school in the country. Classes are taught by professors in Salina or on a video link from Kansas City or Wichita.
Students who complete the four year program will then do their residency training in a small community in the surrounding area. One place a resident might work is the Clay Center Clinic, where Dr. Kerry Murphy is a family physician.
Rural doctors generally serve older, poorer patients. Going into a specialty in a big city can mean better working hours and more money to pay off student loans.
The Salina program will pay tuition for each year that students practice in a rural area in Kansas.
小题1:What does the underlined word “spouses”in Paragraph 2 mean?
| A．Wives husbands. | B．Homes. | C．Families. | D．Physicians. |
| A．they don’t like to live in the rural Kansas |
| B．there are not many girls in the rural Kansas |
| C．they found their soul mates in cities |
| D．the life in rural Kansas is so hard |
| A．Salina has a population of 500,000 |
| B．a quarter of all physicians in Kansas are too old for the ideal doctors |
| C．William Cathcart-Rake heads a new program in rural Kansas |
| D．Educating more doctors in cities can settle the problem |
| A．Because she found her soul mate in rural Kanas. |
| B．Because she likes to work as a doctor. |
| C．Because she grew up in a town of 6,000 people. |
| D．Because she likes the size of the program. |
| A．To make it known that it lacks doctors very much in rural Kansas. |
| B．To introduce a program handling the lack of doctors in rural Kansas. |
| C．To train students to become doctors for rural Kansas. |
| D．To meet the demands of doctors for many rural towns in Kansas. |
Popular music in America is what every student likes. Students carry small radios with earphones and listen to music before class, after class, and at lunch. Students buy cars with large speakers and play the music loudly as they drive on the street.
Adult drivers listen to music on the car radio as they drive to work. They also listen to the news about sports, weather and the life of American people .Most of the radio programs are music.
Pop or popular music singers make much money .They make a CD or tape which radio stations use in many places .Once the popular singer is heard all over the country, young people buy his or her tape .Some of the money from these tapes comes to the singer .Wherever the singer goes, all the young people want to meet him or her. Now the singer has become a national star.
There are other kinds of music that are important to Americans. One is called folk music .It tells stories about the common life of Americans. Another is called western or country music .This was started by cowboys who would sing at night to the cows they were watching. Today, any music, about country life and love between a country boy and his girl is called western or country music.
小题1:__ _ kinds of music are mentioned in this passage .
A. Two B. Three C Four D .Five
小题2:When pop singers ___ ___, they will become national stars.
A make much money B. make a CD or tape
C .are loved by all the young people D. are wanted to sing on the radio
小题3:From the passage we know that country music is about the ___ ___.
| A．common life of Americans | B．country life of and love stories |
| C．life of workers | D．school life of in America |
| A．all students in America like popular music . |
| B．students with cars in America don’t like to listen to music while driving |
| C．Adult drivers in America listen to music all the time while driving |
| D．Everyone in America wants to meet pop singers wherever they go. |
| A．American music | B．Pop music | C．History of music | D．Western music |
Attention to detail is something everyone can and should do — especially in tight job market. Bob Crossley, a human-resources expert notices this in the job applications that come across his desk every day. “It’s amazing how many candidates cross out themselves,” he says.
“Resumes (简历)arrive with faults. Some candidates don’t bother to spell the company’s name correctly. Once I see a mistake, I cross out the candidates,” Crossley concludes. “If they cannot take care of these details, why should we trust them with a job?”
Can we pay too much attention to details? Perfectionists struggle over little things at the cost of something larger they work toward. “To keep from losing the forest for the trees,” says Charles Garfield, the professor at the University of California, San Francisco, “We must constantly ask ourselves how the details we’re working on fit into the larger picture. If they don’t, we should drop them and move to something else.”
Garfield compares this process to his work as a computer scientist at NASA. “The Apollo II moon launch was slightly off course 90 percent of the time,” says Garfield. “But a successful landing was still likely because we knew the exact position of our goal. This allowed us to make adjustments as necessary.” Knowing where to go helps us judge the importance of every task we undertake.
Too often we believe what accounts for others’ success is some special secret or a lucky break. But rarely is success so mysterious. Again and again, we see that by doing little things within our grasp well, large rewards follow.
小题1:According to the passage, some job applicants were rejected because .
| A．they failed to present resumes that are free of mistakes |
| B．they failed to give a detailed description of their background |
| C．they crossed out their names from the applicants list themselves |
| D．their handwriting on the resume was hard to recognize |
| A．neglect | B．recommend | C．wipe | D．introduce |
| A．trees are as important as forests |
| B．we should pay much attention to details |
| C．we shouldn’t go too far in details to lose our goals |
| D．perfectionists are capable of achieving perfect results |
| A．minor mistakes can be ignored |
| B．failure is the mother of success |
| C．adjustments are the key to the successful completion of any work |
| D．keeping one’s goal in mind helps decide which details can be overlooked |
All over the world, libraries have begun the Herculean task of making faithful digital copies of the books, images and recordings that preserve the intellectual effort of humankind. For armchair scholars, the work promises to bring such a wealth of information to the desktop that the present Internet may seem amateurish in retrospect. …
Librarians see three clear benefits to going digital. First, it helps them preserve rare and fragile objects without denying access to those who wish to study them. The British Library, for example, holds the only medieval manuscript of Beowulf in London. Only qualified scholars were allowed to see it until Kevin S. Kiernan of the University of Kentucky scanned the manuscript with three different light sources (revealing detail not normally apparent to the naked eye) and put the images up on the Internet for anyone to peruse (阅览). Tokyo’s National Diet Library is similarly creating highly detailed digital photographs of 1,236 woodblock prints, scrolls and other materials it considers national treasures so that researchers can scrutinize them without handling the originals.
A second benefit is convenience. Once books are converted to digital form, patrons can retrieve them in seconds rather than minutes. Several people can simultaneously read the same book or view the same picture. Clerks are spared the chore of reshelving. And libraries could conceivably use the Internet to land their virtual collections to those who are unable to visit in person.
The third advantage of electronic copies is that they occupy millimeters of space on a magnetic disk rather than meters on a shelf. Expanding library buildings is increasingly costly. The University of California at Berkeley recently spent $46 million on an underground addition to house 1.5 million books – an average cost of $30 per volume. The price of disk storage, in contrast, has fallen to about $2 per 300-page publication and continues to drop.
小题1:The best title for this passage would be __________.
| A．Three Benefits of Libraries |
| B．Libraries Going Digital |
| C．Space-saving E-learning |
| D．Security of Electronic Reading |
| A．Paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 | B．Paragraphs 3 and 4 |
| C．Paragraphs 2 and 4 | D．Paragraph 4 |
| A．Old manuscripts can be moved more easily |
| B．Materials can be examined without being touched |
| C．Fewer staff will be required in libraries |
| D．Libraries will be able to move underground |
| A．keep for a while | B．reprint | C．restore | D．examine carefully |
A new argument has been put forward as to whether penguins are disturbed by the presence of tourists in Antarctica.
Previous research by scientists from Keil University in Germany monitored Adelie penguins and noted that the birds’ heart rates increased dramatically at the sight of a human as far as 30 meters away. But new research using an artificial egg, which is equipped to measure heart rates, disputes this. Scientists from the Scott Polar Research Institute at Cambridge say that a slow moving human who does not approach the nest too closely, is not viewed as a threat by penguins.
The earlier findings have been used to partly explain the 20 per cent drop in populations of certain types of penguins near tourist sites. However, tour operators have continued to insist that their activities do not adversely affect wildlife in Antarctica, saying they encourage non-disruptive behavior in tourists, and that the decline in penguin numbers is caused by other factors.
Amanda Nimon of the Scott Polar Research Institute spent three southern hemisphere summers at Cuverville Island in Antarctica studying penguin behavior towards humans. “A nesting penguin will react very differently to a person rapidly and closely approaching the nest,” says Nimon. “First they exhibit large and prolonged heart rate changes and then they often flee the nest leaving it open for predators (掠夺者) to fly in and remove eggs or chicks.” The artificial egg, specially for the project, monitored both the parent who had been ‘disturbed’ when the egg was placed in the nest and the other parent as they both took it in turns to guard the nest.
However, Boris Culik, who monitored the Adelie penguins, believes that Nimon’s findings do not invalidate his own research. He points out that species behave differently – and Nimon’s work was with Gentoo penguins. Nimon and her colleagues believe that Culik’s research was methodologically flawed because the monitoring of penguins’ responses needed capturing and restraining the birds and fitting them with beart-rate transmitters. Therefore, argues Nimon, it would not be surprising if they became stressed on seeing a human subsequently.
小题1:According to the passage, what overall message is presented?
| A．No firm conclusions are drawn. |
| B．Neither Culik’s nor Nimon’s findings are of much value. |
| C．Penguin reduction is closed related to tourist behavior. |
| D．Tourists are not responsible for the fall in penguin numbers. |
| A．Penguins are harder to research when they have young. |
| B．Tour operators should encourage tourists to avoid Antarctica. |
| C．Not all penguins behave in the same way. |
| D．Penguins need better protection from tourists. |
| A．They are groundless. |
| B．They are factual. |
| C．They are descriptive. |
| D．They are conflicting. |
| A．later on |
| B．carmly |
| C．separately |
| D．in the same place |
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