10. I'd consider his reputation with other farmers and business people in the community, and then make a decision about whether or not to approve a loan.
A.take into account
B.account for
C.make up for
D.make out
A B C D
A
[解析] take into account“把……考虑在内”；account for“说明……发生的原因”；make up for“弥补，补偿”；make out“书写；拼凑；说明；理解；辨认出”。
11. Customers may also be permitted to overdraft their current accounts for a short period in anticipation of a credit item coming in.
12. If you don't quit smoking, you'll never get better.
A.give off
B.give out
C.giver over
D.give up
A B C D
D
[解析] give off“发出，冒出”；give out“发表，用完”；give over“交托，留出”；give up“放弃，交出”。
13. The purpose of a custom is to cut down imports in order to protect domestic industry and workers from foreign competition.
A.tax
B.toll
C.fee
D.tariff
A B C D
D
[解析] tax“税，税款”；toll“服务费”；fee“费用”；tariff“关税”。
14. The joys of travel, having long overlooked the disabled, are opening up to virtually anyone who has the means.
A.omitted
B.missed
C.neglected
D.discarded
A B C D
C
[解析] neglect“忽视”：They neglected his warming.他们忽视了他的警告。omit“删除”：Minor points may be omitted.次要点可以删去。miss指fail to catch, hit, find, meet, touch, hear, see etc, (something or someone): The falling rock just tamed my head.下落的石头险些击中我的头。discard“丢弃”：discard an old pair of shoes丢弃一双旧鞋子。
15. Fewer and fewer of today's workers expect to spend their working lives in the same field, not to mention the same company.
A.all else
B.much worse
C.less likely
D.let alone
A B C D
D
[解析] let alone意思是更不必说，The baby can't even walk, let alone run.婴儿连走都不会，更别说跑了。all else“所有其他的”；much worse“糟糕得多”；less likely“较少可能”，此三项选择都与本题不符。
It was the anti-globalization movement that really put globalization on the map. As a word it has existed since the 1960s, but the protests against this allegedly new process, which its opponents condemn as a way of ordering people's lives, brought globalization out of the financial and academic worlds and into everyday current affairs. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the business model called the "globalize" financial market came to be seen as an entity that could have more than just an economic impact on the parts of the world it touched. Globalization came to be seen as more than simply a way of doing business, or running financial markets-it became a process. From then on the word took on a life of its own. So how does the globalize market work? It is modern communications that make it possible; for the British service sector to deal with its customers through a call centre in India, or for a sportswear (运动服) manufacturer to design its products in Europe, make them in southeast Asia and sell them in North America. But this is where the anti-globalization side gets stuck in (关注). If these practices replace domestic economic life with an economy that is heavily influenced or controlled by overseas, then the creation of a globalize economic model and the process of globalization can also be seen as a surrender of power to the corporations, or a means of keeping poorer nations in their place. Not everyone agrees that globalization is necessarily evil, or that globalize corporations are running the lives of individuals or are more powerful than nations. Some say that the spread of globalization, free markets and free trade into the developing world is the best way to beat poverty the only problem is that free markets and free trade do not yet truly exist. Globalization can be seen as a positive, negative or even marginal process. And regardless of whether it works for good or ill, globalization's exact meaning will continue to be the subject of debate among those who oppose, support or simply observe it.
1. Globalization is a term used only in the financial and academic worlds.
1. "I am going to give you five techniques that will enable you to remember anything you need to know at school," promised lecturer an Robinson to a hundred school children. He slapped his hand down on the table. "When I've finished in two hours' time, your work will he far more effective and productive. Anyone not interested, leave now." The entire room sat still. 2. Robinson calls himself the Mind Magician (魔术师). He specializes in doing magic tricks that look totally impossible, and then he reveals that they involve nothing more mysterious than good old-fashioned trickery (骗术). "I have always been interested in tricks involving memory being able to reel off (一口气说出) the order of cards in a pack, that sort of thing." he explains. 3. Robinson was already lecturing to schools on his magic techniques when it struck him that students might find memory techniques even more valuable. "It wasn't difficult area to move into, as the stuff's all there in books." So he summarized everything to make a two-hour lecture about five techniques. 4. "You want to learn a list of a hundred things? A thousand? No problem," says Robinson. The scandal is that every child is not taught the techniques from the beginning of their school life. The schoolchildren who were watching him thought it was brilliant. "I wish I'd been told this earlier," commented Mark, after Robinson had shown them how to construct "mental journeys" 5. Essentially, you visualize (想象) a walk down a street, or a trip round a room, and pick the points where you will put the things you want to remember the lamppost, the fruit bowl. Then in each location you put a visual representation of your list-phrasal verbs, historical dates, whatever making them as strange as possible. It is that simple, and it works. 6. The reaction of schools has been uniformly enthusiastic. "The pupils benefited enormously from his presentation," says Dr. Johnston, head of the school where Robinson was speaking. "ideally we should run a regular class in memory techniques so pupils can pick it up gradually." A. Good results B. An ancient skill C. Gaining attention D. Memory tricks E. A lecture on memory techniques F. Ways to improve memory
5. The memory techniques used are no more complex than the old ______. A. books B. lecture C. tricks D. fact E. memory F. list
C
[解析] 根据第二段内容“he reveals that they involve nothing more mysterious than good old-fashioned trickery(骗术)”可知，他讲到学生们参与的事情根本不神秘，只是一些过时的骗术。
6. Robinson taught children to use "mental journeys" to improve ______.
E
[解析] 根据第四段内容“Robinson had shown them how to construct mental journeys”可知，本段主要介绍如何提高记忆力，所以精神旅程的目的也是提高记忆力。
7. Robinson told the pupils that all the memory techniques could be found in ______.
A
[解析] 根据第三段内容“It wasn't difficult area to move into, as the stuff's all there in books.”可知，它不是一个难接触的领域，因为记忆技巧都在书本中，所以本题选A。
8. The schoolchildren got a lot from the magician's ______.
B
[解析] 根据第六段内容“The pupils benefited enormously from lan's presentation”可知，学生从Robinson的讲课中受益颇多，所以本题选B。
第4部分：阅读理解 请根据短文内容，为每题确定1个最佳选项。
第一篇
The Jobless Rate in U.S.
There are only a couple of ways to explain how the capacity of U.S. workers to claim their accustomed share of the nation's income has so stunningly collapsed. Outsourcing is certainly a big part of the picture. As Stephen Roach, a famous economist, has noted, private-sector hiring in the current recovery is roughly 7 million jobs shy of what would have been the norm in previous recoveries and U.S. corporations, high-tech as well as low-tech, are busily hiring employees from lower-wage nation instead of from our own. The jobless rate among U.S. software engineers, for instance, has doubled over the past three years. In Bangalore, India, where American companies are on a huge hiring spree for the kind of talent they used to scoop up in Silicon Valley, the starting annual salary for top electrical engineering graduates, says Business Week, is $10,000 compared with $80,000 here in the States. Tell that to a software writer in Palo Alto and she's not likely to up her boss for a raise. That software writer certainly doesn't belong to a union, either. Indeed, the current recovery is not only the first to take place in all economy in which global wage rates are a factor, but the first since before the New Deal to take place in an economy in which the rate of private-sector unionization is in single digits just 3.5 percent of the workforce. The current administration is not responsible for the broad contours of this miserably misshapen recovery, but its every action merely increases the imbalance of power between America's employers and employees. But the Democrats' prescriptions for more broadly shared prosperity need some tweaking, too. With the globalization of high-end professions, no Democrat can assert quite so confidently the line that Bill Clinton used so often: What you earn is a result of what you learn. This year's crop of presidential candidates is taking more seriously the importance of labor standards in trade accords, and the right of workers to organize. But they've got a way to go to make the issue of stagnating incomes into the kind of battle crying it should be in the campaign against Bush. If they're not up to it, I say we outsource them all and bring in some pools from Bangalore.
1. Which of the following might have contributed to the current miserably misshapen recovery in the U.S.?
A.The New Deal.
B.The globalization of economy.
C.The economic policies adopted by the Bush administration.
D.U.S. workers are no longer capable of sharing the increase of nation's income.
A B C D
B
[解析] 事实细节题。由第四段中的“the current recovery is not only the first to take place in an economy in which global wage rates are a factor”和最后一段中的“with the globalization of high-end professions, no Democrat can assert quite so confidently the line...”可知，是经济的全球化才导致这一结果，而其他三项并无直接关系，且最后一段提到“The current administration is not responsible for the broad con-tours of this miserably misshapen recovery”。
2. The unemployment rate has been on the rise among U.S. software workers mainly because of ______.
A.outsourcing
B.the cheap supply of top electrical engineering graduates in India
C.the low starting salary for the software workers in India
D.the low unionization rate among software writers in the U.S.
A B C D
A
[解析] 事实细节题。每一个选项在一定程度上都是美国软件工作人员失业率上升的原因。但是，由第一段中的“Outsourcing is certainly a big part of the picture”和“...are busily hiring employees from lower-wage nations instead of from our own.”和第二段第二句从印度引进人才的例子可知，最根本的原因还是从外引进人才所造成的。
3. It seems that the author is against ______.
A.the Bush administration
B.the Clinton administration
C.the decreased power of America's employees
D.more broadly shared prosperity
A B C D
C
[解析] 观点态度题。由最后一段第一句“...the imbalance of power between America's employers and employees.”可知，C为正确选项，A项也可由这一句的信息排除，作者只是说“But the Democrats' prescriptions for more broadly shared prosperity need some tweaking”，但并不是反对，可排除D项。
4. The author believes that ______.
A.Democrats can help U.S. workers to increase their incomes
B.Bill Clinton pays more attention to U.S. workers' benefits than Bush
C.what you earn is a result of what you learn
D.the notion that what you earn is a result of what you learn is out of date
A B C D
D
[解析] 根据最后一段第四行的“...no Democrat can assert quite so confidently the line that Bill Clinton used so often: What you earn is a result of what you learn.”可知，民主党不会再如此自信地主张克林顿经常说的话：你所赚取的财富是你学习的结果，据此可知，这一说法已经过时，所以应选D项。
5. The author's attitude toward the realization of more broadly shared prosperity is somewhat ______.
A.optimistic
B.pessimistic
C.indifferent
D.biased
A B C D
B
[解析] 观点态度题。由最后一段“the Democrats' prescriptions for more broadly shared prosperity need some tweaking”，以及最后两句可看出作者对于政客们就提高雇员地位、增加工资方面所能起的作用抱有疑虑。
第二篇
Alpha Particle
From decaying radon (氡) atoms can destroy the living cells they strike and increase the likelihood that those cells will later become cancerous. Researchers have now directly demonstrated that neighboring cells not suffering direct hits can be harmed, too. They've also taken a step toward showing how this type of radiation, called alpha particles, indirectly hurts those bystanders. Radon derives from the decay of uranium (铀) and seeps naturally into the air from the ground. It's the primary environmental source of alpha particles, which contribute to cancer risk by causing aberrations (失常) in DNA. Alpha particles from inhaled radon are second only to smoking as a cause of lung cancer. Because a person's exposure to alpha particles typically is low, researchers have had to estimate public health threats from radon by guess from the effects of higher doses of alpha radiation. Such data comes primarily from studies of survivors of the atomic bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. The customary extrapolation (推测) assumes that cancer risk is proportional to the dose of radiation even at low doses. Radiation's effects in cell structure don't necessarily reflect what happens in "a whole organism, with its full range of defense repair mechanisms," says Duport. Processes such as DNA repair and cell death triggered by radiation damage could cancel the effect on by stander cells observed in the lab, he suggests. Furthermore, while a bystander effect can contribute to cancer, other cell-to-cell interactions in living tissue "may relieve increased risk." says Barry Michael, a radiation biophysicist at the Gray Cancer Institute in Northwood, England. One of these interactions halts cell division and hence cancer. "The jury is still out on whether cell-to-cell effects lead to a greater or lower risk," Michael says.
1. The passage's main topic is ______.
A.The experiment done by researchers
B.Uranium is the key killer of neighboring cells
C.Cell-to-cell interaction can make up for the hurt cells
D.Bystander cells can be indirectly damaged by alpha particles
[解析] 根据第一段最后一句“They've also taken a step toward showing how this type of radiation, cared alpha particles, indirectly hurts those bystanders.”可知，研究者们也已经进一步证明这种叫做a粒子的辐射类型是如何间接地伤害那些局外人的，据此可知，此处说的辐射类型指代来自衰变的氡原子的辐射，所以B符合题意。
3. Which of the following is right for alpha particles?
A.They are the second killers to smoking as cause of lung cancer.
B.They can compensate for the abnormal DNA.
C.High dosage and low dosage of them have the same effect on people's health.
A.By studying the data got from the survivors who had experienced atomic radiation.
B.By carrying out the experiments in the lab.
C.By studying the features of the experiments.
D.By studying the features of the erperiments.
A B C D
A
[解析] 根据第三段内容“researchers have had to estimate public health threats from radon by guess from the effects of higher doses of alpha radiation. Such data comes primarily from studies of survivors of the atomic bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan.”可知，研究者们不得不通过猜测a粒子的高剂量来估计氡对公众健康的威胁，这些数据主要来自对遭受破坏日本广岛和长崎的原子弹的受害者的研究，所以选A。
5. From the passage, we can know the tone of the author is ______.
A.argumentative
B.factual
C.conjectural (推测的)
D.authoritative
A B C D
B
[解析] 这是一篇事实报道，是实事求是的。
第三篇
Nanotechnology
Many of the grand challenges of today and the future are found in the question: "How are we going to solve the problems and make serious improvements in industrial manufacturing, disease control, environmental pollution control, global climate change, food production, transportation, communication, and others?" Nanotechnology (纳米技术) promises to make revolutionary contributions. Within the next few years we can expect to see major improvements. Here are some possibilities the things to come. Nanotechnology is fundamentally changing the way materials and devices will be produced in the future. Nanostructures, ceramics, polymers, metals, and other materials will have greatly improved mechanical properties. In fact, with the ability to build things atom-by-atom and molecule-by-molecule there will be new classes of structural materials. Nanotechnology will enable products to be lighter, stronger, smarter, cheaper, cleaner, and more precise. The ability to synthesize nanoscale budding blocks with precisely controlled size and composition and then to assemble them into larger structures with unique properties and functions will revolutionize segments of the materials manufacturing industry. Nanotechnology is expected to bring about lighter, stronger, and programmable materials; reductions in life-cycle costs through lower failure rates; innovative devices based on new principles and architectures; and use of molecular cluster manufacturing. Nanotechnology will provide new tools for medicine. It could radically change the way surgery is done. It will make it possible to do molecular scale surgery to repair and rearrange cells. Since disease is the result of physical disorder, misarranged molecules and cells, medicine at this level should be able to cure most diseases. Mutations in DNA could be repaired and cancer cells, toxic chemicals, and viruses could be destroyed through use of medical Nan devices. Nanotechnology enabled increases in computational power will permit the characterization of macromolecular networks in realistic environments. Such simulations will be essential elements in the development of biocompatible implants and in the drug discovery process. Nanotechnology has the potential to significantly impact energy efficiency, storage, and production. Nanotechnology can change the economics of energy production.
1. The passage deals mainly with ______.
A.grand challenge in manufacturing, medicine and computer industry
B.possibilities of nanotechnology's contributions in the future
C.great changes caused by nanotechnology
D.practical application of nanotechnology
A B C D
B
[解析] 这篇文章的大意是：纳米技术对当今和未来的各种挑战将作出巨大的贡献。在未来的几年，在材料、设备、医学、计算机等领域我们有可能目睹这一切。第一段最后一句“Here are some possibilities the things to come”点明了主题。
2. According to the passage, which of the following is not right?
A.Nanotechnology will be used to change the structures of materials.
B.Nanotechnology will make an operation more precisely.
C.Nanotechnology will change the properties of materials.
D.Nanotechnology will cure diseases that can't be solved at present.
4. In medicine, all will change except that ______.
A.doctors will be able to repair the destroyed cells of human bodies
B.cancer and other infected diseases will be cured
C.there will be more accurate diagnoses of diseases
D.the medical devices will become smaller and devices with single function are produced
A B C D
D
[解析] A、B和C选项都可以从文中找到依据，只有D没有提到，无法得出这样的结论。
5. We can infer from the passage that ______.
A.nanotechnology will be the most promising technology
B.nanotechnology is an inevitable outcome of the development of technology
C.nanotechnology will bring revolutions in many aspects of life
D.nanotechnology will bring the greatest changes in economy
A B C D
C
[解析] 本文列出了纳米技术在建材、医学、计算机等领域的应用，涉及了生活的多个方面。
第5部分：补全短文 请根据短文内容将其分别将句子放回原有位置，以恢复文章面貌。
Home Schooling
All children in the United States have to receive an education, but the law does not say they have to be educated at school. A number of parents prefer not to send their children to school. 1 There are about 300,000 home-schoolers in the United States today. Some parents prefer teaching their children at home because they do not believe that public schools teach the correct religious values; others believe they can provide a better educational experience for their children by teaching them at home. 2 David Guterson and his wife teach their three children at home. Guterson says that his children learn very differently from children in school. 3 For example, when there is heavy snowfall on a winter day, it may start a discussion or reading about climate, snow removal (去除) equipment, Alaska, polai bears (北极熊), and winter tourism. A spring evening when the family is out watching the stars is a good time to ask questions about satellites and the space program 4 Home schooling is often more interesting than regular schools, but critics say that home-schooled are outsiders who might be uncomfortable mixing with other people in adult life. 5 However, most parents don't have the time or the desire to teach their children at home, so schools will continue to be where most children get their formal education. A. Interestingly, results show that home-schooled children quite often do better than average on national tests in reading and math. B. Critics also say that most parents are not well qualified to teach their children. C. Learning starts with the children's interests and questions. D. Children who are educated at home are known as "home-schoolers." E. In some countries, however, children are educated by their parents. F. If the Brazilian rain forests are on the TV news. It could be a perfect time to talk about how rain forests influence the climate, and how deserts are formed.
If it were only necessary to decide whether to teach elementary science to everyone on a mass basis or to find the gifted few and take them as far as they can go, our task would be fairly simple. The public school system, however, has no such choice, 1 the jobs must be carried on at the same time. Because we depend so 2 upon science and technology for our progress, we must produce specialists in many fields. 3 we live in a 4 nation, whose citizens make the policies for the nation, large numbers of us must be educated to understand, to uphold, and when necessary, to judge the work of 5 . The public school must educate both producers and 6 of scientific services. In education, there should be a good balance 7 the branches of knowledge that contribute to effective thinking and 8 judgment. Such balance is defeated by 9 much emphasis on any one field. This 10 of balance involves not only the 11 of the natural sciences, the social sciences and the arts but also relative emphasis among the natural sciences themselves. 12 , we must have a balance between current and 13 knowledge. The attention of the public is continually drawn to new 14 in scientific fields and the discovery of new knowledge; these should not be allowed to turn our attention away from the sound, established materials that form the basis of 15 for beginners.
1.
A.whereas
B.though
C.while
D.for
A B C D
D
[解析] for“因为”。“for”与文章第一段第三句中的“Because we depend...”构成呼应，均表示解释原因。而选项A，B，C均不用于解释原因，不符合原文意思。
[解析] users“用户；使用者”。根据文章一致性，users与原文第一句中的“a mass basis”形成呼应，且users“使用者”与原文中的producers“生产者”形成一种搭配。而subscribers“购者；订阅者”，passers-by“过路人；路人”，victims“受害者；牺牲品”均不形成一致性，不符合题意。
7.
A.amid
B.between
C.upon
D.among
A B C D
D
[解析] among“在(三者或三者以上)……之间”。根据上下文，上文提到的“science and technology”、“in many fields”以及下文的“the branches of”可知应填入“among”。而amid“在……中间，被……围绕”，between“在(两者)……之间”，upon“在……之上”均不符合题意。
[解析] question“问题”。根据全文的第一句“If it were only... whether... or...”，该句是提问式的句子，是需要做出回答的问题，所以选择question。而incident“小事件，事件”，inference“推论，推理；暗示”，impact“冲击，冲突，影响”均不符合原文意思。
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