Part A Directions: There are 3 reading passages in this part. 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 the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center For the longest time, I couldn't get worked up about privacy: my right to it; how it's dying; how we're headed for an even more wired, underregulated, overintrusive, privacy-deprived planet. I should also point out that as news director for Pathfinder, Time Inc.'s mega info mall, and a guy who on the Web, I know better than most people that we're hurtling toward an even more intrusive world. We're all being watched by computers whenever we visit Websites; by the mere act of "browsing" (it sounds so passive!) we're going public in a way that was unimaginable a decade ago.I know this because I'm a watcher too. When people come to my Website, without ever knowing their names, I can peer over their shoulders, recording what they look at, timing how long they stay on a particular page, following them around Pathfinder's sprawling offerings. None of this would bother me in the least, I suspect, if a few years ago, my phone,.like Marley's ghost, hadn't given me a glimpse of the nightmares to come. On Thanksgiving weekend in 1995, someone (presumably a critic of a book my wife and I had just written about computer hackers) forwarded my home telephone number to an out-of-state answering machine, where unsuspecting callers trying to reach me heard a male voice identify himself as me and say some extremely rude things.Then, with typical hacker aplomb, the prankster asked people to leave their messages (which to my surprise many callers, including my mother, did). This went on for several days until my wife and I figured out that something was wrong ("Hey...why hasn't the phone rung since Wednesday?") and got our phone service restored. It seemed funny at first, and it gave us a swell story to tell on our book tour. But the interloper who seized our telephone line continued to hit us even after the tour ended. And hit us again and again for the next six months. The phone company seemed powerless. Its security folks moved us to one unlisted number after another, half a dozen times. They put special pin codes in place. They put traces on the line. But the troublemaker kept breaking through. If our hacker had been truly evil and omnipotent as only fictional movie hackers are, there would probably have been even worse ways he could have threatened my privacy. He could have sabotaged my credit rating. He could have eavesdropped on my telephone conversations or siphoned off my e-mail. He could have called in my mortgage, discontinued my health insurance or obliterated my Social Security number. Like Sandra Bullock in The Net, I could have been a digital untouchable, wandering the planet without a connection to the rest of humanity. (Although if I didn't have to pay back school loans, it might be worth it. Just a thought.) Still, I remember feeling violated at the time and as powerless as a minnow in a flash flood. Someone was invading my private space--my family's private space--and there was nothing I or the authorities could do. It was as close to a technological epiphany as I have ever been. And as I watched my personal digital hell unfold, it struck me that our privacy- mine and yours- has already disappeared, not in one Big Brotherly blitzkrieg but in Little Brotherly moments, bit by bit. Losing control of your telephone, of course, is the least of it. After all, most of us voluntarily give out our phone number and address when we allow ourselves to be listed in the White Pages. Most of us go a lot further than that. We register our whereabouts whenever we put a bank card in an ATM machine or drive through an E-Z Pass lane on the highway. We submit to being photographed every day--20 times a day on average if you live or work in New York City--by surveillance cameras. We make public our interests and our purchasing habits every time we shop by mail order or visit a commercial Website.
1. What information do you learn about the author that establishes him as an authority on this topic?
A.He has suffered a lot in losing his privacy.
B.He makes his living off of the Web.
C.He knows how to monitor his account.
D.He and his wife published a book concerning computer hackers.
A B C D
B
[解析] 题目问:关于作者,你知道什么信息?第二段:“I should also point out that…and a guy who on the Web,I know better than most people that we're hurtling toward an even more intrusive world.”通过这句话可知,作者作为时代公司的超级信息商场《开创者》的新闻主管 和一个在网上谋生的人,他比大多数人都更了解人们正急速奔向一个更加具有侵入性的世界。 所以,答案是B。
2. Which of the following problems has the author experienced?
A.Someone got information from his medical files and sent him brochures on health products he may want to buy.
B.Someone used the motor-vehicle registration records on his car to find his home address.
C.Someone rerouted his telephone calls to another number without his knowledge.
D.Someone sent an e-mail message that destroyed the files on his computer.
A B C D
C
[解析] 题目问:作者曾经历下列哪个问题?第三段:“someone forwarded my home telephone:number to an out-of-state answering machine.”通过这句话可知,某人将作者住宅的 电话号码转到外州的电话答录机上了。所以,答案是C。
3. According to the passage, the hackers in the movie would conduct following thing EXCEPT______
A.eavesdropping
B.damaging a Social Security number
C.threatening in a flash flood
D.making a person information disappear in the date base
A B C D
C
[解析] 题目问:根据文章内容,影片中的黑客不会实施下列哪个行为?文章提到:“Still, I remember feeling violated at the time and as powerless as a minnow in a flash flood.”通过这句话 可知,作者仍然记得那时被侵犯的感觉,就像在急流中的小鱼一样无能为力。这只是打了一 个比喻,与电影中的黑客行为无关。所以,答案是C。
4. The writer cited his experience to show that______
A.the authorized organization could solve the problem by offering timely help
B.the interloper would be kept back sooner or later
Hello, my name is Richard and I am an ego surfer. The habit began about five years ago, and now I need help. Like most journalists, I can't deny that one of my private joys is seeing my byline in print. Now the Intemet is allowing me to feed this vanity to an ever greater extent, and the occasional sneaky web search has grown into a full-blown obsession with how high up Google's ranking my articles appear when I put my name into the search box. When I last looked, my best effort was a rather humiliating 47th place. You know you have a problem when you find yourself competing for ranking with a retired basketball player from the 1970s. Not that I'm alone in suffering from a disfunctional techno-habit. New technologies have revealed a whole raft of hitherto unsuspected personality problems: think crackberry, powerpointlessness or cheesepodding. Most of us are familiar with sending an email to a colleague sitting a couple of feet away instead of talking to them. Some go onto the web to snoop on old friends, colleagues or even first dates. More of us than ever reveal highly personal information on blogs or My Space entries. A few will even use Intemet anonymity to fool others into believing they are someone else altogether. So are these web syndromes and technological tics new versions of old afflictions, or are we developing fresh mind bugs? Developing a bad habit is easier than many might think. "You can become addicted to potentially anything you do," says Mark Griffiths, an addiction researcher at Nottingham Trent University in the UK, "because addictions rely on constant rewards." Indeed, although definitions of addiction vary, there is a body of evidence that suggests drug addictions and non-drug habits share the same neural pathways. While only a hardcore few can be considered true technology addicts, an entirely unscientific survey of the web, and of New Scientist staff, has revealed how prevalent techno-addictions may have become. The web in particular has opened up a host of opportunities for overindulgence. Take Wikipedia. Updating the entries--something anyone can do--has become almost a way of life for some. There are more than 2,400 "Wikipedians", who have edited more than 4,000 pages each. "It's clearly like crack for some people," says Dan Closely at Cornell University in New York, who has studied how websites such as Wikipedia foster a community. To committed Wikipedians, he says, the site is more than a useful information resource; it's the embodiment of an ideology of free information for all. Then there are photolog sites like Flickr. While most of us would rather die than be caught surreptitiously browsing through someone else's photos, there need be no such qualms about the private PICS people put up on these sites. Most people using Flickr and similar sites spent time each day browsing albums owned by people they had never met. They do this for emotional kicks. Khalid and Dix suggest: flicking through someone else's wedding photos, for example, allows people to daydream about their own nuptials. Email is another area where things can get out of hand. While email has led to a revival of the habit of penning short notes to friends and acquaintances, the ease with which we can do this means that we don't always think hard enough about where our casual comments could end up. This was the undoing of US broadcaster Keith Olbermann,who earlier this year sent a private email in which he described a fellow MSNBC reporter as "dumber than a suitcase of rocks". Unfortunately for Olbermann, the words found their way into the New York Daily News. Pam Briggs, a specialist in human-computer interaction at the University of Northumbria, UK, says the lack of cues such as facial expressions or body language when communicating electronically can lead us to overcompensate in what we say. "The medium is so thin, there's little room for projecting ourselves into it," says Briggs. "When all the social cues disappear, we feel we have to put something else into the void, which is often an overemotional or over-intimate message." The habit of forwarding jokey emails or YouTube videos- think Diet Coke and Mentos fountains- can also say a lot about how people want to be perceived, Briggs adds. "We rarely want to be seen as too serious, so we try to project more of our personality into email." This could also explain why many bloggers expose private information that they would never shout out to a crowded room.
6. Richard felt disgraced when he found ______
A.his article was rated low
B.he got a dysfunctional techno-habit
C.he compared himself with a retired basketball player
D.he became more egocentric
A B C D
A
[解析] 题目问:当理查德发现什么时,他觉得丢脸?第一段:“When I last looked.my best effort was a rather humiliating 47th place.”通过这句话可知,当作者最后一次看自己的文章排 名时,令他感到极其丢脸的是他写得最好的一篇文章竟然被排到第47位。所以,答案是A。
7. According to the passage, the followings are considered as one of the web syndromes, EXCEPT______
B.More than 2,400 Wikipedians work for the edition.
C.Everyone can do the revision on the web page.
D.The entries contribute to people's development.
A B C D
B
[解析] 题目问:关于维基百科,下列哪项是正确的?第四段:“There are more than 2,400 ‘ Wikipedians’who have edited more than 4,000 pages each.”通过这句话可知,人数超过2,400 的“维基百科人”每人编辑了超过4000页的网页。所以,答案是B。
9. Browsing Flicks and similar sites shows that______
A.people do not care to be care to be caught while browsing through other's PICS
B.people worry about uploading those personal albums
C.people can make better arrangement of their own wedding
D.people flick through other's photo to stimulate their own emotion
A B C D
D
[解析] 题目问:使用Flicker和类似网站表明了什么?第五段:“Most people using F1icker’ and similar sites spent time each day browsing albums owned by people they had never met.They do this for emotional kicks.”通过这句话可知,使用Flickei‘和类似网站的多数人每天都花时间 浏览从未谋面的人的相册,他们这么做是出于情感上的刺激。所以,答案是D。
10. What does the paragraph mainly talked about?
A.The web in particular has opened up a host of opportunities for overindulgence.
B.Drug addictions and non-drug habits share the same neural pathways.
C.People can become addicted to potentially anything you do.
D.New technologies have revealed some unsuspected personality problems.
It is interesting to reflect for a moment upon the differences in the areas of moral feeling and standards in the peoples of Japan and the United States. The Americans divide these areas somewhat rigidly into spirit and flesh, the two being in opposition in the life of a human being. Ideally, spirit should prevail but all too often it is the flesh that does prevail. The Japanese make no such division, at least between one as good and the other as evil. They believe that a person has two souls, each necessary. One is the "gentle" soul, the other is the "rough" soul. Sometimes the person uses his gentle soul, sometimes he must use his rough soul.He does not favor his gentle soul, neither does he fight his rough soul. Human nature in itself is good, Japanese philosophers insist, and a human being does not need to fight any part of himself. He has only to learn how to use each soul properly at the appropriate times. Virtue for the Japanese consists in fulfilling one's obligations to others. Happy endings, either in life or in fiction, are neither necessary nor expected, since the fulfillment of duty provides the satisfying end, whatever the tragedy it inflicts. And duty includes a person's obligations to those who have conferred benefits upon him and to himself as an individual of honor.He develops through this double sense of duty a self-discipline which is at once permissive and rigid, depending upon the area in which it is functioning. The process of acquiring this self-discipline begins in childhood. Indeed, one may say it begins at birth--how early the Japanese child is given his own identity! If I were to define in a word the attitude of the Japanese toward their children I would put it in one succinct word. Love? Yes, abundance of love, warmly expressed from the moment he is put to his mother's breast. For a mother this nursing of her child is important psychologically. Rewards are frequent, a bit of candy bestowed at the right moment, an inexpensive toy. As time comes to enter school, however, discipline becomes firmer. To bring shame to the family is the greatest shame for the child. What is the secret of the Japanese teaching of self-discipline? It lies, I think, in the fact that the aim of all teaching is the establishment of habit. Rules are repeated over and over, and continually practiced until obedience becomes instinctive. This repetition is enhanced by the expectation of the elders.They expect a child to obey and to learn through obedience. The demand is gentle at first and tempered to the child's tender age. It is no gentle as time goes on, but certainly it is increasingly inexorable. Now, far away from that warm Japanese home, I reflect upon what I learned there. What, I wonder, will take the place of the web of love and discipline which for so many centuries has surrounded the life and thinking of the people of Japan?
11. According to Japanese belief a child is born______
A.basically good
B.amoral, neither good nor evil
C.with two souls which are in combat with one another
D.in sin
A B C D
A
[解析] 题目问:根据日本人的信仰,初生的孩子是怎样的?第一段:“Human nature in itself is good.”通过这句话可知,日本人认为,人的本性是好的。所以,答案是A。
12. The training of the Japanese child can best be described as ______
A.a system of rewards and punishments
B.frequent disciplining which becomes more inexorably severe as the child grows older
C.benevolent and indulgent during the early years, but somewhat more severe as the child grows older
A.sublimating the "rough" soul to permit ascendancy of the "gentle" soul
B.fulfilling one's obligations to others
C.doing good and avoiding evil
D.being friendly and courteous to all people
A B C D
B
[解析] 题目问:日本关于美德的观念是怎样的?文章提到:“Virrue for the Japanese consists in fulfilling one's obligations to others.”通过这句话可知,对于日本人来说,美德存在 于一个人对另外一些人所尽的义务中。所以,答案是B。
15. To the Japanese, the aim of existence is______
Part B Tourists are guilty, so we are frequently told, of a number of crimes: upsetting the ecological balance of Mount Himalayas, parking wads of chewing gum under the benches of museums and art galleries, wearing unsuitable T shirts in Notre Dame, debauching the local peasantry and generally lowering the tone of everywhere they choose to set their benighted feet. Rarely has a group of people been so widely reviled, and I am one of them. So are you. I've been a tourist in Provence for about 15 years now often on the receiving end of criticism or mild abuse from people who accuse me of having "mined" the region by writing about it. Curiously, these complaints, which are sometimes offensive and invariably very shrill, do not come from the Provence themselves, who seem to regard me as a fairly benevolent oddity, but from my fellow tourists. From their vantage points in London or Brussels or Boston, they deplore what they say has happened to Provence. They know, from investigations carried out during their brief annual vacations, that Provence has changed. The markets are more crowded, the prices have gone up, the restaurants are full, the sunniest cafe tables are taken, bakers run out of bread, waiters run out of patience, there is nowhere to park and nobody--but nobody--can be found to fix a leaking pool. Mass tourism in Provence started more than 2,600 years ago with the arrival of Greeks from Phocea, who founded Marseille. They were a civilizing influence and provided jobs for the locals, and could therefore be described as acceptable tourists. So were the Romans, who built the monuments and viaducts and amphitheaters that we still enjoy. Then came a bad patch, with the arrival of Visigoths, Ostrogoths and Franks. They amused themselves by terrifying the inhabitants and ravaging the countryside. Here, perhaps, is where it had its start: the reputation of tourists as slobs. After many years of on-the-spot observation, I would like to put in a good word for this much-maligned species. The overwhelming majority of these visitors are amiable and considerate people who want nothing more than quiet enjoyment. They have come to Provence for sunshine and spectacular scenery, for the food and the wine, for a pleasant break from real life. Of course there are crowds, particularly in July and August, but these tend to be confined to the towns and postcard villages. For those who want solitude, beautiful and empty countryside is only a short drive away. Personally, I have never found the tourist season intolerable; indeed, there is reason to be grateful for some of its effects. If it weren't for the money that tourism brings, many of the chateaux and gardens open to the public would become derelict; monuments would be left to crumble; many restaurants could never survive on local custom alone; it wouldn't be worth putting on concerts or village fetes. Rural life would be the poorer. Obviously, this is not true everywhere. Some parts of the world have been so thoroughly overexploited that they have lost whatever charm they once possessed. This is usually the result of local greed; but the tourist, not the rapacious developer, gets most of the blame. Directions: The passage below summarizes the main points of the passage. Read the summary and then select the best word or phrase from the box blow, according to the passage. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center. Tourists are frequently criticized 1 the ecological balance of Mount Himalayas and 2 chewing gum under the benches of museum and art galleries. They are also blamed for their 3 while visiting Notre Dame. My fellow tourists have reviled me for having destroyed Provence 4 . They have made a lot of complaints 5 . For instance, there have been the busier markets, higher prices, 6 restaurants, cafe tables and parking lots, 7 empty bakeries and impatient waiters. Yet, Provence began 8 over 2,600 years ago. The locals welcomed Greeks 9 , and Romans 10 viaducts and amphitheaters. But those of Visigoths, Ostrogoths and Franks brought the tourists into 11 by terrifying the inhabitants and 12 . According my observation, I would like to say a few words 13 those much blamed tourists. Most of them are amiable and considerate, and they came mostly to the towns and postcard villages in Provence in July and August just for sunshine, 14 , the food, the wine, a pleasant break from real life. I believe Provence has been 15 to tourism 16 the chateaux, gardens and monuments, and 17 concerts and village fetes in the districts. But usually the tourist is 18 the blame 19 and 20 in some parts of the world. A.spectacular scenery K.shouldered B.for the holding of L.for the overexploitation C.not to mention M.amiable and considerate D.grateful N.high occupancy of E.the smearing of O.for the survival of F.based on their own perspectives P.the lost charm G.its massive tourism Q.poor behavior H.by writing about it R.for the monuments I.ravaging the countryside S.disrepute J.for their spoilage of T.for their civilizing influence
1.
J
[解析] 文章提到:“upsetting the ecological balance of Mount Himalayas.”通过这句话可 知,旅游者破坏了生态平衡,所以,空格处应填“fortheir spoilage of”。
2.
E
[解析] 文章提到:“parking wads of chewing gum under the benches of museums and art galleries.”通过这句话可知,旅游者将嚼过的口香糖放到长椅的下面。所以,空格处应填“the smearing of”。
3.
Q
[解析] 文章提到:“wearing unsuitable T shirts in Notre Dame.”通过这句话可知,旅游者 在圣母院穿着与场合不相称的T恤衫。所以,空格处应填“poor behavior”。
4.
H
[解析] 文章提到:“who accuse me ofhaving‘ruined’the region by writing about it.”通过 这句话可知,作者受到指责是因为他写了有关这个地方的事情而“毁灭”了这个地方。所以, 空格处应填“by writing about it”。
5.
F
[解析] 文章提到:“They know,from investigations carried out during their brief annual vacations,that Provence has changed.”通过这句话可知,旅游者的抱怨只是在时间很短的年假 旅行中得出的片面观点。所以,空格处应填“based on their own perspectives”。
6.
N
[解析] 文章提到:“The markets are more crowded,the prices have gone up,the restaurants are full,the sunniest cafe tables are taken…”通过这句话可知,餐厅里挤满了人。所以,空格处 应填“high occupancy of”。
7.
C
[解析] 文章提到:“The markets are more crowded,the prices have gone up,the restaurants are full,the sunniest cafe tables are taken,bakers run out of bread,waiters run out of patience.”通 过这句话可知,这些都是旅游者对普罗旺斯的抱怨和不满。所以,空格处应填“notto mention”。
8.
G
[解析] 文章提到:“Mass tourism in Provence started more than 2,600 years ago.”通过这句话 可知,普罗旺斯繁荣的旅游业开始于2600多年以前。所以,空格处应填“its massive tourism”。
9.
T
[解析] 文章提到:“Greeks from Phocea,who founded Marseille.They were a civilizing influence and provided jobs for the locals.”通过这句话可知,希腊人受到当地人的欢迎是因为他们对文明产 生了影响并为当地人提供了工作。所以,空格处应填“for their civilizing influence”。
10.
R
[解析] 文章提到:“So were the Romans,who built the monuments and viaducts and amphitheaters that we still enjoy.”通过这句话可知,罗马人受到当地人的欢迎是因为他们建造 了纪念碑、高架桥和圆形剧场。所以,空格处应填“for the monuments”。
11.
S
[解析] 文章提到:“Here,perhaps,is where it had its start:the reputation of tourists as slobs.” 通过这句话可知,旅游者的声誉受损也许是从这里开始的。bring sb.into disrepute意为“使某 人声誉扫地,使某人声名狼藉”,所以,空格处应填“disrepute”。
12.
I
[解析] 文章提到:“They amused themselves by terrifying the inhabitants and ravaging the countryside.”通过这句话可知,他们以恐吓居民和掠夺乡村来娱乐自己,而这些行为也使旅 游者的声誉受损。所以,空格处应填“ravaging the countryside”。
13.
M
[解析] 文章提到:“After many years of on-the-spot observation,I would like to put in a good word for this much-maligned species.The overwhelming majority of these visitors are amiable and considerate people who want nothing more than quiet enjoyment.”通过这句话可知,绝大多数的 旅游者都是友好的,而且是考虑周到的。所以,空格处应填“amiable and considerate”。
14.
A
[解析] 文章提到:“They have come to Provence for sunshine and spectacular scenery,for the food and the wine,for a pleasant break from real life.”通过这句话可知,旅游者来到普罗旺斯是因 为这里有阳光和壮观的景色、食物、酒和愉快的假期。所以,空格处应填“spectacular scenery”。
15.
D
[解析] 文章提到:“there is reason to be grateful for some of its effects.”可知,旅游业为 普罗旺斯带来经济效益,因此应该对此表示感谢。所以,空格处应填“grateful”。
16.
O
[解析] 文章提到:“If it weren't for the money that tourism brings,many of the chateaux and gardens open to the public would become derelict…”通过这句话可知,如果不是旅游业为普罗 旺斯带来的经济效益,这里就会百业凋零。所以,空格处应填“for the survival of”。
17.
B
[解析] 文章提到:“it wouldn't be worth putting on concerts or village fetes.”通过这句话可知, 如果没有旅游业也就没必要举办音乐会或者乡村宴会了。所以应填“for the holding of”。
18.
K
[解析] 文章提到:“but the tourist,not the rapacious developeg gets most ofthe blame.”通 过这句话可知,多数的责任都被推到了旅游者身上。所以,空格处应填“shouldered”。
19.
L
[解析] 文章提到:“Some pans of the world have been so thoroughly overexploited that they have lost whatever charm they once possessed.”通过这句话可知,世界的某些地区被过度开采, 而这个责任被推到了旅游者身上。所以,空格处应填“for the overexploitation”。
20.
P
[解析] 文章提到:“Some parts of the world have been so thoroughly overexploited that they have lost whatever charm they once possessed.”通过这句话可知,世界的某些地区被过度开采, 造成这些地区丧失了曾经拥有的吸引力,而这个责任也被推到了旅游者身上。所以,空格处 应填“the lost charm”。
Ⅱ Short Question Answer Directions: Read the following passage and then give short answers to the following five questions. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. Yoga, the ancient practice of postures, breathing and meditation, is gaining a lot of attention from the material world that its serious practitioners are trying to escape. Yoga practitioners are trying to keep themselves away from the material world. And no wonder, Americans who practice yoga are often well-educated, have higher-than-average household income and are willing to spend a bit more on so-called "green" purchases seen as benefiting the environment or society. "It's kind of growing out of the crunchy stage of yoga to the Starbucks stage," said Bill Harper, publisher of Yoga Journal. "From the videos and the clothes and the toe socks...people are pursuing this market with a vengeance." A glance through recent issues of his monthly magazine, whose readership has doubled in the past four years to 325,000, illustrates the point. There are four-color ads from the likes of Asics athletic shoes, Eileen fisher apparel and Ford Motor Co. Yoga Journal is now licensing a Russian edition and preparing to expand in other international markets. Americans spend some $2.95 billion a year on yoga classes, equipment, clothing, holidays, videos and more, according to a study commissioned by the magazine, fuelled in part by ageing baby boomers seeking less aggressive ways to stay fit. Roughly 16.5 million people were practising yoga in the United States early last year, in studios, gyms or at home, up 43 percent from 2002, the study found. Established sellers of yoga gear such as Hugger Mugger and Gaiam have been flooded with competition in the market for yoga mats, incense, clothing and fancy accoutrements ranging from designer yoga bags to eye pillows. Vancouver, British Columbia-based Lululemon Athletica, for one, has seen sales of its yoga apparel rise to $100 million since Canadian entrepreneur Chip Wilson founded the company in 1998. Customers are snapping up its trendy pants and tops to wear to class and, increasingly, to the supermarket or out to dinner. Another expanding business, Exhale, markets itself as a "mindbodyspa", with tony locations in Los Angeles, New York and other urban areas that combine yoga classes with facials, massage and alternative treatments such as acupuncture. Some question how all the consumption is changing a discipline with a strong spiritual foundation. "We've taken this ancient tradition, science, and art of yoga out of a culture and a religion and world view and we've tried to transplant to the other side of the planet," said Judith Hanson Lasater, a longtime yoga instructor and author who holds a doctorate in East-West psychology. "I believe there's not a complete match-up." Even so, several entrepreneurs stressed that they are able to adhere to yoga's healing principles while also turning a profit.
1. Use three words to describe the practice of yoga.
[答案]Postures,breathing and meditation.
2. The large consumption of yoga related products shows that yoga has developed into______
[答案]The large consumption of yoga related products shows that yoga has developed into a big market.
3. Why do baby boomers go for yoga practice?
[答案]Because they want to seek less aggressive ways to stay fit.
4. Give an example to show that the yoga clothing ofLululemon Athletica is in fashion.
[答案]Customers are snapping up its trendy pants and tops to wear to class and, increasingly,to the supermarket or out to dinner.
5. How does Exhale promote its yoga classes?
[答案]Exhale markets itself as a“mindbodyspa”,with tony locations in Los Angeles, New York and other urban areas that combine yoga classes with facials,massage and alternative treatments such as acupuncture.
Ⅲ Vocabulary and Structure Directions: There are 40 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.
1. For the first time, we found______ that allow us to connect the first phase of human evolution and the second phase.
2. As welfare reform has ______ millions of single mothers like Patino into the workforce since 1996, questions about its effects on families have loomed large.
4. Despite much discussion, and efforts by both women's and business groups to break "the glass ceiling" down, the world's biggest companies are still almost ______ run by men.
5. Larry Griffin was woken at three that morning to be told that his last-minute ______ against his death sentence for the murder of Quintin Moss, 15 years before, had been unsuccessful.
6. The workers of space shuttle Discovery got into the back of the shuttle to look for ______in the electronics that send data from the sensors to onboard computers.
15. Koizumi's annual visits to the notorious shrine have sparked a______ of condemnation and protests from China and the ROK because the shrine honours 14 Class-A war criminals.
19. Preliminary figures show Bibb County's tax digest is slightly ______ with state guidelines, which could result in a fine of up to $100,000.
A.out for the count
B.out and out
C.out of blast
D.out of whack
A B C D
D
[解析] out for the count“死的,毁了的”;out and out“彻底地”;out of blast“停工,停 产”;out ofwhack“不一致;不正常”。
20. The Tacoma's executive director and three port commissioners will be in China next week to ______advice from world port experts on improving inland transportation systems.
21. London's Heathrow airport, alongside many other major airports, is hoping that passenger numbers will be swallowed up by a new generation of huge aircraft______
23. What small businesses need to learn from larger competitors is how developing a dynamic learning environment______innovation, strengthens market position, and develops a true competitive advantage.
25. Activist parents say school kids aren't ______ enough to understand that a fruit-flavored soft drink doesn't have the nutritional benefits of real fruit.
26. Identity theft can range for the simple theft of a credit card, or it can go into more complex schemes where the thieves can ______ hundreds of people at a time.
29. Don Hambrick, a management professor at Penn State's Smeal College of Business, says "It's become much more______and a lot less fun to be an executive or director."
30. The government recently presented an ambitious plan to tackle the violence and ______that follow when too many people drink too much too quickly in too small an area.
31. But cellphones had been around for 15 years before they caught on with______ America. By that yardstick, broadband-widely available for only the past couple of years-has many more miles to go.
34. They might be willing to move from country to country, until they end up in a backwater ______nation with no laws or lawmakers to speak of, and can proceed with their miserably experiments.
36. Entering the fumiture store, Mr. Thompson took a few minutes to ______ through the catalog and got a sense of what kinds of sofa were in popular demand.
Ⅳ Translation Directions: Read the following passage carefully and then translate the underlined sentences into Chinese. You should write neatly on the ANSWER SHEET. Despite the web, we watch more television than ever. In the chaos of today's media and technology brawl- iPod vs. Zune, Google vs. Yahoo, windows vs. Linux, Intel vs. AMD--we can declare one unlikely winner. Standing tall in a field of new tech wonders, it's a geezer technology that are invented in the 1920s and commercialized in the 1940s, and it's still more powerful than any thing created since. (1) As you try to figure out where consumer infotech is going, and what it means for society, remember this big, central reality: People just want more television. If you doubt it, look at today's biggest news in tech. It continually centers on new ways to bring consumers the thing they crave above all else. (2) Sony flooded the recent Consumer Electronics Show with products that put Intemet video on your TV set, as did almost every other consumer electronics company. At the simultaneous Macworld Expo, Apple chief Steve Jobs introduced Apple TV. which does the same thing. Verizon said it will soon offer live TV on cellphone screens. It will also sell full-length programs for viewing whenever you want. Put it all together, and we have achieved a nirvana that didn't exist even a year ago: unlimited television available 24 / 7 on every screen you own. It's no surprise, of course. (3) Ever since the basic facts of steadily multiplying processor power and bandwidth became apparent, seers have confidently predicted this day. They just as confidently predicted what it would mean: traditional television's demise. Once the World Wide Web appeared in the mid-1990s, the future looked very clear. Boring old TV, the scheduled programs that come to you through a coaxial cable or satellite dish or antenna, would fade away. (4) Which is exactly the opposite of what has happened. Despite many Net Age alternatives, we Americans today watch more boring old TV than ever, which is saying something. How can that be? My theory is the Two-Liter Coke Principle. The Coca--Cola company discovered long ago that if it could get people to bring home bigger bottles of Coke, those people would drink more than they used to. Just getting more Coke in front of them increased their consumption. It seems to be the same with TV. Put more of it in front of people-- over 100 channels in many homes--and people will watch more. Seen from this perspective, the latest announcements of new TV-related technology look simply like additional ways to put more TV in front of American consumers. The supposed threat from the Internet was that we'd cut back on TV as we spent more time on MySpace or in Second Life. We may well spend more time on such new Net attractions, but we're unlikely to take that time away from video viewing. We're more likely to cut back on things we consider less important, like sleep. (5) No one has evaluated TV better than the great New Yorker essayist E. B. White, who in 1938 wrote, "We shall stand or fall by television, of that I am sure." We still don't know which it wilt be, but his assessment looks truer than ever.
Ⅴ Writing Direction: Write an essay on given topic "On University". Base on the .following outline and present your argument with supporting details in no less than 250 words. You should write neatly on the ANSWER SHEET.
1. 大学的功能 2. 大学是否实现了目标 3. 如何改进
On University
It is a clear fact that our country attaches great importance to education and there are much more students who become university freshmen each year Although they have entered into their ideal sanctum,do they really know about the university? In my opinion,university is not only a place of acquiring knowledge but a place of getting integrated development as well.A university student is on the best phase of forming his own character and developing his all-around capacity.However,teachers in the class still keep to traditional teaching method,which hardly create a kind of environment where students have chance to express their own thoughts.In addition,a university can be described as a bridge between students and society.If it doesn't link the both sides,or not enough,once students step into society, they may be puzzled by many things and scarcely know how to deal with them.So how to improve university education?We should innovate upon teaching method on the basis of traditional one so as to let students have more chances to speak out their own thinking.We can also hold a small discussing meeting to deal with the real problems from society,therefore when students go out of the campus,they will adapt themselves to the society quickly. To sum up,nowadays the main problems existing in university education is that most students lack of ability to think independently and to deal with complex things in our society.I'm sure these problems will be solved as long as correct and effective measures can be taken.