1. We ascribe his great success to his intelligence and persistence.
A.distribute
B.attribute
C.contribute
D.subject
A B C D
B
[解析] 他将成功归于自己的聪明和坚持。distribute分配。如：Some types of plants are widely distributed．有些植物分布得很广。attribute归于。最符合题意。常用词组有attribute sth. to sth. 如：When we get Success, we may attribute it to hard work. 自己取得成功时。我们会说这是自己努力的结果。contribute贡献。如：I hope I can contribute to your team. 希望我能为你们的团队做出贡献。subject使服从。如：How can you subject her will to your own?你怎么可以要她服从你的意愿呢?
2. The wild animals are enclosed in small cages in the zoo.
A.limited
B.bounded
C.restricted
D.confined
A B C D
D
[解析] 野生动物在动物园里被关进笼子。limited有限的。如：We had only limited communion with the natives．我们与本地人的交往有限。bounded有界的。如：The bounded area is typically either a business office environment or a residential environment．此封闭地区是典型的商业办公室环境或居住的环境。restricted限制。如：I restrict myself to smoking two cigarettes a day. 我限定自己每天只抽两支烟。confined被限制的。最符合题意。如：After her operation，she was confined to bed for a week. 她手术之后已卧床一星期了。
3. The waste pipe is blocked; try sluicing it out with hot water.
A.rushing
B.brushing
C.crushing
D.flushing
A B C D
D
[解析] 废旧管子被堵塞了，试着用热水冲冲。rush催促。如：Do not rush through your work. 不要匆匆忙忙地干工作。brush刷，画。如：Brush butter on the roast. 在烤肉上刷一层黄油。crush压破，粉碎。如：Her refusal crushed all our hopes. 她一拒绝，我的希望就全都破灭了。flush冲洗，冲蚀。最符合题意。如：In case of eye contact, flush with water for 15 mins.如眼不慎接触本产品，请用清水冲洗15分钟。
4. His actions do not match his words.
A.respond to
B.consist to
C.correspond to
D.accord to
A B C D
D
[解析] 他言行不一致。respond回复。如：People do not merely passively respond to the world. 人们不只是被动地对外部世界做出反应。consist组成，存在。如：A week consists of seven days．一星期由七天组成。correspond相当，符合。如：Your account of events corresponds with hers．你说的情况跟她说的相符．accord与……一致，最符合题意。如：Your behavior does not accord with your principle．你的行为与你的原则不符。
5. She is the only survivor of the air crash.
A.alone
B.unique
C.single
D.sole
A B C D
D
[解析] 他是飞机失事中的唯一幸存者。alone孤单的，不作名词修饰语。如：I was alone at home．我独自在家。unique独一无二的。如：It's a unique work of art．这是独一无二的艺术作品。single单一的。如：The letter was written on a single sheet of paper．这封信只用一张纸写成。sole唯一的，最符合题意。如：Farming is his sole livelihood. 他唯一的谋生之道就是务农。
6. The school dining room serves as a meeting place for teachers and students.
A.uses
B.utilizes
C.functions
D.exerts
A B C D
C
[解析] 学校餐厅当作教师和学生的会议室。use使用，及物动词。如：Can I use your phone?能用下你的电话么?utilize运用，及物动词。如：In a magazine you can utilize a picture of your product. 在杂志里，你可以用你产品的照片。function起作用，不及物动词，符合题目要求。如：Some English adverbs function as adjectives. 英语中有些副词可作形容词用。exert发挥，运用。及物动词。如：He exerted all his influence to make them accept his plan. 他用尽一切影响力使他们接受他的计划。
7. The republication of the writer's works will surely boost his reputation.
A.enhance
B.strengthen
C.enlarge
D.magnify
A B C D
A
[解析] 这个作家新发表的作品肯定会提高他的声望。enhance提高。最符合题意。如：He made many efforts to enhance his reputation. 他做了许多努力来提高他的声誉。strengthen加强，变坚固。如：Strengthen your ability to confront new problems, rather than winning every time．要加强你面对新问题的能力而不是想要每次都赢。enlarge扩大。如：I planned to enlarge this photograph. 我计划放大这张照片。magnify放大。如：Telescopes and microscopes magnify. 望远镜和显微镜能放大。
8. These are their motives for doing it.
A.reasons
B.excuses
C.answers
D.plans
A B C D
A
[解析] 这就是他们这样做的动机。motive动机。如：He showed his sinister motive at last. 他终于露出了他那邪恶的用心。reason理由。最符合题意。如：There is no reason to doubt his word. 没有理由不相信他的话。excuse借口。如：His excuse for being late was that he had missed the train. 他迟到的理由是没有赶上火车。answer回答。如：Do you know the answer to the question?你知道这个问题的答案么?plan计划。如：a plan for the future对未来的计划。
9. The river widens considerably as it begins to turn west.
A.twists
B.stretches
C.broadens
D.bends
A B C D
C
[解析] 河水向西流时明显变宽了。widen和broaden都有“拓宽”的意思。如：We must broaden the united front．我们必须扩大统一战线。twist弯曲。如：If you twist the cork, it will come out of the bottle．你一拧那个瓶塞，就会把它从瓶子上拿下来。stretch延伸。如：The forests stretch for hundreds of miles．森林绵延数百英里。bend弯曲。如：Bend the pipe by heating it.用加热方法来弯管子。
10. Henry cannot resist the lure of drugs.
A.abuse
B.flavor
C.temptation
D.consumption
A B C D
C
[解析] 亨利无法抵挡毒品的诱惑。lure吸引。如：Cheese is really a good lure for me. temptation吸引。如：She yielded to temptation and had another chocolate．她禁不住诱惑，又吃了一块巧克力。abuse滥用。如：abuse of power滥用职权。flavor滋味。如：What is the flavor of your ice cream?你的冰激凌是什么口味的?consumption消费。如：He has to cut down on the consumption of meat．他不得不减少吃肉。
11. These programmes are of immense value to old people.
A.natural
B.fatal
C.tiny
D.enormous
A B C D
D
[解析] 这些项目对老年人意义重大。immense和enormous都有“巨大的”意思。如：It was an enormous disappointment. 此事太令人失望了。natural自然的。如：a natural disaster自然灾害。tiny微小的。如：A tiny fishing boat was drifting slowly along. 一只小小的渔船在缓缓地漂去。fatal致命的。如：He took a fatal dose of drug. 他服用了一剂致命的毒药。
12. A great deal has been done to remedy the situation.
A.maintain
B.improve
C.assess
D.protect
A B C D
B
[解析] 采取了很多手段挽救这个局面。remedy补救。如：His faults of pronunciation can be remedied. 他的发音错误可以被纠正。improve改进。如：Herbal medicine can be used to improve our health. 草药可用于增进我们的健康。maintain保持。如：Mankind have been trying every means to maintain the balance of nature. 人类采用一切手段保持生态平衡。assess评估。如：he look at the house and assesses its market value. 他看了看房子并估算了其市场价值。protect保护。如：These electric wires are protected by a rubber covering. 这些电线用橡胶作防护层。
13. John is collaborating with Mary in writing an article.
A.cooperating
B.competing
C.combining
D.arguing
A B C D
A
[解析] 约翰和玛丽合写一篇文章。collaborate合作，勾结。如：I hope I can collaborate with you on the project. 我希望在这个项目上和你合作。cooperate合作。如：She has agreed to cooperate with the police in the investigation. 她同意在调查中跟警察合作。compete竞争。如：Lots of candidates compete for the position. 许多候选者竞争这一职位。combine合并。如：Combine all seasonings well to make sauce. 把所有调味料调匀成酱汁待用。argue争论。如：I hear them argue about money．我听到他们为钱争吵。
14. He is determined to consolidate his power.
A.strengthen
B.control
C.abandon
D.exercise
A B C D
A
[解析] 他决心增强自己的实力。consolidate巩固。如：The king consolidates his position by sweeping his opponents．国王通过扫除异己来巩固自己的地位。strengthen巩固，加强。To strengthen his position in Parliament, he held talks with leaders of the Peasant Paay.为了加强在国会中的地位，他跟农民党的领导人进行了会谈。control控制。如：Learn to control your temper. 学会控制你的脾气。abandon放弃。如：Those who abandon themselves to despair can not succeed. 那些自暴自弃的人无法成功。exercise行使。如：You should try to exercise patience. 你应当努力运用忍耐力。
15. Many scientists have been probing psychological problems.
A.solving
B.exploring
C.settling
D.handling
A B C D
B
[解析] 许多科学家都在探索心理问题。probe探索。如：probe into the scandals调查丑闻。explore探索。如：Both parties are exploring ways of settling the dispute. 双方都在寻求解决争端的办法。solve解决问题。如：Who can solve this maths problem?谁能解决这个数学难题。settle解决。如：They decided to settle their quarrel by a duel. 他们决定通过决斗来解决他们的争论。handle操作，处理。如：I know how to handle the machine. 我知道如何操作这台机器。
How does it happen that children learn their mother tongue so well? When we compare them with adults learning a foreign language, we often find this interesting fact. A little child without knowledge or experience often succeeds in a complete mastery of the language. A grown-up person with fully developed mental powers, in most cases, may end up with a faulty and inexact command. What accounts for this difference? Despite other explanations, the real answer in my opinion lies partly in the child himself, partly in the behaviour of the people around him. In the first place, the time of learning the mother tongue is the most favourable of all, namely, the first years of life. A child hears it spoken from morning till night and, what is more important, always in its genuine form, with the right pronunciation, right intonation, right use of words and right structure. He drinks in all the words and expressions which come to him in a fresh ever-bubbling spring. There is no resistance: there is perfect assimilation. Then the child has, as it were, private lessons all the year round, while an adult language-student had each week a limited number of hours which he generally shares with others. The child has another advantage: he hears the language in all possible situations, always accompanied by the right kind of gestures and facial expressions. Here there is nothing unnatural, such as is often found in language lessons in schools, when one talks about ice and snow in June or scorching heat in January. And what a child hears is generally what immediately interests him. Again and again, when his attempts at speech are successful, his desires are understood and fulfilled. Finally, though a child's "teachers" may not have been trained in language teaching, their relations with him are always close and personal. They take great pains to make their lessons easy.
1. Compared with adults learning a foreign language, children learn their native language with ease.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
A B C
A
[解析] 本题给出的信息是正确的。概括全文，原文说明了小孩子学母语是一个自然轻松的过程。
2. Adults' knowledge and metal powers hinder their complete mastery of a foreign language.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
A B C
C
[解析] 文章没有谈到这方面的信息。
3. The reason why children learn their mother tongue so well lies solely in their environment of learning.
4. Plenty of practice in listening during the first years of life partly ensures children's success of learning their mother tongue.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
A B C
A
[解析] 本题给出的信息是正确的。原文是：“A child hears it spoken from morning till night and, what is more important, always in its genuine form, with the right pronunciation, right intonation, right use of words and right structure.”
5. A child learning his native language has the advantage of having private lessons all the year round.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
A B C
A
[解析] 本题给出的信息是正确的。原文是：“Then the child has, as it were, private lessons all the year round...”
6. Gestures and facial expressions may assist a child in mastering his native language.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
A B C
B
[解析] 本题给出的信息是错误的。原文是：“The child has another advantage: he hears the language in all possible situations, always accompanied by the right kind of gestures and facial expressions.”小孩学习母语时也能顺便掌握正确的身体姿势和面部表情。
7. So far as language teaching is concerned, the teacher's close personal relationship with the student is more important than the professional language teaching training he has received.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
A B C
C
[解析] 文章没有谈到这方面的信息。
第3部分：概括大意与完成句子 下面的短文后有2项测试任务；(1)第23～26题要求从所给的6个选项中为第2～5段每段选择1个最佳标题；(2)第27～30题要求从所给的6个选项中为每个句子确定1个最佳选项。 1 The term "drug abuse" most often refers to the use of a drug with such frequency that it causes physical or mental harm to the user or impairs social functioning. Although the term seems to imply that users abuse the drugs they take, in fact, it is themselves or others they abuse by using drugs. 2 Pharmacologists, who study the effects of drugs, classify psychoactive drugs according to what they do to those who take them. Drugs that speed up signals passing through the nervous system, which is made up of the brain and spinal cord, and produce alertness and arousal and, in higher doses, excitability, and inhibit fatigue and sleep, are called stimulants. Drugs that retard, slow down, or depress signals passing through the central nervous system and produce relaxation, a lowering of anxiety, and, at higher doses, drowsiness and sleep, are called depressants. One distinct kind of depressants are those which dull the mind's perception of pain and in medicine are used as painkillers, or analgesics. These drugs called narcotics. 3 It is not always easy to determine exactly when simple drug use becomes abuse. Thus it is far easier to study who uses illegal psychoactive drugs than it is to study who abuses them. When researchers describe patterns of drug abuse, then, they usually describe the more general phenomenon of drug use, whether it leads to abuse or not. 4 Drinking on the job is a social and economic problem with a long history. With the growing popularity of illegal drugs in the 1960s and 1970s, it was to be expected that their use in the workplace would emerge as a major issue by the 1980s. Estimates of employee drug use vary greatly, ranging from 10 percent to 25 percent for the proportion of workers who use drugs occasionally on the job. The safe performance of some occupations among them is done by airline pilots in air traffic. 5 From the 1920s until the 1960s, treatment of drug abuse in the United States was practically nonexistent. During this period many officials did not believe that treatment was effective or necessary. Drug abusers and sellers were simply arrested and imprisoned, thereby discouraging use. The dramatic explosion in the use and abuse of a wide range of different drugs during the 1960s demonstrated the weakness of this theory. As a result, two treatment programs were developed during the 1960s. A. Patterns of drug abuse B. Treatment C. Drug testing in the workplace D. Classification of psychoactive drugs E. Definition
1. Paragraph 1 ______
E
[解析] 本题考查的是对所读材料大意与主旨的掌握。本段中心意思是滥用毒品这一概念的定义。
2. Paragraph 3 ______
A
[解析] 本题考查的是对所读材料大意与主旨的掌握。本段中心意思是滥用药物的形式。
3. Paragraph 4 ______
C
[解析] 本题考查的是对所读材料大意与主旨的掌握。本段中心意思是研究在工作环境下服用毒品的情况。
4. Paragraph 5 ______
B
[解析] 本题考查的是对所读材料大意与主旨的掌握。本段中心意思是治疗滥用毒品的历史和方法。
A. 10 percent to 25 percent for the proportion of workers who use drugs occasionally on the job B. determine exactly when simple drug use becomes abuse C. the 1920s until the 1960s D. the 1960s until the 1970s E. signals passing through the nervous system
5. Drugs that speed up ______.
E
[解析] 本题考查的是对阐述文章的主旨事实与细节的了解。依据是第二段第二句话Drugs that speed up signals passing through the nervous system, which is made up of the brain and spinal cord, and produce alertness and arousal and, in higher doses, excitability, and inhibit fatigue and sleep, are called stimulants.
6. Treatment of drug abuse in the United States was practically nonexistent from ______.
C
[解析] 本题考查的是对阐述文章的主旨事实与细节的了解。依据是第五段第一句话From the 1920s until the 1960s. treatment of drug abuse in the United States was practically nonexistent.
7. It is not always easy to ______.
B
[解析] 本题考查的是对阐述文章的主旨事实与细节的了解。依据是第三段第一句It is not always easy to determine exactly when simple drug use becomes abuse.
8. Estimates of employee drug use very greatly, ranging from ______.
A
[解析] 本题考查的是对阐述文章的主旨事实与细节的了解。依据是第四段第三句Estimates of employee drug use vary greatly, ranging from 10 percent to 25 percent for the proportion of workers who use drugs occasionally on the job.
第4部分：阅读理解 下面有3篇短文后有5道题。请根据短文内容，为每题定1个最佳选项。
第一篇
Physician-assisted Suicide
The Supreme Court's decisions on physician-assisted suicide carry important implications for how medicine seeks to relieve dying patients of pain and suffering. Although it ruled that there is no constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide, the Court in effect supported the medical principle of "double effect" , a centuries-old moral principle holding that an action having two effects—a good one that is intended and a harmful one that is foreseen—is permissible if the actor intends only the good effect. Doctors have used that principle in recent years to justify using high doses of morphine to control terminally ill patients' pain, even though increasing dosages will eventually kill the patient. Nancy Dubler, director of Montefiore Medical Center, contends that the principle will shield doctors who "until now have very, very strongly insisted that they could not give patients sufficient mediation to control their pain if that might hasten death. " George Annas, chair of the health law department at Boston University, maintains that, as long as a doctor prescribes a drug for a legitimate medical purpose, the doctor has done nothing illegal even if the patient uses the drug to hasten death. "It's like surgery," he says. "We don't call those deaths homicides because the doctors didn't intend to kill their patients, although they risked their death. If you're a physician, you can risk your patient's suicide as long as you don't intend their suicide." On another level, many in the medical community acknowledge that the assisted-suicide debate has been fueled in part by the despair of patients for whom modem medicine has prolonged the physical agony of dying. Just three weeks before the Court's ruling on physician-assisted suicide, the National Academy of Science (NAS) released a two-volume report, Approaching Death: Improving Care at the End of Life. It identifies the undertreatment of pain and the aggressive use of "ineffectual and forced medical procedures that may prolong and even dishonor the period of dying" as the twin problems of end-of-life care. The profession is taking steps to require young doctors to train in hospices, to test knowledge of aggressive pain management therapies, to develop a Medicare billing code for hospital-based care, and to develop new standards for assessing and treating pain at the end of life. Annas says lawyers can play a key role in insisting that these well-meaning medical initiatives translate into better care. "Large numbers of physicians seem unconcerned with the pain their patients are needlessly and predictably suffering," to the extent that it constitutes "systematic patient abuse." He says medical licensing boards "must make it clear that painful deaths are presumptively ones that are incompetently managed and should result in license suspension."
1. From the first three paragraphs, we learn that ______.
A.doctors used to increase drug dosages to control their patients' pain
B.it is still illegal for doctors to help the dying end their lives
3. According to the NAS's report, one of the problems in end-of-life care is ______.
A.prolonged medical procedures
B.inadequate treatment of pain
C.systematic drug abuse
D.insufficient hospital care
A B C D
B
[解析] 本题可以定位到第七段的第二句话中的“the undertreatment of pain”以及“the aggressive use of ‘ineffectual and forced medical procedures that may prolong and even dishonor the period of dying’”。一个是“对病人的疼痛治疗不力”。另外一个是“强行使用无效的治疗方法延长生命，使得病人的晚期失去尊严”。因此，这里的答案应该是B。
4. Which of the following best defines the word "aggressive" (line 3, paragraph 7 ).?
A.Bold.
B.Harmful.
C.Careless.
D.Desperate.
A B C D
A
[解析] 这个单词的所在句“It identifies the undertreatment of pain and the aggressive use of ‘ineffectual and forced medical procedures that may prolong and even dishonor the period of dying’as the twin problems of end-of-life care.”说的是对病痛处理不力和大胆使用“无效而强制性的医疗程序，这些程序可能会延长死亡期，甚至会让死亡期难堪”。对这种医疗程序的使用必须是“aggressive”的，是一般的方法不会用的。所以这个单词的意思就是“bold”。
5. George Annas would probably agree that doctors should be punished if they ______.
To paraphrase 18thcentury statesman Edmund Burke, "all that is needed for the triumph of a misguided cause is that good people do nothing. " One such cause now seeks to end biomedical research because of the theory that animals have rights ruling out their use in research. Scientists need to respond forcefully to animal rights advocates, whose arguments are confusing the public and thereby threatening advances in health knowledge and care. Leaders of the animal rights movement target biomedical research because it depends on public funding, and few people understand the process of health care research. Hearing allegations of cruelty to animals in research settings, many are perplexed that anyone would deliberately harm an animal. For example, a grandmotherly woman staffing an animal rights booth at a recent street fair was distributing a brochure that encouraged readers not to use anything that comes from or is animals-no meat, no fur, no medicines, Asked if she opposed immunizations, she wanted to know if vaccines come from animal research. When assured that they do, she replied, "Then I would have to say yes. " Asked what will happen when epidemics return, she said, "Don't worry, scientists will find some way of using computers. " Such well-meaning people just don't understand. Scientists must communicate their message to the public in a compassionate, understandable way-in human terms, not in the language of molecular biology. We need to make clear the connection between animal research and a grandmother's hip replacement, a father's bypass operation, a baby's vaccinations, and even a pet's shots. To those who are unaware that animal research was needed to produce these treatments, as well as new treatments and vaccines, animal research seems wasteful at best and cruel at worst. Much can be done. Scientists could "adopt" middle school classes and present their own research. They should be quick to respond to letters to the editor, lest animal rights misinformation go unchallenged and acquire a deceptive appearance of truth. Research institutions could be opened to tours, to show that laboratory animals receive humane care. Finally, because the ultimate stakeholders are patients, the health research community should actively recruit to its cause not only well-known personalities such as Stephen Cooper, who has made courageous statements about the value of animal research, but all who receive medical treatment. If good people do nothing there is a real possibility that an uninformed citizenry will extinguish the precious embers of medical progress.
1. The author begins his article with Edmund Burke's words to ______.
4. The author believes that, in face of the challenge from animal rights advocates, scientists should ______.
A.communicate more with the public
B.employ hi-tech means in research
C.feel no shame for their cause
D.strive to develop new cures
A B C D
A
[解析] 在解答这类题目的时候，考生应该按照题干关键词去寻找答案线索可能的所在地。本题关键词“challenge from animal rights advocates”，以及“scientists should”，解题线索可在最后两段中找出。作者向科学家们提出的建议都是有助于他们与公众更好的交流。答案很明显，是A。选项B、C、D貌似合理，其实文中都没有提到。
5. From the text we learn that Stephen Cooper is ______.
A.a well-known humanist
B.a medical practitioner
C.an enthusiast in animal rights
D.a supporter of animal research
A B C D
D
[解析] 首先根据“Stephen Cooper”定位到最后一段，我们可以找到线索“Finally, because the ultimate stakeholders are patients...Stephen Cooper, who has made courageous statements about the value of animal research...”从这句话中，我们知道“Cooper”是个名人，也是病患者，他曾经高度赞扬过动物研究的价值。所以，我们可以推断出他是支持动物研究的。正确答案是选项D。
第三篇
Electronic Spying
Wild Bill Donovan would have loved the Internet. The American spymaster who built the Office of Strategic Services in the World War II and later laid the roots for the CIA was fascinated with information. Donovan believed in using whatever tools came to hand in the "great game" of espionage-spying as a "profession. " These days the Net, which has already re-made such everyday pastimes as buying books and sending mail, is reshaping Donovan's vocation as well. The latest revolution isn't simply a matter of gentlemen reading other gentlemen's e-mail. That kind of electronic spying has been going on for decades. In the past three or four years, the World Wide Web has given birth to a whole industry of point-and-click spying. The spooks call it "open-source intelligence," and as the Net grows, it is becoming increasingly influential. In 1995 the CIA held a contest to see who could compile the most data about Burundi. The winner, by a large margin, was a tiny Virginia company called Open-Source Solutions, whose clear advantage was its mastery of the electronic world. Among the firms making the biggest splash in this new world is Straitford, Inc. , a private intelligence-analysis firm based in Austin, Texas. Straitford makes money by selling the results of spying (covering nations from Chile to Russia) to corporations like energy-services firm McDermott International. Many of its predictions are available online at www. straitford, com. Straitford president George Friedman says he sees the online world as a kind of mutually reinforcing tool for both information collection and distribution, a spymaster's dream. Last week his firm was busy vacuuming up data bits from the far corners of the world and predicting a crisis in Ukraine. "As soon as that report runs, we'll suddenly get 500 new Internet sign-ups from Ukraine," says Friedman, a former political science professor. "And we'll hear back from some of them. " Open-source spying does have its risks, of course, since it can be difficult to tell good information from bad. That's where Straitford earns its keep. Friedman relies on a lean staff of 20 in Austin. Several of his staff members have military-intelligence backgrounds. He sees the firm's outsider status as the key to its success. Straitford's briefs don't sound like the usual Washington back-and-forthing, whereby agencies avoid dramatic declarations on the chance they might be wrong. Straitford, says Friedman, takes pride in its independent voice.
1. The emergence of the Net has ______.
A.received support from fans like Donovan
B.remolded the intelligence services
C.restored many common pastimes
D.revived spying as a profession
A B C D
B
[解析] 第一段最后一句话“These days the Net, which has remade such everyday pastimes as buying books and sending mail, is reshaping Donovan's Vocation as well.”从上文中我们已经得知“Donovan's vocation”指的就是“spying”(间谍)，也就是“intelligence services”(情报行业)。关键在于对“：reshape”一词的理解，它的含义是“重新塑造”。B其实就是原文的另一种表述方式。“remold”就是“reshape”的意思，都表示“重新塑造，改造”。干扰项“revive”的意思是“(使)苏醒，(使)复兴，(使)复活，(使)再生效，回想”，言下之意是将某一样已灭亡或已很脆弱的东西重新复活或者复兴。而第一段并没有提到间谍行业曾经消失的信息，从第二段中我们了解到互联网推动了情报行业的发展，也没有找到任何关于情报行业曾经中断的内容，所以D的说法是不正确的。C“restore”的含义是“使恢复，使回复”，言下之意是将原来不完整的或者破碎的东西给复原。原文中没有提到。A的错误在于对第一句话的误读。“would have loved”表示虚拟语气，是对当时情况的一种假设，而这种假设的情况在当时是不存在的。这句话的真实意思是：如果“疯狂的Bill Donovan还在世的话，他会爱上互联网的”。可见“Donovan”在世的时候并没有互联网，所以A将“Donovan”说成是“互联网的爱好者”的说法是错误的。
2. Donovan's story is mentioned in the text to ______.
3. The phrase " making the biggest splash" (Line 1, Paragraph 3) most probably means ______.
A.causing the biggest trouble
B.exerting the greatest effort
C.achieving the greatest success
D.enjoying the widest popularity
A B C D
C
[解析] 读者应该能够根据上下文对“make a splash”这个短语进行合理的推理。在中情局举办的一次比赛中“Straitford”公司获胜了，被认为是“make a splash”，因此可见这里的逻辑很清楚，即“成功”和“make a splash”的意思是非常接近的。由此可以推断出C是正确的。
4. It can be learned from paragraph 4 that ______.
A.Straitford's prediction about Ukraine has proved true
B.Straitford guarantees the truthfulness of its information
C.Straitford's business is characterized by unpredictability
D.Straitford is able to provide fairly reliable information
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 equipment, Alaska, polar bears and winter tourism. Or 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-schoolers are outsiders who might be uncomfortable mixing with other people in adult life. 5 However, most parents do not 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, there are children who are educated by their parents at home instead of by teachers at school. 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, how deserts are formed, and how the polar ice caps affect ocean level.
There was a time when parents who wanted an educational present for their children would buy a typewriter, a globe or an encyclopedia set. Now those 1 seem hopelessly old-fashioned; this Christmas, there were a lot of personal computers under the tree. 2 that computers are the key to success, parents are also financially insisting that children 3 taught to use them in school-as early as possible. The problem for schools is that when it 4 computers, parents don't always know best. Many schools are 5 parental impatience and are purchasing hardware without sound educational planning so they can say, "OK, we've moved into the computer age." Teachers found themselves caught in the middle of the problem-between parent pressure and 6 educational decisions. Educators do not even agree 7 how computers should be used. 8 money is going for computerized educational materials 9 research has shown can be taught just as well with pencil and paper. 10 those who believe that all children should have access to computers, warn of potential dangers to the very young. The temptation remains strong largely because young children 11 so well to computers. First graders have been seen willing to work for two hours on math skills. Some have an attention span of 20 minutes. 12 school can afford to go into computing, and creates yet another problem: a division between the haves and have-nots. Very 13 parents are agitating 14 computer instruction in poor school districts, 15 there may be barely enough money to pay the reading teacher.
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