C

[解析] 1-3
M: Hey, Alien, how are you?
W: I'm fine Bob. Aren't you glad the semester is over?
M: Yes, are you going to go to the rock concert Friday night?
W: I haven' t thought much about it, and you? M: Sure, would you like to go with me?
W: Sounds like fun! M: You have to buy your own ticket, though.
W: Are you broke again? Let me treat you.
M: Wow, where did you come into so much cash?
W: You know ! am a waitress at the student center. Anyway, now that final exams are almost over, I' d love a night out.
M: Since you've been so great about buying the tickets, why don' t you take us out to dinner?.
W: You've got a deal. Let's buy the tickets now.

D

B

B

[解析] 4-7
M: You should have been the in line at the housing office. It took me an hour to make my dormitory deposit for next year. Have you made yours yet?
W: No, I'm not sure I'm going to.
M: There's not much time left. The deadline' s May 1. That is just two weeks from now. Are you short of cash?
W: No, I'm okay.
M: You' d better hurry up if you want a dorm room next September. There aren't enough room for everyone, and first year students have priority.
W: Well, I've been thinking about living off campus.
M: Have you any idea how much that would cost? There is the rent, utilities and you' d probably need a car to    commute.
W: ! know it would be more expensive. I think I could handle it, though, This dorm is just so noisy that I can' t get anything done. Maybe my grades would be better if I had some peace and quiet in a place of my own.
M: You should study in the library the way I do. Think of the money you' d save.
W: I've got to think it over some more. There's still two weeks left in April.

C

D

B

C

[解析] 8-10
M: Parcel Express. Good morning. How can I help you?
W: Good morning. I'm thinking of sending a parcel to New York next week. Can you tell me what the procedure is, please?
M: Certainly. When you ring us, we need the following information: The invoice address, that's probably your address, isn' t it? --and then the pickup address ff fruit's different, and a contact phone number.
W: Just a moment. I'm taking notes. Phone number. Right.
M: Then we need the full name, address, and phone number of the person you're sending the parcel to.
W: Okay. Anything else?
M: Yes. The weight and dimensions of the parcel--that's height, width, and length, the value of the goods, and a full description.
W: Value, description.
M: Yes, but don' t seal the parcel. We need to leave it open so that the driver can check the contents when he collects it. After the recent bombing, the airline said that we have to check all parcels. They told us we had to do it.
W: Fine. Now, last question. How long will the parcel take to get to New York.
M: One to two working days. There are daily flights at midday. And ff we collect the parcel from you at l0:15, then your parcel catches that flight and it will arrive within 24 hours.
W: Right. Thank you very much. You've been very helpful
M: Not at all. Goodbye.
W: Goodbye.

B

A

The woman's last inquiry is mainly concerned with
[A] the lime needed for sending the parcel     [B] the flight time to New York
[C] the parcel destination                     [D] parcel collection

B

[解析] 11-13
   My father woke me up early one morning when I was fourteen and announced "Get up, you are going with me to cut grass." I felt proud and excited because my father thought I was responsible enough to help him in his business. Actually, that first day was very hard. From sunrise to sunset, my father, my younger brother and I cut and cut very large yards in well-to-do part of the city. By the end of the day I was exhaust- ed, but I felt good. I put out a hard day's labor and earned six dollars. One day, my father spotted some weeds I had missed cutting and pulled me inside. "Chat that section again!' he said firmly "and don' t make me have to tell you again." The message was very dear. Today I stress the importance of doing the job right the first time. Every job I have held from cutting lawns to washing dishes to working a machine on the construction site, I have learned something that help me in my next job. If you work hard enough, you can learn from any job you do.

C

C

D

[解析] 14-16
   In Britain, ff you are found guilty of a crime, you can be sent to prison or be fined or be ordered to do community work, such as tidying public places and helping the old. You may also be sent to special centers where you learn practical skills like cooking, writing and car maintenance.
   Around 5 % of the prison population are women. Many prisons were built over 100 years ago. But the government will have built 11 new prisons by next year. There are two sorts of prisons--the open sort and the dosed sort. In the closed sort, prisoners are given very little freedom. They spend three to ten hours outside the cells when they exercise, eat, study, learn skills, watch TV and talk to the other prisoners. All prisoners are expected to work. Most of them are paid for what they do, whether it is doing maintenance or cooking and cleaning. Prisoners in the open prisons are locked up at night, but for the rest of time, they are flee within the prison grounds. They can exercise, have visitors or study, and some are allowed out of the grounds to study or do community work.

A

B

A

[解析] 17-20
   The first English dictionary, called An Alphabetical Table of Hard Words, was published in 1604. The dictionary was actually nothing more than a list of about 3,000 difficult words, each followed by a one-word definition. The author, Robert Cawdrey, made no attempt to include everyday words in his dictionary. No one, he reasoned, would ever have to look up a word in a dictionary if he already knew the meaning of the word. During the 1600's, more dictionaries were published. Each followed Cawdrey' s lead and presented a few thousand hard words. Around 1700 one dictionary maker, John Kersey, did define easy words as well as hard ones. But until the 1750's all dictionaries were rather crude and not very valuable.
   A man named Dr. Samuel Johnson charged all this. In 1755 Dr. Johnson produced the first modem dictionary. He included in his dictionary all important words, both easy and hard, and he gave good meanings. He also gave good sentences to show how each word was actually used in speech and in writing. By the end of the 1700' s most dictionary makers had followed Johnson' s lead. Dictionaries were getting better and better.
   The 1800's saw the greatest improvement in the quality of dictionaries. In England scholars planned and prepared the Oxford English Dictionary, a twenty-volume work. One of the most interesting features of the Oxford Dictionary is its word histories. It traces the history of each word from its earliest recorded use up to the time of the printing of the dictionary.

C

D

B

B

[解析] 21-22
   Under growing international pressure, U.S. authorities Tuesday seized a Cuban exile accused by Fidel Castro's government of masterminding a 1976 airliner bombing that killed 73 people. He had been seeking asylum in the United States.
   Luis Posada Carriles, a 77-year-old former CIA operative and Venezuelan security official, was taken into custody by U.S. immigration authorities, the Homeland Security Department said in a statement.
   The department did not say what it planned to do with Posada. Venezuela has asked for his extradition, and Cuba has asked that he be sent to Venezuela for retrial in the bombing or go before an international tribunal.
   Generally, the U.S. government does not return people to countries acting on Cuba's behalf, the department said. It has 48 hours to determine his immigration status.

D

C

[解析] 23-24
   Hundreds of youths stormed a police station and set fire to cars in southeastern Nigeria on Tuesday after a protester was fatally shot by a police rifle, officials said.
   The youths began protesting Tuesday morning over demands that a local oil refinery and petrochemical plant employ more people from the area, said police chief Samuel Adetuyi.
   They set fire to part of a police station in the Niger delta village of Ogale and burned an SUV in its courtyard. One protester was killed when he tried to grab a rifle from a police officer and the gun accidentally went off, he said.
   Discontent is high among people in the Niger delta over unemployment and continued poverty despite booming oil production in their area.
   Nigeria is the world's seventh largest oil exporter and the fifth largest supplier of crude oil to the United States.

A

C

[解析] 25-26
   An Austrian held hostage by Iraqi militants could be released within 24 hours, local radio reported on Wednesday, quoting the leader of Australia's Muslims, Sheikh Taj al-Din al-I-Hilali.
   A journalist for Australia's SBS Arabic radio service, Majida Abboud-Saab, said Sheik al-Hilali, in Iraq to try to free 63-year-old Donglas Wood, had told her he had spoken to a man who said he represented the militants holding the engineer.
   "They said that they were willing to release Donglas Wood," Abboud-Saab told Southern Cross Broad- casting on Wednesday.
   "They are not placing any conditions on his release. Sheikh Taj al-Din al-Hilali is very convinced and he is very optimistic and he is very happy about the fact that they have agreed to release Douglas."
   Australia's Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has said that Wood, who is married to an American, may have been kidnapped two days before a two-minute video was delivered to news agencies on May 1.

B

A

[解析] 27-28
   Russia and Venezuela signed a contract for 100,000 Russian assault rifles to be provided to the American nation, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported.
   The contract, signed on Tuesday by Venezuelan Defense  'Minister Jorge Garcia and Sergei Ladygin, the regional chief of Russia' s state arms agency Rosoboronexport, provides for the AK-103 guns to be delivered between October and March, 1TAR-Tass said.
   President Hugo Chavez's plan to buy the new assault rifles from Russia has drawn sharp criticism from the U.S. government, which has suggested the guns could fall into the hands of other groups, such as leftist Colombian

B

D

[解析] 29-30
   The captain of the Greenpeace boat, "The Rainbow Warrior," was sentenced Tuesday to six months in prison for disobedience dung a protest against the war in Iraq in 2003.
   Three other members of file group were absolved in the case while a fourth was fined, Spanish National Radio said.
   The case stemmed from the detention of the five on March 14, 2003, for staging a protest aboard the boat captained by Daniel Rizzotti, an Argentine citizen, near the U. S. -Spanish Rota naval base in southern Spain.
   Before being arrested, the activists managed to delay for a clay a U.S. naval vessel carrying war supplies to the Middle East.
   Greenpeace has said file protests were part of a much bigger social protest "against an unfair." Most Spaniards opposed the war and millions took part in anti-war demonstrations before the start of file conflict in March 2003.

A

B

must have done用来表示对过去某动作的肯定推测，例如：He must have been to England，for he    knows so much about that country．他一定去过英国，因为他了解那么多有关那个国家的事情。

A

however作“无论如何，不管怎样，(表示惊讶)到底如何”讲，表示对比，例如：There is，however，a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue．克制也有个限度，超过了限度就不再是美德。

D

根据句子结构，我们可以看出这里需要一个关系代词，既可引导宾语从句，而且还可在从句中作．   宾语，例如：The gentleman does not recommend a man on account of what he says；neither does he dismiss what is said on account of the speaker．君子不以言举人，不以人废言。

C

为了强调人们原来的看法与事实相去甚远，由此要用surprisingly,该词作“令人吃惊地’’讲，例如：  In other words，they were surprisingly good -tempered．也就是说，他们的脾气好得让人吃惊。

A

so as to 相当于in order to引导目的状语，例如：Fame has also this great drawback，that if we pursue it，we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men．名誉也有这样大的缺点：如果我们追求它，我们就必须调整自己的生活，以便能取悦于人。

B

由于这里讲述了另一个出人意料之处，所以要用moreover，意为“此外，而且”，例如：Lies are essential to humanity．They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit．谎言对人类来说是必不可少的。它们也许如同追求快乐一样重要，而且是由这种追求所支配的。

B

可以用副词far来修饰形容词或副词比较级，例如：It is far easier to make war than to make peace．发动战争远比缔造和平容易。To care for wisdom and truth and the improvement of the soul is far better than to seek money and honour and reputation．尊重知识、追求真理和净化心灵，要比追求金钱、荣誉和名声高尚得多。

D

这里要表示两种语言词汇变化的对比，因此这里需要一个能够替代前面words一词的代词，这个词就只能是those，例如：Diseases of the soul are more dangerous than those of the body．心灵的疾病比肉体的疾病更危险。

A

single意为“单一的，惟一的”，例如：A single full moon dispels darkness of the world，but a multitude of stars fail to do so．众多星斗驱不走黑暗，一轮明月照亮人间。

B

“数百”要用several hundred，例如：The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for several hundred years．身居要职的平庸者随便作出的决定，在某个关键时刻竟会影响事态发展达数百年之久。

C

这里是一个独立主格结构，表示解释说明，例如：Silver is the best conductor，copper following behind．银是最好的导体，铜次之。

D

根据上文中的"for a single noun can be spoken or written．．．in several hundred different forms"可以断定正确答案为form。    

D

numerous意为“大量的，为数众多的”，例如：There are numerous islands off the coast．海岸外边有无数的岛屿。

A

with the result that引导结果状语从句，例如：He went over the report many times，with the result that he had the whole thing almost by heart．这个报告他看了许多遍，以至于他能把报告的所有内容记下来。

D

ever用在完成时中，表示“曾经”之意，例如No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor．人类的杰作没有一件不是经过艰巨的劳动创造出来的。Justice is the end of government，it is the end of civil society．It has ever been and ever will be pursued，until it either will be obtained or until liberty be lost in the pursuit．公正是政权的目的，也是文明社会的目的。在没有获得它或自由没有丧失以前，人们一直追求它，而且将继续追求它。

A

由于上句给出的是原因，而这一句是结果，因此要使用副词consequently，例如：If you wage war， do it energetically and with severity．This is the only way to make it shorter，and cogently less inhuman．如果打仗，就要毫不留情地全力去打。这是缩短战争的惟一方法，因为也可以减少战争的残酷。

C

首先，读者应该搞清楚，这是一个倒装句，主语是后面的a jargon similar to the pidgin English used in old China，因此谓语要使用单数；由于动词短语grow up不使用被动语态，因此正确答案为has,例如：Men have sorrow and joy；they part or meet again；The moon is bright or dim and she may wax or wane．There has been nothing perfect since the olden days．人有悲欢离合，月有阴晴圆缺，此事古难全。

B

similar to表示“与……相似”，例如：Silver is similar in color to aluminum．银和铝在颜色上相似。

B

由于本句和上句的内容是转折关系，因此这里要使用表示转折的连词but，例如：Take time to  deliberate；but when the time for action arrives，stop thinking and go in．做事要深思熟虑，但时机一到，就要动手，不要犹豫。If a man will begin with certainties，he shall end in doubts；but if he will be content to begin with doubts，he shall end in certainties．一个人如果一开始什么都肯定，到头来仍然会没有把握；但是如果他宁愿一开始就怀疑，最终将得到肯定的结果。

A

“refer to．．．as"意为“把……称做”例如：The speaker referred to him as an up-and-coming politician．那位演讲者把他称之为一位极有前途的政治家。

B

根据第二段中的"For makers of fine china in Britain，it spells economic hard times”，就可断定[B] 正确。

B

根据第五段中的"In a time of long work hours and demanding family schedules，busy hosts insist， rightly，that it's，better to share a takeout pizza on paper plates in the family room than to wait for the perfect moment or a‘real’dinner party．”，可断定答案为[B]。

D

在第三段中作者以Royal Doulton为例说明第二段中的观点"For makers of fine china in Britain， it spells economic hard times．”，因此可以断定[D]正确。另外，第三段末的"Wedgwood and other pottery factories made cuts earlier．”，也可以帮助读者作出正确选择。

C

这是一个简单的推理题：由于人们开始崇尚"greater simplicity and comfort”，因此他们就不再需要那么多的细瓷器了，从而导致了细瓷器生产厂家因市场萎缩而缩减员工，可见[C]正确。

A

根据最后一段中的“The fine points of etiquette．．．must be picked up lsewhere．”"employees．．．    may be competent professionally but clueless socially”，就可以推理出[A]正确。

A

根据第一段中的"today’s traditional-age college freshmen are more materialistic and less altruistic than at any time in the l7 years of the poll．”，就可断定本题选[A]。

B

根据第二段中的"the student’s major objective‘is to be financially well off．Less important than ever is developing a meaningful philosophy of life．’”，我们就不难看出[B]正确。

D

从这句话我们了解到"our civilization has accumulated an incredible amount of knowledge”，并且这些知识有助于我们了解人类的贡献(we are better for our understanding of these other contributions)，而我们对这些知识却了解甚少。诚然，我们都需要一份工作，但是我们不能为了得到一份工作而不去了解这些知识。由此可见选项[D]正确。

B

根据第五段中的"in studying the diverse wisdom of others，we learn how to think ”以及"education teaches us to see the connections between things，as well as to see beyond our immediate needs”， 就可断定[B]正确。

D

综观全文，我们可以认识到，作者强调择业不应只顾眼前利益，要放眼长远(to see beyond our immediate needs)，这与选项[D]一致。而[A]，[B]，[C]均太片面。

B

本文首先以"tracking whales"为例说明"the Navy’s formerly top-secret system of underwater listening devices"对民用研究的用途，然后又讲到其他科学家利用这一系统来进行科学研究的例子，这一切都说明文章的主要内容是"the civilian use of a military detection system”，所以[B]是正确答案。

A

根据第三段的“．．．its global network of underwater listening system built over the decades to track the ships of potential enemies"，可以看出这套系统最初是为了"trace and locate enemy vessels”而建立的，所以[A]符合题意。

C

文章的最后一段讲述"the deep-sea listening system”的工作原理，其中讲到"What is most important，different layers of ocean water can act as channels for sounds．．．”，由此可见，这一系统就是利用了在传送声音方面"layers of ocean water”的独特特性，因此[C]是正确答案。

D

从"tracking whales”到“monitoring a deep-sea volcanic eruption”再到"tracking ocean currents and measuring changes in ocean and global temperatures”，所有这些都是军用技术转民用的例子，由此我们可以看出，这种技术"in civilian use”上的巨大潜力，因此[D]为正确答案。

A

根据文章第三段中的“．．．as the Navy starts to share and partly uncover its global network of underwater listening system．．．”可以看出，军用设备并没有完全向"civilian scientists"开放，所以[A] 符合题意。

C

从文章第一段的"The sea had eaten into the soft limestone cliffs on which they had been built．”可知，花园的消失是由于悬崖受到海水侵蚀造成的。选项[C]中的"washing-away"就是“冲刷，侵蚀”的意思，所以[C]最符合题意。

B

根据第二段第一句话"Erosion of the white cliffs along the south coast of England has always been a problem but it has become more serious in recent years．”可见，海水侵蚀海岸问题由来已久，只不过最近几年变得越来越严重了，已经成了“a threat to the local people"，所以[B]为正确答案。

A

文章第二段最后一句话"Experts have studied the areas most affected and have drawn up a map for local people，forecasting the year in which their homes will be swallowed up by the hungry sea”告诉我们，专家为当地居民已经绘制出了一张地图，来预测在将来的哪一年，哪些房屋会被海水侵蚀，从而起到警示作用，可见[A]与此相符合。

B

根据文章第三段的"New sea walls cost hundreds of millions of pounds and would merely make the waves and currents go further along the coast，shifting the problem from one area to another．”可知，修建新的海上防御墙不仅耗资巨大，而且会使海浪沿海岸线移动，将问题从一个区域转移到另一个区域，由此可见，修建防御墙的建议并不可行，因此只有[B]符合题意。

D

文章的最后一句"You can get a house for a knockdown price but it may turn out to be a knockdown home．”暗示靠近海岸线的房屋价格虽然便宜，但却面临这样的一个问题：可能有一天会被海浪冲走，这是一个潜在的危险。所以[D]是正确答案。