A person’s home is as much a reflection of his personality as the clothes he wears, the fo

第1题

A person's home is as much a reflection of his personality as the clothes he wears, the fo

od he eats and the friends with whom he spends his time. Depending on personality, most have in mind a(n) "【B1】 home". But in general, and especially for the student or new wage earners, there are practical 【B2】 of cash and location on achieving that idea.

Cash 【B3】 , in fact, often means that the only way of 【B4】 when you leave school is to stay at home for a while until things 【B5】 financially. There are obvious 【B6】 of living at home -- personal laundry is usually 【B7】 done along with the family wash; meals are provided and there will be a well-established circle of friends to 【B8】 .And there is 【B9】 the responsibility for paying bills, rates, etc.

On the other hand, 【B10】 depends on how a family gets on. Do your parents like your friends？ You may love your family - 【B11】 do you like them？ Are you prepared to be 【B12】 when your parents ask where you are going in the evening and what time you expect to be back？ If you find that you cannot manage a(n) 【B13】 , and that you finally have the money to leave, how do you 【B14】 finding somewhere else to live？

If you plan to stay in your home area, the possibilities are 【B15】 well-known to you already. Friends and the local paper are always 【B16】 .If you are going to work in a 【B17】 area, again there are the papers - and the accommodation agencies, 【B18】 these should be approached with 【B19】 .Agencies are allowed to charge a fee, usually the 【B20】 of the first week's rent, if you take accommodation they have found for you.

【B1】

A．ideal

B．perfect

C．imaginary

D．satisfactory

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第2题

A．Twelve lunar months.B．The home of the moon goddess.C．A mentally ill person affected

A．Twelve lunar months.

B．The home of the moon goddess.

C．A mentally ill person affected by the moon.

D．A guard against the moon.

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第3题

The family is the center of most traditional Asians' lives. Many people worry about their

families welfare, reputation, and honor. Asian families are often 【C1】______ , including several generations related by 【C2】______ or marriage living in the same home. An Asian person's misdeeds are not blamed just on the individual but also on the family--including the dead 【C3】______ .

Traditional Chinese, among many other Asians, respect their elders and feel a deep sense of duty 【C4】______ them. Children repay their parents' 【C5】______ by being successful and supporting them in old age. This is accepted as a 【C6】______ part of life in China. 【C7】______ ,taking care of the aged parents is often viewed as a tremendous 【C8】______ in the United States, where aging and family support are not 【C9】______ highly. 【C10】______ , in the youth-oriented United States, growing old is seen as a bad thing, and many old people do not receive respect.

Pilipinos, the most Americanized of the Asians, are 【C11】______ extremely family-oriented. They are 【C12】______ to helping their children and will sacrifice greatly for their children to get an education. 【C13】______ , the children are devoted to their parents, who often live nearby. Grown children who leave the country for economic reasons 【C14】______ send large parts of their income home to their parents. The Vietnamese family 【C15】______ people currently 【C16】______ as well as the spirits of the dead and of the as-yet unborn.

Any 【C17】______ or actions are done from family considerations, not individual desires. People's behavior. is fudged 【C18】______ whether it brings shame or pride to the family. The Vietnamese do not particularly believe in self-reliance; in this way, they are the 【C19】______ of people in the United States. Many Vietnamese think that their actions in this life will influence their 【C20】______ in the next life.

【C1】

A．enlarged

B．extended

C．expanded

D．lengthened

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第4题

I. Q. stands for "Intelligence Quotient" which is measure of a person's intelligence found

by means of an intelligence test. Before marks gained in such a test can be useful as information about a person, they must be compared with some standard, or norm. It is not enough simply to know that a boy of thirteen has scored, say, ninety marks m a particular test. To know whether he is clever, average, or dull, his marks must be compared with the average achieved by boys of thirteen in that test.

In 1906 the psychologist, Alfred Binet, devised the standard in relation to which intelligence has since been assessed. Binet was asked to find a method of selecting all children in the schools of Paris who should be taken out of ordinary classes and put in special classes for defectives. The problem brought home to him the need for a standard of intelligence, and he hit upon the very simple concept of" mental age".

First, he invented a variety of tests and put large numbers of children of different ages through them. He then found at what age each test was passed by the average child. Binet arranged the various tests in order of difficulty, and used them as a scale by which he could measure every individual. If, for example, a boy aged twelve could only do tests that were passed by the average boy of nine, Binet held that he was three years below average, and that he had a mental age of nine.

The concept of mental age provided Binet, and through him, other psychologists with the required standard. It enabled him to state scores in intelligence tests m terms of norm. At first, it was usual to express the result of a test by the difference between the" mental" and the" chronological" age. Then the boy in the example given would be" three years retarded". Soon, however, the" mental ratio" was introduced; that is to say, the ratio of the mental age to the chronological age. Thus a boy of twelve with mental age of nine has a mental ratio of 0.75.

The mental age was replaced by the intelligence quotient or" I. Q". Clearly, since the mental age of the average child is equal to the chronological age, the average I. Q. is 100.

To judge a child's standard, his marks in a test must be compared with marks gained by ______.

A．others of the same age

B．older children

C．younger children

D．adults

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第5题

听力原文：Some students at the Open University left school 20 years ago. Others are younger

听力原文： Some students at the Open University left school 20 years ago. Others are younger but all must be at least 21 years old. This is one example of how the Open University is different from all other universities. Its students must either work full-time or be at home all day, for instance, mothers of families. They do not have to pass any examinations before they are accepted as students. This is why the university is called "open". The university was started in order to help a known group-people who missed having a university education when they were young.

The first name for the Open University was "The University of the Air". The idea was to teach "on the air", in other words, on radio and television. Most of the teaching is done like this. Radio and television have brought the classroom into people's homes. But this, on its own, is not enough for a university education. The Open University student also receives advice at one of 283 study centers in the country. 36 weeks of the year he has to send written work to a "tutor", the person who guides his studies. He must also spend 3 weeks every summer as a full-time student. Tutors and students meet and study together, as in other universities. At the end of the Open University's first year, the results were good. Three out of every 4 students passed their examinations. If they do this every year, they will finish their studies in four or five years.

(33)

A．Because the students have to pass all examinations before entering it.

B．Because there is no examination before they are accepted as students.

C．Because there is no gate.

D．Because it never closes.

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第6题

What did Diana mean when she said "...putting a face to those figures brought the reality

home to me" (Para. 1) ？

A．She just couldn't bear to meet the landmine victims face to face.

B．The actual situation in Angola made her feel like going back home.

C．Meeting the landmine victims in person made her believe the statistics.

D．Seeing the pain of the victims made her realize the seriousness of the situation.

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第7题

Futurists love computers. After all,40 years ago electronic digital computers didn't exist

; today microchips as tiny as a baby's fingernail are making all sorts of tasks faster and easier. Surely the future holds still more miracles.

Some of the computer experiments now going on inspire exciting visions of the future. For example, scientists are working on devices that can electronically perform. some sight and hearing functions, which could make life easier for the blind and deaf. They're also working on artificial arms and legs that respond to the electric impulses produced by the human brain. Scientists hope that some day a person who's lost an arm could still have near-normal brain control over an artificial arm.

Video games, computerized special effects in movies, and real-life training machines now being used by the US Army are causing some people to predict new educational uses for computers. Computers could some day be used to simulate travel to other planets, to explore the ocean floor, or to look inside an atom.

Experiments with electronic banking and shopping inspire predictions that these activities will soon be done from home computer terminals. Cars, too, might be equipped with computers to help drivers find their way around (Honda has one in an experimental car) or to communicate with home and office computers. Many people, including handicapped workers with limited ability to move around, already are working at home using computer terminals. Each terminal is connected to a system at a company's main office. Some futurists say the day may come when few people will have to leave home to go to work -- they'll just turn on a terminal

A growing number of factories such as the General Motors Plant in Newark, Delaware, "hire" computerized robots to perform. tasks such as spot welding. Some executives get a gleam in their eyes as they envision the spread of these "perfect workers" -- no coffee breaks, no strikes, and no vacations or sick days.

These modern and potential computer uses are possible because of the silicon microchip.

These chips, which have become increasingly complex since their beginning in 1959, contain a network of information pathways. Electronic impulses travel along the paths. The plans for a chip look much like a city street plan and can be as large as a football field. It can take as long as three months to complete a new chip design. Chips are used to store information, too. An entire "computer" can be put onto one chip -- called a microprocessor.

As chips become even more complex, easier to make, and less costly, futurists predict limitless possibilities. A group of Japanese scientists is working on a new generation of computers, which they hope will be able to understand vocal instructions, talk back to their users, and automatically try out alternate solutions to a problem to come up with the best answer.

Some people say that the humans of the future will never be without their companion -- computers. Predicting the future can be tricky, of course. In 1948 an IBM study predicted that there would never be enough demand for computers to justify going into the business!

What is the purpose of the passage？

A．To tell the readers what computers will look like in the future.

B．To show the close relations between man and computers.

C．To tell the readers how important silicon microchips are.

D．To talk about the possible future uses of computers.

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第8题

‘I. Q.' stands for Intelligence Quotient which is a measure of a person's intelligence fou

nd by means of an intelligence test. Before marks gained in such a test can be useful as information about a person, they must be compared with some standard, or norm. It is not enough simply to know that a boy of thirteen has scored, say, ninety marks in a particular test. To know whether he is clever, average or dull, his marks must be Compared with the average achieved by boys of thirteen in that test.

In 1906 the psychologist, Alfred Binet(1857—1911), devised the standard in relation to which intelligence has since been assessed. Binet was asked to find a method of selecting all children in the schools of Paris who should be taken out of ordinary classes and put in special classes for defectives. The problem brought home to him the need for a atandard of intelligence, and he hit upon the very simple concept of "mental age".

First of all, he invented a variety of tests and put large numbers of children of different ages through them. He then found at what age each test was passed by the average child. For instance, he found that the average child of seven could count backwards from 20 to 1 and the average child of three could repeat the sentence: "We are going to have a good time in the country." Binet arranged the various tests in order of difficulty, and used them as a scale against which he could measure every individual. If, for example, a boy aged twelve could only do tests that were passed by the average boy of nine, Binet held that he was three years below ave rage, and that he had a mental age of nine.

The concept of mental age provided Binet, and through him, other psychologists, with the required standard. It enabled him to state scores in intelligence tests in terms of a norm. At first, it was usual to express the result of a test by the difference between the "mental" and the "chronological" age. Then the boy in the example given would be "three years retarded". Soon, however, the "mental ratio" was introduced; that is to say, the ratio of the mental age to the chronological age. Thus a boy of twelve with a mental age of nine has a mental ratio of 0.75.

The mental age was replaced by the "intelligence quotient" or "I. Q. '. The "I. Q." is the mental ratio multiplied by 100. For example, a boy of twelve with a mental age of nine has an "I. Q." of 75. Clearly, since the mental age of the average child is equal to the chronological age, the average 'I. Q.' is 100.

In order to judge a child' s intelligence, his marks in a test must be compared with marks gained by

A．thirteen-year-old children

B．children of different ages

C．the same child at different ages

D．other children of the same age

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第9题

In Paragraph 2, several studies have shown that the more______, the more personal‘secrets'

one person will divulge.

A．intimate their relationship is

B．ordinary their conversation is

C．quick the other's response is

D．personal secrets the other person reveals

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第10题

The old woman's home was in London.A．Right.B．Wrong.C．Doesn't Say.

The old woman's home was in London.

A．Right.

B．Wrong.

C．Doesn't Say.

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第11题

We can learn from Schwenk's research that ______A．a person's view of conflict is influence

We can learn from Schwenk's research that ______

A．a person's view of conflict is influenced by the purpose of his organization

B．conflict is necessary for managers of for-profit organizations

C．different people resolve conflicts in different ways

D．it is impossible for people to avoid conflict

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