Passage Two
Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.
29. A) Three C) Five.
B) Two. D) Four.
30. A) Talk to other people who rent apartments in the same building.
B) Make sure there are good locks on all the windows and doors.
C) Check the water and electricity to see if they are working properly.
D) Walk around the apartment building for dangerous signs.
31. A) Deposit some money in a bank.
B) Read the lease carefully and sign it.
C) Ask the landlord for a damage deposit.
D) Sign the contract and pay a security deposit.
Passage Three
Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
32. A) When they are three years old.
B) Before the age of six.
C) After they are six years old.
D) Between three and six years old.
33. A) They are much wiser than the left-handed persons.
B) They are as clever as the left-handed persons.
C) There are not as creative as lefties.
D) They are more athletic.
34. A) Computer. C) Architecture.
B) Calculation. D) Literature.
35 A) Because they have a quicker response.
B) Because they are usually more strongly built.
C) Because they seem to be men of greater endurance.
D) Because they have a better sense of space.
Section C
Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to
43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2 上作答。
Belgium has three main (36) regions: the coastal plain, the central plateau and the highlands. The coastal plain extends (37) 16 to 48 kilometers on the northwest. Along the north sea is a low-lying area (38) ________ mainly of sandy hills and sections of land (39) _________ from the sea. The coastal plain’s elevation ranges from sea level to 20 meters. The central plateau is a (40) _________ rolling, slightly elevated area, (41) ________ by many waterways and containing a number of wide, (42) _________ valleys with a rich soil. The highlands, a densely-wooded plateau, (43) __________ 460 meters in elevation, extend across southeastern Belgium and into northeastern
France. Located here is the highest peak in Belgium with an elevation of 694 meters.
(44) ___________________________________________________________
_________________________________. In te highlands, hot summers alternate with cold winters. Heavy rains are confined almost exclusively to the highlands. (45)____________________________________________________________. In Brussels, the average temperatures range from zero to 5 degrees Centigrade in January and from 13 to 22 degrees Centigrade in July. (46)
Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a short passage with 5 questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete statements in the fewest possible words. Please write your answers on Answer Sheet 2.
Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.
Severe winter storms have worsened the nation’s usual post-holiday blood shortage, prompting an urgent call today for people to donate blood. Type O blood is the most urgently needed, because it is the universal blood type, meaning it can be safely transfused to most people in an emergency. “The severe winter weather has forced the cancellation of blood drives and limited our ability to collect blood,” American Red Cross President Elizabeth Dole said. The Red Cross reported having less than one day’s supply of Type O blood on hand in 18 of the organization’s 38 collection regions. The Red Cross provides about half of the nation’s blood supply. America’s Blood Centers, which supplies most of the rest, also has reported shortages.
Reacting to the shortage, a Pittsburgh blood bank asked 40 hospitals in western Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio to postpone elective surgeries through Wednesday. At least 1,000 donors are needed each day for the next several days to stabilize the supply, said Mark Lynch, spokesman for the Central Blood Bank. “We’re talking about (postponing) hip replacement, for example, and orthopedic cases. These are sick people who need surgery, but it’s not life threatening,” he said. When its blood supply is stable, the blood bank needs about 700 donors each day to maintain normal inventory. The Pittsburgh blood bank last asked hospitals to postpone elective surgeries because of a blood shortage in October 1995. Such procedures were canceled for almost a week.
Nationwide, donations typically fall off during the holidays, when donors become too busy to give blood regularly. Bad weather increases shortages both by blocking blood drives and by causing increased blood demand to treat accident victims.
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2 上作答。
47. The blood shortage urged people ___________.
48. The Red Cross is important in supplying blood because the organization has __________.
49. To ease the situation, what kind of surgeries had to be put off?
50. We can infer from the passage that blood shortage usually occur _______________.
51. Usually 700 donors are needed each day for the blood bank to remain stable in __________.
Section B
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. 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
Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the center.
Passage One
Questions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage.
All societies have distinct role expectations for men and for women. In the United States these expectations have been undergoing change for many decades. Today Americans live in a world of diverse family patterns and conflicting images of ideal life styles for men and women. The conventional norms of the first half century defined a successful woman as a wife and mother who stayed home to carry out a full array of household duties. The husband and father was expected to stay away from the home most of the day, earning enough money to pay the bills. Many adults still live by these expectations, but the traditional pattern is no longer held up as an ideal to be followed by everyone. Times have changed; there is no return to yesterday.
Although the women’s movement and political controversies about such issues and the Equal Rights Amendment and sexual harassment ( 骚扰) suggest that changing sex roles is a recent issue, this is far from the case. Broad trends can be identified over the past hundred years. Women have increased their participation in the labor force from 18% in 1900 to over 50% today, and they give birth to fewer children than women did in the past. In 1910 the birth rate was 30 per 1,000 population; by the 1900s it had declined to 16 per 1,000. These two trends – increasing participation in the labor force and decreasing family size – suggest that major long-term changes have restructured the role expectations of men and women. These changes are complex. The fact that more women are joining the labor force as full-time workers does not mean that a single sex role pattern is emerging.
On the contrary, we are living in a period of diverse family patterns. According to Kathleen Gerson, “the domestic woman who builds her life around children and homemaking persists, but she now coexists with a growing number of working mothers and permanently childless women.”
Women today face hard choices as they make decisions about work, career, and motherhood. Despite women’s liberation, women still earn less than men in the work place and are still expected to do most of the work in the home. Women work substantially more hours each week in the home and at the workplace than men do. Women are working harder than ever, yet many do not enjoy the benefits of full equality.
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