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第1题

What are the two factors that caused the enormous growth of the communication industry？A．I

What are the two factors that caused the enormous growth of the communication industry？

A．Inventiveness.

B．Transmission.

C．Speed.

D．Technology.

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第2题

The enormous growth of American economy has been【C1】______to many factors. The size of the

United States and its【C2】______resources have been often cited as important reasons for the rapid【C3】______of American economy. They are true to a great extent. But, then, there are other countries in the world that are【C4】______with similar natural conditions and yet have【C5】______developed to the same degree of economic power as the United States has. So, there must be reasons【C6】______the size the country and the natural resources it possesses. According to the【C7】______. argument, the remarkable achievements of the U. S. economy are primarily【C8】______the system【C9】______which it has been operating since the founding of the nation- American capitalism.

It is true that American capitalism should be【C10】______with the achievements of its economy, the question【C11】______immediately comes to our mind is what are the essential【C12】______and construct their significance in the【C13】______of American economy, we shall then be able to make a good【C14】______of the key factors that have【C15】______to the phenomenal growth of American economy in the past two centuries.

First and【C16】______, American capitalism is organized as a private enterprise system for private profit,【C17】______the resulting rewards protected by the state as private【C18】______. This, in fact, is the general【C19】______of American economic institutions, underlining the social structure【C20】______which American society has been built.

【C1】

A．contributed

B．attributed

C．distributed

D．owned

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第3题

Questionsare based on the following passage. When you think about the growth of human popu

Questionsare based on the following passage.

When you think about the growth of human population over the last century or so， it is alltoo easy to imagine it merely as an increase in the number of humans. But as we（36）， so doall the things associated with us，（37）our livestock （家畜）. At present， there are about 1.5 bil-lion cattle and domestic buffalo and about 1.7 billion sheep and goats. With pigs and poultry，they form. a（38）part of our enormous biological footprint upon this planet.

Just how enormous was not really apparent until the（39）of a new report， called "Live-stock"s Long Shadow，" by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations.

Consider these numbers. Global livestock grazing （放牧） and feed production use "30percent of the land surface of the planet." Livestock —— which consume more food thanthey（40）—— also compete directly with humans for water. And the drive to expand grazingland destroys more biologically sensitive terrain， rain forests（41）， than anything else.

But what is even more striking， and alarming， is that livestock are（42）for about 18 per-cent of the global warming effect， more than transportation"s（43）. The culprits （罪魁祸首）are methane —— the natural result of bovine digestion —— and the nitrogen emitted by manure.

Deforestation of grazing land adds to the effect.

There are no easy trade-offs when it comes to global warming —— such as cutting back oncattle to make room for cars. The human（44）for meat is certainly not about to end anytimesoon. As "Livestock"s Long Shadow" makes clear， our health and the health of the planet de-pend on pushing livestock production in more（45）directions.

A．publication

B．waste

C．contribution

D．certainly

E. yield

F. multiply

G. critical

H. passion

I . concerning

J . available

K. liable

L. sustainable

K. responsible

N. including

O.especially

第（36）题应填__________

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第4题

Brazil，a success at reducing population growth Brazil has become one of the developing

Brazil，a success at reducing population growth

Brazil has become one of the developing world’s great successes at reducing population growth but more by accident than design．While countries such as India have made joint efforts to reduce birth rates，Brazil had better result without really trying，says Georgy Martine at Harvard．

Brazil’s population growth rate has dropped from 2.99％a year between 1951 and 1960 to 1.93％a year between 1981 and 1990，and Brazilian women now have only 2.7 children on average．Martine says this figure may have fallen still further sinee 1990，an achievement that makes it the envy of many other Third world countries．

Martine puts it down to，among other things，soaop operas（通俗电视连续剧）and installment（分期付款）plans introduced in the 1970s．Both played an important，although indirect，role in lowering the birth rate．Brazil is one of the world’s biggest producers of soap operas．Global，Brazil’s most popular television network shows three hours of soaps six nights a week．while three others show at least one hour a night．Most soap operas are based on wealthy characters living the high life in big cities．

“Although they have never really tried to work in a massage towards the problems of reproduction，they describe middle and upper class values—not many children， different attitudes towards sex，women working，says Martine．”They sent this image to all parts of Brazil and made people conscious of other patterns of behavior. and other values，which were put into a very attraetive package．

Meanwhile，the installment plans tried to encourage the poor the become consumers．“This led to an enormous change in consumption patterns and consumption was incompatible（不相容的）with unlimited reproduction．”says Martihe．

第 21 题 According to the passage，Brazil has cut back its population growth________．

A．by educating its citizens

B．by careful family plan

C．by developing TV programs

D．by chance

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第5题

Our daily existence is divided to two phases, as S1.______distinct as day and night. We ca

Our daily existence is divided to two phases, as S1.______

distinct as day and night. We call them work and play.

And, when we have allowed the necessary minimum

for such activities as eating and shop, the rest we S2.______

spend in various activities where are known as S3.______

recreations, an elegant word which disguise the fact S4.______

that we usually do not even play in our hours of

leisure, but spend them in various forms of passive

enjoyment or entertainment—not playing football but

watching football matches; not acting

but theatre-going.

We need to make, therefore, a hard-and-fast

distinction not only between work and play but

equal between active play and passive entertainment. S5.______

It seems that the decline of active play—of amateur

sport—and the enormous growth of purely receptive

entertainment which has given rise a sociological S6.______

interest in the problem, If the greater part of the

population, instead indulging in sport, spends S7.______

hour of leisure viewing television programmers, there S8.______

will inevitably be a decline in health and physique.

We should live art if we would be affect by art. We S9.______

should paint rather than appreciate painting,

play piano rather than go to concerts, dance and sing

and act ourselves, engaging all our the senses in the S10.______

touch of arts.

【S1】

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第6题

Brazil has become one of the developing world's great successes at reducing population gro

wth--but more by accident than design. While countries such as India have made joint efforts to reduce birth rates, Brazil has had better result without really trying, says George Martine at Harvard.

Brazil's population growth rate has dropped from 2.99% a year between 1951 and 1960 to 1.93% a year between 1981 and 1990, and Brazilian women now have only 2.7 children on average. Martine says this figure may have fallen still further since 1990, an achievement that makes it the envy of many other Third World countries.

Martine puts it down to, among other things, soap operas and installment (分期付款)plans introduced in the 1970s. Both played an important, although indirect, role in lowering the birth rate. Brazil is one of the world's biggest producers of soap operas. Globo, Brazil's most popular television network, shows three hours of soaps six nights a week, while three others show at least one hour a night. Most soaps are based on wealthy characters living the high life in big cities.

"Although they have never really tried to work in a message towards the problems of reproduction, they describe middle and upper class values-not many children, different attitudes towards sex, women working, "says Martine. "They sent this image to all pans of Brazil and made people conscious of other patterns of behavior. and other values, which were put into a very attractive pack age."

Meanwhile, the installment plans tried to encourage the poor to become consumers. "This led to an enormous change in consumption patterns and consumption was incompatible (不相容的) with unlimited reproduction," says Martine.

According to the passage ,Brazil has cut back its population growth ______.

A．by educating its citizens

B．by careful family planning

C．by developing TV programmes

D．by chance

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第7题

Passage Three:Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.Brazil has become one

of the developing world’s great successes at reducing population growth-but more by accident than design. While countries such as India have made joint efforts to reduce birth rates, Brazil has had better result without really trying, says George Martine at Harvard.

Brazil’s population growth rate has dropped from 2.99% a year between 1951 and 1960 to 1.93% a year between 1981 and 1990, and Brazilian women now have only 2.7 children on average. Martine says this figure may have fallen still further since 1990, an achievement that makes it the envy of many other Third World countries.

Martine puts it down to, among other things, soap operas (通俗电视连续剧) and installment (分期付款) plans introduced in the 1970s. Both played an important, although indirect, role in lowering the birth rate. Brazil is one of the world’s biggest producers of soap operas. Globo, Brazil’s most popular television network, shows three hours of soaps six nights a week, while three others show at least one hour a night. Most soaps are based on wealthy characters living the high life in big cities.

“Although they have never really tried to work in a message towards the problems of reproduction, they describe middle and upper class values-not many children, different attitudes towards sex, women working,” says Martine. “They sent this image to all parts of Brazil and made people conscious of other patterns of behavior. and other values, which were put into a very attractive package.”

Meanwhile, the installment plans tried to encourage the poor to become consumers. “This led to an enormous change in consumption patterns and consumption was incompatible (不相容的) with unlimited reproduction,” says Martine.

第31题：According to the passage, Brazil has cut back its population growth ________.

A) by educating its citizens

B) by careful family planning

C) by developing TV programmes

D) by chance

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第8题

In our society, we must communicate with other people. A great deal of communication is pe

rformed on a person-to-person basis by the simple means of speech. If we travel in buses or stand in football match queues, we are likely to have conversations in which we give information or opinions, and sometimes have our views challenged by other members of society. Face-to-face contact is by no means the only form. of communication and during the last two hundred years the art of mass communication has become one of the dominating factors of contemporary society. Two things above others have caused the enormous growth of the communication industry. Firstly, inventiveness has led to advances in printing, photography, and so on. Secondly, speed has revolutionized the transmission and reception of communications so that local news often takes a back seat to national news. No longer is the possession of information confined to a privileged minority. Forty years ago people used to flock to the cinema, but now far more people sit at home and turn on the TV to watch a program that is being channeled into millions of homes. Communication is no longer merely concerned with the transmission of information. The modern communications industry influences the way people live in society and broadens their horizons by allowing access to information, education and entertainment. The printing, broadcasting and advertising industries are all involved with their informing, educating and entertaining functions. Although a great deal of the material communicated by the mass media is very valuable to the individual and to the society of which he is a part, the vast modern network of communications is open to abuse. However, the mass media are with us for better, for worse, and there is no turning back.

The author probably means that speech on a person-to-person basis is the______means of communication.

A．primary

B．secondary

C．auxiliary

D．optional

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第9题

In 1997, devotees of home electronics eagerly awaited the DVD player, a new device that co

uld play movies without videotape, and with greater clarity. It caught on even faster than CD music players and within four years, DVD movies surpassed VHS tapes in sales. The DVD's success is just on example of a historic shift from analog to digital technologies. They began with computing and are now spreading to industries from banking to publishing. Products and services are shedding the limits of their physical form. to become encoded information that never degrades, can be reproduced perfectly and distributed around the world in minutes, or less.

Another example is photography: by the end of this year, tile number of images captured digitally each day is expected to surpass the number of images captured on film. With digital cameras and other devices linked to personal computers, we can collect vast amounts of data, which fortunately takes up little or no closet space. Today's average personal computer has a hard drive that can store 300 times more information than a decade ago. Technologies, such as broadband e-commerce, are expected to be the primary means of delivering entertainment and media by the end of this decade. Even life itself is increasingly digitized. The human genome(基因组), the recipe for our genetic makeup, has been mapped and encoded and researchers are harnessing the power of computing to accelerate the development, of new, lifesaving drugs.

The implications of this broad, digital revolution are enormous, although they tend to be over-shadowed by the struggles of high-tech industries to recover from the go-go years of the 1990s. Those struggles are real, yet there are reasons for optimism about a return to robust economic growth and job creation in the next several years. The digital innovations(创新) of the past two decades continue to bear fruit, so stay tuned for good news--digitally, of course.

Digital technologies really began to take form. when ______.

A．information was encoded

B．DVD technology was introduced

C．it was used with photography

D．used in computing

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