1、 英语进阶综合练习题 Part I Writing Topic one Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Stress and Relaxation in Life by commenting the saying, “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words. Topic two Di
2、rections: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay. You should start your essay with a brief description of the picture and then express your view on the popularity of wifi. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words. Topic three Directions: For this part,
3、 you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the following question. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words. Suppose a foreign friend of yours wants to experience a traditional Chinese festival. Which festival is the most interesting one you would like to introduce t
4、o him/her and why? Part II Reading Comprehension Section A Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choi
5、ces. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet . You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. (1) Its is easy to look at todays women and think weve come a long way. On the one hand, weve reaped the 1 our fem
6、inist mothers fought for, and were encouraged, time and again, to “be whatever we want to be”. We 2 boys in graduation rates, college enrollment, and school leadership positions, and have 3 ourselves professionally. Things look promising; to the point that even a beauty queen can 4 on stage and decl
7、are “there are no longer any 5 against us ,” as did the winner of Miss Universe this month. But all those ribbons and medals dont translate to the real world if women are too afraid to ask for what they 6 . As Simmons puts it, “Girls collect achievements by the handful, but often dont have the 7 to
8、own them.” Sure, we may outpace the guys around us in school, but by the time we 8 college, well have given up our leadership roles. Well make up just a third of business-school students and 9 a quater of law-firm partners. We invalidate ourselves through speech, body language, and weak handshakes.
9、And we still earn less-77 cents to every dollar-and ask for 10 less frequently. “If you look at girls on paper, theyre terrific,” says Simmons, who runs a leadership institute for girls and has also written on female aggression. “But get them into a job interview or negotiating a raise, and its anot
10、her story.” A） almost B） barely C） barriers D） benefits E） climb F） confidence G） deserve H） enter I） graduate J） hidden K） influence L） outnumber M） proven N） raises O） salary Its easy to look at todays women and think weve come a long way. On one hand, weve reaped the benefits our feminist mothers
11、 fought for, and were encouraged, time and again, to “be whatever we want to be.“ We outnumber boys in graduation rates, college enrollment, and school leadership positions, and have proven ourselves professionally. Things look promising; to the point that even a beauty queen can climb on stage and
12、declare “there are no longer any barriers against us,“ as did the winner of Miss Universe this month. (Though apparently she doesnt see the irony of announcing this while being judged and rated on her appearance and poise.) But all those ribbons and medals dont translate to the real world if women a
13、re too afraid to ask for what they deserve. As Simmons puts it, “Girls collect achievements by the handful, but often dont have the confidence to own them.“ Sure, we may outpace the guys around us in school, but by the time we enter college, well have given up our leadership roles. Well make up just
14、 a third of business-school students and barely a quarter of law-firm partners. We invalidate ourselves through speech, body language, and weak handshakes. And we still earn less77 cents to every dollarand ask for raises less frequently. “If you look at girls on paper, theyre terrific,“ says Simmons
15、, who runs a leadership institute for girls and has also written on female aggression. “But get them into a job interview or negotiating a raise, and its another story.“ (2) India has come up with the worlds cheapest “laptop”, a touch-screen computing device that costs $35. Indias Human Resource Dev
16、elopment Minister Kapil Sibal this week O the low-cost computing device that is designed for students, saying his department had started talks with global manufacturers to start J production. “We have reached a E stage that today, the other board, its chip, the processing, connectivity, all of them
17、cumulatively C around $35, including memory, display, everything,” he told a news conference. He said the touchscreen gadget was L with Internet browsers, PDF reader and video conferencing facilities but its hardware was created with M flexibility to incorporate new components according to user requ
18、irement. Sibal said the Linux based computing device was expected to be introduced to higher education institutions from 2011 but the aim was to drop the price further to $20 and N to $10. The device was developed by research teams at Indias premier technological institutes, the Indian Institute of
19、Technology and the Indian Institute of Science. The laptop is one effort made by India to improve basic facility in schools. It spends about three percent of its A budget on school education and has improved its G rates to over 64 percent of its 1.2 billion population but studies have shown many stu
20、dents can B read or write and most state-run schools have inadequate facilities. A） annual B） barely C） cost D） critical E） developmental F） invented G） literacy H） literate I） manual J） mass K） massive L） packed M） sufficient N） ultimately O） unveiled (3) It has long been known that high-calorie fo
21、od can act as a balm（镇痛软膏） for anxiety and bad moods, but now a series of new studies published in Psychological Science 1 that high-calorie food may be a balm for economic anxiety, too, and one that we are prepared to apply whenever we perceive 2 in the world. In one of the experiments, people who
22、were exposed to words suggesting tough times, like “disaster,“ “suffer,“ and “struggle,“ were promoted to eat more high-calorie food and 3 low-calorie food than a control group did-even though these words were in the background, on a poster, and not 4 understand. Taste didnt come into it; neither di
23、d pleasure. “The cues I used did not change peoples 5 ,“ says lead author Juliano Laran, a University of Miami marketing professor who 6 in consumer psychology and self-control, “and I specifically found that people were not looking for pleasure, but rather for food items that can 7 them fed for lon
24、ger period of time.“ The inspiration for the studies came from New York Citys policy of posting calorie counts in restaurants, which Laran noticed did nothing to 8 the consumption of high-calorie food. “This signaled,“ he says , “that misinformation was not the 9 issue, that there was something else
25、 10 on.“ A） decrease 减少 B） directly 直接地 C） going 出行，离去 D） keep 保持 B） E） less F） main G） mind 心，精神，心力，知，智力，智慧 H） mood I） occasionally偶尔 J） pleasure 愉快 K） psychological 心理的 L） specializes 专门从事，专攻 ( specialize 的第三人称单数 ) M） succeeds成功 ( succeed 的第三人称单数 ) N） suggests O） trouble Section B Directions: In t
26、his section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer
27、 the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet . (1) Endangered Peoples A) Today, it is not distance, but culture that separates the peoples of the world. The central question of our time may be how to deal with cultural differences. So begins the book, Endangered Peoples, by Art
28、 Davidson. It is an attempt to provide understanding of the issues affecting the worlds native peoples. This book tells the stories of 21 tribes, cultures, and cultural areas that are struggling to survive. It tells each story through the voice of a member of the tribe .Mr. Davidson recorded their w
29、ords. Art Wolfe and John Isaac took pictures of them. The organization called the Sierra Club published the book. B) The native groups live far apart in North America or South America, Africa or Asia. Yet their situations are similar. They are fighting the march of progress in an effort to keep them
30、selves and their cultures alive. Some of them follow ancient ways most of the time. Some follow modern ways most of the time. They have one foot in ancient world and one foot in modern world. They hope to continue to balance between these two worlds. Yet the pressures to forget their traditions and
31、join the modern world may be too great. C) Rigoberta Menchu of Guatemala, the Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1992, offers her thoughts in the beginning of the book Endangered Peoples. She notes that many people claim that native people are like stories from the past. They are ruins that have died. She
32、disagrees strongly. She says native communities are not remains of the past. They have a future, and they have much wisdom and richness to offer the rest of the world. D) Art Davidson traveled thousands of miles around the world while working on the book. He talked to many people to gather their tho
33、ughts and feelings. Mr. Davidson notes that their desires are the same. People want to remain themselves he says. They want to raise their children the way they were raised. They want their children to speak their mother tongue, their own language. They want them to have their parents values and cus
34、toms. Mr. Davidson says the peoples cries are the same: “Does our culture have to die? Do we have to disappear as a people?“ E) Art Davidson lived for more than 25 years among native people in the American state of Alaska. He says his interest in native peoples began his boyhood when he found an anc
35、ient stone arrowhead. The arrowhead was used as a weapon to hunt food. The hunter was an American Indian, long dead. Mr. Davidson realized then that Indians had lived in the state of Colorado, right where he was standing. And it was then, he says, that he first wondered: “Where are they? Where did t
36、hey go? “He found answers to his early question. Many of the native peoples had disappeared. They were forced off their lands. Or they were killed in battle. Or they died from diseases brought by new settlers. Other native peoples remained, but they had to fight to survive the pressures of the moder
37、n world. F) The Gwichin are an example of the survivors. They have lived in what is now Alaska and Canada for 10,000 years. Now about 5,000 Gwichin remain. They are mainly hunters. They hunt the caribou, a large deer with big horns that travels across the huge spaces of the far north. For centuries,
38、 they have used all parts of the caribou: the meat for food, the skins for clothes, the bones for tools. Hunting caribou is the way of life of the Gwichin. G) One Gwichin told Art Davidson of memories from his childhood. It was a time when the tribe lived quietly in its own corner of the world. He s
39、poke to Mr. Davidson in these words: “As long as I can remember, someone would sit by a fire on the hilltop every spring and autumn. His job was to look for caribou. If he saw a caribou, he would wave his arms or he would make his fire to give off more smoke. Then the village would come to life! Peo
40、ple ran up to the hilltop. The tribes seemed to be at its best at these gatherings. We were all filled with happiness and sharing!“ H) About ten years ago, the modern world invaded the quiet world of the Gwich in. Oil companies wanted to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Preserve. This a
41、rea was the please where the caribou gave birth to their young. The Gwichin feared the caribou would disappear. One Gwich in woman describes the situation in these words: “Oil development threatens the caribou. If the caribou are threatened, then the people are threatened. Oil company official and A
42、merican lawmakers do not seem to understand. They do not come into our homes and share our food. They have never tried to understand the feeling expressed in our songs and our prayers. They have not seen the old people cry. Our elders have seen parts of our culture destroyed. They worry that our peo
43、ple may disappear forever.“ I) A scientist with a British oil company dismisses (驳回，打消 ) the fears of the Gwichin. He also says they have no choice. They will have to change. The Gwich in, however, are resisting. They took legal action to stop the oil companies. But they won only a temporary ban on
44、oil development in the Arctic National Wildlife Preserve. Pressures continue on other native people, as Art Davidson describes in his book. The pressures come from expanding populations, dam projects that flood tribal lands, and political and economic conflicts threaten the culture, lands, and lives
45、 of such groups as the Quechua of Peru, the Malagasy of Madagascar and the Ainu of Japan. J) The organization called Cultural Survival has been in existence for 22 years. It tries to protect the rights and cultures of peoples throughout the world. It has about 12,000 members. And it receives help fr
46、om a large number of students who work without pay. Theodore MacDonald is director of the Cultural Survival Research Center. He says the organization has three main jobs. It does research and publishes information. It works with native people directly. And it creates markets for goods produced by na
47、tive communities. K) Late last year, Cultural Survival published a book called State of the Peoples: a Global Human Rights Report on Societies in Danger. The book contains reports from researchers who work for Cultural Survival, from experts on native peoples, and from native peoples themselves. The
48、 book describes the conditions of different native and minority groups. It includes longer reports about several threatened societies, including the Penan of Malaysia and the Anishina be of North American. And it provides the names of organizations similar to Cultural Survival for activists, researchers and the press. L) David May bury-Lewis started the Cultural Survival organization. Mr. May bury-Lewis believes powerful groups rob native peoples of their lives, lands, or resources. About 6,000 groups are left in the world. A native group is one that has
