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综合与人文类(A级)第一部分

一、词汇(共20小题，每小题1分，共20分)

下面共有20个句子，每个句子下面有4个选项。其中1～10句的每个句子中均有一处空白，请从4个选项中选择1个最佳答案：11～20句的每个句子中均有1个词或词组划有底横线，请从4个选项中选择1个与划线部分意义最相近的词或词组代替句中的划线部分。答案一律涂在答题卡相应的位置上。

1.I didn't help him. I would have I didn't have the money.

A) or B) but C) otherwise D) still

2.What did he say in the letter? I really can't it out.

A) make B) put C) run D)give

3.They called the match because of rain.

A)out B)off C)back D)upon

4.The result of the experiment was not to publish.

A)interesting B)too interesting C)enough interesting D)so interesting

5.I could hear nothing except the roar of aircraft engines which all other sounds.

A)overcame B)overtook C)suppressed D)drowned

6.I am sure the soup tastes .

A)well B)deliciously C)goodly D)good

7.Teenagers who discover they were often search for their biological parents when they

are old enough.

A)adapted B)adopted C)brought up D)looked after.

8.The French Revolution was a period of ,but produced some great literature.

A)chaos B)interest C)imagination D)success

9.There is a tendency to childless women as being hard and career-orientated.

A)use B)make C)believe D)regard

10. you become famous your private life comes under public scrutiny.

A)However B)Once C)Whatever D)Until

11.I wonder what your aim in life is.

A)symbol B)goal C)action D)attitude

12.It is useless to argue with him once he has made up his mind.

A)settled B)solved C)said D)decided

13.The father was unwilling to give his son the keys to his car.

A)reluctant B)eager C)pleased D)angry

14.As a writer,he turned out three novels that year.

A)refused B)read C)produced D)accepted

15.Winston Churchill gave a moving speech.

A)nervous B)foolish C)stirring D)fast

16.We tried to restrict our conversation to arguments relevant to the topic.

A)put B)suit C)confine D)resort

17.It doesn't stand to reason that he would lie.

A)seem logical B)look pleasant C)appear obvious D)sound important

18.Fields neighbouring the nuclear plant are higher than regular levels of radioactivity.

A)significant B)usual C)important D)harmful

19.The investigation covers an extremely broad spectrum of topics.

A)number B)gap C)range D)selection

20.When we visited the country,our principal impression was one of poverty and hardship.

A)main B)central C)unforgettable D)strong

二、阅读理解(共25小题，每小题2分，共50分)

下面有5篇短文，每篇短文后有5个问题，每个问题后面都有4个备选答案。请仔细阅读短文并根据短文回答其后面的问题，从 >4个备选答案中选择1个最佳答案涂在答题卡相应的位置上。

第一篇 Let Them Watch It

One hot night last July, when our new baby wouldn't or couldn't sleep, I tried everything I could think of: a warm bottle, songs, gentle rocking. Nothing would settle him. Guessing that I had a long night ahead of me, I brought a portable TV into his room, figuring that watching the late movie was as good a way as any to kill off the hours until dawn. To my surprise, as soon as the TV lit up, the baby quieted right down, his little eyes focused brightly on the tube. Not to waste an opportunity for sleep, I then tip-toed out of the room, leaving him to watch the actors celebrate John Bellushi's forty-fifth birthday. My wife and I heard no more of the baby that night, and the next morning when I went into his room, I found him still watching TV himself.

I found in my baby's behaviour a metaphor (暗喻) for the new generation. My wife and I had given him some books to examine, but he merely spit upon them. When we read to him, he did not feel comfortable. And so it is in the schools. We find that our students don't read, that they look down upon reading and scold those of us who teach it. All they want to do is watch TV. After this experience with the baby, however, I have reached a conclusion: let them watch it. If television is that much more attractive to children than books, why should we fight it? Let then watch it all they want!

21. The author brought a TV set into his son's room to

A) make his son stop crying.

B) spend the night watching TV.

C) leave it to his son.

D) make his son fall asleep as soon as possible.

22. The baby's reaction to the TV was

A) unexpected. B) exciting. C. awful. D. calm.

23. From the passage we know that the author is

A) a doctor. B) an editor. C) a writer. D. teacher.

24. According to the passage, which is true of the school children?

A) They prefer reading to watching TV.

B) They like watching TV only after school.

C) They would rather watch TV than read books.

D) They like their teachers who teach them reading.

25. What do you think is the author's attitude toward TV expressed in the last two sentences?

A) Angry. B) Serious. C) Ironical. D) Joking.

第二篇 Prolonging Human Life

Prolonging human life has increased the size of the human population. Many people alive today would have died of childhood diseases if they had been born 100 years ago. Because more people live longer, there are more people around at any given time. In fact, it is a decrease in death rates, not an increase in birth rates, that has led to the population explosion.

Prolonging human life has also increased the dependency (依赖) load. In all societies, people who are disabled or too young or too old to work are dependent on the rest of society to provide for them. In hunting and gathering cultures, old people who could not keep up might be left behind to die. In times of famine (饥荒), infants might be allowed to die because they could not survive if their parents starved, whereas if the parents survived they could have another child. In most contemporary societies, people feel a moral obligation to keep people alive whether they can work or not. We have a great many people today who live past the age at which they want to work or are able to work; we also have rules which require people to retire at a certain age. Unless these people were able to save money for their retirement, somebody else must support them. I the United States many retired people love on social security checks which are so little that they must live in near poverty. Older people have more illness than young or middle-aged people; unless they have wealth or private or government insurance, they must often 'go on welfare' if they have a serious illness.

When older people become senile (年老的) or too weak and ill to care for themselves, they create grave problems for their families. In the past and in some traditional cultures, they would be cared for at home until they died. Today, with most members of a household working or in school, there is often no one at home who can care for a sick or weak person. To meet this need, a great many nursing homes and convalescent hospitals (康复医院) have been built. These are often profit-making organizations, although some are sponsored by religious and other nonprofit groups. While a few of these institutions are good, most of them are simply 'dumping grounds' for the dying in which 'care' is given by poorly paid, overworked and underskilled personnel.

26. The author believes that the population explosion has resulted from

A) an increase in birth rates.

B) the industrial development.

C) a decrease in death rates.

D) human beings' cultural advances.

27. It can be inferred from the passage that in hunting and gathering cultures

A) it was a moral responsibility to keep old-aged people alive.

B) the survival of infants was less important than that of their parents in times of starvation.

C)old people lived on social security checks.

D) the survival of infants was more important than that of their parents in times of starvation.

28. According to the passage, which of the following statements about the old people in the

United States is TRUE?

A) Many of them have a hard life.

B) They can live a decent life even without enough bank savings.

C) They rely mainly on their children for financial support.

D) Most of them live with their children and therefore are well looked after.

29. In paragraph three, the phrase 'this need' refers to the need

A) to prolong the dying old people's lives.

B) to enrich the life of the retired people.

C) to build profit-making nursing homes.

D) to take care of sick or weak people.

30. Which of the following best describes the author's attitude toward most of the nursing

homes and convalescent hospitals?

A) Sympathetic. B) Unfriendly. C)Optimistic. D)Critical.

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