Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. 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 the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage:
Every year 100 million holiday—makers are drawn to the Mediterranean.
With onethird of the world's tourist trade, it is the most popular of all the holiday destinations; it is also the most polluted.
It has only 1 per cent of the world's sea surface, but carries more than half the oil and tar floating on the waters. Thousands of factories pour their poison into the Mediterranean, and almost every city, town and village on the coast sends its sewage, untreated, into the sea.
The result is that the Mediterranean, which nurtured so many civilizations, is gravely ill—the first of the seas to fall victim to the abilities and attitudes that evolved around it. And the pollution does not merely keep back life of the sea—it threatens the people who inhabit and visit its shores.
The mournful form of disease is caused by sewage. Eightyfive per centof the waste from the Mediterranean's 120 coastal cities is pushed out in to the waters where their people and visitors bathe and fish. What is more, most cities just drop it in straight off the beach; rare indeed are the places like Cannes and Tel Aviv which pipe it even half a mile offshore.
Not surprisingly, vast areas of the shallows are awash with bacteria and it doesn't take long for these to reach people. Professor William Brumfitt of the Royal Free Hospital once calculated that anyone who goes for a swim in the Mediterranean has a one in seven chance of getting some sort of disease. Other scientists say this is an overestimate; but almost all of them agree that bathers are at risk.
Industry adds its own poisons. Factories cluster round the coastline, and even the most modern rarely has proper wastetreatment plant. They do as much damage to the sea as sewage.
But the good news is that the countries of the Mediterranean have been coming together to work out how to save their common sea.
21. The causes of the Mediterranean's pollution is ____.
A) the oil and tar floating on the water
B) many factories put their poison into the sea
C) untreated sewage from the factories and coastal cities
D) there are some sorts of diseases in the sea
22. Which of following consequence of a polluted sea is not true according to the passage?
A) Bring up so many civilizations.
B) Various diseases in the sea.
C) It threatens the inhabitants and travelers.
D) One in seven chance of getting some sort of disease swimming in the sea.
23. The word “sewage”refer to ____.
A) poison
C) liquid material
B) waste
D) solid material
24. Why does industry do much damage to the sea?
A) Because most factories have proper wastetreatment plants.
B) Because many factories have not proper wastetreatment plants even the most modern one.
C) Because just the modern factory has a waste treatment plant.
D) Because neither ordinary factories nor most modern ones have proper wastetreatment plants.
25. What is the passage mainly about?
A) Save the world.
B) How the people live in the Mediterranean sea.
C) How the industry dangers the sea.
D) Beware the dirty sea.
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage:
THE CLASSROOM is a man's world, where boys get twothirds of the teachers' attention — even when they are in a minority— taunt (辱罵) the girls without punishment, and receive praise for sloppy work that would not be tolerated from girls. They are accustomed to being teachers' pets, and if girls get anything like equal treatment, they will protest eagerly and even wreck lessons.
These claims are made in a book out this week, written by Dale Spender, a lecturer at the London University Institute of Education. She argues that discrimination against girls is so deeply in coeducational schools that single sex classes are the only answer.
Her case is based on taperecordings of her own and other teachers' lessons. Many of them, like Spender, had deliberately set out to give girls a fair chance. “Sometimes,” says Spender, “I have even thought I have gone too far and have spent more time with the girls than the boys.”
The tapes proved otherwise. In 10 taped lessons (in secondary school and college), Spender never gave the girls more than 42 per cent of her attention (the average was 38 percent) and never gave the boys less than 58 percent. There were similar results for other teachers, both male and female.
In other words, when teachers give girls more than a third of their time, they feel that they are cheating the boys of their rightful share. And so do the boys themselves. “She always asks the girls all the questions,” said one boy in a classroom where 34 per cent of the teachers' time was allocated to girls. “She doesn't like boys, and just listens to the girls.” said a boy in another class, where his sex got 63 per cent of teacher attention.
Boys regarded twothirds of the teacher's time as a fair deal — and when they got less they caused trouble in class and even complained to higher authority. “It's important to keep their attention,” said one teacher, “Otherwise, they play you up something awful.”
Spender concludes that, in mixed classes, if the girls are as boisterous and pushy as the boys, they are considered “unladylike”, if they are docile and quiet, they are ignored.
26. If boys are better treated in class, ____ would be better.
A) singlesex classes and coeducational classes
B) coeducational classes
C) singlesex classes
D) None of the above
27. Dale Spender obtained the evidence for her claims by ____.
A) her own lessons in secondary school and college
B) the other teachers' taperecordings
C) both male and female teachers
D) taperecordings of her own and other teachers' lessons
28. What are the boy's reactions when girls are given more attention?
A) They will keep the teachers' attention again.
B) They will make some trouble and complain to the headmaster.
C) They will play up the teacher something awful.
D) They will feel they are cheated by teachers.
29. The word “boisterous” in the last paragraph probably means ____.
A) rough B) brave
C)troublesome D) emotional
30. The best title for this passage would be ____.
A) boys are teachers' pets
B) boys do better in coeducational classes
C) singlesex classes are better than coeduationed classes
D) girls do better than boys
答案
Part Ⅱ
1
短文大意
本文講的是地中海的污染原因及結(jié)果。地中海是旅游勝地，是許多文明的發(fā)源地，但是現(xiàn)在的地中海卻污染嚴(yán)重。因?yàn)樵S多沿岸的城市、工廠、村莊未經(jīng)處理就將廢物排放入地中海，這樣，海中有害物質(zhì)及廢物給細(xì)菌病菌的繁殖創(chuàng)造了條件。所以在地中海游泳是很危險(xiǎn)的，好在地中海沿岸國(guó)家一直在設(shè)法挽救其共同的地中海。
21. 答案C。
【參考譯文】 地中海的污染原因是什么?
【試題分析】 此題考查考生區(qū)分原因與現(xiàn)象的能力。
【詳細(xì)解答】 A. 指的是石油和(焦油)漂浮于水面上，這是現(xiàn)象而非原因,因此不正確。B.指出許多工廠將有毒物放進(jìn)海里。這只是一個(gè)方面,因此也不正確。C. 談的是來自工廠和沿海城市中沒有經(jīng)過處理的廢物,這在文中提到了,因此為正確答案。D.談到海中有幾種疾病，這也是現(xiàn)象而非原因。
22. 答案A。
【參考譯文】 根據(jù)本文，海洋污染造成的后果中，以下哪項(xiàng)不對(duì)?
【試題分析】 此題為判斷因果關(guān)系題。
【詳細(xì)解答】 A.提供了諸多的文明;B.海洋中各種疾病;C.污染使當(dāng)?shù)鼐用窈吐眯姓吒械娇謶?D.如果在海里游泳七個(gè)人中就有一個(gè)會(huì)染上疾病。從文章中我們知道B、C、D都是污染所產(chǎn)生出的結(jié)果,因此A是正確答案。
23. 答案B。
【試題分析】 此題考查考生根據(jù)上下文推測(cè)單詞意義的能力。
【詳細(xì)解答】 A.有毒物質(zhì);B.廢物;C.液體材料;D.固體材料。從文中我們知道sewage的含義為廢物。
24. 答案B。
【參考譯文】 為什么工業(yè)會(huì)給海洋帶來更多的危害?
【試題分析】 本題為細(xì)節(jié)判斷題，可用排除法。
【詳細(xì)解答】 A.因?yàn)樵S多工廠有適當(dāng)?shù)膹U物處理廠;B.因?yàn)樵S多工廠甚至現(xiàn)代化的工廠都很少有廢物處理廠;C.因?yàn)閮H僅現(xiàn)代工廠有廢物處理工廠; D.因?yàn)槠胀üS和現(xiàn)代化工廠都沒有廢物處理工廠,很明顯選項(xiàng)B是正確的。
25. 答案D。
【參考譯文】 此文的主要大意是什么?
【試題分析】 此題考查對(duì)全文主旨的理解。
【詳細(xì)解答】 本文講的是地中海的污染原因及結(jié)果。A. 拯救世界, 范圍太大,不對(duì)。B. 地中海地區(qū)的人們是怎樣生活的,這也不正確。 C. 工業(yè)是如何危害海洋,這只是污染的一個(gè)方面。 D. 警惕污染了的海洋,這一答案貼近,因此,D為正確答案。
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短文大意
倫敦教育學(xué)院的老師Dale Spender認(rèn)為教室是男孩子的天下，老師的2/3的注意力在男孩身上。男孩子是老師寵愛的對(duì)象。她認(rèn)為單性別課堂是解決老師偏心的方法。她的結(jié)論表明，如果老師對(duì)男生的注意力如果達(dá)不到2/3的話，老師自己也覺得對(duì)男孩子們重視不夠;男孩子們則會(huì)制造麻煩甚至向領(lǐng)導(dǎo)發(fā)牢騷。Spender認(rèn)為在混合班里，如果女孩子安靜順服就易被忽視，否則又會(huì)被認(rèn)為不象女孩。
26. 答案C。
【參考譯文】 如果男孩在課堂上受待遇更好的話, 那么哪種課堂形式將更好?
【試題分析】 此題考查考生對(duì)開頭兩段內(nèi)容的理解。
【詳細(xì)解答】 A. 單性別課堂和混合課堂教育更好;B 混合課堂教育更好,正是在混合課堂,男生更吸引老師的注意。 C. 單性別課堂教育更好,這是正確答案,這樣就不會(huì)有老師偏心的問題。 D.以上的答案都不對(duì)。
27. 答案D。
【參考譯文】 黛爾?斯潘德通過什么證據(jù)得出她的這一結(jié)論?
【試題分析】 此題為尋找并理解具體信息題。
【詳細(xì)解答】 從文中我們得知是通過她自己及其他教師的課堂錄音記錄。 A. 通過她自己在中學(xué)和大學(xué)的課堂,顯然不正確。 B. 其他教師的課堂記錄， C. 男性和女性教師的課堂，也不正確。
28. 答案B。
【參考譯文】 女孩得到更多注意時(shí),男孩會(huì)有何反應(yīng)?
【試題分析】 此題考查考生對(duì)文章倒數(shù)第二段的理解。
【詳細(xì)解答】 文中提到他們將會(huì)制造一些麻煩并向領(lǐng)導(dǎo)抱怨。 A.他們會(huì)再次引起老師的注意。B. 他們會(huì)制造麻煩及向領(lǐng)導(dǎo)發(fā)牢騷,B是正確答案。C.他們將使老師難看;D.他們將感到他們被老師欺騙, 這只是他們的感受而非反應(yīng),因此D也不正確。
29. 答案A。
【試題分析】 此題考查考生根據(jù)語(yǔ)境猜測(cè)生詞的能力。
【詳細(xì)解答】 boisterous 的含義是什么。 根據(jù)下文的unladylike(不像女孩似的),選項(xiàng)中只有rough( 粗魯?shù)?與之詞義接近。 B.勇敢;C.討厭的;D. 感情用事的。
30. 答案A。
【參考譯文】 本文的標(biāo)題是什么?
【試題分析】 此題考查考生對(duì)文章主旨的理解。
【詳細(xì)解答】 A, 男孩是老師的寵物(愛),本文主要篇幅在男生在課堂上如何受偏愛,因此A是正確答案。 B, 男生在混合教育課堂中做得好些。 C, 單性別課堂比混合教育課堂更好。D, 女生比男生做得好。
Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. 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 the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage:
Every year 100 million holiday—makers are drawn to the Mediterranean.
With onethird of the world's tourist trade, it is the most popular of all the holiday destinations; it is also the most polluted.
It has only 1 per cent of the world's sea surface, but carries more than half the oil and tar floating on the waters. Thousands of factories pour their poison into the Mediterranean, and almost every city, town and village on the coast sends its sewage, untreated, into the sea.
The result is that the Mediterranean, which nurtured so many civilizations, is gravely ill—the first of the seas to fall victim to the abilities and attitudes that evolved around it. And the pollution does not merely keep back life of the sea—it threatens the people who inhabit and visit its shores.
The mournful form of disease is caused by sewage. Eightyfive per centof the waste from the Mediterranean's 120 coastal cities is pushed out in to the waters where their people and visitors bathe and fish. What is more, most cities just drop it in straight off the beach; rare indeed are the places like Cannes and Tel Aviv which pipe it even half a mile offshore.
Not surprisingly, vast areas of the shallows are awash with bacteria and it doesn't take long for these to reach people. Professor William Brumfitt of the Royal Free Hospital once calculated that anyone who goes for a swim in the Mediterranean has a one in seven chance of getting some sort of disease. Other scientists say this is an overestimate; but almost all of them agree that bathers are at risk.
Industry adds its own poisons. Factories cluster round the coastline, and even the most modern rarely has proper wastetreatment plant. They do as much damage to the sea as sewage.
But the good news is that the countries of the Mediterranean have been coming together to work out how to save their common sea.
21. The causes of the Mediterranean's pollution is ____.
A) the oil and tar floating on the water
B) many factories put their poison into the sea
C) untreated sewage from the factories and coastal cities
D) there are some sorts of diseases in the sea
22. Which of following consequence of a polluted sea is not true according to the passage?
A) Bring up so many civilizations.
B) Various diseases in the sea.
C) It threatens the inhabitants and travelers.
D) One in seven chance of getting some sort of disease swimming in the sea.
23. The word “sewage”refer to ____.
A) poison
C) liquid material
B) waste
D) solid material
24. Why does industry do much damage to the sea?
A) Because most factories have proper wastetreatment plants.
B) Because many factories have not proper wastetreatment plants even the most modern one.
C) Because just the modern factory has a waste treatment plant.
D) Because neither ordinary factories nor most modern ones have proper wastetreatment plants.
25. What is the passage mainly about?
A) Save the world.
B) How the people live in the Mediterranean sea.
C) How the industry dangers the sea.
D) Beware the dirty sea.
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage:
THE CLASSROOM is a man's world, where boys get twothirds of the teachers' attention — even when they are in a minority— taunt (辱罵) the girls without punishment, and receive praise for sloppy work that would not be tolerated from girls. They are accustomed to being teachers' pets, and if girls get anything like equal treatment, they will protest eagerly and even wreck lessons.
These claims are made in a book out this week, written by Dale Spender, a lecturer at the London University Institute of Education. She argues that discrimination against girls is so deeply in coeducational schools that single sex classes are the only answer.
Her case is based on taperecordings of her own and other teachers' lessons. Many of them, like Spender, had deliberately set out to give girls a fair chance. “Sometimes,” says Spender, “I have even thought I have gone too far and have spent more time with the girls than the boys.”
The tapes proved otherwise. In 10 taped lessons (in secondary school and college), Spender never gave the girls more than 42 per cent of her attention (the average was 38 percent) and never gave the boys less than 58 percent. There were similar results for other teachers, both male and female.
In other words, when teachers give girls more than a third of their time, they feel that they are cheating the boys of their rightful share. And so do the boys themselves. “She always asks the girls all the questions,” said one boy in a classroom where 34 per cent of the teachers' time was allocated to girls. “She doesn't like boys, and just listens to the girls.” said a boy in another class, where his sex got 63 per cent of teacher attention.
Boys regarded twothirds of the teacher's time as a fair deal — and when they got less they caused trouble in class and even complained to higher authority. “It's important to keep their attention,” said one teacher, “Otherwise, they play you up something awful.”
Spender concludes that, in mixed classes, if the girls are as boisterous and pushy as the boys, they are considered “unladylike”, if they are docile and quiet, they are ignored.
26. If boys are better treated in class, ____ would be better.
A) singlesex classes and coeducational classes
B) coeducational classes
C) singlesex classes
D) None of the above
27. Dale Spender obtained the evidence for her claims by ____.
A) her own lessons in secondary school and college
B) the other teachers' taperecordings
C) both male and female teachers
D) taperecordings of her own and other teachers' lessons
28. What are the boy's reactions when girls are given more attention?
A) They will keep the teachers' attention again.
B) They will make some trouble and complain to the headmaster.
C) They will play up the teacher something awful.
D) They will feel they are cheated by teachers.
29. The word “boisterous” in the last paragraph probably means ____.
A) rough B) brave
C)troublesome D) emotional
30. The best title for this passage would be ____.
A) boys are teachers' pets
B) boys do better in coeducational classes
C) singlesex classes are better than coeduationed classes
D) girls do better than boys
答案
Part Ⅱ
1
短文大意
本文講的是地中海的污染原因及結(jié)果。地中海是旅游勝地，是許多文明的發(fā)源地，但是現(xiàn)在的地中海卻污染嚴(yán)重。因?yàn)樵S多沿岸的城市、工廠、村莊未經(jīng)處理就將廢物排放入地中海，這樣，海中有害物質(zhì)及廢物給細(xì)菌病菌的繁殖創(chuàng)造了條件。所以在地中海游泳是很危險(xiǎn)的，好在地中海沿岸國(guó)家一直在設(shè)法挽救其共同的地中海。
21. 答案C。
【參考譯文】 地中海的污染原因是什么?
【試題分析】 此題考查考生區(qū)分原因與現(xiàn)象的能力。
【詳細(xì)解答】 A. 指的是石油和(焦油)漂浮于水面上，這是現(xiàn)象而非原因,因此不正確。B.指出許多工廠將有毒物放進(jìn)海里。這只是一個(gè)方面,因此也不正確。C. 談的是來自工廠和沿海城市中沒有經(jīng)過處理的廢物,這在文中提到了,因此為正確答案。D.談到海中有幾種疾病，這也是現(xiàn)象而非原因。
22. 答案A。
【參考譯文】 根據(jù)本文，海洋污染造成的后果中，以下哪項(xiàng)不對(duì)?
【試題分析】 此題為判斷因果關(guān)系題。
【詳細(xì)解答】 A.提供了諸多的文明;B.海洋中各種疾病;C.污染使當(dāng)?shù)鼐用窈吐眯姓吒械娇謶?D.如果在海里游泳七個(gè)人中就有一個(gè)會(huì)染上疾病。從文章中我們知道B、C、D都是污染所產(chǎn)生出的結(jié)果,因此A是正確答案。
23. 答案B。
【試題分析】 此題考查考生根據(jù)上下文推測(cè)單詞意義的能力。
【詳細(xì)解答】 A.有毒物質(zhì);B.廢物;C.液體材料;D.固體材料。從文中我們知道sewage的含義為廢物。
24. 答案B。
【參考譯文】 為什么工業(yè)會(huì)給海洋帶來更多的危害?
【試題分析】 本題為細(xì)節(jié)判斷題，可用排除法。
【詳細(xì)解答】 A.因?yàn)樵S多工廠有適當(dāng)?shù)膹U物處理廠;B.因?yàn)樵S多工廠甚至現(xiàn)代化的工廠都很少有廢物處理廠;C.因?yàn)閮H僅現(xiàn)代工廠有廢物處理工廠; D.因?yàn)槠胀üS和現(xiàn)代化工廠都沒有廢物處理工廠,很明顯選項(xiàng)B是正確的。
25. 答案D。
【參考譯文】 此文的主要大意是什么?
【試題分析】 此題考查對(duì)全文主旨的理解。
【詳細(xì)解答】 本文講的是地中海的污染原因及結(jié)果。A. 拯救世界, 范圍太大,不對(duì)。B. 地中海地區(qū)的人們是怎樣生活的,這也不正確。 C. 工業(yè)是如何危害海洋,這只是污染的一個(gè)方面。 D. 警惕污染了的海洋,這一答案貼近,因此,D為正確答案。
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短文大意
倫敦教育學(xué)院的老師Dale Spender認(rèn)為教室是男孩子的天下，老師的2/3的注意力在男孩身上。男孩子是老師寵愛的對(duì)象。她認(rèn)為單性別課堂是解決老師偏心的方法。她的結(jié)論表明，如果老師對(duì)男生的注意力如果達(dá)不到2/3的話，老師自己也覺得對(duì)男孩子們重視不夠;男孩子們則會(huì)制造麻煩甚至向領(lǐng)導(dǎo)發(fā)牢騷。Spender認(rèn)為在混合班里，如果女孩子安靜順服就易被忽視，否則又會(huì)被認(rèn)為不象女孩。
26. 答案C。
【參考譯文】 如果男孩在課堂上受待遇更好的話, 那么哪種課堂形式將更好?
【試題分析】 此題考查考生對(duì)開頭兩段內(nèi)容的理解。
【詳細(xì)解答】 A. 單性別課堂和混合課堂教育更好;B 混合課堂教育更好,正是在混合課堂,男生更吸引老師的注意。 C. 單性別課堂教育更好,這是正確答案,這樣就不會(huì)有老師偏心的問題。 D.以上的答案都不對(duì)。
27. 答案D。
【參考譯文】 黛爾?斯潘德通過什么證據(jù)得出她的這一結(jié)論?
【試題分析】 此題為尋找并理解具體信息題。
【詳細(xì)解答】 從文中我們得知是通過她自己及其他教師的課堂錄音記錄。 A. 通過她自己在中學(xué)和大學(xué)的課堂,顯然不正確。 B. 其他教師的課堂記錄， C. 男性和女性教師的課堂，也不正確。
28. 答案B。
【參考譯文】 女孩得到更多注意時(shí),男孩會(huì)有何反應(yīng)?
【試題分析】 此題考查考生對(duì)文章倒數(shù)第二段的理解。
【詳細(xì)解答】 文中提到他們將會(huì)制造一些麻煩并向領(lǐng)導(dǎo)抱怨。 A.他們會(huì)再次引起老師的注意。B. 他們會(huì)制造麻煩及向領(lǐng)導(dǎo)發(fā)牢騷,B是正確答案。C.他們將使老師難看;D.他們將感到他們被老師欺騙, 這只是他們的感受而非反應(yīng),因此D也不正確。
29. 答案A。
【試題分析】 此題考查考生根據(jù)語(yǔ)境猜測(cè)生詞的能力。
【詳細(xì)解答】 boisterous 的含義是什么。 根據(jù)下文的unladylike(不像女孩似的),選項(xiàng)中只有rough( 粗魯?shù)?與之詞義接近。 B.勇敢;C.討厭的;D. 感情用事的。
30. 答案A。
【參考譯文】 本文的標(biāo)題是什么?
【試題分析】 此題考查考生對(duì)文章主旨的理解。
【詳細(xì)解答】 A, 男孩是老師的寵物(愛),本文主要篇幅在男生在課堂上如何受偏愛,因此A是正確答案。 B, 男生在混合教育課堂中做得好些。 C, 單性別課堂比混合教育課堂更好。D, 女生比男生做得好。