For those who are almost blind to all colors, what kinds of colors can they only see？ They

A．They can invite guests to have meals at a reduced price.

B．They receive cards that allow them to be served first.

C．They can help decide what will be on the menu.

D．They pay less per meal than those who don't always eat there.

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A.Some people appreciate those who pay almost all their attention on work．

B.If you don" t get rid of workaholism， you may get ill．

C.To get promotion， you need to be a workaholic．

D.Workaholics" behaviors are hard to understand．

E.Workaholics had better have some time with no work．

F.It"s hard for workaholics to be away from work psychologically．

G.Workaholics don"t know how to enjoy themselves except working．

SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE

Directions: Translate the following text into Chinese.

Sometimes it was as long as a year; sometimes as short as twenty-four hours. But always we were interested in discovering just how the doomed man chose to spend his last days or his last hours. I speak, of course, of free men who have a choice, not condemned criminals whose sphere of activities is strictly delimited.

Such stories set us thinking, wondering what we should do under similar circumstances. What events, what experiences, what associations should we crowd into those last hours as mortal beings.'？ What happiness should we find in reviewing the past, what regrets？

Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule to live each clay as if we should die tomorrow. Such an attitude would emphasize sharply the values of life. We should live each day with a gentleness, a vigor, and a keenness of appreciation which are often lost when time stretches before us in the constant panorama of more days and months and years to come. There are those, of course, who would adopt the Epicurean motto of "Eat, drink, and be merry," but most people would be chastened by the certainty of impending death.

In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke of fortune! but almost al ways his sense of values is changed. He becomes more appreciative of the meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values. It has often been noted that those who live, or have lived, in the shadow of death bring a mellow sweetness to everything they do.

根据下列文章,请回答 16～22 题。

Sleeping

People who sleep for more than eight hours a night do not live as long as those who sleep for Six hours，according to the biggest study yet into sleep patterns and mortality（死亡率）。

Scientists have no explanation for the findings and do not know if they mean people who like a lie-in（睡懒觉）can extend their lives by sleeping less.

Although it is a common I belief that sleeping for at least eight hours a night is vital for health and well-being，the six-year study involving more than l.1 million Americans Older than 30 found that those who slept for less than eight hours were far from doing themselves any long-term harm

"Individuals who now average 6.5 hours of sleeps a night can be reassured that this is a safe amount of sleep. From a health standpoint，there is no reason to sleep longer，" said Daniel Kripke，a professor of psychiatry（精神病学）at the University of California San Diego.

Dr.Kripke said，''We don't know if long sleep periods lead to death. Addition al Studios are needed to determine if setting your alarm clock earlier will actually improve your health." l he scientists who were funded by the American Cancer Society，found that the best survival rates were among the men and women who slept for seven hours a night. 1 hose who slept for eight hours were 12 per cent more likely to die during the six-year period of the study，when other factors such as diet and smoking were taken into account.

Even those who spent a mere five hours a night in bed lived longer than those who slept eight or more hours. However，an increasing death rate was found among those who slept for less than five hours. Dr.Kripke said，"Previous sleep studies have indicated that both short-and long-duration（持续时间）sleep had higher mortality rates-However-none of those studies was large enough to distinguish the difference between seven and eight hours a 1night.Until now"

第 16 题 More than one million Americans participated in the six-year study.

A．Right

B．Wrong

C．Not mentioned

Task 1

Directions: After reading the following passage, you will find 5 questions or unfinished statements, numbered 36 through 40. For each question or statement there are 4 choices marked A, B, C, and D. You should make the correct choice.

It is clear that some people who participate in exercise training will develop injuries to their bones, muscles, and joints (关节). Despite unfounded reports in the mass media of extremely high injury rates among adult exercisers, there have been few good studies of exercise injuries in populations. One of the difficulties in performing such studies has been the need to identify both the number of cases and the number of people at risk for injury. In other words, it is difficult to know the number of individuals injured and the total number of individuals exercising in the population. But these two figures are necessary in order to calculate (统计) true injury rates Normally, injury is defined as an accident that causes a person to stop exercising for al least one week. The best available studies on injury rates show that about 25 to 30 percent of adult runners become "injured" (based on the above definition) over the course of a year. More serious injuries include those for which the injured person seeks medical care. If only they are considered, injury rates are much lower, perhaps in the range of 1 percent per year.

Little is known about the causes of exercise injuries. One factor that has been linked to injury is the amount of exercise; for example, individuals who run more miles are likelier to be injured than those who run fewer miles. Factors such as age, sex, body type, and experience have not been shown to be associated with risk of injury. It seems logical that structural abnormalities, sudden increases in training intensity, and types of equipment used are likely to be related to injury risk. However, data to support these opinions are not available.

What is the writer's attitude towards high injury rates among adult exercisers reported by the mass media？

A．Positive.

B．Indifferent.

C．Negative.

D．Reserved.

The word "freedom" for many black Americans is inextricably linked with the word "slavery." While it has 148 years【M1】______ since the Emancipation Proclamation, and 47 years since the landmark Civil Rights Act, for many, the words of Martin Luther King in his famous speech still ring real: "The Negro lives on a【M2】______ lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity." Many black Americans still find themselves spiritually and economically slaved on the figurative 21st-century plantation.【M3】______ Why is that still so？ After all, for the last 47 years, our leaders have passed on bill after bill ostensibly to free black Americans【M4】______ from the manacles of poverty and provide ever-stronger safety nets for those disadvantaged. Because two very formidable forces have【M5】______ conspired over these last 47 years—almost the span of my complete life—to shackle the economic freedoms and aspirations【M6】______ of the black community: liberal progressive policies, generally supported by Democrats, and the socialist ideology espoused by prominent blacks as Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.【M7】______ This is always curious to me that black Americans typically【M8】______ vote Democrat, when it was a Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, who issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, and a Republican from Ohio, Representative James Mitchell Ashley, who came forth the bill to support an amendment to end slavery【M9】______ throughout the United States. Nearly 100 years late, when the【M10】______ initial Civil Rights Bill came before the full Senate in 1964, it was a group of 18 Southern Democrats who argued most fervently against its passage.

【M1】

y." While it has 148 years【M1】______ since the Emancipation Proclamation, and 47 years since the landmark Civil Rights Act, for many, the words of Martin Luther King in his famous speech still ring real: "The Negro lives on a【M2】______ lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity." Many black Americans still find themselves spiritually and economically slaved on the figurative 21st-century plantation.【M3】______ Why is that still so？ After all, for the last 47 years, our leaders have passed on bill after bill ostensibly to free black Americans【M4】______ from the manacles of poverty and provide ever-stronger safety nets for those disadvantaged. Because two very formidable forces have【M5】______ conspired over these last 47 years—almost the span of my complete life—to shackle the economic freedoms and aspirations【M6】______ of the black community: liberal progressive policies, generally supported by Democrats, and the socialist ideology espoused by prominent blacks as Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.【M7】______ This is always curious to me that black Americans typically【M8】______ vote Democrat, when it was a Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, who issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, and a Republican from Ohio, Representative James Mitchell Ashley, who came forth the bill to support an amendment to end slavery【M9】______ throughout the United States. Nearly 100 years late, when the【M10】______ initial Civil Rights Bill came before the full Senate in 1964, it was a group of 18 Southern Democrats who argued most fervently against its passage.

【M1】

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.

Most people don't enjoy facing the difficult situations that sometimes occur with co workers in the workplace. Such situations may arise from honest disagreements over design or engineering issues, personnel or benefits matters, management decisions or actions, or from any other situation where human impressions and objectives differ.

There could be double the trouble for engineers who are more likely to feel at home with electrons and bytes, and behave in highly predictable ways, than with coworkers, who often appear arbitrary and capricious. For those of us who have internalized the strict and measurable rules of the physical world, dealing with other people can be both disappointing and frustrating.

Yet how you manage situations of conflict with your co-workers could have a significant impact on your career, often even more than your engineering prowess or your design skills. Those who deal successfully with potential conflicts are far more likely to receive added responsibilities and promotions, in addition to the pay increases and respect that come with them. On the other hand, not dealing successfully with conflict can potentially relegate you to a career backwater, with technical challenges and high pay passing you by.

Why is dealing with conflict an important skill today？ It's primarily because there's more of it now than in the past. Workers of all types are more likely to speak up for their own ideas or actions, rather than follow the dictating corporate chain of command. Conflict also sometimes arises as a result of unclear company goals, or when those goals aren't shared equally by all. Rather than working for a single common good, employees and managers seek individual goals, such as promotion, job security, experience, money, and even the proverbial free lunch.

Not only is actual conflict greater today, but even the potential for interpersonal conflicts in the workplace is far greater than at any time in the past. One reason for this is in creased time-to-market pressures. The need to rapidly make decisions, establish an engineering direction, and meet project milestones adds elements of tension and stress to an al ready difficult endeavor.

This makes the workplace a potential minefield for interpersonal conflict. It's especial ly apparent to an engineer in a position of responsibility, like a project leader or an engineering manager. For an engineer who must work with others to complete a project, the need to manage conflict can spell the difference between success and failure.

Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the text？

A．Minefields are becoming common in the workplace.

B．Workers today are less equipped to deal with workplace conflict.

C．Companies are finding new ways to deal with workplace conflict.

D．Workplace conflict can arise from honest disagreements.

y accepted today is based on the assumption that drama evolved from ritual. The argument for this view goes as follows. In the beginning, human beings viewed the natural forces of the world, even the season al changes, as unpredictable, and they sought through various means, to control these unknown and feared powers. Those measures which appeared to bring the desired results were then retained and repeated until they hardened into fixed rituals. Eventually stories arose which explained or unveiled the mysteries of the rites. As time passed some rituals were abandoned, but the stories, later called myths, persisted and provided material for art and drama.

Those who believe that drama evolved our of ritual also argue that those rites contained the seed of theater because music, dance, masks, and costumes were almost always used. Furthermore, a suitable site had to be provided for performances, and when the entire community did not participate, a clear division, was usually made between the "acting area" and the "auditorium". In addition, there were per formers, and since considerable importance was attached to avoiding mistakes in the enactment of rites, religious leaders usually assumed that task. Wearing masks and costumes, they often impersonated other people, animals, or supernatural beings, and mined the desired effect—success in hunt or battle, the coming rain, the revival of the Sun —as an actor might. Eventually such dramatic representations were separated from religious activities.

Another theory traces the theater's origin from the human interest in storytelling. According to this view, tales(about the hunt, war, or other feats)are gradually elaborated at first through the use of impersonation, action, and dialogue by a narrator and then through the assumption of each of the roles by a different person. A closely related theory traces theater to those dances that are primarily rhythmical and gymnastic or that are imitations of animal movements and sounds.

What does the passage mainly discuss？

A．The origins of theater

B．The role of ritual in modern dance

C．The improtance of storytelling

D．The variety of early religious activities

imitive weapons and the discovery of fire, al though nobody knows exactly when acquired the use of (1)_____.

The (2)_____ of language is also obscure. No doubt it began very gradually. Animals have a few cries that serve (3)_____ signals, (4)_____ even the highest apes have not been found able to pronounce words (5)_____ with the most intensive professional instruction. The superior brain of man is apparently (6)_____ for the mastering of speech. When man became sufficiently intelligent, we must suppose that he (7)_____ the number of cries for different purposes. It was a great day (8)_____ he discovered that speed could be used for narrative. There are those who think that (9)_____ picture language preceded oral language. A man (10)_____ a picture on the wall of his cave to show (11)_____ direction he had gone, or (12)_____ prey he hoped to catch. Probably-picture language and oral language developed side by side. I am inclined to think that language (13)_____ the most important single factor in the development of man. Two important stages came not (14)_____ before the dawn of written history. The first was the domestication of animals; the second was agriculture. Agriculture was (15)_____ in human progress to which subsequently there was nothing comparable (16)_____ our own machine age. Agriculture made possible (17)_____ immense increase in the number of the human species in the regions where it could be successfully practiced. (18)_____ were, at first, only those in which nature fertilized the soil (19)_____ each harvest. Agriculture met with violent resistance from the pastoral nomads, but the agricultural way of life prevailed in the end (20)_____ the physical comforts it provided.

A．the latter

B．the later

C．the second

D．the latest

Passage Three

For some time after the Spanish won Granada from the Moors, Spanish kings enjoyed visiting that delightful city. After many years, however, they were frightened away by a series of earthquakes, during which several houses fell to the ground, and the old towers shook to their foundations.

After that, many years passed without visits from royal guests. The noble palaces of Granada remained silent and closed, and that loveliest of palaces, the Alhambra, lay sadly alone with no one to care for its beautiful gardens. People no longer visited the tower where once three beautiful Moorish princesses had lived. Only birds and insects found their way to those tower rooms which had once been the home of the king's lovely daughters. Zayda, Zorayda, and Zorahayda. It was said that the spirit of the youthful princess Zorahayda, who had died in that tower, was often seen by moonlight, seated beside the fountain in the hall, or weeping beside the high stone wall. It was said that the music of her silver lute could be heard at midnight by travelers passing along the road.

After many years, the city of Granada was honored once again by royal guests. All the world knows that

King Philip V married Elizabeth or Isabella (for they are the same), the beautiful princess of Parma. For a visit of his famous couple, the Alhambra palace was repaired and made ready, with all possible speed, when the king and queen arrived with all the lords and ladies of their court, there was a great change in the lonely palace. Drums and roy- al music were heard, fine horses were ridden about the avenues and inner court, brightly colored flags again were flown above the ancient walls. Inside the palace, however, life was quiet and calm. There was the soft sound of long robes, and the careful steps and murmuring voices of those who respectfully served the king and queen. In the gardens there was soft music, and there was quiet talk among the young lords and ladies of the court.

44. According to the passage, which is not true during the earthquake？

A. Several houses fell to the ground.

B. The old tower shook to their foundations.

C. Spanish kings were frightened away.

D. Spanish won Granada.