1. What’s the type of the following movie？ [图]A、A...

Directions:

Read the following text. Choose the best word or phrase for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1.

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What kinds of people often give drugs to their children? Where in the world do people take drug before going to work? The answers are simple—ordinary people, just about (26) .

And the drug (27) question is caffeine. Scientists estimate that over 70% of the world's population takes caffeine daily. (28) drink it in tea and coffee. Children drink in tin Coca Cola and (29) soft drinks. It is also found in chocolate. (30) , most people in the most places at any time are under the (31) of the drug.

There have been many scientific investigations (32) the exact effects of caffeine. Most people agree that it (33) the nervous system and helps the body make efficient use of energy. This is why many people (34) Asia drink tea with food and why westerners often end their meals (35) a cup of coffee.

Because the effect of caffeine is so (36) , there have been (37) attempts to stop people using it. A U. S. religious group which (38) the use of caffeine is generally regarded as eccentric (反常的). But because nearly everybody takes it, the total effect of caffeine (39) people is huge. Caffeine is the drug that changed the world.

Both tea and coffee were introduced to the West around 300 years ago. The effect of these new drinks was felt (40) . In New York, coffee houses were (41) with people making plans, (42) business and doing deals. And the deals done in the coffee houses were partly responsible (43) a rapid increase in American trade. History was moving (44) that direction anyway. But the arrival of coffee (45) everything up.

26. [A] everything

[B] everyone

[C] everyday

[D] everywhere

What personal qualities are desirable in a teacher? I think the following would be generally accepted.

First, the teacher s personality should be lively and attractive. This does not rule out people who are plain-looking, or even ugly, because many such people have great personal charm. But it does rule out such types as the over-excitable, sad, cold, and frustrated.

Secondly, it is not merely desirable but essential for a teacher to have a genuine capacity for sympathy, a capacity to understand the minds and feelings of other people, especially, since most teachers are school teachers, the minds and feelings of children. Closely related with this is the capacity to be tolerant not, indeed, of what is wrong, but of the weaknesses and immaturity of human nature which induce people, and again

especially children, to make mistakes.

Thirdly, I hold it essential for a teacher to be both intellectually and morally honest. This means that he will be aware of his intellectual strengths and limitations, and will have thought about and decided upon the moral principles by which his life shall be guided. There is no contradiction in my going on to say that a teacher should be a bit of an actor. That is part of the technique of teaching, which demands that every now and then a teacher should be able to put on an act to enliven a lesson, correct a fault, or award praise. Children, especially young children, live in a world that is rather larger than life.

A teacher must be capable of infinite patience. This, I may say, is largely a matter of self-discipline and self-training, for we are none of us born like that.

Finally, I think a teacher should have the kind of mind which always wants to go on learning. Teaching is a job at which one will never be perfect; there is always something more to learn about it. There are three principal objects of study: the subjects which the teacher is teaching; the methods by which the subjects can best be taught to the particular pupils in the classes he is teaching; and by far the most important the children, young people, or adults to whom the subjects are to be taught. The two fundamental principles of British education today are that education is education of the whole person, and that it is best acquired through full and active co-operation between two persons, the teacher and the learner.

S1. Plain-looking teachers can also be admired by their students if they have

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S2. The author says it is S2 that teachers be sympathetic with their students.

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S3. A teacher should be tolerant because humans tend to have

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and to be

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S4. A teacher who is S4 will be able to make his lessons more lively.

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S5. How can a teacher acquire infinite patience?

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S6. Since teaching is a job no one can be perfect at, it is necessary for teachers to keep improving their knowledge of the subjects they teach and their

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S7. Teachers most important object of study is

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S8. Education cannot be best acquired without S8 between the teacher and the learner

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Aretailcustomerhasadatabaseapplicationthatisaccessedbyalargenumberofpeoplethroughawebinterfacefrommultipleremotelocations.Whichquestionswillprovidetheinformationnecessarytodesignthebestperformingstoragesolutionofthefollowing？（）

A.Howmanywebserverswillbeconnectedtothedatabase？

B.Howmanyconcurrentapplicationswillrunagainstthedatabase？

C.Howmanyconcurrentuserswillbeaccessingthedatabase？

D.Whatarethetypesoftransactionsrunagainstthedatabase？

Aretailcustomerhasadatabaseapplicationthatisaccessedbyalargenumberofpeoplethroughawebinterfacefrommultipleremotelocations.Whichofthefollowingquestionswillprovidetheinformationnecessarytodesignthebestperformingstoragesolution?（）

A.Howmanywebserverswillbeconnectedtothedatabase?

B.Howmanyconcurrentapplicationswillrunagainstthedatabase?

C.Howmanyconcurrentuserswillbeaccessingthedatabase?

D.Whatarethetypesoftransactionsrunagainstthedatabase?

Acustomerhasadatabaseapplicationthatisaccessedbyalargenumberofpeoplethroughawebinterfacefrommultipleremotelocations.Whichofthefollowingquestionswillprovidetheinformationnecessarytodesignthebestperformingstoragesolution？（）

A.Howmanywebserverswillbeconnectedtothedatabase？

B.WillthedatabaseberunonaWindowssolution？

C.Howmanyconcurrentuserswillbeaccessingthedatabase？

D.Whatarethetypesoftransactionsrunagainstthedatabase？

Part A

Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. (40 points)

Millions of families sat down in their living rooms one evening last August to watch a live Madonna Concert from France, telecast on the cable network Home Box Office. Because Madonna is such a huge international star—and because the telecast was heavily promoted and aired in prime time on a weekend—millions of children certainly watched with their parents.

What happened on all those screens was that Madonna repeatedly used the one obscene word that has been routinely barred from the public airwaves.

We live in an anything-goes age, so the show's witless and purposely vulgar content was not surprising. The language itself was nothing that has not been heard in movies or on cable-TV comedy specials. The surprising thing was that so few parents called HBO to object. A spokesperson for the network said the complaints" were not by any stretch of the imagination overwhelming"—and that the Madonna con cert was the highest-rated original entertainment program in the network's history. Apparently, America's parents have totally given up hope that they can control what their children are exposed to on TV.

My point isn't, really, about Madonna. Though I don't happen to find her calculated outrage particularly interesting she is free to make her money anyway she chooses. Marginally talented singers have been packaging rebellion for decades, and it always seems to sell, especially to young people. Madonna has done a very good job marketing her product.

What is most troubling is that her product appeared in America's homes during prime time on a Sunday, and people seemed to think it was no big deal. Television, in a way that now seems quaint, was once considered almost sacred ground when it came to certain material-precisely because children were watching. But the country has been so beaten down by a lessening of public standards that obscenities can be telecast to millions of families without causing even a ripple of protest.

What of the argument (that parents should just turn off the TV if they don't like the programming)? It's valid—but there was no warning before Madonna launched into her first rapid-fire round of obscenities. Although the telecast was promoted as being live, it actually was taped hours before. The network knew what it was sending out. Yet it did so without deletions or an advisory notice at the beginning of the show. This was "a creative decision," HBO says.

Those children will hear worse in their lifetimes—they probably already have. To telecast a concert like Madonna's is no longer considered particularly controversial. But to wonder publicly about the wisdom of it—to say that delivering such a performance to the nation's children is wrong—that is considered controversial. To say it is wrong is to seem out of step with the rest of the world. But it is wrong. It is dead wrong.

According to the passage the cable network Home Box Office ______.

A．is a French company

B．had telecast the concert without further promoting

C．is favored not only by children but by parents

D．telecast the concert in prime time on a weekend

Study the following definition of psychology, and identify the techniques the author uses to extend the definition. Psychology may be defined as the science that studies the behavior of man and other animals. For this definition to be useful, it is necessary to specify more clearly what psychologists mean by behavior. An idea of the meaning of behavior can be gained if the topics covered by psychology are examined: the behaving organism, growth and development, motivation and emotion, perception, learning and thinking, individuality and personality, conflict, adjustment and mental health, and social aspects of psychology. The behaving organism is important because as a science rooted in biology, psychology is interested in the bodily processes that make activity possible ... SOURCE: BuzanT. {1971). Speed reading. Newton Abbot: David and Charles. (You can also find the text on pate 019 in the textbook.)

A、analogies

B、comparisons

C、extra information

D、examples

Passage 1

Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage:

One study shows that Americans prefer to answer with a brief “Yes”, “No”, “Sure”, or the very popular “Yeah” rather than with a longer reply. (76)But brief replies do not mean Americans are impolite or unfriendly to some extent. Very often, Americans are in a hurry and may greet you with a single word “Hi”, indeed; this is a greeting you will hear again and again during your stay in the United States. It is used by everyone, regardless of rank, agent occupation. However,-those who are accustomed to lo nger greetings'may require a little more time before they feel comfortable with American simple talk.

Americans sometimes use plain talk when they are uncomfortable. (77)If people praise them or thank them in an especially polite way, they may become uncomfortable and not know what to say in reply. They don't want to be impolite or rude, you can be sure that they liked what was said about them. Except for certain holidays, such as Christmas, Americans don't usually give gifts. Thus, you will find Americans embarrassed as they accept gifts, especially if they have nothing to give in return. They are generally a warm but informal people.

1. The fact that Americans like shorter answers tells us__________.

A. they reply very quickly in a hurry

B. they choose words too carefully

C. they like replying briefly

D. they want to be as polite as they can