【单选题】（I) To sell an old bond when interest rates have risen, the holder will have to di

A、risen; lower

B、risen; raise

C、fallen; lower

D、risen; inflate

When Miss Sullivan taught the word "doll", the author was at once interested because ______.

A．the author knew this teaching way is very useful

B．the author wanted to show her mother she was able to spell a word

C．the author considered the teaching way is very interesting and funny

D．the word "doll" was very important for her

Section A

Finding an understanding bank can be the key. (81) Almost all the big banks offer students interest-free loans, as well as a range of gifts designed to win them over.

Most students will be best off with a bank that has a branch on campus or at least close to the university. (82) These banks are more likely to have specialist advisors for students and will be easier to get to for students who need advice on their finances.

In addition, students need to figure out how the state support system works. These days, nobody gets a grant—instead, a system of student loans applies. Hard-up students can apply for bigger loans,

The system is run by the Student Loans Company. It charges interest at a rate pegged to inflation, which should make the debt cheaper than any commercial loan. (83) Students do not have to start repayments until the April after they leave college and then only if they earn more than a certain amount.

(84) The largest loans are available to people flying away from home in London—the maximum they can borrow this academic year is ￡ 4, 815. But 25 per cent of this sum is need-based. Students whose family income is above a certain level can apply for only ￡ 3,610.

Outside London the loans are lower—￡ 3,905 for students who qualify for the full loan, or ￡ 2, 930 for everyone else.

(85) The maximum loan falls to ￡ 4,175 in London and ￡ 3,390 elsewhere for final-year students as the Government assumes they will be able to get a job at the end of the year. Again, 25 per cent of this is need-based.

(81)

Almost all recognize that non-scientists as well as laymen are interested in sciences, yet scientists have been trying to classify only those who are involved in ______ scientific practices as genuine scientists, ______ the more inclusive view.

A．authentic... articulating

B．rigorous ... unconvinced of

C．specialized ... sympathetic to

D．broad ... certain of

E．democratic ... rejecting

Almost all recognize that non-scientists as well as laymen are interested in sciences, yet scientists have been trying to classify only those who are involved in ______ scientific practices as genuine scientists, ______ the more inclusive view.

A．authentic... articulating

B．rigorous ... unconvinced of

C．specialized ... sympathetic to

D．broad ... certain of

E．democratic ... rejecting

TEXT A

I remember meeting him one evening with his pushcart. I had managed to sell all my papers and was coming home in the snow. It was that strange hour in downtown New York when the workers were pouring homeward in the twilight. I marched among thousands of tired men and women whom the factory whistles had unyoked. They flowed in rivers through the clothing factory districts, then down along the avenues to the East Side.

I met my father near Cooper Union. I recognized him, a hunched, frozen figure in an old overcoat standing by a banana cart. He looked so lonely, the tears came to my eyes. Then he saw me, and his face lit with his sad, beautiful smile -Charlie Chaplin's smile.

"Arch, it's Mikey," he said. "So you have sold your papers! Come and eat a banana."

He offered me one. I refused it. I felt it crucial that my father sell his bananas, not give them away. He thought I was shy, and coaxed and joked with me, and made me eat the banana. It smelled of wet straw and snow.

"You haven't sold many bananas today, pop," I said anxiously.

He shrugged his shoulders.

"What can I do? No one seems to want them."

It was true. The work crowds pushed home morosely over the pavements. The rusty sky darkened over New York building, the tall street lamps were lit, innumerable trucks, street cars and elevated trains clattered by. Nobody and nothing in the great city stopped for my father's bananas.

"I ought to yell," said my father dolefully. "I ought to make a big noise like other peddlers, but it makes my throat sore. Anyway, I'm ashamed of yelling, it makes me feel like a fool. "

I had eaten one of his bananas. My sick conscience told me that I ought to pay for it somehow. I must remain here and help my father.

"I'll yell for you, pop," I volunteered.

"Arch, no," he said, "go home; you have worked enough today. Just tell momma I'll be late."

But I yelled and yelled. My father, standing by, spoke occasional words of praise, and said I was a wonderful yeller. Nobody else paid attention. The workers drifted past us wearily, endlessly; a defeated army wrapped in dreams of home. Elevated trains crashed; the Cooper Union clock burned above us; the sky grew black, the wind poured, the slush burned through our shoes. There were thousands of strange, silent figures pouring over the sidewalks in snow. None of them stopped to buy bananas. I yelled and yelled, nobody listened.

My father tried to stop me at last. "Nu," he said smiling to console me, "that was wonderful yelling. Mikey. But it's plain we are unlucky today! Let's go home."

I was frantic, and almost in tears. I insisted on keeping up my desperate yells. But at last my father persuaded me to leave with him.

11. "unyoked" in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to

A. sent out

B. released

C. dispatched

D. removed

【单选题】Figure 6.7 shows the supply and demand curves for human kidneys. Because the government does not allow a person to sell a kidney:

A、50 kidneys are donated.

B、30 kidneys are donated

C、20 kidneys are donated.

D、0 kidneys are donated.

A special lab at the University of Chicago is busy only【C1】______. It is a dream【C2】______where researchers are at work【C3】______dreamers. Their findings have concluded that【C4】______dreams from three to seven times each night,【C5】______in ordinary life a person may【C6】______none or only one of his dreams.

While the【C7】______sleep, special machines【C8】______their brain waves and eye movements as well as the body movements that【C9】______the end of a dream. Surprisingly, all subjects【C10】______soundly.

【C11】______say that a person usually fidgets before a dream.【C12】______the dream has started, his body relaxes and his eyes【C13】______more active, as if the curtain【C14】______on a show. When the machine【C15】______that the dream is over, a buzzer wakes the【C16】______He sits up, records his dream, and goes back to sleep perhaps to【C17】______some more.

Researchers have found that if the dreamer, is【C18】______immediately after his dream, he can usually recall the entire dream, If he is allowed to sleep even【C19】______his【C20】______of the dream will have faded.

【C1】

A．at noon

B．in the morning

C．at night

D．in spring

Thomas Hardy’s impulses as a writer, all of which he indulged in his novels, were numerous and divergent, and they did not always work together in harmony. Hardy was to some degree interested in exploring his characters' psychologies, though impelled less by curiosity than by sympathy. Occasionally he felt the impulse to comedy (in all its detached coldness) as well as the impulse to farce, but he was more often inclined to see tragedy and record it. He was also inclined to literary realism in the several senses of that phrase. He wanted to describe ordinary human beings; he wanted to speculate on their dilemma rationally (and, unfortunately, even schematically); and he wanted to record precisely the material universe, Finally, he wanted to be more than a realist. He wanted to transcend what he considered to be the banality of solely recording things exactly and to express as well his awareness of the occult and the strange.

In his novels these various impulses were sacrificed to each other inevitably and often. Inevitably, because Hardy did not care in the way that novelists such as Flaubert or James cared, and therefore took paths of least resistance. Thus, one impulse often surrendered to a fresher one and, unfortunately, instead of exacting a compromise, simply disappeared. A desire to throw over reality a light that never was might give way abruptly to the desire on the part of what we might consider a novelist-scientist to record exactly and concretely the structure and texture of a flower. In this instance, the new impulse was at least an energetic one, and thus its indulgence did not result in a relaxed style. But on other occasions Hardy abandoned a perilous, risky, and highly energizing impulse in favor of what was for him the fatally relaxing impulse to classify and schematize abstractly. When a relaxing impulse was indulged, the style—that sure index of an author's literary worth—was certain to become verbose. Hardy's weakness derived from his apparent inability to control the comings and goings of these divergent impulses and from his unwillingness to cultivate and sustain the energetic and risky ones. He submitted to first one and then another, and the spirit blew where it listed; hence the unevenness of any one of his novels. His most controlled novel, Under the Greenwood Tree, prominently exhibits two different but reconcilable impulses—a desire to be a realist-historian and a desire to be a psychologist of love—but the slight interlockings of plot are not enough to bind the two completely together. Thus even this book splits into two distinct parts.

The most appropriate title for the passage could be ______.

A．Under the Greenwood Tree: Hardy's Ambiguous Triumph

B．The Real and the Strange: The Novelist's Shifting Realms

C．Hardy's Novelistic Impulses: The Problem of Control

D．Divergent Impulses: The Issue of Unity in the Novel