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TEXT E In the days before Diana became accustomed to daily hairdressers, high fashion and expertly applied makeup, she looked her best when she was wearing her least. No frilly blouses concealed her elegant neck, carefully cut skirts her long legs, or bulky sweaters her wellrounded figure. She was young and not fully aware of just how attractive she could be. But if she wanted to impress a young man, any young man, she always made it a point to go swimming or sailing or, at the very least, play a game of tennis. When Prince Charles saw her aboard Britannia at Cowes in the late summer of 1980, he wasnt however particularly interested. She belonged to his younger brother Andrews set, and had come aboard, not at Charless invitation, but with Lady Sarah Armstrong Jones, his cousin and sixteen years his junior. Diana was three years older than Sarah, but still almost a generation away. And besides, Charles had his mind on other things most particularly the breakup of his romance with the beautiful but self-willed Anna Wallace. There was also the fact that if he noticed Diana in anything more than passing, he thought about her as the sister of one of his former girlfriends Lady Sarah Spencer who had recently married (he hadnt attended), and whatever others might have been plotting he most certainly was not thinking of renewing his romantic links with the Spencer girls. But if Charles was not instantly enchanted by the fresh, gambolling nineteen-year-old who spent some days aboard the Royal Yacht, his staff were. She was so unassuming and so natural, one recalls. And in the manner of all servants, particularly ones who are in the employ of the bachelor Prince, they inevitably started speculating amongst themselves if she was the one for what they called the job. So, it seems, did Diana. At the age of sixteen she had jokingly told a friend that She was out to get Charles. But that may have been just romantic fantasizing on the part of a young girl whose main eating was the soapy romances penned by her stepgrandmother, the redoubtable Barbara Cartland. The Princes late valet, Stephen Barry, insisted however: She went after the Prince with single-minded determination. She wanted him and she got him! She had, of course, met him many times before in the years of her childhood spent as a near-neighbour of the Windsors at Sandringham when Charles used to pop his head round the nursery door where she was having tea with Andrew and Edward, or during a shooting party on Sandringham Estate where at the age of sixteen she was reintroduced to him by her sister Sarah. More recently she had encountered him at polo. But then he had always been busy or with a girlfriend in tow. This time he was alone. She made sure Charles was watching when she bravely followed his example and went windsurfing in the choppy and not-too-warm waters of the Solent. Naturally flirtations, she made sure he noticed her long slim legs and trim figure. And he could not fail but start to take an interest if only a comparative one in the beautiful younger sister of a former girlfriend. Accounts of this first meeting vary. Some claim that it is where the famous romance began. Others insist that his interest was but a mild one, that with Anna still in mind, the timing was wrong and be simply regarded her as a new and pretty addition to his surprisingly limited circle of friends. But she had certainly impressed him enough for him to invite her up to Balmoral shortly afterwards. Diana accepted with alacrity.1. To impress a young man, Diana might choose to play a game of tennis, because _. A. she was a highly skilled tennis player B. she looked attractive in her tennis outfit C. she preferred tennis to swimming D. her hair-style was fashionably designed B 2. How many years younger was Diana than Charles when they met aboard Britannia at Cowes? A. 16. B. 13. C. 19. D. 9. B3. Charles staff were enchanted by Diana because _. A. she was modest B. she was sociable C. she was beautiful D. she was flirtatious A4. Which of the following is NOT true? A. Charles had very few friends. B. The meeting aboard the ship was their first. C. Diana went after Charles with determination. D. Charles took an interest in Diana aboard the ship. BCyberiaInternet Cafes Eva Pascoe rides to work on a motorbike. Her business wardrobe features such items as black leggings, furry leopard - skin jumpers ,a faded denin jacket and biking leathers. She looks as if she might be a trendy market manager, or someone who works the day shift in a student cafe. In fact she is a very rich, very successful businesswoman. Pascoes business base is in the city of London, not far from the uban loft space she owns in a fashionable city residential area. But she is as likely to be found at business meetings in Tokyo, New York or Paris. Al the age of 31, Pascoe is the brain behind Cyberia, which she claims is the worlds first cyberia caf. At Cyberia, experienced Internet surfers can play with the latest cyber technology - Net virgins can learn how to log on - while munching their way through what she describes as an obscene nacho sandwich or any of the other dishes offered on the highly priced Cyberia menu. Pascoe founded Cyberia with partner Gene Teare in September 1994. Since then, the company has turned over approximately 5 million pounds. Before the end of 1996 Pascoe intends to float the company on the stock market. Yet the venture started out very modestly, in a small cafe behind Londons Tottenham Court Road. The decor there is strictly lowlystripped floors, distressed wails, ambient music, funky art-yet it has turned into a global concept. Today, Cyberia cafes can be found in the British cities of Manchester and Edinburgh, and in Paris, Tokyo and New York. On the list for future Cyberia are Glasgow, Lisbon, San Franciso, British, Moscow and Delhi. The company is diversifying fast. Multimedia training and development sessions are held in the Trans Cyberia and Sub-Cyberia basement venues beneath the cafes themselves. There is a range of Cyberia designer accessories, such as T - shins and mousepads. The company even boasts an online dating agency. The Cyberia magazine was launched early in 1996, while the worlds first online television, station, Channel Cyberia, launched in Britain in May. Cyberia Records - copies of Samples taken from the Net, for use by DJs - is promised before, long. Pascoe is unstoppable, a cyberspace version of the entrepreneur Richard Branson. She grew up in rigidly communist Poland, but has made the transformation to free -wheeling business entrepreneur with incredible ease. At first, however, the prospects for cyberia did not look good. At the lunch of the first cafe, Pascoe spent most of her day trying to buy an espresso machine that could make good coffee. It was incredibly disorganized, says someone who worked there as a cyberhost. There was no proper Kitchen. Four out of the five company directors had other jobs. Eighteen months on, many insiders say things are not much changed. Its half- cocked, says Ivan Pope, who runs a nearby design agency. You never get served. The coffees always cold. Its chaos. In deed, many industry analysis ale sceptical about Pascoes ambitions. Cyberia is simply a restaurant chain with a grimmick, says David Tabizel, director of a multimedia company based in the city of London. Cybefias trick, however, was to spot-before anyone else-that the Internet was about to turn into an everyday resource. They managed to capture the mysterious zeitgeist of where people want to be, says John Browning, editor - in - chief of Wired magazine. The company had brilliant branding, too. Its a great name, says David Tabizel, noting the play on words with Siberia, the vast, desolate region in the north of Russia. Another advantage, say analysts, is the companys decision not to open clones of its original restau rant in each new location. Every Cyberia is tailored to its citys needs. It is doubtful that anything would have come of the idea if Pascoe had not been behind it from the start. She has been described variously as weird and intense, a magnificent self- publicist, very charismatic, very smart,a pioneer in integrating people and technology; an evangelist for the Internet. She is, indeed, an unstoppable force of nature. I dont need that much sleep, she says, in her slightly broken English, downing another black coffee. Around four or five hours is enough for me. Possessions tie her down. My security is my knowledge.Because information changes so quickly and I get so much input from the Net, I have to keep my home life simple. My apartment is full of white walls. Theres nothing to distract me, She gets online at 7 a. m. , works weekends, is rarely home before mid night. She cant remember her last holiday. Even on weekend trips to see friends in Spain and get some sun she takes her laptop. She has a contract for a Book on interfaces; she is trying to write up her Ph, d, thesis on human computer interaction. I dont usually eat until the evening, she says. I find it distracts my energy.5. Which one has not been developed at Cyberia according to the text? A. The Cyberia magazine. B. An online dating agency C. Cyberia Records. D. Cyberia SuPermarket. D参考译文 依据课文伯塞利亚公司没有经营哪一种项目?试题分析 考查学生对非事实判断的能力。详细解答 在第5段“The company is diversifying fast”其中提到“an online dating agency，”“the Cyberia magazine，”and“Cyberia Records，”“cyber”有“computer”之意，e. gcyber guard，网络警察。 6. What is the particular way of Cyberia? A. Cyberia is built by a woman who grew up in rigidly communist Poland. B. Cyberia is a restaurant chain spreading all over the world. C. Cyberia is able to capture the mysterious zeitgeist of where people want to be. D. Cyberia boasts many different kinds of businesses. C参考译文 西伯利亚公司特别之处在于什么?试题分析 考查学生对最主要事实的判断能力。详细解答 在第7段“Cyberias trick was to spot，be- fore anyone else，that the Internet was about to turn into an everyday resource，”and“they managed to capture the mysterious zeitgeist of where people want to be”“zeitgeist”为“the taste and outlook characteristic of a period or generation” 7. How do people evaluate Eva Pascoe? A. A very charismatic and smart businesswoman. B. A conformist. C. A supporter of knowledge. D. A pioneer in combining technology and money - making. A参考译文 人们如何评价帕斯科?试题分析 考查学生正确判断的能力。详细解答 第8段中“She has been described variously asweird and intense，a magnificent self-publicist，very charismatic，very smart，a pioneer in integrating people and technology，an evangelist for the Internet”；“charismatic”为“of or relaing to a personal quality attributed to those who arouse fervent popular devotion and enthusiasm”领导魅力。 The style that Urrea has adopted to tell Teresita s -and Mexico s-story in his book The Hmnmingbird s Daughter partakes of this politics as well, being simultaneously dreamy, telegraphic and quietly lyrical. Like a vast mural, the book displays a huge cast of workers, whores, cowboys, rich men, bandits and saints while simultaneously making them seem to float on the page. Urrea s sentences are simple, short and muscular; he mixes low humor with metaphysics, bodily functions with deep and mysterious stirrings of the soul. These 500 pages - though they could have been fewer - slip past effortlessly, with the amber glow of slides in a magic lantern, each one a tableau of the progress of earthy grace: Teresita crouched in the dirt praying over the souls of ants, Teresita having a vision of God s messenger not as the fabled white dove but as an indigenous hummingbird, Teresita plucking lice from the hair of a battered Indian orphan in a pus-shellacked jacket. Ferociously female though curiously asexual, Teresita has a particular ability to deliver babies while soothing the pains of laboring mothers. This, Urrea is saying, is what matters. Miracles, Teresita realizes as she learns midwifery, are bloody and sometimes come with mud sticking to them. The salty cradle of life is the true church. Urrea s love for Teresita, the Mexican Joan of Arc, and for the world she helps bring into existence is one of the strongest elements of the book. He is unstintingly, unironically and unselfconsciously tender. He is a partisan. With such passion and care in abundant evidence, one wishes to believe. Teresita is a saint we could really use right now, and I fervently hope she can be summoned to save the galaxy. But there is a quality to Urrea s novel that, for all the salt and blood and childbirth, is somehow a bit distant. The Hummingbird s Daughter has the woodcut feeling of a bedtime story, or of family legends that have been told so many times they ye gone smooth, like the lettering on old gravestones. Teresita is the motherland and the mother of us all, an emissary from the Time Before, permanently encircled by butterflies and hummingbirds and the upraised rifles of revolutionaries. She is, according to the precepts of a certain perspective, entirely perfect. Her flaws-her love of the lowly and the sick, her unladylike strength, her uncouth habits-are clearly marks of virtue to anyone but the most bloodless capitalist. Even after she s declared dead, she manages to win. Myths, of course, both defy and rebuke this sort of quibbling: the gods always arise from a time much larger and deeper than the present moment, and we invent them because we need to believe in someone -or something -greater than ourselves. In Vargas Llosa s scheme of things, isnt Teresita the invention we need to ignite a better world? But it is exactly this aspect of The Hummingbird s Daughter that makes it seem sealed off from the kaleidoscopic, indeterminate, loss-riven borderlands of modernity that Urrea has written about in earlier books with such depth. Toward the end of the novel, as some of the main characters flee to great, dark North America, they feel as if the country they ve left is a strange dream. As beautiful as that dream - that notion of the unbroken whole - may be, at this late date none of us live there. We re all citizens of a haunted, mongrel terrain where nothing, not even the most appealing saint, is that simple.8. Concerning the using of language in The Hummingbird s Daughter, which of the following-statements is NOT tree? A. The language is elegant throughout the book. B. The language is simple. C. The language is forceful. D. The language mixes low humor with deep reflection on life. A文中“Urreas sentences are simple，short and muscular；he mixes low humor with metaphysics，bodily functions with deep and mysterious stirrings of the soul”一部分是对这本书语言的评价。说明这本书语言浅显，简洁，有时又粗俗的部分，但却揭示深刻的道理。因此这道题A选项的表述不对。 9. As for the sentence in the second paragraph, The salty cradle of life is the true church, which of the following-statements is true? A. This stands for the author s denial of the existence of God. B. This stands for the author s denial of the western God. C. This stands for the author s denial of a holy yet distant religious belief. D. This stands for the author s denial of church. C这句话要参照上下文来解读。小说不采用西方基督教惯用的形象来阐释圣徒，而是使用墨西哥常见的本土化形象，将上帝拉近了墨西哥人民，并告诫人民，要认清并贴近自己的生活，这才是宗教的真谛。因此说生活中的酸甜苦辣才是真正的教堂圣殿。因此这句话并不是否定宗教和上帝，而是否定遥远的彼岸圣堂，应当选择C。 10. From this passage we may note that this book _. A. is about a orphan girl named Teresita B. is about how religion would save people C. is about how dark the world is D. is about a saint and the real life in Mexico D这不书是关于一位墨西哥女圣徒的经历，及墨西哥人革命的故事。其中有宗教，但不是关于宗教。同时，A不对因为这本书也不是关于一个孤儿少女的故事。 11. About Teresita, which of the following statements is NOT true? A. She is a girl that deliver God s message just like Joan of Arc. B. She may perform miracles to people to convince them the existence of God. C. She is a great image but a little distant to common readers. D. She is of humble birth and lives a poor life. B这个选项的表述不对是因为故事的女主角展示上帝的神迹并不是为了向人们展示上帝的存在。同时这在文中也没有提及，是超范围的引申想象。 1When an invention is made, the inventor has three possible courses of action open to him: he can give the invention to the world by publishing it, keep tile idea secret, or patent it.2A granted patent is the result of a bargain struck between an inventor and the state, by which the inventor gets a limited period of monopoly and publishes full details of his invention to the public after that period terminates. Only in the most exceptional circumstances is the life-span of a patent extended to alter this normal process of events. The longest extension ever granted was to Georges Valensi; his 1939 patent for colour TV receiver circuitry was extended until 1971 because for most of the patents normal life there was no colour TV to receive and thus no hope of reward for the invention.3Because a patent remains permanently public after it has terminated, the shelves of the library attached to the patent office contain details of literally millions of ideas that are freefor anyone to use and, if older than half a century, sometimes even repatent. Indeed, patent experts often advise anyone wishing to avoid the high cost of conducting a search through live patents that the one sure way of avoiding violation of any other inventors right is to plagiarize a dead patent. Likewise, because publication of an idea in any other form permanently invalidates further patents on that idea, it is traditionally safe to take ideas from other areas of pri