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1、 Harvard University named historian Drew Gilpin Faust as its first female president on Sunday, ending a lengthy and secretive search to find a successor（接任者）to Lawrence Summers .The seven-member Harvard Corporation elected Faust, a noted scholar on History of the American South and dean of Harvards Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, as the universitys 28th president.“This is a great day, and a historic day for Harvard.” James R. Houghton, chairman of the presidential search committee, said in a statement. “Drew Faust is an inspiring and accomplished leader, a superb scholar, a dedicated（献身的) teacher, and a wonderful human being.”Her selection is noteworthy given the heated debates over Summers comments that genetic differences between the sexes might help explain the lack of women in top science jobs.Faust has been dean of Radcliffe since 2001, two years after the former womens college was combined into the university as a research center with a mission to study gender issues(性别问题).Some professors have quietly groused that the 371-year-old university is appointing a fifth president who is not a scientist. No scientist has had the top job since James Bryant Conant retired in 1953; its last four have come from the fields of classics, law, literature and economics. Faust is the first Harvard president who did not receive a degree from the university since Charles Chauncy, a graduate of Cambridge University, who died in office in 1762. She attended the University of Pennsylvania. “Teaching staff turned to her constantly.” said Sheldon Hackney, a former president of the University of Pennsylvania and historian who worked closely with Faust. “Shes very clear. She has a sense of humor, but shes very strong-minded. You come to trust in her because shes so solid.” 1、Which is NOT true about Drew Gilpin Faust?A、 She is the 28th president of Harvard University. B、She is a famous scholar from the American South. C、 She isnt a graduate from Harvard University. D、She was head of Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study 难度2解题方法参考答案B2、Lawrence Summers held the view that_.A、women cannot achieve as much as men in management B、women cannot hold important positions in society C、 women can match men in science jobs D、few women make top scientists owing to genes 难度2解题方法参考答案D3、Which might be the best title for the passage?A、Harvard named its 1st female president. B、History of Harvard University changed. C、 Debates on female equality ended. D、Drew Gilpin Faust, a famous woman historian. 难度2解题方法参考答案A4、This passage probably appears in a _.A、biography B、 personal letter C、 research paper D、 newspaper report 难度2解题方法参考答案D2、 To be a good teacher, you need some of the gifts of a good actor; you must be able to hold the attention and interest of your students; you must be a clear speaker, with a good, strong, pleasing voice which is fully under you control; and you must be able to act what you are teaching, in order to make its meaning clear. Watch a good teacher, and you will see that he does not move motionless before his class; he stands the whole time he is teaching; he walks about, using his arms, hands and fingers to help him in his explanation, and his face to express his feeling. Listen to him, and you will hear the loudness, the quality and musical note of his voice always changing according to what he is talking about. The fact that a good teacher has some of the gifts of a good actor doesnt mean he will indeed be able to act well on the stage, for there are very important differences between the teachers word and the actors. The actor has to speak words which has been learnt by heart, he has1、A good teacher _.A、knows how to hold the interest of his students B、must have a good voice C、knows how to act on the stage D、stands or sits motionless while teaching 难度7解题方法参考答案A2、In what way is a teachers work different from an actors? ( )A、The teacher must learn everything by heart. B、He knows how to control his voice better than an actor. C、he has to deal with unexpected situations. D、 He has to use more facial expressions. 难度7解题方法参考答案C3、The main difference between students in class and theatre audience is that ( ).A、students can move around in the classroom B、students must keep silent while theatre audience C、no memory work is needed for the students D、the students must take part in their teachers plays 难度7解题方法参考答案D3、 You have been badly injured in a car accident. It is necessary to give you a blood transfusion because you lost a great deal of blood in the accident. However, special care must be taken in selecting new blood for you. If the blood is too different from your own, the transfusion could kill you. There are four basic types of blood: A, B, AB, and O. A simple test can indicate a persons blood type, which, like hair color and height, is inherited from parents. Because of substances contained in each type, the four groups must be transfused carefully. Basically, A and B cannot be mixed. A and B cannot receive AB, but AB may receive A or B. O can give to any other group; hence, it is often called the universal donor. For the opposite reason, AB is sometimes called the universal recipient. However, because so many reactions can occur in transfusions, patients usually receive only salt or plasma (liquid) until their1、A good title for this passage is _.A、Getting Blood and Plasma B、Special Blood Types C、Human Blood Types D、The Blood Bank of a Hospital难度6解题方法参考答案C2、The word hence in line 10 means _A、always B、 oftenC、 therefore D、 seldom难度6解题方法参考答案C3、In a blood transfusion, it is easiest to find the acceptable type of blood for a person with the blood type of _A、AB、 BC、 AB D、 O难度6解题方法参考答案C4、The purpose of using salt and plasma before a blood transfusion is to allow time _.A、to test the reactions to the transfusion B、for matching the blood to be transfused with the patients blood C、 for the blood to be delivered from the blood bank D、 to select a new type of blood for the patient难度6解题方法参考答案B5、Most Europeans have blood type _A、AB、B C、O D、A or O 难度6解题方法参考答案C4、 In ancient times the most important examinations were spoken, not written. In the schools of ancient Greece and Rome, testing usually consisted of saying poetry aloud or giving speeches. In the European universities of the Middle Ages, students who were working for advanced degrees had to discuss questions in their Field of study with people who had made a special study of the subject. This custom exists today as part of the process of testing candidates for the doctors degree. Generally, however, modern examinations are written. The written examination, where all students are tested on the same questions, was probably not known until the nineteenth century. Perhaps it came into existence with the great increase in population and the dev 1、In the Middle Ages students _.A、took objective tests B、 were timed by clocksC、 specialized in one subjectD、 never wrote exams难度6解题方法参考答案D2、The main idea of paragraph 2 is _A、workers now take examinationsB、the population has grownC、there are only written exams todayD、examinations are now written and timed难度6解题方法参考答案D3、The kind of exam where students must select answers is _.A、personalB、objectiveC、spokenD、 written难度6解题方法参考答案B4、Modern industry must have developed _.A、before the Middle AgesB、 in Greece or RomeC、around the 19th centuryD、 machines to take tests难度6解题方法参考答案C5、It may be concluded that testing _.A、should test only opinions B、 should always be written C、 has changed since the Middle Ages D、 is given only in factories 难度6解题方法参考答案C5、 How can a single postage stamp be worth $16 800? Any mistake made in the printing of a stamp raises its value to stamp collectors. A mistake on one inexpensive postage stamp has made the stamp worth a million and a half times its original value. The mistake was made more than a hundred years ago in the British colony Mauritius , a small island in the Indian Ocean. In 1847 an order for stamps was sent to a London printer Mauritius was to become the fourth country in the world to issue stamps. Before the order was filled and delivered, a ball was planned at Mauritius Government House, and stamps were needed to send out the invitations. A local printer was instructed to copy 1、A postage stamps value to collectors is raised if ( ).A、there are few others like itB、 there are no errors on the stampsC、 a mistake is made in the printingD、 both A and C难度7解题方法参考答案C2、The mistake in the locally printed postage stamps was in the ( ).A、priceB、wordingC、colorD、spelling of postage难度7解题方法参考答案B3、$16 800 is the collectors value of ( ).A、the One Penny Orange RedB、 a correctly printed 1847 stampC、 the Twopenny BlueD、 both A and C 难度7解题方法参考答案C4、Which one is implied but not stated?A、All correctly printed stamps are worthless.B、Mauritians needed the stamps to send out invitations to a ball.C、The printer was punished for his mistake.D、Collectors are constantly looking for stamps with mistakes.难度7解题方法参考答案D5、The best title for this section is ( )A、The “Post Paid” ErrorB、The Twopenny BlueC、A London Printers ErrorD、How Mauritius Became Famous难度7解题方法参考答案B6、 In the United States, 30 percent of the adult population has a weight problem. To many people, the cause is obvious: we eat too much. But scientific evidence does little to support this idea. Going back to the America of 1910, we find that people were leaner than today, yet they ate more food. In those days people worked harder physically, walked more, used machines much less, and didnt watch TV.Several modern studies, moreover, have shown that fatter people do not eat more on average than thinner people. In fact, some investigations, such as a 1979 study of 3, 545 London office workers, report that, on balance, fat people eat less than slimmer people.Studies show that slim people are more active than fat people. A study by a research group at Stanford University found the following interesting fact:The more the man ran, the greater loss of body fat.The more they ran, the greater their increase in food intake.Thus, those who ran the most ate the most, yet lost the greatest amount of body fat.1、What kind of physical problem do many adult Americans have?_A、They are too slim.B、They work too hard.C、They are too fat.D、 They lost too much body fat. 难度2解题方法参考答案C2、Based upon the statistics given in the article, suppose there are 500 adult Americans, about how many of them will have a weight problem?_A、 30. B、 50. C、100.D、150.难度2解题方法参考答案D3、Is there scientific evidence to support that eating too much is the cause of a weight problem?_A、Yes, there is plenty of evidence.B、Of course, there is some evidence to show this is true.C、There is hardly any scientific evidence to support this. D、We dont know because the information is not given难度2解题方法参考答案C4、In comparison with the adult American population today, the Americans of _.A、ate more food and had more physical activitiesB、ate less food but had more activitiesC、 ate less food and had less physical exercise D、had more weight problems难度2解题方法参考答案A5、What have modern medical and scientific researches reported to us?_A、Fat people eat less food and are less active.B、 Fat people eat more food than slim people and are more active. C、 Fat people eat more food than slim people but are less active. D、 Thin people run less, but have greater increase in food intake. 难度2解题方法参考答案A7、 Motor vehicles powered by the internal combustion engines are responsible for over 80 percent of the deadly carbon monoxide as well as the cancer-causing substances in the air. Eighty-nine percent of the vehicles on the road in Massachusetts are privately owned and are often operated with only one person in the car. If people would use public transportation instead of their cars, air pollution levels could be significantly lowered. Thirty percent of the land in downtown Boston is devoted to cars. Where there are garages, there could be gardens. Where there are highways, there should be homes and places to work and play. Studies show that people today show a greater hearing loss with age than ever before. Much of this is due to car-horns, loud engines and general traffic noise. The cost of a personal car is high to the individual. The average person pays about $2,000 per car per year in gasoline, insurance, taxes, and maintenance. But for society as a whole, personal cars are a luxury we cannot afford. We pay in death from auto accidents, in poor health from air pollution, in loss of hearing from noise pollution, and in the destruction of our cities by the ever-increasing number of highways. 1、It is _ that are the main cause of the air pollution in Boston.A、vehicles in general B、 the public transportation systems C、 carbon monoxidesD、 personal motor vehicles难度6解题方法参考答案D2、It is implied but not stated that _.A、garages, highways and parking areas occupy nearly one third of the total Boston downtown area. B、 because of highways, people in Boston have no more homes and places to live, work and play. C、C garages have replaced most of the gardens in Boston D、 Boston is the most seriously polluted city in the U.S.难度6解题方法参考答案C3、According to the last paragraph, _.A、the cost of personal cars is high to the individuals but not to the society B、 an average car costs about $2,000 inBoston C、 personal cars are so expensive that most people cannot afford D、 society as a whole suffers much from the ever-increasing number of cars难度6解题方法参考答案D4、The writers purpose in writing this article is to _.A、remind people of the danger of air pollution B、warn people of the danger of accidents C、urge people to use private cars as less as possible D、ask the Boston government to build more homes and gardens难度6解题方法参考答案C5、The best title for this passage is “ _.”A、Air Pollution in Boston B、More Homes, More Plays for People C、Cars Are Too Expensive D、Public Transportation, A Solution to Air Pollution难度6解题方法参考答案D8、 Moscow, Russia (Space news) The computer is a better chess player, insisted Viktor Prozorov, the loser. It seemed as if it were laughing after every good move. I know I should have beaten it for the sake of mankind (人类), but I just couldnt win, he announced and shook his head sadly. Prozorovs disappointment was shared by several grand masters who were present, some of whomwere so upset that they shouted at the machine. Many chess players said that this meant the end of chess championships (冠军) around the world, since the fun had been taken out of the game. The computer walkedor ratherrolled away with 5 000 dollars in prize money and limited its remarks to a set of noises and lights. 1、Which of the following best gives the main idea of this newspaper article? ( )A、5 000 dollars goes to a computer! B、New invention : a laughing computer! C、Worlds best chess player beaten! D、Computer defeats man in chess! 难度6解题方法参考答案D2、How did some of the grand masters feel about the chess game between Prozorov and the computer? ( )A、 They thought that the game was not fun.B、They thought that the game wasnt fair. C、They agreed that Prozorov didnt play well. D、They were unhappy that the cProzoro didnt play well. 难度6解题方法参考答案D3、What was it that Prozorov felt most bitter ( 痛苦 ) about? ( )A、That he didnt win the $5 000. B、That he hadnt tried his best. C、That he had lost to a machine. D、 That this was the end of the chess game. 难度6解题方法参考答案C4、After wining the game, the computer( )A、laughed B、walked away C、made some remarks D、gave out some lights and sounds 难度6解题方法参考答案D5、Many chess players felt that playing with a computer would( )A、make the game tougher B、make the game less interesting C、make man appear foolish D、make man lose lots of money 难度6解题方法参考答案B9、 Under normal conditions, the act of communication requires the presence of at least two persons: one who sends and one who receives the communication. In order to communicate thoughts and feelings, there must be a conventional system of signs or symbols that mean the same to the sender and the receiver.The means of communication are too numerous and varied for systematic classification; therefore, the analysis must begin with the means of receiving communication. Reception of communication is achieved by our senses. Sight, hearing, and touching seem to play the most important roles. Smell and taste play very limited roles, for