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PARTⅠ Cloze (15) 'H97D-86/
Directions: There are 15 questions in this part of the test. Read the passage through. Then, go back and choose one suitable word or phrase marked A, B, C or D for each blank in the passage. Blacken the corresponding letter of the word or phrase you have chosen on your Answer Sheet. )Wgh5C`
At least since the Industrial Revolution, gender roles have been in a state of transition. As |E|d"_Ma
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nurturing and creating a (n) 4 that is a haven for all family members. 5 many women `O*+%/(
experience strain from trying to "do it all," they often enjoy .the increased 6 that can result 3s"x{mtH
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men's roles have become more 7 . Many men are relinquishing their major responsibility 8 y 1z4qSeM
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emotional 9 of family life. Men are increasingly 10 to meet the emotional needs of their
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In fact, expectations about the emotional domain of marriage have become more significant for marriage in general. Researeh on 12 marriage has changed over recent aecades points to the increasing, importance of the emotional side of-the relationship, and the importance of sharing in the e emotion work" 13 to nourish marriages and other family relationships. Men and women want to experience marriages that are interdependent, 14 both partners nurture each other, attend and respond to each other, and encourage and promote each other. We are thus seeing marriages in which men's and women's roles are becoming increasingly more 15 . !bRoNP
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2. A. take B. do C. play D. show 9F@ Q
3. A. by B. while C. hence D. thus Ar,B7-F!
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PART Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (30) {$5?[KD
Directions: There are 5 reading passages in this part. 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 and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets. mO%F {'
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The first navigational lights in the New World were probably lanterns hung at harbor entrances. The fast lighthouse was put tip by Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1716 on Little Brewster Island at the entrance to Boston Harbor. Paid forand maintained by "light dues" levied on ships, the original beacon was blown up in 1776. By then there were only a dozen or so true lighthouses in the colonic. Little over a century later, there were 700 lighthouses. =n7QL QU
The first eight erected on the West Coast in the 1850's featured the same basic New England design: a Cape Cod dwelling with the tower rising from the center or standing close by. In New England and elsewhere, though., lighthouses reflected a Variety of architectural styles. Since most stations in the Northeast were built.on rocky eminences, enormous towers were not the rule. Some were made of stone and brick, others "of wood or metal. Some stood on pilings or stilts: some were fastened to rock with iron rods. "Farther south, from Marylandthreugh the Florida Keys, thecoast was low and sandy. It was often necessary to build tall towers there -- massive structures like the majestic Cape Hatteras. North Carolina. lighthouse, which was lit in 1870. At 190 feet it is the tallest brick lighthouse in the country. ,aq0Q<}~lc
NOt withstanding differences in appearance and construction, mostAmerican lighthouses shared several features: a light, living quarters, and sometimes a bell ( or, later; a foghorn). They also had something else in common: a keeper and, usually, the keeper's family. The keeper's essential task was trimming the lantern (freekaobo.com)wick in order to maintain a steady, bright flame. The earliest keepers came from every walk of life --- they were seamen, farmers, mechanics, rough mill hands -- and appoint ments were often handed out by local customs commissioners as political plums. After the administration of lighthouses was taken over in 1852 by the United States Lighthouse Board, an agency of. the Treasury Department, the keeper corps gradually became highly professional. |soDt<y+L
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A. The Lighthouse on Little Brewster Island F`))qCgg]
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D. The first lighthouse in North America was built there. rlMahY"C
18. It can be inferred from the passage that lighthouses in the Northeast did not need high towers because . f(SK[+aqW
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Every living thing has an inner biological clock that controls behavior. The clock works all the time even when there are no outside signs to mark the passing of time. The biological dock .QVN&UyZ
tells plants when to form flowers and when the flowers should open. It tells insects when to SPu+t3
leave the protective cocoon and fly away. And it tells animals when to eat, sleep and wake. It 8*&|Q1`K:
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Man has known about them for thousands of years. But the first scientific observation of
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Circadian rhythms was not made until 1729. In that year French astronomer. Jean-Jacques .dPy<6E
d'Ortous de Mairan, noted that one of his plants opened its leaves at the same time every ,z5B"o{Et
morning, and closed them at the same time every night. The plant did this even when he kept sI<PYi={-6
it in a dark place all the time. Later scientists wondered about circadian rhythms .in humans. 2A&Y