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I. Listening Comprehension (20 point) 8Y]}Gb!
Section One i&B?4J)
Directions: In this section, you will hear three short talks. At the end of each talk, you will hear some questions. Both the talks and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. Then mark the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the centre. jS}'cm-
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1. A. a disease B. a potential cure for AIDS gtl;P_
C. immune system D. a patient suffering from AIDS <y'qo8oqF
2. A. High fever. B. Broken legs. fLc!Sn.Y
C. Cancer. D. AIDS. nEuct4BcL}
3. A. Doctors don’t know what causes AIDS. G0^V!0I&O
B. Doctors don’t like to treat patients with AIDS. TosPk(o
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C. AIDS attacks the immune system, turning good cells into bad ones. [cY?!Qd0
D. AIDS patients refuse to receive any treatment offered by doctors. HK=CP0H
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5. A. They might find it hard to live with him. }b<87#Nb9R
B. They might love him so much as to spoil him. y`T--v3mI
C. They might expect too much from him. s-Q7uohK
D. They might love him more than average parents do. 9 #.<E5:
6. A. The parents’ dream is nothing but a false illusion. &8o :
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B. The parents’ wishes should be respected. X=-gAutfE=
C. The reasons for cloning children are justified.
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8. A. They try them on first. f/
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C. They just have a look. Xq} n^W
D. They feel and touch them. p3>Q<
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B. People do not pay attention to the feel of things. d;*OO xQV
C. People know how to use the things so they don’t need to feel them. z_)OWWdN
D. The things are easy to feel but difficult to see. |>jqH @\P
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C. To See Better—Feel ,E
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Directions: Look at the questions for this part. You will hear a presentation on Time Management. For questions 11-15, while you are listening, choose the correct word or phrase to complete each sentence by marking one letter A, B or C for the word or phrase you choose on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the centre. TV$\v@\ =
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11. The speaker wants to show you _______. _7t|0aNo\
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B. how you can be more effective at work 6@,'m
C. how to lead a balanced life &)fhlp5
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C. regularly working very long hours G*{ u(x(
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14. One thing the speaker suggests you do is _____ in order to reduce your working hours. zei9,^
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A. to delegate B. to update facilities D. to take a holiday n79
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15. To help you manage your time more effectively, the speaker suggests you start saying ______. G-Ml+@e>
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Directions: Look at the five statements (16-20) for this part. You will hear an interview between a sales manager and an applicant for the position of advertising manager. Decide if each statement is correct according to the interview. If you think it is correct, mark letter A on your ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center. If you think it is not correct, mark letter B on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the centre. VQW
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16. The sales manager is satisfied with the present advertising firm. {bq-: CZe
17. Miss Edison will be responsible to Mr. Grant for all advertising. (
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18. The company has never advertised on TV. .of:#~
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II. Reading Comprehension (25 points) %n`iA7j$W
Directions: There are five passages in this part. Each of the passages is followed by five questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center. 4Xb}I;rM
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The great advance in rocket theory 40 years ago showed that liquid-fuel rockets were far superior in every respect to the skyrocket with its weak solid fuel, the only kind of rocket then known. However, during, the last decade, large solid-fuel rockets with solid fuels about as powerful as liquid fuels have made their appearance, and it is a favorite layman’s question to inquire which one is “better”. The question is meaningless; one might as well ask whether a gasoline or a diesel engine is “better”. It all depends on the purpose. A liquid-fuel rocket is complicated, but has the advantage tat it can be controlled beautifully. The burning of the rocket engine can be stopped completely it can be re-ignited when desired. In addition, the thrust can be made to vary by adjusting the speed of the fuel pumps. A solid-fuel rocket, on the other hand, is rather simple in construction, though hard to build when a really large size is desired. But once you have a solid-fuel rocket, it is ready for action at very short notice. A liquid-fuel rocket has to be fueled first and cannot be held in readiness for very long after it has been fueled. However, once a solid-fuel rocket has been ignited, it will keep burning. It cannot be stopped and re-ignited whenever desired (it could conceivably be stopped and re-ignited after a pre-calculated time of burning has elapsed) and its thrust cannot be varied. Because a solid-fuel rocket can be kept ready for a long time, most military missiles employ solid fuels, but manned space flight needs the fine adjustments that can only be provided by liquid fuels. It may be added that a liquid-fuel rocket is an expensive device; a large solid-fuel rocket is, by comparison, cheap. But the solid fuel, pound per pound, costs about 10 times as much as the liquid fuel. So you have on the one hand, an expensive rocket with a cheep fuel and on the other hand a comparatively cheap rocket with an expensive fuel. VA&OI;=ri
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D. the solid-fuel rocket is best yp/V8C
22. The most important consideration for manned space flight is that the rocker be ________.
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23. Solid fuel rockets are expensive to operate because of their _______. bqwW9D(
A. size B. fuel WuQ<AS=
C. construction D. complicated engines
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A. The fuel is cheap. B. They are cheap to build. +T-zf@j
C. They can be stopped and re-ignited. N#!1@!2BN
D. They must be used soon after fueling. )KhVUFS1
25. The author tells us that ______. v^I %Wm
A. whether a liquid-fuel or a solid-fuel rocket is better depends on the purpose |DS@90}
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C. forty years ago, large solid-fuel rockets with solid fuels as powerful as liquid fuels were made _eeX]xSSl
D. the thrust can be made to vary by adjusting the direction of the pump J9t? ]9.,:
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Imagine an accident in which a nuclear power plant releases radioactive gas. The cloud starts moving with the wind. Clearly, the authorities will want to evacuate anyone in its path, but what is that path? Local wind information is meaningless without information about terrain; a mountain range or series of valleys can divert both wind and gas in unpredictable directions. JkDZl?x5
To make “downwind” a useful term, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have put the United States on a computer, the entire United States—every hill, every valley, every mile of seashore. Within minutes of a disaster, they can give meteorologists a context for weather data, and thus the ability to predict how toxic gases might spread. gJ~*rWBK:
The database for this computer map is a series of altitude measurements, made over many years by the Defense Department and the U.S. Geological Survey. They represent the height above sea level of over a billion separate points—a grid of points 200 feet apart, spanning the country. Armed with these data, plus a program that manipulates them, a Cray-1 computer can produce an image of any piece of terrain, seen from any angle, illuminated by an imaginary sun at any time of day placing the “observer” at any altitude from zero to 40,000 feet. ewPd hCK
“We use a technique called ray tracing,” says Patrick Weidhaas, one of the Livermore computer scientists who wrote the program. The computer is told where the observer is. The program traces an imaginary ray from there outward until it “intersects” with one of the points of altitude recorded in the machine’s memory. The computer then puts a dot of color at the proper place on the screen, and the program traces another ray. 3Ty{8oUs^
At its highest resolution of 2,000 horizontal and 1,700 vertical dots per picture, the computer has to trace several million rays, Even on the Cray, the most powerful computer in the world, this takes about a minute. Reducing the resolution to 400-800 (a TV screen has 800×700) speeds it up to about eight seconds. “We can’t produce a movie simulating flight on the screen in real time,” says Weidhaas. There is a way around the problem: Two movies have been made using still pictures generated by the computer as individual frames. “The results were impressive,” he says, “but it was cumbersome to do. At twenty-four frames per second, it takes fourteen hundred separate computer images to make a one-minute film.” Another limitation: The computer can access only enough memory to cove a 15-mile-square area. An “observer” high up will see blank spaces beyond those limits. Sq]1SW3
Weidhaas wants to add information about what overlies the terrain—cities, vegetation, roads, and so on. “Making the image as realistic as possible will make our advice more effective,” he says, “and might lead to uses we haven’t thought of yet.” BcO2* 3
26. As used in the first paragraph, thrrain most clearly means _______. aq| [g
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27. Livermore’s computer map, in combination with weather reports, might be useful in predicting _____. U4pvQE.m<
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28. The information used by the computer to make its detailed maps _______. l@jJJ)Qyk
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II. shows points roughly 200 feet apart
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