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Roman soldiers in some places built long rows of signal towers. When they had a message to

send, the soldiers shouted it from tower to tower. If there were enough towers and enough soldiers with loud voices, important news could be sent quickly over distance.

In Africa, people learned to send messages by beating on a series of large drums (鼓). Each drum was kept within hearing distance of the next one. The drum beats were sent out in a special way that all the drummers understood. Though the messages were simple, they could be sent at great speed for hundreds of miles.

In the eighteenth century, a French engineer found a new way to send short messages. In this way, a person held a flag in each hand and the arms were moved to various positions representing different letters of the alphabet (字母表). It was like spelling out words with flags and arms.

Over a long period of time, people sent messages by all these different ways. However, not until the telephone was invented in America in the nineteenth century could people send speech sounds over a great distance in just a few seconds.

According to this passage, the Roman way of communication depended very much on______.

A．fine weather

B．high tower

C．the spelling system

D．arm movements

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第1题

The word “salary” used to mean “a sum of money given to Roman soldiers to enable them

A.extension

B.restriction

C.degeneration

D.elevation

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第2题

Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941. The United States was mad at the Japanese so they made

many Japanese-Americans leave their homes. They were put in camps with barbed wire around the outside of the camps.

Many Japanese-American young men were called into the army. Some of them joined the U.S. Military Intelligence Service or MIS. The MIS was a secret group that fought the Japanese soldiers. This secret group translated important maps and papers. They questioned Japanese prisoners. Another task they did was to translate diaries written in Japanese.

Sometimes Japanese soldiers hid in caves to hide from the Americans. The MIS would try to get the scared soldiers to leave the caves. This was known as "cave flushing." Some of the soldiers would give up and leave the caves.

Other Japanese would jump to their deaths.

The MIS never got awards for their efforts until the year 2000. Then they were rewarded for their brave acts in World War II. It took almost sixty years for them to be honored.

Gayle Yamada has made a film about the brave Japanese-American MIS. The film is called "Uncommon Courage" and is a true story. Hopefully, Yamada's film and the movie, "Pearl Harbor," will not cause people to hate Japanese-Americans or any other race.

The letters MIS stood for ______.

A．Missing Infantry Soldiers

B．Military Intelligence Service

C．Military Intelligence Soldiers

D．Military Infamy Service

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第3题

Most of the people who appear most often and most gloriously in the history books are grea

t conquerors and generals and soldiers, whereas the people who really helped civilization forward are often never mentioned at all. We do not know who first set a broken leg, or launched a seaworthy boat, or calculated the【31】of the year, or manured a field; but we know【32】about the killers and destroyers. People think a great deal of them, so【33】so that on all the highest pillars in the great cities of the world you will find the figure of a conqueror or a general or a soldier. And I think most people believe that the greatest countries are【34】that have beaten in battle the greatest number of other countries and ruled over them as conquerors. It is just possible they are,【35】they are not the most civilized. Animals fight; so do savages; hence to be good at fighting is to be good in the way in【36】an animal or a savage is good, but it is not to be civilized. Even being good at getting other people to fight for you and【37】them how to do it most efficiently — this, after all, is【38】conquerors and generals have done -- is not being civilized. People fight to settle quarrels. Fighting means killing, and civilized peoples ought to be able to find some way of settling their disputes other【39】by seeing which side can kill off the greater number of other side, and then【40】that that side which has killed most has won.

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A．number

B．length

C．depth

D．width

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第4题

In the seventeenth century, European soldiers who came across some Indian groups in the we

stern Great Lakes found that several native tribes were living in the area without a formal leadership system. They appeared to be "quite friendly with each other without a formal authority!"

Not only did the Indians appear to lack a formal system of authority, but they also deeply hated any efforts to control their actions. All members of the tribes knew what was required of them by lifelong familiarity with the tasks of the area. These tasks tended to be simple, since the Indian's rate of social change was slow. Thus, although subgroups such as soldiers had recognized leaders, no real authority was required. Rather than giving direct orders (which were considered rough), members of the tribes would arouse others to action by examples.

It would be difficult, if not impossible, to carry out such a system in our own society. Most of us have grown up under one authority or another for as long as we can remember. Our parents, our teachers, our bosses, our government all have the recognized right under certain conditions to tell us what to do. The authority is so much a part of our culture that it is hard for us to imagine a workable society without it. We have been used to relying on authority to get things done and would probably be uncomfortable with the Indian methods of examples on a large scale.

Of course, the major reason why the Indian system would not be suitable for us is that our society is too large. The number of tasks that various members of our society have to perform. often under tight time and resource limitations could not be treated by the Indian system. In modern societies, the formal authority system is necessary to achieve any social objectives.

Which of the following statements is correct according to the passage？

A．From 1710 to 1780, European soldiers came across some Indian groups in the western Great Lakes.

B．European soldiers were quite friendly to the Indian groups.

C．The Indian groups had no leaders.

D．The Indian groups were friendly to each other without a formal leadership system.

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第5题

He was a funny looking man with a cheerful face, good-natured and a great talker. He was d

escribed by his student, the great philosopher Plato, as" the best and most just and wisest man." Yet, the same man was condemned to death for his beliefs.

The man was the Greek philosopher, Socrates, and he was condemned for not believing in the recognized gods and for corrupting young people. The second charge stemmed from his association with numerous young men who came to Athens from all over the civilized world to study under him.

Socrates' method of teaching was to ask questions and, by pretending not to know the answers, to press his students into thinking for themselves. His teachings had unsurpassed influence on all the great Greek and Roman schools of philosophy. Yet, for all his fame and influence, Socrates himself never wrote a word.

Socrates encouraged new ideas and free thinking in the young, and this was frightening to the conservative people. They wanted him silenced. Yet, many were probably surprised that he accepted death so readily.

Socrates had the right to ask for a lesser penalty, and he probably could have won over enough of the people who had previously condemned him. But Socrates, as a firm believer in law, reasoned that it was proper to submit to the death sentence. So, he calmly accepted his fate and drank a cup of poison hemlock in the presence of his grief-stricken friends and students.

In the first paragraph, the word yet is used to introduce______.

A．contrast

B．a sequence

C．emphasize

D．an example.

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第6题

It is interesting to observe the way in【61】children so often react against their parents'

ideas, while at the same time【62】their parents' characteristics. That is to say, the children grow up to【63】different views from their parents, yet to have【64】personalities. There is a【65】going on in the toy world at present over whether children should be【66】to have war toys. I do not believe in encouraging war toys, but I don't see any【67】in forbidding them when I think of the【68】of my friend Henry.

Henry is the【69】of strict parents who were totally opposed to war. He was never allowed toy soldiers【70】a boy, never allowed guns.

Henry grew up and went into the army, becoming a first-class soldier and【71】all sorts of military honors in a rather fierce unit. He became the opposite in【72】way of what his parents might have expected【73】their son. And yet there is a gentleness about Henry which shows a【74】personality. There is a sympathetic element about the man which I can see【75】have come from his family. In【76】of doing things differently from our parents, a lot of the spirit gets passed on.

Parents in all conscience have to【77】their children what they believe to be right. Perhaps the【78】way to teach one's child gentleness is【79】forbid toy guns, but to be gentle in one's【80】everyday life.

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A．that

B．how

C．which

D．it

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第7题

This is supposed to be an enlightened age, but you wouldn't think so if you could hear wha

t the average men think of the average women. Women won their independence years ago. After a long, biter struggle, they now enjoy the same educational opportunities as men in most parts of the world. They have proved repeatedly that they are equal and often superior to men in almost every field. The hard-fought battle for recognition has been won, but it is by no means over. It is men, not women who still carry on the sex war because their attitude remains basically hostile. Even in the most progressive societies, women continue to be regarded as second-rate citizens. Hearing some men talk, you'd think that women belong to a different species. On the surface, the comments made by men about women's abilities seem light-heartiness does not conceal the real contempt (轻视) that men feel for women. However much men sneer at women, their claims to superiority are not borne out by statistics. We all know that women cause far fewer accidents than men. They are too careful and responsible to drive like menaces. But this is a minor quibble (双关语). Women have succeeded in any job you care to name. As politicians, soldiers, doctors, bus-conductors, scientists and presidents of countries they have often put men to shame. And we must remember that they frequently succeed brilliantly in all these fields in addition to bearing and rearing children.

Which of the following statements in true？

A．Women's struggle for recognition has been completely won.

B．Women have proved their abilities in many fields.

C．Women can not get the same educational opportunities as men.

D．Women are now regarded as equal to men all over the world.

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第8题

He was a funny looking man with a cheerful face, good natured and a great talker. He w

as described by his student, the great philosopher Plato, as “the best and most just and wisest man”. Yet this same man was condemned to death for his beliefs.

The man was the Greek philosopher, Socrates, and he was condemned for not believing in the recognized gods and for corrupting young people. The second charge stemmed from his association with numerous young men who came to Athens from all over the civilized world to study under him.

Socrates’ method of teaching was to ask questions and, by pretending not to know the answers, to press his students into thinking for themselves. His teaching had unsurpassed influence on all the great Greek and Roman schools of philosophy. Yet, for all his fame and influence, Socrates himself never wrote a word.

(40)Socrates encouraged new ideas and free thinking in the young, and this was frightening to the conservative people. They wanted him silenced. Yet many were probably surprised that he accepted death so readily.

Socrates had the right to ask for a lesser penalty, and he probably could have won over enough of the people who had previously condemned him. But Socrates, as a firm believer in law, reasoned that it was proper to submit to the death sentence. So, he calmly accepted his fate and drank a cup of poison hemlock in the presence of his grief-stricken friends and students.

11. In the first paragraph, the word “yet” is used to introduce______.

A. contrast

B. a sequence

C. emphasis

D. an example

12. Socrates was condemned to death because he ________.

A. believed in law

B. was a philosopher

C. published radical philosophical articles

D. advocated original opinions

13. The word “unsurpassed” in the third paragraph is closest in meaning to_______.

A. untold

B. unequalled

C. unnoticed

D. unexpected

14. By mentioning that Socrates himself never wrote anything, the writer implies that ________.

A. it was surprising that Socrates was so famous

B. Socrates was

C. Socrates used to work of his students in teaching

D. the authorities refused to publish Socrates’ works

15. Socrates accepted the death penalty to show ________.

A. his belief in his students

B. his contempt for conservatives

C. his recognition of the legal system

D. that he was not afraid of death

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第9题

Centuries ago, man discovered that removing moisture from food helps to preserve it, and t

hat the easiest way to do this is to expose the food to sun and wind.

All foods contain water--cabbage and other leaf vegetables contain as much as 93% water, potatoes and other root vegetables 80% , lean meat 75% and fish anything from 80% to 60% depending on how fatty it is. If this water is removed, the activity of the bacteria(细菌) which cause food to go bad is checked.

Nowadays most foods are dried mechanically. The conventional method of such dehydration(脱水) is to put food in chambers through which hoi air is blown at temperatures of about 110°C at entry to about 43°C at exit. This is the usual method for drying such things as vegetables, minced meat, and fish.

Liquids such as milk, coffee, tea, soups and eggs may be dried by pouring them over a heated horizontal steel cylinder or by spraying them into a chamber through which a current of hot air passes. In the first case, the dried material is scraped off the roller as a thin film which is then broken up into small, though still relatively coarse flakes. In the second process it falls to the bottom of the chamber as a fine powder.

Dried foods 'take up less room and weigh less than the same food packed in cans or frozen, and they do not need to be stored in special conditions. For these reasons they are invaluable to climbers, explorers and soldiers in battle, who have little storage space. They are also popular with housewives because it takes so little time to cook them.

The chief point of the second paragraph is about ______.

A．the comparison of lean meat and fish

B．the removal of water in food

C．the water content in food

D．the relationship between water and food

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第10题

In most American cities, the rent for a one-bedroom apartment was $250 or more per month i

n recent years. In some smaller cities such as Louisville, Kentucky or Jacksonville, Florida the rent was less, but in larger cities it was more. For example, if you lived in Los Angeles, you had to pay $400 or more to rent a one-bedroom apartment, and the same apartment rented for $625 and up in Chicago. The most expensive rents in the U. S. were in New York City, where you had to pay at least $700 a month to rent a one-bedroom apartment in most parts of the city.

Renters and city planners are worried about the high cost of renting apartments. Many cities now have rent control laws to keep the cost of renting low. These laws help low-income families who cannot pay high rents.

Rent controls in the United States began in 1943 when the government imposed rent controls on all American cities to help workers and the families of soldiers during World War Ⅱ. After the war, only one city—New York—continued these World War Ⅱ controls. Recently, more and more cities have returned to rent controls. At the beginning of the 1980s, nearly one fifth of the people in the United States lived in cities with rent-control laws.

Many cities have rent-control laws, but why are rents so high？ Builders and landlords blame rent controls for the high rents. Rents are high because there are not enough apartments to rent, and they blame rent controls for the shortage of apartments. Builders want more money to build more apartment buildings, and landlords want more money to repair their old apartment buildings. But they cannot increase rents to get this money because of the rent-control laws. As a result, landlords are not repairing their old apartments, and builders are not building new apartment buildings to replace the old apartment buildings. Builders are building apartments for high-income families, not low income families, so low-income families must live in old apartments that are in disrepair. Builders and landlords claim that rent-control laws really hurt low income families.

Many renters disagree with them. They say that rent control is not the problem. Even without rent controls, builders and landlords will continue to ignore low-income housing because they can make more money from high-income housing. The only answer, they claim, is more rent controls and government help for low-income housing.

Which of the following would be the best title for the passage？

A．The Highest Rent.

B．Rent Controls.

C．Building Apartments for Low-Income Families.

D．Rent-Control Laws.

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