Part I. Grammar and vocabulary：

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1.Reading became difficult for the old lady, so the optician_____her a pair of glasses to make her reading possible.

A. Inscribed B. described C. proscribed D. prescribed

2.Economic theory would predict that a fall in the price of a commodity would lead to an increase in_____.

A. consumption B. presumption C. resumption D. assumption

3.If prompt measures are taken, we are sure that illiteracy in this region can be____in no time.

A. abandoned B. diminished C. withdrawn D. eliminated

4.In that country, a person who marries before legal age must have a parent’s_____to obtain a license.

A. warrant B. sanction C. affirmation D. malignance

5.Once man can no longer walk with beauty or wonder at nature his spirit will____and his sustenance wasted.

A. wink B. wither C. widower D. withhold

6.Any earthquake that takes place in any area is certainly regarded as a kind of a____event.

A. dramatic B. proverbial C. catastrophic D. chronic

7._____is inevitable so long as businessmen want exemption from equitable taxation.

A. Robbery B. Violation C. Corruption D. Stealing

8.Helga tried to_____her anger at her brother, but in the end, unable to hold it in, she blew up at him.

A. depress B. digress C. oppress D. repress

9.The club members voted to____the ban on smoking, but the chairman didn’t agree with them.

A. repeal B. recess C. reside D. refrain

10.When people are_____，they are put away in mental hospitals to be cured.

A. Abnormal B. exhausted C. insane D. formidable

11.The Great Wall is a great tourist _____,drawing millions of visitors from all parts of the world every year.

A. attention B. appointment C. attraction D. interest

12. The poor quality of the film ruined the____perfect product.

A. rather B. much C. otherwise D. particularly

13.A company with far sight will try every means to establish an excellent____in customers’hearts.

A. picture B. image C. symbol D. reflection

14.I don’t know what is their____goal; it is very difficult to see in rational terms what they really want to achieve.

A. summit B. senior C. maximum D. ultimate

15.It didn't seem to have occurred to her that once she was _____hardly give it up. But it did happen.

A. admitted B. tended C. addicted D. terrified

16.There is a(n)_____between the way water moves in waves and the way light travels.

A. Analogy B. regularity C. likelihood D. proximity

17.Advertisers luring people into heavier and heavier reliance on cleansing products would be prosecuted and their bank accounts_____.

A. denied B. docked C.appropriated D. confiscated

18.These clients draw on the bank’s supplies to stock soup kitchens, senior lunch rooms and meal programs for____kids.

A. humiliated B. displaced C.exiled D. impoverished

19.Mr. Brown had to pay a(n) _____of 10 dollars for a seat on this special fast train.

A. amount B. sum C. premium D. total

20.If hotel officials saw Paul was____,as some employees reportedly said last week, why did they let him drive?

A. glamorized B. intoxicated C. disproved D. legalized

21.Can’t I trust you not to read my letters? It is ridiculous that I _____to lock things up in my own house.

A. should have B. might have C. had D.would have

22.Efforts should be made to cultivate a business and legal environment___fair competition between national industries and foreign-funded enterprises.

A. facilitate B. facilitated C. facilitating D. to facilitate

23.There is more agreement on the kinds of behavior referred to by the term than____on how to interpret or classify them.

A. there is B. there are C. there to be D. there being

24.I____writing the paper as scheduled, but my mother’s illness interfered. I hope you will excuse me.

A. am to have finished B. was to have finished

C.was to finish D. ought to finish

25.The mountains surrounding Los Angeles effectively shield the city from the hot, dry winds of the Mojave Desert,_____the circulation of air.

A. and also to prevent B. and also preventing

C.also prevented by them D. but they also prevent

26.Mahalia Jackson, ______combined powerful vitality with great dignity, was one of the best-known gospel singers in the United States.

A.it was her singing B. which songs C.who sang D. whose singing

27.When he confronted the teacher, as he did after almost every test, the student was adamant that neither the question nor the answer choices _____fair.

A.were B. was C. to be D. would be

28.The Shakespearean drama opens with a moral dilemma—how to choose between individual freedom and societal needs—then____the possibility that one does not always have the power to choose one’s own fate.

A.to introduce B. introduced C. introduces D. introducing

29.The student who has access to computer facilities should be encouraged to use them for the solution of occasional problems_____a machine solution offers a distinct advantage.

A.that B. where C. what D. because

30._____some experiments to measure how fast sound travels we would not have known that the speed of sound is much less than that of light.

A.The scientists had not made B. Had not the scientists made

C.The scientists had not been made D. Had the scientists not made

31.Some diseases are easy to_____because their visible effects are characteristic and can be recognized immediately.

A. digest B. designate C. diagnose D. denote

32.A new study has found that lazy Saturday and Sunday lie-ins can disturb your body clock, leaving you____at the start of the week.

A. fatigued B. exhaustive C. feasible D. futile

33.During a Broadway show, the contributions of the workers backstage are often____by the more visible performances on stage.

A. perpetuated B. shrouded C. portrayed D. demonstrated

34.The boys were often in trouble at school, although their parents were convinced that they were ____children.

A. innovative B. mischievous C. exemplary D. listless

35.Though the outlaw (歹徒)_____he would never be taken alive, he submitted without a struggle when the police arrived.

A. boasted B. declaimed C. denied D. defended

36.The editor claimed that great effort was being expended to check each fact, lest the book be _____because of inaccurate details.

A. revived B. challenged C. revised D. clarified

37.During the last four decades of Tennyson’s long life, his creative powers never_____; some of his most remarkable work coming after the age of 70.

A. flagged B. recovered C. blossomed D. broadened

38.Because a circle has no beginning or end, the wedding ring is a symbol of____love.

A. prominent B. extravagant C. eternal D. dominant

39.What he had in mind____to nothing less than a total reversal of the traditional role of the executive.

A. contributed B. dedicated C. amounted D. attributed

40.Please do not be____by his bad manners since he is merely trying to attract attention.

A. embarrassed B. shocked C. disgusted D. irritated

41.Rescue workers continued the delicate task of sifting through tons of concrete and_____to try to reach possible survivors.

A. leftovers B. debris C. residues D. scraps

42.Reporters and photographers alike took great____at the rude way the actor behaved during the interview.

A. annoyance B. offence C. resentment D. irritation

43.The teacher made us feel____and stupid if we made English grammatical mistakes.

A. Inadequate B. insufficient C. incompatible D. invalid

44.Jeanie mended her pace when she heard the trampling of a horse behind, and____drew to one side of the road.

A. distinctively B. attentively C. instinctively D. innovatively

45.Requested information should be available_____—within three days as a rule—to the customers.

A. considerately B. punctually C. continuously D. promptly

46.Finding parents willing to take in such seriously ill children remains a(n)____obstacle, and hundreds of children remain institutionalized.

A. Impassable B. formidable C. significant D. grand

47.One Saturday afternoon John took his yellow motorbike out of the room and washed it when one of his friends_____.

A. came back B. came away C. came around D. came by

48.In 1795 John Jay____his position as the first chief justice of the United States and became a state governor.

A. restored B. retired C. resigned D. rearranged

49.A lot of girls in the underdeveloped countries are out of school or not being sent at all because of the poverty of their parents.

A. quitting B. leaving C. stopping D. dropping

50.Hill slopes are____of forests to make way for crops, but this only accelerates the crisis.

A. cleaned B. tided C. cleared D. eliminated

51.Across the Chesapeake Bay from the rest of the state____, whose farms produce beans,tomatoes, and other garden vegetables.

A. there lies Maryland’s Eastern Shore B. lies Maryland’s Eastern Shore

C.Maryland’s Eastern Shore lies there D. Maryland's Eastern Shore lies

52.In no previous period in history ____industrial production and, to an even higher degree, scientific research been concentrated in such a small part of the world.

A. has B. have C. was D. did

53.Cathy didn’t go to Tom's birthday party last night because she____the baby for her sister until 9:30.

A. must have looked after B. would have to look after

C.had to look after D. should have looked after

54.The Joy Luck Club,____“Two Kinds” is taken, explores conflicts between two generations and two different cultures.

A. from which B. of that C. in which D. about that

55._____，it represents a great step forward from a state of self-sufficiency in which every person had to be a jock-of-all-trades and master of none.

A. Inconvenient as barter obviously is B. As barter is obviously inconvenient

C.As inconvenient barter obviously is D. Barter is obviously inconvenient

56.It is difficult____through swamps because of tangled roots and shallow waterways.

A. to navigate even for small boats B. even small boats for to navigate

C.even to navigate for small boats D. for even small boats to navigate

57.Acidophilus bacteria are____in an acid medium.

A. those that grow best B. those grow best that

C.that those grow best D. grow best those that

58.Geometry is useful____carpentry and navigation.

A. as in such diverse occupations B. such as in diverse occupations

C.in such diverse occupations as D. diverse occupations such as in

59.One of the oldest large suspension bridges still____today is the George Washington Bridge between New York City and Fort Lee, New Jersey.

A.using B. is used C. the use of D. in use

60.The purpose of cost accounting is____involved in producing and selling a good or service.

A.as a determination of its costs B. to determine the costs

C.the costs determined D. that determines the costs

61.It says that the company razed forests, polluted rivers,_____crop growth, and caused birth defects.

A. retired B. refrained C. retreated D. retarded

62.Martha's____handling of the steaks caused us to amend our plans for dinner and eat out.

A. inept B. irreversible C. plausible D. admirable

63.A(n) _____sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.

A. opportunist B. optimist C. nationalist D. weaker

64. One by one, she_____almost all of her supporters until, at the end, only a handful of her closest allies really wanted her to stay in office.

A. promoted B. alienated C. represented D. liberated

65.Sam Walton, Wal-Mart’s founder, pushed sales growth _____while squeezing costs with sophisticated information technology.

A. relevantly B. remotely C. especially D. relentlessly

66.If all the viruses on the planet were to disappear, a global catastrophe would____，and the natural ecosystems of the earth would collapse.

A. contaminate B. ensue C. disperse D. hamstring

67.The constant winds have seriously_____the status in the caves, and will destroy it in ten years' time.

A. eroded B. relieved C. rusted D. imploded

68.In the 18th century many British politicians favored friendship with Prussia because they thought that the Prussian army was_____ to the British navy.

A. complimentary B. complicated C. complementary D. comprehensive

69. Our small investment has been_____by what the private sector has put in.

A. drifted B. dwarfed C. dripped D. daunted

70.When American astronaut Glen returned to the earth and a hearty welcome _____him, he was considered to be a national hero.

A. anticipated B. expected C. awaited D. waited

71.He cast about in his mind for some_____excuse for not turning up at the meeting.

A. cunning B. absolute C. scary D. plausible

72.In North America, the first canoes were constructed from logs and____by means of wooden paddles.

A. propelled B. penetrated C. adjusted D. harnessed

73.Efforts to reach the injured men have been_____because of a sudden deterioration in weather conditions.

A. intensified B. enforced C. continued D. increased

74. He became aware that he had lost his audience since he had not been able to talk around one topic.

A. initiatively B. coherently C. flexibly D. pointedly

75.The whole program is well designed, but some details need further_____by some experts.

A. proofing B. demonstrating C. modifying D. materializing

Part II. Translate the following sentences:

Please write down your answers in the spaces given below.

1. Pollution and waste combine to be a problem everyone can help to solve by cutting out unnecessary buying, excess consumption and careless disposal of the products we use in our daily lives.

2. To understand and find the answers to all these questions, to develop the vast resources, or even to consider seriously the possibilities of climate control, it is necessary to study the ocean, the life within it, the air above it, and the bottom below it.

3. At the early attempts, the cable failed and when it was taken out for repairs it was found to be covered in living growths, a fact which defied contemporary scientific opinion that there was no life in the deeper parts of the sea.

4. He was puzzled that I did not want what was obviously a “step” toward what all Americans are taught to want when they grow up: money and power.

5. One afternoon in 1977，as his parents and two brothers fished in the Gulf of Mexico, 12-year- old Michael Dell sat on the beach, painstakingly putting together a trotline, a maze of ropes to which several fish hooks could be attached.

6. This view perceives intelligence as something people are born with, and the function of development is to allow this genetic endowment to express itself.

7. We live in an age in which CBS newscasters wear Nike jackets on the air, in which Burger King and McDonald’s open kiosks (亭子）in elementary-school lunchrooms, in which schools like Stanford University are endowed with a Yahoo!

8. It is easy to see in this day of concern for high water quality and health standards that industrial wastes must be kept out of the sanitary sewers. 9. Most of the drugs in current use were discovered by accident or by trial and error, and the cases in which a clear connection has been found between a drug’s action in the body and its chemical and physical properties are few.

10. We all come from the past, and children ought to know what it was that went into their making, to know that life is a braided cord of humanity stretching up from time long gone, and that it cannot be defined by the span of a single journey from diaper to shroud.

11. Should you break the rule against staring at a stranger on an elevator, you would make the other person exceedingly uncomfortable, and you are likely to feel a bit strange yourself. 12.Since this concern about the decline and fall of the English language is not perceived as a generational phenomenon but rather as something new and peculiar to today’s young people, it naturally follows that today’s English teachers cannot be doing their jobs.

13.Thus, in the American economic system it is the demand of individual consumers, coupled with the desire of businessmen to maximize profits and the desire of individuals to maximize their incomes, that together determine what shall be produced and how resources are used to produce it.

Part III Reading Comprehension

Please write down your answers of the following two passages in the spaces given below

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Passage1

School authorities often refuse to face the problem; government dmg-abuse agencies have done all too little to inform the public about it; many physicians still seem unaware of it when they examine teenagers. As a result, parents may still be the last to know that their children have fallen victim to the drug epidemic that has been raging for more than a decade among American’s youth. In a 1980 survey of a middle-income Cincinnati suburb, 38 percent of the sixth grade and 89 percent of the senior class said they used drugs and/or alcohol; 48 percent of the parents thought their children used alcohol, but only 8 percent thought their children used drugs.

Fortunately, there is a new force at work against this epidemic—a nationwide movement of more than 400 parent groups formed to expose and battle drug use among teenagers and preteens. The groups, ranging in size from 15 members to more than 800，have different approaches and widely varying rates of success. Yet this parental crusade is the only major force in the country to have taken active, organized and effective steps aimed at stopping marijuana use.

Moreover, in 1982, sociologists, Richard Clayton and Harwin Voss, reported a close-related connection between pot smoking and subsequent use of cocaine and heroin by young men. Of those who had smoked pot fewer than 100 times, seven percent had graduated to cocaine, four percent to heroin. But of those who had smoked pot at least 1000 times, the equivalent of once a day for those years, 73 percent had gone on to cocaine, and one out of three had graduated to heroin.

Parent groups have found that by stopping their kids from smoking pot, they almost automatically stop all other illegal drugs and cut down on alcohol use as well. The High School Senior Survey’s statistics show that heavy pot smokers tend to be heavy drinkers, while those who do not use pot tend not to drink heavily.

Since virtually all over the country teenager “partying” has come to mean “getting smashed and getting stoned”---on anything from pot to pills, hashish, ISD, angel dust and alcohol—some parent groups home in on the partying aspect. Parents Who Care (PWC) was started in November 1979 by 15 Palo Alto, Calif, parents who were upset by stories of drugs senior proms. They held talk sessions with their children and learned, as founder Joann Lundgren observed, that most of them had never been to a party where the main activity was not getting high.

The parents’ solution: workshops showing kids how to give successful drug-and-alcohol-free parties. Says Margery Ranch, PWC director, “We’ve seen a change in attitude. Young people are feeling more comfortable saying no.”

1. What does “the problem” in the first sentence refer to?

A. The fact that government drug-abuse organizations are reluctant to inform the public of the drug-taking phenomenon among teenagers.

B. The fact that many doctors are ignorant of the drug-taking phenomenon among teenagers.

C. The fact that many parents are ignorant of the drug-taking phenomenon among their children.

D. The fact that many young people have yielded to the wide use of drugs.

2. What is the significance for the parents of young drug users to focus their efforts on pot smoking?

A. Marijuana is the illegal drug most used by kids.

B. Pot smoking may directly lead to the use of cocaine and heroin by young people.

C. The withdrawal from pot smoking contributes to abandoning other drugs.

D. This is the way they found effective to make contributions to society.

3. What method does PWC take to prevent their children from holding parties where they get completely intoxicated?

A. Parents held talk sessions with their children in order to persuade them to give up pot smoking.

B. PWC established workshops to help young people give drug-and-alcohol-free parties.

C. PWC helped the school authorities set up workshops of this kind.

D. They held talk sessions and invited experts to make lectures on how to give up drug-taking.

4. According to the author, the struggle by parent organizations against drug-abuse among teenagers is____.

A. one of many forces of this kind

B. strongly backed up by school authorities

C. a little bit isolated and lonely

D. strong enough and so needs no advocates

5. The passage is mainly about_____.

A. how parents are concerned with their children who became drug-addicts

B. how parents try to free their children from drug addiction

C. why parents try to free their children from drug addiction

D. why parents are concerned with their children who became drug-addicts

Passage 2

Few people would defend the Victorian attitude to children, but if you were a parent in those days, at least you knew where you stood: children were to be seen and not heard. Freud and company did away with all that and parents have been bewildered ever since. The child’s happiness is all-important, the psychologists say, but what about the parents' happiness? Parents suffer continually from fear and guilt while their children gaily romp about pulling the place apart. A good “old-fashioned”，spanking (打屁股）is out of the question: no modem child-rearing manual would permit such barbarity. The trouble is you are not allowed even to shout. Who knows what deep psychological wounds you might inflict? The poor child may never recover from the dreadful traumatic experience. So it is that parents bend over backwards to avoid giving their children complexes which a hundred years ago hadn’t even been heard of. Certainly a child needs love, and a lot of it. But the excessive permissiveness of modem parents is surely doing more harm than good.

Psychologists have succeeded in undermining parents’ confidence in their own authority. And it hasn’t taken children long to get wind of the fact. In addition to the great modem classics on child-care, there are countless articles in magazines and newspapers. With so much unsolicited advice flying about, mum and dad just don't know what to do any more. In the end, they do nothing at all. So, from early childhood, the kids are in charge and parents’ lives are regulated according to the needs of their offspring. When the little dears develop into teenagers, they take complete control. Lax (松解的）authority over the years makes adolescent rebellion against parents all the more violent. If the young people are going to have a party, for instance, parents are asked to leave the house. Their presence merely spoils the fun. What else can the poor parents do but obey?

Children are hardy creatures (far hardier than the psychologists would have us believe) and most of them survive the harmful influence of extreme permissiveness which is the normal condition in the modem household. But a great many do not. The spread of juvenile delinquency in our own age is largely due to parental laxity. Mother, believing that little Johnny can look after himself, is not at home when he returns from school, so little Johnny roams the streets. The dividing-line between permissiveness and sheer negligence is very fine indeed. The psychologists have much to answer for. They should keep their mouths shut and let parents get on with the job. And if children are knocked about a little bit in the process, it may not really matter too much. At least this will help them to develop vigorous views of their own and give them something positive to react against. Perhaps there’s some truth in the idea that children who have had a surfeit of happiness in their childhood appear like stodgy puddings and fail to make a success of life.

6. What is implied in the first sentence of Paragraph 1?

A. There is no defense for Victorian harshness.

B. Parents are grateful to Freud for his advice.

C. Parents cannot be too strict with their children.

D. Child-care books prove sensible and practical.

7. The author says that today’s parents_____.

A. are bombarded with excessive amounts of child-care literature

B. draw a distinction between permissiveness and negligence

C. are partial towards children from happy home backgrounds

D. weigh their children’s intellect rather than intelligence

8. What does the author wants to illustrate with Johnny roaming the streets?

A. An instance of arbitrariness

B. A case of juvenile delinquency

C. An example of responsibility

D. A prototype of classics

9. The conclusion can be drawn from the last paragraph that children who enjoy all-important happiness will_____.

A. soon gain independence from their negligent parents

B. stay away from the influence of juvenile delinquency

C. avoid being given uncertain psychological complexes

D. grow up to be more immature and irresponsible adults

10. The author is most critical of____.

A. dependent children

B. negligent parents

C. some psychologist

D. unhappy educators

Passage 3

Rosemary sat at her kitchen table, working a crossword puzzle. Crosswords were nice; they filled the time, and kept that mind active. She needed just one word to complete this morning’s puzzle; the clue was “a Swiss river,” and the first of its three letters was “A”. Unfortunately, Rosemary had no idea what the name of the river was, and could not look it up. Her book of maps was on her desk, and the desk was in the guest room, currently being occupied by her grandson Victor. Rosemary glanced at the kitchen clock: It was almost 10 a.m. Did the boy intend to sleep all day? She noticed that the arthritis (关节炎）in her wrist was throbbing, and put down her pen. At 87 years of age, she was glad she could still write at all. She had decided long ago that growing old was like slowly turning to stone; you couldn’t take anything for granted. She stood up slowly, painfully, and started walking to the guest room. The trip, though only a distance of about 25 feet, seemed to take a long while. Late in her ninth decade now, Rosemary often experienced an expanded sense of time, with present and past tense intermingling in her mind. One minute she was padding in her slippers across the living room carpet, the next she was back on the farm where she’d grown up, a sturdy little girl treading the path behind the bam just before dawn. In her mind’s eye, she could still pick her way among the stones in the darkness, more than 70 years later...Rosemary arrived at the door to the guest room. It stood slightly ajar, and she peered through the opening. Victor lay sleeping on his side, his arms bent, his expression slightly pained. Get up, lazy bones, she wanted to say. Even in childhood, Rosemary had never slept past 4 a.m.; there were too many chores to do. How different things were for Victor’s generation! Her youngest grandson behaved as if he had never done a chore in his life. Twenty- one years old, he had driven down to Florida to visit Rosemary in his shiny new car, a gift from his doting parents. Victor would finish college soon, and his future appeared bright—if he ever got out of bed, that is.

Something Victor had said last night over dinner had disturbed her. Now what was it? Oh yes; he had been talking about one of his college courses—a “gut,” he had called it. When she had asked him to explain the term, Victor had said it was a course that you took simply because it was easy to pass. Rosemary, who had not even had a high school education, found the term disgusting. If she had been allowed to continue her studies, she would never have taken a “gut”…The memory flooded back then, still painful as an open wound all these years later. It was the first day of high school. She had graduated from grammar school the previous year, but her father had forbidden her to go on to high school that fall, saying she was needed on the farm. After much tearful pleading, she had gotten him to promise that next year, she could start high school. She had endured a whole year of chores instead of books, with animals and rough farmhands for company instead of people her own age. Now, at last, the glorious day was at hand. She had put on her best dress, her heart racing in anticipation.

But her father was waiting for her as she came downstairs.

“Where do you think you’re going?” he asked.

“To high school, Papa.”

“No you’re not. Take that thing off and get back to work.”

“But Papa, you promised!”

“Do as I say!” he thundered.

There was no arguing with Papa when he spoke that way. Tearfully, she had trudged upstairs to change clothes. Rosemary still wondered what her life would have been like if her father had not been waiting at the bottom of the stairs that day, or if somehow she had found the strength to defy him...

Suddenly, Victor stirred, without waking, and mumbled something unintelligible. Jarred from her reverie, Rosemary stared at Victor. She wondered if he were having a nightmare.

11. Rosemary’s walk to the guest room reveals that she____.

A. is anxious about Victor B. is determined to conquer her illness

C. has an elastic perception of time D. suffers from severe disorientation

12. In the last sentence of Paragraph 2, “if he ever got out of bed” suggests that Rosemary thinks Victor_____,

A. is ashamed of what he said last night

C. works himself to exhaustion

B. is promising but undisciplined

D. has failed to plan for the future

13. The reason Rosemary finds Victor’s use of the term “gut” disgusting is because it_____.

A. has unpleasant digestive associations

B. is typical of Victor’s disregard for traditional values

C. signifies a disrespect for education

D. reminds Rosemary of her grammar school classes

14. Rosemary’s memory of the day she finally prepared to start high school indicates that she had_____.

A. anticipated her father’s command to stay home

B. hesitated over her choice of clothes

C. already decided to pursue a career

D. strongly desired to continue her education

15. The passage as a whole is most concerned with______.

A. Rosemary’s affectionate concern for Victor

B. Rosemary's struggle to suppress painful memories

C. the abusive treatment Rosemary suffered at the hands of her father

D. the interplay in Rosemary’s mind between present and past

Passage 4

The thin crescent of the new moon was greeted by torrential rains. Juan del Salto, confined by the weather, was at his desk amidst a sea of paper. He reached into one of the pigeonholes and extracted a bundle wrapped in a rubber band: his son’s letters.

Gabriel, twenty-four years old, was in his final semester of law studies in Spain. Although Gabriel was away from Puerto Rico and already a man, Juan regarded as unfinished his mission as a father. He must prepare Gabriel for the disappointments of reality, and with consummate tact, without wounding his optimism, he sent him brief accounts of the island, entrusting him with the maturity to form his own convictions. Juan removed the most recent letter from the bundle and began to reread it, tenderly.

“Don’t think,” Gabriel wrote, “that I have come to believe our land is a paradise. I know all too well that life is a struggle everywhere. But I cannot conceal from you the sorrow that your words have caused me, and a few paragraphs in your letter have struck me with the impact of cold water.”

“In the first paragraph, Father, you wrote just as stirring the air with a fan will never split mountains, fits of lyrical passion will not solve arduous problems. Those words caused me to tear up an ‘Ode to the Patria’ which I had written. In the ode (颂诗)，I sang the glories of my land, basing it upon its natural abundance and upon the romanticism of a great cloud of loving sentiment. I tore it up, convinced that it was like the breeze of a fan, spending its force in the void of futility.”

“Second paragraph.. .since Humanity owns the world, as it grows it must become worthy of the splendor of its creation. Many societies succumb to theories without ever having the good fortune to put a single one of their philosophical speculations into practice ...Nations are like individuals: they achieve more when they plan to plant a tiny tree, and do it, than when they propose to raise an entire forest and then fall asleep in the furrows. Reality! Here you have the great lever. We should concern ourselves with what already exists, in order to achieve what should be. By only singing of what we would like it to be, we accomplish nothing. I sense a severe criticism in these words, and since I know how much you love our land, that criticism is immensely important to me.”

Juan enjoyed rereading it all. His son had imagination and wit. He loved everything with childlike frankness and sincereness, but was simultaneously a thinker beginning the great journey along life’s rugged trail. Juan loved him infinitely, as though Gabriel were made of fragile Bohemian crystal.

Thus passed the hours of that nostalgic (怀旧的）day.

16. The passage is primarily concerned with a_____.

A. father’s attempt to regain his son’s affection

B. son’s skill at setting his father’s mind at ease

C. son’s ambition to return to his homeland as a successful lawyer and poet

D. father’s efforts to guide his son’s intellectual and emotional growth

17. Juan apparently considers “lyrical passion” in the fourth paragraph to be____.

A. a necessary component in the creation of enduring poetry

B. an effective technique for inspiring action in others

C. an emotion that Gabriel needs to experience

D. of little consequence in practical matters

18. Gabriel’s stated reason for destroying his “Ode to the Patria” most strongly suggests that______.

A. Gabriel’s optimistic illusions had been shattered

B. Gabriel’s writing skills suddenly embarrassed him

C. Juan had previously ridiculed similar pieces

D. Juan had successfully turned Gabriel’s attention back to his studies

19. Which of the following best paraphrases the underlined sentence in Paragraph 5?

A. Detailed planning is essential in large operations.

B. Even the strongest structure will come to ruin if it is built on a weak foundation.

C. Following through on a small project is preferable to simply conceiving a large one.

D. If individuals work together harmoniously, the entire community will prosper.

20. It can be inferred from the passage that Gabriel sees his father as a man who_____.

A. has made great sacrifices to send him to law school

B. has strong views that are well worth considering

C. expects him to become a powerful and important leader

D. is somewhat unsure of himself despite his confident manner

Passage 5

The rise of globalization, both an economic and cultural trend that has swept throughout the world, has forged new ground as we enter the 21st century. But are the effects of globalization always positive? Some say no.

Michael Tenet, head of the International Institute for Foreign Relations in Atlanta, is worried about current resentment throughout the world towards the rise of globalization. “Ever since the 1980，s and the economic collapse of the Asian Tigers in the late 1990’s，there has been a reevaluation of the role globalization as a force for good,” he said. “Incomes in many countries fell and the gap between the most rich and the most poor has been exacerbated (使加剧). Without further intervention by governments, we could see a tragedy expressed in an increased level of poverty throughout Latin America and Asia.”

George Frank, an influential economist who works on Wall Street, sees no such danger. “Economic liberalization, increased transparency and market based reforms have positive effects in the long-term, even if market mechanisms can produce short-term destabilization (不稳定） problems,” he said. “What is most important is that barriers to trade continue to fall so that active competition for consumer goods reduces prices and in turn raises the average level of income.”

Others feel that globalization’s cultural impact may be more important than its economic implications. Janice Yawee, a native of Africa, feels strongly that globalization is undermining her local culture and language. “Most of the world’s dialects will become extinct under globalization. We’re paving the world with McDonald’s and English slang. It tears me up inside,” she said.

Governments have had mixed responses to the current wave of globalization. The United States is generally seen as an active proponent of greater free trade, and it certainly has enormous cultural influence by virtue of its near monopoly on worldwide entertainment. But other countries, most notably in Europe and developing nations, have sought to reduce the impact that globalization has on their domestic affairs.

“When I was a boy we had very little to speak of,” says one Singaporean resident. “Now our country has developed into a booming center for international finance.” Others, however, are not so optimistic. “Globalization is an evil force that must be halted,” a union official at a car plant in Detroit recently commented, “It’s sucking away jobs and killing the spirit of our country.”

21. In the second paragraph, in regard to globalization, the author cites the example of Michael Tenet as ______.

A. cautious support

B. frustration

C. an interventionism approach

D. a laissez faire (放任自流）attitude

22. Janice Yawee’s reference to “it tears me up inside” (the last line of Paragraph 4) most likely means that_____.

A. she will be injured by globalization

B. globalization has hurt her emotionally

C. she is going to tear up McDonald advertisements

D. she feels bad about the extinction of her language

23. This passage deals mainly with_____.

A. the positive and negative effects of globalization

B. the rise of firms such as McDonald’s

C. different perspectives on globalization

D. the extinction of certain languages

24. In Paragraph 5, the author describes governmental response to globalization as ______.

A. active opposition

B. measured support

C. supportive and resistive, depending on the country

D. confused and chaotic

25. The union official’s comments on globalization are best described as_____.

A. impartial B. emotional

C. confusing D. calm