（三）短文部分
Passage One
1．A．Classmates. B．Colleagues.
C．Boss and secretary. D．PR representative and client.
2．A．He felt his assignment was tougher than Sue’s.
B．His clients complained about his service.
C．He thought the boss was unfair to him.
D．His boss was always finding fault with his work.
3．A．She is unwilling to undertake them.
B．She complains about her bad luck.
C．She always accepts them cheerfully.
D．She takes them on,though reluctantly.
4．A．Sue got promoted.
B．John had to quit his job.
C．Both John and Sue got a raise.
D．Sue failed to complete her project.
Passage Two
1．A．By greeting each other very politely.
B．By exchanging their views on public affairs.
C．By displaying their feelings and emotions.
D．By asking each other some personal questions.
2．A．Refrain from showing his feelings.
B．Express his opinion frankly.
C．Argue fiercely.
D．Yell loudly.
3．A．Getting rich quickly.
B．Distinguishing oneself.
C．Respecting individual rights.
D．Doing credit to one’s community.
Passage Three
1．A．Because we might be offered a dish of insects.
B．Because nothing but freshly-cooked insects are served
C．Because some yuppies like to horrify guests with insects as food.
D．Because we might meet many successful executives in the media industry.
2．A．From yuppie clubs.B．In the seafood market.
C．In the supermarket.D．On the Internet.
3．A．It’s easy to prepare.B．It’s tasty and healthful.
C．It’s exotic in appearance.D．It’s safe to eat.
4．A．It will be consumed by more and more young people.
B．It will become the first course at dinner parties.
C．It will have to be changed to suit local tastes.
D．It is unlikely to be enjoyed by most people.
Passage Four
1．A．They had lost their jobs as a result of the Industrial Revolution.
B．They had been suffering from political and religious oppression.
C．They wanted to flee from the widespread famine in Northern Europe.
D．They wanted to make a fortune there by starting their own businesses.
2．A．They might lose control of their members because of the increase in immigration.
B．Their members might find it difficult to get along with the newcomers.
C．The working condition of their members might deteriorate.
D．Their members might lose their jobs to the newcomers.
3．A．To impose restrictions on further immigration.
B．To improve the working conditions of immigrants.
C．To set a minimum wage level for new immigrants.
D．To put requirements on languages for newcomers.
4．A．They were looked down upon by European immigrants.
B．They had a hard time seeking equal job opportunities.(https://www.daowen.com)
C．They worked very hard to earn a decent living.
D．They strongly opposed continued immigration.
Passage Five
1．A．Whether it can be detected and checked.
B．Whether it will lead to widespread food shortage.
C．Whether global warming will speed up in the future.
D．Whether it will affect their own lives.
2．A．Many species have moved further north.
B．Many new species have come into existence.
C．Many species have developed a habit of migration.
D．Many species have become less sensitive to climate.
3．A．Storms and floods.
B．Disease and fire.
C．Less space for their growth.
D．Rapid increase of the animal population.
4．A．They will gradually die out.
B．They will be able to survive in the preserves.
C．They will have to migrate to find new homes.
D．They will face extinction without artificial reproduction.
答案速查
Passage One BCCA Passage Two DAB
Passage Three ADBD Passage Four ADAC
Passage Five DABC
听力原文
Both John and Sue joined the staff of a successful public relations firm in New York during the same year.They had just completed their PR degrees at a nearby university and were thrilled to be hired by one of the finest PR firms in the city.John’s first assignment was to create a promotion campaign for a client who was putting a new game on the market. Initially Sue was assigned to work with a sportswear company on a marketing concept for its newest line of clothing.As time passed and work with their respective first clients became more and more difficult,John and Sue realized that they had been assigned two of the toughest clients in town.Although John completed his assignments quickly and successfully,he was furious when he learned that the boss had deliberately assigned him a difficult client.In response he not only complained to his colleagues but also to the boss’s secretary.Sue,on the other hand,had a more difficult time satisfying her first client and she took several additional months to actually complete the assignment.However,she just laughed when she heard that the boss had made the assignment purposely.Over the next two years,John worked reluctantly with each assignment and problem that he encountered. Sue accepted each assignment cheerfully.And when problems arose,she responded with her characteristic“No problem,I can handle it”.Although Sue took longer to complete her projects than John and both were equally successful on the assignments they completed, Sue was given the first promotion when there came a vacancy.
Questions
1．What’s the relationship between John and Sue now?
2．Why was John furious after he finished his first assignment?
3．What’s Sue’s attitude to difficult tasks?
4．How does the story end?
Passage Two
American visitors to Eastern Asia are often surprised and puzzled by how Asian cultures and customs differ from those in the United States.What’s considered typical or proper social conduct in one country may be regard as odd,improper or even rude in the other.For example,people from some Eastern Asian countries may begin a conversation with a stranger by asking personal questions about family,home or work.Such questions are thought to be friendly,whereas they might be considered offensive in the United States.On the other hand,people in most Asian cultures are far more guarded about expressing their feelings publicly than most Americans are.Openly displaying annoyance or anger,yelling,arguing loudly and so forth is considered ill-mannered in countries such as Japan.Many Eastern Asians prefer to hold their emotions in check and instead express themselves with great politeness.They try not to be blunt and avoid making direct criticisms.In fact,they often keep their differences of opinion to themselves and merely smile and remain silent rather than engage in a confrontation.By comparison,Americans are often frank about displaying both positive and negative emotions on the street and in other public places.Americans visiting Asia should keep in mind that such behavior may cause offense.A major difference between American culture and most Eastern Asian cultures is that in Eastern Asia,the community is more important than the individual.Most Americans are considered a success when they make a name for themselves.
Questions
1．How would some Asians start their conversation when they meet for the first time?
2．What would a Japanese do when he feels annoyed?
3．What is encouraged in American culture according to the passage?
Passage Three
Yuppies are young people who earn a lot of money and live in a style that is too expensive for most people.If you’re invited to a yuppie dinner party,don’t be surprised if you’re offered freshly-cooked insects as a first course.While the idea of eating fried insects fills most of us with horror,insect-eating is becoming highly fashionable.For example, in the media industry,successful executives are often seen to eat fried or boiled insects from time to time while working at their desks.These safe-to-eat insects can be found and ordered on the Internet.And young people are logging on to exotic food websites and ordering samples of prepared insects to serve at their dinner parties.Although the idea of eating insects is probably disgusting to most of us,few people would claim that pigs, chickens,and some kind of seafood we often eat are examples of great beauty.One day, insects could be marketed and sold as food item in supermarket.According to their fans, they are not only high in protein and low in fat,but also very tasty.But until our attitudes to food change fundamentally,it seems that insect-eaters will remain a select few.
Questions
1．Why did the speaker say we might be surprised at the yuppie dinner party?
2．Where can the people order the unusual food mentioned by the speaker?
3．Why are some yuppies attracted by the unusual food?
4．What does the speaker say about the future of this type of unusual food?
Passage Four
After the early period of settlement,the first sharp increase in immigration took place in the 1830s and 1840s.This brought to America craftspeople from northern Europe who lost employment in the Industrial Revolution,and then a great number of Irish people who fled from famine.German political refugees arrived shortly after.Many immigrants from northern and western Europe settled on farms in the Middle West.The Irish became construction labor on roads,bridges and railroads.In the 1880s,a tremendous tide of immigrants began to come in,this time,largely from southern and eastern Europe.To most Americans,these newcomers seemed far more strange than the early settlers.Their languages,customs and ways of life were very different from those of Americans.The newcomers moved into the poorest neighborhoods of the large cities.They tended to stay together and cling to their old ways.As they were accustomed to poverty,they were willing to work for very low wages. This made other workers,especially those in labor unions afraid that the immigrants would thus lower wage levels and take jobs away from them.Indeed,organized labor became one of the chief opponents of continued immigration.This opposition finally led to the passing of immigration laws in the 1920s which restricted further immigration.In 1965,these unfair laws were replaced by a new immigration act which granted equal opportunity to foreigners regardless of the place or origin.Asians,like Koreans and Vietnamese,then began to arrive. Many of these newcomers have worked very hard to establish themselves in their new land.
Questions
1．Why did northern European craftspeople come to settle down in the United States?
2．What did the labor unions worry about?
3．What was the purpose of the immigration law passed in the 1920s?
4．What do we know from the passage about the Asian immigrants?
Passage Five
If the earth gets hotter in the new century,what will happen to animals and the plants which animals depend on for survival?The question offers another way of looking at the greenhouse effect.People have talked about the general problem of global warming for some time.But they were usually worried about things like whether to buy a home on the coast. Biologists and other scientists turned their attention to plants and animals at an important meeting that took place last October.They reviewed evidence that plants and animals are sensitive to climate.Since the Ice Age ended 2,000 years ago,and warmer temperatures returned to the northern latitudes,many species have migrated north.If the predictions about the greenhouse are correct,temperatures will rise by the same amount in the next 100 years as they did in the past 10,000 years.Will animals and plants be able to adapt that quickly to change in the environment?Many won’t.Certain species will probably become very rare. Experts say plants under climate stress will be very open to disease and fire.Forest fires may become more common.That in turn may harm animals that depend on the trees for food or shelter.Any preserves we set up to protect the endangered species may become useless as the species are forced to migrate along with their natural homes.Changes are part of life,but rapid change says scientist George Woodwill,is the enemy of life.
Questions
1．What is the concern of ordinary people about the greenhouse effect?
2．What has happened since the end of Ice Age?
3．What will be a possible threat to plants in the future?
4．According to the passage,what will probably happen to the endangered species?