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Immediately after graduation from high school, Hemingway ()
A、worked as a reporter for a newspaper
B、sailed for Europe
C、became a volunteer ambulance driver
D、served in the Italian army
听力原文： "Where is the university？ is question many visitors to Cambridge ask, but no one could point them in any one direction because there is no campus. The university consists of thirty-one self-governing colleges. It has lecture halls, libraries, laboratories, museums and offices throughout the city(32).
Individual colleges choose their own students (33), who have to meet the minimum entrance requirements set by the university. Undergraduates usually live and study in their colleges, where they are taught in very small groups. Lectures, and laboratory and practical work are organized by the university and held in university buildings.
There are over ten thousand undergraduates and three thousand five hundred postgraduates. About 40% of them are women and some 8% from overseas. As well as teaching, research is of major importance. Since the beginning of the twentieth century, more than sixty university members have won Nobel prizes.
The university has a huge number of buildings for teaching and research. It has more than sixty specialist subject libraries, as well as the University Library, which, as a copyright library, is entitled to a copy of every book published in Britain(34).
Examinations are set and degrees are awarded by the university. It allowed women to take the university exams in 1881, but it was not until 1948 that they were awarded degrees(35).
(33)
A．Because there are no signs to direct them.
B．Because no tour guides are available.
C．Because all the buildings in the city look alike.
D．Because the university is everywhere in the city.
Language is always changing.The earliest known languages had complicated grammar but a small, limited vocabulary.Over the centuries, the grammar changed, and the vocabulary grew.For example, the English and Spanish people who came to America during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries gave names to all the new plants and animals they found.In this way, hundreds of new words were introduced into English and Spanish vocabularies.Today life is changing very fast, and language is changing fast, too.
There are several major language families in the world.Some scientists say there are nine main families, but other scientists divide them differently.The languages in each family are related, and scientists think that they came from the same parent language.
We learn our own languages by listening and copying.We do this without studying or thinking about it.But learning a foreign language takes a lot of study and practice.
(1).What do all languages in the world have？
A.Complicated vocabularies
B.Single grammar
C.Large vocabularies
D.A system of sounds
(2).What does the earliest known languages have？
A.Different word orders
B.Difficult grammar
C.Difficult vocabularies
D.Easy sound system
(3).What did the English and Spanish people who came to America do？
A.They gave names to different animals
B.They found many new plants and animals
C.They changed the grammar of English and Spanish
D.They introduced new words into English and Spanish
(4).Scientists think that the languages in each family_________________________.
A.are related
B.should be divided differently
C.should be separated
D.are not very different
(5).According to the passage, we learn our own language by_________________________.
A.thinking about it
B.practicing it
C.listening and copying
D.studying it
The islands were annexed by the US in 1898 and since then Hawaii's native peoples have fared worse than any of its other ethnic groups. They make up over 60 percent of the state's homeless, suffer higher levels of unemployment and their life span is five years less than the average Hawaiians. They are the only major US native group without some degree of autonomy.
But a sovereignty advisory committee set up by Hawaii's first native governor, John Waihee, has given the natives' cause a major boost be recommending that the Hawaiian natives decide by themselves whether to re-establish a sovereign Hawaiian nation.
However, the Hawaiian natives are not united in their demands. Some just want greater autonomy with the state—as enjoyed by many American Indian natives over matters such as education. This is a position supported by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA), a state agency set up in 1978 to represent to natives' interests and which has now become the moderate face of the native sovereignty movement. More ambitious in the Ka Lahui group, which declared itself a new nation in 1987 and wants full, official independence from the US.
But if Hawaiian natives are given greater autonomy, it is far from clear how many people this will apply to. The state authorities only count as native those people with more than 50 percent Hawaiian blood.
Native demands are not just based on political grievances, though. They also want their claim on 660,000 hectares of Hawaiian crown land to be accepted. It is on this issue that native groups are facing most opposition from the state authorities. In 1933, the state government paid the OHA USS 136 million in back rent on the crown land and many officials say that by accepting this payment the agency has given up its claims to legally own the land. The OHA has vigorously disputed this.
Hawaii's native minority refers to ______.
A．people of Filipino origin
B．the Ka Lahui group
C．people with 50% Hawaiian blood
D．Hawaii's ethnic groups
Supporters of the new supersystems argue that these mergers will allow f or substantial cost reductions and better coordinated service. Any threat of monopoly, they argue, is removed by fiercecompetition from trucks. But many shippers complain that for heavy bulk commodities traveling long distances, such as coal, chemicals, and grain, trucking is too costly and the railroads therefore have them by the throat. The vast consolidation within the rail industry means that most shippers are served by only one rail company. Railroads typically charge such "captive" shippers 20 to 30 percentmore than they do when another railroad is competing for the business. Shippers who feel they are being overcharged have the right to appeal to the federal government’s SurfaceTransportation Board for rate relief, but the process is expensive, time-consuming, and will work only in truly extreme cases.
Railroads justify rate discrimination against captive shippers on the grounds that in the long run it reduces everyone’s cost. If railroads charged all customers the same average rate, they argue, shippers who have the option of switching to trucks or other forms of transportation would do so, leaving remaining customers to shoulder the cost of keeping up the line. It’s a theory to which many economists subscribe, but in practice it often leaves railroads in the position of determining which companies will flourish and which will fail. "Do we really want railroads to be the arbiters of who wins and who loses in the marketplace？" asks Martin Bercovici, a Washington lawyer who frequently represents shippers.
Many captive shippers also worry they will soon be hit with a round of huge rate increases. The railroad industry as a whole, despite its brightening fortunes, still does not earn enough to cover the cost of the capital it must invest to keep up with its surging traffic. Yet railroads continue to borrow billions to acquire one another, with Wall Street cheering them on. Consider the $10.2 billion bid by Norfolk Southern and CSX to acquire Conrail this year. Conrail’s net railway operating income in 1996 was just $427 million, less than half of the carrying costs of the transaction. Who’s going to pay for the rest of the bill？ Many captive shippers fear that they will, as Norfolk Southern and CSX increase their grip on the market.
1. According to those who support mergers, railway monopoly is unlikely because ().
A.cost reduction is based on competition
B.services call for cross-trade coordination
C.outside competitors will continue to exist
D.shippers will have the railway by the throat
2. What is many captive shippers’ attitude towards the consolidation in the rail industry？
A.Indifferent.
B.Supportive.
C.Indignant.
D.Apprehensive.
3. It can be inferred from Paragraph 3 that ().
A.shippers will be charged less without a rival railroad
B.there will soon be only one railroad company nationwide
C.overcharged shippers are unlikely to appeal for rate relief
D.a government board ensures fair play in railway business
4. The word "arbiters" (Line 7, Paragraph 4) most probably refers to those ().
A.who work as coordinators
B.who function as judges
C.who supervise transactions
D.who determine the price
5. According to the text, the cost increase in the rail industry is mainly caused by ().
A.the continuing acquisition
B.the growing traffic
C.the cheering Wall Street
D.the shrinking market
As a boy he was taught by his father to hunt and fish along the shores and in the forests around Lake Michigan. The Hemingways had a summer house in northern Michigan, and the family would spend the summer months there trying to stay cool. Hemingway would either fish the different streams that ran into the lake, or would take the small boat out to do some fishing there. He would also go squirrel hunting in the woods, discovering early in life the peace to be found while alone in the forest or going through a stream. It was something he could always go back to throughout his life, and though he often found himself living in major cities like Chicago, Toronto and Paris early in his life, once he became successful he chose somewhat isolated places to live in.
When he wasn't hunting or fishing his mother taught him the good points of music. She was a skilled singer who once had wished a life on stage, but at last settled down with her husband and spent her time by giving voice and music lessons to local children, including her own. Hemingway was never talented for music and suffered through singing practices and music lessons, however, the musical knowledge he got from his mother helped him share in his first wife Hadley's interest in the piano.
Ernest Hemingway died in______.
A．1969
B．1979
C．1981
D．1961
Many people, especially the policy makers, believe that forcing adult workers, those who are over 45, to retire is an effective means to relieve the tension of unemployment, for it can provide more job opportunities for the jobless young. But they fail to notice that forcing a person who is still able to work and has a family to support to retire brings serious financial problems as well as emotional and physical ones. They also fail to realize that actually workers aged 45-60 tend to be more stable, more skillful and more experienced than workers of any other ages, that to some extent this age is the prime time for one’s productivity and creativity. To force them to retire is a huge waste of the nation’s best resources. On the contrary, if we turn our attention to the other end of the age problem, a more effective way might emerge. Today, only 30% of school- leavers are allowed to go to college, leaving the majority of the young people under 18 and without adequate preparation to join the labor force. If, however, more of them are able to attend college and begin full-time employment at a later age, more job opportunities will be created as the number of years that an average person works full time shrinks.
Most importantly, we should not be content merely to solve the problem of unemployment, but rather, we should improve the quality of the workforce at the same time by retaining the skilled adults and recruiting(补充，招收) the well-educated young.
（1）The best title for this passage might be（）.
A. How to Solve the Problem of Unemployment？
B. Should People Be Forced to Retire？
C. Why Don’t We Educate the Young？
D. Are the Policy Makers Wise？
（2） Forcing a middle-aged person to retire might cause（）.
A. financial problems
B. a huge waste of the nation’s talent resources
C. emotional and physical problems
D. all of the above
（3）The word “prime” in Paragraph 2 Line 6 can be best replaced by “ （）”.
A. first
B. early
C. major
D. spring
（4）Which of the following suggestions does the writer make？
A. Young people should work harder in order to go to college.
B. Colleges should be open to more high school-leavers.
C. The old should be allowed to work as long as they want to.
D. Policy makers should create more job opportunities.
（5）What is the writer’s attitude to the described situation？
A. Concerned.
B. Hopeless
C. Indifferent
D. Content.
NEW YORK (Variety)--Eight years after his death, prolific science-fiction author Isaac Asimov has suddenly arrived as a hot Hollywood commodity, with screen deals for his novels and short stories landing all over town. A deal dosed late last week at Warner Bros to adapt the Asimov short story "The Ugly Little Boy" into a film. The picture will be produced by Denise DiNovi and Demi Moore as a starting vehicle for Moore. In other recent deals, Fox has optioned Asimov’s most popular novel series, "Foundation," for Shekhar Kaput ("Elizabeth") to direct; Paramount is working on turning "End of Eternity" into a film that Ridley Scott ("Gladiator") will likely direct from a script. by "Total Recall" co-writer Gary Goldman; and Sony Pictures Family Entertainment is developing into an animated film series "Norby, the Mixed Up Robot," a series of 10 children’s novels that Asimov wrote with his wife Janet, who’ll act as creative consultant. Most of the deals will be worth seven-figure paydays if the films get made. Asimov wrote more than 460 works in either book or short-story form. While he wrote some nonfiction and mysteries, his speciality was sci-fi, with futuristic stories that were alien-free and high on pro-humanistic themes. His work has influenced many prominent sci-fi filmmakers, but Asimov action had been sparse. The most recent adaptation was the Robin Williams picture "Bicentennial Man." Part of the reason was that Asimov’s sole passion was his books and his family. He was hardly pushy(进取心的) about getting his works adapted, known to grant film options for as little as $50. The catalyst for the surge in screen activity is that Asimov’s estate is now represented by Crested By, a partnership created 1- 1/2 years ago by Vince Gerardis and Ralph Vicinanza, who currently handle the screen rights of about 200 major sci-fi, fantasy and horror authors.
1.Paragraph 3 mainly talks about____.
A、the agreements between Asimov’s wife and the Hollywood producers
B、the films that will be shot on Asimov’s works
C、the producers that will shoot the films
D、the works flint will be adapted into films
2.Who encouraged the gush(涌出) in filmmaking？____
A、A partner author of Asimov.
B、A company started by.
C、A corporation set up by Wince Gerardis and Ralph Vicinanza.
D、A firm managed by wife.
3.What’s Asimov’s attitude to the adaptation of his works into films？____
A、He was ardent about the adaptation.
B、He was indifferent to the adaptations.
C、He disagreed to the adaptations.
D、He was not interested in the adaptation at all.
4.Asimov mainly wrote____.
A、science fiction
B、mystery
C、short story
D、nonfiction
5.What is the article mainly about？____
A、Asimov and American show business.
B、Asimov and Hollywood filmmakers.
C、Asimov and his works.
D、The popularity of Ashuov’s works.
