单选题According to the passage, short feature films produced as early as 1992 ______.A were recorded by optical sensorsB put musicians out of workC were only effective for dialogue sequencesD preceded talking pictures
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were recorded by optical sensors
put musicians out of work
were only effective for dialogue sequences
preceded talking pictures
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文章最后指出早在1922年的短故事片（feature films）就是以这种方式制造的，该系统最终带来了“talking pictures”，即有声电影，可知1922年的短故事片之后出现了有声电影。因此D项正确。precede在…之前。
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第1题：
Reading Comprehension
Directions:There are two passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statemerits. For each of them there are four choices marked A,B,C and D. You should decide on the best choice.
Questions 56-60 are based on Passage One:
Passage One
A recent study indicates that the “short sleepers”had been more or less average in their sleep needs until the men were in their teens. But at about age 15 0r so, the men voluntarily began cutting clown their nightly sleep time because of pressures from school, work, and other activities. These men tended to view their nightly periods of unconsciousness as bothersome interruptions in their daily routines.
In general, these“short sleepers”appeared ambitious, active, energetic, cheerful,conformist in their opinions, and very sure about their career choices. They often heldseveral jobs at once, or work full-or part-time while going to school. And many of them hada strong urge to appear “normal”or “acceptable” to their friends and associates , When asked to recall their dreams, the “short sleepers”did poorly. More than this,they seemed to prefer not remembering. In similar fashion, their usual way of dealing with psychological problems was to deny that the problem existed, and then to keep busy in the hope that the trouble woula go away.
The sleep patterns of the “short sleepers” were similar to, but less extreme than, sleep patterns shown by many mental patients categorized as manic.
The“long sleepers”were quite different indeed. According to the study, these young men had lengthy sleeps since childhood. They seemed to enjoy their sleep, protected it, and were quite concerned when they were occasionally deprived of their desired 9 hours of nightly bed rest. They tended to recall their dreams much better than did the “short sleepers”。
Many of the“long sleepers” were shy, anxious, introverted, inhibited, passive, mildly depressed, and unsure of themselves (particularly in social situations). Several openly state that sleep was an escape from their daily problems.
According to the study, ( ).
A. many short sleepers need less sleep by nature
B. many short sleepers are obliged to reduce their nightly sleep time because they are busy with their work
C. long sleepers sleep a longer period of time during the day
D. many long sleepers preserve their sleeping habit formed during their childhood
正确答案：D
D[解析]根据第一段中的“But at about age 15 0r so, the men voluntarily began cutting down their nightly sleep time…”可知，AB项说法错误；根据第五段中的“…their desired 9 hours of nightly bed rest”可知C项说法错误；根据第五段中的“…these young men had lengthy sleeps since childhood”可知D项说法正确。 -
第2题：
B
In the 1500s，the camera was invented．
However，in the early 1800s people found a way to make the pictures permanent． Even then，photography was a new field． Most families had their pictures taken by photographers．People did not own cameras because taking pictures and developing the films were too difficult．In 1884 ，George Eastman invented a kind of film．lt could be put into a small camera． The new film was easy to use． So many people began to buy cameras． When they had used up their films people returned their cameras to the factory． There，the films were developed，and pictures were made． More films were put into the cameras． And they were sent back to the owners with their pictures．
Today's cameras are much easier to use． Photography has become a hot hobby， There are also many new jobs in this field，especially in news reporting． Newspapers，magazines，and tele-vision all need pictures to tell stories， Photographers help scientists by taking pictures through microscopes and telescopes． Deep-sea divers take pictures of ocean plants and animals． Astro-nauts take their cameras into space． Man finds new uses of the camera every day．
( )26． When did people find a way to make the pictures permanent?
A． In the 1500s．
B． In the 1600s．
C． In the 1700s．
D． In the 1800s．
正确答案：D
26.D【辫析】由文章第二段第一句可知． -
第3题：
Grandma Moses is among the most famous twentieth-century painters of the United States，yet she had only just begun painting in her late seventies.As she once said of herself：“I would never sit back in a rocking-chair，waiting for someone to help me.”
She was born on a farm in New York State.At twelve she left home and was in a service until at twenty-seven，she married Thomas Moses，the tenant of hers.They farmed most of their lives.She had ten children，of whom five survived;her husband died in 1928.
Grandma Moses painted a little as a child and made embroidery pictures as a hobby，but only changed to oils in old age because her hands had become too stiff to sew and she wanted to keep busy and pass the time.Her pictures were first sold at an exhibition，and were soon noticed by a businessman who bought everything she painted.Three of the pictures were shown in the Museum of Modern Art，and in 1940 she had her first exhibition in New York.Between the 1930‘s and her death she produced some 2，000 pictures：careful and lively pictures of the country life she had known，with a wonderful sense of color and form.
Which of the following would be the best title for the passageA.Grandma Moses
B.The Children of Grandma Moses
C.Grandma Moses：Her Best Pictures
D.Grandma Moses and Her First Exhibition答案：A解析： -
第4题：
单选题According to the passage, the men whom Borglum hired were ______.Atrained sculptors
Blaid-off stone masons
CBlack Hills volunteers
Dvisitors to Mount Rushmore
正确答案： D解析：
文章中指出Borglum和他儿子建造Mount Rushmore的时候钱很难挣，很多人都失业了。为了移动超过40万吨的石块Borglum雇了Black Hills地区被关闭矿山的下岗工人。此外他还教这些人在半空中时怎样对花岗岩进行爆破、钻孔、雕刻等，可见这些人都是受过培训的，因此A项正确。 -
第5题：
单选题According to the passage, what can we infer to be the central message of Fredric Wertham’s The Seduction of the Innocent?AAdults reading violent comic books were as likely to be corrupted by them as young people were.
BThe horror comic books of the late 1940s were inferior to the superhero comic books that gained popularity during World War II.
CComic books were leading the nation’s youth into crime, violence, and drug abuse.
DCreating a regulatory board to censor the comic book industry would drive the worst offenders out of the business.
EComic books would never be able to convey stories of any serious literary merit.
正确答案： B解析：
细节题。第三段中提到Fredric Wertham的书中表达的观点为：动漫书籍引导青年人接触犯罪、暴力和滥用药物，故本题选C项。 -
第6题：
单选题Some African people once drank animal urine______.Awhen they were going to die
Bbecause they were thirsty
Cbecause there was little salt
Dbecause they were short of water
正确答案： D解析： -
第7题：
单选题According to the passage, where in colonial North America were there the fewest women?APuritan communities.
BSeaports.
CFrontier settlements.
DCapital cities.
正确答案： B解析： -
第8题：
单选题According to the passage, one of the reasons why readers in the 1920s and 130s were attracted by free insurance policies was that ______.Athey were afraid of being unable to work
Bjobs were more dangerous then
Cthey had bigger families to look after
Dmoney was given away with the policies
正确答案： A解析：
文中提到20世纪20、30年代是一个充斥着mass unemployment-economic insecurity和a passionate concern for the next generation的年代，由此可知读者之所以会对报纸和杂志提供的免费保险所吸引是因为他们担心失去工作后没有依靠，故A项正确。 -
第9题：
单选题According to the passage, Asian civilizations, which were ahead of Europe’s, fell behind because ______.AAsian languages were more difficult to learn
BEuropean languages had simple alphabets
Cthey didn’t have the technology to spread ideas
Dpeople’s communication skills were not good enough
正确答案： B解析：
第三段第二句指出“One reason why Asia’s civilizations, in 1000 far ahead of Europe’s, then fell behind was that they lacked the technology to reproduce and diffuse ideas”，由此可知曾经领先于欧洲的亚洲文明落后的原因是他们缺乏传播思想的技术，因此选项C符合文意。reproduce复制；再生。diffuse扩散；传播。 -
第10题：
单选题Select one answer choice. Based on the passage as a whole, the author most likely feels that the mistakes made by the early astronomers were ______.Aproblematic
Binconsequential
Cdeliberate
Dpreventable
Eunderstandable
正确答案： B解析：
作者提到“The dampness implied by the names is simply an illusion; basalt reflects less light than the surrounding rock, making these regions appear dark and deep.”所以可以推测作者认为早期的天文学家犯的错误是可以理解的，故选E项。 -
第11题：
单选题According to the passage, gramophones were sometimes ineffective because they ______.Agot out of synchronization with pictures
Bwere too large for most movie theaters
Cwere newly invented
Dchanged speeds when the needle jumped
正确答案： A解析：
第一段最后一句介绍了把留声机作为音响系统所存在的弊端，指出如果gramophone needle（唱针）jumped，或投影仪的速度发生了变化，那么声音和图像就会变得unsynchronized（不同步的），因此A项符合题意。 -
第12题：
单选题An argument made by supporters of smoking was that_____.Athere was no scientific evidence of the correlation between smoking and death
Bthe number of early deaths of smokers in the past decades was insignificant
Cpeople had the freedom to choose their own way of life
Dantismoking people were usually talking nonsense
正确答案： A解析：
根据Excerpt 1可知，支持吸烟者认为，人们有权过他们自己选择的生活方式。因此人们有选择他们自己的生活方式的自由，故C项为正确答案。 -
第13题：
B
It was snowing very hard for days． Jigs and Reels had nothing to eat for a day． They knew that things weren't right at home，so yesterday morning they wanted to go out． Bob put them out through a window． Because the snow was so thick outside that he couldn't open the door．
Last night they didn't come back． "Dead， Bob said to himself． "They are only five months old． This weather will kill them． Just then Bob heard them calling him． He looked out and could not believe’they were drawing(拖) a big hare(野兔) through the snow． They threw it through the window into Bob’s hands． Hare for dinner! '
( )26． Who were Jigs and Reels in this story?
A． They were Bob's children
B． They were dogs．
C． They were hares．
D． They were toys．
正确答案：B
26．B【解析】从它们拖着野兔回来可知它们是两条狗。 -
第14题：
According to the passage, the suburbs ______.
A. were deserted at night
B. became larger and larger
C. had a high construction cost
D. had some declined business center
正确答案：B33．答案为B。根据最后一段第五句，with the result that urban centers declined even further and the suburbs expanded still more作出该项选择。
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第15题：
At least how many tests were carried out by the scientists referred to in this passageA.Three
B.Two
C.Only one
D.No one knows答案：A解析： -
第16题：
单选题According to the passage before the welfare reform was carried out, _____.Athe poverty rate was lower
Baverage living standards were higher
Cthe average worker was paid higher wages
Dthe poor used to rely on government aid
正确答案： D解析：
推断题。文章末段指出，一旦打破了这种依赖习惯，政府即可进行提高生活水准的政策改革。因此，可推知在福利制度改革之前，穷人习惯于依赖政府的福利援助而生活。故D为答案。 -
第17题：
单选题According to the passage, which of the following statements about the Tuskegee Airmen is TRUE?AIn World WarⅡ, they never lost a bomber to enemy fire.
BThey were the first group of black soldiers ever trained by the ground troops.
CThey were not subjected to racial discrimination in the army.
DThey were already soldiers in the ground troops before their training at Tuskegee began.
正确答案： D解析：
细节理解题。根据文章的第三段第二句“They did not lose any of the bombers they were escorting”可知，在战争中，他们从来没有失去他们护航的任何一架轰炸机。而A项说的是他们没有遗失一架轰炸机给敌人火力。与A项说法一致，所以A是正确选项。根据文中第二段“The first African-American airmen reported for duty in l941.”可知，他们是第一批报到的空军，而B项的描述是他们是第一批受陆军训练的黑人士兵，原文并没有提到这一点，所以B项错误。根据文中第一段“separated you from other soldiers because of the color of your skin”以及后面的第三，四段可知，他们即使在军队里也被歧视，也受到了种族歧视的影响，C项描述完全相反。由文中第二段第二句“Before that, African Americans could only serve in the Armed Forces as part of the ground troops.”可知，第一批被训练的空军之前是作为地面部队的一部分为武装部队服役，服役指的是参加部队的劳动或是参军，所以不代表他们都是地面部队的士兵。故D项错误。 -
第18题：
单选题According to the passage, cell phones were launched _____.Ain the late 1970s
Bbetween 1980 and 1985
Cin the late 1980s
Din the early 1990s
正确答案： D解析： -
第19题：
问答题In the early 1950s the researchers who produced the first clad glass optical fibers were not thinking of using them for communications. (1) H____, fiber optics was already a well-established commercial technology when the famous paper by Kao and Hockham, (2)____(claim) the use of low-loss optical fibers for communication, appeared in 1966. The first low-loss silica fiber was described in (3)____ which appeared in October of 1970. The date of this publication is sometimes (4)____(cite) as the beginning of the era of fiber communication. Although this development did receive (5)____(consider) attention in the research community at the time, it was far from inevitable that a major industry would evolve. The technological barriers appeared formidable because there were serious doubts as to (6) wh_____ these fiber components could ever be produced economically enough, but the market potential was very significant. (7)____(consequence), research and development activity expanded rapidly, and a number of important issues were (8) re_____ during the early 1970s. During the middle and late 1970s，the rate of progress towards marketable products accelerated as the emphasis (9)____(shift) from research to engineering. Fibers with losses (10) app____ the Rayleigh limit of 2 dB/km at a wavelength of 0.8μm were produced. By 1980 improvement in component performance, cost, and reliability led to major commitments on the part of telephone companies.正确答案：
1.However 此处句意发生转折。此句译为:50年代初期,那些生产出第一批被覆层玻璃光纤的研究者们尚未考虑将光纤应用到通信中。然而,当1966年Kao和Hockham发表著名论文,提出把低耗光纤应用于通讯中时,纤维光学已经成为一个相当成熟的商业技术了。
2.claiming 现在分词作后置定语。
3.publication 从下句的this publication可知答案为publication。
4.cited 此处为被动语态。句意为:这篇文章发表的日期经常被人们称为光纤通讯时代的起始日。
5.considerable 此处需要形容词形式修饰名词attention。considerable attention相当多的关注。此句可译为:尽管当时这项技术在研究领域确实引起了极大的关注,但要发展成一个重要产业还相差甚远。
6.whether 此句可译为:该技术障碍似乎难以逾越,因为人们十分怀疑这些纤维构件是否可以以足够低的成本生产出来,但是市场潜力是十分巨大的。
7.Consequently 此句成分完整,用表示因果关系的副词consequently以与上句的联系紧凑。
8.resolved resolve找到解决…的方法,与issues搭配,指一系列问题得到了解决。
9.shifted shift指位置或方向的移动、改变;指由一种形式或用途改变为另一种形式或用途。
10.approaching approaching the Rayleigh limit接近瑞利极限。解析： 暂无解析 -
第20题：
单选题According to the passage, short feature films produced as early as 1992 ______.Awere recorded by optical sensors
Bput musicians out of work
Cwere only effective for dialogue sequences
Dpreceded talking pictures
正确答案： B解析：
文章最后指出早在1922年的短故事片（feature films）就是以这种方式制造的，该系统最终带来了“talking pictures”，即有声电影，可知1922年的短故事片之后出现了有声电影。因此D项正确。precede在…之前。 -
第21题：
单选题It can be inferred from the passage that ______.Amost movie theaters had a pianist, a hand or an orchestra
Bsound-effects machines were common because they were more effective
Cfull-scale orchestras could effectively synchronize sound with pictures
Dgramophones came into being about the same time as moving pictures did
正确答案： A解析：
首段第三句提到电影最早于1896开始公开播放，而该段倒数第三句指出早在1896年，新发明的gramophone（留声机）就被作为音响系统使用，可知留声机和电影几乎同时出现。D项中的moving pictures指的就是电影，因此该项正确。 -
第22题：
单选题Why, according to the passage, did ancient Chinese coins have a square hole in the center?ABecause it would be easier to put them together and carry them around.
BBecause it would be lighter for people to carry from place to place.
CBecause people wanted to make it look nicer.
DBecause people wanted to save the expensive metal they were made from.
正确答案： B解析：
推理题。由“People strung them together and carried them from place to place”可知，金属币做成圆形方孔是为了携带方便。 -
第23题：
单选题A fire _____ during the night and a large number of houses _____ to ashes.Abroke out, were burnt
Bwas broke out, were burnt
Cbroke out, burnt
Dset out, were burned
正确答案： C解析：
句意：夜里发生了一场火灾，许多房屋被烧成了灰烬。break out意为“爆发，突然发生”，不能用被动语态，因此B不对，房子被烧成灰烬是被动语态，并且前后时态要一致，此处都是过去时。 -
第24题：
单选题According to the passage, why did museums and cultural centers in inner cities decline in attendance?AThe tickets were too expensive.
BThe museums were out-of-date.
CThe areas were not safe.
DThe patrons were not well educated.
正确答案： B解析：
细节题。文章最后一段最后一句提到“because patrons became reluctant to enter high-crime areas in which these centers were located”，即“游览者不愿意进入犯罪率高的地区”，C项“这些地区不安全”表述与其一致。