问答题Passage 4 When philanthropist Jeffrey Brewer heard the founder of Appro TEC speak in San Francisco recently, he was intrigued by the nonprofit’s high-tech efforts to fight poverty and create jobs in Africa. But he wanted to learn more before shelling
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Passage 4 When philanthropist Jeffrey Brewer heard the founder of Appro TEC speak in San Francisco recently, he was intrigued by the nonprofit’s high-tech efforts to fight poverty and create jobs in Africa. But he wanted to learn more before shelling out money, so he scheduled a meeting with the founder. “I wasn’t sure it was as good as it sounded,” says Brewer, who lives in New York. Six months later, he boarded a plane for Kenya—at ApproTEC’s behest—to check out their programs in person. “It turned out to be better.” Forget slide shows or annual reports. Charitable organizations are finding that field visits are far more effective marketing tools for deep-pocket donors looking for new experiences. The invitation—only travel programs allow donors, who typically don’t mind paying their own way, to see firsthand what their money can accomplish. Such field trips—whether to AIDS orphanages in China, famine-relief programs in Sudan or earthquake-proof building sites in Indonesia—almost always result in increased awareness and bigger checks. Some donors become more active in the aid organization—Brewer now chairs ApproTEC’s boardd—or throw fund-raising parties. “Lifetime passionate supporters means first they fall in love with the people and places that they meet,” says Sherry Villanueva, Who started organizing trips two years ago as a board member of Direct Relief International, which supplies medical and financial aid to locally run health programs. “We’re not sitting around on a fancy deck somewhere with waiters in white gloves.” Indeed, donor trips tend to mix fun with the fund-raising. Miracle Corners of the World, which provides small-business training and housing for young adults in Tanzania, will host its first donor trip in August, with a safari in addition to the ribbon—cutting ceremony at its new housing project. Last month, the London-based International Childcare Trust cycled 300 kilometers in southern India to raise money for children orphaned by the tsunami. The Philanthropy Workshop, a program cosponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation that acts as a boot camp for new donors, recently sent 14 participants to Uganda for a week to look at innovative school reform for girls and sustainable farming—as well as some gorillas in the bush. While some critics argue that charities should focus on honing their mission statements instead of organizing adventure trips, others say only a field visit can change a donor’s view of the world. “I had a lot of ideas of how to fix Africa before I went over—and all of them were wrong,” says Brewer. “I felt very humbled.” Roderic Mast, the founder of Conservation International’s donor travel program, CI-Sojourns, which enables top supporters to investigate endangered ecosystems around the globe, says he owes the rise in million-dollar-plus contributions to the growing popularity of his nature trips, up from three in 2000 to 13 this year. On one recent trip, Mast recalls how he left a donor and his wife on a beach in Michoacan, Mexico, at night to watch a nesting sea turtle. At breakfast the next morning, they marveled over how the mother gently covered her eggs and then spread sand over a wide area to obscure their location. “The experience was so moving, he cried,” says Mast, a marine biologist, of the donor. “No amount of direct mail is ever going to achieve that.” 1. What does the author want to tell us from the example of Jeffrey Brewer, the philanthropist? 2. Paraphrase Sherry Villanueva’s statement “we’re not sitting around on a fancy deck somewhere with waiters in white gloves.” (Para. 3) 3. Give some examples on the successes of the “donor trips”.
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第1题：
30． Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A． Mr Jackson was so angry that he wanted to kill the ants．
B． Mr Jackson often fails in hitting the ball when he-s playing golf．
C． Mr Jackson can't learn golf well and wants to give up．
D． Mr Jackson spends too much money playing golf．
正确答案：B
30.B【解析】Mr Jackson喜欢打高尔夫球，但学得并不好，常常打不着球。 -
第2题：
George asked the question because he wanted to show that he was ______.
A. interesting
B. not nervous
C. different
D. eager to learn
正确答案：D47．答案为D 此考题为细节题。根据文章最后一段第2句George thought that he had better ask a few questions to show how interested he was and how much he wanted to learn to fly，就可肯定D正确。而 A的意思是“有趣的”，而不是“感兴趣的”，B的意思是“不紧张的”，C的意思是“不同的”．故A，B和C是错误的。
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第3题：
He always wanted to have ____of books and he has recently bought four____.Ahundreds...hundreds
Bhundred...hundred
Chundreds...hundred
Dhundred...hundreds
正确答案：C
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第4题：
Mr. Scrushy made donations to the black groups probably because ________.
A. he had close relations with Birmingham's African-American population
B. he wanted the church to set up more buildings
C. he was very benevolent
D. he wanted to get support from the blacks in his trial
正确答案：D
Mr. Scrushy给黑人团体捐款的原因在文中有提及，关于捐款文章第四、五段有涉及。第四段提到，陪审团18个人中有11个是黑人，在审判前和审判中他和伯明翰的非裔美国人建立了关系，他加入了一个黑人教会，捐款给他们，与此同时还给其他一些黑人团体捐款。第五段一开头就提出，教堂牧师说他收到Mr. Scrushy的钱款，交换条件是为他在黑人中间赢得支持，而Mr. Scrushy本人则称这个和他的案子无关。从全文来看，Mr. Scrushy多次涉嫌欺诈，他说的话也有欲盖弥彰的感觉。在A“他和伯明翰非裔美国人有密切联系”，B“他希望教堂可以建造更多的房子”，C“他非常慈善”，D“他希望在他的案件中得到黑人的支持”中，从逻辑上推断，D最恰当。 -
第5题：
________ to speak when the audience interrupted him.
[A] Hardly had he begun
[B] No sooner had he begun
[C] Not until he began
[D] Scarcely did he begin
正确答案：A
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第6题：
What can be inferred about Jack White?A.He is between jobs at the moment
B.He is not happy with where he is now
C.He hopes to enter the food industry
D.He is eager to take on more responsibilities答案：D解析：杰克·怀特现担任食品公司的地区执行经理，他希望能够负责管理全国性的事务。答案为D。 -
第7题：
Question 61-63 refer to the following email.
To: Barry Weinstein （bweinstein@celgar.com）
From: Andrew Kim （akim@celgar.com）
Subject: Next month
Date: August 3
Barry,
Thanks again for arranging that videoconference last week. I just heard form Maxine Dawson, our account manager for the Johnson Company account, that the next product trial will be September 8 in their production plant in Denver. She has requested that I fly D. A presenter at an award ceremony.
out there with her. Of course, I still plan to attend the Engineering Society awards dinner in San Francisco on September 9, so I've booked a flight there after the meeting. Let me know when
you‘ll be arriving there.
I'm looking forward to seeing you honored in San Francisco. You deserve it!
Regards,
Andrew Kim
Celgar Associates
What is the purpose of Mr. Weinstein's trip to San Francisco?A. He is relocating to a different office.
B. He is receiving an award.
C. He is being promoted to manager.
D. He is attending a product trial.答案：D解析：据邮件可知，Weinstein 先生去旧金山的旅行是为了获一个奖。 -
第8题：
Text 1 It is curious that Stephen Koziatek feels almost as though he has to justify his efforts to give his students a better future.Mr.Koziatek is part of something pioneering.He is a teacher at a New Hampshire high school where learning is not something of books and tests and mechanical memorization,but practical.When did it become accepted wisdom that students should be able to name the 13th president of the United States but be utterly overwhelmed by a broken bike chain?As Koziatek know,there is learning in just about everything.Nothing is necessarily gained by forcing students to learn geometry at a graffitied desk stuck with generations of discarded chewing gum.They can also learn geometry by assembling a bicycle.But he’s also found a kind of insidious prejudice.Working with your hands is seen as almost a mark of inferiority.School in the family of vocational education“have that stereotype...that it’s for kids who can’t make it academically,”he says.On one hand,that viewpoint is a logical product of America’s evolution.Manufacturing is not the economic engine that it once was.The job security that the US economy once offered to high school graduates has largely evaporated.More education is the new principle.We want more for our kids,and rightfully so.But the headlong push into bachelor’s degrees for all—and the subtle devaluing of anything less—misses an important point:That’s not the only thing the American economy needs.Yes,a bachelor’s degree opens more doors.But even now,54 percent of the jobs in the country are middle-skill jobs,such as construction and high-skill manufacturing.But only 44 percent of workers are adequately trained.In other words,at a time when the working class has turned the country on its political head,frustrated that the opportunity that once defined America is vanishing,one obvious solution is staring us in the face.There is a gap in working-class jobs,but the workers who need those jobs most aren’t equipped to do them.Koziatek’s Manchester School of Technology High School is trying to fill that gap.Koziatek’s school is a wake-up call.When education becomes one-size-fits-all,it risks overlooking a nation’s diversity of gifts.
we can infer from Paragraph 5 that high school graduates_____A.used to have big financial concerns
B.used to have more job opportunities
C.are reluctant to work in manufacturing
D.are entitled to more educational privileges答案：C解析：这是一道细节推断题，根据题干第五段和high school graduates回到原文定位致第五段第三句，说到美国经济曾经提供给高中毕业生的那种the job security已经在很大程度上evaporated也就是消失了，那说明过去的时候高中毕业生是有职业安全感的，故选C，其他选项都不在定位处，可以排除。 -
第9题：
Text 1 It is curious that Stephen Koziatek feels almost as though he has to justify his efforts to give his students a better future.Mr.Koziatek is part of something pioneering.He is a teacher at a New Hampshire high school where learning is not something of books and tests and mechanical memorization,but practical.When did it become accepted wisdom that students should be able to name the 13th president of the United States but be utterly overwhelmed by a broken bike chain?As Koziatek know,there is learning in just about everything.Nothing is necessarily gained by forcing students to learn geometry at a graffitied desk stuck with generations of discarded chewing gum.They can also learn geometry by assembling a bicycle.But he’s also found a kind of insidious prejudice.Working with your hands is seen as almost a mark of inferiority.School in the family of vocational education“have that stereotype...that it’s for kids who can’t make it academically,”he says.On one hand,that viewpoint is a logical product of America’s evolution.Manufacturing is not the economic engine that it once was.The job security that the US economy once offered to high school graduates has largely evaporated.More education is the new principle.We want more for our kids,and rightfully so.But the headlong push into bachelor’s degrees for all—and the subtle devaluing of anything less—misses an important point:That’s not the only thing the American economy needs.Yes,a bachelor’s degree opens more doors.But even now,54 percent of the jobs in the country are middle-skill jobs,such as construction and high-skill manufacturing.But only 44 percent of workers are adequately trained.In other words,at a time when the working class has turned the country on its political head,frustrated that the opportunity that once defined America is vanishing,one obvious solution is staring us in the face.There is a gap in working-class jobs,but the workers who need those jobs most aren’t equipped to do them.Koziatek’s Manchester School of Technology High School is trying to fill that gap.Koziatek’s school is a wake-up call.When education becomes one-size-fits-all,it risks overlooking a nation’s diversity of gifts.
The headlong push into bachelors degrees for all_____A.helps create a lot of middle-skill jobs
B.may narrow the gap in working-class jobs
C.is expected to yield a better-trained workforce
D.indicates the overvaluing of higher education答案：D解析：这是一道事实细节题，根据题干内容“the headlong push”找到出处是第六段开头But后，发现后面还有一个and...和其并列，所以主要关注对这两部分的评价，后面有明显的标点：冒号出现，冒号后说that is not the only thing the American economy needs.可以看出这句话对前面的否定，选项中只有D选项动词overvalue是负面词，而且提到主题词education。故选D。这道题最适合用感情色彩来排除与D相反的其他三个选项。 -
第10题：
共用题干
A Great Quake Coming?
Everyone who lives in San Francisco knows that earthquakes are common in the Bay Area一and they
can be devastating. In 1906,for example,a major quake destroyed about 28,000 buildings and killed
hundreds,perhaps thousands of people.Residents now wonder when the next"Big One"will strike.It's
bound to happen someday. At least seven active fault（断层）lines run through the San Francisco area. Faults
are places where pieces of Earth'S crust（地壳）slide past each other.When these pieces slip,the ground
shakes.
To prepare for that day,scientists are using new techniques to reanalyze the 1906 earthquake and pre-
diet how bad the damage might be when the next one happens.
One new finding about the 1906 earthquake is that the San Andreas fault split apart faster than scientists
had assumed at the time. During small earthquakes,faults rupture（断裂）at about 2.7 kilometers per second.
During bigger quakes,however.ruptures can happen at rates faster than 3.5 kilometers per second.
At such high speeds,massive amounts of pressure build up,generating underground waves that can
cause more damage than the quake itself. Lucky for San Francisco , these pressure pulses（脉冲）traveled
away from the city during the 1906 event.As bad as the damage was,it could have been far worse.
Looking ahead,scientists are trying to predict when the next major quake will occur. Records show that
earthquakes were common before 1906.Since then,the area has been relatively quiet.Patterns in the data,
however,suggest that the probability of a major earthquake striking the Bay Area before 2032 is at least 62
percent.
New buildings in San Francisco are quite safe in case of future quakes.Still,more than S4 percent of the
city’s buildings are old and weak.Analyses suggest that another massive earthquake would cause extensive
damage.
People who live there today tend to feel safe because San Francisco has remained pretty quiet for a
while.According to the new research,however,it's not a matter of"if" the Rig One will hit.It',just a mat-
ter of when.A major earthquake striking San Francisco someday is inevitable.
A:Right
B:Wrong
C:Not mentioned答案：A解析：短文第一段的倒数第兰句提到至少有7条地质断层线穿越旧金山。
短文虽然说旧金山大地震的破坏力非常大，但没有明确指出其程度是美国历史之最。
从第兰段最后一句话可知答案。
第五段的第二句话提到1906年前地震频繁。
倒数第二段提到：城里超过84％的建筑是旧的、不坚固的。所以旧金山并没有为地震做好准备。
第五段的最后一句话说科学家们顶测地震发生的概率荃少为62%，但是这并不意味着 科学家们就能预测出准确的时间，最后一段也只说明这是个时间问题，而没有说出具体时间。
短文末尾提到：问题已不再是“是否”将会发生大地震，而是“什么时候”会发生。第3部分：概括大意与完成句子 -
第11题：
( )to speak when the audience interrupted him.A.Hardly had he begun
B.No sooner had he begun
C.Not until he began
D.Scarcely did he begin答案：A解析：考查倒装句。本题涉及固定搭配： hardly/scarcely ...when ...与no sooner ...than...。在这两个结构中，主句的时态通常为过去完成时，从句的时态为一般过去时。故本题选A。句意：他刚一开始讲话，听众就把他打断了。 -
第12题：
问答题Passage 4 When philanthropist Jeffrey Brewer heard the founder of Appro TEC speak in San Francisco recently, he was intrigued by the nonprofit’s high-tech efforts to fight poverty and create jobs in Africa. But he wanted to learn more before shelling out money, so he scheduled a meeting with the founder. “I wasn’t sure it was as good as it sounded,” says Brewer, who lives in New York. Six months later, he boarded a plane for Kenya—at ApproTEC’s behest—to check out their programs in person. “It turned out to be better.” Forget slide shows or annual reports. Charitable organizations are finding that field visits are far more effective marketing tools for deep-pocket donors looking for new experiences. The invitation—only travel programs allow donors, who typically don’t mind paying their own way, to see firsthand what their money can accomplish. Such field trips—whether to AIDS orphanages in China, famine-relief programs in Sudan or earthquake-proof building sites in Indonesia—almost always result in increased awareness and bigger checks. Some donors become more active in the aid organization—Brewer now chairs ApproTEC’s boardd—or throw fund-raising parties. “Lifetime passionate supporters means first they fall in love with the people and places that they meet,” says Sherry Villanueva, Who started organizing trips two years ago as a board member of Direct Relief International, which supplies medical and financial aid to locally run health programs. “We’re not sitting around on a fancy deck somewhere with waiters in white gloves.” Indeed, donor trips tend to mix fun with the fund-raising. Miracle Corners of the World, which provides small-business training and housing for young adults in Tanzania, will host its first donor trip in August, with a safari in addition to the ribbon—cutting ceremony at its new housing project. Last month, the London-based International Childcare Trust cycled 300 kilometers in southern India to raise money for children orphaned by the tsunami. The Philanthropy Workshop, a program cosponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation that acts as a boot camp for new donors, recently sent 14 participants to Uganda for a week to look at innovative school reform for girls and sustainable farming—as well as some gorillas in the bush. While some critics argue that charities should focus on honing their mission statements instead of organizing adventure trips, others say only a field visit can change a donor’s view of the world. “I had a lot of ideas of how to fix Africa before I went over—and all of them were wrong,” says Brewer. “I felt very humbled.” Roderic Mast, the founder of Conservation International’s donor travel program, CI-Sojourns, which enables top supporters to investigate endangered ecosystems around the globe, says he owes the rise in million-dollar-plus contributions to the growing popularity of his nature trips, up from three in 2000 to 13 this year. On one recent trip, Mast recalls how he left a donor and his wife on a beach in Michoacan, Mexico, at night to watch a nesting sea turtle. At breakfast the next morning, they marveled over how the mother gently covered her eggs and then spread sand over a wide area to obscure their location. “The experience was so moving, he cried,” says Mast, a marine biologist, of the donor. “No amount of direct mail is ever going to achieve that.” 1. What does the author want to tell us from the example of Jeffrey Brewer, the philanthropist? 2. Paraphrase Sherry Villanueva’s statement “we’re not sitting around on a fancy deck somewhere with waiters in white gloves.” (Para. 3) 3. Give some examples on the successes of the “donor trips”.正确答案： 【参考答案】
1. to illustrate the importance of “donor trip”/impressed by the group’s efforts to fight poverty and create jobs in Africa/” want to learn more before putting money in”/travel to Kenya/” It turned out to be better” convinced
2. charitable organization find field visits far more effective marketing tools for rich donors looking for new experiences. /such trips result in increased awareness and bigger checks (donations)/traditional way of fund-raising through dinners, receptions no longer effective
3. field trips to AIDS orphanages in China/famine-relief programs in Sudan/earthquake-proof building sites in Indonesia/good results in increased awareness and bigger checks. /donors more active in the aid 解析： 暂无解析 -
第13题：
Passage Three
The war had begun, and George had joined the air force. He wanted to be a pilot and after some months he managed to get to the air force training school, where they taught pilots to fly'.
There, the first thing that new students had to do was to be taken up in a plane by an experienced pi lot, to give them some ideas what it felt like. Even those who had traveled as passengers in commercial (商业的 ) airline planes before found it strange to be in the cockpit (驾驶舱)of a small fighter plane, and most of the students felt nervous.
The officer who had to take the students up for their first flight allowed them to fly the plane for a few seconds if' they wanted to and if they were not too frightened to try, but be was always ready to take over as soon as the plane started to do dangerous things.
George was one of those who took over the controls of the plane when he went up in it for the first time, and after the officer had taken them [Yom him again. George thought that he had better ask a few questions to show how interested he was and how much he wanted to learn to fly. There were a number of instruments (仪表) in front of him, so he chose one and asked the officer what it was. The officer looked at him strangely for a moment and then answered, "That is the clock."
44. George went to the air torte training school because he wanted ______.
A. to fight the war
B. to fly
C. to be pilot
D. to be a passenger
正确答案：C44．答案为C 此考题为细节题。根据文章第1段第2句He wanted to be a pilot and after some months he managed to get to the air force training school，可以断定C正确。
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第14题：
When he was six he ___ speak some Japanese.A.can
B.could
C.is able to
D.must
正确答案：B
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第15题：
听到那悲伤的消息，他忍不住哭了。
He couldn't________ ________when he heard the sad news．
正确答案：
18． help crying【解析】本题考查“can't help doing sth”意为“禁不住做某事”。 -
第16题：
We can infer from the passage that Fitzgerald .
A. had made some money when he met Zelda in Alabama.
B. was well educated and well off before he served in the army
C. would have completed more works if his wife hadn’t broken down
D. helped his friend get rid of drinking while his wife was in hospital
正确答案：C
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第17题：
共用题干
A Great Quake Coming?
Everyone who lives in San Francisco knows that earthquakes are common in the Bay Area一and they
can be devastating. In 1906,for example,a major quake destroyed about 28,000 buildings and killed
hundreds,perhaps thousands of people.Residents now wonder when the next"Big One"will strike.It's
bound to happen someday. At least seven active fault（断层）lines run through the San Francisco area. Faults
are places where pieces of Earth ' s crust（地壳）slide past each other. When these pieces slip , the ground
shakes.
To prepare for that day,scientists are using new techniques to reanalyze the 1906 earthquake and pre-
dict how bad the damage might be when the next one happens.
One new finding about the 1906 earthquake is that the San Andreas fault split apart faster than scientists
had assumed at the time. During small earthquakes,faults rupture（断裂）at about 2.7 kilometers per second.
During bigger quakes,however,ruptures can happen at rates faster than 3.5 kilometers per second.
At such high speeds,massive amounts of pressure build up,generating underground waves that can
cause more damage than the quake itself. Lucky for San Francisco , these pressure pulses（脉冲）traveled
away from the city during the 1906 event.As bad as the damage was,it could have been far worse.
Looking ahead,scientists are trying to predict when the next major quake will occur. Records show that
earthquakes were common before 1906.Since then,the area has been relatively quiet.Patterns in the data,
however,suggest that the probability of a major earthquake striking the Bay Area before 2032 is at least 62
percent.
New buildings in San Francisco are quite safe in case of future quakes.Still,more than 84 percent of the
city's buildings are old and weak.Analyses suggest that another massive earthquake would cause extensive
damage.
People who live there today tend to feel safe because San Francisco has remained pretty quiet for a
while.According to the new research,however,it's not a matter of"if" the Big One will hit.It's just a mat-
ter of when.Earthquakes rarely happened in San Francisco before 1906.
A:Right
B:Wrong
C:Not mentioned答案：B解析：第一段提到：至少有7条活跃的断层线穿过旧金山。所以，此处讲“旧金山地区坐落在 数条活跃的断层线上”是正确的。
短文只提到1906年地震的破坏性大，并没说它是最严重的。
从第三段最后一句话可知答案。
第五段第二句提到：记录显示1906年前地震频发。
倒数第二段提到：城里超过84％的建筑是旧的、不坚固的。所以旧金山并未为地震做 好准备。
短文没有谈到这方面的信息。
短文末尾提到：问题已不再是“是否”将会发生大地震，而是“什么时候”会发生。所以， 这一地震是无法避免的。第3部分：概括大意与完成句子 -
第18题：
Questions 182-184 refer to the following e—mail
Barry，
Thanks again for arranging that videoconference last week．I just heard from Maxine Dawson，our account manager for the Johnson Company account，that the next product trial will be September 8 in their production plant in Denver．She has requested that I fly out there with her．of course，I still plan to attend the Engineering Society awards dinner in San Francisco on September9，SoI’ve booked a flight there after the meeting．Let me know when you’11 be arriving there．1’m looking forward to seeing you honored in San Francisco．You deserve it!
Regards，
Andrew Kim
Celgar Associates
What is the purpose of Mr．Weinstein’s trip to San Francisco?A.He is relocating to a different office
B.He is receiving an award
C.He is being promoted to manager
D.He is attending a product trial答案：D解析：根据邮件中“I’m looking forward to seeing you honored in San Francisco”可知，“Weinstein”先生去旧金山的旅行是为了获一个奖。 -
第19题：
Text 1 It is curious that Stephen Koziatek feels almost as though he has to justify his efforts to give his students a better future.Mr.Koziatek is part of something pioneering.He is a teacher at a New Hampshire high school where learning is not something of books and tests and mechanical memorization,but practical.When did it become accepted wisdom that students should be able to name the 13th president of the United States but be utterly overwhelmed by a broken bike chain?As Koziatek know,there is learning in just about everything.Nothing is necessarily gained by forcing students to learn geometry at a graffitied desk stuck with generations of discarded chewing gum.They can also learn geometry by assembling a bicycle.But he’s also found a kind of insidious prejudice.Working with your hands is seen as almost a mark of inferiority.School in the family of vocational education“have that stereotype...that it’s for kids who can’t make it academically,”he says.On one hand,that viewpoint is a logical product of America’s evolution.Manufacturing is not the economic engine that it once was.The job security that the US economy once offered to high school graduates has largely evaporated.More education is the new principle.We want more for our kids,and rightfully so.But the headlong push into bachelor’s degrees for all—and the subtle devaluing of anything less—misses an important point:That’s not the only thing the American economy needs.Yes,a bachelor’s degree opens more doors.But even now,54 percent of the jobs in the country are middle-skill jobs,such as construction and high-skill manufacturing.But only 44 percent of workers are adequately trained.In other words,at a time when the working class has turned the country on its political head,frustrated that the opportunity that once defined America is vanishing,one obvious solution is staring us in the face.There is a gap in working-class jobs,but the workers who need those jobs most aren’t equipped to do them.Koziatek’s Manchester School of Technology High School is trying to fill that gap.Koziatek’s school is a wake-up call.When education becomes one-size-fits-all,it risks overlooking a nation’s diversity of gifts.
A broken bike chain is mentioned to show students’lack of____A.practical ability
B.academic training
C.pioneering spirit
D.mechanical memorization答案：C解析：这是一道细节题，根据题干关键词可定位至第二段最后一句话,意思是”什么时候这种观点变得可接受了呢？学生应该能够说出美国第十三任总统的名字，但是却完全对坏了的自行车链束手无策”。从作者使用问句的形式就可判断出作者并不接受这种观点，即学生只学会书本上的知识而不具备实际能力。再结合上一句话即本段第二句话，Mr Koziatek是New Hampshire高中的一名老师，在这所学校，学习不只是书本上的知识，或者是为了考试，也不是为了机械化的记忆，而是为了实际的技能。能看出，作者认为学生们缺少的是实际技能，所以答案是 -
第20题：
Text 1 It is curious that Stephen Koziatek feels almost as though he has to justify his efforts to give his students a better future.Mr.Koziatek is part of something pioneering.He is a teacher at a New Hampshire high school where learning is not something of books and tests and mechanical memorization,but practical.When did it become accepted wisdom that students should be able to name the 13th president of the United States but be utterly overwhelmed by a broken bike chain?As Koziatek know,there is learning in just about everything.Nothing is necessarily gained by forcing students to learn geometry at a graffitied desk stuck with generations of discarded chewing gum.They can also learn geometry by assembling a bicycle.But he’s also found a kind of insidious prejudice.Working with your hands is seen as almost a mark of inferiority.School in the family of vocational education“have that stereotype...that it’s for kids who can’t make it academically,”he says.On one hand,that viewpoint is a logical product of America’s evolution.Manufacturing is not the economic engine that it once was.The job security that the US economy once offered to high school graduates has largely evaporated.More education is the new principle.We want more for our kids,and rightfully so.But the headlong push into bachelor’s degrees for all—and the subtle devaluing of anything less—misses an important point:That’s not the only thing the American economy needs.Yes,a bachelor’s degree opens more doors.But even now,54 percent of the jobs in the country are middle-skill jobs,such as construction and high-skill manufacturing.But only 44 percent of workers are adequately trained.In other words,at a time when the working class has turned the country on its political head,frustrated that the opportunity that once defined America is vanishing,one obvious solution is staring us in the face.There is a gap in working-class jobs,but the workers who need those jobs most aren’t equipped to do them.Koziatek’s Manchester School of Technology High School is trying to fill that gap.Koziatek’s school is a wake-up call.When education becomes one-size-fits-all,it risks overlooking a nation’s diversity of gifts.
The author’s attitude toward Koziatek’s school can be described as_____A.supportive
B.tolerant
C.disappointed
D.cautious答案：A解析：这是一道态度题，放在最末的态度题更倾向于到最后一段找答案。通过定位词Koziatek’s school看到最后一段也确实提到了，说它是一个wake-up call。也就是在唤醒人们教育不应该是统一的形式，这样会overlooking a nation’s diversity of gifts，也就是忽视人才的差异性。所以可以看出作者是支持的态度。 -
第21题：
共用题干
How to Get Along Well With Your Boss
1 Before you argue with your boss,check with the boss's secretary to determine his mood.If he ate nails for breakfast,it is not a good idea to ask him for something.Even without the boss's secretary,there are keys to timing:don't approach the boss when he's on deadline,don't go in right before lunch,when he is apt to be distracted and rushed,don't go in just before or after he has taken a vacation.
2 If you're mad,that will only make your boss mad.Calm down first,and don't let a particular concern open the floodgates for all your accumulated frustration.The boss will feel that you think negatively about the company and it is hopeless trying to change your mind.Then maybe he will dismiss you.
3 Terrible disputes can result when neither the employer nor the employee knows what is the problem the other wants to discuss.Sometimes the fight will go away when the issues are made clear.The employee has to get his point across clearly in order to make the boss understand it.
4 Your boss has enough on his mind without your adding more.If you can't put forward an immediate solution,at least suggest how to approach the problem.People who frequently present problems without solutions to their bosses may soon find they can't get past the secretary.
5 To deal effectively with a boss,it's important to consider his goals and pressures.If you can put yourself in the position of being a partner to the boss,then he will be naturally more inclined to work with you to achieve your goals.Paragraph 4______
A:Keep Your Voice Low All the Time
B:Put Yourself in the Boss's Position
C:Propose Your Solution
D:Don't Go In When You Are Angry
E:Make the Issue Clear
F:Never Give In答案：C解析：文章第二段第一句话“If you are mad , that will only make your boss mad.”是本段的主题句，是说如果你在心情不好时去找老板，这样会把事情弄得更糟。故选D。
由文章第三段第一句和第二句话“Terrible disputes can result when neither the employer nor the employee knows what is the problem the other wants to discuss.Sometimes the fight will go away when the issues are made clear.”可知，当老板或员工不知道对方想探讨的问题是什么时，就会引发激烈的争吵，而当双方都清楚了之后就可能不会争吵。故选E0
由文章第四段第二句和第三句话“If you can ' t put forward an immediate solution , at least suggest how to approach the problem.People who frequently present problems without solutions to their bosses may soon find they can ' t get past the secretary.”可知，如果你不能提出解决问题的即时方案，至少也要给老板建议可以解决问题的途径。那些只会不断向老板提出问题而不提供解决办法的人很快就会发现他们在老板秘书那都过不了关，更别提会被老板接见了。因此，在提出问题时也要提出问题的解决办法。故选C。
文章第五段第一句话“To deal effectively with a boss , it ' s important to consider his goals and pressures.”是本段的主题句，是说应该设身处地地从老板的角度看问题，这样老板才会愿意帮助你解决你所提出的问题。故选B。
由文章第一段第一句话“Before you argue with your boss , check with the boss ' s secretary to determine his mood.”可知，如果想要向老板询问什么，应该首先向老板的秘书确认老板此刻的心情。故选B。
由文章第三段可知，让老板明白你想要探讨的问题是很必要的。故选D。
由文章第四段可知，只向老板提出问题，而不提供解决办法是不明智的。故选E。
由文章最后一段第一句话“To deal effectively with a boss , it ' s important to consider his goals and pressures.”可知，应该设身处地地从老板的角度考虑老板所面临的问题和麻烦，才会取得有效的解决问题的办法。故选C。 -
第22题：
共用题干
A Great Quake Coming?
Everyone who lives in San Francisco knows that earthquakes are common in the Bay Area一and they
can be devastating. In 1906,for example,a major quake destroyed about 28,000 buildings and killed
hundreds,perhaps thousands of people.Residents now wonder when the next"Big One"will strike.It's
bound to happen someday. At least seven active fault（断层）lines run through the San Francisco area. Faults
are places where pieces of Earth'S crust（地壳）slide past each other.When these pieces slip,the ground
shakes.
To prepare for that day,scientists are using new techniques to reanalyze the 1906 earthquake and pre-
diet how bad the damage might be when the next one happens.
One new finding about the 1906 earthquake is that the San Andreas fault split apart faster than scientists
had assumed at the time. During small earthquakes,faults rupture（断裂）at about 2.7 kilometers per second.
During bigger quakes,however.ruptures can happen at rates faster than 3.5 kilometers per second.
At such high speeds,massive amounts of pressure build up,generating underground waves that can
cause more damage than the quake itself. Lucky for San Francisco , these pressure pulses（脉冲）traveled
away from the city during the 1906 event.As bad as the damage was,it could have been far worse.
Looking ahead,scientists are trying to predict when the next major quake will occur. Records show that
earthquakes were common before 1906.Since then,the area has been relatively quiet.Patterns in the data,
however,suggest that the probability of a major earthquake striking the Bay Area before 2032 is at least 62
percent.
New buildings in San Francisco are quite safe in case of future quakes.Still,more than S4 percent of the
city’s buildings are old and weak.Analyses suggest that another massive earthquake would cause extensive
damage.
People who live there today tend to feel safe because San Francisco has remained pretty quiet for a
while.According to the new research,however,it's not a matter of"if" the Rig One will hit.It',just a mat-
ter of when.Earthquakes rarely happened in San Francisco before 1906.
A:Right
B:Wrong
C:Not mentioned答案：B解析：短文第一段的倒数第兰句提到至少有7条地质断层线穿越旧金山。
短文虽然说旧金山大地震的破坏力非常大，但没有明确指出其程度是美国历史之最。
从第兰段最后一句话可知答案。
第五段的第二句话提到1906年前地震频繁。
倒数第二段提到：城里超过84％的建筑是旧的、不坚固的。所以旧金山并没有为地震做好准备。
第五段的最后一句话说科学家们顶测地震发生的概率荃少为62%，但是这并不意味着 科学家们就能预测出准确的时间，最后一段也只说明这是个时间问题，而没有说出具体时间。
短文末尾提到：问题已不再是“是否”将会发生大地震，而是“什么时候”会发生。第3部分：概括大意与完成句子 -
第23题：
What does Peter do?（）
- A、He's good at fixing things.
- B、He can speak good German.
- C、He does the washingup after supper
- D、He's a language teacher.
正确答案:D -
第24题：
问答题Practice 3 Franklin's life is full of charming stories which all young men should know- how he peddled ballads in Boston, and stood, the guest of kings, in Europe; how he worked his passage as a stowaway to Philadelphia, and rode in the queen's own litter in France; how he walked the streets of Philadelphia, homeless and known, with three- penny rolls for his breakfast, and dined at the tables of princes, and received his friends in a palace; how he raised a kite from a cow shed, and was showered with all the high degrees the colleges of the world could give; how he was duped by a false friend as a boy, and became the friend of all humanity as a man; how he was made Major General Franklin, only to resign because, as he said, he was no soldier, and yet helped to organize the army that stood before the trained troops of England and Germany. This poor Boston boy, with scarcely a day's schooling, became master of six languages and never stopped learning; this neglected apprentice tamed the lightning, made his name famous, received degrees and diplomas from colleges in both hemispheres, and became forever remembered as “Doctor Franklin”, philosopher, patriot, scientist, philanthropist and statesman.正确答案： 【参考译文】
富兰克林一生充满了令人着迷的故事,年轻人都应当知道:他怎样在波士顿沿街叫卖民谣唱本,而后来却成了欧洲各国君主的座上宾;他怎样偷偷溜上船,以打工抵付船票来到费城,而后来却在法国坐上了王后的凤辇;他怎样在费城街头四处流浪,无家可归,无人知晓,早饭以三便士的面包卷充饥,而后来却与欧洲各国王子共进晚餐,并在王宫里接待朋友;他怎样从牛棚上放飞风筝,而后来自世界各地的大学却纷纷授予他一切高等学位;童年时他怎样受一个假朋友欺骗,而成年后却成为全人类的朋友;他怎样被授予少将衔,却辞去军职,因为他说他并非行伍出身,然而就是他帮助组建了一支与训练有素的英德联军对阵的军队。
这个波士顿穷孩子,几乎没有上过一天学,后来却通晓六门语言,而且学习从不间断。这个不被人重视的学徒征服了闪电,名扬四海,获得了东西两半球大学的学位和证书,成为世人铭记的“富兰克林博士”、哲学家、爱国志士、科学家、慈善家和政治家。解析： 暂无解析