As a result of President Bush\\\'s reform， retired people may haveA．a higher sense of security.B．less secured payments.C．less chance to invest.D．a guaranteed future.
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As a result of President Bush\\\'s reform， retired people may have
A．a higher sense of security.
B．less secured payments.
C．less chance to invest.
D．a guaranteed future.
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第1题：
It is reported that today _____ president will have lunch with _____ President Bush.
A. the…the
B. a…a
C. the…/
D. /…/
参考答案： C
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第2题：
I advised my daughter that she should not say anything in the presence of the President G.W Bush until ______.A.being asked
B.asked
C.having been asked
D.to be asked
参考答案：B
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第3题：
In the first paragraph, individual borrowing is cited because_____.
[A] it shares similarities with the government’s Social Security policies
[B] there is no guarantee that it will be profitable in the stock market
[C] it is not proper for the brokerage houses to persuade people to borrow money
[D] it is an indication of the Bush administration’s serious concern over the stock market
正确答案：A
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第4题：
During the past generation, the American middle-class family that once could count on hard work and fair play to keep itself financially secure has been transformed by economic risk and new realities. Now a pink slip, a bad diagnosis, or a disappearing spouse can reduce a family from solidly middle class to newly poor in a few months.
In just one generation, millions of mothers have gone to work, transforming basic family economics. Scholars, policymakers, and critics of all stripes have debated the social implications of these changes, but few have looked at the side effect: family risk has risen as well. Today's families have budgeted to the limits of their new two-paycheck status. As a result, they have lost the parachute they once had in times of financial setback-a back-up earner (usually Mom) who could go into the workforce if the primary earner got laid off or fell sick. This "added-worker effect" could support the safety net offered by unemployment insurance or disability insurance to help families weather bad times. But today, a disruption to family fortunes can no longer be made up with extra income from an otherwise-stay-at-home partner.
During the same period, families have been asked to absorb much more risk in their retirement income. Steelworkers, airline employees, and now those in the auto industry are joining millions of families who must worry about interest rates, stock market fluctuation, and the harsh reality that they may outlive their retirement money. For much of the past year, President Bush campaigned to move Social Security to a saving-account model, with retirees trading much or all of their guaranteed payments for payments depending on investment returns. For younger families, the picture is not any better. Both the absolute cost of healthcare and the share of it borne by families have risen--and newly fashionable health-savings plans are spreading from legislative halls to WalMart workers, with much higher deductibles and a large new dose of investment risk for families' future healthcare. Even demographics are working against the middle class family, as the odds of having a weak elderly parent--and all the attendant need for physical and financial assistance have jumped eightfold in just one generation.
From the middle-class family perspective, much of this, understandably, looks far less like an opportunity to exercise more financial responsibility, and a good deal more like a frightening acceleration of the wholesale shift of financial risk onto their already overburdened shoulders. The financial fallout has begun, and the political fallout may not be far behind．
As a result of President Bush's reform, retired people may have__A.a higher sense of security
B.less secured payments
C.less chance to invest
D.a guaranteed future答案：B解析：细节题。根据题干定位到第三段。由第三、四句“President Bush campaigned to move Social Security to a saving-account model,with retirees trading much or all of their guaranteed payments for pay-ments depending on investment returns．For younger families，the picture is not any better．"可以分析布什总统改革的结果可能会减少退休工有保障的报酬，所以选B项“less secured payments(减少保障性报酬)”为正确选项。其余选项均不符合题意。 -
第5题：
This may be because some people do not have the genes necessary to generate particular smell receptors in the nose.These receptors are the cells which sense smells and send（ ）to the brain.A.signs
B.stimuli
C.messages
D.impulses答案：C解析：本句描述的是构成气味接受器的细胞的活动，由常识可知，这些细胞感知到气味以后，就会向大脑传递所获得的信息。而在各选项中，能正确表达这一概念的只有C.message一词。因此，本词的正确选项是[C]。 -
第6题：
The American president involved in Watergate Scandal was( )A.Richard Nixon
B.George Bush
C.Andrew Jackson
D.Bill Clinton答案：A解析：美国历史。考查卷入水门事件的美国总统。 -
第7题：
In 1992（）ran for the President as an independent candidate.
- A、Bill Clinton
- B、Ross Perot
- C、Bob Dole
- D、George Bush
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第8题：
单选题Most of the retired people are happy _____ their quiet life in the countryside.Ato
Bof
Cwith
Don
正确答案： C解析：
本题考查固定搭配。句意：大多数退休人士都对乡下的平静生活很满意。be happy with sth.是固定搭配，意为“对……感到很开心/很幸福”。 -
第9题：
单选题When you show your interest and pleasure in American people’s house, they may be _____.Aangry
Bhappy
Csad
DWorried
正确答案： A解析：
根据第二段的最后一句“They may also be pleased when you show your interest and pleasure in their houses.”可知，当你对他们的房子表现出兴趣时，他们会很高兴。故选项B正确。 -
第10题：
单选题What can NOT be concluded from the passage?AMore and more young people are volunteering to carry out suicide bombings since the conflict according to militant groups’ data.
BIsrael’s intensified blockade has brought Gaza a darker sky.
CAll the Palestinian militant groups are united against Israel.
DYoung Palestinian men are feeling depressed but sense a hopeful future.
正确答案： C解析：
题目问的是：下列哪一项是不能从文章中得到的？文章第9段提到“But the powerful Israeli gunfire and internal divisions, most due to fight between Hamas and Fatah, make most tries in vain.”，意思是说“以色列强大的炮火和内部分歧，主要由于哈马斯和法塔赫之间的战争，使得大部分努力付之东流。”并没有提到所有巴勒斯坦武装组织联合起来对抗以色列，其他三项都有原文与之对应。故选C。 -
第11题：
单选题What does President Bush think of tapping oil in ANWR?AIt will increase America’s energy consumption.
BIt will exhaust the nation’s oil reserves.
CIt will help reduce the nation’s oil imports.
DIt will help secure the future of ANWR.
正确答案： D解析：
观点题。C项同义替换了文章第一段第三句内容。题干中的“think of”替换原文中的“argue”，“reduce”近义替换原文中的“ease”；boost推动，激励，增长，energy independence能源独立，暗指不从其他国家进口能源，故选C。 -
第12题：
单选题ADesigning better cars.
BBuilding more highways.
CIncreasing people’s awareness of traffic problems.
DEnhancing drivers’ sense of responsibility.
正确答案： D解析：
细节题。录音最后提到“Since people assume that the accidents are bound to occur, they want to know how cars can be built better to protect the drivers”，既然事故无法避免，就从怎样制造更好的能保护司机的汽车来解决问题。故选A。
【录音原文】
As the car industry develops, traffic accidents have become as familiar as the common cold. Yet their cause and control remain a serious problem that is difficult to solve. Experts have long recognized that this discouraging problem has multiple causes. At the very least it is a problem that involves three factors: the driver, the vehicle and the roadway. If all drivers exercised good judgment at all times, there would be few accidents. But this is rather like saying that if all people were honest, there would be no crime. Improved design has helped to make highways much safer. But the title of accidents continues to rise because of human failure and an enormous increase in the number of automobiles on the road. Attention is now turning increasingly to the third factor of the accident are the car itself. Since people assume that the accidents are bound to occur, they want to know how cars can be built better to protect the drivers.
Questions 1 to 4 are based on the passage you have just heard.
1. What does the speaker think are the causes of automobile accidents?
2. What measure has been taken to reduce car accidents?
3. What remains an important factor for the rising number of road accidents?
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第13题：
The world’s population continues to grow. There now are about 4 billion of us on earth. That could reach 6 billion by the end of the century and 11 billion in a further 75 years. Experts have long been concerned about such a growth. Where will we find the food, water, jobs, houses, school and health care for all these people?
A major new study shows that the situation may be changing. A large and rapid drop in the world’s birth rate has taken place during the past 10 years. Families generally are smaller now than they were a few years ago. It is happening in both developing and industrial nations.
Researchers said they found a number of reasons for this. More men and women are waiting longer to get married and are using birth control devices and methods to prevent or delay pregnancy. More women are going to school or working at jobs away from home instead of having children. And more governments, especially in developing nations, now support family planning programs to reduce population grow.
China is one of the nations that have made great progress in reducing its population growth. China has already cut its rate of population growth by about half since 1970.
Each Chinese family is now urged to have no more than one child. And the hope is to reach a zero population growth with the total number of births equaling the total number of deaths by the year 2000.
Several nations in Europe already have fewer births than deaths. Experts said that these nations could face a serious shortage of workers in the future. And the persons who are working could face much higher taxes to help support the growing number of retired people.
1. The world’s population could reach ____________.
A. 6 billion in 75 years
B. 11 billion in 2075
C. 11 billion by the end of this century
D. 600 million in 15 years
2. Which of the following is true?
A. The world’s birth rate is higher than ten years ago.
B. There has been a slower population growth in the past ten years.
C. Families are as large as before.
D. Birth control has been well practiced in all nations.
3. By the year 2000, the number of births and the number of deaths in China will _______.
A. be greatly different
B. drop a great deal
C. be equal
D. become much larger
4. According to the essay, China’s population control ________.
A. is not quite successful
B. should be considered a big success
C. is far from being successful
D. is a complete failure
5. It may happen in the future that the people who are working in Europe will have to pay much higher taxes because___________.
A. more and more children will be born
B. the number of retired people will become ever larger
C. fewer and fewer children will be born
D. they will be making a lot of money
答案：BBCBB
解析：译文
世界人口继续增长。现在地球上大约有40亿人。到本世纪末，这一数字可能会达到60亿，再过75年就会达到110亿。长期以来，专家们一直关注这种增长。我们在哪里能找到这些人的食物、水、工作、房子、学校和医疗保健？
一项新的重大研究表明，情况可能正在改变。在过去10年里，世界人口出生率急剧下降。现在的家庭一般比几年前小。发展中国家和工业国家都在发生这种情况。
研究人员说，他们发现了很多原因。越来越多的男人和女人等待结婚的时间更长，他们使用节育设备和方法来预防或推迟怀孕。越来越多的妇女去上学或者在离家不远的地方工作，而不是生孩子。越来越多的政府，特别是发展中国家，现在支持计划生育计划以减少人口增长。
中国是在减少人口增长方面取得重大进展的国家之一。自1970年以来，中国已经将人口增长率降低了大约一半。
现在每个中国家庭都被要求最多生一个孩子。希望到2000年人口零增长，出生总数等于死亡总数。
欧洲一些国家的出生人数已经少于死亡人数。专家说，这些国家未来可能面临严重的劳动力短缺。而那些正在工作的人可能面临更高的税收，以帮助支持越来越多的退休人员。
1、世界人口可能达到。
A、 75年60亿
B、 2075年110亿
C、 到本世纪末达到110亿美元
D、 15年6亿
2以下哪项是正确的？
A、 世界的出生率比十年前高。
B、 在过去的十年里人口增长缓慢。
C、 家庭和以前一样大。
D、 所有国家都实行节育。
三。到2000年，中国的出生人数和死亡人数将。
A、 大相径庭
B、 掉了很多东西
C、 平等
D、 变得更大
4；根据这篇文章，中国的人口控制。
A、 不是很成功
B、 应该算是大成功了
C、 远没有成功
D、 完全失败了
5将来，在欧洲工作的人可能要付更高的税，因为。
A、 会有越来越多的孩子出生
B、 退休人员的数量将越来越多
C、 孩子会越来越少
D、 他们会赚很多钱
1题：世界人口可能达到2075年110亿，文章第二行有显示
2题：在过去的十年里人口增长缓慢，文章第四行有显示
3题：到2000年，中国的出生人数和死亡人数将平等，文章倒数第三行有显示
4题：根据这篇文章，中国的人口控制应该算是大成功了，人口没有急剧增长
5题：将来，在欧洲工作的人可能要付更高的税，因为退休人员的数量将越来越多，文章倒数第一段有显示
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第14题：
what is the theme of the story?
A. Saving lives brings people a sense of happiness
B. Fishing provides excitement for children
C. It’s necessary to live in harmony with animals
D. it’s vital to protect the environment
正确答案：A
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第15题：
According to its advocates, who will gain from the privatization of Social Security?
[A] Investors in stock markets. [B] Retired workers in the future.
[C] The future Congresses. [D] Account information brokers.
正确答案：C
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第16题：
Although there are disagreements over the definition of revolution,there is a standard view that revolutions are successful social movements on a much grander（ ）.That is,involving more people and much more social change.Although social movement like the U.S.Civil Rights
Movement may be working to enact some law or produce some reform in the society,revolutions like the Chinese Revolution are aimed at major social change.A.level
B.scale
C.degree
D.range答案：B解析：on a grand scale即“大规模地”，是常用搭配。A.level“水平，水准，级别”；C.degree“等级，程度，温度”，如：by degrees渐渐地；in no degree一点也不；in a degree惊人地；D.range“范围，系列，射程”，如：a country with a wide range of temperature一个气温变化很大的国家；people in the￡3,000/4,000 income range收入在三千至四千镑之间的人。 -
第17题：
Text 1 Last year nearly one miUion Americans filed for bankruptcy.That is far fewer than the number who used to seek bankruptcy protection before the law was made tougher a decade ago.This reform may have done more harm than good.The aim of bankniptcy law is to give people relief from unpay-able debts.Some two-thirds of individual bankruptcies are due to a lost job.Many bankrupts need time to get back on their feet.In the mid-2000s Chapter 7 rules made it easy to wash away debts.That initated credit-card finns,which claimed that spendthrifts abused the system;so in 2005 the law was toughened.The idea was to shift people to a Chapter 13 bankruptcy,where they would have to repay some of the debt.The reform had a big impact.At least at first,Chapter 13 filings rose relative to Chapter 7 ones.And a new paper,from Stefania Albanesi,of the New York Federal Reserve,and Jaromir Nosal,of Columbia University,finds that the reform led to a permanent drop in the bankruptcy rate.However,other recent research suggests that this is not necessarily a good thing.Will Dobbie,of Princeton University,and Jae Song,of the SociaJ Securiiy AdminisLration,look at Chapter 13 bankrupLcies before the reforms of 2005.They link half a million bankruptcy filings to tax records and use a novel technique to analyse them.Because some bankruptcy judges are more merciful than others,people in similar straits may end up wiLh different bankruptcy decisions.This quirk allows some useful comparisons.Messrs Dobbie and Song argue that easier bankruptcy laws have good microeconomic effects.lf a creditor may no longer claim large chunks of a bankrupt's salary,that may increase his incentive to work-and decrease his need to slip out of town,change his job and close down his bank account.On average,those granted bankrupLcy eamed over 6,000 more in the subsequent year than similarly-placed plaintiffs who were rejected.The unlucky ones found it trickier to service their mortgages.Michelle White of the University of California,San Diego and colleagues found that bankruptcy reform caused the default rate on prime mortgages to rise 23%.Making consumer-bankruptcy law more debtor-friendly could hit Americans in other ways.If lenders are exposed to bigger losses,some argue,interest rates for such things as creditcards are bound to rise.But that danger can be overstated.Credit-card comparues may be reluctant to charge rates higher than their competitors'lest they attract more customers-those not put off by high rates because they know that,with luck,they won't have to pay their debts back.
Dobbie and Song believe that easier bankruptcy laws____.A.may stimulate the debtors
B.will do more harm than good
C.may increase bankers'incentive
D.will raise people's average salary答案：A解析：观点题。根据题干定位到第四段前两句：Messrs Dobbie and Song argue that easier bankruptcy laws have good microeconomic effects.If a creditor may no longer claim large chunks of a bankrupt's salary，that may increase his incentive to work...这两句都是答案句的范围。其中，good、lncrease等词都是正向词汇，选项[B]will do more harm than good“弊大于利”，其中do more harm是明显的负面词汇，与原文不符，故可以排除该项。选项[C]may increase bankers'incentive”可能激励银行家”；原文说的是increase his（指a bankrupt“破产者”）in．cenLive：故该项属于偷换概念。选项[D]will raise people's average salary“将会提高人们的平均工资”；该项对应On average，those granted bankruptcy earned over 6，000 more...原文说的是提高a bankrupt“破产者”的收入，而非“people”，people-词夸大范围，也属于偷换概念。选项[A]may stimulate the debtors“可能激励债务人”；该项与原文increase his（the bankrupt's）incentive to work相符；其中，stimulate“激励”=increase incentive“激励”；debtor“债务人”=bankrupt“破产者”；与原文是同义替换关系，故为正确答案。 -
第18题：
In 1992（）ran for the President as an independent candidate.
ABill Clinton
BRoss Perot
CBob Dole
DGeorge Bush
B
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第19题：
单选题Unlike the United States, the president of the Philippines are elected to a six-year term in office.AUnited States, the president of the Philippines are elected
BUnited States, the president of the Philippines is elected
CUnited States, the people of the Philippines elect a president
Dthe president of the United States, the people of the Philippines elect
Ethe president of the United States, the president of the Philippines is elected
正确答案： A解析：
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第20题：
单选题Some people are often surprised by what other people do. According to Berger, that is mainly because _____.Asome people are more emotional than others
Bsome people are not aware of the fact that we will never completely know another person
Csome people are sensitive enough to sense the change of other people’s attitudes
Dsome people choose to keep to themselves
正确答案： B解析：
根据第二、三段的内容可以推出，有一些人总是为他人的所作所为吃惊，这是因为他们没有意识到我们永远不可能完全了解一个人。 -
第21题：
单选题According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT TRUE?AThe national monument in Hawaii was created by President Bush.
BThere is no objection to President Obama's decision.
CPresident Obama made this decision on his own.
DThe establishment of the new monument will lead to new iobs.
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第22题：
单选题Emad Ali Darweesh ______.Aholds that young men fight against Israel invasion.
Bopposes Dr Iyad Sarraj’s view that more young people appeal to violence.
Csenses more young people agree with Hamas.
Dcannot see any hope in the future.
正确答案： B解析：
题目问的是：Emad Ali Darweesh有什么看法？文章倒数第5段中提到“Only a small proportion of them are interested in militant activity.”，即“他们中仅有小部分人对激进分子活动感兴趣”，与Iyaid Sarraj博士认为越来越多的年轻人倾向于暴力的观点相反，故C正确。 -
第23题：
单选题What does the “great difficulty which hinders all the higher types of human effort” mean?AProlonged and fixed routine work in the apprenticeship period.
BThe young employee’s seldom sees the president of the company.
CUniversities’ failure to get young people ready for future work.
DYoung men having to obey orders in the early stage of their work.
正确答案： C解析：
句意推测题。作者在提出“阻碍人们做出更大努力的一个难题”后，分析了漫长的“学徒期”对于年轻人想像力的不良影响，且得出的结论也是如此。故“难题”指的就是这种不良的传统。