For Americans, time is money. They say, “you only get so much time in this life;
you’d better use it wisely.” The (36) ________ will not be better than the past or present,
as American are (37) ________ to see things, unless people use their time for constructive
activity. Thus Americans (38) ________ a “well-organized” person, one who has a written
list of thins to do and a (39) ________ for doing them. The ideal person is punctual and
is (40) ________ of other people’s time. They do not (41) ________ people’s time with
conversation or other activity that has no (42) ________ beneficial outcome.
The American attitude toward time is not (43) ________ shared by others, especially
non-Europeans. They are more likely to regard time as (44)
________________________________. One of the more difficult things many students
must adjust to in the states is the notion that time must be saved whenever possible and
used wisely every day.
In the contest (45) ________________________________, McDonald’s, KFC, and
other fast food establishments are successful in a country where many people want to
spend the least amount of time preparing and eating meals. As McDonald’s restaurants
(46) ________________________________, bringing not just hamburgers but an
emphasis on speed, efficiency, and shiny cleanliness.
Part IV Reading comprehension (reading in depth) (25 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select
one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank
following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making
your choices. Each choice in bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the
corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line
through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more
than once.
Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
El Nino is name given to the mysterious and often unpredictable change in the
climate of the world. This strange __47__ happens every five to eight years. It starts in
the Pacific Ocean and is thought to be caused by a failure in the trade winds (信风),
which affects the ocean currents driven by these winds. As the trade winds lessen in
__48__, the ocean temperatures rise, causing the Peru current flowing in from the east to
warm up by as much as 5℃.
The warming of the ocean has far-reaching effects. The hot, humid (潮湿的) air over
the ocean causes severe __49__ thunderstorms. The rainfall is increased across South
America. __50__ floods to Peru. In the West pacific, there are droughts affecting
Australia and Indonesia. So while some parts of the world prepare for heavy rains and
floods, other parts face drought, poor crops and __51__.
El Nino usually lasts for about 18 months. The 1982-83 El Nino brought the most
__52__ weather in modern history. Its effect was worldwide and it left more than 2,000
people dead and caused over eight billion pounds __53__ of damage. The 1990 El Nino
lasted until June 1995. Scientists __54__ this to be the longest El Nino for 2,000 years.
Nowadays, weather experts are able to forecast when an El Nino will __55__, but
they are still not __56__ sure what leads to it or what affects how strong it will be.
注意:此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
A) estimate
I) completely
B) strength
J) destructive
C) deliberately
K) starvation
D) notify
L) bringing
E) tropical
M) exhaustion
F) phenomenon
N) worth
G) stable
O) strike
H) attraction
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Section B
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some
questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices
marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark
the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the
centre.
Passage One
Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
Communications technologies are far from equal when it comes to conveying the
truth. The first study to compare honesty across a range of communication media has
fund that people are twice as likely to tell lies in phone conversations as they are in emails.
The fact that emails are automatically recorded—and can come back to haunt (困扰)
you—appears to be the key to the finding.
Jeff Hancock of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, asked 30 students to keep
a communications diary for a week. In it they noted the number of conversations or email
exchanges they had lasting more than 10 minutes, and confessed to how many lies they
told. Hancock then worked out the number of lies per conversation for each medium. He
found that lies made up 14 per cent of emails, 21 per cent of instant messages, 27 per
cent of face-to-face interactions and an astonishing 37 per cent of phone calls.
His results to be presented at the conference on human-computer interaction in
Vienna, Austria, in April, have surprised psychologists. Some expected emailers to be the
biggest liars, reasoning that because deception makes people uncomfortable, the
detachment (非直接接触) of emailing would make it easier to lie. Others expected people
to lie more in face-to-face exchanges because we are most practised at that form of
communication.
But Hancock says it is also crucial whether a conversation is being recorded and
could be reread, and whether it occurs in real time. People appear to be afraid to lie when
they know the communication could later be used to hold them to account, he says. This
is why fewer lies appear in email than on the phone.
People are also more likely to lie in real time—in a instant message or phone call,
say—than if they have time to think of a response, says Hancock. He found many lies are
spontaneous (脱口而出的) responses to an unexpected demand, such as: “Do you like
my dress?”
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