n care of everything and I’m sure it’s going to be a wonderful trip.
Q:What’s the woman going to do?
2.M:The new sales manager says he has never met you before.
W:We’ve been introduced about three times.He seems a little forgetful.
Q:What do we learn about the new sales manager?
3.W:I don’t understand why this book for selfstudy doesn’t have answers to the questions.
M:But it does.You can find them at the back of the book.
Q:What does the man say about the selfstudy book?
4.W:We need to let everyone know about the charity concert.But we don’t have much money for advertising.
M:How about using the school radio station?They broadcast free public service announcements.
Q:What does the man suggest they do?
5.M:By the way,Jane,did you talk to the consultant about our new health programme?
W:I contacted his office,but his secretary said he would be out for lunch until two.
Q:What does the woman mean?
6.M:I don’t know whether to ask Joe or Carrol to draw the posters.
W:What difference does it make?They’re both excellent artists.
Q:What does the woman imply about Joe and Carrol?
7.M:Mary is in charge of the art and music section and Charles the sports page.What about you?
W:I’m responsible for the editorials.
Q:What does the woman work?
8.M:I ran into our friend Mark yesterday on the street.And he said he hadn’t heard from you for two months.
W:Yes,I know.But I’ve been too busy to phone him.
Q:What do we learn from the conversation?
9.M:I’m really exhausted,but I don’t want to miss the film “The Consign”at eleven.
W:If I were you,I’d skip it.We both have to get up early tomorrow.And anyway,I’ve heard it isn’t that exciting.
Q:What does the woman mean?
10.M:I thought the librarian said we could check out as many books as we need without library card.
W:That’s right,but not those reference books.
Q:What does the woman mean?
Section B
Passage One
The piano and violin are girls’ instruments.Drums and trumpets are for boys.According to psychologists Susan O’neil and Michael Bottome,children have very clear ideas about which musical instruments they should play.They found that despite the best efforts of teachers,these ideas have changed very little over the past decade.They interviewed 153 children,aged between 9 and 11,from schools in northwest England.They asked them to identify four musical instruments and then to say which they would like to play most and which they would least like to play.They also asked the children for their views on whether boys or girls should not play any of the four instruments.The piano and violin were both ranked more favorably by girls than by boys.While boys prefer the drums and trumpets.There was b
road agreement between boys and girls on which instruments each sex should play and the reasons varied.And while almost half of all boys said they avoid certain instruments because they were too difficult to play.Only 15 percent of girls gave that as a reason.Earlier studies indicated that very young school children aged between 5 and 7,showed no bias in choosing musical instruments.But their tastes become more clear between the ages of 8 and 10.One survey of 78 teachers suggested that after that age,both boys and girls begin to restrict themselves to the socalled male or female instruments.
11.Why did Susan and Michael interview children aged between 9 and 11?
12.Why do many of the boys avoid certain instruments?
13.Which group of children have a bias when choosing musical instruments?
Passage Two
In the 1970’s the famous Brazilian football player Pele retired from the National Team of Brazil and became a professional player for a team in New York.Football or soccer wasn’t very popular in the United States at that time.Few North Americans knew anything about this fast moving sport.There was no money to pay professional players and there was little interest in football in high schools and colleges.When Pele and other international stars began playing in various US cities,people saw how interesting the game was and began to go to the matches.It is n
ow common for important games to have 50 to 60 thousand fans.Support from the fans is important to football.The fans cheer enthusiastically for their favorite players and teams,who respond by playing better than before.In most World Cups the home team,or the team from the host country,usually plays better than most people expect.In 1966,1974 and 1978, the home teams of England,West Germany and Argentina all won the World Cup.The World Cup is called that because teams from every continent have played in it.However,since the Cup began,all of the winning
teams have been from Europe or South America.Teams from Asia or Africa always do well,but they haven’t yet won.Mexico played surprisingly well in the 1970 Cup which it hosted,but it wasn’t among the four final teams.
14.Why wasn’t football a popular sport in the US in the 1970’s?
15.When does a football team have the best chance to win the World Cup?
16.How did Mexico do in the 1970 World Cup?
Passage Three
The world’s smartest adolescence in mathematics and science are in Singapore according to a global survey of educational achievement.In the third international mathematics and science study,13year olds from Singapore achieved the best scores in standardized tests of maths and science that were ministered to 287,896 students in 41 countries in 1994 and 1995.The survey suggests that science and maths education is especially strong in the fareast.While well behind those top scores,students from Australia earned higher marks in maths than their counterpa
rts in England,who in turn did better than American students.The study collected information on the students’ teachers and homes.Not surprisingly,the highest scoring students had welleducated parents or came from homes containing study aids such as computers,dictionaries or even such elementary facilities as desks.The study shows that boys generally did better than girls in science,but there was little difference between them in maths.Boys scored better than girls in physics and chemistry.There were no sex differences in the life and environmental sciences.In addition to be intested,students in the project were asked how proficient they thought they were in maths and science.Students in some countries such as Columbia and Kuwait had an overly optimistic view of their skills.
Meanwhile some of the best students from Japan and Korea,for example,were needlessly pessimistic, even though they did far better in maths than almost all other students.
17.Of the four groups of students,who scored the lowest in maths according to th
e survey?
18.What kind of students are most likely to become top scorers?
19.In what way do Columbia students differ from Japanese students?
20.In which subject did boys score higher than girls?
1.D 2.B 3.D 4.C 5.B 6.A 7.C 8.C 9.D 10.C
11.D 12.A 13.B 14.C 15.B 16.A 17.A 18.D 19.C 20.A
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension
Passage One
【短文大意】这是一篇说明文。短文论述了二十世纪二三十年代美国农业所面临的困境及政府所采取的种种措施，以帮助农业摆脱困境。第一段论述了美国农业面临的困境、产生困境的原因及其对农民所造成的灾难性后果。第二段谈到政府为振兴农业所采取的措施。第三段说的是30年代罗斯福总统执政后采取的通过立法手段恢复农业经济的两个阶段的措施。
21B 事实判断题。问题：引起美国的农产品需求量下降的原因是什么?文章的第一段第一句指出：由于欧洲国家的经济在第一次世界大战后开始复苏，所以他们减少了农产品的进口，致使对美国的农产品需求量下降。句中“as”即是这一因果关系的关键词。A)有一定的迷惑性，它只是加重这一现象的原因而并非所直接导致。C)，D)则明显与短文内容相悖。正确答案为B）。
22C 事实判断题。问题：在20年代美国政府在农业领域首要关注的是什么?根据题意，命题点在第二段：政府采取手段直接干预农业供需矛盾，建立第一个全国性的委员会，既为农民提供更大的经济稳定性，又预防农民破产。A)、D)项短文未提及；B)项所指的是第三段的内容。因此C)是正确答案。
23A 事实判断题。问题：美国调整农业的法案是为了鼓励农民什么?第三段：继任总统所采取的具体措施，如：通过一项法案，授予农业部长一定权力，他可与农民订立自愿协议书，农民使土地休耕而政府给他们进行补偿，以防止农民破产。B)，C)项均属政府行为，而非鼓励农民自己去做的事。D)项与文章内容有出入。
24D 事实判断题。问题：美国高等法院反对农业法案是因为他们认为法案怎么样?根据题意，命题点在第三段第五句：该法案被宣布违宪是因为用对公众征收的税去支付给一个特殊的群体。另外文章倒数第二句也从另一角度论证答案D)的合理性。该法案以保护水土的名义被通过，因为水土保护符合全民的利益，并非以牺牲其他公民的利益为代价来维护农民的利益。A)不属本题要点范围。B)，C)显然不合理。
25B 要点归纳题。问题：新通过的法案的立法目的是什么?根据题意，命题点在文章的第三段。虽然美国最高法院拒绝了第一个法案，但却通过了第二个法案。其理由是通过使土地休耕和防洪治水的措施来达到保护水土的目的。说明罗斯福政府通过新法案的目的在于保留土壤，这是符合国家的长远利益的。因此答案选B）。
Passage Two
【短文大意】这是一篇科普性说明文，主要阐述了关于人工智能研究所遇到的问题和困难、发展方向及其根源。第一段：通过五十年代人工智能先驱者的预言与当今现实脱节这一事实指出人工智能研究所面临的问题。第二段：论及这一问题的症结：“try to separate the most abstract levels of thought and duplicate them with logical programs”。接着提出崭新的人工智能研究设想：把人工智能研究与自然智能的进化、生物细胞蛋白质、人脑的神经系统的研究结合起来。第三段：论述了生物理学家对自己这方面研究的评论、发现、启发
和设想。最后一段：作者对这一全新的人工智能研究开发方法的评论和总结。
26D 事实判断题。问题：作者说今后最先进的计算机能够做什么。命题点在第一段。该段第二句指出尽管计算机的功能已经很强大，但它们仍然不能完成像早期预言者预言的那样进行像人类一样的行为，更不用说能像人类一样进行沟通这样复杂的事情。最先进的计算机想辨认一件物体的形状都是困难，而这对于一个十个月的孩子来说却只不过是基本的能力。选项A）中“are capable of reliably recognizing…”与短文中“struggle to reliably recognize…”(努力，竭力，试图)不一致。B）项不对，第二句中明确指出：“尽管计算机的功能已经很强大，但它们仍然不能完成像早期预言者预言的那样进行像人类一样的行为”。C)项不对是因为：其一，在效能上(performance)，当今电脑与50年代的电脑相差甚大；其二，本文探讨的是人工智能，而非电脑的一般效能。选择答案时应紧扣短文内容，故正确答案只能是D)。
27B 判断推论题：问题：人工智能研究中的新方向起源于什么?第二段指出在AI研究中所犯的错误在于：一直试图努力分开最高最抽象色思维水平，如语言和数学，并想用逻辑的一步一步的程序来复制它。而新的工人智能研究方向则是更多地关注于自然智能与人工智能之间的迂回曲折的关系。故正确答案非B）莫属。
28C 要点推论题。问题：Conrad和他的人工智能研究人员正在努力做什么?命题点在第三段。根据Conrad对自己研究的评述“say”，研究中的发现“examples”，假设“believe”，与断言“claim”：“Imitating the brain’s neural network is a huge step in the right direction”，可归纳推断出他们是在自然智能如何发展这一方面的研究中做出了巨大的努力，向着正确的方向迈出了一大步，故答案为C)。
29B 作者的观点、态度推论题。文章最后一段是作者对人工智能研究新方向的总结，其中隐含着作者的观点。另外，文章第二段最后一句中“promising”、“surely”、第三段第一句中“a huge step in the right direction”都流露出了作者对人工智能研究运动的肯定。选项A中的“will soon die out”、C)项中的“like a game rather than”及D项中“nobody is sure”均含否定意义，与短文内容相抵，故正确答案为B)。
30A 短语辨析题。问题：与the only game in town意义最相近的选项是哪个?短语中关键词：game有多种词义：游戏，方法规则，策略，计谋，方针，行动步骤等。阅读中应依据上下文语境做出正确理解。B)项重点在获奖；C)项侧重于研究领域范围；D)项只不过是与短语意义相同的不同表达方式罢了。本文主要讨论研究方法和途径，故A）项正确，命题点在第三段的最后一句：The best way to build an artificially int
elligent device…。
Passage Three
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