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[单选题]<p><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><strong>Part II  Vocabulary and Structure</strong></span></p><p><strong>Directions: For each of the following items,there are four choices marked A),B),C),D).Decide which is the best answer and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.</strong></p><p>21. We must（    ）that the experiment is controlled as rigidly as possible.</p>

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[单选题]<p>22.（    ）the English examination I would have gone to the concert last night.</p>

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[单选题]<p>23.I need to move to a larger apartment. Do you know of any（    ）ones in this neighborhood?</p>

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[单选题]<p>24. You（    ）John in the street this morning，He’s been dead for ages.</p>

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[单选题]<p>25.You can do it if you want to, but in my opinion it’s not worth the（    ）it involves.</p>

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[单选题]<p>26. If they hadn't spend all the money on the stocks, their life（    ）so miserable at the moment.</p>

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[单选题]<p>27. People in that district（    ）use oil lamps, for there is no gas or electricity.</p>

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[单选题]<p>28.My brother likes eating very much but he isn’t very（    ）about the food he eats.</p>

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[单选题]<p>29.His anger was（    ）that he stood there speechless.</p>

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[单选题]<p>30. That（    ）me of the days I spent in the countryside.</p>

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[单选题]<p>31.Students with financial problems are troubled by high tuition（    ）.</p>

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[单选题]<p>32.The dish（    ）terrible! I don't like it at all.</p>

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[单选题]<p>33.（    ）of the three sisters you choose to marry, you will have a good wife.</p>

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[单选题]<p>34. At this time next week, we（    ）the matter with our friends</p>

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[单选题]<p>35.Don’t touch that wire, it’s（    ）.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></p>

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[单选题]<p>36.He was（    ）by the police with having murdered his wife.</p>

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[单选题]<p>37. She said that she would be here at seven o’clock. But she didn’t（    ）until eight.</p>

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[单选题]<p>38. Let's go on a picnic this weekend,（    ）?</p>

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[单选题]<p>39. I（    ）until he told me to.</p>

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[单选题]<p>40.He likes novels,（    ）I like poetry.</p>

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[单选题]<p>41.Only years later（    ）the truth about the matter.</p>

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[单选题]<p>42.At the time of economic crisis, he could only earn a（    ）of $ 2,000 per month.</p>

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[单选题]<p>43. John's never been to New York（    ）?</p>

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[单选题]<p>44.Please（    ）your overcoat from the scat so that I can sit down.</p>

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[单选题]<p>45.I think you'd better hold you position and don't（    ）to their demands.</p>

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[单选题]<p>46.This box is（    ）that one.</p>

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[单选题]<p>47.I think it was high time they（    ）to take you more seriously.</p>

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[单选题]<p>48.He is totally（    ）to other people’s attitudes.</p>

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[单选题]<p>49.He was caught（    ）in the examination.</p>

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[单选题]<p>50.Mark plays（    ）violin, while his brother prefers to play（    ） baseball.</p>

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[单选题]<p><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><strong>Part III Reading Comprehension</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><strong>Section A</strong></span></p><p><strong>Directions: There are three passages in this part. For each of them are four choices marked A,B,C and D.Choose the one that you think is the best answer.Mark your answer on the Answer Sheet.</strong></p><p><strong>Passage One</strong></p><p>The factors that add up to a happy life for most people are not what we typically hear about. <strong>Things like earning a master’s degree don’t make people happy overan extended period of time.</strong>Rather, the key to happiness, and the difference between happy and unhappy Americans, is a life that reflects values and practices like, hard work, marriage, charity, and freedom.</p><p><strong>Work</strong></p><p>When more than 1,000 people across the country were asked in 2002, "If you were to get enough money to live comfortably for the rest of your life, would you stop working?" fewer than a third of the Americans answered yes.</p><p>Contrary to widely held opinion, most Americans like or even love their work. In 2002 an amazing 89 percent of workers said they were very satisfied or somewhat satisfied with their jobs. This isn't true just for those with high-paying, highly skilled jobs but for all workers across the country. And the percentage is almost exactly the same among those with and without college</p><p>degrees and among those working for private companies, nonprofit organizations, and the government.</p><p>For most Americans, job satisfaction is nearly equivalent to life satisfaction. Among those people who say they are very happy in their lives, 95 percent are also satisfied with their jobs. Furthermore, job satisfaction would seem to be causing overall happiness, not the other way around.</p><p><strong>Marriage & Family</strong></p><p>In 2004, 42 percent of married Americans said they were very happy. Just 23 percent of never-married people said this. Overall, married people were six times more likely lo say that they were very happy than to report that they were not too happy. And generally speaking, married women say they're happy more often than married men.</p><p>Marriage isn’t just associated with happiness --it brings happiness, at least for a lot of us. One 2003 study that followed 24,000 people for more than a decade documented a significant increase in happiness after people married. For some, the happiness increase wore off in a few years, and they ended up back at their premarriage happiness levels. But for others, it lasted as long as a lifetime.</p><p>What about having kids? While children, on their own, don't appear to raise the happiness level (they actually tend to slightly lower the happiness of a marriage), studies suggest that children arc almost always part of an overall lifestyle of happiness, which is likely to include such things as marriage and religion.</p><p><strong>Charity</strong></p><p>We've all heard that money doesn't buy happiness, and that’s certainly true. But there is one way to get it: Give money away.</p><p>The evidence is clear that gifts to charitable organizations and other worthy causes bring substantial life satisfaction to the givers. If you want $50 in authentic happiness today Just donate it to a favorite charity.</p><p>People who give money to charity are 43 percent more likely than non-givers to say they're very happy. Volunteers are 42 percent more likely to be very happy than non-volunteers. It doesn’t matter whether the gifts of money go to churches or concerts; religious giving and unreligious giving leave people equally happy, and far happier than people who don't give. Even donating blood, an especially personal kind of giving, improves our attitude. Fundamentally, the more people give, the happier they get.</p><p><strong>Freedom</strong></p><p>In fact, freedom and happiness are intimately related: People who consider themselves free are a lot happier than those who don't. In 2000 the General Social Survey revealed that people who personally feel "completely free" or "very free”  were twice as likely as those who don't to say they’re very happy about their lives.</p><p>Not all types of freedom are the same in terms of happiness, however. Researchers have shown that economic freedom brings happiness, as does political and religious freedom. On the other hand, moral freedom----a lack of constraints on behavior ----does not. People who feel they have unlimited moral choices in their lives when it comes to matters of sex or drugs, for example, tend to be unhappier than those who do not feel they have so many choices in life.</p><p><strong>Lessons for America</strong></p><p>    The data tell us that what matters most for happiness is not having a lot of things but having healthy values. Without these values，our jobs and our economy will bring us joyless riches. The facts can help remind us of what we should be paying attention to, as individuals and as families, if we want to be happy. Our happiness is simply too important to us--and to America--to do anything less.</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>51.What will probably bring about overall happiness?</p>

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[单选题]<p>52.Generally, men in marriage（    ）than women in marriage.</p>

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[单选题]<p>53.According to the author, in what way can money bring happiness?</p>

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[单选题]<p>54.What rarely brings in happiness?</p>

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[单选题]<p><strong>Passage Two</strong></p><p>Reading is thought to be a kind of conversation between the reader and the text. The reader puts questions, as it were, to the text and gels answers. In the light of these he puts further questions, and so on.</p><p>For most of the time this “conversation”goes on below the level of consciousness.</p><p>At times, however, we become aware of it. This is usually when we arc running into difficulties, when mismatch is occurring between expectations and meaning. When successful matching is being experienced, our questioning of the text continues at the unconscious level.</p><p>Different people converse with the text differently. Some stay very close to the words on the page, others take off imaginatively from the words, interpreting, criticizing, analyzing and examining. The former represents a kind of comprehension which is written in the text. The latter represents higher levels of comprehension. The balance between these is important, especially for advanced readers.</p><p><strong>There is another conversation which from our point of view is equally important, and that is to do not with what is read but with how it is read.</strong> We call this a “process”conversation as opposed to a “content” conversation. It is concerned not with meaning but with the strategies we employ in reading. If we are an advanced reader our ability to hold a process conversation with a text is usually pretty well developed. Not so our ability to hold a content conversation. It is precisely this kind of conversation that is of importance when we are seeking to develop our reading to meet the new demands being placed upon us by studying at a higher level.</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>55.According to the author, when will our reading become conscious?</p>

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[单选题]<p>56.At a lower level of comprehension, readers tend to（    ）.</p>

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[单选题]<p>57.A “process” conversation has to do with（    ）.</p>

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[单选题]<p>58.According to the passage, it is of great importance for readers at a higher level to maintain a balance between（    ）.</p>

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[单选题]<p><strong>Passage Three</strong></p><p>The poverty line is the lowest income that people need for an acceptable standard of living. People with income below the poverty line are considered poor. Economists study the causes of poverty in order to find solutions to the problem.</p><p>About ten percent of the people in the United States are below the poverty line. However, if these people had stable jobs, they could have an acceptable standard of living. Economists suggest several reasons why poor people do not have jobs.</p><p>For one thing, more than half of the people in the United States are not qualified to work. Over 40 percent of the poor people are children. By law, children less than 16 years old cannot work in many industries. And a large number of poor people are old. Many companies do not hire people over 65 years old.</p><p>Some poor adults do not look for jobs for a variety of personal reasons: they are sick, they have family problems, or they do not believe that they can find a job. Other poor people look for a job but cannot find one. Many poor adults never went to high school. Therefore, when they look for jobs, they have few skills that they can offer.</p><p>At the present time, the government thinks it can reduce poverty in the country in the following ways.</p><p>First, if the national economy grows, companies hire more workers. Some of the poor may find a job, and they will no longer be below the poverty line.</p><p>Second, if the government spends money on social programs, education and training for the poor people, the poor will have the skill to offer. Then it is more likely that they can find jobs.</p><p>Finally, if the government distributes society's income differently, it raises some poor people above the poverty line. The government collects taxes from the non-poor and gives money to the poor. These payments to the poor are called welfare.</p><p>Some economists are looking for better solutions to the poverty problem. However, at the present time, many people still depend on welfare to live a poor life.</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>59.The author's main purpose to write this article is（    ）.</p>

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[单选题]<p>60.How many people are considered poor in the United States?</p>

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[单选题]<p>61.Most of the American poor people are not qualified for employment because（    ）.</p>

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[单选题]<p>62.What can we infer from the passage?</p>