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Short Answer QuestionsDirections: In this part there is a short passage with five questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully. The answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words.1Tea is another popular drink. Whether it is black tea, or some kind of social tea, tea is drunk by millions of people each day. Tea drinking first began in China. The plants were discovered in central China in the province of Sichuan, and as tea drinking became fashionable, large areas of Sichuan were used for growing tea. Later, tea drinking spread to India and Japan as Chinese culture began to interact with Indian and Japanese culture. There appears to be direst connection between the spread of Buddhism and the spread of tea drinking. Buddhist monks were tea drinkers. As Buddhism spread, the people in India and Japan took up tea drinking, along with other Buddhist practices.Questions:1. According to the speaker, how many people drink tea every day?2. In which country did tea drinking begin?3. Where were the tea plants first discovered in China?4. When did tea drinking spread to India and Japan?5. What made tea drinking popular in India and Japan?Answers(答案)1. It is drunk by millions of people.2. Tea drinking began in China.3. They were first discovered in central Sichuan.4. When Chinese culture began to interact with theirs.5. The Buddhism spread.2Money is a big problem. Bill does not earn a very good salary, and their income is hardly enough for three people to live on, so they have to be very careful about what they spend. They can not really afford to keep the car, and will have to get rid of it soon, but they have decided to put off selling it until Sally id old enough to go to school by bus. They are just not able to save money, and they are extremely worried about their old age. Sally wants to be a teacher when she grows up, but Ann and Bill hope she will do something where she can earn enough money to live a better life than her parents.Questions:1. How many people does the author mention in the passage?2. What is the relationship between Ann and Bill?3. How does Sally go to school?4. What will Sally want to be in the future?5. Does Bill earn a lot of money?答案：1. The author mentions three people.2. They are wife and husband.3. Sally goes to school by car.4. She wants to be a teacher.5. No.3I did not use to be a very tidy person, but my mother was. So she was always telling me to pick thing up and put them away, and do this and do that. My father was not like that at all. He let me do what I wanted. When he was free, he would take us out for walks, picnics and going for rides ion Sunday afternoons. Every Friday, when he came home from work, he bought pleasure to each of us. My mother used to say he was spoiling us, but why not? It did not do us any harm.1. What kind of person was my mother?2. Who let me do what I wanted?3. What did my father use to do when I was free?4. What did my father bring home on Fridays?5. Which way was thought better, the mother‘s or the father‘s?答案：1. My mother was a very tidy person.2. My father let me do what I wanted.3. He used to take us out for walks, picnics or rides.4. He bought home pleasure to each of us.5. The father‘s way was thought better.4I studied economics at university, and then I was lucky because I got a job very quickly as an accountant in a local department store. It was not exactly what I wanted, but you know it was a first job. I stayed there for four years altogether. After three years I was promoted to accounts manager, and I stayed in that job for a year, but then I really got bored, so I decided to leave and I applied for other jobs in the area. But I had no luck getting a second job at all, and I was very short of money, so in the end I had to get a job working as a waitress in a restaurant.1. Where did the girl get the first job?2. How long had the girl kept the first job?3. Why did the girl leave the position?4. Where did the girl want to get a second job?5. What was the second job the girl had to get?答案：1. She got the first job in a local department store.2. She had kept the job for 4 years.3. Because she thought that the job was very boring.4. She wanted to gat the second job in the area.5. The second job the girl had to get was a waitress in a restaurant.5Professor Carson lived alone and was very absent-minded. He often arrived at the college to give a lecture and find he had forgotten to bring his teaching notes and did not know what to say. Or he would lose his glasses and be unable to see the blackboard or his students. If he did not forget his notes and could give lectures, he would often forget the time and keep on talking for hours because he had left his watch at home. But the most interesting thing about him was his appearance. His coat was rarely buttoned, as most of the buttons were missing. He must have lost his comb as well because his hair was always standing on end when he took off his old hat. His trousers were held up by an old tie instead of a belt.1. What happened when Professor Carson had forgotten to bring his teaching notes?2. Why was he unable to see the blackboard or his students sometimes?3. What would Professor Carson do when he had no watch?4. Why did Professor Carson rarely button his coat?5. What was used to hold up his trousers?答案：1. He would be unable to give a lecture.2. Because he had lost his glasses.3. He would keep on talking for hours.4. Because most of the buttons were missing.5. His trousers were held up by an old tie (instead of a belt).6Sam Taylor lives in London. He is married and has two small children. He teaches in a secondary school. He gets up at half past six in the morning and has breakfast at seven o‘clock. He starts work at eight o‘clock and leaves work at four o‘clock. He likes his job because he likes teaching children. But he does not teach every day. On Tuesdays and Thursdays he stays at home with his children. He likes reading and watching television. At weekends he goes shopping and visits his friends.1. Where does Sam live?2. What is he?3. When does he get up?4. Why does he like his job?5. What does he do at weekends?答案：1. He lives in London.2. He is a teacher.3. He gets up at half past six.4. Because he likes teaching children.5. At weekends he goes shopping and visits his friends.7The best—almost the only—place to hear the original jazz is in a small building in the center of one of the city. There, seven different bands, made up mostly of very old men, play the old music for four-and-a-half hours each evening. Some of the people in the audience are tourists, bus most are serious music lovers who are willing to spend time sitting on wooden chairs and benches, and even on the floor. The musicians play the music they want to play, but people in the audience can make special requests if they are willing to pay for them. Traditional songs cost one dollar and all others cost two—except the most traditional song of all, ―The Saints‖. The musicians are so tired of playing it that it costs five dollars.1. Why do people go to the small building?2. How many hours do the musicians play each evening?3. What costs one dollar?4. What costs five dollars?5. Why do the musicians want five dollars for playing ―The Saints‖?答案：1. People go to the small building to listen to the best, original jazz.2. Each evening, the musicians play four and a half hours.3. A traditional song costs one dollar.4. The most traditional song (The Saints) costs five dollars.5. Because they are tired of playing it.8The US bought Alaska from Russia about 100 years ago. Alaska is more than twice as big as Texas. It has many different kinds of weather. In some areas the temperature can go as low as 57℃below zero. It can also go as high as 38℃above zero. Alaska has a longer coastline than all the other states together. The there is still owned by the US government, not by people or businesses.Alaska is the biggest state, but it has the fewest people. Towns are far apart. Long roads cost a lot to build in such wild country. So there are not very many roads. Many people use planes to travel in the state. Others travel in boats along the coast. Rivers freeze in winter, but boats travel on them when summer comes.1. In which century did the US buy Alaska from Russia?The US bought it from____________________________________________________________.2. Which state is Alaska compared with in size?______________________________________________________________________________.3. What can we learn about the location of Alaska from the first paragraph?It must be located_______________________________________________________________.4. What is the problem to build long roads in Alaska?To build long roads there__________________________________________________________.5. What are the major means of transportation in Alaska?The means of transportation there are__________________________________________答案：1. in the nineteenth century2. Texas3. at the seaside, the longest coastline in the US4. would coast a lot5. planes and boats9Do you ever wonder whether we can foresee(预见) the future? I once read a story which almost made me think that at least some people can foresee the future.A man who lived on his own in a small flat was sitting reading one evening when he suddenly smelled smoke coming off somewhere in the flat. He immediately got up and went to the kitchen when he thought he must have left something on the gas. There was certainly a smell of smoke, but there was nothing burning. Then he got in the hall and bathroom, but he still could not find anything burning. When he went outside the flat, there was no smell of burning, so, thinking it must be his imagination, he went back to his reading.A month later, he returned from a business trip to find firemen putting out fire in his flat. They told him that some electric wires had short-circuited(短路) and caused the fire and that he should have had the flat rewired(重装电线) a long time ago. So was it simply that the wire had started burning slowly a month before when he smelled smoke, or had he in fact ‖seen into the future‖?1. What happened to the man one evening?He ____________________________ in the flat while reading.2. Why did he go to the kitchen?Because he thought he ________________________________.3. What did he think when he failed to find anything burning?He thought that it _____________________________________.4. What is the cause of the fire?The fire was caused by _________________________________.5. What does the author intend to show in the passage?The author intends to show that_________________________________.答案：1. smelled smoke coming off somewhere2. must have left something on the gas3. must be his imagination4.short-circuiting5. at least some people can foresee the future10With the help of a computer, Paul feeds his herd of seventy cows. Each of Paul‘s cows wears an electronic device called transponder(应答器) on chain around her neck. Paul programs into the computer how many pounds of grain each cow needs. In the feeding stall(厩), an identifier can tell from the transponder which cow is approaching the feeder. It then releases the exact amount of grain that cow is approaching the feeder. It then release the exact amount of grain that cow issupposed to have.Once a day, the computer gives Paul a printout that tells him how much feed each cow ate. This is important to know, because if a cow is getting sick, she doesn‘t eat much. Then Paul makes sure she gets the treatment she needs.1. How does Paul feed his cows?________________________________________________________________________2. What‘s the function of the transponder?________________________________________________________________________3. What does a printout help Paul to know?________________________________________________________________________4. If a cow eats, what has happened to it?________________________________________________________________________5. What can we infer from this passage?答案：1. He feeds his cows with the help of a computer.2. It can tell how much feed a cow needs.3. How much a cow eats.4. It gets sick.5. Computers can help farmers work more efficiently.11One of the difficulties with recognizing an alcohol problem is that moderate drinking is acceptable social behavior. More than 60 percent of American women and nearly 80 percent of American men are drinkers. It‘s easy to hide the beginning of a drinking problem from your friends and from yourself.American attitudes about alcohol are complicated and confusing. Full-color magazine ads show rich, beautiful, and happy people socializing over martins, champagne, or whatever the ad is promoting. It‘s supposed to be manly, as well.Some people think of alcohol as a magic formula. It cheers you up and it calms you down. It helps you get to sleep; it‘s an ―eye opener‖; and it gives you the courage to face the boss. It makes problems disappear, and in social situations it makes you feel you‘re the world‘s most fascinating conversationalist.1. Why is it difficult to cope with alcohol problems?_________________________________________________________________________ 2. In what way is alcohol advertised according to the passage?________________________________________________________________________3. What do Americans think of male drinkers?________________________________________________________________________4. What could you infer from the last sentence?________________________________________________________________________5. What conclusion can we draw from the passage?答案：1. Because drinking is acceptable social; behavior.2. In full-color magazines.3. They look manly.4. Alcohol can make some people very talkative.5. It is not easy to solve alcohol problems in America.12Meteor-psychologists are also studying other factors. They are trying to determine how and how much temperature changes and air pressure changes can affect people. Temperature change is relatively easy to understand. When temperatures go up or down, people‘s attitude and behavior change. In general, people tend to feel more hopeful when winter is over and temperatures being to rise, and slightly sad as winter comes.Air pressure also affects people. About one or two days before a storm, the air pressure falls. When this occurs, people are more likely to feel uncomfortable and a little depressed. During these times of discomfort, people are less likely to be able to concentrate. People are less careful and less alert. As a consequence, accidents are more likely to occur. In several factories that have been studied, it appears that more injuries and accidents have happened when the air pressure was low. Some factory managers are now trying to develop work systems which will allow employees to take a day off or change to less dangerous work actives on days when there is a greater chance to less dangerous work actives on days when there is a greater chance that accidents will occur because of the air pressure.1. Why are meteor-psychologists interested in studying weather factors?They want to know_____________________________________________________________.2. How do people feel about the coming of spring?They feel____________________________________________________________________.3. What will happen to man if the air pressure falls?He__________________________________________________________________________.4. When are accidents more likely to take place?They are_____________________________________________________________________.5. Why do some factory managers develop some new work system?They want to_________________________________________________________________. 答案：1. how weather factors affect people2. hopeful3. feels uncomfortable and a little dressed4. more likely to occur when the air pressure is low5. avoid chance when accidents are likely to occur13Hobbies are things people like to do in their spare time. When they are free, people raise pets, build model ships, weave baskets, or carve soap figures. They watch birds, hunt animals, climb mountains, raise flowers, fish, ski, skate, and swim. They also paint pictures, attend concerts and plays, and perform on musical instruments. They collect everything from books to butterflies, andfrom stones to stamps.People take up hobbies because these actives offer enjoyment, friendship, knowledge and relaxation. Sometimes they yield financial profits. Hobbies help people relax after periods of hard work, and provide a balance between work and play. Hobbies also offer interesting activities for people who have retired. Anyone, rich or poor, old or young, sick or well, can follow a satisfying hobby, regardless of his age, position, or income.Hobbies can help a person‘s mental and physical health. Doctors have found that hobbies are valuable in helping patients recover from physical or mental illness. Hobbies give patients something to do and provide interests that keep them from thinking about themselves. Many hospitals treat patients by having them take up interesting hobbies or pastimes.1. What are hobbies?2. Tom is a gardener in our school. Does he raise flowers as a hobby?3. Why do people take up hobbies?4. What kinds of people can have a hobby?5. In what way can hobbies help patients?答案：1. Hobbies are things that people like to do in their spare time.2. No, he doesn‘t.3. Because these activities offer enjoyment, friendship, knowledge and relaxation.4. Anyone can.5. Hobbies give them something to do and provide interests to keep them from thinking themselves.14When you first arrive at a large party, the host or hostess may introduce you to tow or three people nearby, but if others are still arriving, he or she may then return to greet new comers, expecting you to go on by yourself, moving from group to group. If this feels too uncomfortable and frightening, it is quite all right to say to someone, ―I am a stranger here and know no one. Could you introduce me to some of the people?‖ Almost anyone will feel good that you turn to him for help and will gladly introduce you and make you feel easy.1. What may the host or hostess do to you at a big party?2. Why do they leave you to go by yourself?3. What will you do when you feel uncomfortable?4. How could other people feel when you turn to him?5. What will they do?答案：1. The host and hostess may introduce you to two or three people.2. Because they have to greet new comers.3. To ask someone to introduce you to some of the people.4. They would feel glad.5. They will introduce you and make you feel easy.15What‘s the best way to carry money safely while you‘re traveling? There are three possibilities-personal checks from your country, travelers check and cards. Some American banks accept foreign checks but the problem is that those banks dealing with foreigners are not many.It may be more convenient to carry travelers checks in dollars. If your checks aren‘t in dollars, it may take you a long time to find a bank that will change them. You can use travelers checks almost anywhere-in restaurants, stores or ticket offices-without having to go to a bank.Americans would say the best way to carry money is to have a major credit card like Visa, Master Card or American Express. Because they are widely accepted in the US, it is easy to use them to pay for hotels, transportation, meals and things you want to buy from larger stores.Of course you can‘t get along without cash, but you don‘t need to carry much with you.1. What is the trouble to carry foreign personal checks while traveling in the US?2. Why should the travelers checks be in dollars?3. What would American do with their money if they go traveling?4. What would be probably used to pay to buy a newspaper?5. Whom does the author most probably write this passage for?答案：1. Many banks there will not accept foreign personal checks.2. One can use them directly without exchanging them in a bank.3. They would carry a major credit card.4. One would pay cash to buy a newspaper.5. He writes it for foreigners traveling in the US.Short Answer QuestionsDirections: In this part there is a short passage with five questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully. The answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words.1As researchers learn more about how children‘s intelligence dev elops they are increasingly surprised by the power of parents. The power of the school has been replaced by the home. To begin with all the factors which are part of intelligence—the child‘s understanding of language learning patterns curiosity—are established well before the child enters school at the age of six. Study after study has shown that even after school begins children‘s achievements have been far more influenced by parents than by teachers. This is particularly true about learning that is language-related. The school rather than the home is given credit for variations in achievement in subjects such as science.In view of their power it‘s sad to see so many parents not making the most of their child‘s intelligence. Until recently parents had been warned by educators who asked them not to educate their children. Many teachers now realize that children cannot be educated only at school and parents are being asked to contribute both before and after the children enter school.Parents have be en particularly afraid to teach reading at home. Of course children shouldn‘t be pushed to read by their parents but educators have discovered that reading is best taught individually—and the easiest place to do this is at home. Many four and five-year-old who have been shown a few letters and taught their sounds will compose single words of their own withthem even before they have been taught to read.1. What have researchers found out about the influence of parents and the school on children‘s intelligence﹖2. What do researchers conclude about children‘s learning patterns﹖3. In which area may school play a more important role﹖4. Why did many parents fail to make the most of their children‘s intelligence﹖5. The author suggests in the last paragraph that parents should be encouraged to____.答案：1. Parents have greater influence than the school.或Parent‘s influence is greater than the school‘s.2. They are established well before the age of six.3. In science subjects.4. They were told not to educate their children5. Teach reading at home.2We commonly think of sportsmanship in connection with athletic contests, but it also applies to individual outdoor sports. Not everyone who picks up a fishing rod or goes out with a gun is a sportsman. The sportsman first of all obeys the fish and game laws, not because he is liable to be punished as a violator, but because he know that in the main these laws are made for his best interests.The following are some of the things that those who would qualify for membership in the sportsmanship fraternity (圈内人) will do.1. Take no more game than the bag limit provided for by the fish and game laws. The person who comes back from a trip boasting about the large number of fish or game taken is not a sportsman but a game hog (贪得无厌的捕猎者) .2. Observe the unwritten rules of fair play. This means shooting game birds only when the birds are ―on the wing‖. For the same reason, do not use a shotgun to shoot a rabbit or similar animal while it is sitting or standing still.3. Be careful in removing illegal or undersized fish from the hook. This should be done only after wetting the hand. This is necessary because the body of the fish is covered with a thin, protective film which will stick to your dry hands. If the hands are dry when the fish is handled, the film is torn from the body of the fish. Without the protective film, the fish is more easily attacked by diseases. If you wish to release a fish that is hooked in such a way that it will be impossible to closed to the hook as convenient. In a remarkably short time, the hook will break down and the fish will remain almost unharmed. Fish have been known to feed successfully while hooks were still in their lips.4. Be sure of the identity of your target before you shoot. Many useful and harmless species of wildlife are thoughtlessly killed by the uninformed person who is out with a gun to kill whatever flies within range.1. In what respect does the author think individual outdoor sports are similar to athletic contests?2. What are people called when they break the bag limit and boast about their big catch?3. A true sportsman will not shoot an animal which is not ______4. What are people advised to do before they remove illegal or undersized fish from the hook?5. What should sportsman do to avoid killing rare species of wildlife?答案：1. Both of them are in common with sportsmanship2. A game hog.3. moving4. To wet their hands.5. They should know the identity of the target.3Sports is one of the world‘s largest industries, and most athletes are professionals w ho are paid for their efforts. Because an athlete succeeds by achievement only—not by economic background or family connections—sports can be a fast route to wealth, and many athletes play only for money than for love.This has not always been true. In the ancient Olympics the winner got only a wreath of olive leaves (橄榄叶花环). Even though the winners became national heroes, the games remained amateur for centuries. Athletes won fame, but no money. As time passed, however, the contests became increasingly less amateur and cities began to hire athletes to represent them. By the fourth century A.D., the Olympics were ruined, and they were soon ended.In 1896, the Olympic games were revived (使再度兴起)with the same goal of pure amateur competition. The rules bar athletes who have ever received a $50 prize or an athletic scholars or who have spent four weeks in a training camp. At least one competitor in the 1896 games met these qualifications. He was Spiridon Loues, a water carrier who won the marathon race, After race, a rich Athenian offered him anything he wanted. A true amateur, Loues accepted only a cart and a horse. Then he gave up running forever. But Loues was an exception and now, as the Chairman of the German Olympic Committee said, ―Nobody pays any attention to these rules.‖ Many countries pay their athletes to train year-round, and Olympic athletes are eager to sell their names to companies that make everything from ski equipment to fast food.Even the games themselves have become a huge business. Countries fight to hold the Olympics not only for honor, but for money. The 1972 games in Munich cost the Germans 545 million dollars, but by selling medal symbols, TV rights, food, drink ,hotel rooms, and souvenirs (纪念品), they managed to make a profit. Appropriately, the symbol of victory in the Olympic Games is no longer a simple olive wreath—it is a gold medal.1. To many people, sports today is nothing but___________.2. What do most athletes of today go after?________.3. What reward could an ancient Greek athlete expect?4. When the Olympic Games were revived in 1896, athletes who had received specialtraining in camps would be_____.5. What did Spiridon Loues do after he accepted the Athenian‘s gift?答案：1. a fast route to wealth。