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大学英语四级改革适用(阅读)模拟试卷246(题后含答案及解析)

大学英语四级改革适用（阅读）模拟试卷246(题后含答案及解析) 题型有： 3. Reading ComprehensionPart III Reading ComprehensionSection AOne principle of taxation, called the benefits principle, states that people should pay taxes based on the benefits they receive from government services. This principle tries to make public goods similar to【C1】______ goods. It seems reasonable that a person who often goes to the movies pays more in【C2】______ for movie tickets than a person who rarely goes. And【C3】______ a person who gets great benefit from a public good should pay more for it than a person who gets little benefit. The gasoline tax, for instance, is sometimes【C4】______ using the benefits principle. In some states, 【C5】______ from the gasoline tax are used to build and maintain roads. Because those who buy gasoline are the same people who use the roads, the gasoline tax might be viewed as a【C6】______ way to pay for this government service. The benefits principle can also be used to argue that wealthy citizens should pay higher taxes than poorer ones, 【C7】______ because the wealthy benefit more from public services. Consider, for example, the benefits of police protection from【C8】______. Citizens with much to protect get greater benefit from police than those with less to protect. Therefore, according to the benefits principle, the wealthy should【C9】______ more than the poor to the cost of【C10】______ the police force. The same argument can be used for many other public services, such as fire protection, national defense, and the court system.A) adapt I) providedB) contribute J) revenuesC) exerting K) similarlyD) expenses L) simplyE) fair M) theftF) justified N) totalG) maintaining O) wealthH) private1．【C1】正确答案：H 涉及知识点：词汇理解2．【C2】正确答案：N 涉及知识点：词汇理解3．【C3】正确答案：K 涉及知识点：词汇理解4．【C4】正确答案：F 涉及知识点：词汇理解5．【C5】正确答案：J 涉及知识点：词汇理解6．【C6】正确答案：E 涉及知识点：词汇理解7．【C7】正确答案：L 涉及知识点：词汇理解8．【C8】正确答案：M 涉及知识点：词汇理解9．【C9】正确答案：B 涉及知识点：词汇理解10．【C10】正确答案：G 涉及知识点：词汇理解As an Alaskan fisherman, Timothy June, 54, used to think that he was safe from industrial pollutants (污染物)at his home in Haines—a town with a population of 2,400 people and 4,000 eagles, with 8 million acres of protected wild land nearby. But in early 2007, June agreed to take part in a【C1】______ of 35 Americans from seven states. It was a biomonitoring project, in which people’s blood and urine (尿)were tested for【C2】______ of chemicals—in this case, three potentially dangerous classes of compounds found in common household【C3】______. like face cream, tin cans, and shower curtains. The results—【C4】______ in November in a report called “Is It in Us?” by an environmental group—were rather worrying. Every one of the participants, 【C5】______ from an Illinois state senator to a Massachusetts minister, tested positive for all three classes of pollutants. And while the【C6】______ presence of these chemicals does not【C7】______ indicate a health risk, the fact that typical Americans carry these chemicals at all【C8】______ June and his fellow participants. Clearly, there are chemicals in our bodies that don’t【C9】______ there. A large, ongoing study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found 148 chemicals in Americans of all ages. And in 2005, die Environmental Working Group found an【C10】______ of 200 chemicals in the bloodof 10 new-borns. “Our babies are being born pre-polluted,”says Sharyle Patton of Commonweal, which cosponsored “Is it in Us?”“This is going to be the next big environmental issue after climate change.”A) analyses I) productsB) average J) rangingC) belong K) releasedD) demonstrated L) shockedE) excess M) simpleF) extending N) surveyG) habitually O) tracesH) necessarily11．【C1】正确答案：N 涉及知识点：词汇理解12．【C2】正确答案：O 涉及知识点：词汇理解13．【C3】正确答案：I 涉及知识点：词汇理解14．【C4】正确答案：K 涉及知识点：词汇理解15．【C5】正确答案：J 涉及知识点：词汇理解16．【C6】正确答案：M 涉及知识点：词汇理解17．【C7】正确答案：H 涉及知识点：词汇理解18．【C8】正确答案：L 涉及知识点：词汇理解19．【C9】正确答案：C 涉及知识点：词汇理解20．【C10】正确答案：B 涉及知识点：词汇理解For decades, Americans have taken for granted the United States’ leadership position in the development of new technologies. The innovations (创新)that resulted from research and development during World War II and afterwards were【C1】______ to the prosperity of the nation in the second half of the 20th century. Those innovations, upon which virtually all aspects of【C2】______ society now depend, were possible because the United States then【C3】______ the world in mathematics and science education. Today, however, despite increasing demand for workers with strong skills in mathematics and science, the【C4】______ of degrees awarded in science, math, and engineering are decreasing. The decline in degree production in what are called the STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering, and math)seems to be【C5】______ related to the comparatively weak performance by US schoolchildren on international assessments of math and science. Many students entering college have weak skills in mathematics. According to the 2005 report of the Business-Higher Education Forum, 22 percent of college freshmen must take remedial (补习的) math【C6】______, and less than half of the students who plan to major in science or engineering【C7】______ complete a major in those fields. The result has been a decrease in the number of American college graduates who have the skills, 【C8】______ in mathematics, to power a workforce that can keep the country at the forefront (前沿) of innovation and maintain its standard of living. With the【C9】______ performance of American students in math and science has come increased competition from students from other countries that have strongly supported education in these areas. Many more students earn【C10】______ in the STEM disciplines in developing countries, than in the United States.A) accelerating I) especiallyB) actually J) futureC) closely K)ledD) contemporary L)metE) courses M) proceduresF) critical N) proportionsG) declining O) spheresH) degrees 21．【C1】正确答案：F 涉及知识点：词汇理解22．【C2】正确答案：D 涉及知识点：词汇理解23．【C3】正确答案：K 涉及知识点：词汇理解24．【C4】正确答案：N 涉及知识点：词汇理解25．【C5】正确答案：C 涉及知识点：词汇理解26．【C6】正确答案：E 涉及知识点：词汇理解27．【C7】正确答案：B 涉及知识点：词汇理解28．【C8】正确答案：I 涉及知识点：词汇理解29．【C9】正确答案：G 涉及知识点：词汇理解30．【C10】正确答案：H 涉及知识点：词汇理解。

大学英语四级改革适用(阅读)模拟试卷42(题后含答案及解析)

大学英语四级改革适用（阅读）模拟试卷42(题后含答案及解析) 题型有： 4. Reading ComprehensionPart III Reading ComprehensionSection CSoon after starting his job as superintendent of the Memphis, Tenn., public schools, Kriner Cash ordered an assessment of his new district’s 104,000 students. The findings were depressing: nearly a third had been held back at least one academic year. The high school graduation rate had fallen to 67%. One in five dropped out. But what most concerned him was that the number of students considered “highly mobile”, meaning they had moved at least once during the school year, had ballooned to 34,000, partly because of the home-foreclosure crisis. At least 1,500 students were homeless —probably more. “I had a whole array of students who were angry, depressed, not getting the rest they needed,” Cash says. It led him to consider an unusual proposition: what if the best way to help kids in impoverished urban neighborhoods is to get them out? Cash is now calling for Memphis to create a residential school for 300 to 400 kids whose parents are in financial distress, with a live-in faculty rivaling those of elite New England prep schools. If Cash’s dream becomes a reality, it will probably look a lot like SEED, a charter school in Southeast Washington, which stands for Schools for Educational Evolution and Development. Its 320 students—seventh to 12th-graders—should live on campus five days a week. They are expected to adhere to a strict dress code and keep their room tidy. There are computers in the dorm’s common areas, and each student in grades 10 and above is given a desktop computer. At 11:30 every night, it’ s lights out. In his plan for Memphis, Cash wants even more time. Perhaps the most provocative aspect of his proposal is to focus on students in grades 3 through 5 for homelessness is growing sharply among kids at that critical age, when much of their educational foundation is set, Cash says. His aim: to prevent illiteracy and clear other learning roadblocks early, so the problem “won’t migrate into middle and high school”. Students will remain on campus year-round. The school would cost up to $50,000 a day to operate—three times the cost of a traditional day school with more than twice as many students. “It sounds very exciting, but the devil is in the details,”says Ellen Bassuk, president of the National Center on Family Homelessness in Newton, Mass.1．What is Kriner Cash worried about most after knowing the result of the assessment?A．The falling rate of high school graduation.B．Middle school student’ s dropping out at a very high speed every year.C．Students being held back an academic year.D．The growing number of students moving frequently during the school year.正确答案：D解析：细节题。

大学英语四级改革适用(阅读)模拟试卷8(题后含答案及解析)

大学英语四级改革适用（阅读）模拟试卷8(题后含答案及解析) 题型有： 4. Reading ComprehensionPart III Reading ComprehensionSection ASome time ago, an interesting discovery was made by【C1】______on the Aegean island of Kea. An American team explored a temple which stands in an ancient city on the promontory of Ayia Irini. The city at one time must have been【C2】______, for it enjoyed a high level of【C3】______. Houses—often three storeys high —were built of stone. They had large rooms with beautifully【C4】______walls. The city was equipped with a drainage system, for a great many clay pipes were found 【C5】______the narrow streets. The temple which the archaeologists explored was used as a place of【C6】______from the fifteenth century BC. until Roman times. In the most sacred room of temple, clay fragments of fifteen statues were found. Each of these【C7】______a goddess and had, at one time, been painted. The body of one statue was found among remains dating from the fifteenth century BC. It’s missing head happened to be among remains of the fifth century BC. This head must have been found in Classical times and carefully【C8】______. It was very old and precious even then. When the archaeologists reconstructed the fragments, they were【C9】______to find that the goddess turned out to be a very modern-looking woman. She stood three feet high and her hands rested on her hips. She was wearing a full-length skirt which swept the ground. Despite her great age, she was very【C10】______indeed, but, so far, the archaeologists have been unable to discover her identity.A)preserved B)civilization C)graceful D)beneathE)matching F)rested G)worship H)occasionsI)decorated J)qualification K)represented L)prosperousM)amazed N)according O)archaeologists1．【C1】正确答案：O解析：根据an interesting discovery可知。

大学英语四级改革适用(阅读)模拟试卷50(题后含答案及解析)

大学英语四级改革适用（阅读）模拟试卷50(题后含答案及解析)题型有：1.5 kg. The men’s blood pressure also dropped, which the researchers attributed to weight lost. Exactly what caused the weight loss is uncertain. Loss of appetite is common at higher altitudes, and indeed the men ate significantly less than usual—about 700 calories fewer per day. Lippl also notes that because their consumption was being recorded, they may have been more self-conscious about what they ate. Regardless, eating less accounts for just 1 kg of the 1.5 kg lost, says Lippl. He thinks the increased metabolic(新陈代谢的)rate, which was measured, also contributed to weight loss but cannot separate the different effects with the given data. Appetite loss at high altitudes could certainly be key, notes Damian Bailey, a physiologist at the University of Glamorgan, UK, who recently lost 11 kg during a 3-month expedition to the Andes in Chile. Unfortunately, for the average person there’ s no treatment that can resemble living at high altitude, says Lippl. The only alternative is a hypobaric chamber, which exposes subjects to low oxygen and isn’t practical as a therapy. He says, half-jokingly, “if fat people plan their holidays, they might not go to the sea, but maybe to the mountains.”6．What contributes the most to one’s heart rates, according to the first paragraph?A．Our bodyweight.B．The consumption of energy.C．The rates of our breathing.D．The amount of oxygen provided.正确答案：D解析：细节题。

大学英语四级改革适用(阅读)模拟试卷1(题后含答案及解析)

大学英语四级改革适用（阅读）模拟试卷1(题后含答案及解析) 题型有： 4. Reading ComprehensionPart III Reading ComprehensionSection AGlobal warming is a trend toward warmer conditions around the world. Part of the warming is natural; we have experienced a 20,000-year-long warming as the last ice age ended and the ice【C1】______away. However, we have already reached temperatures that are in【C2】______with other minimum-ice periods, so continued warming is likely not natural. We are【C3】______to a predicted worldwide increase in temperatures【C4】______between 1°C and 6°C over the next 100 years. The warming will be more【C5】______in some areas, less in others, and some places may even cool off. Likewise, the【C6】______of this warming will be very different depending on where you are—coastal areas must worry about rising sea levels, while Siberia and northern Canada may become more habitable(宜居的)and【C7】______for humans than these areas are now. The fact remains, however, that it will likely get warmer, on【C8】______, everywhere. Scientists are in general agreement that the warmer conditions we have been experiencing are at least in part the result of a human-induced global warming trend. Some scientists【C9】______that the changes we are seeing fall within the range of random(无规律的)variation—some years are cold, others warm, and we have just had an unremarkable string of warm years【C10】______but that is becoming an increasingly rare interpretation in the face of continued and increasing warm conditions.A)appealing B)average C)contributing D)dramaticE)frequently F)impact G)line H)maintainI)melted J)persist K)ranging L)recentlyM)resolved N)sensible O)shock1．【C1】正确答案：I解析：此短句与and前的the last ice age ended并列。

大学英语四级改革适用(长篇阅读)模拟试卷1(题后含答案及解析)

大学英语四级改革适用（长篇阅读）模拟试卷1(题后含答案及解析)题型有：1.9 motor vehicles for every household in America, and just to illustrate how many cars this is, consider that the average American household has only 1.8 drivers; America has more vehicles than it has drivers to drive them. By the time a middle-class American reaches 35 years of age, he or she has likely owned 3 cars in his or her life.B)The Unites States’lawmakers have done little to undermine the romance between their citizens and their automobiles. Taxes on gasoline have been kept low, while massive highway building projects allow more and more cars to take to the road. Public transportation, on the other hand, has traditionally suffered from neglect. From the 1970s, since Americans have more than doubled their reliance on cars for long-distance rides, train and bus usage has largely stopped developing. Inner city transit systems in most cities were either deteriorating or crime-ridden, as in New York, or dysfunctional(机能不良的), as in Los Angeles.C)There are, however, signs that U.S. drivers are quietly looking for alternatives to car usage—with growing backing from legislators. Throughout the country a record number of commuters are taking buses and transit to work. In Washington DC, city officials say this summer has been the busiest in the history of the Metro rail system, with trains often carrying more than 600,000 passengers a day. In Cincinnati, transit authorities say there have been up to 50 percent more users this summer on some commuter routes. The Atlanta and Portland transit systems are also recording heavy usage. Nationwide, public transportation systems have recorded a 4.8 percent increase for the first quarter of 2003 over the same period in 2002, according to the American Public Transportation Association(APTA).D)Transit officials say the main reason is the recent rise in gasoline prices. Feeling the impact of cuts in production by oil-exporting countries, gasoline prices in the US shot up from a national average of $1.30 dollars a gallon(nearly 3.8 litres)late last year to high of $1.68 a gallon in June this year. In parts of the country, prices even reached $2 a gallon for the first time.E)While the price rise angered car drivers, many transportation experts feel it has turned attention to America’s meager(不景气的)public transport. “The public transport system has been better now than in the past decades,”says Delon Lowas, an urban planning analyst at the Sierra Club, the environmental group. According to APTA, a person commuting 10 miles to work every day by train instead of by car could save as much as 314 gallons(1193 liters)of gasoline annually —thus reducing emissions of hydrocarbon gases and other pollutants.F)The oil price rise might just have been the induction to result in a new revolution in the travel habits of US commuters, say environmentalists. As evidence, they point to the popularity of new light-rail systems in cities such as Portland. Even Los Angeles, whose residents are famous for their infatuation(迷恋)with cars, recently installed 17 miles of subway tracks. Now, US politicians are also warming to public transport. Federal and state governments are toying with some initiatives, such as tax breaks for people who use trains or buses.G)But public transportation continues to have its ideological critics. “It shouldn’t be encouraged at the expense of private ownership of vehicles,” says BenLieberman of the Competitive Enterprise Institute(CEI). He asserts that the government’s priority should be to make owning and driving a car more affordable by reducing environmental restrictions that push up the price of gasoline.H)The expansion of public transportation systems also draws opposition from those who are worried about the immense costs involved. They cite Los Angeles’ subway expansion, which cost a record $4.7 billion, as an instance of how expensive public transport can be.I)Citing costs of construction, Tome DeLay,the powerful Republican Whip of the House of Representatives, have moved to block funds for a proposed light-rail system in Houston. Mr. DeLay argues that the city should conduct a referendum(公民投票)before investing taxpayer’s money. The result: the Houston authorities might well have to manage without federal funds —or scrap the light-rail project entirely. Given the strong political pressure against it, some observers think the flirtation(对......的一时兴趣)with public transport will pass, not least because there are signs already that gas prices have started to fall. Mr. Lovaas, however, thinks that there has been “genuine grass-roots change” as people understand the environmental and social need for cutting down on automobile use. But he admitted that political opposition could take a long time to overcome. “The people at the top will be the last to get it.”11．One factor for the sharp rising price of gasoline in the US this year was oil production cuts by oil-exporting countries.正确答案：D解析：根据题干中的线索词price of gasoline和production cuts by oil—exporting countries将本题出处定位于D)段第2句Feeling the impact of cuts in production by oil—exporting countries，gasoline prices in the US shot up from anational average of $1．30 dollars a gallon(nearly 3．8 litres)late last year to high of $1．68 a gallon in June this year．(受到石油出口国削减产量的影响，美国的石油价格从去年年底每加仑(约3．8升)1．30美元的全国平均价格猛涨到今年6月份的每加仑1．68美元。

大学英语四级改革适用(阅读)模拟试卷405(题后含答案及解析)

大学英语四级改革适用（阅读）模拟试卷405(题后含答案及解析) 题型有： 3. Reading ComprehensionPart III Reading ComprehensionSection AThey call them the new bread earners. They are women, and they are set to take over. Women are beginning to rise【C1】______to the top in the workplace all over the developed world New figures show that in almost a third of American【C2】______with a working wife, the woman brings home more money than her husband and that they now occupy half the country’s”high-paying, executive, administrative and【C3】______occupations”, compared with 34 per cent 20 years ago. The trend is【C4】______by two main factors, experts say—a【C5】______acceptance of men as househusbands and mass unemployment of male white-collar workers from the technology, finance and media industries in the last three years. The University of Maryland has【C6】______a report that shows women to be the chief earner in 11 per cent of all US marriages. Pushing a buggy (婴儿车) on a sunny afternoon in New York’s Central Park last week, Jonathan Blinderman, 33, said, he was【C7】______he had been able to see every moment of his daughter Lindsay’s first six months of life while his wife, Sage, was out working. It is a sign of these times of【C8】______that when he mentions his status at parties he is either praised as a saint or 【C9】______as a slave-cum-freeloader (爱占便宜的奴隶). For the revolution is nowhere near complete. But Maria Cancian, an economist at the University of Wisconsin, said【C10】______women were increasingly looking for househusbands.A. causedB. proudC. carelesslyD. mockedE. producedF. managerialG. greedyH. precautionI. arguedJ. transitionK. ambitiousL. tackledM. growingN. steadilyO. households1．【C1】正确答案：N解析：此处需要副词作状语，修饰动词rise。

大学英语四级改革适用(阅读)模拟试卷48(题后含答案及解析)

大学英语四级改革适用（阅读）模拟试卷48(题后含答案及解析)题型有：1.0°C, tiny particles of ice start forming in the water. Each particle becomes larger and then sticks to other particles, forming blocks of ice. Fish take in this water and tiny particles of ice also form inside a fish’s body. However, the AFP in the blood of the fish surrounds these particles, preventing them from sticking together to form bigger pieces of ice. The application of AFP is promising. For example, AFP can be used to alter the taste and texture of ice-cream. It can also be used to store meat and vegetables more effectively by protecting food products from the formation of ice. Another application is in medical field, as AFP can help preserve organs for transplantation without freezing them. Scientists have known about AFP for more than 30 years, yet few of the technologies that use the AFP exist today. The process of getting the necessary amount of AFP from fish to make products was only recently discovered. Some companies in the United States and Canada have already made products using AFP, but they have yet to become popular. Although some researchers in Japan discovered that some local fish contained AFP and succeeded in creating AFP in the laboratory, more research is necessary. AFP tests will continue for these fish out of the water.6．The Antifreeze Protein______.A．is a kind of protein that many fish have stored in their bodiesB．is found in certain fish that live in extremely cold waterC．increases the freezing process of water in the oceanD．is the key to finding the location offish in cold regions正确答案：B解析：细节题。

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[外语类试卷]大学英语四级改革适用（阅读）模拟试卷47Section C0 Forget Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The theme song of this recession might well be "Mother, Can You Write a Check?" The distressing economy has resulted in increasing numbers of parents and grandparents helping out their strapped adult children and grandkids with home down payments, credit-card bailouts(紧急财政援助), and spare cash—often at the same time as parents are trying to confront new retirement budgets."We are seeing a ton of this," says Ross Levin, an Edina, Minn., financial adviser. "Sometimes it's a great idea and sometimes it is not. You have to make sure you put on your own oxygen mask first."Some 62 percent of visitors to have helped their kids financially in the past year, with 70 percent of that group handing over cash to help their adult children and grandchildren with daily expenses, says the site's CEO, Jerry Shereshewsky. Another popular category is housing; in the last year many parents have coughed up down payments to help their kids get into homes while the $ 8,000 first-time home buyer' s credit was in effect.Then there' s the debt-bailout situation. A survey recently conducted by Creditcards. com for Newsweek found that 42 percent of folks with adult children have helped them pay off car loans, credit cards, medical bills, and more.None of this is surprising to Shereshewsky, who sees the trend as a natural result of changing families and the distribution of wealth. "This is where all the money is—and it' s where the money is, despite the fact that we' ve had this meltdown." In general, the baby-boom generation is far wealthier than their children are, and has a lower unemployment rate than 20-somethings. He says that the vast majority of multi-generation households now involve adult children(and sometimes their children)moving in with aging parents. Baby-boom parents generally aspire to helping their kids and their grandchildren and don't want to wait until they are dead to do it."You should give while you're young enough to enjoy the fruits of what you're doing," says Shereshewsky, who is personally considering getting a reverse mortgage on his home when it comes time to help his 20-something kids with home purchases.1 According to the passage, people are regarded as "strapped" if they are______.（A）jobless in the recession（B）in financial difficulties（C）dependent on their parents（D）troubled by credit card debt2 Ross Levin thinks that sometimes, it is not a great idea that______. （A）parents have confronted new retirement budget（B）adult children disregard parents' difficulties（C）adult children spend more than they earn（D）parents help out their adult children3 With the first-time home buyer's credit,______.（A）children did not have to turn to parents for help（B）children found it easier to deal with down payment（C）parents still had to help pay for the down payment（D）parents felt relieved from expense on housing4 What do we know about the people of the baby-boom generation? （A）Most of them prefer to live with their children.（B）Most of them become parents in their twenties.（C）They have a higher employment rate than their kids.（D）They are willing to take care of their aging parents.5 Shereshewsky is most likely to agree that______.（A）parents should enjoy their own lives（B）young people should help their parents（C）young people should be independent（D）parents should help out their adult kids5 When your family wants to buy or replace a car, a television, or a washing machine, you find the money either from savings or by borrowing from the bank, a hire-purchase company or perhaps a friend. Similarly, a family buying a house for the first time commonly borrows from a building society(住宅互助委员会). If you own a private business, a garage, a shop, or a farm, you will need, from time to time, to buy new equipment, new furnishings, or, if you are doing well, new premises(房屋)so that you can expand. Some of the cost you can meet from the profits you have kept in the business, but often you will need help. You will go to your bank, to a finance house, or perhaps to a relative or friend for finance provided from his savings. When you borrow money or raise money in this way you pay it back out of future profits.Many large businesses, however, need cash for new developments or expansion far in excess of what can be provided from their profits or from private sources of capital. A new factory, an oil-well in the North Sea, can cost millions of pounds to construct and bring into production; a new design of car or brand of medicine likewise can cost millions of pounds to design, develop, test and market before it reaches the stage where it earns a profit. Often these costs can be met from profits earned in other parts of the business or from reserves built up from profits earned in past years. Sometimes, however, it is necessary, and often it may be more advantageous, to raise new money from other sources.There can be little prospect of raising the sort of stuns needed by major businesses from friends or acquaintances, and generally the banks are reluctant to provide sufficient cash on a permanent basis for long-term projects, though they will provide short-term finance. Such companies can sometimes only raise the money they need to stay in the front of industry and develop new products and sources of production by turning to the public at large and inviting it to lend them cash or take a share in the business in exchange for a share in future profits. This they can do by offering shares in the business or loan capital through stock exchange(证券交易所).6 If you want to buy a house for the first time, which of the following could you do? （A）Borrow money from a building society.（B）Borrow money from a bank.（C）Take money from your savings.（D）Ask a friend to help you out.7 Large businesses need to borrow huge amounts of money because______. （A）developing and producing a new product take a long time（B）they can not make enough profits（C）developing and expanding production cost a lot of money（D）a new factory can cost millions of pounds to construct8 Which of the following has the same meaning with "reserves"(Line 7, Para. 2)? （A）Savings.（B）Means.（C）Jewelry.（D）Content.9 Major business gets money to pay for expansion by______.（A）borrowing from friends（B）borrowing from building societies（C）turning to banks（D）selling shares of the company10 According to the passage, we can know that______.（A）small companies can only get financial help from the bank（B）the bank won' t lend money to individuals（C）the bank is pleased to provide long-term finance for the large businesses（D）the bank can provide short-term money for the large business10 No one should be forced to wear a uniform under any circumstance. Uniforms are demanding to the human spirit and totally unnecessary in a democratic society. Uniforms tell the world that the person who wears one has no value as an individual but only lives to function as a part of a whole. The individual in a uniform loses all self-worth.There are those who say that wearing a uniform gives a person a sense of identification with a larger, more important concept. What could be more important than the individual himself? If an organization is so weak that it must rely on cloth and buttons to inspire its members, that organization has no right to continue its existence. Others say that the practice of making persons wear uniforms, say in a school, eliminates all envy and competition in the matter of dress, such that a poor person who cannot afford good-quality clothing is not to be belittled by a wealthy person who wears expensive quality clothing. Those persons conveniently ignore such critical concepts as freedom of choice, motivation, and individuality. If all persons were to wear the same clothing, why would anyone strive to be better? It is only a short step from forcing everyone to drive the same car, have the same type of foods. When this happens, all incentive to improve one' s life is removed. Why would parents bother to work hard so that their children could have a better life than they had when they know that their children are going to be forced to have exactly the same life that they had?Uniforms also hurt the economy. Right now, billions of dollars are spent on the fashion industry yearly. Thousands of persons are employed in designing, creating and marketing different types of clothing. If everyone were forced to wear uniforms, artistic personnel would be unnecessary. Sales persons would be superfluous as well; why bother to sell the only items that are available? The wearing of uniforms would destroy the fashion industry, which in turn would have a ripple effect on such industries as advertising and promotion. Without advertising, newspapers, magazines, and television would not be able to remain in business. One entire information and entertainment industry would collapse.11 What is the main idea of this passage?（A）Wearing uniforms has both advantages and disadvantages.（B）Wearing uniforms should be promoted strongly.（C）Wearing uniforms will destroy economy.（D）Wearing uniforms has many negative effects.12 According to the author, if a person wears a uniform, he will lose his______. （A）importance（B）meaning（C）self-value（D）pride13 In the author' s opinion, which is the most important thing?（A）Society.（B）Individuality.（C）One' s image.（D）Dignity.14 The underlined word "incentive" in paragraph 2 in probably means______. （A）efforts（B）motivation（C）skills（D）attempts15 The writer's attitude of this passage is apparently（A）disapproved（B）positive（C）pessimistic（D）sarcastic15 Most economists hate gold. Not, you understand, that they would turn up their noses at a bar or two. But they find the reverence in which many hold the metal almost irrational. Modern money takes the form of paper or, more often, electronic data. To economists, gold is now just another commodity.So why is its price soaring? Over the past week, this has topped $450 a troy ounce, up by 9% since the beginning of the year and 77% since April 2001. Ah, comes the reply, gold transactions are denominated in dollars, and the rise in the price simply reflects the dollar's fall in terms of other currencies, especially the euro. However, there is no iron link, as it were, between the value of the dollar and the value of gold. A rising price of gold, like that of anything else, can reflect an increase in demand as well as a depreciation of its unit of account.This is where gold bulls come in. The fall in the dollar is important, but mainly because as a store of value the dollar stinks. With a few longish rallies, the greenback has been on a downward trend since it came off the gold standard in 1971. Now it is suffering one of its sharper declines. At the margin, extra demand has come from those who think dollars—indeed any money backed by nothing more than promises to keep inflation low—a decidedly risky investment, mainly because America, with the world' s reserve currency, has been able to create and borrow so many of them. The least painful way of repaying those dollars is to make them worth less.The striking exception to this extra demand comes from central banks, which would like to sell some of the gold they already have. Last month the Bank of France said it would sell 500 tonnes in coming years. But big sales by central banks can cause the price to plunge—as when the Bank of England sold 395 tonnes between 1999 and 2002. The result was an agreement between central banks to co-ordinate and limit future sales.If the price of gold marches higher, this agreement will presumably be rippedup, although a dollar crisis might make central banks think twice about switching into paper money. Will the overhang of central-bank gold drag the price down again? Not necessarily. As James Grant points out, in recent years the huge glut of government debt has not stopped a sharp rise in its price.16 In economists' eyes, gold is something______.（A）they look down upon（B）that can be exchanged in the market（C）worth people' s reverence（D）that should be replaced by other forms of money17 According to the author, one of the reasons for the rising of gold price is______. （A）the increasing demand for gold（B）the depreciation of the euro（C）the link between the dollar and gold（D）the increment of the value of the dollar18 We can infer from the third paragraph that______.（A）the decline of the dollar is inevitable（B）America benefits from the depreciation of the dollar（C）the depreciation of the dollar is good news to other currencies（D）investment in the dollar yields more returns than that in gold19 The phrase "ripped up"(Line 1, Para.5)most probably means______.（A）strengthened（B）broadened（C）renegotiated（D）torn up20 According to the passage, the rise of gold price______. （A）will not last long（B）will attract some central banks to sell gold（C）will impel central banks to switch into paper money （D）will lead to a dollar crisis。