A．facilities B．destination C．inhabitants D．cost E．dislike
F．quickly G．grow H．first-class I．advance J local
Without
proper planning, tourism can cause problems. For example, too many tourists can
crowd public places that are also enjoyed by the 41
of a country. If tourists create too much traffic, the inhabitants
become annoyed and unhappy. They begin to 42
tourists and to treat
them impolitely. They forget how much tourism can help the country’s economy.
It is important to think about the people of a 43
country and how tourism
affects them. Tourism should help a country, keep the customs and beauty that
attract tourists. Tourism should also 44
the wealth and happiness
of 45 inhabitants.
Too
much tourism can be a problem. If tourism grows too 46
, people must leave other jobs to work in the tourism industry. This
means that other parts of the country’s economy can suffer.
On
the other hand, if there is not enough tourism, people can lose jobs.
Businesses can also lose money. It costs a great deal of money to build large
hotels, airports, air terminals, 47
roads, and other support
facilities needed by tourist attractions. For example, a major international
class tourism hotel can 48 as much as 50 thousand dollars per room
to build. If this room is not used most of the time, the owners of the hotel
lose money.
Building a hotel is just a
beginning. There must be many support
49 as well, including roads to get to the
hotel, electricity, sewers to handle waste, and water. All of these support
facilities cost money. If they are not used because there are not enough
tourists , jobs and money are lost.
III．Reading
Comprehension
Section
A （15分）
Directions:
For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked
A,B,C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the
context.
Farmers,
as we all know, have been having a hard time of it lately, and have turned to
new ways of earning income from their land. This involves not only planting new
kinds of crops, but some___50___ways of making money, the most unusual
of which has got to be sheep 51
. Yes, you heard me___52___! A farmer now holds sheep races
on a regular basis, and during the past year over 100,000 people have___53___to
watch the race. "I was passing the farm on my way to the sea for a
holiday," one punter (賽馬經紀人) told me, "and I thought I'd have a look. I didn't believe it
was serious to tell you the truth. "According to a(n) 54 visitor, betting on sheep is more
interesting than betting on 55
." At proper horse races everyone has already studied the form
of the horse ___56 ___, and there are clear favourites. ___57___nobody
has heard anything about these ___58___! Most people find it 59
to tell one from another
in any case. "I stayed to watch the races, and I must admit that I found
it quite___60___. In a usual sheep race, half a dozen sheep race down
hill over a course of about half a mile. 61 is waiting for them at the other end of
the___62___just to give them some encouragement, I ought to add! The
sheep run surprisingly fast, ___63___they have probably not eaten for a
while. Anyway, the crowd around me were obviously enjoying their day out at the
races, ___64___by their happy faces and the sense of excitement.
50．A．common B．strange C．swift D．illegal
51．A．racing B．hunting C．raising D．eating
52．A．honestly B．surprisingly C．completely D．correctly
53．A．showed off B．brought up C．turned up D．looked forward
54．A．regular B．unexpected C．professional D．accustomed
55．A．farms B．horses C．stocks D．races
56．A．behind time B．in progress C．in advance D．in time
57．A．But B．Therefore C．Moreover D．Otherwise
58．A．horses B．sheep C．races D．stories
59．A．easy B．impossible C．normal D．difficult
60．A．exciting B．dangerous C．boring D．peculiar
61．A．Visitors B．Farmers C．Food D．Money
62．A．race B．hill C．track D．field
63．A．if B．so C．yet D．although
64．A．observing B．judging C．considering D．inferring
Section B（35分）
Directions:
Red the following four passages. Each passage is followed by several questions
or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B,
C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in
the passage you have just read.
A
One hundred and thirteen
million Americans have at least one bank-issued credit card. They give their
owners automatic credit in stores. restaurants，and hotels，at home，across the country，and even abroad，and they make many banking services available as well，More and more of these credit cards
can be read automatically，making it possible to withdraw or deposit money in scattered
locations，whether or
not the local branch bank is open. For many of us the“ cashless society” is not on the horizon-it’s already
here.
While computers offer these conveniences to consumers，they have many advantages for
sellers too. Electronic cash registers can do much more than simply ring up
sales. They can keep a wide range of records，including who sold what，when, and to whom. This information allows businessmen to keep track
of their list of goods by showing which items are being sold and how fast they
are moving. Decisions to reorder or return goods to suppliers can then be made.
At the same time these computers record which hours are busiest and which
employees are the most efficient, allowing personnel and staffing assignments
to be made accordingly. And they also identify preferred customers for
promotional campaigns. Computers are relied on by manufacturers for similar
reasons. Computer analyzed marketing reports can help to decide which products
to emphasize now, which to develop for the future, and which to drop. Computers
keep track of goods in stock, of raw materials on hand, and even of the
production process itself.
Numerous other commercial enterprises, from theaters to magazine publishers,
from gas and electric utilities to milk processors, bring better and more
efficient services to consumers through the use of computers.
65．According to
the passage, the credit card enables its owner to .
A．withdraw as
much money from the bank as he wishes
B．obtain more
convenient services than other people do
C．enjoy greater
trust from the storekeeper
D．cash moneys
where she wishes to
66．The phrase “ring up sales”(Line 2,Para.2) most probably means“ ”.
A．make an order
of goods B．record sales on a cash register
C．call the
sales manager D．keep track of the goods in stock
67．What is this
passage mainly about?
A．Approaches to
the commercial use of computers.
B．Conveniences
brought about by computers in business.
C．Significance
of automation in commercial enterprises.
D．Advantages of
credit cards in business.
B
The
cohesiveness(內聚力) of a
family seems to rely on members sharing certain routine practices and events. For
a growing share of the American labor force, however, working shifts beyond the
normal daylight hours--- what we here call “shiftwork” ―makes the lives of families
difficult.
Existing
research shows that both male and female shiftworkers express high levels of
stress and a sense of conflict between the demands of work and family life. But
shiftwork couples still maintain a traditional attitude about the meaning of
marriage and the individual roles of husband and wife. They expressed a
willingness to do “whatever it takes” to approximate their view of a proper
marriage, including sacrificing sleep and doing conventional things at
unconventional hours. For the majority of couples interviewed-----even when
wives worked outside their homes a proper marriage is characterized by a very
clear division of roles: husbands are “providers” whose major responsibility is
to support the family; wives are “homemakers” who clean, cook, and care for
husbands and children.
As
couples encountered shiftwork schedules, however, initial expectations about
what it would take to create a marriage and family were put to test. One woman
expressed her dreams about what marriage was supposed to be:
--It would make me feel like I had more of a home atmosphere, you
know. That’s the way I always expected being married having the husband go off,
come in the evenings and spend the rest of the evenings together, you know
that’s the way we thought it would be. It doesn’t work out that way.”
The
women’s definitions of a “good husband” are typified by the following wife’s
response:
I
expect him to be a good provider, and be there when I need him, loyal about the
same things as he would expect out of me, expect that I expect him to dominate
over me. But in a manner of speaking when it’s time to be a man. I expect him
to stand up instead of sitting back expecting me to do everything.
To
husbands, a good wife was someone who was:
Understanding
of what I feel go through at work. I need that respect at work. I hope I get it
at work. I want my wife to realize what I expect at work. I don’t want her to
give me a lot shit when I come home from work because----I don’t know if this
makes much sense.
These views seemed critical to maintain the families of the
shiftworkers.
68．Despite
______, shiftwork couples still hoped to maintain a stable life.
A．traditional beliefs about
marriage B．lack of control over time
C．a very clear division of roles D．the demands of work
69．From the
selection, we can conclude that
female shiftworkers were not satisfied with ______.
A．their work
B．their children
C．their husband’s inability to
protect the family and provide companionship.
D．leisure activities
70．What is
implied by the author?
A．Shiftwork had a direct effect on
the attitudes and behavior of family members.
B．Shiftworkers could live a normal
life.
C．Shiftwork couples had
unconventional ideas about marriage.
D．Female shiftworkers were satisfied
with the time spent together with their families.
71．In order to
continue the marriage of the shiftworkers, ________.
A．wives must learn to care for the
children when their husbands are absent
B．shiftwork couples must administer
their time and activities
C． wives mustn’t adapt their own
feelings of boredom to their husbands’ work
D．All of these
C
Ideas about
polite behavior are different from one culture to another. Some societies, such
as America and Australia are mobile and very open. People here change jobs and
move house quite often. As a result, they have a lot of relationships that
often last only a short time, So it’s normal to have friendly conversations
with people that they have just met, and you can talk about things that other
cultures would regard as personal.
On the
other hand there are more crowded and less mobile societies where long ? term
relationships are more important. A Malaysian or Mexican business person will
want to get to know you very well before he or she feels happy to start
business. But when you do get to know each other, the relationship becomes much
deeper than it would in a mobile society.
To
Americans, both Europeans and Asians seem cool and formal at first. On the
other hand, as a passenger from a less mobile society put it, it’s no fun
spending several hours next to a stranger who wants to tell you all about his
or her life and asks you all sorts of questions that you don’t want to answer.
Cross-cultural differences aren’t just a problem for travelers, but also
for the flights that carry them. All flights want to provide the best service,
but ideas about good service are different place to place. This can be seen
most clearly in the way that problems are dealt with.
Some
societies have “universalist” cultures. These societies strongly respect rules,
and they treat every person and situation in basically the same way.
‘Particularist’ societies, on the other hand, also have rules, but they are
less important than the society’s unwritten ideas about what is right or wrong
for a particular situation or a particular person. So the normal rules are
changed to fit the needs of the situation or the importance of the person.
This
difference can cause problems. A traveler from a particularist society, India,
is checking in for a flight in Germany, a country which has a universalist
culture. The Indian traveler has too much luggage, but he explains that he has
been away from home for a long time and the suitcases are full of presents for
his family. He expects that the check ? in official will understand his problem
and will change the rules for him. The check ? in official explains that if he
was allowed to have too much luggage, it wouldn’t be fair to the other
passengers. But the traveler thinks this is unfair, because the other
passengers don’t have his problem.
72．Often moving
from one place to another makes people like Americans and Australians .
A．like traveling better
B．easy to communicate with
C．difficult to make real friends
D．have a long ? term relationship with their
neighbors
73．A person from a less mobile society
will feel it
when a stranger keeps talking to him or her, and asking him or her
questions.
A．boring B．friendly C．normal D．rough
74．In “particularist
societies”, .
A．they have no rules for people to
obey
B．people obey the society’s rules completely
C．no one obeys the society’s rules
though they have
D．the society’s rules can be changed
with different persons or situations
75．The writer of the passage thinks
that the Indian and the German have different ideas about rules because of
different .
A．interests B．cultures
C．habits and
customs D．ways of life
D
The
days of elderly women doing nothing but cooking huge meals on holidays are
gone. Enter the Red Hat Society―a group holding the belief that old ladies should have fun.
“My
grandmothers didn’t do anything but keep house and serve everybody. They were
programmed to do that,” said Emils Comette, head of a chapter of the 7-year-old
Red Hat Society.
While
men have long spent their time fishing and playing golf, women have sometimes
seemed to become unnoticed as they age. But the generation now turning 50 is
the baby boomers(生育高峰期出生的人),
and the same people who refused their parents’ way of being young are now
trying a new way of growing old.
If
you take into consideration feminism(女權主義), a bit of spare money, and better health for most elderly, the Red
Hat Society looks almost inevitable(必然的). In this society, women over 50 wear red hats and purple(紫色的) clothes, while the women under
50 wear pink hats and light purple clothing.
“The
organization took the idea from a poem by Jenny Joseph that begins: “When I am
an old woman, I shall wear purple. With a red hat which doesn’t go,” said Ellen
Cooper, who founded the Red Hat Society in 1998. When the ladies started to
wear the red hats, they attracted lots of attention.
“The
point of this is that we need a rest from always doing something for someone
else,” Cooper said. “Women feel so ashamed and sorry when they do something for
themselves.” This is why chapters are discouraged from raising money or doing
anything useful. “We’re a ladies’ play group. It couldn’t be more simple,”
added Cooper’s assistant Joe Heywood.
76．The
underlined word “chapter” in paragraph 2 means __________.
A．one branch of an organization B．a written agreement of a club
C．one part of a collection of poems D．a period in a society’s history
77．From the text
, we know that the “baby boomers” are a group of people who .
A．have gradually become more
noticeable
B．are worried about getting old too
quickly
C．are enjoying a good life with
plenty of money to spend
D．tried living a different life from
their parents when they were young
78．It could be
inferred from the text that members of the Red Hat Society are
.
A．interested in raising money for
social work
B．programmers who can plan well for
their future
C．believers in equality between men
and women
D．good at cooking big meals and
taking care of others
79．Women join
the Red Hat Society because
.
A．they want to stay young
B．they would like to appear more
attractive
C．they would like to have fun and
live for themselves
D．they want to be more like their
parents
Section C
Directions: Read the following text and choose the most suitable
heading from A-F for each paragraph. There is one extra heading which you do
not need.
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A．Different sports require different training programs. B．A Chinese sprinter equaled the world recorder. C．Athletes are still breaking records. D．Sport science helps improve athletes’ performances. E．Mental training is as important as physical training. F．Science may be too important today. 80． At
the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, the Chinese athlete Liu Xiang equaled the
world record for the 110 metres hurdles (跨欄) when he ran the race in 12.91 seconds. This record time had been
set in 1993 by British sprinter (短跑運動員) Colin Jackson and 9 years went by before another athlete was able
to run as fast. 81． Record-breaking
in all track events is slowing down and we appear to be moving much closer to
the limits of human performance. Nevertheless, every four years, records which
were previously thought to be unbeatable are broken. So what's behind this never-ending
improvement in performance? And how long can we keep breaking records? Is there
a limit to human performance or will athletes continue to gain seconds? 82． Most
experts agree that it isn't the athletes' bodies which have changed but the
huge advances in sport science which have enabled them to improve their
performances. The individual athlete obviously has to have the necessary skill
and determination to succeed, but the help of science and technology can be
significant. Research has brought a better understanding of the athlete's body
and mind but the advances in sports equipment technology have also had an
important impact on human performance. 83． Scientists
have shown that an athlete's body's needs vary according to the type of sport.
This research has helped top sports people to adapt their training programme
and diet better to their particular needs. Running the marathon and cycling,
for example, are endurance (耐力) sports and require a different parathion (硝苯硫磷脂) to that of a 100-metre
sprinter. In some sports, changes in techniques have significantly improved
performance. 84． But
in any sport, a player's success or failure results from a combination of both
physical and mental abilities. Most coaches use psychological techniques to
help their athletes cope with stress and concentrate on their performance. For
example, the English football team listens to music in the changing rooms
before a game to help the players relax and not feel so nervous. Before a
difficult match, tennis players are encouraged to use visualization (相象) techniques to build confidence
and this is almost as good as practice. 第Ⅱ卷（共45分） I．Translation（20分） Directions:
Translate the following sentences into English, using the worlds given in the
brackets. 1．幾乎不可能預料今后會發生什么事。（forecast） 2．你應該找一位有經驗的醫生給你看病。（consult） 3．在作決定之前，你 必須預測所有的可能性。（calculate） 4．久雨之后，河水會泛濫成災。（overflow） 5．他無法忍受沒有被提升為部門經理這一事實。（put up with, promote） 6．毫無疑問，一條受過適當訓練的狗可以從事很多高要求的工作。（take up, demanding） II．Guided
Writing（25分） Direction:
Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions
given below in Chinese.根據以下提示，寫一篇120-150詞的英語作文。 Will
Christmas Replace the Spring Festival? 1．全球化環境下，每個人都有選擇自己喜歡的節日的自由。 2．過圣誕節并不意味著就不重視春節這一傳統節日了。 Part One（105分）
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