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：Almost one half of all Americans have t0 pay expels，because（）．
A．the list of taxes seems endless
B．they would rather spend their time arid energy elsewhere．
C．they find their knowledge about taxes is s（）limited that they are unable t（）write tax repeals J by 111emselves：
D．paying experts t0 prepare their tax report and asking for tax advice have become very popular．
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第1题
Almost every new innovation goes through three phases. When
initially introducing into the market, the process of adoption is slow. S1.______
The early models are expensive and hard to use, and perhaps even unsafe.
The economic impact is relatively great. S2.______
The second phase is the explosive one, where the innovation was S3.______
rapidly adopted by a large number of people. It gets cheaper and easier
to use and becomes something familiar. And then in the third stage, diffusion
of the innovation slows down again, as if it permeates out across the S4.______
economy. During the explosive phase, the whole new industries
spring up to produce the new product or innovation, but to service it. S5.______
For example, during the 1920s, there was a dramatic acceleration in auto
production, from 1.9 million in 1920 to 4.5 million in 1929. This boom was
accompanying by all sorts of other essential activities necessary for S6.______
auto-based nation: Roads had to be built for the cars to run on; refineries and S7.______
oil wells, to provide the gasoline; and garages, to repair it. Historically, the S8.______
same pattern is repeated again and again with innovations. The construction
of the electrical system requested an enormous early investment in generation S9.______
and distribution capacity. The introduction of the radio was followed by a buying
spree(无节制的狂热行为) by Americans what quickly brought radios into S10.______
almost half of all households by 1930, up from nearly none in 1924.
【S1】
第2题
Low levels of literacy (读写能力) and numeracy (计算能力) have a damaging impact on almost every aspect of adult life. Tests and interviews with hundreds of people born in a single week in 1958【C1】______ the handicap of educational underachievement. The【C2】______ were seen in unemployment, family breakdown, low incomes, depression and social inactivity.
Those【C3】______ left school at 16 with poor basic skills had been employed for up to tour years less than good readers by the time they【C4】______ 37. Professor John Bynner, of City University, said that today's【C5】______ teenagers would【C6】______ even greater problems because the【C7】______ of manual jobs had dried up.
Almost one in five of the 1,700 people interviewed had poor literacy skills and almost half struggled with numeracy, a proportion【C8】______ other surveys for the Basic Skills Agency. Some could not read aloud from a child's book, and most found【C9】______ in following【C10】______ instructions.
Poor readers were twice【C11】______ likely to be on a low wage and four times as likely to live in a household where【C12】______ partner w9rked. Women in this position were five times as likely to be【C13】______ as depressed,【C14】______ both sexes tended to feel they had no【C15】______ over their lives, and to be less trusting of【C16】______
【C17】______ with low literacy and numeracy skills were【C18】______ involved in any community organization and much less likely than others to have voted in a general election. There had been no【C19】______ in the level of interviewees reporting problems since the【C20】______ was surveyed at the age of 21.
【C1】
A．provided
B．illustrated
C．perceived
D．assumed
第3题
The research was not【C3】______to paternity leave. It also found that two out of five men were afraid of asking for flexible working【C4】______it harm their careers by making them appear uncommitted. The same number【C5】______to feeling that they spent too little time with their children.
【C6】______there is something going on【C7】______British culture-and one thing driving our culture is the legal framework in which【C8】______operates.【C9】______to the two-week paternity leave for men, women have a one-year offering. The【C10】______offerings are a signal that in this society men belong in the office【C11】______women should take the lead at home.
A big change【C12】______the horizon is the one that will【C13】______the way for men to take the second six months of their partner's leave【C14】______the woman returns to work. It is a welcome change. But it still starts with the same【C15】______premise(前提)because the leave is offered to the woman who can then choose to【C16】______it on. To launch a real【C17】______in culture, it would be better to offer it to them both and let them decide.【C18】______when men do shake off the cultural chain that【C19】______them to the office--and their breadwinner【C20】______--they can be wonderful full-time fathers.
【C1】
A．as
B．which
C．what
D．that
第4题
A．From a half to two thirds.
B．Their share has almost doubled.
C．By three times.
D．Up to 86%.
第5题
Passage Three
When it comes to singling out those who have made a difference in all our lives, you cannot overlook Henry Ford. A historian a century from now might well conclude that it was Ford who most influenced all manufacturing, everywhere, even to this day, by introducing a new way to make cars--one, strange to say, that originated (超源于) in slaughterhouses (屠宰场).
Back in the early 1900's, slaughterhouses used what could have been called a "disassembly line". Ford reversed this process to see if it would speed up production of a part of an automobile engine called a magneto (磁电机). Rather than have each worker completely assemble a magneto, one of its elements was placed on a conveyer, and each worker, as it passed, added another part to it, the same one each time. Professor David Hounshell of the University of Delaware, an expert on industrial development, tells what happened.
"The previous day, workers carrying out the entire process had averaged one assembly every 20 minutes. But on that day, on the line, the assembly team averaged one every 13 minutes and 10 seconds per person."
Within a year, the time had been reduced to five minutes. In 1913, Ford went all the way. Hooked together by ropes, partially assembled vehicles were pulled past workers who completed them one piece at a time. It wasn't long before Ford was turning out several hundred thousand cars a year, a remarkable achievement then. And so efficient and economical was this new system that he cut the price of his cars in half, to ＄260, putting them within reach of all those who, up until that time, could not afford them. Soon, auto makers the world over copied him. In fact, he encouraged them to do so by writing a book about all of his innovations (革新), entitled Today and Tomorrow. The Age of the Automobile has arrived. Today, everything from toasters to perfumes is made on assembly lines.
To what extent does the writer agree with the historian a century from now？
A．He agrees only slightly.
B．He agrees almost completely.
C．He almost disagrees.
D．He disagrees completely.
第6题
第7题
A．Y
B．N
C．NG
第8题
Spiders are not insects, as many people think, nor even nearly related to them. One can tell the difference almost at a glance, for a spider always has eight legs and insect never more than six.
How many spiders are engaged in this work in our behalf？ One authority on spiders made a census of the spiders in grass field in the south of England, and he estimated that there were more than 2 250 000 in one acre; that is something like 6 000 000 spiders of different kinds on a football pitch. Spiders are busy for at least half the year in killing insects. It is impossible to make more than the wildest guess at how many they kill, but they are hungry creatures, not content with only three meals a day. It has been estimated that the weight of all the insects destroyed by spiders in Britain in one year would be greater than the total weight of all the human beings in the country.
(33)
A．Because they are beneficial insects.
B．Because they destroy insects without hurting us in any way.
C．Because they protect insect-eating animals.
D．Because they include some of the greatest enemies of the human race.
第9题
听力原文： Hundreds of species of marine life manage to survive even in the darkest depths of the ocean. These tenants of the sea have evolved some extremely ingenious devices for locating their food and enemies.
Where the light is very dim, some of these deepwater species have developed enormous eyes with almost telescopic lenses, very much like those of owls. Others, especially the fish that survive where there is no light at all, are quite blind but have developed long feelers that enable them to identify and collect stray bits of food that come within a considerable radius of them.
Some inhabitants of the sea supply their own light. They have built-in torches that they can switch on and off, depending on whether they are pursuing or being pursued. Some have regular lamps, spots of steady light, which spread a faint glow through the water around them. One deepwater squid (鱿鱼) can spray a luminous fluid that lights up its immediate vicinity, a neat variation on the ink ejected by its cousins nearer the surface to becloud and darken the water. It is supposed that about half of the varieties of fish living in the dark depths of the ocean have some power of illumination.
(30)
A．Supply their own light.
B．Locate food and enemies.
C．Compensate for the lack of light.
D．Both B and C.
第10题
听力原文： What can hospitals do to help patients recover faster from illness？ Apart from nursing and medicine, one way that is getting more attention is to improve the quality of the environment in hospitals. Now some of Britain's most talented artists have been called in to transform. older hospitals. Of the 2,500 National Health Service hospitals in Britain, almost 100 now have large collections of contemporary art in corridors, waiting areas and treatment rooms.
These recent creative ideas owe a great deal to one artist, Peter Senior. He set up his studio at a Manchester hospital in northeastern England during the early 1970s. He felt the artist had lost his place in modern society, and that art should be enjoyed by a wider audience.
A typical hospital waiting room might have as many as 5,000 visitors each week. What better place to hold regular exhibitions of art! Senior was so popular that he was soon joined by six young art school graduates.
The effect was striking. Now in the corridors and waiting rooms the visitors have a full view of fresh colors, amusing images and peaceful courtyards.
The quality of the environment may reduce the expensive drugs when a patient is recovering from an illness. According to a study, patients who had a view of a garden needed half the number of strong pain killers compared with patients who had only a brick wall to look at. Those lucky patients said they used to be so upset when they saw the dull environment in hospitals.
(33)
A．Expensive medicine.
B．Good nursing.
C．Beter environment in hospitals.
D．Recovery at home.
