Questions 76 to 80 are based on the following passage:
This is News on the Hour, Ed Wilson reporting. The President and First Lady will visit Africa on a goodwill tour in May. They plan to visit eight African countries.
Reports from China say the Chinese want closer ties between China and the U.S. and Western Europe. A group of Chinese scientists starts its ten-nation tour next-month.
Here in Miami, the mayor is still meeting with the leaders of the teachers' union to try to find a way to end the strike. City schools are still closed after two weeks.
In news about health, scientists in California report findings of a relationship between the drinking of coffee and the increase of heart disease among women. According to the report in the American Medical Journal (=magazine), the five-year study shows this: Women who drink more than two cups of coffee a day have a greater chance of having heart disease than women who do not.
In sports the Chargers lost again last night. The BBS beat them 1 to nothing. The Wingers had better results. They beat the Rifles 7 to 3. It was their first win in their last five matches.
That’s the News on the Hour. And now back to more easy listening with Jan Singer.
76. Who gave the News on the Hour? ______.
A. The President and First Lady
B. Ed Wilson
C. Scientists in California
C. Jan Singer
77. A group of top Chinese scientists will ______.
A. visit the U. S. and Western Europe to improve the ties between China and them
B. come closer to the U. S. and Western Europe
C. close the door of China to the U.S. and Western Europe
D. improve the ties between the U.S. and Western Europe
78. From the news in Miami we know ______.
A. the mayor has agreed with the teachers' union
B. the teachers' strike will last long
C. students haven't been to school for two weeks
D. the mayor was trying to end the schools
79. The news about health tells us that ______.
A. no heart disease will be found if people don't drink coffee
B. no one should drink more than two cups of coffee a day
C. the more coffee people drink, the more chance they will get to have heart disease
D. women’s heart disease has something to do with their drinking of coffee
80. From the last news we do not know ______.
A. the results of the two matches
B. the number of the teams which played last night
C. how many wins the BBS has had altogether
D. the Wingers has had one win and four defeats recently
Questions 81 to 85 are based on the following passage:
Many of the modern world's most famous discoveries and inventions were not made by scientists, but by amateur (业余的) inventors. Often these inventors had such unusual ideas that they were often laughed at. But people like these inventions. Working on their own, these inventors gave us many of the things we use everyday.
Clarence Birdseye, who invented frozen foods, was both a successful inventor and a good businessman. But it took him years to overcome the biggest problem of successful inventions -- convincing people to try something new and different. Birdseye first tried to freeze fish. After years of experiments, he started Birdseye Seafoods, Inc. Even though the experiments were successful, people didn't believe that frozen fish could possibly be good. The company was losing money and soon it went bankrupt (破产). Birdseye did not lose heart. It took a long time, but people finally accepted frozen food. By the end of his life, Birdseye, who was a completely self-taught inventor, sold his patents (专利) for a total of 22 million dollars.
Few inventors were as successful as Birdseye. Some did not realize the importance of their discoveries. The son of the inventor of Coca-Cola sold the recipe for $2,300. Today the product is worth billions of dollars. In 1853, Karl Gerhardt invented aspirin but he didn't know what to do with it. Fifty years after his invention, a German company discovered that was a painkiller and has made millions selling it. Edwin Armstrong invented FM radio, but he spent his life trying to protect his invention. Competitors stole his patents, and companies cheated him out of money. Finally, he became so disappointed with his failures that he ended his life by jumping out of a window.
Most great inventors, like Gerhardt and Armstrong, made little or nothing from their inventions. The first person with a new idea may get attention, but he also gets the problem of an untried idea. In business, it is sometimes better to be second.
81. According to the writer, we owe many things we use everyday to people who ______.
A. went bankrupt
B. had very strange ideas
C. were liked by people
D. killed themselves
82. Birdseye was not very successful at first because ______.
A. he tried to freeze fish
B. he started a company
C. he did not know what to do with his invention
D. people did not want to try anything new and different
83. The son of the inventor of Coca-Cola sold the recipe for ______.
A. a great deal of money
B. a small sum of money
C. what the recipe is worth
D. nothing at all
84. Karl Gerhardt invented aspirin ______.
A. without knowing its uses himself
B. for a German company
C. for the doctors
D. for his family
85. The writer of the selection implies that most inventors ______.
A. are from wealthy families
B. are great scientists
C. are not good businessmen
D. do not get attention at all
Questions 86 to 90 are based on the following passage:
Have you been in a meeting while someone was making a speech and realized suddenly that your mind was a million miles away? You probably felt sorry and made up your mind to pay attention and never have daydreaming again. Most of us, from earliest school days, have been told that daydreaming is a waste of time.
"On the contrary," says L. Giambra, an expert in psychology(心理学), "Daydreaming is quite necessary. Without it, the mind couldn’t get done all the thinking it has to do during a normal day... You can't possibly do all your thinking with a conscious mind. Instead, you unconscious mind is working out problems all the time. Day dreaming then may be one way that the unconscious and conscious states of mind have silent dialogues."
Early experts in psychology paid no attention to the importance of daydreams or even considered them harmful. At one time daydreaming was thought to be a cause of some mental illnesses. They did not have a better understanding of daydreams until the late 1980s. Erric Klinger, a professor of psychology, is the writer of the book Daydreaming. Klinger says: "We know how that daydreaming is one of the main ways that we organize our lives, learn from our experiences, and plan for our futures... Daydreams really are a window on the things we fear and the things we long for in life."
Daydreams are usually very simple and direct, quite unlike deep dreams, which may be hard to understand. It’s easier to gain a deep understanding of your life by paying close attention to your daydreams than by trying to examine your sleep dreams carefully. Daydreams help you recognize the difficult situations in your life and find out a possible way of handling them.
Daydreams cannot be predicted(预见); they move off in unexpected directions which may be creative and full of useful ideas. For many famous artists and scientists, daydreams were and are a main source of creative energy.
So the next time you catch yourself daydreaming, don't stop. Just pay attention to your dream. It may be more important than you think.
86. Daydreaming used to be considered ______.
A. very simple and direct
B. unimportant and even harmful
C. a necessary part of thinking
D. the result of an unconscious mind
87. In what way are daydreams different from sleep dreams?
A. Daydreams are easier for us to understand.
B. Daydreams are not so easy for us to control and direct.
C. Daydreams help us to handle more different situations.
D. Daydreams help to develop an unconscious mind.
88. Professor Erric Klinger believes that ______.
A. We may study our experiences just through our daydreams
B. daydreams are one of the important ways that we recognize our lives
C. we should be able to tell our futures by having daydreams
D. our fears and longings in life are shown in our daydreams
89. The writer of the article thinks that ______.
A. Professor Erric Klinger has a better idea than L. Giambra
B. daydreaming with an unconscious mind will do good to health
C. daydreaming is more helpful than sleep dreams
D. many artists and scientists are famous because they have daydreams
90. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A. Daydreaming was once regarded as a cause of some mental illness.
B. Scientists believe that we can know daydreams before having them.
C. Experts began to have a better understanding of daydreams in the late 1980s.
D. Many well-known artists gained energy of creation from daydreams.
IV Translation (20 Points)
Translate the following sentences into English, using the key words and expressions given below.
91.就你们家人而言，你不必再为他们担心了。(as far as … concerned)
92.他二十岁时加入了共产党。(join)
93.总统任命一位新的内阁成员。(appoint)
94.不要以貌取人。(judge by …)
95.依我看来，很少有人不会感染虚荣心或妒忌的。(be immune to)