A) we are going home
B) we go home
C) we went home
D) we can go home
44. Lightning is a ________ of electrical current from a cloud to the ground or from one
cloud to another.
A) rush
B) rainbow
C) rack
D) ribbon
45. Today, ________ major new products without conducting elaborate market research.
A) corporations hardly introduce ever
B) corporations hardly ever introduce
C) hardly corporations introduce ever
D) hardly corporations ever introduce
46. I’ve already told you that I’m going to buy it, ________.
A) however much it costs
B) however does it costs much
C) how much does it cost
D) no matter how it costs
47. New York ________ second in the production of apples, producing 850,000,000
pounds this year.
A) ranked
B) occupied
C) arranged
D) classified
48. Melted iron is poured into the mixer much ________ tea is poured into a cup from a
teapot.
A) in the same way like
B) in the same way which
C) in the same way
D) in the same way as
49. By success I don’t mean ________ usually thought of when that word is used.
A) what is
B) that we
C) as you
D) all is
50. I caught a ________ of the taxi before it disappeared around the corner of the
street.
A) vision
B) glimpse
C) look
D) scene
Part III Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some
questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices
marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark
the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the
center.
Passage One
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
Exchange a glance with someone, then look away. Do you realize that you have
made a statement? Hold the glance for a second longer, and you have made a different
statement. Hold it for 3 seconds, and the meaning has changed again. For every social
situation, there is a permissible time that you can hold a person’s gaze without being
intimate, rude, or aggressive. If you are on an elevator, what gaze-time are you permitted?
To answer this question, consider what you typically do. You very likely give other
passengers a quick glance to size them up (打量) and to assure them that you mean no
threat. Since being close to another person signals the possibility of interaction. You need
to emit a signal telling others you want to be left alone. So you cut off eye contact, what
sociologist Erving Goffman (1963) calls “a dimming of the lights.” You look down at the
floor, at the indicator lights, anywhere but into another passenger’s eyes. Should you
break the rule against staring at a stranger on an elevator, you will make the other person
exceedingly uncomfortable, and you are likely to feel a bit strange yourself.
If you hold eye contact for more than 3 seconds, what are you telling another person?
Much depends on the person and the situation. For instance, a man and a woman
communicate interest in this manner. They typically gaze at each other for about 3
seconds at a time, then drop their eyes down for 3 seconds, before letting their eyes meet
again. But if one man gives another man a 3-second-plus stare, he signals, “I know you”,
“I am interested in you,” or “You look peculiar and I am curious about you.” This type of
stare often produces hostile feelings.
51. It can be inferred form the first paragraph that ________.
A) every glance has its significance
B) staring at a person is an expression of interest
C) a gaze longer than 3 seconds is unacceptable
D) a glance conveys more meaning than words
52. If you want to be left alone on an elevator, the best thing to do is ________.
A) to look into another passenger’s eyes
B) to avoid eye contact with other passengers
C) to signal you are not a threat to anyone
D) to keep a distance from other passengers
53. By “a dimming of the lights” (Para. 1, Line 9) Erving Goffman means “________”.
A) closing one’s eyes
B) turning off the lights
C) creasing to glance at others
D) reducing gaze-time to the minimum
54. If one is looked at by a stranger for too long, he tends to feel ________.
A) depressed
B) uneasy
C) curious
D) amused
55. The passage mainly discusses ________.
A) the limitations of eye contact
B) the exchange of ideas through eye contact
C) proper behavior in situations
D) the role of eye contact in interpersonal communication
Passage Two
Questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.
The picnics, speeches, and parades of today’s Labor Day were all part of the first
celebration, held in New York City in 1882. Its promoter was an Irish-American labor
leader named peter J. McGuire. A carpenter by trade, McGuire had worked since the age
of eleven, and in 1882 was president of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners (UBCJ). Approaching the City’s Central Labor Union that summer, he proposed a
holiday that would applaud (赞许)“the industrial spirit-the great vital force of every
nation,” On September 5 his suggestion bore fruit, as an estimated 10,000 workers, many
of them ignoring their bosses’ warnings, left work to march from Union square up Fifth
Avenue to 42nd Street. The event gained national attention, and by 1893 thirty states had
made Labor Day an annual holiday.
The quick adoption of the scheme may have indicated less about the state
lawmakers’ respect for working people than about a fear of risking their anger. In the
1880s the United States was a land sharply divided between the immensely wealthy and
the very poor. Henry George was accurate in describing the era as one of “progress and
poverty.” In a society in which factory, owners rode in private Pullmans while
ten-year-olds slaved in the mines, strong anti-capitalist feeling ran high. Demands for
fundamental change were common throughout the labor press. With socialists demanding
an end to “wage slavery” and anarchists (无政府主义) singing the praises of the virtues
of dynamite (炸药), middle-of-the-roaders like Samuel Gompers and McGuire seemed
attractively mild by comparison. One can imagine practical capitalists seeing Labor Day
as a bargain: A one-day party certainly cost them less than paying their workers decent
wages.
56. Judging from the passage, McGuire was ________.
A) a moderate labor leader
B) an extreme-anarchist in the labor movement
C) a devoted socialist fighting against exploitation of man by man
D) a firm anti-capitalist demanding the elimination of wage slavery
57. We can see from the first paragraph that the first Labor Day march ________.
A) immediately won nationwide support
B) involved workers from 30 states
C) was opposed by many factory owners
D) was organized by the UBCJ
58. Which of the following is the key factor in the immediate approval of Labor Day as
a national holiday?