第2部分:阅读判断 (第16—22题,每题1分,共7分)
- @+ n8 B9 o) L ]4 f3 X, B 阅读下面这篇短文,短文后列出了7个句子,请根据短文的内容对每个句子做出判断。8 W% W; g7 w! f7 s$ L8 B
如果该句提供的是正确信息,请在答题卡上把A涂黑;如果该句提供的是错误信息,请在
- \, b8 c/ n" H+ m; c答题卡上把B涂黑;如果该句的信息文章中没有提及,请在答题卡上把C涂黑。3 ]( r# u+ D. u* W
They Say Ireland’s the Best
5 j" U/ o4 U3 X: k) h+ O" J. k Ireland is the best place in the world to live in for 2005.according to a life quality ranking that appeared in Britain’s Economist magazine last week.
g/ ^4 j1 N( x" K6 z+ h( F4 Q The ambitious attempt to compare happiness levels around the world is based on the7 m6 z+ w: y! O( m1 b
principle that wealth is not the only measure of human satisfaction and well-being.$ N. O$ e/ `( o" n6 n9 U" V7 K
The index of 111countries uses data on incomes,health,unemployment,climate,political8 h) g. p) G+ ?/ ]
stability,job security,gender equality as well as what the magazine calls“freedom,family and
# S& h8 M' k4 C2 B6 f9 V- pcommunity 1ife”5 J" \6 I7 I& w" E) l4 y
Despite the bad weather, troubled health service,traffic congestion(拥挤),gender inequality and the high cost of living.Ireland scored an impressive 8.33 Points out 0f 10.' ^) t6 U# z: r8 a
That put it well ahead of second-place Switzerland.which managed 8.07.Zimbabwe.
1 {- F! p' Q8 m6 s0 otroubled by political insecurity and hunger, is rated the gloomiest(最差的),picking up only 3.89points./ b- B W2 N; L$ y6 z$ w
“Although rising incomes and increased individual choices are highly valued.”the report said,"some of the factors associated with modernization such as the breakdown(崩溃)in- F; x3 h& ]1 c) ^& R4 {. o7 s
traditional institutions and family values in part take away from a positive impact.”$ w- H9 |; R/ N: D/ K' a/ y2 A7 e9 h
“Ireland wins because it successfully combines the most desirable elements of the new$ G: [( p+ [5 O/ @. [
with the preservation of certain warm elements of the old,such as stable family and community life”, N/ E( K) Q! ]3 p5 N. I* X/ p
The magazine admitted measuring quality of life is not a straightforward thing to do,and that its findings would have their critics.
: G. {0 H; r9 i/ a# ~+ \ No.2 on the 1ist is Switzerland.The other nations in the top 10 are Norway.Luxembourg.( x# z) M7 c1 K i8 I0 E6 q, u
Sweden,Australia,Iceland,Italy,Denmark and Spain.5 R" `. `0 `+ y' C
The UK is positioned at No.29,a much lower position chiefly because of the social and
8 e+ n& A$ x% L; @: ^family breakdown recorded in official statistics.The US,which has the second highest per capita
/ l( \$ C3 Y- t: o1 ~6 H( y* |4 O3 BGDP(人均国内生产总值)after Luxembourg,took the 13th place in the survey China was in the
' S9 ^: U9 d. k2 [3 c Z& DLower half of the league at 60th, e1 ^: {7 L: U8 P- _
16 For 2,005 years,Ireland has been the best place for humans to live in
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17 Job security is the least important measure of life quality3 i$ ?$ Q, `9 t' h2 ?: u
A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned
2 A: x, o+ B$ H, o p9 F7 t18 Cost of living in Ireland is pretty high
8 h% D/ X6 m! y7 r' q A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned
" Z( v, X& x( U19 Family life in Zimbabwe is not stable
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a) `. m9 z: E' }20 Ireland is positioned at No 1 because it combines the most desirable elements of the new, ?- S. v4 i2 B$ m" K1 {# |
with some good elements of the old
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2l To measure life quality is easy.
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22 The United States of America is among the top 10 countries.
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第3部分:概括大意与完成句子 (第23~30题,每题1分,共8分)
, p2 g( e4 g- C J. ~ 阅读下面这篇短文,短文后有2项测试任务:(1)第23~26题要求从所给的6个选项
7 `& ?: H2 ?3 F& f6 w3 d ?2 O. {& w6 T中为第2—5段每段选择1个正确的小标题;(2)第27~30题要求从所给的6个选项中选" R3 L5 o' N9 h9 N; _! u
择4个正确选项,分别完成每个句子。请将答案涂在答题卡相应的位置上。
/ v3 J" T0 Q/ z# a& n! CEven Intelligent People Can Fail
2 r; t( \+ H) K) [7 S1 The striking thing about the innovators who succeeded in making our modern world is how
4 {. {, s1 C' l& i/ goften they failed.Turn oil a light,take a photograph,watch TV,search the web,jet across the
/ U* ~" P- O1 e9 t/ {! QPacific Ocean.talk on a cellphone(手机).The innovators who left us these things had to find the4 v4 T3 u1 ^0 X, F+ g9 n* K
way to success through a maze(错综复杂)of wrong turns.
8 S! X, @# f _! e2 We have just celebrated the 125th anniversary of American innovator Thomas Edison’s
, \: A2 ?. N. w: z. W5 g; tsuccess in heating n thin line to white,hot heat for 14 hours in his lab in New Jersey,US.He did
9 l/ [+ z3 }" c: K) i' {that on October 22.1879.and followed up a month later by keeping a thread of common6 f4 _ [6 ]5 w( a: Y
cardboard alight(点亮着的)in an airless space for 45 hours.Three years later he went on to light
/ a+ t+ C, ]7 ~! {# Qup half a square mile of downtown Manhattan,even though only one of the six power plants in
+ B5 N$ d* m$ ]6 m5 R( ~! chis design worked when he turned it on,on September 4,1882.5 Y* o B( e* d" h% D# q
3 “Many of 1ife’S failures”the supreme innovator said.“are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up”Before that magical moment in October 1879.1 D+ D. U3 H/ X8 O, n& a# o# h- |; P
Edison had worked out no fewer than 3.000 theories about electric light.But in only two cases did
9 H" l M) E4 v9 k( }3 Fhis experiments work.
9 c9 Y% B: R3 l% N: U. F0 V4 N0 one likes failure,but the smart innovators learn from it.Mark Gumz.the head of the$ O" ^2 s0 x. _
camera maker Olympus America Inc.attributes some of the company’S successes |