第2部分:阅读判断 (第16—22题,每题1分,共7分)
6 \ q9 [/ t6 @. G& E$ h- k 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。9 W! K9 i5 q+ l) |% b: L9 ]3 |6 _6 Y
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
3 z4 G4 G2 N. \' n% h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。
/ N; W! r% K' } M9 x( [" CThey Say Ireland’s the Best
8 i( n8 L& W, }; ~7 w 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.' e+ z4 ~6 q+ s5 ]
The ambitious attempt to compare happiness levels around the world is based on the* Y% ^/ w8 |% }# g( s* M' z$ q
principle that wealth is not the only measure of human satisfaction and well-being.
, _" s" y% }5 K4 b4 g& | The index of 111countries uses data on incomes,health,unemployment,climate,political1 ^) D5 h# @3 L2 X" X
stability,job security,gender equality as well as what the magazine calls“freedom,family and& ?; k$ C0 \7 m, n) Y( S. D
community 1ife”7 S5 _$ Q6 x0 ~ ^8 R. 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.
x" Q9 o" G/ Z9 E- i; ~ That put it well ahead of second-place Switzerland.which managed 8.07.Zimbabwe.
0 b/ g! }* e& I' Ttroubled by political insecurity and hunger, is rated the gloomiest(最差的),picking up only 3.89points.
( Q- B6 I: L% l' c( b “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% x" U$ C$ U' {- ~# x+ D# [
traditional institutions and family values in part take away from a positive impact.”
1 U% z9 F3 w( q “Ireland wins because it successfully combines the most desirable elements of the new
) M' a! j5 ]) I& |9 {9 Awith the preservation of certain warm elements of the old,such as stable family and community life”2 n9 L" x( u. @; h) m0 m3 T) h
The magazine admitted measuring quality of life is not a straightforward thing to do,and that its findings would have their critics.; Z- A# Y# |' v, H
No.2 on the 1ist is Switzerland.The other nations in the top 10 are Norway.Luxembourg. P- Q8 F# i# z5 D; K; g8 y
Sweden,Australia,Iceland,Italy,Denmark and Spain.
4 |: i- A* I& |: I n" J; i5 u The UK is positioned at No.29,a much lower position chiefly because of the social and( L" V- t8 W; N* F }
family breakdown recorded in official statistics.The US,which has the second highest per capita
1 l+ n2 u" Y* O8 E& y. gGDP(人均国内生产总值)after Luxembourg,took the 13th place in the survey China was in the
( _( A8 s. A! A/ I" I" g- Y+ [7 wLower half of the league at 60th! v/ \; K% k0 T% J! w
16 For 2,005 years,Ireland has been the best place for humans to live in c& a7 x% v1 a" q [ ?) M
A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned1 [8 H, u, `: Y' x8 M" i' a6 V
17 Job security is the least important measure of life quality8 s3 a$ o1 t5 J8 {4 q* r8 ^
A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned
$ t, n0 z! h% v* j! k4 p18 Cost of living in Ireland is pretty high: A; {+ |: e( P! ]$ a3 |* C8 p
A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned
- J& g/ O1 r6 ~ Q3 _1 c4 h: }19 Family life in Zimbabwe is not stable
- C, D8 _1 \) X, X9 [2 G A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned: I4 y4 s% f% d6 d/ o E
20 Ireland is positioned at No 1 because it combines the most desirable elements of the new+ c3 C/ x- f: ?
with some good elements of the old* |2 y0 W$ b- S; N
A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned8 A6 r2 i- Q8 I% }' c+ I
2l To measure life quality is easy.
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22 The United States of America is among the top 10 countries.
0 }, a) H4 A5 e) ]9 G8 J A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned6 X: B- q7 x. W( Q
第3部分:概括大意与完成句子 (第23~30题,每题1分,共8分)
% ]# B; W: v% l# K$ S( { 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
" U; Z9 \& e- Z4 a3 k H: Z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
9 P8 @' k7 r2 d6 q) W+ L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。* p* A0 J. O }; j% O
Even Intelligent People Can Fail4 @6 z, o9 d0 P2 M' b
1 The striking thing about the innovators who succeeded in making our modern world is how
: z5 T: }! V" T0 i" o9 coften they failed.Turn oil a light,take a photograph,watch TV,search the web,jet across the. @$ Z# F# ~+ [! l3 Q1 a
Pacific Ocean.talk on a cellphone(手机).The innovators who left us these things had to find the. g. z4 ^& d, |3 G' ]
way to success through a maze(错综复杂)of wrong turns.5 |/ }1 V4 c; n
2 We have just celebrated the 125th anniversary of American innovator Thomas Edison’s( o. R% k+ d o! K
success in heating n thin line to white,hot heat for 14 hours in his lab in New Jersey,US.He did8 j3 ~* L* B8 N. J- `
that on October 22.1879.and followed up a month later by keeping a thread of common; S" N' W' Y8 N1 `
cardboard alight(点亮着的)in an airless space for 45 hours.Three years later he went on to light
2 T1 w3 ]# i/ ^6 G/ ~7 K3 xup half a square mile of downtown Manhattan,even though only one of the six power plants in/ k* x# s5 E+ k( I6 Q
his design worked when he turned it on,on September 4,1882.( t/ p' I" \4 k! r8 P: O0 ]. x
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.
( R2 W1 A( H! n/ n) }$ \Edison had worked out no fewer than 3.000 theories about electric light.But in only two cases did# m8 p y) I- C: j! e' E
his experiments work.
! S& s' g+ Y( O' z3 b4 g4 N0 one likes failure,but the smart innovators learn from it.Mark Gumz.the head of the
2 p; o( s, E) Zcamera maker Olympus America Inc.attributes some of the company’S successes |