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　　Passage 11

　　This is a time of year when we think about giving and receiving presents. Can you find a little extra to give? On this page we suggest a few organizations you might like to help.

　　Littleton Children’s Home

　　We DON’T want your money, but children’s toys, books and clothes IN GOOD CONDITION would be very welcome.

　　Also, we are looking for friendly families who would take our children into their homes for a few hours or days as guests. You have so much─will you share it?

　　Phone Sister Thomas on 55671

　　Children’s Hospice

　　We look after a small number of very sick children. This important work needs skill and love. We cannot continue without gifts or money to pay for more nursing staff. We also need storybooks and toys suitable for quiet games.

　　Please contact the Secretary, Little Children’s Hospice, Newby Road.

　　Street Food

　　In the winter weather, it’s no fun being homeless. It’s even worse if you’re hungry. We give hot food to at least fifty people every night. It’s hard work, but necessary. Can you come and help? If not, can you find a little money? We used a very old kitchen, and we need some new sauce pans. Money for new ones would be most welcome indeed.

　　Contact Street Food, c/o Mary’s House, Elming Way. Littleton Phone 27713 Littleton Youth Club

　　Have you got an unwanted chair?─a record-player?─a pot of paint ? Because we can use them!

　　We want to get to work on our meeting room!

　　Please phone 66231 and we’ll be happy to collect anything you can give us.

　　Thank you!

　　The Night Shelter

　　We offer a warm bed for the night to anyone who has nowhere to go. We rent the former Commercial Hotel on Green Street. Although it is not expensive, we never seem to have quite enough money. Can let us have a few pounds? Any amount, however small, will be such a help.

　　Send it to us at 15, Green St, Littleton. Please make check payable to Night Shelter.

　　1. Reading the passage, you might like to help these organizations while working for_____.

　　A. homeless and sick children

　　B. less fortunate members of our society

　　C. hungry people who have no beds to sleep in

　　D. friendly members of our society to help others

　　2. If you like children and you could offer a happy family to a homeless child, you may go to_____.

　　A. Street Food B. Night Shelter C. Children’s Home D. Children’s Hospice

　　3. We can infer that____.

　　A. there are too many social problems in this country

　　B. people are very poor during the time for giving

　　C. warm-hearted people like to give away money

　　D. this passage is taken from a local newspaper

　　答案与分析

　　全文介绍了如何向为孩子办的福利机构捐赠钱物。

　　1. B主旨大意题。A有较大干扰性，然而 less fortunate members of our society 不仅仅包括homeless and sick children 同样也包含Littleton Youth Club栏中介绍的那些缺衣少物的人，因此与A相比较B更合适。

　　2. C细节题。从Littleton children’s Home栏中的Also, we are looking for friendly families who would take our children...得此答案。

　　3. D 推理判断题。A,C均有较大干扰性。本文仅让人们帮那些无家可归、生病及缺衣少物的人，并未涉及其他社会问题，因此A不合题意。从Littleton Children’s Home 栏及Littleton Youth Club栏看，作者并非全让人们捐钱，因此 C不合题意。

　　Passage 12

　　The old idea that child prodigies (神童) “burn themselves” or “overtax their brains” in the early years, therefore, are prey to failure and (at worst) mental illness is just a myth(误传). As a matter of fact, the outstanding thing that happens to bright children is that they are very likely to grow into bright adults. To find this out, 1 500 gifted persons were followed up to their thirty-fifth year with these results: On adult intelligence tests, they scored as high as they did as children. They were, as a group, in good health, physically and mentally. Eighty-four percent of their group were married and seemed content with their life.

　　About 70 percent had graduated from colleges, though only 30 percent had graduated with honors. A few had even flunked out(退学), but nearly half of these had returned to graduate.

　　Of the men, 80 percent were in one of the professions or in business, managers or semiprofessional jobs. The women who had remained single had offices, business, or professional occupations.

　　The group had published 90 books and 1,500 articles in scientific, scholarly, and literary magazines and had collected more than 100 patents(专利权).

　　In a material way they didn’t do badly either. Average income was considerably higher.

　　Among the gifted people, especially the men, than for the country as a whole, despite their comparative youth when last surveyed. In fact, far from being strange, maladjusted (难以适应) people locked in an ivory tower, most of the gifted were turning their early promises into practical reality.

　　1. The main idea of the passage is _____.

　　A. how many gifted children turned successful when they grew up

　　B. that bright children were unlikely to be physically and mentally healthy

　　C. that gifted children were most likely to become bright grown-ups

　　D. that when the bright children grew up, they would become ordinary

　　2. From the passage, we can conclude that _____.

　　A. most of the gifted children became white collars

　　B. half of the gifted followed up graduated from colleges

　　C. each of the talented published at least one article

　　D. bright men got higher income than bright women

　　3. The explanation of the underlined “turning their early promises into practical reality” is _____.

　　A. earning their living and keeping promises

　　B. doing practical jobs and facing reality

　　C. doing what they have promised

　　D. realizing what they were expected

　　答案与分析

　　通读全文，本文是说明文。全文讲了关于神童的一些过去的传说，和实际的调查证明。

　　1. C 细节理解题。从第一段As a matter of fact, the outstanding thing that happens to bright children is that they are very likely to grow into bright adults.以及下文得此答案。

　　2. A 细节题。从第三段Of the men, 80 percent were in one of the professions or in business, managers or semiprofessional jobs. The women who had remained single had offices, business, or professional occupations.得此答案。

　　3. D 词义理解题。turn …into在这里是“实现”的意思。划线部分的意思是“他们大都实现了过去的期望”。

　　Passage 13

　　NEW YORK, May 19—A new, more destructive (破坏性) version of the “Love Bug” virus is slowly spreading across the world, but so far the damage is small compared with its former version.

　　The new Love Bug virus creates disorder.

　　Richard Saunders of anti-viral (反病毒) firm Symantec said the virus only affected a dozen companies around the world.

　　“While it is a nasty virus, it’s not spreading anywhere near the rate the Love Bug or (last year’ s) Melissa was spreading,” Saunders said.

　　“New Love” is similar in form to the Love Bug, which swept the world two weeks ago and caused more than ＄10 million in damages. But it’s much more destructive. The virus appears as an attachment(附件) to an e-mail whose subject begins with “FW”.

　　If a user clicks on the attachment’ s scroll-like icon (卷轴样的图标), every file on his hard drive is destroyed.

　　“Basically, it’s going to destroy your machine,” said Eric Chien, chief researcher at Symantec’ s anti-virus lab in the Netherlands.

　　The Love Bug only killed a small set of files, including graphic files. This virus even wipes out the Windows operating system.

　　Attorney General Janet Reno warned the public at a news conference today to be careful of any suspicious e-mail with attachments. “Do not open it, even it comes from a trusted source,” she said.

　　Don’ t Open That Attachments.

　　Like the Love Bug, after the e-mail attachment is opened and the virus is carried out, New Love sends itself to everyone in a victim’s Microsoft Outlook address book. Fortunately for users, the lesson is the same as from the Love Bug: If you see a message with an attachment whose name ends in “vbs”, with a scroll-like icon, don’ t click on the attachment.

　　Also like the Love Bug, this virus only affects computers running Windows 98,NT 4.0.

　　Windows 95 with Internet Explorer 5.0 and can only spread if users rely on a Microsoft Outlook address book for e-mail.

　　Microsoft will soon give a fix for Outlook that warns people of suspicious attachments, the company said.

　　1. According to the passage, so far the new Love Bug virus _____.

　　A. has made the whole world disordered

　　B. causes more damages than other forms of virus

　　C. is the newest and spreading the fastest

　　D. has affected 12 companies around the world

　　2. Computer users are warned in this article _____.

　　A. not to open e-mails beginning with “FW” subjects

　　B. not to open the attachment of doubtful e-mails

　　C. to stop using Microsoft Outlook address book

　　D. to examine the Windows Operating System carefully

　　3. It can be suggested from the passage that _____.

　　A. the mail sent by a friend is surely free of the virus

　　B. the Microsoft company will take action against the virus

　　C. all computers running Windows 98 will be affected

　　D. the users can not find the way to deal with the Love Bug

　　4. The author writes this passage in order to _____.

　　A. compare some types of virus

　　B. explain how the Love Bug is formed

　　C. tell the readers something about a new virus

　　D. remind computer companies to kill the virus

　　答案与分析：

　　计算机病毒有了新的特征，本文中专家针对这些特征提出了忠告。

　　1. D细节题。从第三段only affected a dozen companies around the world得此答案。

　　2. B 细节题。从Attorney General Janet Reno warned the public at a news conference today to be careful of any suspicious e-mail with attachments.得此答案。

　　3. B 细节题。从最后一段Microsoft will soon give a fix for Outlook that warns people of suspicious attachments得此答案。

　　4. C 作者意图推断题。作者在文中介绍这些新病毒的特征及专家的建议。

　　Passage 14

　　There are many famous museums throughout the world where people can enjoy art. Washington, D. C. has the National Gallery of Art (美术馆) ; Paris has the Louvre; London, the British Museum. Florida International University (FIU) in Miami also shows art for people to see. And it does so without a building, or even a wall for its drawings and paintings.

　　FIU has opened what it says is the first computer art museum in the United States. You don’t have to visit the University to see the art. You just need a computer linked to a telephone.

　　You can call the telephone number of a University computer and connect your own computer to it. All of the art is stored in the school computer. It is computer art, produced electronically (采用电子手段) by artists in their own computers. In only a few minutes, your computer can receive and copy all the pictures and drawings.

　　Robert Shostak is director of the new computer museum. He says he started the museum because computer artists had no place to show their work.

　　A computer artist could only record his pictures electronically and send the records, or floppy discs (软盘) ,to others to see on their computers. He could also put his pictures on paper. But to print good pictures in paper, the computer artist needed an expensive laser (激光) printer.

　　Robert Shostak says the electronic museum is mostly for art or computer students at schools and universities. Many of the pictures in the museum are made by students. Mr Shostak said the FIU museum will make computer art more fun for computer artists because more people can see it. He says artists enjoy their work much more if they have an audience. And the great number of home computers in America could mean a huge audience for the electronic museum.

　　1. The main purpose of this text is to give information about____.

　　A. famous museums through the world

　　B. a computer art museum in Miami, U .S. A.

　　C. art exhibitions in Florida International University

　　D. latest development in computer art

　　2. To see the art in FIU museum, your special needs include_____.

　　A. floppy discs

　　B. a computer and a printer

　　C. pictures and drawings on paper

　　D. a computer connected to the museum by telephone line

　　3. What are stored in this museum?

　　A. paintings drawn by means of computer.

　　B. different styles of paintings.

　　C. Old paintings

　　D. Drawings done by art students of FIU.

　　4. The museum was started when____.

　　A. Robert Shostak wanted to do something for computer scientists

　　B. Robert Shostak wanted to help computer artists

　　C. art students needed a place to show their works

　　D. computer scientists wanted to do something about art

　　答案与分析

　　本文是记叙文。全文讲述了位于迈阿密州的Florida International University的电子图书馆的与众不同。

　　1. B主旨大意题。作者首先在文章开头介绍世界著名图书馆，接着引出迈阿密州的Florida International University,接下来文章详细地介绍了FIU，因此 B为最佳答案。

　　2. D细节题。You can call the telephone number of a University computer and connect your own computer to it可告诉我们此答案。

　　3. A细节题。从It is computer art, produced electronically...得此答案。

　　4. B.推理题。从He says he started the museum because computer artists had no place to show their work看，Robert Shostak 开办这家电子美术馆的目的是为艺术家们一个展示艺术的天地，因此B为最佳答案。在此C有较大干扰性，从文章最后一段看似乎这一答案正确，然而从第三段看，这家电子美术馆是面对所有的艺术家，而并非只对艺术学生。

　　Passage 15

　　Like fine food, good writing is something we approach with pleasure and enjoy from the first taste to the last. And good writers, like good cooks, do not suddenly appear full-blown. Quite the opposite, just as the cook has to undergo a particular training, mastering the skills of his trade, the writer must sit at his desk and devote long hours to achieving a style in his writing, whatever its purpose is— schoolwork, matters of business, or purely social communication.

　　You may be sure that the more painstaking the effort, the more effective the writing , and the more rewarding.

　　There are still some faraway places in the world where you might find a public scribe to do your business or social writing for you, for money. There are a few managers who are lucky enough to have the service of that rare kind of secretary who can take care of all sorts of letter writing with no more than a quick note to work from. But for most of us, if there is any writing to be done, we have to do it ourselves.

　　We have to write school papers, business papers or home papers. We are constantly called on to put words to papers. It would be difficult to count the number of such words, messages, letters, and reports put into mails or delivered by hand, but the daily figures must be extremely large. What is more, everyone who writes expects, or at least hopes whatever he writers will be read, from first word to last, not just thrown into some “letters-to-be-read” files or into a wastepaper basket. This is the reason we bend our efforts toward learning and practicing the skills of interesting, effective writing.

　　1. In this passage, good writing is compared to fine food because _____.

　　A. both are enjoyable

　　B. both are hard to learn

　　C. both are necessary to life

　　D. both take a long time to prepare

　　2. According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?

　　A. Writing skills are less important than experience.

　　B.A good writer should have his own way of writing.

　　C.A good writer should learn to write all kinds of articles.

　　D. The more efforts one makes, the more money one can earn.

　　3 .The author thinks that the most important reason for us to practice writing skills is _____.

　　A. to earn our living B. to attract others to read

　　C. to do daily reports easily D. to become good secretaries

　　4. The purpose of the author in writing this passage is to _____.

　　A. comment and blame B. introduce and describe

　　C. explain and persuade D. interest and inform

　　答案与分析

　　好的书写就像一道美味的食品，本文从几个方面进行说明了好的书法的重要性。就如何写好字作者提出了自己的建议。

　　1. A 细节题。从第一句Like fine food, good writing is something we approach with pleasure and enjoy from the first taste to the last 得此答案。

　　2. B 细节题。从the writer must sit at his desk and devote long hours to achieving a style in his writing,得此答案。

　　3. B 从最后一段What is more, everyone who writes expects, or at least hopes whatever he writers will be read, from first word to last 得此答案。

　　4. C 作者意图推断题。首先作者说明了如何锻炼书法，接着劝人们写好字，以便别人能读完，免得被扔。

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