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1、-Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)Directions:There are 4 reading 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 th

2、e Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.Passage OneQuestions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage:When Kathie Giffords face was splashed across the newspapers in 1996 after her lucrative line of Walmart clothing was exposed as the work of underpaid laborers in New York Citys Chin

3、atown, the Department of Labor and the White House teamed up to condemn such practices. With much fanfare, President Clintons administration launched the “No Sweat” campaign, which pressured retailers and manufacturers to submit to periodic independent inspection of their workplace conditions.;This

4、campaign urged manufacturers to sign the Workplace Code of Conduct, a promise to selfregulate that has since been adopted by a handful of retailers and many of the nations largest manufacturers, including Nike and L.L. Bean. However, the Department of Defense, which has a $ 1 billion garment busines

5、s that would make it the countrys 14th largest retail apparel outlet, has not signed the Code of Conduct. In addition, it has not agreed to demand that its contractors submit to periodic inspections.;Because the Department of Defense has not agreed to adhere to the code, the job of stopping publicse

6、ctor sweatshops falls to the Department of Labor. Federal contractors that persist in violating wage laws or safety and health codes can lose their lucrative taxpayerfinanced contracts. But Suzanne Seiden, a deputy administrator at the Department of Labor, says that to her knowledge, the department

7、has never applied that rule to government apparel manufacturers. “I just assume that they are adhering to safety and health requirements,” she says. According to records obtained by Mother Jones, through a Freedom of Information Act request, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cite

8、d Lion 32 times for safety and health violations in the past 12 years.21.What is this passgage mainly concerned with?A)The functions of the Department of Labor in America.B)A serious problem threatening American economy.C)The successful attempt of regulating sweatshops in America.D)The seriousness o

9、f the problem of sweatshops in America.22.According to the passage, Kathie Gifford _.A) was one of the underpaid laborers in New York Citys ChinatownB) was one of the wellpaid laborers in New York Citys ChinatownC) made much money from cheap laborers in New York Citys ChinatownD) wrote a newspaper a

10、rticle exposing the practice of employing cheap laborers23.The underlined phrase “to submit to” is closest in meaning to _.A) to accept unwillinglyB) to refuse coldlyC) to welcome warmheartedlyD) to blame strongly24.Which of the following statements about the Department of Defense is true?A) It will

11、 become the countrys 14th largest retail apparel manufacturer.B) It hasnt acted according to the Workplace Code of Conduct.C) It has demanded its contractors to sign the Workplace Code of Conduct.D) It has teamed up with the Department of Labor to launch a campaign.25.What was the purpose of Preside

12、nt Clintons administration launching the “No Sweat” campaign?A) To urge manufacturers to obey the Workplace Code of Conduct.B) To remind the manufacturers of the Workplace Code of Conduct.C) To urge the Department of Labor to take its responsibility.D) To urge the Department of Defense to inspect ma

13、nufacturers.Passage TwoQuestions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage:The term investment portfolio conjures up visions of the truly rich-the Rockefellers, the WalMart Waltons, Bill Gates. But today, everyone-from the Philadelphia firefighter, his parttime receptionist wife and their three ch

14、ildren, to the single Los Angeles lawyer starting out on his own-needs a portfolio.;A portfolio is simply a collection of financial assets. It may include real estate, rare stamps and coins, precious metals and even artworks. But those are for people with expertise. What most of us need to know abou

15、t are stocks, bonds and cash (including such cash equivalents as moneymarket funds).;How do you decide what part of your portfolio should go to each of the big three? Begin by understanding that stocks pay higher returns but are more risky; bonds and cash pay lower returns but are less risky.;Resear

16、ch by Ibbotson Associates, for example, shows that largecompany stocks, on average, have returned 11.2 percent annually since 1926. Over the same period, by comparison, bonds have returned an annual average of 5.3 percent and cash, 3.8 percent.;But shortterm risk is another matter. In 1974, a oneyea

17、r $1000 investment in the stock market would have declined to $735.;With bonds, there are two kinds of risk: that the borrower wont pay you back and that the money youll get wont be worth very much. The U.S. government stands behind treasury bonds, so the credit risk is almost nil. But the inflation

18、 risk remains. Say you buy a $1000 bond maturing in ten years. If inflation averages about seven percent over that time, then the $1000 you receive at maturity can only buy $500 worth of todays goods.;With cash, the inflation risk is lower, since over a long period you can keep rolling over your CDs

19、 every year (or more often). If inflation rises, interest rates rise to compensate.;As a result, the single most imortant rule in building a portfolio is this: If you dont need the money for a long time, then put it into stocks. If you need it soon, put it into bonds and cash.26.This passage is inte

20、nded to give advice on _.A) how to avoid inflation risksB) what kinds of bonds to buyC) how to get rich by investing in stock marketD) how to become richer by spreading the risk27.The author mentions such millionaires as the Rockefellers and Bill Gates to show that _.A) they are examples for us on o

21、ur road to wealthB) a portfolio is essential to financial successC) they are really rich peopleD) they started out on their own28.Which of the following statements will the author support?A) Everybody can get rich with some financial assets.B) The credit risk for treasury bonds is extremely high.C)

22、Its no use trying to know the advantages of stocks, bonds and cash.D) Everybody should realize the importance of distribution of their financial assets.29.The word “returns” in paragraph three can be best replaced by “_.”A) returning journeysB) profitsC) savingsD) investments30.The author of the pas

23、sage points out that _.A) keeping cash is the only way to avoid risksB) the longer you own a stock, the more you lostC) the high rate of profit and high rate of risk coexist in stocksD) the best way to accumulate wealth is by investing in stocksPassage ThreeQuestions 31 to 35 are based on the follow

24、ing passage:There were two widely divergent influences on the early development of statistical methods. Statistics had a mother who was dedicated to keeping orderly records of governmental units (state and statistics come from the same Latin root, status) and a gentlemanly gambling father who relied

25、 on mathematics to increase his skill at playing the odds in games of chance. The influence of the mother on the offspring, statistics, is represented by counting, measuring, describing, tabulating, ordering, and the taking of censusesall of which led to modern descriptive statistics. From the influ

26、ence of the father came modern inferential statistics, which is based squarely on theories of probability.;Descriptive statistics involves tabulating, depicting, and describing collections of data. These data may be either quantitative, such as measures of height, intelligence, or grade levelvariabl

27、es that are characterized by an underlying continuumor the data many represent qualitative variables, such as sex, college major, or personality type. Large masses of data must generally undergo a process of summarization or reducing to comprehensibly form the properties of an otherwise unwieldy mas

28、s of data.;Inferential statistics is a formalized body of methods for solving another class of problems that present great difficulties for the unaided human mind. This general class of problems characteristically involves attempts to make predictions using a sample of observations. For example, a s

29、chool superintendent wishes to determine the proportion of children in a large school system who come to school without breakfast, have been vaccinated for flu, or whatever. Having a little knowledge of statistics, the superintendent would know that it is unnecessary and inefficiency to question eac

30、h child; the proportion for the entire district could be estimated fairly accurately from a sample of as few as 100 children. Thus, the purpose of inferential statistics is to predict or estimate characteristics of a population from a knowledge of the characteristics of only a sample of the populati

31、on.31.What is the passage mainly concerned with?A) Development and application of statistics.B) Origin of descriptive statistics.C) Limitations of inferential statistics.D) Importance of statistics.32.Describing and tabulating are associated with _.A) inferential statisticsB) descriptive statisticsC

32、) theories of probabilityD) inefficiency of counting33.Which of the following statements is true about descriptive statistics?A) It combines quantitative variables and qualitative variables.B) It can be used to deal with only quantitative variables.C) It helps to summarize properties of a group of d

33、ata.D) It helps to make predictions using a sample of observations.34.The word “unwieldy” in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to _.A) difficult to collect B) difficult to tackleC) incomprehensiveD) uncontrollable35.A sample of a population is often examined for the following purposes excep

34、t _.A) to make a more accurate prediction of trendB) to improve efficiency and avoid unnecessary workC) to save the trouble of approaching every membersD) to predict characteristics of the entire populationPassage FourQuestions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage:The Japanese are fascinated

35、by automata and new inventions. Japanese children are used to friendly robots in their comics, in toys, and in TV animated cartoons. When as adults they join the workforce,robots mean that there is no need to import cheap foreign labor, as happens in many other parts of the world. There is no need f

36、or humans to put up with dirty, minddeadening mechanical work the robot does it all without complaint, around the clock. Robots dont go on strike over tea breaks they dont have tea, or any other kind of breaks:they work, day and night, without having to be paid overtime, without making mistakes. Hum

37、an tasks are subject to human error: robot error seldom or never occurs except as a result of human error!;In Japan, robots are almost respected for their virtues. When a new robot is introduced to a small suburban factory, a Shinto priest is invited to inaugurate it. He inaugurates the robot with w

38、ords along the lines of “Welcome to our coworker, we hope youll help him settle in.” No one laughs.;FANUC demonstrates the Japanese tendency to conform particularly strikingly. The founder of FANUC, Dr. Inaba, has created an army that makes no distinction between bluecollar, whitecollar and steelcol

39、lar worker: everyone, including the warlord himself, is dressed in yellow clothing issued free by the company. Perhaps to make up for the boring nature of the work, there are a number of other company perks. Company benefits, including pay, are much higher than in similar companies in Japan. Travel

40、to and from work is provided free in the companys yellow buses. However, workers are expected to put in demanding unpaid “overtime.” There is a clock in the product development laboratory set to run at ten times the normal speed, the remind everyone that the company is on a war footing.;As we watche

41、d Dr. Inabas yellow helicopter soar away to Narita airport, we couldnt help thinking that his dream of world domination in robotics and allied applications might be more elegantly achieved if he had also thought to program his robots to whistle while they work.36.According to the author, which of th

42、e following is not true to the Japanese?A) Robots mean there is no need to import cheap foreign labor.B) Robots mean that humans neednt do dirty and noisy work.C) Robots mean there are no strikes nor overtimes.D) Robots mean there is no mistake in any form.37.What can be inferred form the words “He

43、inaugurates the robot with words along the lines of Welcome to our coworker, we hope youll help him settle in.No one laughs.”?A) The Japanese has no sense of humor while at work.B) The Japanese does not understand the words of the Shinto priest.C) The Japanese shows a true respect for robots.D) The

44、Japanese goes too far in their respect for robots.38.Which of the following is not true about FANUC?A) Workers receive higher pay for working overtime.B) Workers enjoy free travel to and from work.C) Workers are doing boring, sometimes demanding work.D) Workers are reminded of being on a war footing

45、.39.What is not implied in the following works “we couldnt help thinking that his dream of world domination in robotics and allied applications might be more elegantly achieved if he had also thought to program his robots to whistle while they work.”?A) Our technology is not yet up to the needs of D

46、r. Inabas dream.B) Dr. Inabas dream of world domination in robotics lacks humanity.C) Dr. Inabas dream of allied applications is too practical.D) The author is in favor of Dr. Inabas dream.40.What does “our coworker” refer to in the sentence “Welcome to our coworker, we hope youll help him settle in

47、?”A) Japanese workers who attend the inauguration.B) The introduced robot.C) The people who have invented the robot.D) Japanese workers in general.Part Writing (30 minutes)Directions:For this part you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition on the topic: How to Cope with Personal Crisis.Yo

48、u should write at least 150 words and base your composition on the outline given in Chinese below:How to Deal with Personal Crisis1.造成个人危机的起因。2.应对个人危机的方法。答案与详解Part Passage One内容概要:本文讲述了美国“工作场所操作规范”诞生的背景和实施情况。1996年，美国一些地方和部门的低收入工人抗议血汗工厂，随后克林顿政府发起“无血汗”运动，要求零售商和制造商签署工作场所操作规范。可是国防部拒绝执行；美国劳工部作为政府部门，却称主要要求制造商们遵守安全和卫生规定。21.【答案】D。【译文】这篇文章主要讲述什么？【试题分析