单选题

1Growth will _____ to 2.9 per cent next year.

A. accelerate B.accomplish C. Attain D. assemble 

2Duties and taxes are the most obvious _____ to free trade.

A. lessonsB. barrier C. opportunities D. subjects

3Fromthis you can _____ the total mass in the Galaxy. 

A. seek B.search C. manipulate D. calculate

4Adamstook a _____ of jobs which have stood him in good stead.

A. succession B. access C. right D. return

5I ______him to give up the plan.

A. related B. compelled C. permitted D. commended

6He was a man with considerable _____.

A. depression B. disapproval C. implication D. insight

7There was a _______ sunrise yesterday. 

A. specific B. common C. spectacular D. current

8The______ of war and the death of millions of young people shook the foundations of Western idealism. 

A. survival B. destruction C. increase D. poison

9They stood ______ what they believed to be right.

A. on B. aside C. up for D. at

10Offenders will be _____ a seven-year prison term.

A. ableto B. possible to C. tend to D. liable to

填空题

Studying the humanities improves your ability to read and write. No (1) what we do in life, we will have a huge (2) if we can read complex ideas and understand their meaning. We will have a bright (3) if we are the person in the office who can write a clear and (4) analysis of those ideas! 

Studying the humanities makes us (5) with the language of emotion and the creative (6). In an information economy, many people have the ability to produce a useful product such as a new MP3 player. (7), very few people have the ability to create a (8) brand: the iPod. Most importantly, studying the humanities (9) us with great insight and self-awareness, (10) releasing our creative energy and talent in a positive and constructive manner.

正确答案

(1)： matter     (2)： advantage  (3)： career    (4)： elegant    (5)： familiar

(6)： process    (7)： Yet或yet    (8)： spectacular    (9)： invests   (10)： thereby 。

阅读题

Today,colleges and universities are under strong attack. Teachers are not doing agood job of teaching, and students are not doing a good job of learning.College graduates lack both basic skills and general knowledge. 

Oneaspect of college education, too seldom challenged, is the lecture system. Oneproblem with lectures is that listening intelligently is hard work. Reading thesame material in a textbook is a more efficient way to learn because studentscan adjust the speed as they need to until the subject matter becomes clear tothem. Even simply paying attention is very difficult: people can listen at arate of 400 to 600 words a minute, while the most enthusiastic professor talksat a much faster speed. 

Worsestill, attending lectures is passive learning, at least for inexperiencedlisteners. Active learning, in which students write essays or performexperiments and then have their work evaluated by an instructor, is far morebeneficial for those who have not yet fully learned how to learn. While it'strue that techniques of active listening can enhance the value of a lecture,few students possess such skills at the beginning of their college careers.What they do is usually write everything down. 

Studentsneed to question their professors and to have their ideas taken seriously. Onlythen will they develop the analytical skills required to think intelligentlyand creatively. Most students learn best by engaging in frequent and evenheated debate. Smaller classes in which students are required to involvethemselves in discussion put an end to students' passivity. Students becomeactively involved when forced to question their own ideas as well as theprofessor's. Classes like this require energy, imagination, and commitment fromboth the teacher and students. Students are compelled to share responsibilityfor their own intellectual growth. 

Lectureswill never entirely disappear from the university both because they seem to beeconomically necessary and they spring from a long tradition. If lectureclasses were restricted to junior and senior undergraduates, they would be farless destructive of students' interest and enthusiasms than the present system.

11 Whydoes the author argue that a lecture class is not efficient?

A. Studentsdon't have listening ability at the beginning.

B. Manyteachers don't care about students' comprehension.

C. Studentslearn things at an extremely slow speed.

D. Teachersmay evaluate students' work later.

12"Passivelearning" means ________.

A. learningthings slowly in a lecture class

B. studyingon one's own at home

C. writingeverything down from the lecture

D. anticipatingthe teacher's next point

13Accordingto the author, what kind of learning is more efficient?

A. Questionprofessors. B. Take small classes. C. Have class discussion. D. Engage indebate.

14Whydoes the author think asking questions is important in active learning?

A. Becauseit can help students learn more creatively and quickly.

B. Becauseit can improve students' analytical skills.

C. Becauseit can challenge themselves and the professor.

D. Becauseit can make them look smart.

15Theauthor predicts that ________.

A. lectureswill die out eventually

B. lectureswill be as destructive as today

C. lectureswill still exist at college and universities

D. lectureswon't destroy students' interest in learning

11-15  ACDBC