Part Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)(25 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once
Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage
What is it about Americans and food? We love to eat, but we feel 47 about it afterward. We say we want only the best, but we strangely enjoy junk food. Were 48 with health and weight loss but face an unprecedented epidemic of obesity. Perhaps the 49 to this ambivalence lies in our history. The first Europeans came to this continent searching for new spices but went in vain. The first cash crop wasnt eaten but smoked. Then there was Prohibition, intended to prohibit drinking but actually encouraging more 50 ways of doing it
The immigrant experience, too, has been one of in harmony. Do as Romans do means eating what real Americans eat, but our nations food has come to be 51 by imports-pizza, say, or hot dogs. And some of the countrys most treasured cooking comes from people who arrived here in shackles
Perhaps it should come as no surprise then that food has been a medium for the nations defining struggles, whether at the Boston Tea Party or the sit-ins at southern lunch counters. It is integral to our concepts of health and even morality whether one refrains from alcohol for religious reasons or evades meat for political 52
But strong opinions have not brought 53 . Americans are ambivalent about what they put in their mouths. We have become 54 of our foods, especially as we learn more about what they contain
The 55 in food is still prosperous in the American consciousness.Its no coincidence,then,that the first Thanksgiving holds the American imagination in such bondage().Its what we eatand how we 56 it with friends
AanswerBresultCshareDguilty
EconstantFdefinedGvanishHadapted
IcreativeJbeliefKsuspiciousLcertainty
MobsessedNidentifyOideals
Section B
Directions:There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, Cand D.You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre
Passage One
Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage
It is not often realized that women held a high place in southern European societies in the 10th and 11th centuries. As a wife, the woman was protected by the setting up of a dowry (×±). Admittedly, the purpose of this was to protect her against the risk of desertion, but in reality its function in the social and family life of the time was much more important. The dowry was the wifes right to receive a tenth of all her husbands property. The wife had the right to with hold consent, in all transactions the husband would make, and more than just a right; the documents show that she enjoyed a real power of decision, equal to that of her husband. In no case do the documents indicate any degree of difference in the legal status of husband and wife
The wife shared in the management of her husbands personal property, but the opposite was not always true. Women seemed perfectly prepared to defend their own inheritance against husbands who tried to exceed their rights, and on occasion they showed a fine fighting spirit. A case in point is that of Maria Vivas. Having agreed with her husband Miro to sell a field she had inherited, for the needs of the household, she insisted on compensation. None being offered, she succeeded in dragging her husband to the scribe to have a contract duly drawn up assigning her a piece of land from Miros personal inheritance. The unfortunate husband was obliged to agree, as the contract says, for the sake of peace Either through the dowry or through being hot-tempered, the wife knew how to win herself, with the context of the family, a powerful economic position
57.Originally, the purpose of a dowry is to_________
Agive a woman the right to receive all her husbands property
Bhelp a woman to enjoy a higher position in the family
Cprotect a woman against the risk of desertion
Dboth A and C
58.According to the passage, the legal status of the wife in marriage was__________
Ahigher than that of a single woman
Bhigher than that of her husband
Clower than that of her husband
Dthe same as that of her husband
59. Why does the author give us the example of Maria Vivas?
ATo show that the wife shared in the management of her husbands personal property
BTo show that the wife can defend her own inheritance
CTo prove that women have powerful position
DTo illustrate how women win her property
60.The compensation Maria Vivas got for the field is____________
Asome of the land Miro had inherited
Ba tenth of Miros land
Cmoney for household expenses
Dmoney form Miros inheritance
61. The authors attitude towards Maria Vivas is_____________
AsympatheticBdisapproval Cindifferent Dobjective