单项选择题
1、回答题
Language is, and should be, a living thing, constantly enrichedwith new words and forms of expression. But there is a vital distinctionbetween good developments, which add to the language, enabling us to say thingswe could not say before, and bad developments, which subtract from the languageby rendering it less precise. A vivacious, colorful use of words is not to beconfused with mere slovenliness. The kind of slovenliness in which someprofessionals deliberately indulge is perhaps akin to the cult(迷信)of the unfinished work, whichhas eroded most of the arts in our time. And the true answer to it is the samethat art is enhanced, not hindered, by discipline. You cannot carvesatisfactorily in butter.
The corruption of written English has been accompanied by an evensharper decline in the standard of spoken English. We speak very much less wellthan was common among educated Englishmen a generation or two ago.
The modern theatre has played a baneful (有害的)part in dimming ourappreciation of language. Instead of the immensely articulate dialogue of, forexample, Shaw (who was also very insistent on good pronunciation), audiencesare now subjected to streams of barely literate trivia, often designed, onlytoo well, to exhibit 'lack of communication', and larded(夹杂)with the obscenities(下流的话)and grammaticalerrors of the intellectually impoverished. Emily Post once advised her readers:"The theatre is the best possible place to hear correctly-enunciatedspeech. " Alas, no more. One young actress was recently reported to betaking lessons in how to speak

badly, so that she should fit in better.
But the BBC is the worst traitor. After years of very successfullyhelping to raise the general standard of spoken English, it suddenly went intoreverse. As the head of the Pronunciation Unit coyly(含蓄地)put it, "In the 1960s theBBC opened the field to a much wider range of speakers." To hear a BBCdisc jockey talking to the latest ape-like pop idol is a truly shockingexperience of verbal squalor. And the prospect seems to be of even worse tocome. School teachers are actively encouraged to ignore little Johnny'sincoherent grammar, atrocious spelling and haphazard punctuation, becauseworrying about such things might inhibit his creative genius.
The writer relates linguistic slovenliness to tendencies inthe arts today in that they both __________.
A．occasionally aim at a certain fluidity
B．appear to shun perfection
C．from time to time show regard for the finishing touch
D．make use of economical short cuts


2、Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A．The results of economic decisions can not always be predicte
B．Minimum wage can not always protect employee
C．Economic theory can predict the results of economic decisions if other factors are not changin
D．Economic decisions should not be based on economic theor

3、

Questions are based on the conversation you have just heard. 根据所听内容及提问，作答____
A． Because she thinks there's no way anyone else could fit o
B． Because she thinks that 20 minutes late for a train is pretty standar
C． Because she finds that it's hard to find the commutin
D． Because she was shocked by the complicated schedule

填空题
4、 I’m not sure whethel"1 want to take this course；___________________(我周可否旁听)to see if I like it?


5、Kids who often struggle over words and_______ (理解课文有困难)find little enjoymentin the process of reading．

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7、根据以下资料，回答题。


How did the author's grandmother and her siblings manage to receive Christmas gifts during the Depression?
A) They earned money to buy gifts for each other.
B) They made pretend presents with old things.
C) They started buying gifts in October.
D) They gave each other weird gifts.


简答题
8、北京有无数的胡[司(hutong）。平民百姓在胡同里的生活给古都北京带来了无穷的魅力。北京的胡同不仅仅是平民百姓的生活环境，而且还是一门建筑艺术。通常，胡同内有一个大杂院，房间够4到l0个家庭的差不多20口人住。所以，胡同里的生活充满了友善和人情味。如今，随着社会和经济的飞速发展，很多胡同被新的高楼大厦所取代。但愿胡同可以保留下来。

9、　　公元220年开始的300年里，中国分成了三个小王国。一个是魏国，位于中国北部，由曹氏家族(the Ts’ao family)统治。还有一个王国叫作蜀汉(Shu Han)，位于中国的西南部，由刘备统治。另外一个王国叫作吴国，位于中国的东南部，由孙权(Sun Ch·ua)统治。中国文化里伟大的书籍之——《三国演义》(the Romance ofthe Three Kingdoms)就是关于这段时间的。



10、Soon after he transferred to the new school.Ali found that he had________________ (很难跟上班里的同学) in math and English.