Part I Reading Comprehension (30%)
31、请回答31-45题
Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage:
On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln went to Gettysburg in Pennsylvania to speak at the National Soldiers Cemetery. The Civil War was still going on. There was much criticism of Presi-dent Lincoln at the time. He was not at all popular. He had been invited to speak at Gettysburg on-ly out of politeness. The principal speaker was to be Edward Everett, a famous statesman and speaker of the day. Everett was a handsome man and very popular everywhere.
It is said that Lincoln prepared his speech on the train while going to Gettysburg. Late that night, alone in his hotel room and tired out, he again worked briefly on the speech. The next day Everett spoke first. He spoke for an hour and 57 minutes. His speech was a perfect example of the rich oratory of the day. Then Lincoln rose. The crowd of 15,000 people at first paid little attention to him. He spoke for only nine minutes. At the end there was little applause. Lincoln turned to a friend and remarked,"I have failed again". On the train back to Washington, he said sadly, "That speech was a fiat failure, and the people are disappointed".
Some newspapers at first criticized the speech, but little by little as people redid the speech they began to understand better. (76) They began to appreciate its simplicity and its deep meaning. I.t was a speech which only Abraham Lincoln could have made.
Today, every American school child learns Lincoln' s Gettysburg Address by heart. Now everyone thinks of it as one of the greatest speeches ever given in American history.

In 1863, Abraham Lincoln was
A．very critical
B．unpopular
C．very popular
D．very courteous


32、
Lincoln was invited to speak at the National Soldiers Cemetery because he was
A．a famous speaker
B．a very handsome man
C．President of the country
D．a popular statesman


33、
It can be inferred from the text that
A．Lincoln prepared his speech very carefully before he went to Gettysburg
B．Lincoln was very busy at the time and didn' t have much time to prepare his speech
C．Lincoln' s speech was full of rich words
D．Lincoln' s soeech was very long


34、
It was a fact that Lincoln' s speech was
A．an immediately success
B．warmly applauded
C．a total failure
D．not well-received at first


35、
Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?
A．Lincoln' s Gettysburg Address has deep meaning.
B．Lincoln' s Gettysburg Address is simple in style.
C．Lincoln' s Gettysburg Address is memorized by every American school child.
D．Lincoln' s Gettysburg Address is the greatest speech ever delivered in the United States.

36、回答36-50题
Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage:
It was not much fun to travel on one of the old sailing ships. Life was hard for both passengersand crew. (78)17th century sailing ships were small and rolled heavily in rough seas, so most ofthe passengers were seasick.
There were no toilets, and the spaces below deck where passengers had to stay during galeswere often not more than 5 foot high. Water was scarce and the little water they got was brown and smelt terrible.
Food was a problem, too--there was only salted meat, ship' s biscuits and cheese, but thecheese was so hard that sailors often made buttons out of it for their jackets and trousers. Therewere no vegetables or fruit, so the people on board often fell ill.
The sailors, however, were a bit better off than the passengers. They each had a bottle of beera day, and they needed. The work they had to do was hard and dangerous. (79)Courage was needed, for the heavy sails had to be set and taken down in all kinds of weather, and quite often sailors were swept overboard in a gale. Almost the worst thing about the voyages was the time they took up to 70 days for the journey across the Atlantic. Not surprisingly, everybody was overjoyedwhen they at last approached land and stepped ashore. But some ships never arrived.

In the 17th century_________
A．life on old sailing ships was enjoyable
B．people enjoyed sailing old ships in rough seas
C．most of the passengers felt comfortable when the ship was rolling
D．it was very painful for both passengers and crew during the voyage


37、 The passengers _________when the ship was heavily rolling.
A．slept well
B．could drink a lot of water
C．had to stay below deck
D．had a big room of more than 5 foot high


38、
Which of the following statements is tree about food?
A．Passengers had a lot of vegetables, but no fruit.
B．The sailors had four tins of beer a day.
C．The people on the ship often fell ill because of the lack of food.
D．The food for the passengers was more and better than that for the crew.


39、
The working condition of the sailors was very hard._________
A．They often had to set the sails in bad weather.
B．So they had less courage.
C．They were happy to be swept overboard in a strong wind.
D．A 70-day-journey across the Atlantic was their happiest thing.


40、
When the people saw the land, _________
A．only passengers were glad
B．the sailors had to swim ashore
C．they were surprised at the news that some ships never arrived
D．all of them were excited

41、请回答41-55题
Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage:
(76) Concerning money or anything else, conflicts between husband and wife usually reflect a power struggle. Conflicts between parent and child often center around the same issue. As children enter adolescence, they begin to demand greater freedom to go where they please, do what they please, and make decisions without parental interference. Many American parents do not know how to deal with their teenagers and seek advice from books, lectures, and parent training courses. Parents want to maintain a friendly relationship with their teenagers and also want to guide them so that their behavior will be whatever the parents consider proper and constructive.
But in a society of rapidly changing social and moral values, parents and children oftendisagree about what is important and what is right.
(77) Arguments may concern such unimportant matters as styles of dress or hairdos. But quarrels may also concern school work, after school jobs, decisions, use of the family car, dating, and sex behavior. Some families have serious problems with teenagers who drop out of school, runaway from home, or use illegal drugs. Because so much publicity is given to the problem teenager, one gets the impression that all teenagers are troublemakers. Actually, relatively few adolescents do anything wrong, and nearly all grow up into "solid citizens" who fulfill most of their parents' expectations. In fact, recent studies show that the "generation gap" is narrowing. The vast majority of teenagers share most of their parents' values and ideas. Many parents feel that they get along with their adolescents quite well.

According to the writer, conflicts between husband and wife usually reflect
A．feeling of hatred
B．power struggle
C．that they don' t care for each other
D．that they may appeal to divorce


42、 As children enter adolescents, they begin to do the following EXCEPT
A．demanding greater freedom to go wherever they please
B．making decisions without parental interference
C．getting married whenever they please
D．doing what they please


43、
"... generation gap is narrowing. "means
A．the adolescents now become timid
B．parents come to get along with their children
C．the vast majority of teenagers share most of their parents' values and ideas
D．parents and teenager don' t like to quarrel


44、
Parents and children often disagree about what is important or right because
A．they have different styles of life
B．they hate each other
C．parents think that their children are troublemakers
D．they are in a society of rapidly changing social and moral values


45、
When many American parents don' t know how to deal with their children they seek advice from the following EXCEPT
A．neighbors
B．parent-training courses
C．books
D．lectures