Part I Reading Comprehension (30%)
26、请回答26-40题
Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage:
The Chinese have used a method called acupuncture (针灸) to perform operations for about 4,000 years without putting the patient to sleep. This involves placing flexible needles into certain parts of the body. The needles are available in a number of stores in China and anyone may buy them.
To learn how to use the needles takes about one month of training. But to be skillful requires greater time. (79) The person who performs the acupuncture knows how to put in the needles so the needles themselves are not painful. This person also knows where to place the needles so the patient feels no pain in the area where the operation is to be performed. A particular operation might require 25 or more needles placed in various parts of the body. But now this operation re-quires only 3 or 4 needles.
Today, the Chinese doctors are trying to learn more about acupuncture. (80) They are trying to develop a convincing theory to explain how the needles work in preventing pain, or why a nee-dle in the wrist, for example, would prevent the pain in the area of the mouth.
A patient who needs an operation is given a choice between having acupuncture or having one of the chemicals used for putting him to sleep. It has been estimated that over half of the patients choose acupuncture because there is no sickness after the operation but the chemical may make the patient sick for a few hours or a day.

Acupuncture is_________
A．a medical operation
B．a medical needle
C．a medical technique
D．a medical machine


27、 Which statement is NOT true of the performer of acupuncture?
A．He knows where to place the needles without pain.
B．He knows where the operation is to be performed.
C．He knows how to perform the operation to cure the patient.
D．He knows how to use the needles in an operation.


28、
To learn how to use the needles, it takes a person_________
A．several months
B．a couple of weeks
C．a little time
D．almost one month


29、
It can be learned from the passage that _________
A．the person performing the acupuncture knows a lot about the making of needles
B．an operation now needs fewer needles than in the past
C．acupuncture has existed in China for as long as 2,000 years
D．few patients prefer acupuncture to chemicals


30、
Which is implied but not stated in the passage?
A．The Chinese mainly use acupuncture to cure strange disease.
B．The Chinese are learning to be more skillful and efficient in acupuncture.
C．The Chinese have spread acupuncture all over the world.
D．Most Chinese patients prefer acupuncture to chemicals in curing diseases.

31、请回答31-45题
Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage:
Harriet Beecher Stowe had poured her heart into her anti-slavery book," Uncle Tom's Cab－in". But neither she nor her first publisher thought it would be a big success. ( 78 ) The publisher
was so doubtful that he wanted her to split the publishing costs with him, and all she hoped wasthat it would make enough money for her to buy a new silk dress.
But when the first 5,000 copies were printed in 1852, they sold out in two days. In a year the book had sold 300,000 copies in the United States and 150,000 in England. For a while it outsold (销得比..多) every book in the world, except the Bible.
Within six months of its release, a play was made from the book which ran 350 performances in New York and remained America' s most popular play for 80 years.
(79) It might appear that" Uncle Tom' s Cabin" was universally popular, but this was certainly not true. Many people during those pre-Civil War days--particularly defenders of the slavery sys- tem-condemned it as false propaganda and poorly written melodrama( 传奇剧作品 ).
Harriet did have strong religious views against slavery (When asked how she came to write the book, she replied, "God wrote it. "), and she tried to convince people slavery was wrong, so per- haps the book could be considered propaganda. But if so, it was true propaganda, because it accurately described the evils of slavery.
Though she was born in Connecticut, 1832, as a young woman she moved to Cincinnati,Ohio, when her father accepted the presidency of newly founded Lane Theological Seminary( 神学院). Ohio was a free state, but just across the Ohio River in Kentucky, Harriet saw slavery in action. She lived 18 years in Cincinnati, marrying Calvin Stowe, professor of a college. In 1851,
Harriet Beecher Stowe began her book.
Its vast influence strengthened the anti-slavery movement and angered defenders of the slave system. Today some historians(历史学家) think that it helped bring on the American Civil War.
In fact, when Abraham Lincoln met Harriet at the White House during the Civil War, he said, "So, this is the little lady who started this big war. "
Before the publication of the book "Uncle Tom' s Cabin"_________
A．Harriet knew that it would be a great success
B．the publisher wanted Harriet to publish it at her own expense
C．nobody knew that it would become a very popular book
D．no publisher wanted to publish this anti-slavery book


32、 Some people did not like "Uncle Tom's Cabin" chiefly because_________
A．the author was merely an unknown little lady
B．they thought it was mere propaganda
C．the book was poorly written
D．the book might lead to a terrible war


33、 Harriet Beecher Stowe was able to describe the evils of slavery because_________
A．she had lived for 18 years in a state where slavery was legal
B．she had suffered quite a lot under the slavery system
C．she had witnessed what happened under the slavery system
D．she had read a lot about the slavery system


34、 When Abraham Lincoln called Harriet "the little lady who started this big war", he_________
A．thought that she was almost a war criminal
B．was talking about the great influence her book had produced
C．was blaming her for the miseries the people had suffered during the war
D．was praising her for the contributions she had made during the war


35、 The writer wrote the passage in order to _________
A．expose the evils of the slavery system
B．condemn all kinds of war
C．describe people' s life in Harriet' s time
D．tell us how Harriet wrote her famous book

36、回答36-50题
Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage :
Long bus rides are like television shows. They have a beginning, a middle, and an end--withcommercials thrown in every three or four minutes. The commercials are unavoidable. They happen whether you want them or not. Every couple of minutes a billboard glides by outside the bus window. "Buy Super Clean Toothpaste. "" Drink Root Beer. " "Fill up with Pacific Gas. " Only if you sleep, which is equal to turning the television set off, are you spared the unending cry of "YouNeed It! Buy It Now ! "
The beginning of the ride is comfortable and somewhat exciting, even if you' ve traveled thatway before. Usually some things have changed--new houses, new buildings, sometimes even anew road. (76) The bus driver has a style of driving and it' s fun to try to figure it out the first houror so. If the driver is particularly reckless or daring, the ride can be as thrilling as a suspense story.
Will the driver pass the truck in time? Will the driver move into the right or the left-hand lane? After a while, of course, the excitement dies down. Sleeping for a while helps pass the middle hours of the ride. Food always makes bus rides more interesting. But you' ve got to be careful of what kind of food you eat. Too much salty food can make you very thirsty between stops.
The end of the ride is somewhat like the beginning. You know it will soon be over and there' sa kind of expectation and excitement in that. The seat, of course, has become harder as the hourshave passed. (77)By now you' ve sat with your legs crossed, with your hands in your lap, withyour hands on the armrests--even with your hands crossed behind your head. The end comes just at the right time. There are just no more ways to sit.

According to the passage, what do the passengers usually see when they are on a long bus trip?
A．Buses on the road.
B．Films on television.
C．Advertisements on the board.
D．Gas stations.


37、What is the purpose of this passage?
A．To give the writer' s opinion about long bus trips.
B．To persuade you to take a long bus trip.
C．To explain how bus trips and television shows differ.
D．To describe the billboards along the road.


38、 The writer of this passage would probably be in favor of________
A．bus drivers who weren' t reckless
B．driving alone
C．a television set on the bus
D．no billboards along the road


39、 The writer feels long bus rides are like TV shows because________
A．the commercials both on TV shows and on billboards along the road are fun
B．they both have a beginning, a middle, and an end, with commercials in every three or four
minutes
C．the drivers are always reckless on TV shows just as they are on buses
D．both traveling and watching TV are not exciting


40、 The writer thinks that the end of the ride is somewhat like the beginning because both are________
A．exciting
B．comfortable
C．tiring
D．boring