Part II Reading Comprehension(40 points)

Directions：There are 4 reading passages in this part.Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements.For each of them there are four choices marked A，B，C and D.You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with o single line throught the center.

根据以下内容回答下面试题：

Celebrities lead very stressful lives，for no matter how fascinating or powerful they are，they have too little privacy，too much pressure，and no safety.

For one thing，celebrities don’t have the privacy an ordinary person has.The most personal details of their lives are printed on the front pages of the National Enquirer and the Globe so that bored supermarket shoppers can read about“Leonardo DiCaprio’s Awful Secret”or“The Heartbreak behind Winona Ryder's Smile”.Even a celebrity’s family is made public.A teen-age son’s arrest for using drug or a wife’s drinking problem becomes the subject of headlines.Photographers chase celebrities at their homes，in restaurants，and on the street，hoping to get a picture of Halle Berry in curlers or Jim Carrey drinking beer.When celebrities try to do the things that normal people do，like eat out or attend a football game，they run the risk of being interrupted by thoughtless photographers.

Celebrities must also cope with the constant pressure of having to look great and act fight.Their physical appearance is always under observation.Famous women，especially，suffer from public attention，inviting remarks like“She really looks old”or“Boy，has she put on weight.”Embarrassing pictures of celebrities are sold at hi|gh prices，which increases the pres-sure on celebrities to look good at all times.Famous people are also under pressure to act“calm and collected under any circumstances.Because they are constantly observed，they have no freedom to be angry or to do something just a little crazy.

Most important，celebrities must deal with the stress of being in constant danger.The friendly behaviors such as kisses of enthusiastic fans can quickly turn into uncontrolled attacks on a celebrity’s hair，clothes，and car.Most people agree that photographers brar some respon-sibility for the death of one of the leading celebrities of the 1990s--Princess Diana.Whether or not their pursuit caused the accident that took her life.it's clear she was chased by reporters like an escaped prisoner chased by police dogs.And celebrities can even fall victim to deliber-ately deadly attacks.The attempts to kill Ronald Reagan and the murder of John Lennon came about because two unbalanced people could not get these world·famous figures off their minds.

As a result，famous people must live with the fact that they are always fair game--and never out of season.

第16题单选 Leonardo DiCaprio and Winona Ryder are probably names of __________.

A.shoppers

B.celebrities

C.reporters

D.photographei's

参考答案：B

第17题单选 Celebrities have to be careful of their appearance because they__________ .

A.are alwavs under observation

B.are afraid of putting on weight

C.pay high prices for their pictures

D.think too highly of their looks

参考答案：A

第18题单选 The word“collected”in the third paragraph probably means

A.calm

B.attractive

C.leisurely

D.selected

参考答案：D

第19题单选 The writer cites examples of Princess Diana，Ronald Reagan and John Lennon show that celebrities __________.

A.have no privacy

B.have no safety

C.have to act right

D.have to look great

参考答案：A

第20题单选 The thlee kinds of stresses experienced by celebrities are arranged in the order of__________ .

A.spaee

B.time

C.logic

D.importance

参考答案：D

根据以下内容回答下面试题：

Many things about language are a mystery，and many will always remain so.But sone things we do know.

First，we know that all human beings have a language of some sort.Thero is no race of men anvwhere on earth so backward that it has no language，no set of speech souBds by whieh the people communicate with one another.Furthermore，in historical times，there has never been a race of men without a language.

Second.there is no such thing as a primitive language.There are many people whose cal-tures are undeveloped，who are，as we say，uncivilized，but the languages they speak are not Drimitive.In all known languages we can see complexities that must have been，tens of thou-sands of years in developing.

This has not always been well understood;indeed，the direct contrary has often been stated.Popular ideas of the language of the American Indians will illustrate.Many people have supposed that the Indians communicated in a very primitive system of noises-Study has proved this to be nonsense.There are，or were，hundreds of American Indian languages，and all of them tum out to be very complicated and very old.They are certainly different from.the lanlguages that most of us are familiar with，but they are no more primitive than English and Greek.A third thing we know about language is that all languages are perfectly adequate.That is，each one is a perfect means of expressing the culture of the people who speak the language.

Finallv，we know that language changes.It is natural and normal for language to change;the only languages which do not change are the dead ones.This is easy to understand if we look backward in time.Change goes on in all aspects of language.Grammatical features change as do speech sounds.and changes in vocabulary are sometimes very extensive.and may occur Very rapidly.Vocabulary is the least stable part of any languages.

第21题单选 In the second paragraph the author thinks that__________.

A.some backward race doesn’t have a language of its own

B.some race in history didn’t possess a language of its own

C.any human race，whether backward or not，has a language

D.some races on earth can communicate without language

参考答案：C

第22题单选 According to the author，people of undeveloped cultures can have__________ languages.

A.complicated

B.uncivilized

C.primitive

D.well.known

参考答案：A

第23题单选 The author has used American Indian languages as an example to show that they are__________.

A.just as old as some well-known languages

B.just as sophisticated as some well-known languages

C.more developed than some well-known languages

D.more complex than some well-known languages

参考答案：B

第24题单选 Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?

A.A language is a means of expressing a particular culture.

B.All languages can well express their respective cultures.

C.American Indian languages are as sophisticated as English.

D.Some languages are better than other languages.

参考答案：D

第25题单选 According to the author，language changes are most likely to occur in__________ .

A.grammar

B.pronunciation

C.vocabulary

D.intonation

参考答案：C

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