红 新增题型全突破 which do not fit in anmy of the gaps. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET I(10 points) The patriotic outpouring that followed the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks- 80 percent of Americans displayed the flag on their car, house, or lapel-brought hopes of renewed voter interest. Yet turnout in this year s congressional primaries was a mere 17 percent no better than four years ago and only half that of three decades ago. Turnout in Tuesdays election is expected to be less than 40 percent, significantly below what it once was 1) But it’ s tme to stop blaming the citizens. Candidates, public officials, and journalists are not giving Americans gn they deserve Americas politicians have also managed to invent the most unappetizing campaigns imaginable. If equivalent offerings were served at restaurants, Americans would never eat out. Attack ads have doubled in frequency since the 1770s and now account for a majority of the ad featured prominently in campaigns. Many of the attacks are so twisted that even a whiff of fresh air would topple them 42) And where are the news media? Theyre so enamored of infotainment and sensationalism that they can t find time for the midterm elections. In the 1998 midterms, coverage was down by more than half over 1994. And it's falling againa comparison of news coverage in 10 states hows the midterm election is getting 13 percent less coverage this year than in 1998 When Journalists deign to cover elections, they magnify the very things they rail against Candidates are ignored or portrayed as boring if they run issue-based campaigns. Attack sound bites get airtime, positive statements land on the cutting-room floor. 43) It's not surprising voters are disenchanted with campaigns. During the 2000 election, as part of the Vanishing Voter Project at Harvard University's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, we interviewed 100,000 Americans to discover why they 're disengaging from elections Officials unfailingly urge citizens"to do your duty and vote. Yet, these officials embrace policies that make it harder to do that. 45) So look for a small turnout Tuesday, but don t ask citizens to look in the mirror. Some or them have cast their eye on what's going on in candidate land medialand and are asking why they should be bit players in that artifice. [A Electoral competition is key to democracy, and Americas voters aren't getting the full benefit of that. Only a couple of dozen of this year s 435 US House races are competitive. Two years ago, 98.5 percent of incumbents won, typically by margins of 70 percent or more
新增题型全突破 6/73 which do not fit in any of the gaps. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points) The patriotic outpouring that followed the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks— 80 percent of Americans displayed the flag on their car, house, or lapel—brought hopes of renewed voter interest. Yet turnout in this year’s congressional primaries was a mere 17 percent, no better than four years ago and only half that of three decades ago. Turnout in Tuesday’s election is expected to be less than 40 percent, significantly below what it once was. 41) _______________________________________________________. But it’s time to stop blaming the citizens. Candidates, public officials, and journalists are not giving Americans the type of campaign they deserve. America’s politicians have also managed to invent the most unappetizing campaigns imaginable. If equivalent offerings were served at restaurants, Americans would never eat out. Attack ads have doubled in frequency since the 1770s and now account for a majority of the ads featured prominently in campaigns. Many of the attacks are so twisted that even a whiff of fresh air would topple them. 42) ____________________________________________________. And where are the news media? They’re so enamored of infotainment and sensationalism that they can’t find time for the midterm elections. In the 1998 midterms, coverage was down by more than half over 1994. And it’s falling again—a comparison of news coverage in 10 states shows the midterm election is getting 13 percent less coverage this year than in 1998. When Journalists deign to cover elections, they magnify the very things they rail against. Candidates are ignored or portrayed as boring if they run issue-based campaigns. Attack sound bites get airtime; positive statements land on the cutting-room floor. 43) ____________ _________________________________. It’s not surprising voters are disenchanted with campaigns. During the 2000 election, as part of the Vanishing Voter Project at Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, we interviewed 100,000 Americans to discover why they’re disengaging from elections. 44) _________________________________________________________. Officials unfailingly urge citizens“to do your duty and vote.”Yet, these officials embrace policies that make it harder to do that. 45) ____________________________________. So look for a small turnout Tuesday, but don’t ask citizens to look in the mirror. Some or them have cast their eye on what’s going on in candidate—land media—land and are asking why they should be bit players in that artifice. [A] Electoral competition is key to democracy, and America’s voters aren’t getting the full benefit of that. Only a couple of dozen of this year’s 435 US House races are competitive. Two years ago, 98.5 percent of incumbents won, typically by margins of 70 percent or more
红 新增题型全突破 [B True leadership has become so rare that politicians may no longer even dream of stepping forward to say something other than what polls tell them is safe. Tuesday's election will surely pass without much of a debate on the momentous foreign and domestic issues facing the nation [C] Amid the uproar over Florida's ballot irregularities, no commentator has seen fit to ask why polls there close at 7 p.m. Florida is one of 26 states that close their polls before 8p.m. Unsurprisingly, turnout in these states is several percentage points below that of states where polls are open until 8 p. m. or later D] As for trivial issues, why did candidate Bush's 1970s drunk-driving arrest get more time on the network newscasts in the final days of the 2000 election than Gore's foreign policy statements got in the entire general election [E]No doubt, ordinarily Americans share responsibility for their lapse in participation; it is always easier to leave the work of democracy to others. [F Today, 87 percent of Americans reside in states that close registration two weeks or more before the election. The majority of unregistered Americans who otherwise would cast a vote are out of luck. Only six states allow election-day registration IG Their responses tell the story. &1 percent believe"most political candidates will say almost anything to get themselves elected", 75 percent feel"political candidates are more concerned with fighting each other than with solving the nations problems 【总体分析】 案 本篇介绍的是美国人对选举的兴趣日渐减少,并分43 析了相关的几个原因。第一段揭示事情本身,后几本题考察段落内部的逻辑理解,注意相应的词汇表 段分析原因。就本篇而言,对文章前后结构层次的达。既然空格前讲的是 journal ists对政治家的正面 把握非常重要 言论不感兴趣,弃置编辑室地板,而攻击性的言论 【详细解答】 却被直播( Attack sound bites get airtime, positive 41.E statements land on the cutting-room floor,那么可以 本题考察段落内部的逻辑联系,空格的下文说“But推论,D项是最符合逻辑的展开内容,用词也密切 it' s time to stop blaming the citizens,可见上文必相关( get more time on the network newscasts ) 然说到有人指责普通公民们不热衷于美国的政治4.G 选举。故答案为E 本题涉及段落内部逻辑的把握。既然上文说“we interviewed 100,000 Amer icans to d iscover why they 本题考察考生对文章的总体结构的把握能力。既然 re disengaging from election,那么答案为G,也 第二段末句说“ Candidates, public officials,ad就很符合逻辑了 journalists are not giving Amer icans the type of 45.F campaign they deserve”,而且第三段又说到了本题同样涉及段内逻辑,既然上文说“ Officials officials,下文又将说到 journalists,可以断定,本| unfailing ly urge citizens to do your duty and vote.Yet 段应说“ candidates'”,即“ leadership”,故B项为答| these officials embrace policies that make it harder to 773
新增题型全突破 7/73 [B] True leadership has become so rare that politicians may no longer even dream of stepping forward to say something other than what polls tell them is safe. Tuesday’s election will surely pass without much of a debate on the momentous foreign and domestic issues facing the nation. [C] Amid the uproar over Florida’s ballot irregularities, no commentator has seen fit to ask why polls there close at 7 p.m. Florida is one of 26 states that close their polls before 8 p.m. Unsurprisingly, turnout in these states is several percentage points below that of states where polls are open until 8 p.m. or later. [D] As for trivial issues, why did candidate Bush’s 1970s drunk—driving arrest get more time on the network newscasts in the final days of the 2000 election than Gore’s foreign policy statements got in the entire general election? [E] No doubt, ordinarily Americans share responsibility for their lapse in participation; it is always easier to leave the work of democracy to others. [F] Today, 87 percent of Americans reside in states that close registration two weeks or more before the election. The majority of unregistered Americans who otherwise would cast a vote are out of luck. Only six states allow election—day registration. [G] Their responses tell the story: 81 percent believe “most political candidates will say almost anything to get themselves elected”; 75 percent feel “political candidates are more concerned with fighting each other than with solving the nation’s problems.” 【总体分析】 本篇介绍的是美国人对选举的兴趣日渐减少，并分 析了相关的几个原因。第一段揭示事情本身，后几 段分析原因。就本篇而言，对文章前后结构层次的 把握非常重要。 【详细解答】 41．E 本题考察段落内部的逻辑联系，空格的下文说“But it’s time to stop blaming the citizens.”，可见上文必 然说到有人指责普通公民们不热衷于美国的政治 选举。故答案为 E。 42．B 本题考察考生对文章的总体结构的把握能力。既然 第二段 末句 说“ Candidates, public officials, and journalists are not giving Americans the type of campaign they deserve”， 而 且 第三 段 又说 到 了 officials，下文又将说到 journalists，可以断定，本 段应说“candidates”，即“leadership”,故 B 项为答 案。 43．D 本题考察段落内部的逻辑理解，注意相应的词汇表 达。既然空格前讲的是 journalists 对政治家的正面 言论不感兴趣，弃置编辑室地板，而攻击性的言论 却被直播(Attack sound bites get airtime; positive statements land on the cutting-room floor)，那么可以 推论，D 项是最符合逻辑的展开内容，用词也密切 相关（ get more time on the network newscasts）。 44．G 本题涉及段落内部逻辑的把握。既然上文说“we interviewed 100,000 Americans to discover why they’ re disengaging from elections.”，那么答案为 G，也 就很符合逻辑了。 45．F 本题同样涉及段内逻辑，既然上文说“Officials unfailingly urge citizens to do your duty and vote.. Yet, these officials embrace policies that make it harder to
红 新增题型全突破 do that”(官员们催使公民行驶职责,参加选举,但举),那么符合逻辑的答案必定是F项了。 另一方面又制定政策,使公民们很难参加投票选 Text 2 Directions In the following article, some sentences have been removed. For questions 1-5, choose the most suitable one fiom the list A--G to fit into each of the numbered blank. There are tvo extra choices, which do not fit in anmy of the gaps. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET I(10 points The place is a lovely meadow surrounded by deep woods on a hilltop overlooking a beautiful lake in the Catskill Mountains 120 miles from New York. It is quarter past eight in the morning and you are about to commute to your office in the city. Yet there is no paved highway nearer than fifteen miles, and it is fifty to a railroad station The aircraft looking oddly like horizontal electric fan, drones toward you. When the pilot is directly overhead, all forward movement of the machine ceases and it descends vertically until the cabin door is within a foot of the ground. On the machines gray side is painted Helicopter Express to New York The door opens and you step inside Fifty minutes later the helicopter bus hovers over a midtown New York building, descends slowly to alight on a roof space some sixty yards square. You go into the building, take the elevator to the street below, and walk half a block to your office. Not quite an hour has elapsed since you drank your morning coffee in your home 42) In the air age of tomorrow the manufacture, sale, and upkeep of the direct-lift machine will become a billion-dollar industry just as the automobile industry. There will be many startling changes in our way of life 43) A cheap, swift helicopter bus service will ferry these people to and from their work Suburbs will include ten thousand or more are miles. Real estate values will come within the reach of average incomes, and the people will literally return to the good earth But the short haul of less than 1000 miles is equally the task of the helicopter, which can do it with the greatest efficiency Express and air mail will be carried from the airports to final destination by helicopter. There will be a direct-lift machine service to take airliner passengers from the airport to the city in a few minutes. There will be special delivery of perishable food to your door
新增题型全突破 8/73 do that”（官员们催使公民行驶职责，参加选举，但 另一方面又制定政策，使公民们很难参加投票选 举），那么符合逻辑的答案必定是 F 项了。 Text 2 Directions In the following article, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 1--5, choose the most suitable one from the list A--G to fit into each of the numbered blank. There are two extra choices, which do not fit in any of the gaps. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points) The place is a lovely meadow surrounded by deep woods on a hilltop overlooking a beautiful lake in the Catskill Mountains 120 miles from New York. It is quarter past eight in the morning, and you are about to commute to your office in the city. Yet there is no paved highway nearer than fifteen miles, and it is fifty to a railroad station. 41) __________________________________________. The aircraft, looking oddly like a horizontal electric fan, drones toward you. When the pilot is directly overhead, all forward movement of the machine ceases and it descends vertically until the cabin door is within a foot of the ground. On the machine’s gray side is painted Helicopter Express to New York. The door opens and you step inside. Fifty minutes later the helicopter bus hovers over a midtown New York building, descends slowly to alight on a roof space some sixty yards square. You go into the building, take the elevator to the street below, and walk half a block to your office. Not quite an hour has elapsed since you drank your morning coffee in your home. 42) ______________________________________. In the air age of tomorrow, the manufacture, sale, and upkeep of the direct—lift machine will become a billion—dollar industry just as the automobile industry. There will be many startling changes in our way of life. 43) ________________________________________________. A cheap, swift helicopter bus service will ferry these people to and from their work. Suburbs will include ten thousand or more square miles. Real estate values will come within the reach of average incomes, and the people will literally return to the good earth. 44) _________________________________________________. But the short haul of less than 1000 miles is equally the task of the helicopter, which can do it with the greatest efficiency. Express and air mail will be carried from the airports to final destination by helicopter. There will be a direct—lift machine service to take airliner passengers from the airport to the city in a few minutes. There will be special delivery of perishable food to your door
江把 The winter growth of fresh vegetables such as beans and tomatoes, celery and lettuce, in the transportation to market. The airline and helicopter freight service will speed such healthy foods to the ends of the nation [A] Most important is that hundreds of thousands of people can return to the health and beauty of the countryside. Millions of acres of hitherto inaccessible land will be developed with small homes for medium-or low-income groups [B And a new type of architecture-perhaps a house with a flat roof and a pleasantly designed helicopter hangar to one side of it, so that you have only to wheel the machine a few feet to take IC Does this sound like a fantasy imagined by science fiction writers? If so, I can assure you, as a practical aeronautical engineer, that such a trip is neither fantastic nor impractical. I am convinced that a helicopter bus service is not only practicable but, in fact, inevitable [D] Hence our eating habits will change perhaps more than we realize. Strawberries in January, as it were, available for all. The airline and helicopter freight service render all this possible [E]Private and bus helicopters will make possible vacations at seashore or mountain for countless thousands. The helicopter will destroy space for millions of people. Nothing is more delightful than touring in a helicopter. To hover and fill one's eyes with an enchanting vista is to bring joy to [F] Now you hear a low hum, and over the horizon appears a flying machine. You press the button of a box nearby and a radio signal flashes to the machine IG Long-distance transportation of passengers and freight over land and sea will definitely remain the job for the large airplane 【总体分析】 本题考察考生对全文,尤其前三段与下文的逻辑关 本文讲直升飞机短途服务给人们的生活带来的种系的把握能力。作为一个自然的过渡,既与上面的 种变化。前三段描述了一个假定的场面,说明直升描述衔接,又与下文的内容呼应,C项是最佳选择 飞机的便捷服务。第五段说“ There will be many C中的“this”很重要 startling changes in our way of life”,这是全文的关43.A 键句,它决定了下文的几个段落的内容。 本题既涉及考生对文章的整体结构(尤其第五段末 【详细解答】 的全文核心句)的把握,又涉及考生对下文的句意 内容的理解。能够满足这两个要求的选项为A 本题涉及前后段的内容把握,由于前三段是描述便4.G 捷的直升飞机为“you”服务的过程,所以F项应本题考察考生对段落内部逻辑的把握。既然下文说 为正确答案 “ But the short haul(运输) of less than i000 miles is equally the task of the helicopter”,对应的上文就该
新增题型全突破 ix/73 The winter growth of fresh vegetables such as beans and tomatoes, celery and lettuce, in the warm South and the Far West has been hitherto restricted because of cost and time or transportation to market. The airline and helicopter freight service will speed such healthy foods to the ends of the nation. 45) __________________________________________________________.. [A] Most important is that hundreds of thousands of people can return to the health and beauty of the countryside. Millions of acres of hitherto inaccessible land will be developed with small homes for medium-or low-income groups. [B] And a new type of architecture-perhaps a house with a flat roof and a pleasantly designed helicopter hangar to one side of it, so that you have only to wheel the machine a few feet to take off. [C] Does this sound like a fantasy imagined by science fiction writers? If so, I can assure you, as a practical aeronautical engineer, that such a trip is neither fantastic nor impractical. I am convinced that a helicopter bus service is not only practicable but, in fact, inevitable. [D] Hence our eating habits will change perhaps more than we realize. Strawberries in January, as it were, available for all. The airline and helicopter freight service render all this possible. [E] Private and bus helicopters will make possible vacations at seashore or mountain for countless thousands. The helicopter will destroy space for millions of people. Nothing is more delightful than touring in a helicopter. To hover and fill one’s eyes with an enchanting vista is to bring joy to the soul. [F] Now you hear a low hum, and over the horizon appears a flying machine. You press the button of a box nearby and a radio signal flashes to the machine. [G] Long-distance transportation of passengers and freight over land and sea will definitely remain the job for the large airplane. 【总体分析】 本文讲直升飞机短途服务给人们的生活带来的种 种变化。前三段描述了一个假定的场面，说明直升 飞机的便捷服务。第五段说“There will be many startling changes in our way of life”，这是全文的关 键句，它决定了下文的几个段落的内容。 【详细解答】 41．F 本题涉及前后段的内容把握，由于前三段是描述便 捷的直升飞机为“you”服务的过程，所以 F 项应 为正确答案。 42．C 本题考察考生对全文，尤其前三段与下文的逻辑关 系的把握能力。作为一个自然的过渡，既与上面的 描述衔接，又与下文的内容呼应，C 项是最佳选择， C 中的“this”很重要。 43．A 本题既涉及考生对文章的整体结构（尤其第五段末 的全文核心句）的把握，又涉及考生对下文的句意 内容的理解。能够满足这两个要求的选项为 A。 44．G 本题考察考生对段落内部逻辑的把握。既然下文说 “But the short haul （运输）of less than 1000 miles is equally the task of the helicopter”，对应的上文就该
红 新增题型全突破 是G项。 述直升飞机的服务对人类生活带来的各种变化,那 么45题,即第十段的内容应是E项。D项与上段 本题考察考生对文章结构的把握能力。既然第五段内容重复 末句说了“ many changes”,而文章6-10段分别讲 Text 3 Directions In the following article, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 1-5, choose the most suitable one fiom the list A--G to fit into each of the numbered blank. There are two extra choices. which do not fit in any of the gaps. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET.(10 points A young man left hometown 22 years ago, and turned out to be a poor correspondent. After a while his letters dried up, and for six years the family had hear nothing from him. Then his sister entered his name in the google search engine on the Web and, as she says, " There he was on a bowling league in Brazil! " Now they re exchanging catch-up letters and phot Who knew brazilian bowling leagues had Web sites? Google knew, because Google knows everything, or nearly Google started in 1998, when two 26-year-olds, Sergei Brin and Larry Page, set up shop in a tiny office. Today they operate out of a building in Mountain View, Calif, and regional offices all over the world google has become the best and most successful search engine If you need a map of a region Google will oblige If you rip the rotator cuff in your houlder, Google finds drawings that show you how it works 42) An epidemiologist or social psychologist studying reactions to a phenomenon like the West Nile virus might well come here often, to learn what people are saying about it A story gets on if enough newspapers run it and give it prominence. Every minute, the computers update the page and compile related stories while dropping others. No human editors decide what's to be emphasized It sounds ridiculous, but it's not bad at all However Google is boastful. It cant keep itself from telling you how inconceivably fast it is. Ask it for information on Chinese archaeology and it compiles 29, 400 links, adding: search took 0.14 seconds It needs help distinguishing between Francis Bacon, the 20th-century painter, and Francis Bacon, the 17th-century philosopher. Sometimes Google looks a little foolish A woman wrote to Randy Cohen, the New York Times ethicist, about a friend who had gone out with a doctor and then ogled him when she got home, discovering that he had been involved in several malpractice suits. Cohen was asked whether this was a decent thing to do. he said it was and that he had done it himself. The womans Googling, Gohen said, was benign, just like asking her friends about this fellow. Tired or Google?I' m afraid those who are tired of google are tired of life 07
新增题型全突破 10/73 是 G 项。 45．E 本题考察考生对文章结构的把握能力。既然第五段 末句说了“many changes”，而文章 6－10 段分别讲 述直升飞机的服务对人类生活带来的各种变化，那 么 45 题，即第十段的内容应是 E 项。D 项与上段 内容重复。 Text 3 Directions In the following article, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 1--5, choose the most suitable one from the list A--G to fit into each of the numbered blank. There are two extra choices, which do not fit in any of the gaps. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points) A young man left hometown 22 years ago, and turned out to be a poor correspondent. After a while his letters dried up, and for six years the family had hear nothing from him. Then his sister entered his name in the Google search engine on the Web and, as she says, “There he was on a bowling league in Brazil!” Now they’re exchanging catch—up letters and photos. Who knew Brazilian bowling leagues had Web sites? Google knew, because Google knows everything, or nearly. 41) _________________________________________________. Google started in 1998, when two 26—year—olds, Sergei Brin and Larry Page, set up shop in a tiny office. Today they operate out of a building in Mountain View, Calif., and regional offices all over the world. Google has become the best and most successful search engine. If you need a map of a region, Google will oblige. If you rip the rotator cuff in your shoulder, Google finds drawings that show you how it works. 42)________________________________. An epidemiologist or social psychologist studying reactions to a phenomenon like the West Nile virus might well come here often, to learn what people are saying about it. 43) _______________________________________________. A story gets on if enough newspapers run it and give it prominence. Every minute, the computers update the page and compile related stories while dropping others. No human editors decide what’s to be emphasized. It sounds ridiculous, but it’s not bad at all. However Google is boastful. It can’t keep itself from telling you how inconceivably fast it is. Ask it for information on Chinese archaeology and it compiles 29,400 links, adding: “search took 0.14 seconds.” 44)____________________________________________________________. It needs help distinguishing between Francis Bacon, the 20th—century painter, and Francis Bacon, the 17th—century philosopher. Sometimes Google looks a little foolish. 45) ______________________________________________. A woman wrote to Randy Cohen, the New York Times ethicist, about a friend who had gone out with a doctor and then Googled him when she got home, discovering that he had been involved in several malpractice suits. Cohen was asked whether this was a decent thing to do. He said it was and that he had done it himself. The woman’s Googling, Gohen said, was benign, just like asking her friends about this fellow. Tired or Google? I’m afraid those who are tired of Google are tired of life