梨花飞雪影无眠)Mindy Lance’s laundry blocked the way to the laundry room. D)Mindy Lance’s threatened to take revenge on her neighbors. 22. A)Asking the neighborhood committee for help. B)Limiting the amount of laundry for each wash. C)Informing the building manager of the matter. D)Installing a few more washers and dryers. Passage Three Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard. 23.A) She is both a popular and a highly respected author. B) She is the most loved African novelist of all times. C) She is the most influential author since the 1930's. D) She is the first writer to focus on the fate of slaves. 24. A) The Book Critics Circle Award. B) The Pulitzer Prize for fiction
C) The Nobel Prize for literature. D) The National Book Award. 25. A)She B) She is C) She is D) She is is a relative of Morrison's. a skilled storyteller. a slave from Africa. a black woman
Section C Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time,you should listen carefully for its general idea.When the passage is read for the second time,you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally,when the passage is read for the third time,you should check what you have written. 注意：此部分试题请在答题卡 1 上作答。 Many college students today own personal computer that cost anywhere from $1,000 to perhaps %5,000 or more. (26)_________, it is not uncommon for them to purchase (27)_________costing another several hundred dollars. Twenty years ago, computers were (28) ___________, but they were very large and extremely expensive. Few, if any,(29) __________ purchased computers for home use. Over the years, the price of the “guts” of a computer---its memory—has declined to less than a thousandth of the price per unit of memory that prevailed twenty years ago. This is the main reason why computers cost so much less today than they used to. Moreover, (30) _________improvements have made it possible to (31) ___________memory circuitry that is small enough to fit into the portable personal computers that many of us own and use. (32)___________, as the price of computation has declined the average consumer and business have spent more on purchasing computers. (33)___________,improved agricultural technology, hybrid( 杂 交 ) seeds,(34)_________animal breeding, and so on have vastly increased the amount of output a typical farmer can produce. The prices of goods such as meats and grains have fallen sharply relative to the prices of most other goods and services. As agricultural prices have fallen, many households have decreased their total expenses on food. Even though the (35)______________of a product purchased generally increases when its price falls, total expenses on it may decline. Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes) Section A To get a sense of how women have progressed in science take a quick tour of the physics department at the Un
iversity of California Berkeley. This is a storied place the 36 of some of the most important discoveries in modern science-starting with Ernest Lawrence's invention of the cvclotron ( 回旋加速器 ) in 1931.A generation ago female faces were 37 and. even today, visitors walking through the first floor of LeConte Hall will See a full corridor of exhibits 38 the many distinguished physicists who made history here, 39 all of there white males But climb up to the third floor and you'll see a 40 display. There, among the photos of current facnlty members and students are portraits of the 41 head of the department, Marjorie Shapiro and four other women whose reseaich 42 everything from the mecheanics of the universe to the smallest particles of
matter. A sixth woman was hired just two weeks ago. Although they're Still only about 10 percent of the physics faculty, women are clearly a presence here. And the real 43 may be in the smaller photos to the right graduate and undergraduate students about 20 percent of them female.Every years Berkeley sends its fresh female physics PhDs to the country's top universities. That makes Shapiro optimistic but also 44 "I believe things are getting bette "she says "but they're not getting better as 45 as i would like." 注意：此部分试题请在答题卡 2 上作答 A)circumstance B)confidence C)covers D)current E)deals F)different G)exposing H)fast I)honoring J)hope K)presently L)rare M)realistic N)site O)virtually Section B SectionC 阅读理解 Passage Two Question 61 to 65 are based on the following passage. When we talk about Americans barely into adulthood who are saddled with unbearable levels of debt.the conversation is almost always about student loan debt. But there ’s a growing body of ? suggesting that today ’s young adults are also drowning in credit card debt—and that many of them will take this debt to their graves. More than 20% overspont their income by more than $100 every single month. Since they haven’t built up their credit historios yet,it ’s a safe bet that these young adults are paying relatively high interest rates on the resulting credit card debt.
