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In the past ten years skyscrapers have developed ______ in Chicago and New York City.

Many years had ______ before they returned to their original urban areas.

When the farmers visited the city for the first time, they were ______ by its complicated traffic system.

Anyone not paying the registration fee by the end of this month will be ______ to have withdrawn from the program.

While a full understanding of what causes the disease may be several years away, ______ leading to successful treatment could come much sooner.

The directions were so ______ that it was impossible to complete the assignment.

It is ______ that women should be paid less than men for doing the same kind of work.

The ship’s generator broke down, and the pumps had to be operated ______ instead of mechanically.

“You try to get some sleep. I’ll ______ the patient’s breakfast”, said the nurse.

American women were ______ the right to vote until 1920 after many years of hard struggle.

As the saying goes, “The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.” To what extent do you agree or disagree?Write an article of about 200 words to clarify your own points of view towards this issue. You should use your own ideas, knowledge or experience to generate support for your argument with no less than 200 words on the ANSWER SHEET.

Any sufficiently advanced technology, noted Arthur C. Clarke, a British science-fiction writer, is indistinguishable from magic. The fast-emerging technology of voice computing proves his point. (1) Using it is just like casting a spell; say a few words into the air, and a nearby device can grant your wish. Dictating e-mails and text messages now works reliably enough to be useful. For example, Apple s Siri handles over 2bn commands a week, and 20% of Google searches on Android-powered handsets in America are input by voice. Why type when you can talk?This is a huge shift. Simple though it may seem, voice has the power to transform computing, by providing a natural means of interaction. Windows, icons and menus, and then touchscreens, were welcomed as more intuitive ways to deal with computers than entering complex keyboard commands. But being able to talk to computers abolishes the need for the abstraction of a “user interface” at all. (2) Just as mobile phones were more than existing phones without wires, and cars were more than carriages without horses, so computers without screens and keyboards have the potential to be more useful, powerful and ubiquitous than people can imagine today.Voice will not wholly replace other forms of input and output. Sometimes it will remain more convenient to converse with a machine by typing rather than talking (Amazon is said to be working on an Echo device with a built-in screen). (3) But voice is destined to account for a growing share of people’s interactions with the technology around them, from washing machines that tell you how much of the cycle they have left to virtual assistants in corporate call-centers.

2. I climbed heights in order to see the splendid granite mountain in its fullest view. In this experience I had been seeking the aesthetic. I knew I would find it, for I had seen post cards in advance and was following the map. The seeking took considerable effort and time. It was a heavy investment. I was not going for the scientific purpose of studying rock formation, or was it for the recreational purpose of exercising my limbs in the fresh air, though that exertion added intensity to the experience and was its context.

1. When education fails to keep pace with technology, the result is inequality. Without the skills to stay useful as innovations arrive, workers suffer—and if enough of them fall behind, society starts to fall apart. That fundamental insight seized reformers in the Industrial Revolution, heralding state- funded universal schooling. Later, automation in factories and offices called forth a surge in college graduates. The combination of education and innovation, spread over decades, led to a remarkable flowering of prosperity. Today robotics and artificial intelligence call for another education revolution.

Directions: In this section, there is a passage with five questions. After you have read the passage, answer each question in English. Write down your answer on the ANSWER SHEET.The British Museum in London is probably the classic example of an institution which is too rich by more than half. There, no doubt, because they have so much, they are unable to assess exactly what they have and what proportion they are able to show.One measure of how important are the treasures they have was given in Parliament last month when Jennie Lee, the Arts Minister said, “The museum authorities consider that the total cost of displaying everything in the museum might be more than $50,00000.”The Fitzwilliam has one of the best collections of coins in the world, but lack of space means that less than one percent of the collection can be shown. Paintings and drawings are rotated, partly to give the public a chance to see them all, partly to avoid too much exposure to light. But even under this policy some painters still don’t get shown. Mr. David Piper, the director, said that some impressionist paintings by Boudin were not on show and that most of the big pottery collection had to be kept in a reserve gallery to which members of the public are admitted if they are particularly interested.It is a different story at Bradford’s City Art Gallery. There they can show all the works of art they have, and would be glad to show more and finer works if they were available.The Arts Council owns one of the finest collections of modern British paintings and sculpture in existence, and is fortunate in that it does not have a permanent site for its works. The collection is split into a series of traveling exhibitions which are put on show at art galleries, museums, colleges and even libraries throughout the country, giving taxpayers a chance to see what they have brought.1. How many museums are mentioned in this article?2. “Paintings and drawings are rotated.” What does the sentence mean?3. In the Fitzwilliam museum, one can never see those objects that are kept hidden, can he?4. Why does the writer say that the Arts Council is fortunate?5. What is the main idea of this article?

New parents are annoying. They think you want to hear about every gurgle and baby-step. But it could be worse. When your boss has a sprog, watch your wallet.A study to be published next month in Administrative Science Quarterly looks at what happens to workers’ pay when a male boss has a child. Researchers tracked salaries at every firm in Denmark with more than ten employees between 1996 and 2006. (They confined themselves to male bosses partly because the sample of female bosses was too small.)Male bosses, it turns out, pay themselves significantly more once they become fathers. Even after controlling for factors such as age, length of tenure and the performance of the firm, the study found that bosses with daughters pay themselves 3.5% more than childless ones. If they have a son, that increases to a hefty 6.4%. David Ross of Columbia Business School, one of the authors, says all fathers feel a duty to support their families. For grunts this means working harder. Bosses have the more agreeable option of raising their own wages.This is bad news for underlings. That extra money comes out of workers’ pockets, the study finds. Staff employed by a father is typically paid less. The amount depends on such things as the sex of the baby and whether it is his first child. Male employees bear the grunt: if the boss’s child is a son, for example, they can expect 0.5% less salary than if he hadn’t reproduced.Female staff fare better. After their boss’s first child, they can expect to be paid a little more. Mr. Ross speculates that this might be because, having seen their wives go through childbirth, they start to respect women more. Alas, such goodwill doesn’t last. Once the boss has a second child, female workers’ wages are likely to fall, just like men’s.1. According to the passage, which of the following describes the study CORRECTLY?2. According to the passage, once they become fathers, male bosses tend to .3. The study reveals that upon stepping into fatherhood, .4. What does the sentence “Male employees bear the grunt” in paragraph 4 mean?5. After the boss’s first child, compared with males, female workers are __.

This dictionary is for people who want to use modern English. It offers accurate and detailed information on the way modern English is used in all kinds of communication. It is a useful guide to writing and speaking English as well as an aid to reading and understanding.This dictionary looks rather like most others if you don’t look too closely. Actually it is quite new and different. The techniques used to compile it are new and advanced computer technology. For the user, the kind of information is different, the quality of information is different, and the presentation of the information is different.For the first time, a dictionary has been compiled by the thorough examination of a representative group of English texts, spoken and written, running to many millions of words. This means that in addition to all the tools of the conventional dictionary makers—wide reading and experience of English, other dictionaries and of course eyes and ears—this dictionary is based on hard, measurable evidence. No major uses are missed, and the number of times a use occurs has a strong influence on the way the entries are organized. Equally, the large group of texts, called the corpus, gives us reasonable grounds for omitting many uses and word-forms that do not occur in it. It is difficult for a conventional dictionary, in the absence of evidence, to decide what to leave out, and a lot of quite misleading information is thus preserved in the tradition of lexicography.This dictionary makes a break with such traditions. We have gone back to basics and collected many millions of words, and put them into a very large computer, the dictionary team has had daily access to about 20 million words, with many more in specialized stores. The words came from books, magazines, newspapers, pamphlets, leaflets, conversation, radio and television broadcasts. The sources are gratefully acknowledged on page xxii. The aim was to provide a fair representation of contemporary English.No set of texts, however large, can be fully relied on; all the time the information from the texts has been analyzed and appraised by a team of lexicographers, whose professional knowledge has also been used wherever there is only a small amount of evidence of the usage of a word or phrase.The quality of information in this dictionary is different from others. With our textual evidence it is possible to be precise about the shape of phrases and the extent of their variation; the relative importance of different senses of a word; and the typical environment in which a word or phrase is used. Even when statements like this are already familiar, they are made with a different kind of authority in this book.1. According to the passage, this dictionary differs from most others, except in .2. This dictionary differs from a traditional one in that the compilers .3. This dictionary does NOT claim to include .4. In the passage, the author mainly emphasizes the difference in data .5. The whole passage is __ the dictionary.

Few people doubt the fundamental importance of mothers in child-rearing, but what do fathers do? Much of what they contribute is simply the result of being a second adult in the home. Bringing up children is demanding, stressful and exhausting. Two adults can support and make up for each other’s deficiencies and build on each other’s strengths.Fathers also bring an array of unique qualities. Some are familiar: protector and role model. Teenage boys without fathers are notoriously prone to trouble. The pathway to adulthood for daughters is somewhat easier, but they must still learn from their fathers, in ways they cannot from their mothers, how to relate to men. They learn from their fathers about heterosexual trust, intimacy and difference. They learn to appreciate their own femininity from the one male who is most special in their lives. Most important, through loving and being loved by their fathers, they learn that they are love-worthy.Current research gives much deeper, and more surprising, insight into the father’s role in child-rearing. One significantly overlooked dimension of fathering is play. From their children’s birth through adolescence, fathers tend to emphasize play more than caretaking. The father’s style of play is likely to be both physically stimulating and exciting. With older children it involves more teamwork, requiring competitive testing of physical and mental skills. It frequently resembles a teaching relationship: come on, let me show you how. Mothers play more at the child’s level. They seem willing to let the child direct play.Kids, at least in the early years, seem to prefer to play with daddy. In one study of 2.5-year olds who were given a choice, more than two-thirds chose to play with their father.The way fathers paly has effects on everything from the management of emotions to intelligence and academic achievement. It is particularly important in promoting self-control. According to one expert, “children who roughhouse with their fathers quickly learn that biting, kicking and other forms of physical violence are not acceptable”. They learn when to “shut it down”.At play and in other realms, fathers tend to stress competition, challenge, initiative, risk-taking and independence. Mothers, as caretakers, stress emotional security and personal safety. On the playground fathers often try to get the child to swing ever higher, while mothers are cautious, worrying about an accident.We know, too, that fathers’ involvement seems to be linked to improved verbal and problem-solving skills and higher academic achievement. Several studies found that along with paternal strictness, the amount of time fathers spent reading with them was a strong predictor of their daughters’ verbal ability.For sons, the results have been equally striking. Studies uncovered a strong relationship between fathers’ involvement and the mathematical abilities of their sons. Other studies found a relationship between paternal nurturing and boys’ verbal intelligence.1. The first paragraph points out that one of the advantages of a family with both parents is .2. According to paragraph 3, one significant difference between the father’s and mother’s role in child-rearing is .3. Which of the following statements is TRUE?4. Studies investigating fathers’ involvement in child-rearing show that .5. The writer’s main point in writing this article is .

No company likes to be told it is contributing to the moral decline of a nation. “Is this what you intended to accomplish with your careers?” Senator Robert Dole asked Time Warner executives last week. “You have sold your souls, but must you corrupt our nation and threaten our children as well?” At Time Warner, however, such questions are simply the latest manifestation of the soul-searching that has involved the company ever since the company was born in 1990. It’s a self-examination that has, at various times, involved issues of responsibility, creative freedom and the corporate bottom line.At the core of this debate is the chairman Gerald Levin, 56, who took over for the late Steve Ross in 1992. On the financial front, Levin is under pressure to raise the stock price and reduce the company’s mountainous debt, which will increase to $17.3 billion after two new cable deals close. He has promised to sell off some of the property and restructure the company, but investors are waiting impatiently.The flap over rap is not making life any easier for him. Levin has consistently defended the company’s rap music on the grounds of expression. In 1992, when Time Warner was under fire for releasing Ice-T’s violent rap song Cop Killer, Levin described rap as a lawful expression of street culture, which deserves an outlet. “The test of any democratic society,” he wrote in a Wall Street Journal column, “lies not in how well it can control expression but in whether it gives freedom of thought and expression the widest possible latitude, however disputable or irritating the results may sometimes be. We won’t retreat in the face of any threats.”Levin would not comment on the debate last week, but there were signs that the chairman was backing off his hard-line stand, at least to some extent. During the discussion of rock singing verses at last month’s stockholder’ meeting, Levin asserted that “music is not the cause of society’s ills” and even cited his son, a teacher in the Bronx, New York, who uses rap to communicate with students. But he talked as well about the “balanced struggle” between creative freedom and social responsibility, and he announced that the company would launch a drive to develop standards for distribution and labeling of potentially objectionable music.The 15-member Time Warner board is generally supportive of Levin and his corporate strategy. But insiders say several of them have shown their concerns in this matter. “Some of us have known for many, many years that the freedoms under the First Amendment are not totally unlimited,” says Luce, “I think it is perhaps the case that some people associated with the company have only recently come to realize this.”1. Senator Robert Dole criticized Time Warner for .2. According to the text, which of the following is TRUE?3. Levin, according to the text, is probably .4. In face of the recent attacks on the company, the chairman .5. The best title for this text could be .

Most worthwhile careers require some kind of specialized training. Ideally, therefore, the choice of an (1) should be made even before the choice of a curriculum in high school. Actually, (2), most people make several job choices during their working lives, partly because of economic and industrial changes and partly to improve their positions. The “one perfect job” does not exist. Young people should therefore (3) into a broad flexible training program that will fit them for a field of work rather than for a single (4).Unfortunately, many young people, knowing (5) about the occupational world or themselves for that matter, they choose their lifework (6) a hit-or-miss basis. Some (7) from job to job. Others stick to work in which they are unhappy and for which they are not fitted.One common mistake is choosing an occupation for (8) real or imagined prestige. Too many high-school students—or their parents—choose the professional field, (9) both the relatively small percentage of workers in the professions and the extremely high educational and personal (10). The imagined or real prestige of a profession or a White-collar job is (11) good reason for choosing it as life’s work. (12), these occupations are not always well paid. Since a large percentage of jobs are in mechanical and manual work, the majority of young people should give serious (13) to these fields. Before making an occupational choice, a person should have a general idea of what he wants (14) life and how hard he is willing to work to get it. Some people desire social prestige, others intellectual satisfaction. Some want security; others are willing to take (15) for financial gain. Each occupational choice has its demands as well as its rewards.

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