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问答题Practice 3　　In-state tuition. For decades, it was the one advantage big state schools had that even the Ivy League couldn’t match, in terms of recruiting the best and the brightest to their campuses. But these days, that’s no longer necessarily the cas

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Practice 3　　In-state tuition. For decades, it was the one advantage big state schools had that even the Ivy League couldn’t match, in terms of recruiting the best and the brightest to their campuses. But these days, that’s no longer necessarily the case. Starting this September, some students will find a Harvard degree cheaper than one from many public universities. Harvard officials sent shock waves through academia last December by detailing a new financial-aid policy that will charge families making up to $180,000 just 10 % of their household income per year, substantially subsidizing the annual cost of more than $ 45,600 for all but its wealthiest students. The move was just the latest in what has amounted to a financial-aid bidding war in recent years among the U. S.’s élite universities.　　Though Harvard’s is the most generous to date, Princeton, Yale and Stanford have all launched similar plans to cap tuition contributions for students from low-and middle-income families. Indeed, students on financial aid at nearly every Ivy stand a good chance of graduating debt-free, thanks to loan-elimination programs introduced over the past five years. And other exclusive schools have followed their lead by replacing loans with grants and work-study aid. And several more schools are joining the no-loan club this fall. Even more schools have taken steps to reduce debt among their neediest students.
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4.The manufacturers _____ carried out one of the Chairman's proposals, but they didn't.A.must haveB.couldn't haveC.ought to haveD.shouldn't have

参考答案和解析
正确答案： 【参考译文】
话说州内居民上大学的学费。几十年来,这是大型州立大学在招收顶尖学生方面所具有的一大优势,就连常春藤联合会的名牌大学也无法与之媲美。但是,近来州立大学未必再有这一优势。从今年9月开始,一些学生会发现在哈佛大学念学位,其学费要比许多公立大学便宜。去年l2月,哈佛的行政管理人员详细介绍了一项新的助学政策,学校向家庭收入在18万美元以下的学生所收的学费只占其家庭年收入的l0%,从而为除来自最富家庭的学生以外的所有学生每年超过45600美元的费用提供了相当大的资助。哈佛的这一举措给学界造成了冲击波。而这个举措只不过是近年来美国名牌大学之间所进行的为学生提供资助的争夺战中最新的一个例子。
虽然迄今为止哈佛提供的资助最为慷慨,但是普林斯顿、耶鲁和斯坦福也已经推出了类似的计划,为来自低收入和中等收入家庭的学生在学费上提供更多的资助。确实,在几乎每一所常春藤大学,得到资助的学生多亏了过去5年所实施的消除贷款的方案,大有可能在毕业时不欠债务,其他收费昂贵的学校也随后跟进,以助学金和工读资助取代贷款。今年秋季,有好几所学校将加入无贷款的行列,甚至还有更多的学校业已采取措施为其家境最困难的学生减轻债务。
解析： 暂无解析
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  • 第1题：

    -- Why don't you stay a little longer?

    -- _____

    A. I wish I could, but it's already late.

    B. I don't want to.

    C. I couldn't.

    D. Thank you very much.


    参考答案： A

  • 第2题：

    Maybe we’ll soon be able to forecast the weather fo______．

    A．one day

    B．two days

    C．five days

    D．seven days or even longer


    正确答案：D
    文章最后一句说“they may be able to forecast the weather for a week or moreahead．”一个星期是七天，所以答案选D。

  • 第3题：

    Once a king was walking around a pool with his ministers（大臣）.Suddenly, he came up with（想出）an idea. He asked,“How many baskets of 41 are there in the pool?” The ministers couldn’t give an answer. The king was angry, “ You 42 answer my questions in three days!”

    Three days passed, but 43 of the ministers had the answer. Just then, a child said that he knew it. The king told the ministers 44 the child to the pool. To his surprise, the child 45 and said with a smile, “It is 46 . No need to go to the pool.” This made the king pleased. “All right. Let us know 47 .” The child said, “If you know the 48 of the basket, the answer is known. 49 it is as big as the pool, there is one basket of water; half as big, two baskets… ” “ Stop! That’s it .You have got the answer. They were thinking of things 50 a wrong way .”

    Sometimes to get out of the difficulty, one must change one’s way of thinking.

    41.________________

    A. fish B. flowers C. water


    正确答案：C

  • 第4题：

    Sometimes I scratch my head when I read about the government′s efforts to improve schools:new standards and tests to be applied,strict teacher evaluations,and threats of school closures and?job losses．They frighten the school employees,not to mention the students．Instead of making people?unable to solve problems or try new ideas—which is what fear does to us—research on school reform?strongly suggests that policy-makers should encourage school leaders to take a more humane?approach．In their study on the reform efforts of twelve Chicago public schools,Bryk and Schneider
    found that enabling positive social relationships between the adults was the key to successful school?improvement and that trust was at the heart of those relationships．
    Trust in schools comes down to one thing:psychological safety or safety to speak one′s mind,to?discuss with openness and honesty what is and isn′t working,to make collective decisions．
    Yet this kind of safety doesn′t come easily to schools．According to Bryk and Schneider,the?adults in school rely on each other to do their jobs correctly and with integrity(正直)．The challenge?is that our expectations are very diverse based on our unique backgrounds．
    At one school where I taught,each teacher had different expectations about how much extra?effort teachers should put into their work—a big difference between the teachers who left after the?last bell and those who worked into the evening．And when expectations are unconscious or?unspoken,it becomes impossible for others to live up to them．
    We also make assumptions about the intentions behind a person′s behavior．As we all know,assumptions are often wrong．For example,parents and teachers may think the principal made a?particular decision based on his career advancement rather than what′s best for the students．If we?don′t feel psychologically safe to question our assumptions and expectations,trust flies out the?window and our relationships suffer．


    What is meant by trust in school?《》（）

    A.Freedom to express one's views．
    B.Extra effort teachers put into their work．
    C.Independence of the teachers in schools．
    D.Unconscious and unspoken expectations．

    答案：A
    解析：
    【考情点拨】推理判断题。
    【应试指导】由第二段可知，学校中的信任其实就
    是能够说出心中所想，能够公开、诚实地讨论哪些
    事行得通、哪些事行不通，并且能够做集体决定。
    所以，学校中的信任就是自由地表达观点，故
    选A。

  • 第5题：

    Text 4 The Big Mac index is built on the idea of purchasing-power parity,the theory that in the long run currencies will converge until the same amount of money buys the same amount of goods and services in every country.A Big Mac cunently costs$5.06 in America but just 10.75 lira（$2.75）in Turkey,implying that the lira is undenalued.However,ot:her currencies are even cheaper.In Big Mac tenns,the Mexican peso is underval-ued by 55.9%against the greenback.Last week it also hit a record low as Mr Trump restated some of his campaign threats against Mexico.The peso has lost a tenth of iLs value against the dollar since November.Of big countries,only Russia offers a cheaper Big Mac,in dollar terms,even though the rouble has strengthened over the past year.The euro zone is also prey to political uncerLainty.Elections are scheduled this year in the Netherlands,France and Germany,and possible in Italy.The euro recently fell to its lowest level since 2003.Britain's Brexit vote has had an even bigger effect on the pound,which has fallen to$1.21,a 31-year low.According to the Big Mac index,the euro and the pound are undervalued against the dollar by 19.7%and 26.3%,respectively.One of the drawbacks of the Big Mac index is that it takes no account of labour costs.It should surprise no one that a Big Mac costs less in Shanghai than it does in San Francisco,since Chinese workers eam far less than their American counterparts.So in a slightly more sophisticated version of the Big Mac index,we take account of a country's average income.Hisiorically,this adjustment has tended to raise currencies'valuations against the dollar,so emerging-market currencies tend to look more reasonably priced.The Chinese yuan,for example,is 44%undervalued against the doUar according to our baseline Big Mac index,but only 7%according to the adjusted one.The deluxe Big Mac index has typically made rich-world currencies look more expensive.Because western Europeans have higher costs of Iiving and lower incomes than Americans,the euro has traded at around a 25%premium against the dollar in income-adjusted burger terms since Lhe euro's inception.But what once seemed to be a constant truth of burgemomics is true no longer.So strong is the dollar Lhat even the adjusted Big Mac index finds the euro undenalued.The dollar is now Uading at a 14-year high in trade-weighted terms.Emerging-world economies may struggle to pay off dollar denominated debts.American firms may find themselves at a disadvantage agzunst foreign competition.And American tourists will get more burgers for their buck in Europe.We can leam from Paragraph 3 that______

    A.political uncertainty will not affect European countries
    B.economic depression is the real reason for euro's devaluation
    C.the value of currency is completely decided by domestic factors
    D.the devaluation of the pound is mainly caused by Britain's policy

    答案：D
    解析：
    推理题。[A]political uncertainty wiU not affecL European countries“政治不确定性不会影响欧洲国家”；该项对应第三段首句：The euro zone is also prey to political uncertainty.该句的prey表示“猎物”，be prey lo sth.表示“受某事所影响”，该句意思为“欧元区也受到政治不确定性的影响”，可见该项与原文表述完全相反，故该项错误。[B]economic depression is the real reason for euro's devalua【ion“经济萧条是欧元贬值的真正原因”：该项的economlc depression”经济萧条”纯属无中生有．故该项容易排除。[C]the value of currency is completely decided by domestic factors“货币价值完全由国内因素决定”：该项compleiely一词过于绝对，且decided by domeslic factors在原文也无法找到对应内容，故该项非正确答案。[D]the devaluation of the pound is mainly caused by Britain's policy“英镑贬值主要由英国政策引起”：该项对应原文Britain's Brexit vote has had an even bigger effect on the pound，which has fallen to$1.21，a 31-year low.“英国脱欧公投对英镑的冲击还要更大，其兑美元的汇率已跌至1.21．为31年来的最低水平。”其中Britain's Brexit vote“英国脱欧公投”=Britain's policy“英国政策”；the pound...fallen=the devaluation of the pound；故该项为正确答案。

  • 第6题：

    Text 4 The Big Mac index is built on the idea of purchasing-power parity,the theory that in the long run currencies will converge until the same amount of money buys the same amount of goods and services in every country.A Big Mac cunently costs$5.06 in America but just 10.75 lira（$2.75）in Turkey,implying that the lira is undenalued.However,ot:her currencies are even cheaper.In Big Mac tenns,the Mexican peso is underval-ued by 55.9%against the greenback.Last week it also hit a record low as Mr Trump restated some of his campaign threats against Mexico.The peso has lost a tenth of iLs value against the dollar since November.Of big countries,only Russia offers a cheaper Big Mac,in dollar terms,even though the rouble has strengthened over the past year.The euro zone is also prey to political uncerLainty.Elections are scheduled this year in the Netherlands,France and Germany,and possible in Italy.The euro recently fell to its lowest level since 2003.Britain's Brexit vote has had an even bigger effect on the pound,which has fallen to$1.21,a 31-year low.According to the Big Mac index,the euro and the pound are undervalued against the dollar by 19.7%and 26.3%,respectively.One of the drawbacks of the Big Mac index is that it takes no account of labour costs.It should surprise no one that a Big Mac costs less in Shanghai than it does in San Francisco,since Chinese workers eam far less than their American counterparts.So in a slightly more sophisticated version of the Big Mac index,we take account of a country's average income.Hisiorically,this adjustment has tended to raise currencies'valuations against the dollar,so emerging-market currencies tend to look more reasonably priced.The Chinese yuan,for example,is 44%undervalued against the doUar according to our baseline Big Mac index,but only 7%according to the adjusted one.The deluxe Big Mac index has typically made rich-world currencies look more expensive.Because western Europeans have higher costs of Iiving and lower incomes than Americans,the euro has traded at around a 25%premium against the dollar in income-adjusted burger terms since Lhe euro's inception.But what once seemed to be a constant truth of burgemomics is true no longer.So strong is the dollar Lhat even the adjusted Big Mac index finds the euro undenalued.The dollar is now Uading at a 14-year high in trade-weighted terms.Emerging-world economies may struggle to pay off dollar denominated debts.American firms may find themselves at a disadvantage agzunst foreign competition.And American tourists will get more burgers for their buck in Europe.Turkish lira is mentioned to show that______.

    A.Big Mac index is unreliable
    B.lira's purchasing power is low
    C.hamburgers are cheaper in Turkey
    D.some currencies are underestimated

    答案：D
    解析：
    例证题。根据关键词Turkish lira定位到首段最后一句lira in Turkey，答案句为：implying that the lira is undervalued。[A]Big Mac index is unreliable“巨无霸指数并不可靠”；该项中的unreliable-词属于无中生有，且该项与答案句毫无关系，故排除。[B]lira's purchasing power is low“里拉的购买力低”；该项与答案句也不能形成替换关系，可以排除。[C]hamburers are cheaper in Turkey“汉堡在土耳其卖得更便宜”：该项与答案句同样无法替换。[D]some currencIes are underestimated“一些货币价值被低估”：该项中currencies“货币”=the lira“里拉”，underestimated“低估”=undervalued“低估”；故该项为答案。注意：“提及具体例子的引用目的”这一类题，一般都会选择概括性的句子，而不是这个例子本身的问题。该题中[B][C]两项都是具体的表述，不属于作者提及的目的。

  • 第7题：

    I was taking a train to London′s Victoria Station. I had noticed that the carriage was noise and filled with people. Before long, a train inspector comes to check out tickets. A passenger realized he couldn′t find his ticket but became quite upset. Then everyone inthe carriage began searching the ticket, which was eventually found under aseat several rows from his owner. The person who found a ticket smiled with pleasure at his success. No one in the carriage had previous spoken to or even noticedthe ticket-owner before. Yet, they had so quickly offered the strangers theirhelp. If we could show concern to others on need, the world would be a better place to live in.
    第9处错误___________


    答案：
    解析：
    strangers改为stranger。
    考查名词单复数。句意为“他们如此迅速地主动帮助陌生人”。本句中的陌生人就是指那张票的主人，用单数形式。

  • 第8题：

    Some villagers were going to celebrate an important wine festival（酒宴）in a few days′time,so?they borrowed a huge barrel from the nearest town,put it in the village square,and decided that each?of them should empty a bottle of the best wine he had into it,so that there should be plenty at the?feast（宴会）.
    One of the villagers thought he would be very clever."If I pour a bottle of water in,instead of?wine,no one will notice it,"he said to himself,"because there will be so much excellent wine in the?barrel that?the water will be lost in it."
    The night of the feast arrived.Everybody gathered in the village square with their bowls and?their glasses for the wine.The tap（塞子）on the barrel was opened,but what came out was pure?water.Everyone in the village had had the same idea.

    The underlined sentence"the water will be lost in it"can be considered as__________.

    A.the water would be gone in the barrel
    B.the water couldn't be found in the wine
    C.the water would flow through the barrel into the ground
    D.the water would be mixed up with the wine

    答案：D
    解析：
    由第二段第二句可知他认为如果用一瓶水代替酒倒进去的活，没人会注：卷到。他这样认为的原因是“Ihe water will be lost in it”，由此推断出这句话的青外之意是一瓶水加进酒中二者会混合在一起。故选D项。

  • 第9题：

    Which three statements are true about terms in a policy?（）

    • A、The order of the terms in a policy is irrelevant
    • B、The action is specified in a then statement
    • C、Ters are optional in a policy
    • D、The match condition can be identified with a from statement
    • E、Every policy must contain at least one term

    正确答案:B,D,E

  • 第10题：

    多选题
    Which three statements are true about terms in a policy?（）
    A

    The order of the terms in a policy is irrelevant

    B

    The action is specified in a then statement

    C

    Ters are optional in a policy

    D

    The match condition can be identified with a from statement

    E

    Every policy must contain at least one term


    正确答案： C,D
    解析： 暂无解析

  • 第11题：

    问答题
    Practice 1　　Some people call him “Guidone”—big Guido. Large in both physical stature and reputation, Guido Rossi, who took over as Telecom Italia's chairman on September 15th following the surprise resignation of Marco Tronchetti Provera, has stood out from the Italian business crowd for more than three decades. Mr. Rossi, who attended Harvard law school in the 1950s and wrote a book on American bankruptcy law, made his name as a corporate lawyer keen on market rules and their enforcement. He has since worked in both private and public sectors, including stints in the Italian Senate and as one of the European Commission's group of company-law experts. As well as running a busy legal practice, he also has a reputation as a corporate troubleshooter and all-round Mr Fix-It, and is often called upon to clean up organisations in crisis.　　His role at Telecom Italia marks a return to the company he headed for ten months in 1997, during its politically tricky and legally complex privatisation. Before that, Mr Rossi had been sent in to sort out Ferruzzi-Montedison, an agri-business and chemicals group, which had collapsed after magistrates uncovered tangentopoli (“bribesville”).

    正确答案： 【参考译文】
    有的人叫他“吉多尼”——也就是“大”吉多。吉多·罗西身材高大,名气也很大。9月15日,在马可·特龙切蒂·普罗费拉突然辞职之后,三十多年来在意大利商圈一直声名显赫的罗西接任意大利电信公司总裁一职。上世纪五十年代,罗西在哈佛法学院学习,曾写过一部关于美国破产法的著作,后来成为一名公司代理律师,因热衷于市场规则及其执行相关的案例而名噪一时。他在私有和国有单位都谋过事,其中包括在意大利参议院干过一段时间,当过欧盟委员会公司法律处专家。除了忙于法律业务外,他还是赫赫有名的排解公司纠纷高手,人称全能的“处理先生”,经常有危机缠身的公司请他帮助排忧解难。
    他在意大利电信公司所扮演的角色标志着他的回归,因为1997年他在该公司主持过十个月的工作,其时公司正处于勾心斗角的政治斗争和涉及复杂法律问题的私有化过程中。之前罗西曾受命调查了Ferruzzi-Montedison的问题。Ferruzzi-Montedison是一家农业与化工集团,在被地方法官查出存在贿赂问题后倒闭。
    解析： 暂无解析

  • 第12题：

    单选题
    ____ price， the newly-developed fridge has a big advantage over any other.
    A

    In terms of

    B

    By means of

    C

    Owing to

    D

    According to


    正确答案： A
    解析：

  • 第13题：

    —It's too hard to get the food to my mouth when I was in Japan.— () .

    A.I had to practice long and hard to manage those little grains of rice.

    B.One thing I'll say for these things is I don't eat as much.

    C.It's easy to offend people when you don't know their customs.


    正确答案：A
    解析：上句的意思：在日本的时候，饭吃到嘴了很困难。从上下文语境来看，选项A最符合情境。“我不得不认真地练习了很长时间，才学会了如何对付那些小米粒。”

  • 第14题：

    Text 2

    You' re busy filling out the application form. for a position you really need; let' s assume you once actually completed a couple of years of college work or even that you completed your degree.

    Isn't it tempting to lie just a little, to claim on the form. that your diploma represents a Harvard degree? Or that you finished an extra couple of years back at State University? More and more people are turning to utter deception like this to land their job or to move ahead in their careers, for personnel officers, like most Americans, value degrees from famous schools. A job applicant may have a good education anyway, but he or she assumes that chances of being hired are better with a diploma from a well - known university. Registrars at most well - known colleges say they deal with deceitful claims like these at the rate of about one per week.

    Personnel officers do check up on degrees listed on application forms, then, if it turns out that an applicant is lying, most colleges are reluctant to accuse the applicant directly. One Ivy League school calls them "impostors"; another refers to them as "special cases" one well -known West Coast school, in perhaps the most delicate phrase of all, says that these claims are made by "no such people."

    To avoid outright lies, some job -seekers claim that they "attended" or "were associated with" a college or university. After carefully checking, a personnel officer may discover that "attending" means being dismissed after one semester. It may be that "being associated with" a college means that the job seeker visited his younger brother for a football weekend. One school that keeps records of false claims says that the practice dates back at least to the turn of the century—that' s when they began keeping records, anyhow.

    If you don' t want to lie or even stretch the truth, there are companies that will sell you a phony diploma. One company, with offices in New York and on the West Coast, will put your name on a diploma from any number of nonexistent colleges. The price begins at around twenty dollars for a diploma from "Smoot State University." The prices increase rapidly for a degree from the "University of Purdue." As there is no Smoot State and the real school in Indiana is properly called Purdue University, the prices seem rather high for one sheet of paper.

    26. The main idea of this passage is that ______.

    A) employers are checking more closely on applicants now

    B) lying about college degrees has become a widespread problem

    C) college degrees can now be purchased easily

    D) employers are no longer interested in college degrees


    正确答案：B
    答案：B
    [试题分析]主旨题。
    [详细解答]本文主要从在求职表上弄虚作假产生的背景及现状讨论了该问题。所以，B较全面的包含了文章内容，应是正确答案。而其它几项都只对文中某一细节作了描述，不可作为正确答案。

  • 第15题：

    Over the course of the past three decades,the A has become the most common grade given out on Amerrcan college campuses.In 2015,42 percent of grades were top marks,compared to 31 percent in 1988.1.But another,related force-a policy often buried deep in course catalogs called"grade forgiveness"-is helping raise grade-point averages.Different schools'policies can work in slightly different ways,but in general,grade forgiveness allows students to retake a course in which they received a low grade,and the most recent grade or the highest grade is the only one that counts in calculating a student's overall GPA.（Both grades still appear on the student's transcript.）The use of this little-known practice has accelerated in recent years,as colleges continue to do their utmost to keep students in school（and paying tuition）and improve their graduation rates.According to a forthcoming survey by the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers,a trade group,some 91 percent of undergraduate colleges and 80 percent of graduate and professional schools permit students to repeat courses to improve a grade.2.But now most colleges,save for many selective campuses,allow all undergraduates,and even graduate students,to get their low grades forgiven.3.Indeed,there seems to be demand for do-overs."Students are asking for it,"said Jack Miner,Ohio State University's registrar and executive director of enrollment services."We're attracting and retaining stronger students and there's more competition to get into majors and graduate schools,and a small change in their GPA can help."College officials tend to emphasize that the goal of grade forgiveness is less about the grade itself and more about encouraging students to retake courses critical to their degree program and graduation without incurring a big penalty."Ultimately,"Ohio State's Miner said,"we see students achieve more success because they retake a course and do better in subsequent courses or master the contenl that allows them to graduate on time."That said,there i.s a way in which grade forgiveness satisfies colleges'own needs as well.4.And anything that raises GPAs will likely make students-who,at the end of the day,are paying the bill-feel they've gotten a betler value for their tuition dollars.which i.s another big concern for colleges.Indeed.grade forgiveness is just another way that universities are responding to consumers'expectations for higher education.5.On this,students'and colleges'incentives seem to be aligned.
    3选？

    A.When this practice first started decades ago,it was usually limited to freshmen,to give them a seconcl chance io take a class in their first year if they struggled in their transition to college-level courses.
    B.This lrend of grade inflation-the gradual increase in average GPAs over the past few decades-is often considered a product of a consumer era in higher education,in which students are treated like customers to be pleased.
    C.This.trend of the dominance of the A began in the 1960s,abated somewhat in the'70s and came back strong in the'80s.The previous signs of academic disaster.
    D and F,went by the wayside in the Vietnam era,when dropping out meant becoming eligible for the draft.
    D.Since students and parents expect a college degree to lead to a job,it is in the best interest of a school to churn out graduates who are as qualified as possible-or at least appear to be.
    E.One concern highlighted by this phenomenon is that lenient policies undermine the traditional work ethic by teaching students that performance doesn't really matter,because there's always another chance.
    F.The rise of grade forgiveness scans as yet another instance of colleges treating students as customers to be satisfied-similar to campus amenities such as luxurious dorms,splendid recreational facilities,and cornucopian dining halls.
    G.For public institutions,state appropriations are sometimes tied partly to their success on metrics such as graduation rates and student retention-so better grades can,by boosting figures like those,mean more money.

    答案：F
    解析：
    由空格下句Indeed（表示强调或支持刚说过的话）可推知，空格处内容应与“学生对重修课程的需求（demand for do-overs/Students are asking for it）”相关，初步锁定[F]。[F]项指出分数宽恕政策兴起的实质／原因是“学校将学生视为消费者，尽力满足其需求”，与空格下文“学生为提高在就业和升学上的竞争力而要求‘重修课程’，学校满足这一要求”形成“先概括后具体”的逻辑关系；同时．[F]项The rise of grade forgiveness同义复现上段段首The use of this little-known practice has accelerated，指代第三段提出的“越来越多人利用分数宽恕政策”这一现象，another instance of.…引出其背后的实质／原因，即上段构成“提出现象一分析实质／原因”的逻辑关联。

  • 第16题：

    We couldn′t eat in a restaurant because__of us had__money on us.

    A.all;no
    B.any;no
    C.none;any
    D.no one;any

    答案：C
    解析：
    从前半句提供的信息来看，后半句应该是一个完全否定句，而A项中由all引导的句子是不完全否定的句子，即不全都……”，应予以排除。

  • 第17题：

    Text 4 The Big Mac index is built on the idea of purchasing-power parity,the theory that in the long run currencies will converge until the same amount of money buys the same amount of goods and services in every country.A Big Mac cunently costs$5.06 in America but just 10.75 lira（$2.75）in Turkey,implying that the lira is undenalued.However,ot:her currencies are even cheaper.In Big Mac tenns,the Mexican peso is underval-ued by 55.9%against the greenback.Last week it also hit a record low as Mr Trump restated some of his campaign threats against Mexico.The peso has lost a tenth of iLs value against the dollar since November.Of big countries,only Russia offers a cheaper Big Mac,in dollar terms,even though the rouble has strengthened over the past year.The euro zone is also prey to political uncerLainty.Elections are scheduled this year in the Netherlands,France and Germany,and possible in Italy.The euro recently fell to its lowest level since 2003.Britain's Brexit vote has had an even bigger effect on the pound,which has fallen to$1.21,a 31-year low.According to the Big Mac index,the euro and the pound are undervalued against the dollar by 19.7%and 26.3%,respectively.One of the drawbacks of the Big Mac index is that it takes no account of labour costs.It should surprise no one that a Big Mac costs less in Shanghai than it does in San Francisco,since Chinese workers eam far less than their American counterparts.So in a slightly more sophisticated version of the Big Mac index,we take account of a country's average income.Hisiorically,this adjustment has tended to raise currencies'valuations against the dollar,so emerging-market currencies tend to look more reasonably priced.The Chinese yuan,for example,is 44%undervalued against the doUar according to our baseline Big Mac index,but only 7%according to the adjusted one.The deluxe Big Mac index has typically made rich-world currencies look more expensive.Because western Europeans have higher costs of Iiving and lower incomes than Americans,the euro has traded at around a 25%premium against the dollar in income-adjusted burger terms since Lhe euro's inception.But what once seemed to be a constant truth of burgemomics is true no longer.So strong is the dollar Lhat even the adjusted Big Mac index finds the euro undenalued.The dollar is now Uading at a 14-year high in trade-weighted terms.Emerging-world economies may struggle to pay off dollar denominated debts.American firms may find themselves at a disadvantage agzunst foreign competition.And American tourists will get more burgers for their buck in Europe.American tourists in Europe may find that_______.

    A.burgers are much mOR expensive
    B.they have strong purchasing power
    C.dollar will maintain its dominant position
    D.they are faced with fierce competition

    答案：B
    解析：
    细节题。根据American tourists，iIl Europe等词定位到最后一段最后一句：And American tourists will get more burgers for their buck in Europe.“而美国游客将会在欧洲用美元买到更多的汉堡。”[A]burgers are much more expensive“汉堡更加昂贵”；该项与原文表述相反，可以排除。[B]they have sLrong purchasing power“他们有强大的购买力”；该项与原文表述相近。[C]dollar will maintain iIs dominant position“美元将会维持其主导地位”；“将要维持主导地位”的说法，在时态上与原文不符合，原文并没有对未来进行推测，属于主观臆断。[D]they are faced with fierce competition”他们面临激烈竞争”：该项与答案毫无关联，容易排除。从感情色彩判断，原文的get more burgers for their buck是正向表达，选项[A]中“more expensive”，[C]中“lost”，[D]中“fierce competition”均为负面信息，只有[B]中“strong”为正向，故[B]为正确答案。

  • 第18题：

    Text 4 The Big Mac index is built on the idea of purchasing-power parity,the theory that in the long run currencies will converge until the same amount of money buys the same amount of goods and services in every country.A Big Mac cunently costs$5.06 in America but just 10.75 lira（$2.75）in Turkey,implying that the lira is undenalued.However,ot:her currencies are even cheaper.In Big Mac tenns,the Mexican peso is underval-ued by 55.9%against the greenback.Last week it also hit a record low as Mr Trump restated some of his campaign threats against Mexico.The peso has lost a tenth of iLs value against the dollar since November.Of big countries,only Russia offers a cheaper Big Mac,in dollar terms,even though the rouble has strengthened over the past year.The euro zone is also prey to political uncerLainty.Elections are scheduled this year in the Netherlands,France and Germany,and possible in Italy.The euro recently fell to its lowest level since 2003.Britain's Brexit vote has had an even bigger effect on the pound,which has fallen to$1.21,a 31-year low.According to the Big Mac index,the euro and the pound are undervalued against the dollar by 19.7%and 26.3%,respectively.One of the drawbacks of the Big Mac index is that it takes no account of labour costs.It should surprise no one that a Big Mac costs less in Shanghai than it does in San Francisco,since Chinese workers eam far less than their American counterparts.So in a slightly more sophisticated version of the Big Mac index,we take account of a country's average income.Hisiorically,this adjustment has tended to raise currencies'valuations against the dollar,so emerging-market currencies tend to look more reasonably priced.The Chinese yuan,for example,is 44%undervalued against the doUar according to our baseline Big Mac index,but only 7%according to the adjusted one.The deluxe Big Mac index has typically made rich-world currencies look more expensive.Because western Europeans have higher costs of Iiving and lower incomes than Americans,the euro has traded at around a 25%premium against the dollar in income-adjusted burger terms since Lhe euro's inception.But what once seemed to be a constant truth of burgemomics is true no longer.So strong is the dollar Lhat even the adjusted Big Mac index finds the euro undenalued.The dollar is now Uading at a 14-year high in trade-weighted terms.Emerging-world economies may struggle to pay off dollar denominated debts.American firms may find themselves at a disadvantage agzunst foreign competition.And American tourists will get more burgers for their buck in Europe.Which of the following is the best iitle for the text?

    A.Big Mac Index:Lhe Undervalued Currencies
    B.Big Mac Index:Lhe Underestimated DoIJars
    C.Big Mac Index:the Declining Economies
    D.Big Mac Index:Dollars VS Euros

    答案：A
    解析：
    主旨题。[A]Big Mac Index:the Undervalued Currencies“巨无霸指数：被低估的货币”；[B]Big Mac Index:the Underestimated Dollars“巨无霸指数：被低估的美元”；[C]Big Mac Index:the Declining Economies“巨无霸指数：衰退的经济”；[D]Big Mac Index:DoUars VS Euros“巨无霸指数：美元对欧元”。文章首段尾句提到the lira is undervalued；第二段首句提到However,other currencies are even cheaper.In Big Mac terms,the Mexican peso is undervalued...下文反复提到各种货币价值被低估，故[A]项符合文章主旨大意。[B]错在underestimated dollars，文章讨论各种货币价值被低估，而美元很强势；[C]错在declining economies．文章强调货币价值被低估，而不是经济衰退；[D]过于片面，文章第三段、第五段和第六段都提到欧元与美元的比较，因此该项可以排除。综上，本题答案为[A]。

  • 第19题：

    I was taking a train to London′s Victoria Station. I had noticed that the carriage was noise and filled with people. Before long, a train inspector comes to check out tickets. A passenger realized he couldn′t find his ticket but became quite upset. Then everyone inthe carriage began searching the ticket, which was eventually found under aseat several rows from his owner. The person who found a ticket smiled with pleasure at his success. No one in the carriage had previous spoken to or even noticedthe ticket-owner before. Yet, they had so quickly offered the strangers theirhelp. If we could show concern to others on need, the world would be a better place to live in.
    第3处错误___________


    答案：
    解析：
    comes改为came。
    考查时态。因为本文讲述的是过去发生的事情，所以使用一般过去式。

  • 第20题：

    Jimmy couldn‘t write down Mr.Baker’s name because________.

    A.he had no pen or paper
    B.he couldn‘t read or write
    C.he had to look after the baby
    D.he had to play with his brother

    答案：B
    解析：

  • 第21题：

    问答题
    It’s hard to get more white-fenced than Naperville. In the western Chicago suburb, crime is an annoyance, not a problem. The streets are clean and the schools are some of the most impressive in the state, producing some of the brightest students who attend the nation’s best colleges. (1)____________.　　The rankings will be phased out over the next year, with 2007’s upperclassmen deciding whether to include such a rank in their official transcripts. By no longer ranking students, the Naperville School District 203 is squarely in line with a trend that is fast sweeping the nation, as more and more private and public schools are dropping the practice. The goal, proponents say, is to cut down on the hyper-competition and lessen the stress at such a critical learning point and maturation curve in kids’ lives.　　“It’s a high bar we set, and it should be,” said Naperville Superintendent Alan Leis. “But there needs to be more than wrestling over who’s better than who.” (2)______________.　　Some 80% or more public schools still report rankings to inquiring universities and colleges, but a growing number of high schools in the Chicago area and around the country—in mostly affluent districts from California to Miami to New Jersey—have already adopted the practice. (3)_______________. Even in Naperville, a valedictorian is still expected to address the class, but that honor is not chosen until the last weeks of a school year and is not forwarded on to schools in official transcripts.　　(4)_______________. According to Dr. Scott Hunter, a clinical psychologist and school consultant at the University of Chicago Hospitals who specializes in pediatric neuropsychology. “The reality is that we have made in the last 10 years more of rank than it deserves because some kids don’t really shine until they enter into adulthood, and they risk being ignored by the very places and people where they could greatly succeed,” adds Hunter, “ This is an artificial number in terms of where a person really falls.”　　(5)___________________.　　“It makes it a little more opaque for us on the admissions side, but we fully understand it,” said Jim Miller, director of admissions at Brown University. “It’s conceivable a student could get a B in gym and get knocked down 40 places in rank. So we’re getting more used to it, and probably half our applicants now come from schools that don’t have rank. “　　[A] Class rankings, a tradition at many schools, have long helped universities and colleges—especially the Harvards and Princetons of the world—weed out the weak students from the strong, the ones with not only promise but the ambition to excel and meet the difficulties of higher education.　　[B] But it’s vicious at the top—so much so that Naperville’s school officials recently voted to stop using a class ranking system.　　[C] A much higher number of private schools do not share their rankings, including some independent schools in Chicago that, for example, have societies that recognize the top 10% of a class but choose to allow the students themselves dictate who speaks at graduation.　　[D] Competitions among students for the title of honored graduates are very tight and are on the rise in a great number of private schools.　　[E] Schools just have to make certain, through student profiles and other means, the strength of a schedule and student performance relative to other students.　　[F] Not surprisingly, there is still lots of disagreement about the new policy; some parents are worried that it hurts high-achieving students’ chances of getting over the bar, while forcing colleges and universities to rely on perhaps less reliable or easier measures or on standardized tests like the ACT or SAT.　　[G] Students and their parents increasingly fight over who gets to be number one, and the damage that can be done—both academically and psychologically—to those who lose out far wins the benefits of the glory attached to such titles.(此文选自Time 2006年刊)

    正确答案：
    1. B 文章开头提到,在Naperville犯罪虽让人厌烦,但还没有成为严重的问题。接着描述学校里学生良好的表现。这些描述与上文crime不相干,甚至矛盾。由此可以判断作者有意使前后文是形成对比关系,从而引出主题。选项B中转折词but,语锋转向反面,并提到取消班级排名制度,这又与下文段首The rankings will be phased out联系紧密,故为正确选项。此处D可成为干扰项,讲学生之间的竞争非常激烈并且有加剧的趋势,和上文有一定关联,但是与下文提出的取消ranking 没有任何联系,若选填则下文会显得很突兀,故排除。
    2. A 文章的首段提出关于class ranking 的主题,第二段接着讲到Naperville将取消class anking制度,这种做法受到普遍欢迎。本段引用观点是对上文中the goal 作出的进一步说明,但是提出我们不是仅仅找出谁更优秀,这表明作者是想通过对比引出下文。根据行文逻辑,上文已讲到取消ranking之后的情况,那下文必定是对传统的ranking介绍。A和C都提到了ranking,C继续讲取消班级排名的做法,但A中讲述了传统的班级排名为名校招生提供的方便,并且出现了universities and colleges,与下文同词出现做好衔接,故为最佳答案。
    3. C 本段首提出80%以上的公立学校依旧使用班级排名,但越来越多的学校开始不对学生进行排名,空格后再次以Naperville的情况为例,可见本题所在处应该也是具体分析学校开始不给学生进行排名这一情况。C A much higher number of private schools是与上句a growing number of high schools 对比之后构成的递进关系,进一步强调取消排名制的学校之多,故为答案。其中选项E会构成干扰,讲到学校只需确定课表是否合适以及学生的表现如何,看起来是新措施,但是与上下文语境不符,故排除。
    4. G 本题后面为引用内容,下文中Dr. Scott Hunter提出自己的观点,认为早期过多的排名会让那些进入中年之后才会出类拔萃的孩子被忽视,这表明Hunter反对排名,由英语行文结构可知本题所在处内容应该是对排名危害的概括性陈述。G概括提到the damage far wins, 其中psychologically与第二句中的psychologist前后照应,综上G为答案。
    5. F上文中Hunter提出了排名的危害,而空缺处的下文指出,取消班级排名会给学校招生标准带来一定困难,这是取消class ranking带来的负面影响,说明人们对此问题的看法依旧存在分歧,所以本题所在段应起到承上启下的衔接作用。FNot surprisingly, there is still lots of disagreement about the new policy过渡自然,故为答案。
    解析： 暂无解析

  • 第22题：

    单选题
    He is one of those men who, I am sure, always do ______ best even in most trying circumstances.
    A

    them

    B

    his

    C

    their

    D

    one’s


    正确答案： B
    解析：
    句意：我敢肯定，他就是那种即使在最艰苦的环境下也要做到最好的人之一。do one’s best尽最大的努力，做到最好。who引导定语从句，代指前面的those men，所以后面要用复数形式。

  • 第23题：

    单选题
    Life is more like a baseball _____, where even the best team loses one third of its games and even the worst team has its days of brilliance.
    A

    season

    B

    time

    C

    period

    D

    year


    正确答案： A
    解析：
    句意：人生更像是一个棒球赛季，即使最好的球队也会输掉三分之一的比赛，而最差的球队也有春风得意的日子。season时期，活跃季节。time时间。period一段时间。year年。

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