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填空题Londoners are great readers. They buy vast numbers of newspapers and magazines and even of books--especially paperbacks, which are still (36) cheap in spite of ever-increasing rises in the cost of printing. They still buy "proper" books, too, printed on good paper and (37) between hard covers.
There are many streets in London (38) shops which specialize in book-selling. (39) the best known of these is Charing Cross Road. Here books of all sorts and sizes are to be found, from the celebrated one which (40) of being "the biggest bookshop in the world" to the (41) , dusty little places which seem to have been left over from Dickens’ time. Some of these shops (42) , or will obtain, any kind of book, but many of them specialize in second-hand books, in art books, in foreign books, in books on (43) , politics or any other of the myriad subjects about which books may be written.
(44) , Chafing Cross Road is not the cheapest. For the really cheap second-hand volumes, the collector must venture off the beaten track, to Farringdon Road, in the East Central district of London. Here there is nothing so grandiose as bookshops. (45) on to small barrows which line the gutters. And the collectors, some professional and some amateur, pounce up on the dusty cascade. In places like this (46) .

参考答案：stock

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1.填空题The old photos ______ (使我想起了我们一起度过的美好时光).

参考答案：reminded/remind me of the happy days we spent together

2.填空题______ (在任何情况下你都不应该背叛) your family and friends.

参考答案：Under no circumstances should you betray

3.单项选择题Questions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage.
Rich Americans are willing to take conspicuous consumption to new heights by spending big bucks to fly into space, including paying 100,000 for a 15-minute trip into the heavens, according to a poll released on Monday.
Possibly bored by the banal baubles (老套的小玩意) of mundane Mother Earth or inspired by the dashing derring-do of such pioneers as first American in space Alan Shepard and first millionaire in space Dennis Tito, the poll says 7 percent of rich Americans would pay 20 million for a two-week orbital flight and 19 percent would pay 100,000 for 15-minute sub-orbital flight.
The poll by Zogby International was commissioned by Futron Corp., a Maryland aerospace consulting group which has a 1.8 million contract with NASA to explore the commercial applications of space travel, including what space tourism could look like in the next 20 years.
Zogby International conducted telephone interviews with 450 Americans whose yearly incomes exceed 250,000 or whose net worth exceeds 1 million. The polls, conducted in January but only released Monday, has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.7 percent.
Futron’s NASA project program manager Derek Webber said, "We commissioned this survey in order to get an idea of what rich people think and not the man in the street who loves the idea of going into space but can’t afford it."
He added, "we are saying these trips will cost a minimum of 100,000 for a 15-minute trip, which was the amount of time the first American in space, Alan Shepard, had and for that you get to feel space weightlessness and see the world from up there." That trip would take a tourist 50 miles (80 kin) into space.
Webber said a surprising 7 percent of the wealthy polled said they would be willing to take a two-week flight to an orbiting space station, paying the 20 million that the Russians charged the two pioneering space tourists who have already made the trip, South African Mark Shuttleworth and American Dennis Tito.
If the price dropped to $50,000, 16 percent of those surveyed would be interested.
Space tourists would have to meet medical standards and only be able to go to the International Space Station.
’N Sync singer Lance Bass is currently undergoing tests to see if he could become the third space tourist. He wants to become the first entertainer in space.
Who is most likely to be chosen as the subject of Zogby’s survey

A．Those who are conducting prosperous businesses.
B．Those who are fascinated by thrilling extreme games.
C．Those who admire the heroic deeds of Alan Shepard.
D．Those who are healthy enough for space travel.

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4.填空题Londoners are great readers. They buy vast numbers of newspapers and magazines and even of books--especially paperbacks, which are still (36) cheap in spite of ever-increasing rises in the cost of printing. They still buy "proper" books, too, printed on good paper and (37) between hard covers.
There are many streets in London (38) shops which specialize in book-selling. (39) the best known of these is Charing Cross Road. Here books of all sorts and sizes are to be found, from the celebrated one which (40) of being "the biggest bookshop in the world" to the (41) , dusty little places which seem to have been left over from Dickens’ time. Some of these shops (42) , or will obtain, any kind of book, but many of them specialize in second-hand books, in art books, in foreign books, in books on (43) , politics or any other of the myriad subjects about which books may be written.
(44) , Chafing Cross Road is not the cheapest. For the really cheap second-hand volumes, the collector must venture off the beaten track, to Farringdon Road, in the East Central district of London. Here there is nothing so grandiose as bookshops. (45) on to small barrows which line the gutters. And the collectors, some professional and some amateur, pounce up on the dusty cascade. In places like this (46) .

参考答案：tiny

5.单项选择题Coffee--The Drink of Choice
Did you know coffee is the most consumed beverage in the world How did coffee get this ranking What country first figured out that coffee was safe for consumption When was the first drink of coffee prepared Where did the first coffee shop come into being There are many questions about the starting point of drinking coffee. It has been so long ago that no one really knows all the facts. But, one thing is for sure, coffee is the most consumed beverage on the planet.
The Beginning of Coffee
It looks as if the first trace came out of Abyssinia and was also irregularly in the vicinity of the Red Sea around seven hundred AD. Along with these people, other Africans of the same period also have a history of using the coffee’ berry pulp for more than one occasion like rituals and even for health.
Coffee began to get more attention when the Arabs began cultivating it in their peninsulas around eleven hundred AD. It is speculated that trade ships brought the coffee their way. The Arabs started making a drink that became quite popular called gahwa--meaning to prevent sleep. Roasting and boiling the bean was how they made this drink. It became so popular among the Arabs that they made it their signature Arabian wine and it was used a lot during rituals.
After the coffee bean was found to be a great wine and a medicine, someone discovered in Arabia that you could also make a different dark, delicious drink out of the beans, this happened somewhere around twelve hundred AD. After that it didn’t take long before everyone in Arabia was drinking coffee. Everywhere these people traveled the coffee went with them. It made its way around to India, North Africa, the eastern Mediterranean, and was then cultivated to a great extent in Yemen around fourteen hundred AD.
Other countries would have gladly welcomed these beans if only the Arabs had let them.
The Arabs killed the seed-germ making sure no one else could grow the coffee even if it were taken to anywhere else. Heavily guarding their plants, Yemen is where the main source of coffee stayed for several hundred years. Even with their efforts, the beans were eventually smuggled out by pilgrims and travelers.
Coffee Shops Appear
Around 1475 the first coffee shop opened in Constantinople called Kiv Han two years after coffee was introduced to Turkey, in 1554 two coffee houses opened there. People came pouring in to socialize, listen to music, play games and of course drink coffee. Some often called these places in Turkey the "school of the wise", because you could learn so much by just visiting the coffee house and listening to conversations. In the sixteen hundreds coffee enters Europe through the port of Venice. The Turkish warriors also brought the drink to Balkans, Spain, and North Africa. Not too much later the first coffee house opened in Italy.
There were plenty of people also trying to ban coffee. Such as Khair Beg, a governor of Mecca, who was executed and Grand Vizir of the Ottoman Empire who successfully closed down many coffee houses in Turkey. Thankfully not everyone thought this way.
Coffee Tips Arrive
In the early sixteen hundreds coffee was presented to the New World by a man named John Smith. Later in that century, the first coffee house opened in England. Coffee houses or "penny universities" charged a penny for admission and for a cup of coffee. The word "TIPS" (for service) has its origin from an English coffee house.
Early in the 17th century, Edward Lloyd’s coffee house opened in England. The Dutch became the first to commercially transport coffee. The first Parisian cafe opened in 1713 and King Louis X1V was presented with a lovely coffee tree. Sugar was first used as an addition to coffee in his court.
The Americas Have Coffee
Coffee plants were introduced into the Americas for development. By close to the end of the seventeen hundreds, 1,920 million plants had been grown on the island.
Evidently the eighteen hundreds were spent trying to find better methods to make coffee.
The Coffee "Brew" in the 20th Century
New methods to help brewing coffee start popping up everywhere. The first commercial espresso machine was developed in Italy. Melitta Bentz made a filter using blotting paper. Dr. Ernest Lily manufactured the first automatic espresso machine. The Nestle Company invented Nescafe instant coffee. Achilles Gaggia perfected the espresso machine. Hills Bros. began packing roasted coffee in vacuum tins eventually ending local roasting shops and coffee mills. A Japanese-American chemist named Satori Kato from Chicago invented the first soluble "instant" coffee.
German coffee importer Ludwig Roselius turned some mined coffee beans over to researchers, who perfected the process of removing caffeine from the beans without destroying the flavor. He sold it under the name Sanka. Sanka is introduced in the United States in 1923.
George Constant Washington, an English chemist living in Guatemala, was interested in a powdery condensation forming on the spout of his silver coffee flask. After checking into it, he created the first mass-produced instant coffee with his brand name called Red E Coffee.
Prohibition went into effect in the United States. Coffee sales suddenly increased. Brazil asked Nestle to help find a solution to their coffee surpluses so the Nestle Company came up with freeze-dried coffee. Nestle also made Nescafe and introduced it to Switzerland.
Other Interesting Coffee Tidbits
Today the US-imports 70 percent of the world’s coffee crop. During W. W. Ⅱ, American soldiers were issued instant Maxwell House coffee in their ration kits.
In Italy, Achilles Gaggia perfected his espresso machine. The name Cappuccino comes from the resemblance of its color to the robes of the monks of the Capuchin order.
One week before Woodstock, the Manson family murdered coffee heiress Abigail Folger as she visited with her friend Sharon Tate in the home of filmmaker Roman Polanski.
The Coffee Trends
For the first time since 1990, the percentage of adults who drink a daily cup of java has topped the percentage of adults who drink soft drinks each day. Soft drink consumption decreased 6 percent, down to 51 percent last year, according to a random telephone survey conducted by the National Coffee Drinking Trends Repor which is sponsored by the National Coffee Association.
"Coffee is experiencing a new Renaissance," said Robert Nelson, president and CEO of the association "Coffee is gaining a higher profile among American consumers as they enjoy an expanding menu of option amid an exploding cafe culture."
Other increases include a continuing upward trend among 18 to 24-year-olds in daily consumption and among those who are ages 40 to 59 or over 60 there was an increase to 61 and 74 percent respectively.
The only age category to dip slightly was those aged 25 to 39 who cut back to 44 percent from 47 percent but this is still a higher rate of consumption over 2002. Overall consumption is the same as last year, 89 percent, a continuing rise over the last three years. Other trends spotted in the report are that weekly consumers are down 1 percent less (67 from 68) than 2006 while daily consumers are up 1 percent (48 over 47) and ground coffee is the preferred source for at-home brewing over instant coffee.
Gourmet coffee took a little dip to 14 percent, down from 16 percent in 2006 which some market researchers believe is because "gourmet coffee has become so mainstream it is perceived as ’regular coffee’ by the general public.\
What was Khair Beg’s attitude towards coffee

A．Favorable.
B．Cautious.
C．Negative.
D．Neutral.

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6.填空题Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.
The world famous Loch Ness monster, known affectionately as "Nessie" by most people and by the scientific believers goes back a long, long way, the first recorded sighting being by no less a person than a holy saint. The saint was St. Columba and the year 565 AD.
When Columba was travelling in the Loch Ness area converting the Picts, his biographer, St. Adamnan, tells the story of the driving away of the monster by the power of prayer. Whilst on the banks of Loch Ness, St. Columba came upon some Picts burying a man who had been ravaged by, according to them, a "monster of the water". St. Columba miraculously restored the man to life by laying his staff across the man’s chest.
The next time that any reference to the monster surfaced, was in a letter to The Scotsman newspaper in 1933 from a Mr. D. Murray Rose. He tells of a story in an old book that spoke of the slaying of dragons and: "It goes on to say that Fraser killed the last known dragon in Scotland, but no one has yet managed to slay the monster of Loch Ness lately seen."
It was also in 1933, a time of depression and general misery that Mr. and Mrs. Mackay, owners of the Drumnadrochit hotel were travelling along the new road. According to their account they saw in the centre of the loch "an enormous animal rolling and plunging". Cynics may say that being the owners of the Drumnadrochit hotel, this couple may well have wanted to see a monster but apparently they did not tell this story widely, although they did tell it to a young water bailiff in Fort Augustus who happened to be a correspondent for the Inverness Courier newspaper.
Since then to the present day there have been many accounts of sightings. Such "evidence" as film footage of Nessie’s humps travelling across the loch and the famous "Surgeon’s" photograph taken by R. K. Wilson in 1934 have all since turned out to be fakes.
Sonar surveys of the loch using the latest equipment have failed to find any conclusive evidence of Nessie’s existence, but neither have they proved that she doesn’t exist. Some accounts may well have been sighted through the bottom of a whisky glass, but there are still a remarkable number of eye witness accounts that ring true.
How did Mr. D. Murray Rose get to know about the Loch Ness Monster

参考答案：In an old book

7.单项选择题There is a proposal in Washington to set aside $100 million to support single mothers on welfare who want to get married. This novel idea is a (62) that some of our politicians are coming to understand that the state of our national union (63) greatly on the state of our (64) unions--on the health of the marriage institution in America.
Divorce rates remain very high by (65) standards, and the children of the first generation of easy divorce are well into their own adults lives. (66) all the statistics and anecdotal accounts of this vast subject, what are the key (67) that are leading to health or sickness for the institution of marriage Where are we going wrong And how can we get back on (68)
The central question is whether we have allowed a culture to develop that (69) people for the challenges of marriage. Social (70) on selfishness and self-centeredness, and the achievement-oriented (71) of our business world, all encourage us to put family in (72) place. Marriage often represents the (73) from such a world of selfishness to a world of (74) . Family life is the normal context (75) we can learn that a life filled with (76) about others instead of ourselves is the sure road (77) the most fulfilling joys and satisfactions. But (78) preparing young people to learn this lesson, often we actually seem to be preparing them more for divorce than for marriage. (79) ignorant of the mysteries of giving, too many people enter marriage (80) high expectations of direct personal satisfaction, and then find themselves (81) disappointed and tempted to cut their losses.

A．concentrates
B．depends
C．bases
D．focuses

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8.单项选择题Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
With increasing prosperity, Western European youth is having a fling that is creating distinctive consumer and cultural patterns.
The result has been the increasing emergence in Europe of that phenomenon well known in America as the "youth market." This is a market in which enterprising businesses cater to the demands of teenagers and older youths in all their rock mania and pop-art forms.
In Western Europe, the youth market may appropriately be said to be in its infancy. In some countries such as Britain, West Germany and France, it is more advanced than in others. Some manifestations of the market, chiefly sociological, have been recorded, but it is only just beginning to be the subject of organized consumer research and promotion.
Characteristics of evolving European youth market indicate dissimilarities as well as similarities to the American youth market.
The similarities:
The market’s basis is essentially the same--more spending power and freedom to use it in the hands of teenagers and older youth. Young consumers also make up an increasingly high proportion of the population.
As in the United States, youthful tastes in Europe extend over a similar range of products--records and record players, transistor radios, leather jackets and "way-out", extravagantly styled clothing, cosmetics and soft drinks. Generally it now is difficult to tell in which direction trans-Atlantic teenage influences are flowing.
Also, a pattern of conformity dominates Europe youth as in this country, though in Britain the object is to wear clothes that "make the wearer stand out," but also make him "in," such as tight trousers and precisely tailored jackets.
Worship and emulation of "idols" in the entertainment field, especially the "pop" singers and other performers is pervasive. There’s also the same exuberance and unpredictability in sudden fad switches. In Paris, buyers of stores catering to the youth market carefully watch what dress is being worn by a popular television teenage singer to be ready for a sudden demand for copies. In Stockholm other followers of teenage fads call the youth market "attractive but irrational."
The most obvious differences between the youth market in Europe and that in the United States is in size. In terms of volume and variety sales, the market in Europe is only a shadow of its American counterpart, but it is a growing shadow.
What does the author think about the youth market in Britain, West Germany and France

A．It is more developed than that in Western Europe.
B．It is still in its preliminary stage of development.
C．More sociological phenomena of the market should be recorded.
D．Consumer research and promotion should be based on the market.

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9.单项选择题Questions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage.
Rich Americans are willing to take conspicuous consumption to new heights by spending big bucks to fly into space, including paying 100,000 for a 15-minute trip into the heavens, according to a poll released on Monday.
Possibly bored by the banal baubles (老套的小玩意) of mundane Mother Earth or inspired by the dashing derring-do of such pioneers as first American in space Alan Shepard and first millionaire in space Dennis Tito, the poll says 7 percent of rich Americans would pay 20 million for a two-week orbital flight and 19 percent would pay 100,000 for 15-minute sub-orbital flight.
The poll by Zogby International was commissioned by Futron Corp., a Maryland aerospace consulting group which has a 1.8 million contract with NASA to explore the commercial applications of space travel, including what space tourism could look like in the next 20 years.
Zogby International conducted telephone interviews with 450 Americans whose yearly incomes exceed 250,000 or whose net worth exceeds 1 million. The polls, conducted in January but only released Monday, has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.7 percent.
Futron’s NASA project program manager Derek Webber said, "We commissioned this survey in order to get an idea of what rich people think and not the man in the street who loves the idea of going into space but can’t afford it."
He added, "we are saying these trips will cost a minimum of 100,000 for a 15-minute trip, which was the amount of time the first American in space, Alan Shepard, had and for that you get to feel space weightlessness and see the world from up there." That trip would take a tourist 50 miles (80 kin) into space.
Webber said a surprising 7 percent of the wealthy polled said they would be willing to take a two-week flight to an orbiting space station, paying the 20 million that the Russians charged the two pioneering space tourists who have already made the trip, South African Mark Shuttleworth and American Dennis Tito.
If the price dropped to $50,000, 16 percent of those surveyed would be interested.
Space tourists would have to meet medical standards and only be able to go to the International Space Station.
’N Sync singer Lance Bass is currently undergoing tests to see if he could become the third space tourist. He wants to become the first entertainer in space.
What does the Futron Corp want to find out by the poll

A．Whether space travel will be profitable.
B．Whether space travel is technically practicable.
C．What the public think about space travel.
D．What cost people would pay for space travel.

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10.填空题Londoners are great readers. They buy vast numbers of newspapers and magazines and even of books--especially paperbacks, which are still (36) cheap in spite of ever-increasing rises in the cost of printing. They still buy "proper" books, too, printed on good paper and (37) between hard covers.
There are many streets in London (38) shops which specialize in book-selling. (39) the best known of these is Charing Cross Road. Here books of all sorts and sizes are to be found, from the celebrated one which (40) of being "the biggest bookshop in the world" to the (41) , dusty little places which seem to have been left over from Dickens’ time. Some of these shops (42) , or will obtain, any kind of book, but many of them specialize in second-hand books, in art books, in foreign books, in books on (43) , politics or any other of the myriad subjects about which books may be written.
(44) , Chafing Cross Road is not the cheapest. For the really cheap second-hand volumes, the collector must venture off the beaten track, to Farringdon Road, in the East Central district of London. Here there is nothing so grandiose as bookshops. (45) on to small barrows which line the gutters. And the collectors, some professional and some amateur, pounce up on the dusty cascade. In places like this (46) .

参考答案：boasts

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