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1、2009 TEXT ADo you realize that every time you take a step,the bones in your hip are subjected to forcesbetween four and five times your body weight?When you are running,this force is increasedfurther still.What happens if through disease a hip-joint ceases to be able to resist such forces?For many y
2、ears hip-joints and other body joints have been replaceable either partially orcompletely.It is after all a simple ball and socket joint;it has certain loads imposed on it;it needsreliability over a defined life;it must contain materials suitable for the working environment.Anyengineer will recogniz
3、e these as characteristic of a typical engineering problem,which doctors andengineers have worked together to solve,in order to bring a fresh lease of life to people whowould otherwise be disabled.This typifies the way in which engineers work to help people and create a better quality of life.The fa
4、ct that this country has the most efficient agricultural industry in the world is another goodexample.Mechanical engineers have worked with farmers and biologists to produce fertilizers,machinery and harvesting systems.This team effort has now produced crops uniformly waist highor less so that they
5、are better suited to mechanical harvesting.Similar advances with other cropshave released people from hard and boring jobs for more creative work,whilst machines harvestcrops more efficiently with less waste.Providing more food for the rapidly increasing populationis yet another role for the mechani
6、cal engineer.81.According to the passage,when would most weight be imposed on hip-joints?A.When one is walking.B.When one is running.C.When one is standing.D.When one is lying down.82.Engineers regard the replacement of hip-joints as a(n)P ro b le m.A.mechanical B.medical C.health D.agricultural83.A
7、ccording to the passage,how do engineers contribute to increasing efficiency of theagricultural industry?A.By working with farmers.B.By working in teams.C.By growing crops of the same height.D.By making agricultural machinery.84.According to the context,This team effort,in Paragraph Two refers toA.m
8、echanical engineers.B.doctors and engineers.C.biologists,doctors and farmers.D.farmers,biologists and engineers.TEXTBNowadays,a cellphone service is available to everyone,everywhere.Probably thousands ofpeople have already been using it,but I just discovered it,so Im going to claim it and also name
9、it:Fake Foning.The technology has been working well for me at the office,but there are infinite applications.Virtually in any public space.Say you work at a big university with lots of talky faculty members buzzing about.Now,say youneed to use the restroom.The trip down the hall will take approximat
10、ely one hour,because aperson cant walk into those talky people without getting pulled aside for a question,a bit ofgossip,a new read on a certain line of Paradise Lost.So,a cellphone.Any cellphone.Just pick it up.Dont dial.Just hold that phone to your face andstart talking.Walk confidently down the
11、hall engaged in fake conversation,making sure to tailorboth the topic and content to the person standing before you whom you are trying to evade.For standard colleague avoidance,I suggest fake chatting about fake business:Yes,Im glad you called,because we really need to hammer out the details.Whats
12、that?Yes,Iread Page 12,but if you look at the bottom of 4,I think you can see the problem begins rightthere.Be animated.Be engaged in your fake fone conversation.Make eye contact with the peoplepassing,nod to them,gesture keen interest in talking to them at a later time,point to your phone,shrug and
13、 move on.Shoppers should consider fake foning anytime they spot a talky neighbor in the producedepartment pinching（用手捏）unripe peaches.Without your phone at your face,youd be in for a20-minute speech on how terrible the world is.One important caution about fake foning.The other day I was fake foning
14、my way past acolleague,and he was actually following me to get my attention.I knew he wanted to ask about aproject I had not yet finished.I was trying to buy myself some time,so I continued fake foningwith my doctor.So I dont need the operation?Oh,doctor,that is the best news.1And then:Brrrrrmg!Brnr
15、rmg!Bnyrrmg!My phone started ringing,right there while it wasplanted on my face.My colleague looked at me,and I at him,and naturally I gasped.What is thematter with this thing?”I said,pulling the phone away to look at it,and then putting it back to myear.Hello?Are you still there?nOops.85.Which of t
16、he following statements is INCORRECT?A.Cellphone service is popular among people.B.Cellphone has much use in office.C.Fake foning is a new cellphone service.D.Fake foning is a new discovery.86.What is fake foning?A.A strategy to avoid people.B.A device newly produced.C.A service provided everywhere.
17、D.A skill of communication.87.In the authors opinion,in order to make fake foning look real one has toA.talk about interesting matters.B.behave politely to people passing by.C.hold the phone while walking.D.appear absorbed in conversation.88.What does the last example show?A.One effective way is to
18、fake fone ones doctor.B.One has to be careful while fake foning.C.Fake foning may not deceive people.D.Fake foning is always quite successful.89.After his phone suddenly began ringing,the authorA.immediately started talking to the caller.B.immediately started talking to his colleague.C.put the phone
19、 away and stopped talking.D.continued with his fake conversation.90.What is the tone of the passage?A.Critical.B.Humorous.C.Serious.D.Unclear.TEXTCIt was late in the afternoon,and I was putting the final touch on a piece of writing that I wasfeeling pretty good about.I wanted to save it,but my curso
20、r had frozen.I tried to shut thecomputer down,and it seized up altogether.Unsure of what else todo,I yanked（用力猛拉）thebattery out.Unfortunately,Windows had been in the midst of a delicate and crucial undertaking.The nextmorning,when I turned my computer back on,it informed me that a file had been corr
21、upted andWindows would not load.Then,it offered to repair itself by using the Windows Setup CD.I opened the special drawer where I keep CDs.But no Windows CD in there.I was forced to callthe computer companys Global Support Centre.My call was answered by a woman in someunnamed,far-off land.I find it
22、 annoying to make small talk with someone when I dont know whatcontinent theyre standing on.Suppose I were to comment on the beautiful weather weve beenhaving when there was a monsoon at the other end of the phone?So I got right to the point.My computer is telling me a file is corrupted and it wants
23、 to fix itself,but I dont have theWindows Setup CD.So youre having a problem with your Windows Setup CD.She has apparently been dozing and,having come to just as the sentence ended,was attempting to cover for her inattention.Il quickly became clear that the woman was not a computer technician.Her jo
24、b was to serve as agatekeeper,a human shield for the technicians.Her sole duty,as far as I could tell,was to raiseglobal stress levels.To make me disappear,the woman gave me the phone number for Windows creator,Microsoft.This is like giving someone the phone number for,I dont know,North America.Besi
25、des,the CDworked;I just didnt have it.No matter how many times I repeated my story,we came back to thesame place.She was calm and resolutely polite.When my voice hit a certain decibel（分DI）,I was passed along,like a hot,irritable potato,to atechnician.You dont have the Windows Setup CD,maam,because y
26、ou dont need it,he explainedcheerfully.Windows came preinstalled on your computer!But I do need it.“Yes,but you dont have it.We went on like this for a while.Finally,he offered to walk methrough the use of a different CD,one that would erase my entire system.Of course,youd loseall your e-mail,your d
27、ocuments,your photos.It was like offering to drop a safe on my head tocure my headache.You might be able to recover them,but it would be expensive.1 He soundeddelighted.MAnd its not covered by the warranty（产品保证书）!”The safe began to seem like agood idea,provided it was full.I hung up the phone and dr
28、ove my computer to a small,friendly repair place I,d heard about.Asmart,helpful man dug out a Windows CD and told me it wouldnt be a problem.An hour later,hecalled to let me know it was ready.I thanked him,and we chatted about the weather,which wasthe same outside my window as it was outside his.91.
29、Why did the author shut down her computer abruptly?A.She had saved what she had written.B.She couldnt move the cursor.C.The computer refused to work.D.The computer offered to repair itself.92.Which of the following is the authors opinion about the woman at the Global Support Centre?A.She sounded hel
30、pful and knowledgeable.B.She was there to make callers frustrated.C.She was able to solve her computer problem.D.She was quick to pass her along to a technician.93.According to the passage,the solution offered by the technician wasA.effective.B.economical.C.unpractical.D.unacceptable.94.It was like
31、offering to drop a safe on my head to cure my headache in the last but oneparagraph means thatA.the technicians proposal would make things even worse.B.the technicians proposal could eventually solve the problem.C.files stored on her computer were like a safe.D.erasing the entire system was like cur
32、ing a headache.95.It can be inferred from the passage that the differences between the Global Support Centre andthe local repair shop lie in all the following EXCEPTA.efficiency.B.location.C.setup CDs.D.attitude.TEXT DNot long ago,a mysterious Christmas card dropped through our mail slot.The envelop
33、e wasaddressed to a man named Raoul,who,I was relatively certain,did not live with us.The envelopewasnt sealed,so I opened it.The inside of the card was blank.Ed,my husband,explained that thecard was both from and to the newspaper deliveryman.His name was apparently Raoul,and Raoulwanted a holiday t
34、ip.We were meant to put a check inside the card and then drop the envelope inthe mail.When your services are rendered at 4 a.m.,you cant simply hang around,like a hotelbellboy expecting a tip.You have to be direct.So I wrote a nice holiday greeting to this man who,in my imagination,fires The New Yor
35、k Timesfrom his bike aimed at our front door,causing more noise with mere newsprint than most peoplemanage with sophisticated black market fireworks.With a start,I realized that perhaps the reason for the 4 a.m.wake-up noise was not ordinaryrudeness but carefully executed spite:I had not tipped Raou
36、l in Christmases past.I honestly hadntrealized I was supposed to.This was the first time hed used the card tactic.So I got out mycheckbook.Somewhere along the line,holiday tipping went from an optional thank-you for a yearof services to a Mafia-style protection racket（收取保护费的黑社会组织）.Several days later
37、,I was bringing our garbage bins back from the curb when I noticed an envelopetaped to one of the lids.The outside of the envelope said MICKEY.It had to be another tip request,this time from our garbage collector.Unlike Raoul,Mickey hadnt enclosed his own Christmascard from me.In a way,I appreciated
38、 the directness.I know you dont care how merry myChristmas is,and thats fine,the gesture said.I want$30,or Ill Torget to empty your garbagebin some hot summer day.I put a check in the envelope and taped it back to the bin.The next morning,Ed noticed that theenvelope was gone,though the trash hadnt y
39、et been picked up:Someone stole Mickeys tip!Edwas quite certain.He made me call the bank and cancel the check.But Ed had been wrong.Two weeks later,Mickey left a letter from the bank on our steps.Theletter informed Mickey that the check,which he had tried to cash,had been cancelled.Thefollowing Tues
40、day morning,when Ed saw a truck outside,he ran out with his wallet.uAre youMickey?The man looked at him with scorn.Mickey is the garbageman.I am the recycling.Not only hadEd insulted this man by hinting that he was a garbageman,but he had obviously neglected to tiphim.Ed ran back inside for more fun
41、ds.Then he noticed that the driver of the truck had beenwatching the whole transaction.He peeled off another twenty and looked around,waving bills inthe air.uAnyone else?Had we consulted the website of the Emily Post Institute,this embarrassing breach of etiquette（礼节）could have been avoided.Under tr
42、ash/recycling collectors in the institutes Holiday TippingGuidelines,it says:$10 to$30 each.You may or may not wish to know that your pet groomer,hairdresser,mailman and UPS guy all expect a holiday tip.96.The newspaper deliveryman put a blank card inside the envelope becauseA.he forgot to write a f
43、ew words on it.B.he wanted the couple to send it back.C.he used it to ask for a Christmas tip.D.he was afraid of asking for a tip in person.97.From the passage,we learn that the authorA.didnt like Raouls way of delivering the paper.B.didnt realize why Raoul delivered the paper that way.C.didnt know
44、that Raoul came very early in the morning.D.didnt feel it necessary to meet Raoul when he came.98.According to the passage,the author felt to give Raoul a holiday tip.A.excited B.delighted C.embarrassed D.forced99.Which of the following is CORRECT about Mickey,the garbage collector?A.He wrote a lett
45、er to the couple afterwards.B.He failed to collect the money from the bank.C.He wanted the couple to send him a Christmas card.D.He collected both the cheek and the garbage that day.100.Eds encounter with the recycling team shows thatA.Ed was desperate to correct his mistake.B.Ed only wanted to give
46、 money to Raoul.C.Ed was unwilling to tip the truck driver.D.Ed no longer wanted to give them money2008PARTV READING COMPREHENSION 25 MINIn this section there are four passages followed by questions or unfinished statements,each withfour suggested answers marked A,B,C and D.Choose the one that you t
47、hink is the best answer.Mark your answers on your answer sheet.TEXT AWhen the sun is up in Amsterdam,the largest city in the Netherlands sits quietly on theAmstel River.You can rent a bicycle,visit the Van Gogh or Anne Frank museum,or take a watertaxi.But when the sun goes down,the partying begins.I
48、n the big clubs and in coffee shops,tourists gather to hang out,talk politics and smoke.Several areas of the city clearly show the two worlds that rule Amsterdam.And theyre allwithin a short cab ride of each other.For example,Dam Square attracts daytime sightseers to its festivals,open markets,conce
49、rtsand other events.Several beautiful and very popular hotels can be found there.And there is theRoyal Palace and the Magna Plaza shopping mall.But as evening descends on Dam Square so do the party-seekers.Hip pop or funk musicbegins blaring from Club Paradiso and Club Melkweg.These are two of the m
50、ost popular clubs inEurope.So if you come,be ready to dance.The clubs dont shut down until 4 am.And while you are there,check out the various inexpensive ways to tour the city.Dontworry about getting lost.Although Dutch is the official language,most people in Amsterdamspeak English and are happy to