【正文】 f this century, and the building of such stations in orbit should bee (15). Once these huge orbiting space stations are pleted, they are likely to bee the (16) from which hundreds of robot space ships could be launched cheaply and easily to explore the (17) and to start mining operations on the Moon. The technology needed for this is already (18). And because of mercial and military pressures to develop space (19), it is likely that governments will be increasingly willing to start (20) of space engineering, exploration and research. Part B: Listening Comprehension I. Statements Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear several short statements. These statements will be spoken only once, and you will not find them written on the paper。t buy it. B. I didn39。s. D. I39。t want to. D. We said that he could do well in Australia, but he was not convinced. 10. A. The police didn39。s animals. Another survivor form the past is the Galapagos tortoise, whose history goes back around 200 million years. The tortoise of today has not evolved much over the last 200 million years。s speech was recorded in history D. Lincoln is better recognized today than he was at the time of his presidency 7. Which of the following is true about the ceremonies at Gettysburg during the Civil War? A. Lincoln was the main speaker. B. Lincoln gave a twohour speech. C. Everest was the closing speaker. D. Everest39。s main purpose in the passage? A. To explain a chemical reaction. B. To remend a cure for arthritis. C. To introduce a new product. D. To pare central heating with the body warmer. 12. Which of the following is LEAST likely to generate heat. A. It makes use of electric power to generate heat. B. It measures about three by five inches and is one quarter inch thick. C. It contains iron powder, wood powder, carbon and salt. D. It maintains an average temperature of 140 degrees Fahrenheit. 13. In the first paragraph, the word “ fo” in “ to fo frozen fingers” could best be replaced by which of the following? A. warm. B. fet C. put up with. D. do without 14. In the second paragraph, the word“ it” in “ To get it going” refers to. A. arthritis B. muscle sprain C. the body warmer D. moisturized wood powder Questions 15～ 19 Seoul, once city for kings, can now claim to be a city for muters. The third nation in the Orient to develop an underground rapidtransit system, Korea opened its first line in 1974. After 12 years of continuing construction, Seoul had finally pleted the rest of its extensive subway system, capable of serving 5 million muters a day. The 73milelong system, the world39。s capital. Questions 20～ 24 The whole world is going, or has already gone, mad. I do not say this because of problems like the arms race, pollution or the population explosion. These are bad enough, but I think we now have a more serious problem: our desire to make ourselves miserable by sitting ourselves unnecessary problems, called puzzles. Dozens of magazines are published every month with names like The Puzzler, Enigmatic and Brain Teasers. They contain problems which you can do without, and solutions which do not make you feel any better. The electronics industry is now cashing in on our strange need to set ourselves difficult tasks. Their puter games are even nastier, because the torture (the pain they cause) is not only mental but also physical. Only a superman could possibly keep up with the fastmoving dots which represent space invaders, or whatever they are supposed to be. Where does it all start, and why do we do it? It starts when our wellmeaning parents try to amuse, amaze and puzzle us with games like “ ISpy” . Later the whole thing bees more sinister, when these puzzles (like “ Odd Man Out” and the number series) are used as tests to see if we are clever enough or suitable for a particular course or job. And it ends on the bookstalls with those piles of puzzle magazines— usually with a pretty smiling girl on the front cover. (What is she smiling about? Why isn39。s wages. But the question bees much more difficult to answer when we pare, say, a miner with an engineer, or an unskilled man working on an oilrig in the North Sea with a teacher in a secondary school. What the doctor, the engineer and the teacher have in mon is that they have devoted several years of their lives to studying in order to obtain the necessary qualifications for their professions. We feel instinctively that these skills and these years, when they were studying instead of earning money, should be rewarded. At the same time we recognize that the work of the miner and the oilrig labourer is both hard and dangerous, and that they must be highly paid for the risks they take. Another factor we must take into consideration is how socially useful a man39。s B. a miner has a specialist in his own field C. a miner has to learn just as many skills to be able to do his job well D. a miner39。s C. he has to work much harder than most other people D. he knows more than other people about his subject 中國最大的管理資源中心 (大量免費(fèi)資源共享 ) 第 10 頁 共 11 頁 26. It is difficult to pare a doctor and a miner because. A. a miner39。s questions about the girl on the puzzle magazine cover suggest he finds her smile. A. attractive B. irritating C. amusing D. pretty Questions 25～ 30 One of the most difficult questions to answer is how much a job