【正文】 s anxiety can be contagious, and you may suffer from undue panic B Try not to be tempted to look at those around you, or at the clock. C When you get home, read the examination paper through and look up al the words you didn39。s pany is considered a great virtue in Japan. A man is often prepared to put his firm39。 第一篇 Weight on and off the Earth We are so used to our life on the surface of the earth that it can be quite an effort for our mind to break free of all the ideas that we take for granted. Because we can feel that things are heavy, we think of weight as being a fixed quality in an object, but it is not really fixed at all. If you could take a onepound packet of butter 4, 000 miles out from the earth, it would weigh only a quarter of a pound. Why would things weigh only a quarter as much as they do at the surface of the earth if we took them 4,000 miles out into space? The reason is this: All objects have a natural attraction for all other objects。t fight him because of the sky on his back. So he shouted: Just one minute39。答案一律涂在答題卡相應(yīng)的位置上。如果該句提供的是錯誤信息，請在答題卡上把 B 涂黑；如果該句的信息文章中沒有提及，請在答題卡上把 C 涂黑。 Local Newspapers in Britain 1. Britain has a large circulation (發(fā)行量 ) of the national newspapers. The Daily Mirror and The Daily Express both sell about 4 million copies each day. On average, every family will buy one newspaper in the morning, and take two or three on Sundays. 2. Local newspapers are just as popular as the national ones in Britain. Local papers have a weekly circulation of 13 million. Nearly every town and country area has its own paper, and almost every local paper is financially holding its own. Many local newspapers are earning good profits. 3. Local newspapers have their special characteristics. They mainly satisfy interest in local events births, weddings, deaths, council meetings, and sports. Editors often rely on a small staff of people who know the district well. Clubs and churches in the neighborhood regularly supply these papers with much local news. Local news does not get out of date as quickly as national news. If there is no room for it in this week39。s center. C it varies with the change of the gravitational attraction between two objects. D things increase in amount as they are closer to the earth39。s products because of A his marriage with the daughter of the president. B the close link between him and his pany. C his willingness to work overtime, D his active participation in quality control. 40 he passage mainly discusses A how lifetime employment works in Japan. B what benefits lifetime employment has brought to Japanese workers C what lifetime employment is. D how lifetime employment is viewed. 第三篇 Volcanoes There are thousands of volcanoes (火山 ) all over the world. What makes volcanoes? What happens? The inside of the earth is very hot. Because it is very, very hot, the rock has melted like ice. It has bee liquid, like water. It is always boiling, like water in a kettle. If you have seen a kettle boiling, you know that the steam and boiling water try to get out. The very hot melted rock inside the earth also tries to get out. Usually it cannot because the outside of the earth is too thick and strong. But in some places the outside of the earth is thin and weak. Sometimes a crack appears. The hot melted rock, which we call lava (熔巖 ), pushes out through the crack and bursts through. Steam and gas shoot up into the air and the hot melted lava pours out. Big pieces of rock may be thrown high into the air. After a while the volcano bees quiet again. The melted lava bees hard. Later the same thing happens again and again. Each time more hot lava pours out on top of the cold lava and then bees hard. In this way a kind of mountain is built up, with a hole down the middle. Perhaps the volcano will then be quiet. Perhaps it will start again hundreds of years later. Vesuvius is the name of a very famous volcano in Italy. It first came to life many, many years ago. It was quiet for hundreds of years. Then in the year 79 it suddenly burst. A great cloud of smoke shot up into the sky with great burning rocks. Hot lava poured down its sides. About 3,000 people were killed.