【正文】 op between the nations of the world. Not a bit of it! Superb systems of munication by air, sea and land make it possible for us to visit each other‘s countries at a moderate cost. What was once the ?grand tour‘, reserved for only the very rich, is now within everybody‘s grasp? The package tour and chartered flights are not to be sneered at. Modern travelers enjoy a level of fort which the lords and ladies on grand tours in the old days couldn‘t have dreamed of. But what‘s the sense of this mass exchange of populations if the nations of the world remain basically ignorant of each other? Many tourist anizations are directly responsible for this state of affairs. They deliberately set out to protect their clients from too much contact with the local population. The modern tourist leads a cosseted, sheltered life. He lives at international hotels, where he eats his international food and sips his international drink while he gazes at the natives from a distance. Conducted tours to places of interest are carefully censored. The tourist is allowed to see only what the anizers want him to see and no more. A strict schedule makes it impossible for the tourist to wander off on his own。 4. The modern tourist heads a cosseted sheltered life. 【參考譯文】現(xiàn)代旅行者過的使愛護(hù)有加與世隔絕的生活。 【參考譯文】如果走向極端，模式化的想法會非常危險。住的是國際飯店，吃的是國際食品，喝的是國際飲料，在原處觀看當(dāng)?shù)鼐用瘛? 3. B 吵吵鬧鬧的。 ，你見到的 特性證實了你的先入之見。所以說，曾是有錢人專享的大旅行，普通人也能領(lǐng)略。 EX: A vast crowd turned out to watch the match.大批觀眾到場觀看比賽。 答案詳解 1. B 他們享受一度只屬于貴族享用的一切。在第一段最后一句：“他們?yōu)樗麄兊臓奚@取的報酬難以計算，支付率驚人。 。 。主旨句是倒數(shù)第一、二句，成功的報酬確實很高，這是對其高度風(fēng)險的還報補(bǔ)償，如果他成功了，他肯定掙得多。 Passage Four (Examinations Exert a Pernicious Influence on Education) We might marvel at the progress made in every field of study, but the methods of testing a person‘s knowledge and ability remain as primitive as ever they were. It really is extraordinary that after all these years, educationists have still failed to device anything more efficient and reliable than examinations. For all the pious claim that examinations text what you know, it is mon knowledge that they more often do the exact opposite. They may be a good means of testing memory, or the knack of working rapidly under extreme pressure, but they can tell you nothing about a person‘s true ability and aptitude. As anxietymakers, examinations are second to none. That is because so much depends on them. They are the mark of success of failure in our society. Your whole future may be decided in one fateful day. It doesn‘t matter that you weren‘t feeling very well, or that your mother died. Little things like that don‘t count: the exam goes on. No one can give of his best when he is in mortal terror, or after a sleepless night, yet this is precisely what the examination system expects him to do. The moment a child begins school, he enters a world of vicious petition where success and failure are clearly defined and measured. Can we wonder at the increasing number of ?dropouts‘: young people who are written off as utter failures before they have even embarked on a career? Can we be surprised at the suicide rate among students? A good education should, among other things, train you to think for yourself. The examination system does anything but that. What has to be learnt is rigidly laid down by a syllabus, so the student is encouraged to memorize. Examinations do not motivate a student to read widely, but to restrict his reading。 Cram 盡力塞入，應(yīng)試突擊學(xué)習(xí)。作者首先指出考試難以測定人的真正能力和水平，反而是適得其反。他們降低了教學(xué)水平，因為他們剝奪了老師的一切自由。 2. C 批評的。此答案從意義上說是對的。 。 5. B 作對比，答案在最后一段倒數(shù)第二句“審判官裁決后，你有權(quán)力上訴，而披閱考卷人給分后，學(xué)生可沒有上訴權(quán)”后面又談及“一想到考試只對進(jìn)行考試的機(jī)構(gòu)有禮，未免太自私了。 Passage Five (Killing in the Name of God Ugandan Deaths Spotlight Rise of Cults) How could faith beget such evil? After hundreds of members of a Ugandan cult, the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, died in what first appeared to be a suicidal fire in the village of Kanungu two weeks age, police found 153 bodies buried in a pound used by the cult in Buhunga, 25 miles away. When investigators searched the house of a cult leader in yet another village, they discovered 155 bodies, many buried under the concrete floor of the house. Then scores more were dug up at a cult member‘s home. Some had been poisoned。 。 。 3. C 考試。第 四段涉及閱卷者又累又餓，常犯錯誤，不得不在限定時間披閱一大堆匆忙中七扭八歪寫出的卷子。這是考試后果的一個方面。 最后引用“輟學(xué)者成為百萬富翁”來點明測試這種形式對教育的壞影響。 5. And their word carries weight. 【參考譯文】可他們的話 /文字（這里指分?jǐn)?shù)）有份量（有影響）。確認(rèn)某食物已損失或無效 5. syllabus 教學(xué)大綱 6. cram 塞入，把某物塞進(jìn)，突擊式學(xué)習(xí)（尤指應(yīng)考），以注入方式教人 7. duress 威脅，逼迫 8. stack 堆，垛 9. scrawl 寫 /畫（的內(nèi)容不工整，不仔細(xì)）潦草的筆跡，七扭八歪的字 10. script 講稿，劇本，腳本，筆試答卷 11. cynical 憤世嫉俗的，自私得為人不齒的 12. boil down 熬濃，濃縮，歸納 難句譯注 1. For all the pious claim that examinations test what you know, it is mon knowledge that they more often do the exact opposite. 【參考譯文】盡管所有那些虔誠的說法說考試能測定你所知道的東西，但其結(jié)果常常是適得其反，這是眾所周之的常識。 。 。最后一段的風(fēng)險說。企業(yè)中的頂尖人物因為他們?yōu)楣竞蛧宜鞯囊磺胁灰矑甑酶哳~工資？稅務(wù)員應(yīng)感謝他們每年為國庫做出了巨大的貢獻(xiàn)。 。 5. A single gramophone record nowadays may earn much more in royalties than the films of the past ever did. 【參考譯文】今天單張錄音唱片掙的版稅要比過去一步電影還要多得多。 。大旅行是專指英國富家子弟上學(xué)中的一門課程－到歐洲大陸觀光。第三段，見到的只是證實了旅游者本人事先形成的思想 /先入之見，旅游根本達(dá)不到了解對方的目的。 。陳舊的固定的想――對民族的模式化想法，只有通過接觸才能接觸模式。 【參考譯文】嚴(yán)格致密的計劃值得旅行者不可能自己一個人到處閑逛；再說，至少語言總是個障礙，所以他對這樣保護(hù)非常高興。 5. chartered flight 包機(jī)航班 6. set out to do sth. = begin a job with a particular aim 開始做某事，決心 /打算做?? 7. cosset 寵愛 ，溺愛，縱容 8. conducted tour = guided tour 有人指導(dǎo) /引到下的參觀，有導(dǎo)游的旅游 9. censor 檢查 10. wander off 離開原處 /正道，離群，漫步，漫游 11. quarters 住處，營 12. paella 西班牙什錦飯 13. chip 炸馬鈴薯條（土豆條） 14. amorous 多情的，色情的 15. pedantic 學(xué)究式的，賣弄學(xué)問的 16. generalization 歸納，概括 17. stir up 惹起，煽動，挑起 18. trite 陳腐的，老一套的 難句譯注 1. What was once the ?grand tour‘, reserved for only the very rich, is now within everybody‘s grasp. 【結(jié)構(gòu)簡析】 within sb.‘s /了解，為某人所能抓到的。