【正文】 頁 45） _ ____. About 75 million years ago the Age of Reptiles was over and most of the groups died out. The mammals quickly developed, and we can trace the evolution of many familiar animals such as the elephant and horse. Many of the later mammals, though now extinct, were known to primitive man and were featured by him in cave paintings and on bone carvings. [A] The shellfish have a long history in the rock and many different kinds are known. [B] Nevertheless, we know a great deal about many of them because their bones and shells have been preserved in the rocks as fossils. From them we can tell their size and shape, how they walked, the kind of food they ate. [C] The first animals with true backbones were the fishes, first known in the rocks of 375 million years ago. About 300 million years ago the amphibians, the animals able to live both on land and in water, appeared. They were giant, sometimes 8 feet long, and many of them lived in the swampy pools in which our coal seam, or layer, or formed. The amphibians gave rise to the reptiles and for nearly 150 million years these were the principal forms of life on land, in the sea, and in the air. [D] The best index fossils tend to be marine creatures. These animals evolved rapidly and spread over large areas of the world. [E] The earliest animals whose remains have been found were all very simple kinds and lived in the sea. Later forms are more plex, and among these are the sealilies, relations of the starfishes, which had long arms and were attached by a long stalk to the sea bed, or to rocks. [F] When an animal dies, the body, its bones, or shell, may often be carried away by streams into lakes or the sea and there get covered up by mud. If the animal lived in the sea its body would probably sink and be covered with mud. More and more mud would fall upon it until the bones or shell bee embedded and preserved. [G] Many factors can influence how fossils are preserved in rocks. Remains of an anism 中國最大的管理資料下載中心 (收集 \整理 . 部分版權(quán)歸原作者 所有 ) 第 21 頁 共 34 頁 may be replaced by minerals, dissolved by an acidic solution to leave only their impression, or simply reduced to a more stable form. Sample Two Directions: The following paragraphs are given in a wrong order. For Questions 4145. you are required to reanize these paragraphs into a coherent article by choosing from the list AG to fill in each numbered box. The first and the last paragraphs have been placed for you in Boxes. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1 (10 points) [A] ―I just don39。s not true. if their performance is adequate, most are more likely to get promoted just by staying on the fore a certain number of years than for some specific outstanding act. Second, they were trained to do the job they do out in the streets, not to fill out forms. All through their career it is the arrests and interventions that get noticed. [C] I39。t－ it39。s a prospect that horrifies Net purists. But it is hardly inevitable that panies on the Web will need to resort to push strategies to make money. The examples of Virtual Vineyards, , and other pioneers show that a Web site selling the right kind of products with the right mix of interactivity, hospitality, and security will attract online customers. And the cost of puting power continues to free fall, which is a good sign for any enterprise setting up shop in silicon. People looking back 5 or 10 years from now may well wonder why so few panies took the online plunge. 31. We learn from the beginning of the passage that Web business [A] has been striving to expand its market. [B] intended to follow a fanciful fashion. [C] tried but in vain to control the market. [D] has been booming for one year or so. 32. Speaking of the online technology available for marketing, the author implies that [A] the technology is popular with many Web users. [B] businesses have faith in the reliability of online transactions. [C] there is a radical change in strategy. [D] it is accessible limitedly to established partners. 33. In the view of Net purists, [A] there should be no marketing messages in online culture. [B] money making should be given priority to on the Web. [C] the Web should be able to function as the television set. 中國最大的管理資料下載中心 (收集 \整理 . 部分版權(quán)歸原作者 所有 ) 第 16 頁 共 34 頁 [D] there should be no online mercial information without requests. 34. We learn from the last paragraph that [A] pushing information on the Web is essential to Inter merce. [B] interactivity, hospitality and security are important to online customers. [C] leading panies began to take the online plunge decades ago. [D] setting up shops in silicon is independent of the cost of puting power. 35. The purpose of the author in writing the text is to [A] urge active participation in online business. [B] elaborate on various marketing strategies. [C] pare web business with traditional merce. [D] illustrate the transition from the pull to push strategy. TEXT 4 In the last half of the nieenth century capital and labour were enlarging and perfecting their rival anizations on modern lines. Many an old firm was replaced by a limited liability pany with a bureaucracy of salaried managers. The change met the technical requirements of the new age by engaging a large professional element and prevented the decline in efficiency that so monly spoiled the fortunes of family firms in the second and third generation after the energetic founders. It was moreover a step away from individual initiative, towards collectivism and municipal and stateowned business. The railway panies, though still private business managed for the benefit of shareholders, were very unlike old family business. At the same time the great municipalitie