【正文】 s state of consciousness. 中國(guó)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 9 頁(yè) 共 56 頁(yè) 9. Substances abuse (Line 4, Paragraph 1) is preferable to drug abuse in that ________. [A] substances can alter our bodily or mental functioning if illegally used [B] drug abuse is only related to a limited number of drug takers [C] alcohol andtobacco are as fatal as heroin and cocaine [D] many substances other than heroin or cocaine can also be poisonous 10. The word pervasive (Line 1, Paragraph 2) might mean ________. [A] widespread [B] overwhelming [C] piercing [D] fashionable 11. Physical dependence on certain substances results from ________. [A] uncontrolled consumption of them over long periods of time. [B] exclusive use of them for social purposes [C] quantitative application of them to the treatment of diseases [D] careless employment of them for unpleasant symptoms 12. From the last paragraph we can infer that ________. [A] stimulants function positively on the mind [B] hallucinogens are in themselves harmful to health [C] depressants are the worst type of psychoactive substances [D] the three types of psychoactive substances are monly used in groups Text 4 It is said that in England death is pressing, in Canada inevitable and in California optional. Small wonder. Americans39。t intend to kill their patients, although they risked their death. If you39。s machinetool industry was on theropes. For a while it looked as though the making of semiconductors, which America had invented and which sat at the heart of the new puter age, was going to be the next casualty. All of this caused a crisis of confidence. Americans stopped taking prosperity for granted. They began to believe that their way of doing business was failing, and that their ines would therefore shortly begin to fall as well. The mid1980s brought one inquiry after another into the causes of America39。t attempt to cut in with humor as they will resent an outsider 新東方在線 [] 網(wǎng)絡(luò)課堂電子教材系列 3 making disparaging remarks about their canteen or their chairman. You will be on safer ground if 中國(guó)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 3 頁(yè) 共 56 頁(yè) you stick to scapegoats like the Post Office or the telephone system. If you feel awkward being humorous, you must practice so that it bees more natural. Include a few casual and apparently offthecuff remarks which you can deliver in a relaxed and unforced manner. Often it39。 the biological Utopia has arrived. Strangely, it has involved little physical change. No other species fills so many places in nature. But in the past 100,000 year — even the past 100 years — our lives have been transformed but our bodies have not. We did not evolve, because machines and society did it for us. Darwin had a phrase to describe those ignorant of evolution: they look at an anic being as a savage looks at a ship, as at something wholly beyond his prehension. No doubt we will remember a 20th century way of life beyond prehension for its ugliness. But however amazed our descendants may be at how far from Utopia we were, they will look just like us. 5. What used to be the danger in being a man according to the first paragraph? [A] A lack of mates. 新東方在線 [] 網(wǎng)絡(luò)課堂電子教材系列 6 [B] A fierce petition. [C] A lower survival rate. [D] A defective gene. 6. What does the example of India illustrate? [A] Wealthy people tend to have fewer children than poor people. [B] Natural selection hardly works among the rich and the poor. 中國(guó)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 6 頁(yè) 共 56 頁(yè) [C] The middle class population is 80% smaller than that of the tribes. [D] India is one of the countries with a very high birth rate. 7. The author argues that our bodies have stopped evolving because ________. [A] life has been improved by technological advance [B] the number of female babies has been declining [C] our species has reached the highest stage of evolution [D] the difference between wealth and poverty is disappearing 8. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage? [A] Sex Ratio Changes in Human Evolution [B] Ways of Continuing Man39。s remark is one of [A] strong disapproval. [B] reserved consent. [C] slight contempt. [D] enthusiastic support. 59. In contrast to the ., Japan and Sweden are funding their medical care [A] more flexibly. [B] more extravagantly. [C] more cautiously. [D] more reasonably. 60. The text intends to express the idea that [A] medicine will further prolong people39。s medication is no longer justified by his intentions. 58. According to the NAS39。ll be appropriate for you to make a passing remark about the inedible canteen food or the chairman39。s Kennedy School of Government. It makes me proud to be an American just to see how our businesses are improving their productivity, says Stephen Moore of the Cato Institute, a think tank in Washington, DC. And William Sahlman of the Harvard Business School believes that people will look back on this period as a golden age of business management in the United States. 新東方在線 [] 網(wǎng)絡(luò)課堂電子教材系列 2 1. The . achieved its predominance after World War II because ________. [A] it had made painstaking efforts towards this goal 中國(guó)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 2 頁(yè) 共 56 頁(yè) [B] its domestic market was eight times larger than before [C] the war had destroyed the economies of most potential petitors [D] the unparalleled size of its workforce had given an impetus to its economy 2. The loss of . predominance in the world economy in the 1980s is manifested in the fact that the American ________. [A] TV industry had withdrawn to its domestic market [B] semiconductor industry had been