【正文】 intellectual pursuits”可知，美國人厭惡學識追求。s latest bock, Left Back A Century of Failed School Reforms, traces the roots of antiintellectualism in our schools, concluding they are anything but a counterbalance to the American distaste for intellectual pursuits. But they could and should be. Encouraging kids to reject the life of the mind leaves them vulnerable to exploitation and control. Without the ability to think critically, to defend their ideas and understand the ideas of others, they cannot fully participate in our democracy. year yield than does a horticultural plot)意為“沒有必要說agricultural field的產量每一年都比horticultural plot的產量高”。superiority優(yōu)越，高傲；minority少數(shù)；inferiority劣勢；majority多數(shù)，大半。 的，忸怩的。42 effect on all areas of their lives. Shy people are very_________ it.29A. disposingB. dominatingC. enforcingD. enlightening正確答案：B注釋:dominate支配，統(tǒng)治。manufacture制造。 Mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square bracket on your Answer Sheet.Skin, being sturdy and elastic and well supplied with blood, tolerates injury well and recovers quickly.16A. resilientB. elusiveC. looseD. expansive正確答案：A注釋:elastic有彈力的，引縮自如的；elusive難懂的；loose寬松的；resilient有彈力的；expansive易膨脹的。The students did not like their new teacher because he seemed so stern.23A. gentileB. flexibleC. strictD. fierce正確答案：C注釋: stern 嚴格的，嚴厲的；fierce 兇猛的；gentile 異教徒的；flexible靈活的；strict 嚴肅的。性的，無法抵抗的；accelerating加速(的)，促進的；prompting促進的，激勵的；preceding在前的，前 述的。With the fall in the number of students studying science, we will have lost many with the potential for intellectual ______.34A. recreationB. creativityC. credibilityD. credential正確答案：B注釋:creativity創(chuàng)造力。 It is obvious that such unfortable feelings must affect people 40. A person39。50 leads to a sense of inadequacy.36A. selfposedB. selfcenteredC. selfcontentD. selfconscious正確答案：D注釋:前面有anxious和and，所以要填的詞是一個與anxious相近的形容詞，應填selfconscious不自然43A. sensitiveB. sensibleC. sentimentalD. senseless正確答案：A注釋:害羞的人對批評很敏感。50A. irreplaceableB. incapableC. impossibleD. irresponsible正確答案：C注釋:由前一句的“自我期望一定要現(xiàn)實”推測后面是與此相反的情況。t produce a higher singleyear yield than does a horticultural plot.B. An agricultural field does not need to produce a higher singleyear yield than does a horticultural C. A horticultural plot must produce a higher singleyear yield than does an agricultural field.D. A horticultural plot may produce a higher singleyear yield than does an agricultural field.正確答案：D注釋:針對4個選項，文章第一段第三句(An agricultural field does not necessarily produce a higher singles Consumer Electronics Show last week were excited by a new machine that eliminates the drawback.s the advantage of VCR 2?A. It can make high quality duplicates of prerecorded tapes easily.B. It can duplicate prerecorded movies clearly.C. Both It can make high quality duplicates of prerecorded tapes easily. and It can let viewers watch aD. It can let viewers watch a tape while simultaneously recording off the air.正確答案：C注釋:根據(jù)文中第二段里第二、三句話，它的優(yōu)點包括選項It can make high quality duplicates of prerecorded tapes easily. and It can let viewers watch a tape while simultaneously recording off the air.59. Why did Go Video Company sue Japanese makers?A. Because no Japanese panies are willing to sell needed ponents.B. Because Japanese makers are tooling up to produce the VCR 2.C. Because Japanese makers pete with them.D. Because Japanese makers like to cooperate with Korean counterparts.正確答案：A注釋:根據(jù)第二段第五句話“Govideo could find no Japanese panies，which control manufacture of crucial VCR parts，willing to provide needed ponents．”因此選Because no Japanese panies are willing to sell needed 。ve been there.” You mention the remotest, most evocative placenames in the world like E1 Dorado, Kabul, Irkutsk and someone is bound to say I39。 The high points of the conference were the drafting of two documents, both of which were adopted without a dissenting vote. One was a joint declaration of intent to bat drug abuse and trafficking.t be easy. The alternative, however, is the continued internal decay of our societies. 66. Striking feature of the UN Conference on Drug Abuse is that________A. two documents were signedB. the delegates were unprecedentedly unanimous in their attempt to control drug abuseC. the conference touched upon many issues in the worldD. it was held by many countries正確答案：B注釋:文中第一段最后一句表明，所有代表都愿放棄個人的主張和分歧來共同面對毒品的威脅，這是前所未有的。72. We can learn from the text that Americans have a history of ______A. favoring intellectualism.B. undervaluing intellect.C. supporting school reform.D. suppressing native intelligence.正確答案：B注釋:依據(jù)第二段中“…concluding。69. The delegates seemed to lack confidence in _________.A. persuading people not to take drugsB. destroying the process of distributionC. curbing the demand for dangerous drugsD. establishing system for collecting information about drug abuse正確答案：B注釋:文章第五段中，在談了代表們的諸多要求之后，最后指出他們要求應嚴謹?shù)貓?zhí)行國際協(xié)約來控制毒品的供應。 As never before, the nations of the world demonstrated a willingness to put aside ideological and individual differences to confront a mon threat. When you travel at high speeds, the present means nothing。s move from freeze frame to faster forward has not been easy. For starters, Go Video could find no Japanese panies, which control manufacture of crucial VCR parts, willing to provide needed ponents. For another thing, US movie studios opposed the machine. So the pany sued 15 Japanese and Korean makers, plus the Hollywood studios, claiming restrain of trade.s yield is also lower because____A. agriculturalists do not work harder than horticulturalistsB. its labor input is more than the horticultural inputC. agricultural plot is no larger than horticultural oneD. there is no sufficient labor input正確答案：B注釋:文章第一段第四旬從投入與產出的比例關系上把agriculture與horticulture做了比較, 說agriculture產量低，是因為它的投入比horticulture多得多。exceedingly非常地；ex