【正文】 e drug. 　　Yeah, I really think that39。Donnell told him. She couldn39。s munity colleges are so strapped for cash they dropped thousands of classes last spring. The result: 54,000 fewer students. 　　Collapsing Investments 　　Many families thought they had a surefire plan: even if tuition kept skyrocketing, they had invested enough money along the way to meet the costs. Then a funny thing happened on the way to Wall Street. Those investments collapsed with the stock market. Among the losers last year: the wildly popular 529 plans—federal taxexempt college savings plans offered by individual states, which have attracted billions from families around the country. We hear from many parents that what they had set aside declined in value so much that they now don39。 5. C 主旨題。s older middleaged and elderly are being the new winners, she said. They made relatively small contributions in tax but now make relatively big claims on the welfare system. Generations born in the last three to four decades face the prospect of handing over more than a third of their lifetime39。s doubt about taking drugs 　　[C] what kind of medicine people should prepare at home 　　[D] the possible harms selfmedication may do to people 　　5. The best title for the passage would be ________. 　　[A] Medical Practice [B] Clever Advertising 　　[C] SelfMedication [D] SelfTreatment 1小題、【正確答案】：A2小題、【正確答案】：B3小題、【正確答案】：C4小題、【正確答案】：D5小題、【正確答案】：C【參考解析】： 1 A 推斷題。t take to sports and easily catch colds 　　3. Paragraphs 2 and 3 explain ________. 　　[A] those good things are not without side effects 　　[B] why clever advertising is so powerful 　　[C] why in modern times selfmedication is still practised 　　[D] why people develop faulty ways of life 　　4. The author tells us in paragraph 4 ________. 　　[A] the reasons for keeping medicines at home 　　[B] people39。s College London, who carried out much of the work, said the growth of the proportion of people over 50 had reversed the traditional flow of wealth from older to younger generations. 　　Today39。文章第八段第三句指出，Laura LenoxConyngham一年賺兩萬英鎊，為雜志準(zhǔn)備要拍照的食物，所以D正確。t afford to have all of them in fouryear schools at once. 　　Meanwhile, even with tuition hikes, California39。t count on it, O39。s genetic material and replacing it with its own. 　　An integrase inhibitor would give doctors a third line of attack against HIV infection, according to virologist Daria Hazuda of the division of Virus and Cell Biology at Merck. 　　This would offer a third class of antiretroviral medications that can be bined with reverse transcriptase inhibitors and protease inhibitors. And since it is a new mechanism of action, these pounds are active against multidrug resistant variants. So variants that are resistant to all current therapies have been selected in HIVpatients, she said. 　　Current antiAIDS drugs eventually bee resistant to therapy, or stop working, because the virus changes its shape. 　　While researchers are encouraged by the success with the pound39。擬一個尋游伴的啟事，交代清楚日程安排、費(fèi)用分擔(dān)情況、對對方的要求等，并說明對方和你一起出游的好處。s calculation, she can pay off all her debt when she is ________ if she can get a salary of $120,000 a year right out of law school. 　　6. Students get money from not only federal loans but also ________. 　　7. The college department or association can get payments from the issuer if it sanctions credit cards decorated with ________. 　　8. O39。s what they rack up on all those plastic cards in their wallets. As of two years ago, according to a study by lender Nellie Mae, more than eight out of ten undergrads had their own credit cards, with the typical student carrying four. That39。re mortgaging their futures to meet soaring tuition costs and other college expenses. Like Griffith, they39。在三四十年前出生的人則把他們一生中多于三分之一的所得用于照料這些老年人，所以A正確。全文是圍繞自我藥療(selfmedication)展開論述的，介紹了它的歷史、現(xiàn)狀以及危害等，所以C正確。 it may even make it worse. Worse because the preparation may contain unsuitable ingredients。由文章可知，做廣告的目的是要吸引顧客買他們的藥品。s older middleaged and elderly being the new winners? 　　[A] Because they made relatively small contributions in tax, but younger generation will possibly hand over more than a third of their lifetime39。 二、閱讀理解第3題：Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 14, mark 　　Y (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage。m not happy about it. I39。Donnell is convinced the money pressures caused his suicide. Sean tried to pay his debts off, she says. And he couldn39。s really our plan that we would test this with reverse transcriptase inhibitors and protease inhibitors, as well. 　　1. If the drug proves effective in human trials, it could enhance the effectiveness of existing AIDS drugs in ________. 　　2. What has bee standard cocktail therapy? 　　3. While integrase deletes an immune cell39。 Decker, 　　basing in Towson, Maryland, and Toastmaster Inc. of 3 ________ 　　Columbia, Missouri—has recently introduced drip 4 ________ 　　coffee makers that brew one or two cup servings of 　　coffee. Neither of the products brew the coffee 5. ________ 　　directly into a cup or mug, eliminating the need for a 　　separate carafe. Since many people make a pot of 　　coffee in the morning and drink only a single cup, the 6. ________ 　　new coffee makers should reduce the wasted coffee. 　　Black amp。t require a college degree, yet pay fairly well. On average, though, college graduates can expect to earn 80 percent more than those with only a high school diploma. Also, all but two of the 50 highest paying jobs (the exceptions being air traffic controllers and nuclear power reactor operators) require a fouryear college degree.