【正文】 . 第三篇 Lifetime Employment in Japanese Companies In most large Japanese panies， there is a policy of lifetime employment. What this means is that when people leave school or university to join an enterprise，they can expect to remain with that anization until they retire. In effect，the employee gets job security for lire， and can only be fired for serious mistakes in work. Even in times of business recession， he or she is free from the fear of being 1aid off. One result of this practice is that the Japanese worker identifies closely with his pany and feels strong loyalty to it. By working hard for the pany， he believes he is safeguarding his Own future. It is not surprising that devotion to one39。s variety provides a constant topic of conversation. Even the most taciturn(沉默寡言的 )of Englishmen is always prepared to discuss the weather. And， though he sometimes plains bitterly of it， he would not， even. if he could， exchange it for the more predictable climate of other lands. 36 other countries have a climate。 At midday it may be really winter with the temperature down by about eight degrees or more centigrade(攝氏度 ). And then， in the late afternoon the sky will clear， the sun will begin to shine， and for an hour or two before darkness falls，it will be summer. In England one can experience almost every kind of weather except the most extreme. (Some foreigners seem to be under the impression that for ten months of the year the country is covered by a dense blanket of fog； this is not true. )The problem is that we never can be sure when the different types of weather will occur. Not only do we get several different sorts of weather in one day， but we may very well get a spell（ 持續(xù)的一段時(shí)間 )of winter in summer and a spell of summer in winter. The uncertainty about the weather has had a definite effect upon the Englishman39。s favorite game in the winter. 3l In England football is a game enjoyed A only by young people. B only by rich people. C only by boys. D by people of all ages and classes. 32 A stranger in England will be surprised to find that in that country A people have little knowledge of football. B girls are more interested in football than boys. C even small boys know a lot about football. D children are not interested in football at all. 33 There is a great difference between schools in England and those in Europe in that A European schools take football seriously. B European schools often arrange football matches for their pupils. C schools in England care little about lessons. D schools in England believe character training to be part of education. 34 According to the passage， which of the following is NOT true of the football game? A It makes people selfish. B It encourages cooperation. C It is good for health. D It is not expensive. 35 What is the author39。 第一篇 Football Football is， I suppose， the most popular game in England： one has only to go to one of the important matches to see this. Rich and poor， young and old， one can see them all there， shouting and cheering for one side or the other. One of the most surprising things about football in England to a stranger is the great knowledge of the game which even the smallest boy seems to have. He can tell you the names of the players in most of the important teams. He has photographs of them and knows the results of a large number of matches. He will tell you， with a great air of authority， who he expects will win such and such a match， and his opinion is usually as valuable as that of men three or four times his age. Most schools in England take football seriouslymuch more seriously than nearly all European schools， where lessons are all— important(至關(guān)重要的 )， and games are left for private arrangements. In England， it is believed that education is not only a matter of filling a boy39。s Your Reading Speed? C How to Increase Your Reading Speed? D Understanding over Speed E Read Something Every Day F Read Extensively 27 You are advised to read something before you . 28 In Speed Reading courses， teachers often ask students to . 29 You can improve your reading speed if you . 30 It will help you to understand the article if you . A find the topic sentences B find out the new words C keep reading fast D go to bed every day E keep a record of their reading speed F look at your watch every few minutes 第 4 部分：閱讀理解 （ 第 31— 45題，每題 3分，共 45 分 ） 下面有 3篇短文，每篇短文后有 5道題，每道題后面都有 4個(gè)選項(xiàng)。t understand in the book， or you cannot clearly remember the details of what you read, why not read the chapter again? 4. Take four or five pages of an interesting book you happen to be reading now. Read these pages as fast as you can. Don39。請(qǐng)將答案涂在答題卡相應(yīng)的位置上。s help. My shoulders are hurting. Hold the sky for a minute while I make a cushion(墊子 )for my shoulders. Atlas believed him. He threw down the apples and held up the sky. Hercules picked up the apples and ran back to see the king. 7 16 Hercules was the tallest man in the world. A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned 17 Hercules worked in the king39。m going to see the king with the apples. Hercules knew that he couldn39。如果該句提供的是正確信息，請(qǐng)?jiān)诖痤}卡上把 A涂黑；如果該句提供的是錯(cuò)誤信 息，請(qǐng)?jiān)诖痤}卡上把 B涂黑；如果該句的信息文章中沒(méi)有提及，請(qǐng)?jiān)诖痤}卡上把 C涂黑。 l There are a limited number of books on this subject in the library. A large B total C small D similar 2 How do you account for your absence from the class last Thursday? A explain B examine C choose D expand 3 They had a far better yield than any other farm miles around this year. A goods B soil C climate D harvest 4 The town is famous for its magnificent church towers. A ancient B old C modern