【正文】 Danes are very much like Germans and Swedes. Orderliness is a main selling point. Denmark has few natural resources, limited manufacturing capability。t mean that Danish lives are less messy or lonely than yours or mine, and no Dane would tell you so. You can hear plenty about bitter family feuds and the sorrows of alcoholism and about perfectly sensible people who went off one day and killed themselves. An orderly society can not exempt its members from the hazards of life. But there is a sense of entitlement and security that Danes grow up with. Certain things are yours by virtue of citizenship, and you shouldn39。 and the orderliness of the system makes it possible for the country to weather high unemployment and social unrest without a sense of crisis. 36. The author thinks Danes adopt a ____ attitude towards their country. A. boastful B. modest C. deprecating D. mysterious 正確答案是 37. Which of the following is Not a Danish characteristic cited in the passage? A. Fondness of foreign culture. B. Equality in society. C. Linguistic tolerance. D. Persistent planning. 正確答案是 38. The author39。 for ing. On the one hand, We39。 huntin39。 on the other, We39。 racin39。s frenzy is a good emblem ... of this vanity: for words are but the images of matter。t noticed, the backstreet boy educated at Blackpool grammar styles himself more grandly as Alastair Cooke, broadcaster extraordinaire. An honorable KBE, he would be Sir Alastair if he had not taken American citizenship more than half a century ago. If it sounds snobbish to draw attention to his humble origins, it should be reflected that the real snob is Cooke himself, who has spent a lifetime disguising them. But the fact that he opted to renounce his British passport in 1941 just when his country needed all the wartime help it could get is hardly a matter of congratulation. Cooke has made a fortune out of his love affair with America, entrancing listeners with a weekly monologue that has won Radio 4 many devoted adherents. Part of the pull is the developed drawl. This is the man who gave the world midatlantic, the language of the disc jockey and public relations man. He sounds American to us and English to them, while in reality he has for decades belonged to neither. Cooke39。 instead he is an impressionist39。s name almost as much as he admired her good looks. But he found bringing up baby difficult and left her for the wife of his landlord. Women listeners were unimpressed when, in 1996, he declared on air that the fact that 4 % of women in the American armed forces were raped showed remarkable self restraint on the part of Uncle Sam39。s raconteur style encouraged a whole generation of BBC men to think of themselves as more important than the story. His treaty tones were the model for the regular World Service reports From Our Own Correspondent, known as FOOCs in the business. They may yet be his epitaph. 44. At the beginning of the passage the writer sounds critical of ____. A. Cooke39。s broadcasting style C. Cooke39。s fondness of America 正確答案是 45. The following adjectives can be suitably applied to Cooke Except ____. A. oldfashioned B. sincere C. arrogant D. popular 正確答案是 46. The writer ments on Cooke39。 she had degraded him. His soul39。 it crept into the sleeves of his coat. When he came to the publichouse at Chapel Bridge he went in and ordered a hot punch. The proprietor served him obsequiously but did not venture to talk. There were five or six workingmen in the shop discussing the value of a gentleman39。s immediate reaction to the report of the women39。s death in a ____ manner. A. detailed B. provocative C. discreet D. sensational 正確答案是 49. We can infer from the last paragraph that Mr. Duffy was in a(n) ____ mood. A. angry B. fretful C. irritable D. remorseful 正確答案是 50. According to the passage, which of the following statement is Not true? A. Mr. Duffy once confided in the woman. B. Mr. Duffy felt an intense sense of shame. C. Mr. Duffy wanted to end the relationship. D. Mr. Duffy estranged probably after a quarrel. 正確答案是 Section B Skimming and Scanning (10 MIN.) Directions: In this section there are seven passage followed by ten multiplechoice questions. Skim or scan them as required and then mark your answers on your Answer Sheet. TEXT E First read the question. 51. In the passage Bill Gates mainly discusses ____. A. a person39。s OK to drop out of college since that39。s true that I dropped out of college to start Microsoft, but I was at Harvard for three years before dropping out and I39。ve said before, nobody should drop out of college unless they believe they face the opportunity of a lifetime. And even then they should reconsider. The puter industry has lots of people who didn39。m not aware of any success stories that began with somebody dropping out of high school. I actually don39。s early years we had a bright parttime programmer who threatened to drop out of high school to work fulltime. We told him no. Quite a few of our people didn39。t the only place where information exists. You can learn in a library. But somebody handing you a book doesn39。s fine to have deep interests, too. In high school there were periods when I was highly focused on writing software, but for most of my high school years I had wideranging academic interests. My parent encouraged this, and I39。s fine to take a deep interest in puters, dance, language or any other discipline, but not if it jeopardizes breadth. In college it39。t something high schools students should worry about. They should worry about getting a strong academic start. There is not a perfect correlation between attitudes in high schools and success in later life, of course. But it39。s manufacturing skills C. Londo