【正文】 uences. 答案 ： 15 D B D D B。 years ago she gave me her copy of Tell Me a Riddle because she liked the stories and wanted to share the experience. A． Tillie Olsen is a friend. B． Tillie Olsen likes stories. C． Tillie Olsen gives gifts. D． Tillie Olsen is an author. 2. Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. A. America needs a strong leader in order to save herself. B. Because America is divided in opinion, it needs the strongest leadership. C. If America cannot find a strong man to lead her, she will be in danger. D. Truly American leadership is not of any one man. 3. The pile of papers on his desk was acting like rising bread dough. A. The papers are soft. B. The papers can be pressed down. C. The papers are getting higher. D. The papers can be seen and watched. 4. Bard knew that the money he had given to his friend was more of an investment than a loan. A. The loaned to his friend was now gone forever and was a poor investment. B. Bard considered the money an investment in friendship not a loan. C. Investing in his friend would prove far more profitable to Bard than just loaning money. D. Buying friendship was Brad‘s way of using a loan. 5. Some people claim that the poor economy explains homelessness. Professor Jones rejects that explanation: ―A lot of people are using the economy as a convenient excuse for doing nothing.‖ A. Professor Jones agrees with the explanation. B. Professor Jones does not agree that the economy is poor. C. Apparently nobody agrees with the explanation. D. Apparently a lot of people agree with the explanation. 6. It has been at times suggested that it is incongruous for the government to employ one lawyer to prosecute and another to defend the same prisoner. However, this superficial point of view overlooks the principle that the Government should be as anxious to shield the innocent as it is to punish the guilty. A. It is not properly within the scope of the government to provide criminals with both prosecuting and defending lawyers. B. It is an incongruous point of view that the government should concurrently shield the innocent and punish the guilty. C. A great government should feel obligated to shield the innocent as well as punish the guilty. D. Although sometimes criticized, it is governmental polity to provide legal defense for indigent persons accused of crime. 7. Boiling is the easiest, simplest, and most basic form of cooking, and the most mysterious because anyone who has ever watched water boil knows that boiling is not an easy event to understand. A. Because boiling water is easy to do, it is easy to understand. B. The author of this sentence finds boiling the most mysterious form of cooking. C. Cooking is not an easy event to understand. D. The author does not know how to cook. 8. When there is an absence of reliable information about drugs, the risks involved in using them are greatly increased. A. There is no reliable information about drugs. B. Using drugs is more dangerous when we don‘t know what effects and dangers are involved. C. The risks involved in using drugs have increased. D. There are no risks involved in using drugs if we have reliable information about them. 9. Your story of the incident would be incredible if I had not witnessed it myself. A. I cannot believe your story of what happened. B. You are not telling the truth. C. I believe you because you have a good reputation. D. In this case, seeing was believing. 10. It is a wonderful world that we live in—a world filled with rainbows and rockets, with echoes and electricity, with atomic particles and plas, with invisible forces that affect us without our even knowing they exist. A. We live in a wonderful world. B. Most of the time, we don‘t know that the world exists. C. Apparently, invisible means able to be seen. D. Electricity affects us with our knowing it exists. 答案 ： 15D D C B D。 but boy‘s experience is horrible and damaging, yet a sense of love shines through every word. How does the author of this sentence feel about the story? A. It transmits a sense of love. B. It is just sad. C. It is not true. D. It is horrible and damaging. 答案： 1. D 2. D 3. D 4. D 5. A 6. C 7. B 8. C 9. A 10. A 第 四 套 ： Read the following sentences carefully. After that, choose from A, B, C, or D which is true according to the information you get from the reading. (1’x10= 10’) 1. If any final proof were needed of Joanna‘s remarkable abilities, it could be found in the way she performed on the difficult threehour entrance examination. How did Joanna do on the examination? A. She did very well. B. She found the examination difficult. C. She could do all except the final proof. D. After three hours she hadn‘t finished. 2. Ms. Haar announced the winner of the contest once Mr. Wilson had arrived. What happened first? A. The winner was announced. B. Mr. Wilson arrived. C. Mr. Wilson won the contest. D. Ms. Haar won the contest. 3. It is surprising that doctors don‘t know whether many drugs found effective for men will also help women. What do we know about the project? A. That many drugs that help men also help women. B. That many drugs that help men don‘t help women. C. That doctors don‘t know whether some drugs help men. D. That doctors don‘t know how some drugs affect women. 4. The thing that surprised me is not the number of attacks by lions on humans in the Vancouver area but how really few there have been. What does the author say about the attack? A. He expected there would be more. B. He expected there would be fewer. C. He didn‘t expect there would be any. D. He isn‘t sure how many there were. 5. Although the dance looks easy to do, it isn‘t