2012年职称英语综合类B级真题及答案
第1部分：词汇选项
1. The city centre was wiped out by the bomb.
A. covered
B.reduced
C.destroyed
D. moved
2 The contempt he felt for hisfellow students was obvious.
A. need
B. love
C. hate
D.pity
3. A large crowd assembled outsidethe American embassy.
A. watched
B. shouted
C. walked
D.gathered
4. He inspired many youngpeople to take up the sport.
A. allowed
B.encouraged
C. called
D. advised
5. The storm caused severe damage.
A. serious
B.physical
C. accidental
D. environmental
6. I think ￡7for a drink is a bit steep，don't you？
A. tight
B. low
C. cheap
D.high
7. Do we have to wear these name tags？
A. lists
B. forms
C. labels
D.codes
8. Most babied can take in awide range of food easily.
A. bring
B. keep
C. serve
D. digest
9. Joe came to the window as the crowd chanted："Joe，Joe，Joe！"
A. repeated
C. maintained
D.approached
10. What puzzles me is why hisbooks are so popular.
A.shocks
B. influences
C. confuses
D.concerns
11 All the flats in the building hadthe same layout.
A. color
B. arrangement
C. size
D.function
12. The weather was crisp andclear and you could see the mountains fifty miles away.
A.fresh
B.hot
C.heavy
D. windy
13. The walls are made of hollow concrete blocks.
A.big
B.long
C.new
14. Our aim was to update the health service，and we succeeded.
A. modernize
B.offer
C. provide
D.fund
15. Her comments about men are utterly ridiculous.
A. slightly
B.partly
C. completely
D. faintly
第二部分：阅读判断
下面的短文后列出了7个句子，请根据短文的内容对每个句子做出判断；如果该句提供的是正确信息，请选择A；如果该句提供的是错误信息，请选择B；如果该句的信息文中没有提及，请选择C。
Brotherly Love
Adidas and Puma have been two of the biggest names in sports shoe manufacturing for over half a century.
Since 1928 they have supplied shoes for Olympic athletes, World Cup-winning football heroes, Muhammad Ali, hip hop stars and rock musicians famous all over the world. But the story of these two companies begins in one house in the town of Herzogenaurach, Germany.
Adolph and Rudolph Dassler were the sons of a shoemaker. They loved sport but complained that they could never find comfortable shoes to play in. Rudolph always said, 'You cannot play sports wearing shoes that you'd walk around town with.' So they started making their own. In 1920 Adolph made the first pair of athletics shoes with spikes（钉），produced on the Dasslers' kitchen table.
On lst July 1924 they formed a shoe company, Dassler Brothers Ltd and they worked together for many years. The company became successful and it provided the shoes for Germany's
athletes at the 1928 and 1932 Olympic Games.
But in 1948 the brothers argued. No one knows exactly what happened, but family members have suggested that the argument was about money or women. The result was that Adolph left the company. His nickname was Adi, and using this and the first three letters of the family name, Dassler, he founded Adidas.
Rudolph relocated across the River Aurach and founded his own company too. At first he wanted to call it Ruda, but eventually he called it Puma, after the wild cat. The famous Puma logo of the jumping cat has hardly changed since.
After the big split of 1948 Adolph and Rudolph never spoke to each other again and their companies have now been in competition for over sixty years. Both companies were for many years the market leaders, though Adidas has always been more successful than Puma. A hip hop group, Run DMC, has even written a song called "My Adidas" and in 2005 Adidas bought Reebok, another big sports shoe company.
The terrible family argument should really be forgotten, but ever since it happened, over sixty years ago, the town has been split into two. Even now, some Adidas employees and Puma employees don't talk to each other.
16. Adidas and Puma started to make shoes at the end of 19th century.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mention
17. The brothers‘ father was a ball ma ker.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mention
18. The brothers first made sports shoes at home.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mention
19. The brothers provided sports shoes for the 1924 Olympic Games.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mention
20. The brothers decided to start up their separate companies after argument.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mention
21. Nike makes more shoes than Adidas.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mention
22. People in town have now forgotten their argument.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mention
第3部分：概括大意和完成句子(第23~30题，每题1分，共8分)
下面的短文后有2项测试任务：(1)第23~26题要求从所给的6个选项中为指定段落每段选择1个小标题;(2)第27~30题要求从所给的6个选项中为每个句子确定一个最佳选项。
How Technology Pushes DownPrice
1Prices have fallen in the food business because of advances in food production and distribution technology. Consumers have benefited greatly from those advances. People who predicted that the world would run out of food were wrong. We are producing more and more food with less and less capital. Food is therefore more plentiful and cheaper than it has ever been. Spending on food compared with other goods has fallen for many years, and continues to drop.
2Supermarkets have helped push down prices mainly because of their scale. Like any big business, they can invest in IT systems that make them efficient. And their size allows them to buy in bulk. As supermarkets get bigger, the prices get lower.
3Huge retail companies such as Wal-Mart have tremendous power and they can put pressure on producers to cut their margins. As a result, some producers have had to make cuts. In recent years, Unilever has cut its workforce by 33,000 t0 245,000 and dropped lots of its minor brands as part of its "path to growth" strategy. Cadbury has shut nearly 20 per cent of its 133 factories and cut 10 per cent of its 55,000 global workforce. These cuts help keep costs down, and the price of food stays low.
4Does cheap food make people unhealthy? Cheap food may encourage people to eat more. Food companies certainly think that giving people more food for their money makes them buy more. Giving people bigger portions is an easy way of making them feel they have got a better deal. That is why portions have got larger and larger. In America, soft drinks came in 80z (225g) cans in the past, then 120z (350g), and now come in 200z (550g) cans.1f a company can sell you an 80z portion for $7, they can sell you a 120z portion for $8. The only extra cost to the company is the food, which probably costs 25 cents.
5Now companies are under pressure to stop selling bigger portions for less money. But it is hard to change the trend.
Paragraph 1______
Paragraph 2______
Paragraph 3______
Paragraph 4______
A.Bigger supermarkets offer lower prices
B.Chain stores provide better service
C.Technology helps reduce food prices
D.Huge retailers force producers to cunt costs
E.Consumers like supermarkets
F.Food comes cheaper in larger portions
27. Big supermarkets can offer food at lower prices because they can buy in___
28. Some food producers have reduced___
29. Besides cutting its workforce, Unilever also abandoned its___
30. Buyers like bigger portion because they think they have got___
A.minor brands
B. a good barging
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D.their workforce
E.huge portions
F.their money
第四部分：阅读理解（第31~45题，每题3分，共45分）
下面有3篇短文，每篇短文后有5道题。请根据短文内容，为每题确定1个最佳选项。
第一篇From Ponzi to Madoff
The year was 1920. The country was the United States of America. The man's name was Charles Ponzi. Ponzi told people to stop depositing money in a savings account. Instead, they should give it to him to save for them. Ponzi promised to pay them more than the bank. For example, a savings account might pay you $5 a year for every $100 you deposit. Ponzi, however, would pay you $40 a year for every $100 you gave him to hold. Many people thought this was a good plan. They began to give their money to Ponzi.
How could Ponzi make so much money for people? This is what he did with the money people gave him: He used some of that money to pay other people who gave him money. However, he also kept a lot of the money for himself. Soon he had $250 million. This was a kind of theft, and it was against the law. The people who gave him their money didn't think anything was wrong.
Ponzi paid them every month, just like a bank. Ponzi continued this way of working for two years. Then one day, he didn't have enough money to pay all the people. They discovered his crime, and he went to prison for fraud.
Ninety years later, people began to hear about a businessman in New York named Bernard Madoff. People said he gave good advice about money. They said when they gave him their money, he paid them a lot more than the bank. Madoff helped hospitals, schools, and individuals earn money. Over a period of 40 years, people gave him $170 billion. However, no one investigated what he did with the money. The people who gave Madoff their money also didn't think anything was wrong because he paid them every month.
One day, Madoff didn't have enough money to pay all the people he needed to pay. That's when people discovered how Madoff worked: He was taking money from some people to pay other people, just the way Charles Ponzi did. However, this time, instead of losing millions of dollars, people lost billions.
Madoff was accused of fraud, and United States government officials arrested him. He didn't have to go on trial because he said he was guilty. In 2009, a judge sentenced him t0 150 years in prison. Bernard Madoff's crime was even bigger than Ponzi's. It was the biggest fraud in history. The lesson of this story is clear: When something seems too good to be true, it probably is!
31. For every $100, Ponzi promised to pay people
A. $5 a year.
B. $20 a year.
C. $40 a year.
D. $100 a year.
32. What did Ponzi do with the money people gave him?
A. He spent it all on things for himself.
B. He deposited it all in a bank.
C. He kept it all to save for a good plan.
D. He used some of it to pay other people.
33. What was Ponzi's crime?
A. He kept a lot of other people's money for himself.
B. He robbed the banks of millions of dollars.
C. He gave people more than the bank did.
D. He did not pay people their interests.
34. How long did Madoffs tricks last?
A.Four year.
B. Nine years.
C. Forty years.
D. Ninety years.
35. Why didn't Madoff have to go on trial?
A. The officiais couldn't find any evidence against him.
B. He admitted he was guilty.
.
C. He had friends in the government who helped him.
D. He returned all the illegal money.
第二篇Oseola McCarty
Late one Sunday afternoon in September 1999, Oseola McCarty, an elderly cleaning lady passed away in the little wooden flame house where she had lived and worked most of her life. It may seem like an ordinary end to a humble life, but there was something quite exceptional about this woman.
In the summer of 1995, McCarty gave $150,000, most of the money she had saved throughout her life, to the University of Southern Mississippi in her hometown. The money was to help other African Americans through university. She had started her savings habit as a young child when she would return from school to clean and iron for money which she would then save.
She led a simple, frugal（节俭的）existence, never spending on anything but her most basic needs. Her bank also advised her on investing her hard-earned savings.
When she retired, she decided that she wanted to use the money to give children of limited means the opportunity to go to university. She had wanted to become a nurse, but had to leave school to look after ill relatives and work. When asked why she had given her life savings away,
she replied, "I'm giving it away so that children won't have to work so hard, like I did." After news of her donation hit the media, over 600 donations were made to the scholarship fund. One was given by media executive, Ted Turner, who reputedly gave a billion dollars.
She didn't want any fuss（小题大做）made over her gift, but the news got out and she was invited all over the United States to talk to people. Wherever she went, people would come up to her to say a few words or to just touch her. She met the ordinary and the famous, President Clinton included. In the last few years of her life, before she died of cancer, McCarty was given over 300 awards：she was honoured by the United Nations and received the Presidential Citizen's Medal. Despite having no real education, she found herself with two honorary doctorates：one from the University of Southern Mississippi and the other from Harvard University. Her generosity was clearly an inspiration to many and proof that true selflessness does exist.
36. Oseola McCarty inspired the world because ______.
A. she had managed to save so much money
B. she gave her money to African Americans
C. she gave her savings to help others through university
D. she only spent money on cheap things
37. She managed to save so much money because ______.
A. she had washed and ironed clothes all her life
B. she had worked hard, lived frugally and invested carefully
C. she had opened a good bank account
D. she knew how to make money
38. She gave her money away because she wanted ______.
A. to help the university
B. others to become nurses
C. others to live an easier life
D. to be remembered after her death
39. After her generosity was made public，______.
A. people donated billions to her
B. hundreds of students got scholarships
C. hundreds of people put money into the fund
D. she was sent to university
40. Marcarty‘s generosity indicates clearly that
A. selflessness exists in human society
B. scholarship funds are popular in US
C. kind-hearted people deserves doctorates
D. poor people can donate as much as rich people
第三篇Gross National Happiness
In the last century, new technologyimproved the lives of many people in many countries. However, one countryresisted these changes. High in the Himalayan mountains of Asia, the kingdom of Bhutan remained separate. Its people andBuddhist(佛教)culture had not been affected for almost a thousand years. Bhutan,however, was a poor country. People died at a young age. Most of its peoplecould not read, and they did not know much about the outside world. Then, in 1972,a new ruler named King Jigme Singye Wangchuck decided to help Bhutan tobecome modern, but without losing its traditions.
King Wangchuck looked at other countriesfor ideas. He saw that most countries measured their progress by their GrossNational Product (GNP). The GNP measures products and money. When the number ofproducts sold increases, people say the country is making progress. KingWangchuck had a different idea for Bhutan. He wanted to measure hiscountry‘s progress by people‘s happiness. If the people‘s happiness increased,the king could say that Bhutanwas making progress. To decide if people were happier, he created a measurecalled Gross National Happiness (GNH).
GNH is based on certain principles thatcreate happiness. People are happier if they have health care, education, andjobs. They are happier when they live in a healthy, protected environment. Theyare happier when they can keep their traditional culture and customs. Finally,people are happier when they have a good, stable government.
Now there is some evidence of increasedGNH in Bhutan.People are healthier and are living longer. More people are educated andemployed. Teenty-five percent of the land has become
national parks, and thecountry has almost no pollution. The Bhutanese continue to wear theirtraditional clothing and follow their ancient Buddhist customs. Bhutan has alsobecome a democracy. In 2008, King Wangchuck gave his power to his son. Althoughthe country still had a king, it held its first democratic elections that year.Bhutanhad political parties and political candidates for the first time. Finally, Bhutan hasconnected to the rest of the world through television and internet.
Bhutanis a symbol for social progress. Many countries are now interested in Bhutan‘s GNH.These countries are investigating their own ways to measure happiness. Theywant to create new policies that take care of their people, cultures, and land.
Brazil may be the nest country to use the principles of GNH. Brazilian leaders see theprinciples of GNH as a source of inspiration. Brazil is a large country with adiverse population. If happiness works as a measure of progress in Brazil, perhapsthe rest of the world will follow.
41.Who was Jigme Singye Wangchuck?
A. Apresident.
B. A Buddhistpriest.
C. A king.
D. A general.
42.Apart from modernizing Bhutan,what else did Wangchuck want to do for Bhutan?
A. To make its population grow.
B. To keep itseparate from the world.
C. To encourageits people to get rich.
D. To keep its traditions and customs.
43.A country shows its progress with GNP by
A. spending more money.
B. spending less money.
C. selling more products.
D. providingmore jobs.
44.According to GNH, people are happier if they
A. have new technology.
B. have a good, stable government.
C. can changetheir religion.
D. have more money.
45.Today many countries are
A. trying to find their own ways tomeasure happiness.
B. using the principles of GNH to measure their progress.
C. working together to develop a common scale to measure GNH.
D. taking both Bhutan and Brazil as symbols for socialprogress.
第5部分：补全短文(第46~50题，每题2分，共10分)
下面的短文有5处空白，短文后有6个句子，其中5个取自短文，请根据短文内容将其分别放回原有位置，以恢复文章面貌。
V oice Your Opinion——Change is Needed in Youth Sports
Everywhere you look，you see kids bouncing a basketball or waving a tennis racquet (网球拍)。And these kids are getting younger and younger. In some countries，children can compete on basketball，baseball，and volleyball teams starting at age nine. (46)And swimming and gymnastics classes begin at age four，to prepare children for competition.
It‘s true that a few of these kids will develop into highly skilled athletes and may even become members of the national Olympic teams. (47) This emphasis on competition in sports is having serious negative effects.
Children who get involved in competitive sports at a young age often grow tired of their sport. Many parents pressure their kids to choose one sport and devote all their time to it. (48) But 66 percent of the young athletes wanted to play more than one sport-for fun.
Another problem is the pressure imposed by over-competitive parents and coaches. Children
are not naturally competitive. In fact，a recent study by Paulo David found that most children don‘t even understand the idea of competition until they are seven years old. (49)
The third，and biggest，problem for young athletes is the lack of time to do their homework，have fun，be with friends—in short，time to be kids. When they are forced to spend every afternoon at sports practice，they often start to hate their chosen sport. A searchers found that 70 percent of kids who take part in competitive sports before the of twelve quit before they turn eighteen. (50) Excessive competitive away all the enjoyment.
Need to remember the purpose of youth sports – to give kids a chance to have developing strong，healthy bodies.
A. Survey found that 79 percent of parents of young athletes wanted their children to concentrate on one sports.
B. Many of them completely lose interest in sports.
C. Very young kids don't know why their parents are pushing them so hard?
D. The young soccer organization has teams for children as young as five.
E. Sports for children have two important purposes.
F. But what about the others, the average kids?
第6部分：完形填空(第52~65题，每题1分，共15分)
下面的短文有15处空白，请根据短文内容为每处空白确定1个最佳选项。
Look on the Bright Side
Do you ever wish you were more optimistic, someone who always (51) _______ to be successful? H aving someone around (52) _______ always fears the worst isn‘t really a lot of (53) _______. We all know someone who sees a single cloud on a sunny day and says ，"It looks ( 54 ) _______ rain. " But if you catch yourself thinking such things，it's important to do something (55) _______ it.
You can change your (56) _______ of life ，to psychologists. It only takes a little effort ，and you'll find life more rewarding（有回报的）as a (57) _______. Optimism，they say，is partly about self-respect and confidence but it's also a more positive way of (58) ___ looking ____life and all it has to. Optimists are more (59) _______ to start new projects and are generally more prepared to take risks.
Upbringing is obviously very important in (60) ___ forming ____your view to the world. Some people are brought up to (61) _______too much on others and grow up forever blaming other people when anything (62) _______wrong. Most optimists，on the (63 ) _______ hand, have
been brought up not to (64) _______failure as the end of the world—they just (65) _______ on with their lives.
51. A) failed B)expected C)felt D) waited
52. A) that B) when C) who D) which
53. A) amusement B) play C) enjoyment D) fun
54. A) so B) to C) for D) like
55. A) with B) against C) about D) over
56. A) story B) view C) state D) sign
57. A) result B) reason C) purpose D) system
58. A) laughing B) working C) looking D)shouting
59. A) realistic B) likely C) hopeful D) pleased
60. A) sharing B)hiding C)forming D) confirming
61. A)insist B) build C) depend D) base
62. A) goes B) falls C) comes D)returns
63. A) upper B) second C) other D) first
64. A) regard B) tackle C) use D) select
65. A) turn B)get C) take D) rely
答案：1-5 CCDBA
6-10 DCDAC
11-15 BADAC
16-20 BBABA
21-25 CBCAD
26-30 FCDAB
31-35 CDACB
36-40 CBCCA
41-45 CDCBA
46-50 DFACB
51-55 BCDDC
56-60 BACBC
61-65 CACAB
2012 年全国职称英语等级考试综合类( B 级) 试题题解
第1 部分：词汇选项
1 C wipe out是个短语，意思是?消灭、摧毁‘ 和动词destroy 同义。又如：The whole
town was wiped out by the landslide。
2 C 在四个选项中和contempt (蔑枧) 意义最接近的是hate，pity 的意思是―怜悯‖。
3 D assemble 是―集结‖ 的意思，gather是具有这一词义的最普通的一个词。
4 B inspire sb. to do sth.是―鼓励、激励某人做某事‖ 的意思，这里inspire和encourage
的词义和用法一样，故可以用encourage 来代替。
5 A severe 有―严厉的、严重的‖多种意义。severe damage是严重破坏，故可用serious 代替。又如：severe criticism严厉批评、severe situation严峻的形势、severe winter严冬、severe loss严重损失、severe teacher严厉的老师。
6 D steep这个词最常用的意义是?陡峭的‘，如：a steep slope，陡峭的山坡，但在口语中它可以用来表示( 要求、价格) ?过高、难以接受‘ 的意思。
7 C tag 小标签，如：price tags 价格标牌，luggage tags 行李标签。在四个选项中label 和它同义。form 是?表格'，code 是‘码‘ 如bar code条形码。
8 D take in 这个短语可以有多种解释，如?接纳、接受、留宿、收缩、改小‘ 等等。在本句中它的意义很明显是?吸收、消化‘ 故选digest。
9 A chant 这个词的意思是?唱' 尤其是?反复、单调地唱或吟诵‘ 本句中说窗外的人群反复呼喊Joe的名字，所以这里可以用repeat来替代chant。
10 C puzzle做动词用的意思是?感到不解、迷惑‘，句子的意思是：令我不解的是为什么
他的书如此受欢迎。动词confuse 恰好和puzzle 同义，而且用法也相同。
11 B layout 是?布局、安排‘ 的意思，如：layout of the exhibition hall，layout of the shopping complex 等。本句的意思是：大楼里所有的公寓布局都一样。arrengement 可以指时间、日程的安排，也可以指空间的分割和安排，function是?功能‘。
12 A crisp通常用于修饰食品，表示?脆的、新鲜而脆生的‘，如：crisp crackers，crisp
lettuce 等。但它也可以用来描述天气，表示?清新、凉爽的‘，在本句中它表示就是这个意思，所以可以用fresh 来代替。
13 D hollow 是?空心的‘ 意思，如：a hollow tree，a hollow pipe这里可以用empty来替换。
14 A update 的意思就是现在常说的?升级、更新‘和modernize ?现代化‘ 意义相近。
15 C utterly 是?完全‘ 的意思，和completely 同义。
第2 部分：阅读判断
16 B 从文章第二段的第一句话Since 1928 they have supplied shoes for Olympic athletes，World Cup-winning football heroes, Muhammad Ali , hip hop stars and rock musicians famous all over the world. 便可以判断这句话是错的，他们开始制作运动鞋的时间是从1928 年开始，而不是从19 世纪末开始。
17 B 第三段第一句话就说了兄弟俩的父亲是个鞋匠，不是制球匠(ball maker)。
18 A 从第三段可以看到他们先是在自家的厨房里做运动鞋的。
19 B 请看第四段，他们在1924 年创建了制鞋厂，然后为1928 和1932 年两次奥运会的德国运动员提供鞋子。
20 A 从第五段和第六段可知，两兄弟反目后各自成立了自己的公司，即Adidas 和Puma。
21 C 文中没有提到过Nike公司。
22 B 从最后一段可以看出，镇上的人至今没有忘记两兄弟之间的争吵。这段的第一句话The terrible family argument should really be forgotten 的意思是―这场一家人之间的争吵应
该被遗忘‖ 但后面紧接着说自从60 年前发生此事以后，镇上的人就分成了两派。可见
镇上的居民至今还相互耿耿于怀。
第3 部分：概括大意与完成句子
23 C 第一段的第一句话说了食品生产和配送技术上的进步是食品价格下降的原因。本段
就是以此为中心展开的，所以Technology helps reduce food prices 概括了本段内容。
24 A 本段围绕着超市展开，超市可以投资信息技术系统提高它的运作效率，同时它的规
模也使它可以大量购入，所以超市越大，价格就越低。Bigger supermarkets offer lower prices 归纳了本段的内容。
25 D 本段主要讲的是大的零售商如Wal-Mart通过向Unilever 和Cadbury 这样的生产商施加压力，迫使其降低利润空间以达到降低食品价格的目的，故Huge retailers force producers to cut costs 是本段的标题。
26 F 把食品的包装加大固然是食品商家的一种促销手段，但实际上也使顾客从中得到一些便宜，所以大包装也是使得食品价格降低的一种方法，故Food comes cheaper in larger portions概括了本段的内容。
27 C 文中用的是buy in bulk 这个表达方式，意思就是buy in large quantities，大量买进。
28 D 第三段中举了两个例子：Unilever 和Cadbury，这两家生产商都裁减了自己的员工workforce，文中用的是cut 这个词，问题中用了reduce 这个词，意思相同。
29 A 原文中用的是dropped lots of its minor brands，这里用的是abandon 这个动词，和drop 同义。
30 B a good bargain 便宜货，文中用的是a better deal；a good deal 也有―便宜货、好买卖‖ 的意思。
第4部分：阅读理解
31 C 答案在第一段的这个句子里可以找到：Ponzi，however，would pay you $40 a year for every $100 you gave him to hold.
32 D Ponzi并没有把钱都花掉(A)，也没有把钱存入银行(B)，也不为某个计划而存钱
(C) ，他把一部分钱用来支付给一些借钱给他的人。从下面第二段中的这个句子可以清
楚地看到这一点：This is what he did with the money people gave him ：He used some of that money to pay other people who gave him money.
33 A 紧接着上面的那句话作者又说道：However，he also kept a lot of the money for himself . Soon he had $250 million. This was a kind of theft,and it was against the law，除了把
一部分钱还给借钱给他的人外，他留住了大部分的钱，这有违法律，正是他的罪行所在。
34 C Over a period of 40 years，people gave him $170 billion. 从第三段的这句话里可以找
到答案。
35 B 最后一段里的He didn‘t have to go on trial because he said he was guilty. 这句话说明了
Madoff 为什么不用受审，因为他已经认罪了。
36 C 文章的第二段里说McCarty在1995年的夏天把15万美元捐给了她家乡的南密西西比大学，用以帮助其他的非洲裔美国人读完大学(The money was to help other African Americans through University. ) 这是她鼓舞了世人的原因。
37 B 答案在第三段。这一段的两句话把她是怎么样积攒下那么多钱的原因讲得很清楚：努力工作、节俭生活、小心投资。
38 C 第四段里说道，当被问及为什么要给大学捐钱时，她的回答是：I'm giving it away
so that children won't have to work so hard, like I did.‖ 她不想别的孩子过得像她自己那么
苦，换言之就是想让他们能过得轻松些( to live an easier life ) 。
39 C 答案的依据就是第四段里的这句话：After news of her donation hit the media，over 600 donations were made to the scholarship fund.
40 A 文章的最后一句讲得很清楚，她的慷慨鼓舞了许多人，也证明了真正的无私的确存在。
41 C 第一段里就提到一位名为King Jigme Singre Wangchuck 的新的统治者，很显然Wangchuck 是一位国王。
42 D 第一段的结尾处讲到King Jigme Singre Wangchuck decided to help Bhutan to become modern ，but without losing its traditions，可见这位国王决定要让不丹现代化，但又不失去自己的传统。
43 C 在第二段里可以找到对GNP 一个十分简单化的解释：The GNP measures products and, money. When the number of products sold increases, people say the country is making progress，也就是说卖出的产品增加了，就说明这个国家就在进步。
44 B 第三段列举了衡量GNH的多个标准，其中包括人民享受医疗保险、受教育、有工作、生态环境健康并受到保护等等。最后提到的一个标准便是人民有个好的、稳定的政府。
45 A 答案在第五段里下面这两句句子中可以看到：Many countries are now interested in Bhutan's GNH. These countries are investigating their own ways to measure happiness.
第5 部分：补全短文
46 D 注意这个空格前后的句子都是和小孩参加体育竞赛的低龄化有关的，所以这个空格里的句子很有可能还是讲孩子过小就参与到体育竞赛里去的。果然，在六个选顼中的D 就是讲青年足球组织居然有由五岁大的孩子组成的球队。
47 F 前面的一句话讲的是这些孩子中可能会有那么一些人会发展成为优秀的运动员甚至成为国家奥运队的成员，后面的一句话在语义上很有可能出现转折，即大部分人却未必如
此。选项F 句子开头的But 恰恰表明了这一期待中的转折。
48 A 空格后面的以But开头的句子提供了很好的启示。那句话说的是百分之66的小运动员希望参与多种运动项目，所以前面的那句话极可能说的是和这一句相反的内容，果然这些孩子父母的想法和他们不同，他们希望自己的孩子专攻一项运动。
49 C 前面讲的是小孩天生并没有竞争性，七岁以前他们都不懂什么是竞争，所以太小的孩子不会理解自己的爸爸妈妈为什么要对他们施加那么大的压力。
50 B 这一段的中心是过早参与到竞技运动中去会使孩子失去兴趣，空格前面的一句说的是十二岁前就参与竞技的孩子中有百分之70 在十八岁前放弃，接着说―他们中许多人对运动完全失去了兴趣( Many of them completely lose interest s ports) ‖ 就十分自然、十分合理。
第6 部分：完形填空
51 B expected to be successful 期待成功，一个乐观的人总是期待成功。
52 C 这个句子里有两个空格，可以把整句一起理解一下把意思弄清楚再作决定。这个句
子是包含一个定语从句的复杂句。主句的主语是动名词短语having someone around，谓
语是isn't really a lot of…，此外我们发现句子里还存在一个谓语动词，即fears，这表明
第52个空格里应该填入的是这个动词的主语，构成一个定语从句修饰前面的someone，
所以应该选who。
53 D 前面一个空格选对后这个就好办了，身边总是有个担心会发生最坏的情况的人的确
不是什么有趣的事。amusement 和fun 同义，但习惯上不说It is a lot of amusement doing sth.而说It is a lot of fun doing sth. 如：It is really fun watching those kids imitating monkeys.
54 D It looks like rain 看上去像是要下雨了，是固定的表达方式，没有其他的词可以代替like。
55 C to do something about it，想点办法、做点什么(来改变、改进等等)，是个相对固定
的表达方式，如：Tom seems to be getting addicted to computer games；we must do something about it.
56 B view of life 对生活的看法
57 A as a result 得到结果，句子的意思是：只要做一点点努力，结果你就会发现生活更加有回报。
58 C 从意思来判断自然应该是looking at life ，句子的意思是：乐观主义……也是一种更加积极的看待生活和生活所能给予的方式。
59 B be likely to do sth. 可能做某事