A free press is considered very important to the functioning of parliamentary democracy because（）.
第1题：
Encouraging the elderly people to participate()games is very important.
A. at
B. in
C. with
第2题：
A.Keep
B.Kept
C.Keeping
第3题：
6． Most people like Jazz 107．9 FM，because it _________ very beautiful music． ．
A，gives
B．takes
C．plays
D．brings
第4题：
Communication is important because it can help people to ______.
A.understand the world and other people better around us.
B.teach each other to speak, write, read and draw.
C.know what other people are thinking about
D.learn about mountains,blue sea and other things.
第5题：
free press has the function of keeping an eye on the government，and therefore it is called the watchdog of parliamentary democracy. ()
第6题：
Interviewer-------- Why is English so important?
David------- Well, English is so important primarily because so many people speak it and use it, so it has now become the lingua franca in the world in a way that we’ve never seen before. We’ve never had a world language of this kind before. So people are learning it not just to be able tocommunicate with native speakers, but also with speakers of other language around world.
Interviewer-------And why has it become that dominant language?
David------I think the reason for that is actually very complicated, although in the twentieth century, we can just see that it’s the rise of the US military and consumer power. I mean the technology, all the big developments in technology largely came from the US. So all of these developments actually were produced within the English language, and people had to learn English in order to understand them, or to benefit from them. The Internet is only one example of that kind. Once a language has got into that position of dominance, it’s actually very different to shift it. So we could be seeing the emergence of other big languages in the world becoming more important than they have been, like Spanish, but it’s unlikely that they’re going to shift the English from its position of dominance.
36. English is important, according to David, __________________________. A). because it has become a world language B). because so many people speak and use it C). because a lot of people are learning it D). because it is the lingua franca
37. English has become the dominant language in the world________________________. A). because it has always been the way B). for a reason that is very complicated C). only in the 20th century D). for no reasons
38. English became the dominant language in the 20th century_________________________. A). in the USA
B). because of the increase in American consumer power
C). because developments in technology came mainly from USA. D). all over the world.
39. People had to learn English______________________.
A). because developments in technology were made by English speakers B). because they needed to understand the new developments in technology C). to use the Internet
D). to speak with native Americans
40. David thinks that__________________________.
A). it will be easy for another language to become dominant B). English will not always be the dominant language
C). it will not be easy for another language to become dominant D). English will be the dominant language
第7题：
() is very attractive because it is about how people make sense of each other through analyzing what they say.
A、Semantics
B、Syntactics
C、Pragmatics
D、semiotics
第8题：
Passage Two
When we see well, we do not think about our eyes very often. It is only when we cannot see perfectly that we realize how important our eyes are.
People who are nearsighted can only see things that are very close to their eyes. Everything else is not so clear. Many people who do a lot of close work, such as writing, reading and sewing, become near sighted. Then they have to wear glasses in order to see distant (远处的) things clearly'.
People who are nearsighted suffer from just the opposite problem. They can see things that are far away, but they have difficulty in reading a book unless they hold it at arm's length. If they want to do much reading, they must get glasses, too.
Other people do not see clearly because their eyes are not exactly the right shape. They have what is called astigmatism (散光). This, too, can be corrected by glasses. Some people's eyes become cloudy because of cataracts (白内障). Long ago these people often became blind. Now, however, it is possible to operate on the cataracts and remove them.
Having two good eyes is important for judging distances. Each eye sees things from a slightly different angle (角度). To prove this to yourself, look at an object out of one eye; then look at the same object out
of the other eye. You will find the object's relation to the background (背景) and other things around it has changed. The difference between these two different eye views helps us to judge how far away an object is. People who have only one eye cannot judge distance as people with two eyes.
40. We should take good care of our eyes ______.
A. only when we cannot see perfectly
B. only when we can see well
C. even if we can see well
D. only when we realize how important our eyes are
40．答案为C 此考题为推理题。根据作者在第1段第2句所表达的，等到我们两眼视力下降了我们才认识到眼睛的重要性，我们就可断定C正确。
第9题：
The value of competition works against the spirit of national cooperation in that( ).
A. it makes people not believe in the government
B. it causes people to suspect but not to trust each other
C. it makes people even unable to cooperate well on local levels
D. it encourages people to gain success through individual hard work
第10题：
The systems of universities are very vulnerable because they are decentralized and accessible to many people.
