B. by making mistakes and having them corrected C. by listening to explanations from skilled people D. by asking a great many questions
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52. What does the author think teachers do which they should not do?
A. They give children correct answers. B. They point out children?s mistakes to them. C. They allow children to mark their own work. D. They encourage children to copy from one another.
53. The passage suggests that learning to speak and learning to ride a bicycle are _______.
A. not really important skills. B. more important than other skills.
C. basically different from learning adult skills. D. basically the same as learning other skills.
54. Exams, grades, and marks should be abolished because children?s progress should only be estimated by __________.
A. educated persons. B. the children themselves. C. teachers. D. parents.
55. The author fears that children will grow up into adults who are __________.
A. too independent of others. B. too critical of themselves. C. unable to think for themselves. D. unable to use basic skills.
Passage Twelve:
At Cape Churchill in northeastern Manitoba, where the shore of Hudson Bay makes an abrupt 90-degree turn to the west, polar bears congregate in the autumn, waiting for the ice that is their home. By November, pack ice has formed beyond the fast ice, and the bears are moving. To be at the very tip of the Cape in November is to be in the middle of a slow but steadily flowing
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river of bears, methodically picking their way across the jumbled ice in a straight-push for their hunting grounds.
The polar bears of Hudson Bay are a distinct population thriving at the southern end of their range. Polar bears live on seals, and to hunt them the bears must have ice to get to where the seals are. Yet in Hudson Bay the ice melts by July and the bears have to come ashore, there to spend four months eating very little, digging into sand dunes and dirt so they can stay cool in the summer “heat”, relaxing into a physiological state like that of black bears in winter dens. They are the polar bear population most accessible to humans, and they are not only the best studied but the most easily experienced by amateur naturalists, photographers, and just plain tourists. 56. With what aspect of bears? lives is the passage mainly concerned?
A. Their evolution B. Their hunting skills C. Their temperament D. Their seasonal movements 57. When the bears move out onto the ice, they look for their __________.
A. dens. B. young. C. food. D. males.
58. According to the passage, during which of the following periods of time are the polar bears ashore?
A. January through March B. July through October C. September through December D. November through July 59. Where in the passage does the author describe the bears? activities after the ice melts?
A. 1st sentence of 1st para. B. 2nd-3rd sentences of 1st para. C. 1st-2nd sentences of 2nd para. D. 3rd-4th sentences of 2nd para. 60. It can be inferred from the passage that the polar bear population of Hudson Bay ____.
A. is one of several polar bear populations. B. is unfriendly toward humans.
C. consumes food voraciously during the whole year.
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D. is an endangered species.
V. Translation.
1. The seller, on the other hand, makes a point of protesting that the price he is charging is depriving him of all profit, and that the is sacrificing this because of his personal regard for the customer.
2. The strategic nature of the threat now posed by human civilization to the global environment and the strategic nature of the threat to human civilization now posed by changes in the global environment present us with a similar set of challenges and false hope.
3. Certainly the miracle chip will affect American life in ways both begin and productive. The computer revolution is stimulating intellects, liberating limbs and propelling mankind to a higher order of existence.
4. Someone took one of the best-known of examples, which is still always worth the
reconsidering. When we talk of meat on our tables we use French words; when we speak of the animals from which the meat comes we use Anglo-Saxon words.
5. The playfulness of the modern aesthetic is, finally, its most striking------and also its most serious and, by corollary, its most disturbing------feature.
6. On a Winter day some years ago, coming out of Pittsburg on one of the expresses of the Pennsylvania Railroad, I rolled eastward for an hour through the coal and steel towns of Westmoreland county.
7. One speaks of happiness and means the perfect routinization which has driven out the last doubt and all spontaneity.
8. From East Liberty to Greensburg, a distance of twenty-five miles, there was not one in sight from the train that did not insult and lacerate the eye.
9. Today modern culture includes the geometries of the International Style, the fantasies of
facadism, and the gamesmanship of theme parks and museum villages.
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10. In all this serenity of ocean it is seldom that we espy so much as another ship; the jolly
dolphins and the scratchy little flying-fish have the vast circle all to themselves, ?the Flying-Fish, who has a part with the birds,? and doubtless are glad to see the last of the monster which bears us into and out of sight.
11. Especially was this true of the college contingent, whose idealism had led them to enlist
early and who had generally seen a considerable amount of action.
12. The diversity gives endless color to the city, so that walking in it is a constant education in sights and smells. There is a wonderful variety of places to eat or shop, and though the most successful of such places are likely to be touristy hybrid compromises, they too have genuine roots.
V. Write a short passage of 300 words in English on any of the topics .
1. Physical Exercise 2. My Ideal Job 3. The Happiness of Reading 4. Population Control
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Answers
I. Multiple Choice.
1.c 2.a 3.b 4.a 5.d 6.a 7.d 8.b 9.c 10.c 11.c 12.a 13.a 14.d 15.d 16.d 17.a 18.b 19.a 20.b 21.c 22.a 23.a 24.d 25.a 26.d 27.c 28.b 29.d 30.c 31.b 32.d 33.b 34.c 35.b 36.c 37.c 38.c 39.c 40.a
II. Replace the italicized words with simple, everyday words.
1. gloomy 2. fronts 3. characterized 4. spent … on it 5. difference 6. level of existence 7. forces 8. strike 9. torture 10.see 11. hold talks with our enemy 12. listeners 13. dry and barren 14. lonely 15. abundance 16. fame
17. at the same time 18. religious belief 19. wordiness 20. tells 21. moved backward 22. profitable 23. dwellings 24. supple 25. distinguishing 26. abundance 27. major 28. various
III. Paraphrase.
1. Water got into the generator and put it out. It stopped producing electricity so the lights also
went out.
2. Immediately from their dark hole-like cells everywhere a great number of Jews rushed out
wildly excited.
3. In fact a person who really enjoys and is skilled at conversation will not argue to win or
force others to accept his point of view.
4. The model they followed in building their houses was a brick standing upright.
5. Work became the chief element in a system that preached an austere and self-denying
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