Part two Reading and Comprehension (40 points)
Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each of the passages is followed by 5 questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. choose the best and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line throw the center.
Passage one
Cancer is among the top killer diseases in our society today and scientists have found out that stress helps to bring it on. It is worthwhile to consider, therefore, what are the causes of stress in our life, and whether we can do anything about them.
Are we under-employed, or overburdened with too many responsibilities? Do we have a right balance of work and leisure in our lives? Are our relationships with family, friends or fellow workers all they should be?
All these things can be a cause of stress, and it is best to face it honestly, and to bring our frustrations(失意，挫折)into the open. People who have a good row and then forget it are doing their health more good than those who bottle up their feelings.
If our self-examination has brought any causes of stress to light, let us consider what we can do about them. It is possible to change jobs. We can make more leisure and fill it more happily, if we will accept a different living standard. We can improve our personal relationships by a different attitude. It is we who allow other people to make ourselves unhappy. Often the little things that disturb us are not worth an hour’s anger. The teaching in the Bible “ Let not the sun go down upon your wrath(愤怒)” is good advice from the health point of view as well as religious.
16. which of the following statement is true?
A. Freedom from responsibilities helps relieve stress.
B. Stress is the direct cause of cancer.
C. The causes of stress are worthy of serious study.
D. Cancer is the number one killer in our society today.
17. According to the passage, which of the following types of people is more likely to suffer from stress?
A. People who have cancer.
B. People who like to quarrel with others.
C. People whose living standard is low.
D. People who have more responsibilities than they can handle.
18. Judging from the context, the word “row” in the third paragraph most probably means _____.
A. a noisy quarrel B. a very loud noise
C. a neat line of things side by side. D. a journey in a boat
19. which of the following is NOT mentioned as a way to reduce our stress?
A. Changing our jobs
B. Reading the Bible
C. Changing our attitude about little things that make us unhappy.
D. speaking out about our frustrations
20. “Let not the sun go down upon your wrath” probably means_____.
A. Don’t let your anger last long.
B. Don’t get angry while the sun is going down.
C. Don’t get angry easily about little things.
D. Don’t watch the sun set while you are angry.
Passage two
Concerning money or anything else, conflicts between husband and wife usually reflect a power struggle. Conflicts between parent and child often center around the same issue. As children enter adolescence, they begin to demand greater freedom to go where they please, do what they please, and make decisions without parental interference. Many American parents do not know how to deal with their teenagers and seek advice from books, lectures, and parent training courses. Parents want to maintain a friendly relationship with their teenagers and also want to guide them so that their behavior will be whatever the parents consider proper and constructive.
But in a society of rapidly changing social and moral values, parents and children often disagree about what is important and what is right.
Arguments may concern such unimportant matters as styles or hairdos. But quarrels may also concern school work, after school jobs, decisions, use of the family car, dating and sex behavior. Some families have serious problems with teenagers who drop out of school, run away from home, or use illegal drugs. Because so much publicity is given to the problem teenager, one gets the impression that all teenagers are troublemaker. Actually, relatively few adolescents do anything wrong, and all grow up into “solid citizen” who fulfill most of their parents’ expectations. In fact, recent studies show that the “generation gap” is narrowing. The vast majority of teenagers share most of their parents’ values and ideas. Many parents feel that they get along with their adolescents quite well.
21. According to the writer, conflicts between husband and wife usually reflect _____.
A. feeling of hatred
B. power struggle
C. that they don’t care for each other
D. that they may appeal to divorce
22. As children enter adolescents, they begin to do the following except _____.
A. demanding greater freedom to go wherever they please
B. making decisions without parental interference
C. getting married whenever they please
D. doing what they please
23. “--- generation gap is narrowing.” Means ______.
A. the adolescents now become timid
B. parents come to get along with their children
C. the vast majority of teenagers share most of their parents’ values and ideas
D. parents and teenager don’t like to quarrel
24. Parents and children often disagree about what is important or right because _____.
A. they have different styles of life
B. they hate each other
C. parents think that their children are troublemakers
D. they are in a society of rapidly changing social and moral values
25. When many American parents don’t know how to deal with their children they seek advice from the following except ______.
A. neighbors B. parent-training course
C. books D. lectures
