问答题Passage 7U. S consumer prices climbed faster than expected in May, further fanning investor fears over inflation. Stock markets around the world have cracked sharply lower the past few weeks, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average losing all the ground

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A rainforest is an area covered by tall trees with the total high rainfall spreading quite equally through the year and the temperature rarely dipping below l6℃．Rainforests have a great effect on the world environment because they can take in heat from the sun and adjust the climate．Without the forest cover，these areas would reflect more heat into the atmosphere，warming the rest of the world. Losing the rainforests may also influence wind and rainfall patterns，potentially causing certain natural disasters all over the world．

In the past hundred years，humans have begun destroying rainforests in search of three major resources(资源)：land for crops，wood for paper and other products，land for raising farm animals．This action affects the environment as a whole．For example，a lot of carbon dioxide (二氧化碳)in the air comes from burning the rainforests．People obviously have a need for the resources we gain from cutting trees but we will suffer much more than we will benefit.

There are two main reasons for this．Firstly，when people cut down trees，generally they can only use the land for a year or two．Secondly，cutting large sections of rainforests may provide a good supply of wood right now，but in the long run it actually reduces the world’s wood supply．

Rainforests are often called the world’s drug store．More than 25％ of the medicines we use today come from plants in rainforests．However，fewer than l％of rainforest plants have been examined for their medical value．It is extremely likely that our best chance to cure diseases lies somewhere in the world’s shrinking rainforests．

72．Rainforests can help to adjust the climate because they ．

A．reflect more heat into the atmosphere

B．bring about high rainfall throughout the world

C．rarely cause the temperature to drop lower than l6℃

D．reduce the effect of heat from the sun on the earth

EXTENDED FAMILY In an extended family, all the people share one household. Apart from parents and children, there may be other family members grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. That is to say, a large family may have more than two generations, and often there are more than two adults from different generations of a family. The family members live together for many reasons. They may help to bring up children or to take care of an ill relative. They may also help with saving money. Sometimes children are brought up by their grandparents, for their parents have died or can never take care of them. Many grandparents look after the children,particularly when both parents are busy working. This large family is called extended family. It can be found all over the world. The number of these families has increased by 40 percent in the past ten years. Most of such families live happily together.

1. In an extended family, people live in different houses.()

2. An extend family includes at least three generations.()

3.In an extended family, children are looked after by their grandparents because their parents are traveling around.()

4. Extended families can be found all over the world.()

5. Children can live happily with their parents and grandparents.()

The advantages and disadvantages of a large population have long been a subject of discussion among economists. It has been argued that the supply of good land is limited. To feed a large population, poor land must be cultivated and the good land worked intensively. Thus, each person produces less and this means a lower average income than could be obtained with a smaller population. Other economists have argued that a large population gives more chance of development of facilities such as ports, roads and railways, which are not likely to be built unless there is a big demand.

One of the difficulties in carrying out a worldwide birth control program lies in the fact that of ficial attitudes to population growth vary from country to country depending on the level of industrial development and the availability of food and raw materials. In the developing country where a vastly expanded population is pressing hard upon the limits of food, space and natural resources, the first concern of government will be to set a limit on the birthrate, whatever the final result may be. In a highly industrialized society the problem may be more complex. A decreasing birth rate may lead to unemployment because it results in a declining market for manufactured goods.

When the pressure of population on housing declines, prices also decline and building industry grow weaker. Faced with concern such as these, the government of a developed country may well prefer to see a slowly increasing population, rather than one which is stable or in decline.

(1)The main topic of this article is _____________.

A、environment protection

B、population growth

C、environment and economy

D、climate changing

(2) The passage says that a small population may lead to _____________.

A、higher production, but a lower average income

B、lower production and lower average income

C、higher production and a higher average income

D、lower production, but a higher average income

(3) According to the passage, the use of birth control perhaps is good for_____________.

A、a developing country

B、a developed country

C、the whole world

D、each nation with a big population

(4) In a developed country, people will perhaps be unemployed if the birthrate _____________.

A、goes up

B、goes down

C、remains stable

D、is out of control

(5) The author is aiming to show that_____________.

A、humans will run out of their food supply in the future

B、it is necessary for humans to carry out a worldwide plan for birth control

C、different nations have different views of population growth

D、we need to take necessary measures to prevent the overuse of natural resources.

The most encouraging fact about the US economy is that_____ .

［A］employment rates have risen faster than expected

［B］the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates soon

［C］industrial production is reaching its lowest point

［D］some economic sectors have become leading industries

expected and will be out of hospital /\a few weeks

【T1】

A.SEEK

B.LOOKED

C.PART A.TAKING【T1】______IN DANGEROUS SPORTS AND ACTIVITIES

B.WHO HAVE【T2】______FOR ADVENTURE

C.WHO【T3】______AN IMMEDIATE EXCITEMENT FROM A RISKY ACTIVITY AROUND THE WORLD MORE AND MORE PEOPLE ARE【T4】______.OF COURSE, THERE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN PEOPLE【T5】______—THOSE WHO HAVE CLIMBED THE HIGHEST MOUNTAINS, EXPLORED UNKNOWN PARTS OF THE WORLD OR SAILED IN SMALL BOATS ACROSS THE GREATEST OCEANS.NOW, HOWEVER, THERE ARE PEOPLE【T6】_______ WHICH MAY ONLY LAST A FEW MINUTES OR EVEN SECONDS.

Text 2We’re moving into another era, as the toxic effects of the bubble and its grave consequences spread through the financial system. Just a couple of years ago investors dreamed of 20 percent returns forever. Now surveys show that they’re down to a “realistic”8 percent to 10 percent range.

But what if the next few years turn out to be below normal expectations? Martin Barners of the Bank Credit Analyst in Montreal expects future stock returns to average just 4 percent to 6 percent. Sound impossible? After a much smaller bubble that burst in the mid-1960s Standard & Poor’s 5000 stock average returned 6.9 percent a year (with dividends reinvested) for the following 17 years. Few investors are prepared for that.

Right now denial seems to be the attitude of choice. That’s typical, says Lori Lucas of Hewitt, the consulting firm. You hate to look at your investments when they’re going down. Hewitt tracks 500,000 401 (k) accounts every day, and finds that savers are keeping their contributions up. But they’re much less inclined to switch their money around. “It’s the slot-machine effect,” Lucas says. “People get more interested in playing when they think they’ve got a hot machine”—and nothing’s hot today. The average investor feels overwhelmed.

Against all common sense, many savers still shut their eyes to the dangers of owning too much company stock. In big companies last year, a surprising 29 percent of employees held at least three quarters of their 402 (k) in their own stock.

Younger employees may have no choice. You often have to wait until you’re 50 or 55 before you can sell any company stock you get as a matching contribution.

But instead of getting out when they can, old participants have been holding, too. One third of the people 60 and up chose company stock for three quarters of their plan, Hewitt reports. Are they inattentive? Loyal to a fault? Sick? It’s as if Lucent, Enron and Xerox never happened.

No investor should give his or her total trust to any particular company’s stock. And while you’re at it, think how you’d be if future stock returns—averaging good years and bad—are as poor as Barnes predicts.

If you ask me, diversified stocks remain good for the long run, with a backup in bonds. But I, too, am figuring on reduced returns. What a shame. Dear bubble, I’ll never forget. It’s the end of a grand affair.

第26题：The investors’ judgment of the present stock returns seems to be _____.

［A］ fanciful

［B］ pessimistic

［C］ groundless

［D］ realistic

It can be inferred from the passage that early historians of women’s labor in the United States paid little attention to women’s employment in the service sector of the economy because________．

A．fewer women found employment in the service sector than in factory work

B．the wages paid to workers in the service sector were much lower than those paid in the industrial sector

C．women’s employment in the service sector tended to be much more short—term than in factory work

D．employment in the service sector seemed to have much in common with the unpaid work associated with homemaking