Part III Reading Comprehension (30’)
Section A (1’×10=10’)
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please write down the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
注意：此部分试题请在答题纸上作答。请在空格内填写单词前的字母选项。不要填写单词。
Parents and students of the Class of 2005: I have re based on the following passage.
language use.gless sentences. with gradually as awareness of those m 61 with the format of this Convocation and the content of this speech for the past 10 days. Since the morning of Sept. 11, the campus has been 62 quiet. Except for two memorial services, all major events were 63 . As we considered how to start a new 64 year, we decided that a Convocation was, in fact, the most fitting way to 65 our activities.
Students, you 66 our best hope for the future and for peace in our world. Americans and good-hearted people of all ages throughout the world will mourn this
67 and carry the memory of that terrible day in their hearts. But it is your
68 that will face the 69 of building a world in which such inhuman acts can never again 70 .
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A. canceled |
B. challenge |
C. generation |
D. intrigue |
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E. occur |
F. innovation |
G. uncommonly |
H. tragedy |
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I. resume |
J. distinguished |
K. venture |
L. academic |
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M. represent |
N. struggled |
O. exceptional |
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Section B (2’×10=20’)
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡上对应题号作答。
Passage One
Questions 71 to 75 are based on the following passage.
Some psychologists(心理学家)maintain that mental acts are not performed in the brain alone, but that one’s muscles also participate. It may be said that we think with our muscles in somewhat the same way that we listen to music with our bodies.
You surely are not surprised to be told that you usually listen to music not only with your ears but with your whole body. Few people can listen to music that is more or less familiar without moving their body or, more specifically, some part of their body. Often when one listens to a symphony(交响乐)concert on the radio, he is tempted to direct the orchestra(交响乐队)even though he knows that there is a competent conductor on the job.
Strange as this behavior may be, there is a very good reason for it. One cannot derive(得到)all possible enjoyment from music unless he participates, so to speak, in its performance. The listener “feels” himself into the music with more or less pronounced motions of his body.
The muscles of the body actually participate in the mental process of thinking in the same way but this participation is less obvious because it is less pronounced.
71. The process of thinking and that of listening to music are similar in that _____.
A) both are mental acts
B) muscles participate in both processes
C) both processes are performed by the entire body
D) we derive equal enjoyment from them
72. The pronounced body motions are a listener’s way of _____.
A) “feeling” the music
B) participating in the performance
C) deriving enjoyment from the music
D) all of the above
73. Body movements are necessary in order for the listener to _____.
A) hear the music
B) comprehend the music
C) enjoy the music fully
D) completely understand the music
74. According to the passage, muscle participation in the process of thinking is _____.
A) deliberate
B) obvious
C) not really apparent
D) very pronounced
75. What is the best title for the passage?
A) An Ear for Music
B) Music Appreciation
C) How Muscles Participate in Mental Acts
D) A Psychological Definition of the Thinking Process
