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One explanation for the different character of English people is that ______ .
A．they are geographically isolated from the European continent
B．they have nothing to do with the other Europeans
C．they like to keep quiet among their acquaintances
D．they tend to be reserved by nature
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One explanation given by scientists for the crop circles is that they are made by ______.
A．airplane crashes
B．new farming techniques
C．unknown flying objects
D．air movement
PART 1
Mark the letter next to the correct explanation—A, B or C—on your answer sheet.
A．Lock your cycle near this gate before entering.
B．Cyclists should use a different entrance when this one is locked.
C．If the side gate is locked, go through the cycle entrance.
What does "elevator speech" refer to in this passage？
A．The speech that is given in an elevator.
B．A general explanation for one's job loss.
C．The formal speech on topic of unemployment.
D．A detailed description for the downsizing.
Single—parent Families
Today we tell about the major change in the American family．It is the increase in the number of families with only one parent．
_______（1）．One of the reasons for this is the increasing number of women who have children without being married．The United States Census Bureau recently released a new report on the situa-tion．_____ （2）．It said 24 percent of them had at least one child．Almost 4 million unmarried women in the United States are mothers．This is an increase of almost 60 percent in the past 10 years．
_______（3）．In the past，women were expected to marry and remain home with their children．They depended on their husbands to eam money to support the family．Experts say women were pushed into marriage by many pans of American society．_______（4）
______（5）．They say American women have fewer economic reasons for marrying than they did years ago．This is because more women work outside the home today than in the past，and there is less of difference between the earnings of men and women in the United States．Other expert believe there is social and cultural explanation for the increase in unmarried mothers in America．One explanation is that the woman’s rights movement gave many women a new feeling 0f independence．Another explanation is the society is more willing t0 accept unmarried mothers than it did in the past．Un-married mothers and their children no longer live in shame．
A．About 22 percent of American children now live with only one parent．
B．Experts have tried to explain the reasons for the increase．
C．The report included women between the ages of 18 and 44 who have never been married．
D．Experts say this is not true today．
E．A woman’s family expected her to be married，so did religious groups，customs and laws．
F．There has been much debate in the United States about the single—parent family．
第 46 题 请选择（46）处的最佳答案．
Language Learning
It is, everyone agrees, a huge task that the child performs when he learns to speak, and the fact that he does so in so short a period of time challenges explanation.
Language learning begins with listening. Individual children vary greatly in the amount of listening they do before they start speaking, and late starters are often long listeners. Most children will "obey" spoken instructions some time before they can speak, though the word obey is hardly accurate as a description of the eager and delighted cooperation usually shown by the child. Before they can speak, many children will also ask questions by gesture and by making questioning noises.
Any attempt to trace the development from the noises babies make to their first spoken words leads to considerable difficulties. It is agreed that they enjoy making noises, and that during the first few months one or two noises sort themselves out as particularly indicative of delight, distress, sociability, and so on. But since these cannot be said to show the baby's intention to communicate, they can hardly be regarded as early forms of language. It is agreed, too, that from about three months they play with sounds for enjoyment, and that by six months they are able to add new sounds to their repertoire (能发出的全部声音). This self-imitation leads on to deliberate (有意识的) imitation of sounds made or words spoken to them by other people. The problem then arises as to the point at which one can say that these imitations can be considered as speech.
By "... challenges explanation" (Line 2, Para. 1)the author means that ______.
A．no explanation is necessary for such an obvious phenomenon
B．no explanation has been made up to now
C．it's no easy job to provide an adequate explanation
D．it's high time that an explanation was provided
Single—parent Families
Today we tell about the m ajor change in the American family．It is the increase in the number of families with only one parent．
（1）．One 0f the reasons for this is the increasing number 0f women who have children without being married．The United States Census Bureau recently released a new report 0n the situa tion． 2）．It said 24 percent of them had at least one child．Almost 4 million unmarried women in the United States are mothers．This is an increase of alnIost 60 percent in the past 10 years．
（3）．In the past，women were expected to marry and remain home with their children．They depended on their husbands to earn money to support the fmnily．Experts say women were pushed into marriage by many parts of Anierican society． （4）．
（5）．They say American women have fewer economic reasons for marrying than they did yearn ago．This is because more women work outside the honle today than in the past，and there is less of difference between the earnings of men and women in the United States．Other experts believe there is social and cultural explanation for the increase in unmarried mothers in America．One expla。nation is that the woman’s rights movement gave many women a new feeling of independence．Another explanation is the society is more willing to accept unnmrried mothers than it（1id in the past．Unmarried mothers and their children no longer live in shame．
A．About 22 percent of American children now live with only one parent．
B．Experts have tried to explain the reasons for the increase．
C．The report included women between the ages of 1 8 and 44 who have never been married．
D．Experts say this is not true today．
E．A woman’s family expected her to be married，so did religious groups，customs and laws．
F．There has been nluch debate in the United States about the single-parent family．
第 46 题 请选择（46）处的最佳答案．
Many, many centuries ago, large distances were measured in the Babylonian mile. The Babylonian mile equaled about seven of our miles. Because of its length, the time needed to travel the Babylonian mile became a measure of time. One day was said to be twelve Baby-Ionian time-miles.
About one thousand years before Christ, the Babylonians began keeping records of star movements. They needed a way to record how much time passed between the moment they first saw a star and then observed it again. They used the Babylonian time-mile as their measure of time.
In order to have small units of time, the Babylonians divided their time-mile into thirty parts. The Babylonians believed that each trip around the sky was a circle. One complete trip around the sky, they reasoned, took one day.
You already know that one day was the same as twelve Babylonian time-mile. Since each time-mile was divided into thirty parts, the circular trip around the sky was 12×30, or 360 parts long. That is how there came to be 360 4egrees in a circle.
The purpose of this passage is to explain ______.
A．how the Babylonians measured the time of star movements
B．why the circle is divided into 360 degrees
C．the Babylonian mile and the Babylonian time-mile
D．the Babylonians' ideas about the sky
An Observation and an Explanation
It is worth looking at one or two aspects of the way a mother behaves towards her baby. The usual fondling, cuddling and cleaning require little comment, but the position in which she holds the baby against her body when resting is rather revealing. Careful studies have shown the fact that 80 percent of mothers hold their infants in their left arms, holding them against the left side of their bodies. If asked to explain the significance of this preference most people reply that it is obviously the result of the predominance of right-handedness in the population. By holding the babies in their left arms, the mothers keep their dominant arm free for manipulations. But a detailed analysis shows that this is not the case. True, there is a slight difference between right-handed and left-handed females; but not enough to provide adequate explanation. It emerges that 83 percent of right-handed mothers hold the baby on the left side, but so do 78 percent of left-handed mothers. In other words, only 22 percent of the left-handed mothers have their dominant hands free for actions. Clearly there must be some other, less obvious explanation.
The only other clue comes from the fact that the heart is on the side of the mother's body. Could it be that the sound of her heart beat is the vital factor？ And in What way？ Thinking along these lines it was argued that perhaps during its existence inside the body of the mother the unborn baby get used to the sound of the heart beat. If this is so, then the re-discovery of this familiar sound after birth might have a claiming effect on the infant, especially as it has just been born into a strange and frighteningly new world, if this is so then the mother would, somehow, soon arrive at the discovery that her baby is more at peace if held on the left against her heart than on the right.
We can learn a lot by observing the position in which a mother holds her baby against her body.
A．Right
B．Wrong
C．Not mentioned
