(07·全国Ⅱ)

We arrived in Spain for the first time a few weeks ago. I decided to  21  a car because we had sold the one we had in England before  22  home. Yesterday the sales office rang us to say the car was  23 . I had tried out a model like it before, but as I was not yet  24  driving in this city, my wife did not want me to collect it  25  so we went together to  26  it. We paid for the car and  27  the papers. They told us that there was  28  petrol（汽油）to take us to a garage, where we could fill up. The  29  garage to the office was about 100 yards away and we got there  30 . But when I turned into main road I suddenly saw a lot of cars racing  31  me. I got out of  32  as fast as I could by backing into the garage  33  and the man behind  34  me.

“It’s such a problem to  35  to drive on the right side, isn’t it?” my wife said. “Yes, if only I had had a few lessons for  36 .” I replied. “You had better go  37  on the way home,” my wife said. “You’d be sorry if you had  38  on the first day, wouldn’t you?” While we were talking, the man behind got out of his car and said in good English,” Would you mind telling me  39  you are thinking of leaving?  40  are you going to sit in your car all day?”

21.A. borrow                       B. drive                        C. buy                          D. choose

22.A. leaving                        B. making                     C. returning                  D. getting

23.A. right                           B. ready                       C. fixed                        D. sold

24.A. sure of                       B. satisfied with            C. interested in              D. used to

25.A. on my own                 B. right away                C. in a hurry                 D. on the way

26.A. receive                       B. bring                        C. order                       D. fetch

27.A. accepted                     B. wrote                       C. signed                      D. copied

28.A. little                            B. enough                     C. much                       D. no

29.A. best                            B. nearest                     C. quickest                   D. cleanest

30.A. lately                          B. directly                     C. safely                       D. slowly

31.A. after                           B. with                         C. around                     D. towards

32.A. their way                    B. the garage                 C. their sight                 D. the car

33.A. at last                         B. once more                C. as usual                    D. as well

34.A. caught                        B. cheered                    C. shouted at                D. chatted with

35.A. prepare                       B. continue                   C. choose                     D. remember

36.A. discussion                   B. adventure                 C. experiment               D. practice

37.A. carefully                     B. smoothly                  C. quickly                     D. differently

38.A. an error                      B. a problem                 C. as accident               D. a headache

39.A. when                          B. why                         C. how                         D. what

40.A. For                            B. Or                           C. But                          D. So

    

 (07·全国ⅡC篇)

Odland remembers like it was yesterday working in an expensive French restaurant in Denver. The ice cream he was serving fell onto the white dress of a rich and important woman.

Thirty years have passed, but Odland can’t get the memory out of his mind, nor the woman’s kind reaction（反应）. She was shocked, regained calmness and, in a kind voice, told the young Odland. “It’s OK. It wasn’t your fault.” When she left the restaurant, she also left the future Fortune 500 CEO（总裁）with a life lesson: You can tell a lot about a person by the way he or she treats the waiter.

Odland isn’t the only CEO to have made this discovery. Rather, it seems to be one of those few laws of the land that every CEO learns on the way up. It’s hard to get a dozen CEO’s to agree about anything, but most agree with the Waiter Rule. They say how others treat the CEO says nothing. But how others treat the waiter is like a window into the soul.

Watch out for anyone who pulls out the power card to say something like, “I could but this place and fire you,” or “I know the owner and I could have you fired.” Those who say such things have shown more about their character（人品）than about their wealth and power.

The CEO who came up with it, or at least first wrote it down, is Raytheon CEO Bill Swanson. He wrote a best-selling book called Swanson’s Unwritten Rules of Management.

“A person who is nice to you but rude to the waiter, or to others, is not a nice person,” Swanson says. “I will never offer a job to the person who is sweet to the boss but turns rude to someone cleaning the tables.”

49.What happened after Odland dropped the ice cream onto the woman’s dress?
A. He was fired.                                                 B. He was blamed.        
C. The woman comforted him.                            D. The woman left the restaurant at once.

50.Odland leaned one of his life lessons from ____.
A. his experience as a waiter.                               B. the advice given by the CEOs
C. an article in Fortune                                       D. an interesting best-selling book

51.According to the text, most CEOs have the same opinion about ____.
A. Fortune 500 companies                                  B. the Management Rules
C. Swanson’s book                                            D. the Waiter Rule

52.From the text we can learn that ____.
A. one should be nicer to important people           

B. CEOs often show their power before  others
C. one should respect others no matter who they are
D. CEOs often have meals in expensive restaurants

  

 (07·全国ⅠE篇)

Today about 70 countries use Daylight Saving Time (DST). Daylight Saving was first introduced during World War I in Australia. During the world wars, DST was used for the late summers beginning January 1917 and 1942, and the full summers beginning September 1942 and 1943.  

In 1967, Tasmania experienced a drought（干旱）. The State Government introduced one hour of daylight saving that summer as a way of saving power and water. Tasmanians liked the idea of daylight saving and the Tasmanian Government has declared daylight saving each summer since 1968. Persuaded by the Tasmanian Government, all states except two passed a law in 1971, for a test use of daylight saving. In 1972, New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria joined Tasmania for regular daylight saving, but Queensland did not do so until 1989.

Tasmania, Queensland and South Australia have had irregular plans, often changing their dates due to politics or festivals（节日）. For example, in 1992, Tasmania extended（延长）daylight saving by an extra month while South Australia began extending daylight saving by two weeks for the Adelaide Festival. Special daylight saving plans were made during the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.

The differences in daylight saving in Australia continue to cause serious problems in transport and many other social activities. It also reduces the number of hours in the working day that are common to all centers in the country. In particular, time differences along the east coast cause major differences, especially for the broadcasters of national radio and television.

72. Daylight Saving Time was introduced in Tasmania _______________.

   A. to stop the drought in 1967           B. to support government officials

   C. to pass a special law in the state       D. to save water and electricity

73. According to the text, which state was the last to use DST?

   A. Victoria.                          B. Queensland.

   C. South Australia.                    D. New South Wales.

74. What can we learn about DST in some Australian states?

   A. It doesn’t have fixed dates.            B. It is not used in festivals.

   C. Its plan was changed in 2000.          D. It lasts for two weeks.

75. What do we know about the use of DST from the last paragraph?

   A. There exist some undesirable effects.    B. It helps little to save energy.

   C. It brings about longer working days.     D. Radio and TV programs become different.

 (07·全国ⅡA篇)

Growing up in Philadelphia, Lieberman started cooking with his stay-at-home dad when he was seven. His food-loving family had two kitchens, and he quickly learned what was the best way to bake his cakes. Lieberman improved his kitchen skills greatly during a year abroad before college, learning from a cook in Italy and studying local specialties（地方特色菜）in Germany, Spain and France. At Yale, he was known for throwing dinner parties, single-handedly frying and baking while mixing drinks for dozens of friends. Just for fun, he and some friends decided to tape a show named Campus Cuisine about his cooking. Lieberman was a real college student showing his classmates how to do things like make drinks out of dining-hall fruit. That helped the show become very popular among the students. They would stop Lieberman after classes to ask for his advice on cooking. Tapes of the show were passed around, with which his name went beyond the school and finally to the Food Network.

Food Network producer Flay hopes the young cook will find a place on the network television. He says Lieberman’s charisma is key. “Food TV isn’t about food anymore,” says Flay. “It’s about your personality（个性）and finding a way to keep people’s eyeballs on your show.”

But Lieberman isn’t putting all his eggs in one basket. After taping the first season of the new show, Lieberman was back in his own small kitchen preparing sandwiches. An airline company（航空公司）was looking for someone to come up with a tasteful, inexpensive and easy-to-make menu to serve on its flights, Lieberman got the job.

41.We can learn from the text that Lieberman’s family ____.
A. have relatives in Europe                                  B. love cooking at home
C. often hold parties                                           D. own a restaurant

42.The Food Network got to know Lieberman ____.
A. at one of his parties                                        B. from his teachers     
C. through his taped show                    D. on a television program

43.What does the word “charisma” underlined in the text refer to?
A. A natural ability to attract others.                      B. A way to show one’s achievement.
C. Lieberman’s after-class interest.                      D. Lieberman’s fine cooking skill.

44.Why did the airline company give Lieberman the job?
A. He could prepare meals in a small kitchen.       

B. He was famous for his shows on Food TV.
C. He was good at using eggs to make sandwiches.
D. He could cook cheap, delicious and simple meals.

45.What can we learn about Lieberman from the text?
A. He is clever but lonely.                                    B. he is friendly and active.
C. He enjoys traveling around.                             D. He often changes his menus.

  

 (07·全国ⅡE篇)

Most people want to know how things are made. They honestly admit, however, that they hardly know a thing when it comes to understanding how a piece of music is made. Where a composer（作曲家）begins, how he manages to keep going – in fact, how and when he learns his trade – all are covered in complete darkness. The composer, in short, is a man of mystery（神秘）.

One of the first things the common man wants to know about is the part inspiration（灵感）plays in a composer’s work. He finds it difficult to believe that composers are not much interested in that question. Writing music is as natural for the composer as eating or sleeping for all. Music is something that the composer happens to have been born for.

The composer, therefore, does not say to himself: “Do I feel inspired?” He says to himself: “Do I feel like working today?” And if he feels like working, he does. It is more or less like saying to himself: “Do I feel sleepy?” if you feel sleepy, you go to sleep. If you don’t feel sleepy, you stay up. If the composer doesn’t feel like working, he doesn’t work. It’s as simple as that.

57.What would be the best title for the text?
A. Composer: a man of mystery                          B. Practice makes good music
C. Relation between sleeping and music                D. Music: product of nature

58.The words “covered in complete darkness” underlined in Paragraph 1 most probably mean ____.
A. difficult to be made     B. without any light       C. black in color            D. not known

59.Most people seem to think that a composer ____.
A. finds it difficult to write music                       

B. considers it important to have a good rest
C. should like to talk about inspiration                  

D. never asks himself very simple quesiotns

60.The author will most probably agree that composers ____.
A. are born with a gift for music                          B. are people full of mystery
C. work late at night for their music                     D. know a lot about eating and sleeping