9、nity in rum! Tennrsrr does not reject competitive hgriEii practices but rather, commits to a vinton o( rnvironmentally friendly bunincnAe Members of "The FarmM work in scvernl nnmlUncalr induAthcB including nohr electronicBe aohr car research ? and a publishinK company for altrrnntive book%
4 An ex
10、umplc of an intcntionnl community committed to voluntary Mniplicity in Vnhon Co liouaing Cornmunity* Itu members choose to live in Bfnnll unpamted wood hounr> shingled with crd?n MUnclr MnrtinH decided to leave New York in 1989 and move Him fnmily to thr Vn^hon ( oHouhinH， Hr and hin hmily live on l
11、ittle money? dot/1 own n computer? and (orbid anythinK with the Diuncy label on it. Rather than playing Mysi on the cnmputrre the family uprndn their evcniHK playing old lanhioned curd Riirncsu or rrnchnK， RcsidcntB live in cpnratc dwelliriR!i but homcn are connected by dirt rondji. there nrr )3 acr
12、es f rornmunwl Und. nil rc^idcntu Attend bimonthly meetings^ and every month there is a work pnrty in which everybody pitchm in with outdoor chor^R.
5 Thrte communiticti dre the newcat expren^ion of the 300 year-old Anicncnn desire to build n non hierarchical ar equal? community with vuIuck unrorni
13、ptrd by thr Inrgcr %ocirtyt It wam thin denirr to form n new. idrl community which brounHi the Pilgrim* to the U. S. in the early 17th century^ 300 you，Inter? it i? still tmpoiisiblc to find n community ihnt Has achieved perfection. I hr prohlerns w< nee out thereH in the mainntrrAm greed, difihonem
14、y? eMomnu com|irtiuon fnctionalmm nil mnnAgc to find thnr way into Alternative cultures too. However > intentional communities have a much lower crime rte than their tnninwtrcam neighbours? nnd claim a more caring and MtinfyinK liimtylr. They nre committed to idcah of ecology< coopcrAtion* nnd famil
15、y ? even though they may oftrn fail to rcuch those idcalii perfectly. Their utopian vision provider a 血Ils好 to the pner nnd purpoMc of modern Amcricnn society.
Rcud Paagt 1 and find the definition! for each of the folloMrlng In the piu^axe. Write your answer* on your answer sheet.
L the rut-racei
16、
2. an imentional community i
3. senne of communityi
multkgenerationalt
5, "The Fmm\
Read PaM&agc 1 again and find which the underlined word(t) In each of the following wnlences refer to.
6> ? ? ? hy 1995. thia had grown to 600. nnd it is eslimated that there re now ncvcral thouNinde
17、ee (punucriiph 1)
1.... in others? theftr things nre shnrcd< (pnragrHph 2)
& Its members choose to lie in small unpainted wood houses. .. (paragraph 4)
9. He and his family live on little money? … (paragraph 4)
】0. They are committed to ideas of ecology? cooperation, and family. ? . (paragraph 5
18、) Part 0
Questions 11—20 arc based on Passage 2. (30 pointst 3 points each)
Passage 2
The Most Innovative City
1 (11) Problems such as poverty t crime, public education> and pollution control plague the majority of the worldFs cities. Each one, it seemst is struggling to avoid urban disaster. Bu
19、t Cuntiba> Brazil9 a city of L 6 million people* is dealing with these problems. This little-known city in southeast Brazil is being rccognued as the place that has solutions to many of the worlds growing urban problems.
2 (12) Through this programt more than 70% of its irash is recycled — compared
20、 with the 25% in Los Ange!es< Christano Pinheiro, a seven-year-old boy shows how its done. At the start of the school year. Pinheiro traded 8 pounds of recyclable garbage for a packet of new notcboukii. Ench wcck> he nnd his two older broihcrsi exchnngr trash for fresh (ruit or 2 pounds of protein-r
21、ich beans. The proxram helps the poorf In 1998. the city exchnnKcd nearly 2 million pounds of food. 348.000 Eaater wgs and 26OOO ( hrifitman cuks for recyclable trash. Hundred* of quilts for the needy were ntuffed with crunhed niyrofuavn^ Christiano was one of 25.000 poor children who received these
22、 nuppliea, (13t
3 (H) Old worn out equipment w5 frequently being replaced with nrw technology and equipment. Like every other city# old. yet unable materials were being dumped around the city of Curitiba^ Thin gave engineers And wrchitectn an opportunity to work together to ue the materiah crcotivc
23、ly. Old wooden telephone poles arc now reused in office buildings. hridgcJi find public nquurca. Retired buses hnvr become mobile clasnroornH (or Adult eduouion. MVirtually everything has marc thun one une.w Mid Mayor Rnfnel Green. whernv airy office overlooking n park in nude of old poles and gtais
24、* juKt a matter of figuring out how to reuae things und then tcachinR people how to do it."
4 (15) The htca! ttdditian* arc the LiHhthouncA of Learning biucd on the reaf liKhthoufie ond hbrnry in AiexAndria. Egypt, one of the ancient worlds ^cvcn wonders. The first lighthouse was built an an exprnm
25、ent in 1995 to determine exactly who would uac it. and the effect it would have on the Aurroundirix neighborhood. Within six months of beinw opened. it wan clear thnt it w?s popular Soon M(tcrf a lighthounr was built in each of thr city19 ncighborh(x)d<
5 (16) HOnc of the lighthouses is three block
26、s from my home, so 1 use it for ail my
school projects said Deucina Costa t a high school senior who stops in every couple of weeks. "So do my 10-year-old brother and 12-year-old sisten Mom lets them come because it S safe. " Now. the lighthousrs have become the foc^il point of neighborhoods nnd ha
27、ve cut crime rates. They each cost about $ 180,000. (17)
6 ( 18〉 Unlike other cities where government buildings arc located in an often isolated high rent area* government offices in Curitiba are accessible to everyone on what is known as Citizen Streets. These Citizen Streets are colorful covered
28、avenues of government offices and shop^ where residents can pay utility bills* get a marriage licensee have a haircut ? buy groceries or file a police report. And instead of toning the city into commercial ? institutional and leisure facilities as most cities do> Curitiba^ planners have merged them
29、all together so that people can use their time effectively at 8 minimum cost. The Citixcn Streets
hwve 600 scat open thentern. sports nrcASt nnd clnsnrooms that offer profeji Mid she enrolled breaunr
30、 w lhe pricr is With my income# thin is the only route to
Hclvnnccmcnt."
7 (19) Short courneii on how to make better use of the environment arc tailored (ar
homemnker!%t contmctorM and merchants, faxi drivers hnvc to take a courne to gel an opcrutar *5 lirrnur^ By the end c>( 1993? 34 environment
31、ally (riendly doyen re centers were up nd runnings Children Ret n ehnnee to interact ? nnd lenrn About their environment. The activitic!! include miikinx inoks of fncing extinction from mngaxine They arc
then old in a string of xouvrnir ^hnpst with profits helping lo puy fur the foctlitle^ In small
32、 Harden* out buck, the kid* grow vcgctnblca for their unackx.
MWrf re trying to crente n whole new net of Attifudru and a ncn!e of invulvemcnt in thit City." Grcoi naid. (20)
Skim 2 und then choose from the fallowing list an upprupriate sentence to fill In each of (he blanks In Ihr piuMgc.
A. En
33、vironmental efforrji wrre only m arnftll pnrt of the plan (or Curitiba^
B. “To the people ol Curitilm* thia city is the bent human invention there M.”
(? Cuntinunl migration and lack of city planning hm created an unfriendly environment for many cities in rhe world today.
IX Household gnrbagr was
34、 not thr only reason to brKin a recycle pmgmm.
E "hli cheaper to build libranct than prisonssaid GrccA.
F. The brightly coloured l)ghthouc!i have 5> 000-volume librAries on the first floor? rcAdiriK room* on thr second Hnd n guard in n light tower that trAnnmitM ? strong benm to provide community
35、necurKy.
Like rnoi other overcrowded nnd poor cities in the world? Cuntiba had a serious problem? until it introduced it wgArlmgr th砒 it not progrAm.
H. In 1991. Cuntibe built the Free University for the Environment — from old telephone poles.
L Curitiba is now known as the worlds recycling capit
36、oL
i. Cuntiba in also taking governmeni to the people.
Part QI
Read Passage 3 and decide whether the following statements arc c or false. Write T for true and F for False on your answer &heeL (20 pointst 2 points each)
Passage 3
The English Character
1 The English, rs b race, have the reput
37、ation of being very different form all other notionalities. including their closest neighbors* the French> Belgians and Dutch. It is claimed that living on an island separated from the rest of Europe has much to do with it. Whatever the reasons it may be fairly stated that the Englishman has develop
38、ed many attitudes and habits which distinguish him from other nationalities
2 Broadly speaking the Englishman is a quiet < shy> reserved person who is fully relaxed only among people he knows well. When he encounters strangers or foreigners he often seems uneasy? even embarrassed> You have only to
39、witness a commuter train nny morning or evening to sec the truth of thi& Serious-looking businessmen and women sit reading their newspapers or dosing in a corneri no one speaks. In fact* to do so would seem most unusuaL An English wit. pretending to be giving advice to overseas visitors, once sugges
40、ted< MOn entering a railway compartment shake hands with all the passengers. Needless to sayf he was not being serious. There is an unwntten but clearly understood code of behaviourw which, if broken> makes the person immediately the object of suspicion^
3 It is a well-known fact that the English h
41、ave an obsession with their weather and that? given half a chance, they will talk about it at length. Some people argue that it is because English weather defies forecast and hence is a source of interest to everyone^ This may be so. Certainly Englishmen cannot have much faith in the meteorologicAl
42、experts lhe weathermen — who. after promising glorious> sunny weather for the following day. arc often proved wrong when an anti-cyclone over the Atlantic brings rainy weather to all districts! The num in the street seems to be as accurate — or as inaccurate - as the weathermen in his prediction. Th
43、is helps to explain the seemingly odd sight of an Englishman leaving home on a bright t sunny summer morning with a raincoat slung over his arm and an umbrella in his hand. So variable i% thr weather that by lunchtime there could be thunder and lightnings
4 The overseas visitors may be excused for
44、showing surprise at the number of references to weather that the English make to each other in the course of a single day. Very often conventional greetings are replaced by comments on the weather. “Nice day. isnt it?" wBeautifulmay well be heard instead of "Good morning< how are you?” Although the
45、foreigner may consider this exaggerated and comic? it is worthwhile pointing out that it could be used to his advantage. If he wants to start a conversation with an Englishman (or woman) but is at a loss to know where to begin. he could c!o well to mention the suite of the weather. It is a safe subj
46、ect which will encourage even the most reserved of Englishmen to enter info a discussion.
5 In many parts of the world it is quite normal to show frank extremes of enthusiasm, emotiont passion 9 etc. . often accompanied by appropriate gestures. The Englishman is somewhat different. Of course? an En
47、glishman feels no less deeply than any other nationalityt but he tends to display his feelings far less. This is reflected in his use of language. Imagine a man commenting on the great beauty of a young girl. Whereas a man of a more emotional nature might describe her os "a priceless jewel”, "diving
48、" or "precious”, the Englishman will flatly state "inn, shes all right", An Englishman who has seen a highly successful and enjoyable film recommends it to a friend by commenting! "Its not bad. you know." Or on siccing a breathtaking landscape he might show his pleasure by raying： " Nice, yes. very
49、nice. " The overseas visitor must not be disappointed by this apparent lack of interest and involvement^ he must realise that “all right”, "not bad”, and “nice, are very often used as superlfitives with the sense of M first-classM excellentMt H beautifulThis special use of language particularly comm
50、on in English> is known as understatement> Questions 21—30 urc ba^ed on Passage 3?
21. It is living on an island separated from the rest of Europe thai makes the Englishman very different from all other nationalities.
22. Travelling in commuter trains the English people like to read newspapers to
51、rc!ax
23. According to an unwritten rule of behaviour people do not shake hands with each other in railway compartments^
24. In England if a person doesnt tolk about the weather he immediately hccomeji the object of 5unpicion>
25. Englishmen do not have faith in weather (orccashng because the wea
52、ther in England often changes by houn^
26. In England the weniher 叩。如曲、prediction is often as inaccurate as the layman9b9
27. The overseas visitors may be excused if they don * t like to talk about the weaiher.
28. Il is surprising fo overseAs visitors (ha! the English mny talk to each other abou
53、t wexther many times in a Mn^le day.
29. In England if you feel embarrassed when encountering strangers the best thinK to do
to mention the slate of the wcflther>
30. The understatement in the English Innguage shows that the English lack deep feehngji.
Part |V
Read Passaic 4 and answer the foll
54、owing que^tionx. Make your answers as short and clear as possible. (20 points t 4 points ench)
Piu^ugc 4
Christmas
1 December 25 is cclebrntrd as the birthday of Christ. No one is certain why this day wa chosen. It wax probably because according to the ralcndur then in U5ef December 25 wa the tim
55、e of the year when winter dcys begin to grow longer in the Northern Hemisphere. The sun-worshippers had celebrated this day a% the promise of spring.
2 Over the years? a number of special cuntoma Associated with Christmas have grown up* Many(>( thene have been introduced from Europe9 while others h
56、vc their origin in America.
3 ChriMmnji music in loved by all who henr nnd ing it every year. Christmas songs*
bellse nnd merry rnu^ic have been a part of Christmas for centuries< The Christmas tree is the symbol of the spirit of Christmns in many homes. Trees were not used in English homes until
57、a German prince married Queen Victoria. The prince had the fir^t decorated Christmas tree art up nt Windnor CftMtlr in 184L The Breit ChrijUtnm trees in the New World were imroduccd by Hessian in 1776 . during the Revolutionary Wnr. luiier German
irnmiKrantB brought the tradition into wider use in
58、the United States^
4 The custom o( dccoraring a community free (or outdoor dinplay bcuftn in the early 1900、and i a favourite custom all over America today. Since I933? Rockclcllcr Plflza. in New York City, has put up a giant trcct licnutifuliy decorated with lights. The trccii are nbout 3() mctrcM
59、 tnll.
5 Swmc hnnlies open their present on Chrialman Evei others wait (or I he next
marntng< Some lk)ysf and girls1 presents arc placed in ntockingn and hung nt rhe loot of their bcdsi Othem find their giftn under the Christnim tree.
6 Greeting cards began in Englands One of the first artists t
60、o design and send a Christ mas card in 1843 wan John C Horsley. The cards were printed in black and white and colored by hand. About I <000 of them were sold in London chat year. At about the same time> another English artist. William Egley, designed a card and had it printed^ He sent it to his Fncn
61、d with the now familiar mreisagc M A Merry Chnstmax and m Happy New Year. H
7 A Germ/in immigrant t Louis Prang> designed and sold colored Christmas cards in 1874< In less than 10 years his shop was turning out 5.000.00。cards a year.
8 Todiiy greeting cards have become a big industry and billions
62、of cards are sent all over the world every Christmas^ Whatever language the greetings are written in* the message is the same — a wish for peace and goodwill among all people^
Questions 31—35 arc based on P心skr
31. Where are most of the Christmas customs from?
32. From when were trees used at Chr
63、istmas time in English homes?
33. Since when hz Rockefeller PlazAt in New York City, put up a giant Christmas tree?
34> Where can boy and girh usually find their ChriRtmas presents?
35. Who was the first artist to design and send a Christmas card?
試題答案及評分標準
（僅供參考）
Part I (30 points. 3 point* e
64、ach)
1. the Mrexicful pressurcfi of working hard to gel Ahead.
2. a group of people who have chosen to live together with a common purpoiws
3. the feeling of belonging nnd mutunl support.
4. with agen ranging from children to seniors
5. a large cooperative community in rural rennessee.
6. inte
65、ntional communities.
7. Iund and house
8. Vashon Co-1 lousing Community、.
9. Uncle Martin.
10. intentional communities#
Port II (30 points, 3 points each)
il. C
12. G
16. F
18- J
19. H
20. H
Part [II (20 point*! 2 points *h)
21. F 22. T
24. F
25. F
26. F
27. F
28. T
29. T
30. F
Part |V (20 pointsf 4 points coch)
31. From Europe and America.
32. From the time when a German prince married Queen Victoria.
33.1933.
34. In stockings hung at the foot of their beds or under the Christmas tree.
35> John & Horsley.
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