閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項，並在答題卡上將選項塗黑。
A
This is your chance to win a Breakaway weekend for two people at any of the 83 Breakaway hotels throughout Britain.
To win the Breakaway weekend of two, answer these four questions and send your entry, to arrive no later than 30th September, 2007, to Team House, 24 Church Street, Ashford, Kent, TN255 BJ.
1．The St Vincent Rocks Hotel, Bristol is on the Avon Groge which is crossed by the Clifton Bridge. Who designed the bridge?
2．The Aerodrom Hotel, Croydon is next to the airfield from which England’s solo pilot made her record flights in the 1930s. Who was she?
3．The Talbot Hotel, Oundle, Northans is not far from the village of Fotheringgay and the castle where one of history’s most famous queens was imprisoned. Who was she?
4．The Larkfield Hotel, Maidstone is a few miles away from one of England’s top motor racing tracks. What is the name of the track?
The person whose correct entry is picked out first by a computer will win the prize. This decision is final. The winner will be sent an excellent value Breakaway booklet giving details of the 83 hotels from which he/ she can choose where to spend the prize weekend.
Every Breakaway hotel gives you the chance to see something different, while providing you with comfortable surroundings and good food.
A Breakaway weekend includes a three-course meal, accommodation and a full English breakfast, for two nights. You also get Sunday lunch, either a traditional meal at your hotel, or, if you are planning to go sightseeing, the hotel will provide a packed lunch for you. Breakaway hotels are great places for families. Children can choose from their own special menu, and for those up to 12 years old accommodation is free of charge when sharing a room with their parents.
A splendid value Breakaway booklet will be sent to you if you dial this number: 0044 2517 5178.
21．Entries for the competition which arrive on 30th September, 2007 will .
A．be too late for the competition
B．be entered with the others
C．have a better chance of winning
D．go to a different address
22．Question 4 in the competition is different from the others because .
A．the hotel described is a modern one
B．it asks about a place
C．the hotel can be reached easily by car
D．it asks about a name
23．The announcement suggests that the best way to get a Breakaway booklet is to .
A．enter the competition
B．write to one of the hotels
C．write to Team House
D．telephone 0044 2517 5178
24．The competition will be won by the person .
A．who sends in the first correct answers
B．whose entry arrives first on 30th September
C．whose correct entry is chosen by a computer
D．who shows great interest in Breakaway hotels
B
Even though she’s just 5 years old, Cindy Smart speaks five languages. She’s a good reader. She can tell time and do simple math, including multiplication and division. Cindy looks like an average doll, with long, blond hair, baby-blue eyes, and a button nose.
But loaded with some devices, Cindy is the first doll that can see, think, and do as she’s told. The eagle-eyed Cindy follows in the path of other breakthrough toys like Sony’s barking Robot
Aibo, which was the first to popularize voice command in the late 1990s. Cindy takes Aibo’s innovations（創新）one step beyond: she not only follows instructions but also recognizes shapes, colors and words, and remembers. The effect is a doll that appears to be learning.
The toy company which produced Cindy Smart spent a decade trying to see how much human natureit could breathe into an inanimate（無生命的）object. Its engineers began creating minibots that sense light, sounds, and pressure. However, without the sense of sight, their toys seemed to be lacking in one of the abilities that life-forms use to react to their environment.
So how do the engineers make a doll actually see? In Cindy’s case, it’s a multistep process. When presented a text like“I love you”and asked“Can you read this?”Cindy identifies it as one of 70 preprogrammed commands. Then the inbuilt digital camera scans a 15-degree radius in search of number-or letter-shaped objects. Buried in her stomach, Cindy’s 16-bit microprocessor compares the text with her database of 700 words. If it’s a match,“I love you,”she says.
25．This passage most likely appears in a .
A．medical reportB．classified ad
C．science journalD．music magazine
26．According to the passage, which of the following statements is true about Robot Aibo?
A．It could recognize shapes and colors.
B．It could respond to spoken commands.
C．It came onto the market no later than 1990.
D．It was created much later than Cindy Smart.
27．The underlined“it”in the third paragraph most likely refers to .
A．the process B．the object
C．the doll D．the company
28．According to the passage, how can Cindy“see”?
A．She recognizes any text as“I love you.”
B．She is equipped with a camera to search for text.
C．She is instructed by an engineer standing next to her.
D．She makes contact with the shapes of the text with her stomach.
C
If it takes Kate twenty seconds to add 12 and 26, while Terry can do the sum in a quarter the time on his pocket calculator, how much better grades will Terry get than Kate in the maths exam?
Pocket calculators are as cheap to buy as a pair of shoes, and as essential to thousands of school children as a pencil and eraser. Schools have tried to limit their use, by allowing them in science lessons, to save time but by not allowing them to be used in maths classes. When children do their homework, a pocket calculator is a must. Nowadays in Britain, calculators can be used freely in school examinations, and already in many schools the only sound to be heard during a mathematics examination is the sound of children tapping out their answers.
Many parents feel that their children are not being given a basic understanding of the facts of maths.“The process of addition, division, subtraction and multiplication is part of a training in logic which is important for every child. It teaches them to take series of steps necessary in coming to a conclusion,” says a local maths teacher.“With a calculator, the child can reach the right answer, but have no idea at all how he got there.”Another teacher in the same school disagreed.“Of course the children understand the principles（基本原理）behind what they do on the calculator. It makes no difference to the mental processes they go through, except to make them much faster, and less boring.”“It’s far easier to teach them to completely understand the idea of division and multiplication by making them understand which button they need to push than to talk about apples being cut in pieces,”said another teacher, who uses calculators to keep the interest of his class.
In any case, the pocket calculator is here to stay; it’s taking the stress out of mental labor in all sorts of ways.
29．From the passage we learn that .
A．in Britain students are encouraged by schools to use pocket calculators
B．parents use the calculators to keep the interest of their children
C．people have different opinions on whether pocket calculators should be used in maths classes
D．all the teachers agree that pocket calculators should be used in classes but not in school examinations
30．As a local maths teacher says, children can reach the right answer with a calculator, but they .
A．really don’t know how they can get better grades
B．have no idea how to use the calculator properly
C．can’t understand whether the answer is right
D．don’t know how they get it
31．Which of the following is NOT true?
A．Calculators used to be as cheap as a pair of shoes.
B．Some schools don’t allow the students to use pocket calculators in maths class.
C．How to add, divide, subtract and multiply is a question of maths.
D．It’s easy to calculate with a calculator.
32．The author stands for the opinion that .
A．students should be allowed to use pocket calculators freely
B．since the pocket calculator has been created, it should be made use of
C．pocket calculators shouldn’t be used by students in maths classes
D．Terry should get grades four times better than Kate
D
Someone once told me I was the most introverted (內向的) person he’d ever met. I took this as admiration. Who wouldn’t? The introverts in Susan Cain’s book Quiet don’t experience their inwardness in so self-congratulatory a way. Many of the introverts she meets in the course of this book pretend to be outgoing. Though some pretend well enough to make it, going along to get along in a country that rewards the outgoing, something precious, the author says, is lost in this pretence.
Cain’s description of introverted kids misunderstood and mishandled by their parents gives warning, for she rightly notes that introversion in children is in some ways threatening the adults around them. Her advice that parents should choose to view their introverted children’s social style with understanding rather than fear is well worth following.
However useful her observations and advice about introverted kids, Cain’s book is about adults, and to this population, unfortunately, she’s a whole lot less convincing. For one thing, her definition of introversion widens constantly; at the end of the book, it has expanded to include all that are “reflective, sensitive, serious, calm, modest.” This widening of the definition makes introversion so broad a category, including, basically, all that is wise and good, that it’s largely meaningless, except as yet another tool for promoting self-esteem (自尊).
Another problem with Cain’s argument is her assumption that most introverts are actually suffering from diffidence (不自信). This may be true in the environments that she knows best and appears to spend most of her time thinking about. Had she spent more time in other sorts of places and among other types of people, she would undoubtedly have discovered a world of introverts who are quite satisfied with who they are, and who feel that the world has been good to them.
Quiet is full of needless slogans: “Love is basic; gregariousness (合群) is selective.” “The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. ” Such writing offsets Cain’s serious research rather badly. A quieter argument would have been much more effective.
33. According to the passage, the subjects of Quiet consider introversion as ______.
A. an excellent quality
B. a self-exploring tool
C. an unsatisfactory personality
D. a social skill
34. Cain’s description of introverted kids is thought to be ______.
A. doubtful
B. quite convincing
C. partly right
D. misleading
35. What can we learn about Cain’s Quiet from the passage?
A. It ignores the value of the outgoing.
B. It fails to realize introverts’ suffering.
C. It fails to give introversion a proper definition.
D. It ignores environments’ influence on one’s personality.
根據短文內容，從短文後的選項中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項。選項中有兩項為多餘選項。
What does it mean to be intelligent?
It seems that everyone goes to college now, whether or not they find themselves interested in studying something long term. Even though I know there are different ways to be intelligent, I struggle due to society’s influence, which maintains that intelligence is quantifiable (可量化的) and that academic intelligence is one and the only.
Where do IQ tests come into play when one considers intelligence? Do they fall closest to priority when considering this unquantifiable concept? Intelligence simply cannot be reduced to an IQ test, which are not effective. While designed to measure “intelligence,” all they measure are biological developments that can change as one grows. 36
There are many factors that can indicate an intelligent being, such as academic intelligence, emotional intelligence, and worldly intelligence. For instance, if a student realizes that they haven’t studied appropriately for an exam, he or she would have the ability to acknowledge that, and then make revisions to his or her study habits accordingly. 37 Emotional intelligence is the intelligence that fosters self-awareness, self-reflection, and self-improvement.
38 We cannot function without forming relationships and communication. This proves that being aware of oneself and reflecting in order to further better communication skills is an evidence to intelligence. Where would you be if you were a terrible communicator, unaware, and unwilling to improve, but academically thriving?
Emotional intelligence is what surpasses (超越) those who are hard-headed. Those who maintain academic intelligence may still be a bit dull and unaware of themselves. 39 Even as a college student, there are certain skills such as teamwork and communication that require awareness and an open mind in order to further their growth.
40 Academia is not only pictured and taught unfairly, or even close to what intelligence is if you were to quantify it. If you want to strive for mental growth, and maintain self-awareness through self-reflection, you can apply that to any intelligence category.
A. All of life is communicatory.
B. Specifically, this is emotional intelligence.
C. Intelligence is determined by many factors.
D. Stubbornness is a barrier towards communication.
E. In fact, there are many with low IQ scores that are intelligent.
F. Some connections exist between intelligence and communication.
G. So there is academic intelligence, emotional intelligence, and worldly intelligence.
答案 BBDC CBDB CDAA CBC EBADG
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