英美报刊阅读平时测验2答案.doc

Quiz Two

Part I. Choose the best one whose meaning is similar to underlined part.

1. Vietnam experience has been on the minds of Americans from the day when George Bush dispatched troops to Saudi Arabia last August.A
A. sent B. performed
C. scattered D. dismissed
2. American social contract is fluid, rapidly changing, post-modernist, just as the American gene and culture pool is turbulently new every day.A
A. violently and disorderly B. hardly and lawlessly
C. roughly and bitterly D. excitedly and noisily
3. Rather than merely providing a shelter, homeless advocates are weaving a web.B
A. recipients B. supporters
C. advisers D. wanders
4. We have today a whole young society that has not been called to conscience.D
A. shame B. duty
C. small voice D. moral sense
5. In New York the papers had been filled with anguished concern about white racism and black poverty. C
A. deep B. anxious
C. painful D. worried
6. The homicide rate among blacks in the United States is more than ten times that of whites.C
A. crime B. death
C. murder D. violent
7. Jews too have found that in a climate that seems to tolerate intolerance, incidents of harassment are on the rise. A
A. trouble B. attack
C. haste D. harsh
8. The compact embraces principles of justice, openness and discipline that are meant to form the foundation of a “community learning”.A
A. includes B. grips
C. welcomes D. hugs
9. In the process, they are learning invaluable lessons about what should be paid attention to. C
A. valueless B. expensive
C. precious D. costly
10. I am acutely aware of the burdens drug enforcement places upon us.D
A. fully B. sensitively
C. accurately D. keenly
11. The best way to help seniors bent on working may be to remove obstacles in their paths.
A. afraid to work B. unwilling to work
C. ready to work D. determined to work
12. The confession of the terrible crime stunned the city.
A. saddened B. strengthened
C. weakened D. shocked
13. The economy will suffer if the current skyrocketing oil prices continue.
A. rising B. flying
C. diving D. falling
14. The plastics industry scrambled to support recycling mostly out of fear that its ubiquitous products will otherwise be banned.
A. low quality B. seen everywhere
C. environment- unfriendly D. cheap and light
15. New Jerseyans turned out a Democratic legislature after the biggest tax boost in state history.
A. reduction B. drop
C. hike D. fall

Part II. Reading: Choose the best answer according to the passages.

Free Scotland and Wales!
Prosperity rekindles talk of independence
    Emperor Hadrian erected a 118-kilometer wall across Britain in the early second century to protect Roman England from the unruly tribes of Scotland. Today’s Scots think they are the ones who need the wall. In recent years they have quietly built their economy into a powerhouse. The valley between Glasgow and Edinburgh (“Silicon Glen”)now boasts the highest concentration of high-tech companies outside California, and Scotland also covers 21 percent of Western Europe’s oil needs. As decrepit smokestacks have given way to glittering oil-drilling facilities and slick electronics plants, deep-seated Scottish resentment of the English has emerged. According to a poll last week,78 percent of Scots favor some form of devolution from London; one in three wants complete independence.
    In Wales, too, economic success has suffused the population with self-confidence. Though it accounts for just 5 percent of Britain’s total population, Wales has attracted 20 percent of the country’s foreign in vestment-￡3.1 billion. This has helped the region cut its unemployment rate from 15 percent in 1985 to 8 percent this year. Much of the investment came from Japan; companies like Sony and Sharp have poured more money into Wales than into any other area outside Japan and the United States. And as in Scotland, the spirit of independence is spreading: almost a third of all Welshmen now want to secede.
    London can blame Brussels for some of this secessionist fever. Much of the new prosperity in Scotland and Wales is the result of a European Community rule that microchips must be manufactured, not just assembled, in the EC if they are to avoid tariffs. Along with some generous incentives from the Thatcher government, the directive encouraged many Japanese giants to set up shop in Scotland and Wales, whose laborers earn little and work hard.“We’re very pleased with the quality of the work force,” says an executive with Toyota, which plans to open a plant in Wales. The EC also flattered Scots when it named Glasgow the “European City of Culture” for 1990-an honor previously reserved for such pearls as Paris and Florence.
    Such attention from abroad has helped persuade the Scots and the Welsh that soon they will be able to do without the heavy English subsidies that for centuries have tied them to Westminster. Now they are seeking structures that would bring them closer to Brussels. Scotland has already taken steps in that direction. Two weeks ago its Constitutional Convention-a grouping of delegates from most major parties-voted to form a parliament with representation in EC institutions.“We want an independent Scotland within the European Community,”says Kevin Pringle of the Scottish National Party. Wales may be close behind.“We want Wales to be recognized in the European Community,”says Alun Thomas, head of research and policy at the Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru.“That’s where our future destiny lies.”
    England’s reticence:  Needless to say, such talk horrifies the Conservative Government of John Major.“I would be against any kind of constitutional reform that jeopardized the unity of the U.K.,”says the new prime minister’s Secretary of State for Scotland, Ian Lang. It isn’t hard to understand England’s reticence: why should it let go of regions that are finally performing well after years of being propped up by English subsidies? And wouldn’t their secession gravely wound Britain’s psyche? Could the heir apparent to the throne still be called the Prince of Wales? Environment Secretary Michael Heseltine believes that Britain will never have to face such wrenching questions. The EC, he says, won’t accept separate Welsh or Scottish membership, which would inspire minorities in other member states to make similar demands.
    Some wonder whether Scotland and Wales are more likely to turn into colonies of Tokyo rather than new partners for Brussels.“Wales is undergoing serious cultural changes right now,”says Barry Wilkinson, coauthor of a best-selling book,“The Japanisation of British Industry.”At The Bank, a trendy bar in Cardiff, patrons love karaoke, the Japanese custom of singing along to a taped instrumental background. Some Welsh schools have added Japanese to their curricula, and power lunches in Edinburgh resonate with such acronyms as JIT—for Just In Time, the Japanese system of efficient production.
    But on the whole, the Scots and the Welsh aren’t worried. For one thing, the Japanese are discreet—the 37 Japanese companies in Wales together employ only about 200 Japanese nationals along with their 10,000 local workers. For another, the Welsh traditions of close family and community links are not unlike Japan’s. What do the Scots and the Japanese have in common, after all?“They like to make Scotch,”jokes one auto-industry salaryman in Tokyo,“and we like to drink it.”
Pascal Privat with Russ Dallen    
In Edinburgh and Cardiff and   
Bill Powell in Tokyo   
(From Newsweek, December 17,1990)

16. What kind of companies does the “Silicon Glen” boast are the highest concentration outside California?
   A. car companies
   B. chemical companies
   C. high-tech companies
   D. film companies

17. How many Scots favor some form of devolution from London?
   A. 20%
   B.42%
   C.78%
   D.85%

18. Where did the investment in Wales come from?
   A.U.S.A
   B.Japan
   C.France
   D.Germany

19. The Scots and the Welsh believe that soon they will be able to do without the heavy English ____ that for centuries have tied them to Brussels.
  A.subsidies 
  B.taxes
  C.rules
  D.enforcement

20. What is the attitude of Ian Lang toward the secessionist fever?
  A.He supports the secessionist action.
  B.He is against it because he thinks it will harm the unity of the U.K.
  C.He is neutral towards the action of the secessionists.
  D.It is not clear in the text.
测试二
答案模版
1-5 A A B D C 6-10 C A A C D
11-15 D D A B C 16-20 C C B A B