Part Ⅴ Cloze
67.【解析】［A］just在此為副詞，意為“剛剛”，做狀語。此句意為“一個事件剛剛發生，街上就有報紙報道詳情了。說明報紙對新聞的反應之快�！�
68.【解析】［A］to give和giving都合乎語法，但giving強調的是正在發生的動作，而此處重點表達的是“反應快”，不是正在做什么。
69.【解析】［A］消息，信息要靠收集。
70.【解析】［D］后面的不定式短語表示目的
71.【解析】［C］提供信息的目的是為了讓他人知道，所以選C。
72.【解析】［B］ other意為“其他的”。此句意為：無線電，電報，電視，及其他發明，成為報紙的競爭對手。
73.【解析】［A］根據句中的merely及其后所述內容，應選however，表轉折。
74.【解析】［D］使用更新，更快的通信工具，目的是提高速度。
75.【解析】［C］報紙是印出來的，先印后看(讀)。
76.【解析】［D］keep sb. 過去分詞是一種復合結構，sb.與過去分詞為被動關系，意為保持這種關系的繼續。此句的意思是：報紙不斷地為讀者提供新聞信息。
77.【解析】［Ｃ］關于politics之類的嚴肅話題,只能選educate。
78.【解析】［Ｂ］此句意為：報紙通過廣告影響讀者在經濟生活中的選擇。
79.【解析】［Ｂ］大多數報紙依靠廣告收入來維持生存，此現象人人皆知。
80.【解析】［Ｃ］報紙的售價之低，不足以抵付成本的一小部分。符合上下文關于廣告收入的說法。
81.【解析】［Ａ］收入來源應該用source。因為source指河流，泉水的發源地；常指抽象事物的根源或來源以及資料，信息的出處或來源。origin起源，起因。指事物后來發生,發展變化的最初起點,或指人的出身和血統。
82.【解析】［Ｄ］succeed in為固定短語。此句意為：廣告業務的成功，取決于報紙在客戶(要打廣告的人)心中的價值。
83.【解析】［Ｃ］根據上下文，此處應該用一般現在時的被動語態，此句意為：報紙在客戶心中的價值，是靠發行量衡量的。
84.【解析】［Ｃ］該句意為：發行量的大小，很大程度上取決于發行部門的工作及報紙所提供的服務功能和娛樂功能。
85.【解析】［Ｂ］offered作services和entertainment的定語。
86.【解析】［Ｄ］information后面接介詞about，表示“關于”。
Part Ⅵ Translation
87.【解析】to make trouble
【答案解析】找麻煩用固定詞組make trouble即可，make trouble 即制造麻煩，搗亂之意。
88.【解析】needn’t have borrowed it from the bank.
【答案解析】本題考查虛擬語氣的用法，needn’t have done的結構是本不必這樣做而做了的意思。
89.【解析】It is because she is too inexperienced
【答案解析】沒有經驗可以用一個形容詞來翻譯，即inexperienced。
90.【解析】will be doing/conducting the experiment
【答案解析】本題考查將來時態的用法，做實驗即可用do experiment也可用conduct experiment。
91.【解析】resort to force
【答案解析】本題亦考查固定詞組用法，訴諸武力有固定詞組resort to force。
Model Test Two
Part I Writing（30 minutes）
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic Generation Gap. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given below in Chinese:
1. 代溝的表現。
2. 代溝出現的家庭原因。
3. 代溝出現的社會原因。
Generation Gap
Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes)
Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the question on Answer Sheet 1.
For questions 1-7, mark
Y (for YES)if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage;
N (for NO)if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage;
NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage.
For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.
Landfills
You have just finished your meal at a fast food restaurant and you throw your uneaten food, food wrappers, drink cups, utensils and napkins into the trash can. You don’t think about that waste again. On trash pickup day in your neighborhood, you push your can out to the curb, and workers dump the contents into a big truck and haul it away. You don’t have to think about that waste again, either. But maybe you have wondered, as you watch the trash truck pull away, just where that garbage ends up.
Americans generate trash at an astonishing rate of four pounds per day per person; which translates to 600,000 tons per day or 210 million tons per year! This is almost twice as much trashes per person as most other major countries. What happens to this trash? Some gets recycled (回收利用) or recovered and some is burned, but the majority is buried in landfills.
How Much Trash Is Generated?
Of the 210 million tons of trash, or solid waste, generated in the United States annually, about 56 million tons, or 27 percent, is either recycled (glass, paper products, plastic, metals) or composted (做成堆肥) (yard waste). The remaining trash, which is mostly unredeemable, is discarded.
How Is Trash Disposed of?
The trash production in the United States has almost tripled since 1960. This trash is handled in various ways. About 27 percent of the trash is recycled or composted, 16 percent is burned and 57 percent is buried in landfills. The amount of trash buried in landfills has doubled since 1960. The United States ranks somewhere in the middle of the major countries (United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, France and Japan) in landfill disposal. The United Kingdom ranks highest, burying about 90 percent of its solid waste in landfills.
What Is a Landfill?
There are two ways to bury trash:
Dump—an open hole in the ground where trash is buried and that is full of various animals (rats, mice, birds). (This is most people’s idea of a landfill!)
Landfill—carefully designed structure built into or on top of the ground in which trash is isolated from the surrounding environment (groundwater, air, rain). This isolation is accomplished with a bottom liner and daily covering of soil.
Sanitary landfill—land fill that uses a clay liner to isolate the trash from the environment
Municipal solid waste (MSW) landfill—landfill that uses a synthetic (plastic) liner to isolate the trash from the environment
The purpose of a landfill is to bury the trash in such a way that it will be isolated from groundwater, will be kept dry and will not be in contact with air. Under these conditions, trash will not decompose (腐爛) much. A landfill is not like a compost pile, where the purpose is to bury trash in such a way that it will decompose quickly.
Proposing the Landfill
For a landfill to be built, the operators have to make sure that they follow certain steps. In most parts of the world, there are regulations that govern where a landfill can be placed and how it can operate. The whole process begins with someone proposing the landfill.
In the United States, taking care of trash and building landfills are local government responsibilities. Before a city or other authority can build a landfill, an environment impact study must be done on the proposed site to determine:
the area of land necessary for the landfill
the composition of the underlying soil and bedrock
the flow of surface water over the site
the impact of the proposed landfill on the local environment and wildlife
the historical value of the proposed site
Building the Landfill
Once the environmental impact study is complete, the permits are granted and the funds have been raised, then construction begins. First, access roads to the landfill site must be built if they do not already exist. There roads will be used by construction equipment, sanitation (環衛) services and the general public. After roads have been built, digging can begin. In the North Wake Country Landfill, the landfill began 10 feet below the road surface.
What Happens to Trash in a Landfill?
Trash put in a landfill will stay there for a very long time. Inside a landfill, there is little oxygen and little moisture. Under these conditions, trash does not break down very rapidly. In fact, when old landfills have been dug up or sampled, 40 year old newspapers have been found with easily readable print. Landfills are not designed to break down trash, merely to bury it. When a landfill closes, the site, especially the groundwater, must be monitored and maintained for up to 30 years!
How Is a Landfill Operated?
A landfill, such as the North Wake County Landfill, must be open and available every day. Customers are typically municipalities and construction companies, although residents may also use the landfill.
Near the entrance of the landfill is a recycling center where residents can drop off recyclable materials (aluminum cans, glass bottles, newspapers and paper products). This helps to reduce the amount of material in the landfill. Some of these materials are banned from landfills by law because they can be recycled.
As customers enter the site, their trucks are weighed at the scale house. Customers are charged tipping fees for using the site. The tipping fees vary from $10 to $40 per ton. These fees are used to pay for operation costs. The North Wake County Landfill has an operating budget of approximately $4.5 million, and part of that comes from tipping fees.
Along the site, there are dropoff stations for materials that are not wanted or legally banned by the landfill. A multi-material dropoff station is used for tires, motor oil, and leadacid batteries. Some of these materials can be recycled.
In addition, there is a household hazardous waste dropoff station for chemicals (paints, pesticides, other chemicals) that are banned from the landfill. These chemicals are disposed of by private companies. Some paints can be recycled and some organic chemicals can be burned in furnaces or power plants.
Other structures alongside the landfill are the borrowed area that supplies the soil for the landfill, the runoff collection pond and methane (甲烷) station.
Landfills are complicated structures that, when properly designed and managed, serve an important purpose. In the future, new technologies called bioreactors will be used to speed the breakdown of trash in landfills and produce more methane.
1. The passage gives a general description of the structure and use of a landfill.
2. Most of the trash that Americans generate ends up in landfills.
3. Compared with other major industrialized countries, America buries a much higher percentage of its solid waste in landfills.
4. Landfills are like compost piles in that they speed up decomposition of the buried trash.
5. In most countries the selection of a landfill site is governed by rules and regulations.
6. In the United States the building of landfills is the job of both federal and local governments.
7. Hazardous wastes have to be treated before being dumped into landfills.
1.［Y］［N］［NG］ 2.［Y］［N］［NG］ 3.［Y］［N］［NG］ 4.［Y］［N］［NG］
5.［Y］［N］［NG］ 6.［Y］［N］［NG］ 7.［Y］［N］［NG］
8. Customers are typically , although residents may also use the landfill.
9. The tipping fees vary from per ton. These fees are used to pay for operation costs.
10. Along the site, there are for materials that are not wanted or legally banned by the landfill.
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