47. Swimming and water games can be beneficial to human health.
48. Don’t make your own mini-Olympics a serious competition, but just a chance to have active fun in which everyone participates.
49. On vacations one should limit to one food splurge a day.
50. Try to make a walk at dawn or dusk a daily ritual of life away from home.
51. Outdoor games usually refer to team sports like baseball, football, or volleyball, all of which can be both intimidating and excessively strenuous for grown-ups who stopped playing such things a long time back.
52. Boats make you feel young, and whether you are propelling them or not, they all burn calories and engage your muscles more than being on dry land.
53. If you are in a city, pick a few restaurants to try while you are walking and you’re your reservations in person.
54. Morning is the best activity time because your energy level is higher in the morning.
55. Travel agents can hook you up with any number of vacation packages targeted from novice to expert, adolescent to senior, single or whole family.
Section C
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.
Over 60 million persons in the United States own a credit card. For these millions of Americans a credit card brings freedom to them. It has had effect of increasing consumption
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possibilities for households by allowing them to purchase thousands of dollars of merchandise, ranging from autos, clothing, to electrical appliances. The widespread use of credit card nowadays shocks the imagination to the point where one wonders whether the total amount of consumption spending each year would be the same if this plastic money were not around. Credit cards have also been of significant importance to the national economy. Businessmen have been encouraged to expand plant and equipment and hire additional personnel to meet the heavy demand for their products. The tendency of employment and income would rise significantly.
Unfortunately, the ease with which buyers can increase their purchase with credit cards has caused them to overlook the additional costs. Purchase on credit cards are postponed payments. Buy-now-pay-later encourages buyers to use credit cards extensively. Since the buyer is in effect borrowing money for a special purpose, he must expect to pay an interest charge. Interest is the price of using money over a long period of time. A close analysis of the use for credit cards for heavy purchases will show that the buyer has added to the cost of making these purchases. It must also be kept in mind that unpaid monthly balances mean added interest charges. Furthermore, the use of credit cards will add to the cost of the product since the shopkeeper does not receive the money at the time of the purchases. Shopkeepers might add on the cost of handing credit cards to the bill. One of the arguments against the use of credit cards has been that those who do pay cash at purchase finance the use of a credit card by another person. This is so, the argument runs, because the price of a product will include the cost of another person’s use of a credit card. 56. In the first paragraph, what does “plastic money” (Line 6, Para. 1) refer to? A) Dollars.
57. Which of the following is NOT true about credit cards?
A) Shopkeepers, among others, object to the use of credit cards because they add on the cost of the merchandise.
B) Credit card holders actually pay for their shopping goods after the purchase has been completed.
C) The national economy enjoys extensive growth because of the use of credit cards. D) It has had the effect of increasing consumption.
58. What is the disadvantage of credit cards?
A) It may lead to the overgrowth of the national economy.
B) The delay in the payment of shopping goods may bring damage to shopkeepers’ profits. C) Some people may intentionally purchase goods that they cannot possibly afford.
D) Those who pay by cash at the purchase will have to pay for the cost added to the
B) Online payment.
C) Credit cards.
D) Coins.
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product as the interest charge of credit cards.
59. What is the main topic of the text?
A) Advantages and Disadvantages of Credit Cards. B) Economic Growth Backed up by the Use of Credit Cards. C) It can encourage great sums of consumption. D) Credit Cards Make Life Easier.
60. The author’s attitude towards credit card is ______ . A) agreeable Passage Two
Questions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage.
Lie detectors are widely used in the United States to find out whether a person is telling the truth or not. Polygraphers, the people who operate them, claim that they can establish guilt by detecting physiological changes that accompany emotional stress. The technique adopted is to ask leading questions such as, “Did you take the money?” or “Where did you hide the money?” mixed in with neutral questions, and measure the subject’s electrical resistance in the palm or changes in his breathing and heart rate. Such apparatus has obtained widespread recognition.
Whether lie detectors will ever be adopted on a similar scale in Britain is still a matter of opinion. At first sight, it appears obvious that any simple, reliable methods of convicting guilty people is valuable, but recent research sponsored by the U.S. Office of Public Health not only raises doubts about how lie detectors should be used but also makes it questionable whether they should be employed at all.
The point is that, apart from many of the polygraphers being unqualified, the tests themselves are by no means free from error, primarily because they discount human imagination and ingenuity. Think of all those perfectly innocent people, with nothing to be afraid of, who blush and stammer when a customs officer asks them if they have anything to declare. Fear, and a consequently heightened electrical response, may not be enough to establish guilt. It depends on whether the subject is afraid of being found out or afraid of being wrongfully convicted. On the other hand, the person who is really guilty and whose... or deliberately giving exaggerated responses to neutral ones!
The success rate of up to 90% claimed for lie detectors is misleadingly attractive. If we refer such a figure to a company with 50 employees, twenty of whom are thieves, the lie detector could catch 18 of them but in doing so would place 32 innocent employees under suspicion. The
B) neutral
C) humorous
D) oppositional
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problem for the management would therefore become one of deciding how much industrial unrest they are prepared to cause in order to eliminate theft. What concerns research workers even more, of course, is the fact that a certain number of innocent people are bound to be convicted of crimes they have not committed.
61. Lie detectors are widely used in the United States because ______ . A) they can help detect people’s emotional stress B) they can help detect people’s physiological changes
C) they can help find out whether a person is telling the truth or not D) they can measure the subjects’ electrical resistance
62. According to the passage, we know that Britain ______ . A) will adopt lie detectors widely
B) will adopt lie detectors on a smaller scale C) adopt lie detectors
D) has not decided whether to adopt lie detectors or not
63. “..., the tests themselves are by no means free from error,... ” (Line 2, Para. 3) means ______ . A) the tests definitely have no error B) the tests sometimes make mistakes C) the polygraphers do not make mistakes
D) the polygraphers can avoid error by using some techniques
64. Which of the following is true?
A) The tests are conducted by qualified polygraphers. B) Innocent people may blush or stammer when questioned. C) Guilty people can definitely be found out by answer questions. D) Guilty people may escape by refusing to answer questions.
65. What troubles lie detector researchers most is that ______. A) innocent people are convicted crimes B) innocent people will learn to tell lies C) lie detectors may cause industrial unrests D) lie detectors are sometimes not dependable
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Part IV Translation (30 minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English. You should write your answer on Answer Sheet 2.
剪纸（paper cutting）是中国最为流行的传统民间艺术形式之一。中国剪纸有一千五百多年的历史，在明朝和清朝时期（the Ming and Qing Dynasties）特别流行。人们常用剪纸美化居家环境。特别是在春节和婚庆期间，剪纸被用来装饰门窗和房间，以增加喜庆的气氛。剪纸最常用的颜色是红色，象征健康和兴旺。中国剪纸在世界各地很受欢迎，经常被用作馈赠外国友人的礼物。
01—05 CBCAB 06—10 ADDBA 11—15 BBACD 16—20 DAAAC 21—25 CDABD 26. focus 27. crucial 28. relationships 29. worse 30. realizing 31. disappointed 32. distant
33. a different background 34. whatever 35. not smart enough 36—40 ONKEF 41—45 BCMGH 46—50 CGLNF 51—55 KHOEQ 56—60 CADAB 61—65 CDBBA
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