2. A) T B) F
Script: In November, Johnsy caught pneumonia, and the doctor was very optimistic about her recovery.
正确答案： B 3. A) T B) F
Script: Johnsy lay, scarcely moving on her bed, with her face toward the window, and was counting the leaves left on the ivy vine.
正确答案： A 4. A) T B) F
Script: Sue was sad but she still told Johnsy the truth that the doctor thought her chance for recovery was one in ten.
正确答案： B 5. A) T B) F
Script: Old Behrman was a successful professional model and a painter who liked to talk of his coming masterpiece.
正确答案： B 6. A) T B) F
Script: Old Behrman thought Sue was foolish to believe that she would die sick just like a fallen leaf.
正确答案： A 7. A) T B) F
Script: The elderly man called for his son and some other relatives in his final hours.
正确答案： B 8. A) T B) F
Script: The Marine held the old man?s hand, conveying a message of love and encouragement.
正确答案： A 9. A) T B) F
Script: Because of the dim light in the ward, the Marine did not recognize the old man until the next morning.
正确答案： B 10. A) T B) F
Script: At last, the real son was found and able to attend his father?s funeral in Brooklyn.
正确答案： A
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
Since we are social beings, the quality of our lives depends in large measure on our interpersonal relationships. The strength of the human condition is our (11)_________________ to give and receive support from one another under (12)_________________ circumstances. Social support consists of the (13)_________________ of resources among people based on their interpersonal (14)_________________ . Those of us with strong support systems appear better able to (15)_________________ with major life changes and daily hassles (困难). People with strong social ties live longer and have better health than those without such ties. Studies over a range of illnesses, from depression to heart disease, (16)_________________ that the presence of
social support helps people fend off (挡开) illness, and the (17)_________________ of such support makes poor health more likely.
Social support cushions stress in a number of ways. First, friends, relatives, and co-workers may let us know that (18)_________________ . Our self-respect is strengthened when we feel accepted by others despite our faults and difficulties. Second, other people often provide us with informational support. They help us to define and understand our problems and (19)_________________ them. Third, we typically find social companionship supportive. Engaging in leisure-time activities with others helps us to meet our social needs while at the same time distracting (转移……注意力) us from our (20)_________________ . Finally, other people may give us instrumental support — financial aid, material resources, and needed services — that reduces stress by helping us resolve and cope with our problems.
Script: Since we are social beings, the quality of our lives depends in large measure on our interpersonal relationships. The strength of the human condition is our tendency to give and receive support from one another under stressful circumstances. Social support consists of the exchange of resources among people based on their interpersonal ties. Those of us with strong support systems appear better able to cope with major life changes and daily hassles (困难). People with strong social ties live longer and have better health than those without such ties. Studies over a range of illnesses, from depression to heart disease, reveal that the presence of social support helps people fend off (挡开) illness, and the absence of such support makes poor health more likely.
Social support cushions stress in a number of ways. First, friends, relatives, and co-workers may let us know that they value us. Our self-respect is strengthened when we feel accepted by others despite our faults and difficulties. Second, other people often provide us with informational support. They help us to define and understand our problems and find solutions to them. Third, we typically find social companionship supportive. Engaging in leisure-time activities with others helps us to meet our social needs while at the same time distracting (转移……注意力) us from our worries and troubles. Finally, other people may give us instrumental support — financial aid, material resources, and needed services — that reduces stress by helping us resolve and cope with our problems.
正确答案： tendency
正确答案： stressful
正确答案： exchange
正确答案： ties
正确答案： cope
正确答案： reveal
正确答案： absence
正确答案： they value us
正确答案： find solutions to
正确答案： worries and troubles
Part II Reading Comprehension ( 25 minutes )
Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with several blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
Old Behrman was a painter who lived on the ground floor beneath them. He was past sixty and had a long white beard curling down over his chest. Despite looking the part, Behrman was a 21 in art. For forty years he had been always about to paint a masterpiece, but had never yet begun it. He earned a little by 22 as a model to those young artists who could not pay the price of a 23 . He drank gin to excess, and still talked of his coming masterpiece. For the rest he was a fierce little old man, who mocked terribly at softness in any one, and who 24 himself as guard dog to the two young artists in the studio 25 .
Sue found Behrman smelling 26 of gin in his dimly lighted studio below. In one corner was a blank canvas on an easel that had been waiting there for twenty-five years to 27 the first line of the masterpiece. She told him of Johnsy?s fancy, and how she 28 she would, indeed, light and fragile as a leaf herself, float away, when her slight hold upon the world grew 29 . Old Behrman, with his red eyes plainly streaming, shouted his 30 for such foolish imaginings.
A) various B) regarded C) discovering D) above E) professional F) genius G) weaker H) failure I) feared J) frequently K) serving L) receive M) learned N) strongly O) contempt
21. ______________________
正确答案： H
22. ______________________
正确答案： K
23. ______________________
正确答案： E
24. ______________________
正确答案： B
25. ______________________
正确答案： D
26. ______________________
正确答案： N
27. ______________________
正确答案： L
28. ______________________
正确答案： I
29. ______________________
正确答案： G
30. ______________________
正确答案： O
Section B
Directions: There are several 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.