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Directions:?In?this?section,?you?will?read?two?short?passages.?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?your?ANSWER?SHEET?with?a?single?line?through?the?centre.

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Passage?One

Some?people ?in ?the ?British?Victorian ?era ?hated ?mustaches. ?They ?thought ?an?unshaven upper lip was crude and ungentlemanly. For example, a British businessman

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left?10 pounds?to?each?of?his?employees?without?a?mustache.?Managers?of?the?Bank?of London?seemed?to?be?a?little?more?tolerant.?They?prohibited?mustaches?only?during?working hours.

Are?you?laughing?yet??After?all,?our?society?doesn’t?pay?attention?to?such?silly?details of?how we look. Or does it??Spend?15?minutes?watching?customers?shop?at?any?department store. You’d think they were making decisions that compare with choosing?a?career!

Consider that importance of?athletic shoes. In?1984 Michael Jordan wore a pair of?black?and?red?high-tops?in?a?pre-season?basketball?game?because?the?NBA?said?he’dbe fined if?he?wore?his “Air?Jordans” during a?regular-season game. The?maker of?the shoes?could?not?have planned?a better?marketing?strategy.?TV?commercials?pictured?Jordan saying, “On Oct.?15, Nike created a revolutionary new basketball shoe. On Oct.?18, the?NBA?threw?them?out?of?the?game. Fortunately, the?NBA?can’t?keep?you?from?wearing?them. Air Jordans!”?Suddenly the kind of?shoes people wore became as important?as?a declaration?of?independence.

Since?the?time?you?were?wearing?diapers?(尿布),?the?fashion?industry?has?been?studying?you?very?carefully.?They?know?that?80?percent?of America’s?teenagers?talk?about?the?ads?they?like?–?a?powerful?kind?of word-of-mouth?marketing.?Advertisers?spend?big?bucks?to?learn?what’s?going?on?between?your?ears?because?teens?spend?billions of?dollars annually on the latest in?fads（新奇的時尚）?and?fashions.

But?the?lure?of fashion?could?never?be?a?Christian’s?problem,?right??Wrong.?Even?Christians?are?touched by?the?influence?of advertising?in?TV,?radio,?magazines,?billboards and Web?sites. If?we aren’t careful,?it’s?easy?to become?more?worried?about?how we look than about how we think.

It’s been?said that “fashion is the?science of?appearances,?and?it?inspires?one?with?the desire to?seem rather than to be.”?This?goes?along?with?the?apostle（信徒）?Paul’s?words about “those who take pride?in what?is?seen?rather?than?in?what?is?in?the?heart”.?Not too long ago, international tennis star?Andre?Agassi?appeared?in?a?TV?commercial?saying, “Image is everything!” The apostle Paul would not have agreed.

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39. The examples in the first paragraph are?given?in?order to ??????????????????????????????????????.?A) introduce that people today care as much about?appearance?as before

B) entertain?readers?with?odd?behaviors?of?Englishmen?in?Victorian?era C) show how Englishmen in the past cared about their?look

D)?explain that a mustache was not popular in the past

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40. According to the passage, “Air Jordans” is ?????????????????????????????????????????????????.

A) a?pair?of?black?and?red?high-tops

B) a?new?brand?of?Nike?basketball?shoe

C) a symbol of?independence?in people

D)?a sales pitch used on TV?commercials

41. The fashion industry follows teenagers closely because ????????????????????????????????????????????.?A) the ads for?fashion?are their?favorite topic

B) teenagers are a large consumer-group of?fashions

C) marketing the latest fads needs the opinions of?teenagers

D) their thoughts and hobbies are attractive to the fashion?industry

42.?By “the lure of fashion could never be a Christian’s problem”?(Para.?5),?the?author implies that ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????.

A)?Christians never worry about what to wear

B) Christians need to get away from the?mass?media

C) a real Christian should not desire to?follow?fashion

D) the influence of?fashion ads cannot reach?Christians

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43. Which of?the following is an appropriate title?for this?article?

A) Power?of?advertising.

B) Fashion marketing.

C) Being fashion-conscious.

D) Being clothes-minded.

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Passage?Two

Sapphira and the Slave?Girl was the last novel?of?Willa?Cather’s?illustrious?(著名?的) literary career. Begun in the?late?summer?of?1937?and?finally?completed?in?1941,?it?is often regarded by critics as one of?her most personal works. Although the?story takes?place?in?1856,?well?before?her?own?birth,?she?drew?heavily?on?both?vivid?childhood?memories?and?tales?handed?down?by?older?relatives?to?describe?life?in?rural?northern?Virginia in the middle of?the?19th?century. She even went on an extended?journey to the?area to give the story a further ring?of?authenticity.

Of?all?of?Cather’s?many?novels,?Sapphira?and?the?Slave?Girl?is?the?one?most?concerned?with?providing?an?overall?picture?of?day-to-day?life?in?a?specific?era.?A?number?of?the?novel’s?characters,it?would?seem, are?included?in?the?story?only?because they are representative of?the types of?people to be found in?19th-century rural Virginia;?indeed,a few of?them?play no?part whatsoever in the?unfolding of?the plot. For instance, we ?are ?introduced ?to ?a ?poor ?white ?woman, ?Mandy??Ringer,??who??is ?portrayed??as?intelligent?and?content,?despite the?fact that?she has no?formal?education?and must toil?constantly?in?the?fields.?And?we?meet?Dr.?Clevenger,?a?country?doctor?who?evokes?a?strong?image?of?the?pre-Civil?War?South.

The?title,?however,?accurately?suggests?that?the?novel?is?mainly?about?slavery.?Cather’s??attitude ?toward ?this ??institution ?may??best??be ??summed ?up ??as ??somewhat?ambiguous.?On?the?one?hand,?she?displays?almost?total?indifference?to?the?legal?and?political aspects of?slavery when she misidentifies certain crucial dates in its growth and?development. Nor?does?she?ever really?offer?a?direct?condemnation?of slavery. Yet,?on?the?other hand,the?evil?that was?slavery?gets?through to us,?albeit?(雖然） in typically?subtle ways. Those characters, like Mrs. Blake, who oppose the institution?are?portrayed?in a sympathetic light. Furthermore, the suffering of?the slaves themselves and the?petty,?nasty, often cruel, behavior of?the slave-owners are painted in?stark terms.

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44.?The?author?refers?to?Willa?Cather’sSapphira?and?the?Slave?Girl?primarily?as?a(n)

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A) heroic?tale?of?the?pre-Civil?War

B) story based on personal material

C) authentic description of?slavery

D) veiled?opposition?of?the?institution

45.?According to the author, Mandy Ringer and Dr. Clevenger are?included?in the?book in?order to ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????.

A)?show that some characters play active roles in the?story-telling

B) display Cather’s mixed feelings about slaves?and?slave-owners

C) paint a full portrait of?life in rural Virginia before the Civil War ???D)?stress that characters in the novel are portrayed in a positive light

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46.?Willa Cather’s attitude toward slavery is concluded as?“somewhat?ambiguous”?in?that?she ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????.

A) did not denounce slavery directly but criticized?it?in more roundabout ways

B) was against slavery but refrained from getting involved in the?political?issues

C) disliked?the?treatment?of?slaves?yet?never?tried?to?help?improve?their?way?of?life D) was?ignorant?of?the?legal?and?political?part?of?slavery?while?being?opposed?to?it

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