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The birthrate in Europe has been in a steady decrease since the 1960s. European countries, realizing crisis is at hand, are providing great encouragement for parents to create more babies in the 21st century.
Affairs Ministry concluded last year that,    11   cash encouragement, some women just don’t want to be    12   holding the baby. “What we know is that it’s good for the    13___ if men and women share the burden of having children,” says Soren Kindlund, family policy adviser at the Swedish ministry.    14   Swedish parents can take their paid leave as they wish, men use a mere 12% of it; 60% of fathers do not take even a(n)    15 _   day off work.
Experts fear that the tendency for women to use most of the parental leave could make employers    16   to give young women the permanent jobs they need to qualify for paid maternity leave (产假). In January, Sweden decided to allow new fathers two months’ paid leave, with a warming: use it or    17   it.
Kindlund admits that men are under   18   to stay at work, even though parental pay comes out of the public purse. “It’s not popular among bosses and perhaps with other men in the workplace,” he says. “But it’s good for the father and for the child if they can    19    a relationship.”
In Norway, a(n)   20   policy has worked wonders. 70% of dads in Norway now take parental leave, and the birthrate of 1.85 children per woman is one of the highest in Europe.
11. A. is spite of   B. at the cost of 
C. in addition to         D. due to
12. A. sent    B. left      C. caught    D. seen
13. A. birthrate   B. income      C. health    D. spirit
14. A. Just as   B. Only if     C. Even though      D. Now that
15. A. one   B. mere     C. only   D. single
16. A. willing   B. reluctant    C. likely   D. unable
17. A. reserve     B. misuse     C. ignore    D. lose
18. A. discussion  B. attack     C. control     D. pressure
19. A. make out    B. add up    C. build up     D. set aside
20. A. impersonal   B. similar     C. severe     D. global
答案
  
11-15 ABACD    16-20 BDDCB
解析

欧洲国家的人口出生率呈不断的下降趋势,这是为什么?国家采取了不少的对策,可仍然见效甚微,又为什么?这篇文章会告诉你。
11、语句连贯词义比较      欧洲国家意识到其人口出生率呈不断的下降趋势后,现在正鼓励父母亲多生子女。可是,不管(in spite of)政府部门用提供现金鼓励,还是怎样,……。in spite of不顾, 不管;at the cost of以……为代价;in addition to 除...之外;due to由于, 应归于。
12、词义辨析句法结构      一些妇女就是不想被丈夫留(leave)在家里带孩子,而他们却不在家里。这四个词均可用于动词+宾语(人)+宾语补语(现在分词)的结构,send sb. doing sth.通常强调使/驱使/迫使/打发某人做某事;leave sb. doing sth. 表示使/让/撇下某人做某事,并含有“不再理会”的意义;catch sb. doing sth.突然抓住某人正在做某事;see sb. doing sth.看见某人正在做某事。 
13、逻辑推理前后照应词义比较      如果男人和女人都分担其养孩子的重载,这对于家庭收入(income),健康(health)和精神(spirit)未必会有好处,但明显对提高出生率(birthrate)有利。
14、语句连贯词义比较      即便是瑞典的父母亲可以随意地带工资休假,但也只有12%的男人只有做。just as就象……一样;only if只有,只要,表示条件关系;even though即便,纵使,表示让步关系;now that既然,表示因果关系。
15、逻辑推理词义辨析       60%的做父亲的人就连一(single)天的工作也不想耽误。one通常不直接用在a之后,除非其前有形容词;mere仅仅的, 只不过的,纯粹的;only唯一的,单独的,其前通常不用不定冠词,而用定冠词;single唯一的,单一的,其前可用不定冠词或定冠词。
16    B    词义比较逻辑推理      专家担心,由于是妇女使用大部分的双亲假期,这样老板就不会愿意(reluctant)给年轻的妇女提供永久性的工作,因为她们得带着工资休产假。willing乐意的, 自愿的;reluctant不愿意的, 勉强的;likely很可能的, 合适的, unable不能的,不会的。
17、词义比较逻辑推理      并警告说:不享受假期就失去(lose)假期。reserve保存, 保留;misuse误用, 错用, 滥用;ignore不理睬, 忽视;lose丧失,失去。
18、固定搭配词义比较逻辑推理      即便是家庭的费用出自双方公共的钱包,男人仍然承受着保留工作的压力(pressure)。under discussion在讨论中;under attack遭到进攻或批评;under control被控制住;under pressure承受压力。
19、固定搭配词义比较逻辑推理      但是如果男人和女人能够建立起(build up)一种联系的话,这对父亲一方和孩子都是有利的。make out书写,进展, 说明, 设法应付,了解;add up合计;build up树立, 增进;set aside留出,取消。
20、前后照应词义比较      在挪威,而不是在全球(global),一种牵涉到男女双方的(impersonal),也许并非严厉的(severe)的,与瑞典做法类似的(similar)提高出生率的政策却已经产生了成效。impersonal非个人的;similar相似的, 类似的;severe严厉的, 严格的;global全球的, 全世界的。
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One of the political issues that is heard a lot about in the States lately is campaign(竞选)finance reform(改革). The people who are  36  for reform usually want the  37  to pay for campaigns and/or limit the amount of money that candidates(候选人)and their  38  can spend.
One reason that reform is called for is that it costs so much to  39  for political office. Candidates have to spend a great deal of time and effort  40  money. The incumbents (those already in office) have less time to do chief jobs since they must  41  so many money raising events.
Another  42  is the fear that candidates will be owned or  43  by the “special interest groups” that give money to their campaigns. Sometimes this certainly seems to be the  44 .
On the  45  side are those who say that it doesn’t mean it’s really  46  just because you call something “reform”. They argue that the right to freedom of speech is  47  if the government can limit anyone’s ability to get his or her message out to the people.
If one person or a group of people want to tell the  48  what they think about an issue or candidate, they have to buy  49  on TV, radio, and in newspapers and magazines. They might want to put up advertisements along highways and on websites. All this costs a lot of  50 .
Those against laws that control or limit spending say that you don’t really have freedom of  51  or freedom of the press if you can’t get your message out. They say the government should never be able to control  52  discussions. They believe that this is most important when the voters are about to make  53 .
What do you think about this  54 ? Listen to what the candidates for national office have to say. Which candidates  55  the most sense to you?
36.A.waiting                   B.calling                    C.standing                  D.preparing
37.A.government            B.president                 C.candidates               D.citizens
38.A.leaders                   B.bosses                     C.supporters               D.states
39.A.pay                        B.compete                  C.wait                       D.work
40.A.raising                    B.earning                   C.giving                    D.getting
41.A.notice                     B.report                     C.guard                            D.attend
42.A.event                      B.cost                        C.reason                    D.office
43.A.encouraged             B.forced                    C.controlled               D.ordered
44.A.joke                       B.purpose                  C.case                        D.example
45.A.other                      B.same                      C.another                   D.different
46.A.worse                     B.better                            C.easier                     D.harder
47.A.meaningless            B.unimportant            C.unnecessary             D.impossible
48.A.reporters                 B.truth                       C.story                      D.public
49.A.time                       B.copies                     C.rights                            D.advertising
50.A.energy                    B.effort                            C.time                       D.money
51.A.argument                B.opinion                   C.speech                    D.election
52.A.common                 B.political                  C.general                   D.special
53.A.profit                            B.trouble                   C.plans                      D.decisions
54.A.quarrel                   B.problem                  C.issue                       D.affair
55.A.find                       B.make                      C.create                     D.produce
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Barack Obama made his victory speech in Chicago after a hard-fought campaign.
Democratic Senator Barack Obama has won the US presidential election, and will become the 44th President of the United States-the first African-American in the country"s history to do so.
President-elect Obama marked his victory with a speech to a crowd of tens of thousands of people in his hometown of Chicago.
Obama described his election as a "defining moment" in the history of the United States, saying that "change has come to America".
The BBC"s spokesman in Washington says that in electing Barack Obama, the American people have expressed their unhappiness with the present state and rejected their country"s historical racial divisions.
The Australian Prime Minister summed up how many people felt when he congratulated President-elect Obama.
“Forty-five years ago Martin Luther King had a dream of an America where men and women would be judged not on the colour of their skin but on the content of their character. Today what America has done is turn that dream into a reality," said Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
President-elect Obama will not take office until 20th January next year. However, when he does become president, he will face many serious challenges, including two foreign wars, climate change and what he has described as " the worst financial crisis (经济危机)in a century."
But the mood of the country is optimistic, according to most commentators, and Obama himself appears to enjoy the challenge.
"The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be difficult. We may not get there in one year or even in one term, but America--I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there," said the next President of the United States.
41. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. It was not a difficult process for Obama to win the US presidential election.
B. The American people welcome the historical racial divisions.
C. What Martin Luther King dreamed about America has come true.
D. After the election Obama didn"t say anything about his victory.
42. According to the passage, it seems that in the United States, _____________.
A. people may still be treated unequally because of their color of skin.
B. people are experiencing two civil wars.
C. Americans are enjoying the economy developing.
D. People are not satisfied with President-elect.
43. From the last two paragraphs, we can learn that________________.
A. the attitude of American people to their country"s future is not clear.
B. Obama has confidence in American future and ready to face it.
C. the road to America will be long.
D. the change of America is not hard to achieve.
44. What is probably the best title to the passage?
A. Historical presidential election                          B. The first African-American President
C. Change has come                                            D. Comments about America
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The 2008 Beijing Olympics began officially on Friday 8th August 2008 at 8 pm in front of a crowd of 90,000 eager spectators in the Bird"s Nest stadium.
Things got off to a bang with a starting firework display which lit up Beijing"s skyline, followed by a total of 2,008 energetic drummers beating a countdown(倒计时). Then the crowd was treated to an amazing sequence(系列) pretty and carefully designed scenes which took them through 5,000 years of Chinese history and culture.
After these performances, it was time for the athletes themselves to take center stage. In keeping with tradition, Olympic founders Greece led the 204 competing nations into the stadium.
China"s 639 athletes entered last behind towering flag bearer Yao Ming, to a thunderous reception from the crowd.
Finally, the main torch was lit by a jet of fire  from Chinese Olympic hero Li Ning, who had been pulled up to the roof of the stadium on wires.
China, of course, was not alone in watching the opening ceremony. British newspaper The Guardian said the show "outdid all of its former hosts in numbers, colour, noise and expense."
The Financial Times was equally impressed. "No country ever has--or surely will--match the Chinese in effort, human power, organization, creativity and , it has to be said, money they were willing to put into what once a little show."
No pressure on the next host city then! With just four years to go, the London Olympic organizers have promised to deliver an equally inspirational ceremony. Let"s hope they can pull it off.
45. Which of the following is the right order of the opening ceremony of 29th Olympic Games?
a. China"s athletes entered last behind Yao Ming.
b. A starting firework display lit up Beijing"s skyline.
c. The main torch was lit by a jet of fire from Chinese Olympic hero Li Ning.
d. A total  of 2,008 energetic drummers beat a countdown.
e. The crowd was treated to an amazing sequence of pretty and carefully designed scenes which took them through 5,000 years of Chinese history and culture.
f. Olympic founders Greece led the 204 competing nations into the stadium.
A. b, d, e, a, f, c              B. d, c, b, a, e, f               C. d, c, a, e, b, f        D. b, d, e, f, a, c
46. What does the underlined word outdid probably mean in this passage?
A. did well              B. did worse than         C. did better than             D. did poorly
47. Which of the following can best describe the author"s attitude toward the London Olympics?
A. negative              B. sad                         C. positive                       D. satisfied
48. We can find the passage in a newspaper most probably in _____________section.
A. music                B. sports                       C. literature                    D. military
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If you ask people to name the one person who had the greatest effect on the English language,
you will get answers like "Shakespeare," "Samuel Johnson," and "Webster," but none of these men had any effect at all compared to a man who didn"t even speak English-William the Conqueror.
Before 1066, in the land we now call Great Britain lived peoples belonging to two major language groups. In the west-central region lived the Welsh, who spoke a Celtic language, and in the north lived the Scots, whose language, though not the same as Welsh, was also Celtic. In the rest of the country lived the Saxons, actually a mixture of Anglos, Saxons, and other Germanic and Nordic peoples, who spoke what we now call Anglo-Saxon(or Old English), a Germanic language. If this state of affairs had lasted, English today would be close to German.
But this state of affairs did not last. In 1066 the Normans led by William defeated the Saxons and began their rule over England. For about a century, French became the official language of England while Old English became the language of peasants. As a result, English words of politics and the law come from French rather than German. In some cases, modem English even shows a distinction(区别) between upper-class French and lower-class Anglo-Saxon in its words. We even have different words for some foods, meat in particular, depending on whether it is still Out in the fields or at home ready to be cooked, which shows the fact that the Saxon peasants were doing the farming, while the upper-class Normans were doing most of the eating.
When Americans visit Europe for the first time, they usually find Germany more "foreign" than France because the German they see on signs and advertisements seems much more different from English than French does. Few realize that the English language is actually Germanic in its beginning and that the French influences are all the result of one man"s ambition.
67. The two major languages spoken in what is now called Great Britain before 1066 were _____.
A. Welsh and Scottish    B. Nordic and Germanic
C. Celtic and Old English      D. Anglo-Saxon and Germanic
68. Which of the following groups of words are, by inference, rooted in French?
A. president, lawyer, beef      B. president, bread, water
C. bread, field, sheep     D. folk, field, cow
69. Why does France appear less foreign than Germany to Americans on their first visit to Europe?
A. Most advertisements in France appear in English.
B. They know little of the history of the English language.
C. Many French words are similar to English ones.
D. They know French better than German.
70. What is the subject discussed in the text?
A. The history of Great Britain.   
B. The similarity between English and French.
C. The rule of England by William the Conqueror.     
D. The French influences on the English language.
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How could we possibly think that keeping animals in cages in unnatural environments-mostly for entertainment purposes-is fair and respectful?
Zoo officials say they are concerned about animals. How ever, most zoos remain “collections” of interesting “things” rather than protective habitats (栖息地). Zoos teach people that it is acceptable to keep animals bored, lonely, and far from their natural bones.
Zoos claim (声称) to educate people and save endangered species(物种), but visitors leave zoos without having learned anything meaningful about the animals’ natural behavior, intelligence, or beauty. Zoos keep animals in small spaces or cages, and most signs only mention the species’ name, diet, and natural range(分布区). The animals’ normal behavior is seldom noticed because zoos don’t usually take care of the animals’ natural needs.
The animals are kept together in small spaces, with no privacy and little opportunity for mental and physical exercise. This results in unusual and self-destructive behavior called zoochosis. A worldwide study of zoos found that zoochosis is common among animals kept in small spaces or cages. Another study showed that elephants spend 22 percent of their time making repeated head movements or biting cage bars, and bears spend 30 percent of their time walking back and forth, a sign of unhappiness and pain.
Furthermore, most animals in zoos are not endangered. Captive breeding (圈养繁殖) of endangered big cats, Asian elephants, and other species has not resulted n their being sent back to the wild. Zoos talk a lot about their captive breeding programs because they do not want people to worry about a species dying out. In fact, baby animals also attract a lot of paying customers. Haven’t we seen enough competitions to name baby animals?
Actually, we will save endangered species only if we save their habitats and put an end to the reasons people kill them. Instead of supporting zoos, we should support groups that work to protect animals’ natural habitats.
64. How would the author describe the animals’ life in zoos?
A. Dangerous.        B. Unhappy.          C. Natural.            D. Easy.
65. In the state of zoochosis, animals _________.
A. remain in cages                       B. behave strangely
C. attack other animals                 D. enjoy moving around
66. What does the author try to argue n the passage?
A. Zoos are not worth the public support.
B. Zoos fail in their attempt to save animals.
C. Zoos should treat animals as human beings.
D. Zoos use animals as a means of entertainment.
67. The author tries to persuade readers to accept his argument mainly by _____.
A. pointing out the faults in what zoos do
B. using evidence he has collected at zoos
C. questioning the way animals are protected
D. discussing the advantages of natural habitats
68. Although he argues against zoos, the author would still agree that _______.
A. zoos have to keep animals in small cages
B. most animals in zoos are endangered species
C. some endangered animals are reproduced in zoos
D. it’s acceptable to keep animals away from their habitats
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