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Passage 3
Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage:
About 70 million Americans are trying to loss weight. That is almost 1 out of
every 3 people in the United States. Some people go on ideas. This means they
eat less certain foods, especially fats and sugars. Other people exercise with
especial equipment, take diet pills, or even have surgery. Losing weight is hard
work, and it can also cost a lot of money. So why do so many people in the
United States want to lose weight?
Many people in the United States worry about not looking young and
attractive. For many people, looking good also means being thin. Other people
worry about their health. Many doctors say being overweight is not healthy. But
are Americans really fat? Almost 30 million Americans weight at least 20 percent
more than their ideal weight. In fact, the United State is the most overweight
country in the wild. “The stored fat of adult Americans weight 2.3 trillion
pounds,” says University of Massachusetts anthropologist (人類學家) George
Armelagos. He says burning off that stored energy would produce enough power for
900,000 cars to go 12,000 miles.
Losing weight is hard work, but most people want to find a fast and easy way
to take off fat. Bookstores sell lots of diet books. These books tell readers
how to lose weight. Each year, dozens of new books like these are written. Each
one boasts to help people to get rid of fat.
11. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a way of losing weight?
A. To eat less fats and sugars. B. To work hard.
12. Many Americans are trying to lose weight because .
A. they want to look attractive B. they are misled by doctors
C. they want to keep fit D. both A and C
13. The figures given in the second paragraph suggest that .
A. Americans are dependent on cars B. cars consume a lot of money
C. Americans need lose weight D. excess of fat can be a source of energy
14. It can be inferred from the last paragraph that .
A. diet books are not always effective B. diet books are usually helpful
C. there are lots of ways of losing weight D. bookstores are keeping their
promises
15. It can be concluded from the passage that .
A. people think too much of their appearance
B. there is not a sure way of losing weight as yet
C. surgery is the fastest way of losing weight
D. going on diet is a safe way of losing weight
Passage 3
Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage:
Unlike their American or European counterparts, car salesmen in Japan work hard to get a buyer. Instead of lying lazily around showrooms waiting for customers to drop by, many Japanese car salesmen still go out to get them. They walk wearily along the streets cars door-to-door. New customers are hunted with
fruit and cakes on their birthdays. But life is getting tough, and not just because new-car sales are falling.
With more Japanese women (who often control the household budget) going out to work, the salesmen increasingly find nobody at home when they call. That means another visit in the evening or the weekend. Then they face an extra problem: more people, especially the young, prefer to choose a new car from a
showroom where they can compare different models.
Even as late as the mid-1980s some 90% of new cars were sold door-to-door. In some rural areas most new cars are still sold this way. But in the big cities more than half the new cars are now sold from showrooms.
Although investing in showrooms is expensive because of the high cost of Japanese land, dealers have little choice. A labor shortage and higher among Japan’s workforce are making it difficult to hire
door-to-door salesmen. Most of a Japanese car salesman’s working day is spent doing favors for customers, like arranging insurance or picking up vehicles for servicing, rather than actually selling.
Japan’s doorstep car salesmen are not about to vanish. The personal service they provide is so deep-rooted in Japan that they are likely to operate alongside the glittering new showrooms. The two systems even complement each other. What increasingly happens is that the showroom attracts the interest of a potential buyer, giving the footsore salesmen a firm lead to follow up with a home visit.
11. Japanese car sales usually do not wait at showrooms for customers to drop by; instead, .
A. they sell cars door-to-door
B. they buy presents for their customers
C. they enjoy themselves in recreation centers
D. they go out to do market researches
12. Implied but stated: the competition in car market is .
A. light B. moderate C. fierce D. unfair
13. Young people like to buy a new car .
A. at home B. from a showroom
C. made in the U.S.A. D. made in Japan
14. The squadron of Japanese car salesmen is reducing because of .
A. a labor shortage
B. higher expectations among Japan’s workforce
C. high cost land
D. both A and B
15. Japanese car salesmen to their customers many favors such as .
A. showing them around in an exhibition
B. arranging insurance
C. paying them a visit on weekends
D. selling ole cars for them
Directions: In this part, there are four items which you should translate
into Chinese, each item consisting of one sentence. These sentences are all
taken from the reading passages you have just read in Part III of the Test
Paper. You are allowed minutes to do the translation. You can refer back to the
passages so as to identify their meaning in the context. Write your translation
on the Translation Sheet in Test Paper Two.
T1.(Line2-3, Paragraph1, Passage1)
This was because bacteria entered the cuts in the patients bodied’and started
infection.
T2.(Line2, Paragraph2, Passage2)
Many were rejected by U.S. medical schools simply because there was no
room.
T3:.(Line3-4, Paragraph1, Passage3):
Accused of neglecting this part of our education, my father instituted a
summer school for my brother and me .
T4:.(Line4-5, Paragraph1, Passage4)
Different cultures are more prone to contract certain illnesses because of
the food that is characteristic in these cultures.
