he Inklings, which included several writers. The group was soon
listening to chapters of Tolkien’s imaginative work “The
Hobbit”.
Hobbit was a name Tolkien created for a local people that
could best be described as half-sized members of the English
rural（乡村的）class. Hobbits live in hillside holes. One of them, Bilbo
Baggins, looks for treasures with a group of dwarves（侏儒）. On the
way, he meets the twisted, pitiful creature Gollum, from whom he
sees a golden ring that makes the holder invisible.
One of Tolkien’s students persuaded her employer, publisher
Allen & Unwin, to look at a draft（草稿）. The chairman of the
firm, Stanley Unwin, thought that the best judge for a children’s
book would be his ten-year-old son. The boy earned a shilling for
reporting back that the adventure was exciting, and “The Hobbit”
was published in 1937.
It sold so well that Unwin asked for a continuation. Over a
dozen years later, in 1954, Tolkien produced “The Lord of the
Rings”, a series of books so creative that they hold readers—new
and old —after their publication.
56．What can we learn from the text?
A． “The Lord of the Rings” didn’t sell well
in the last millennium.
B．People know better about Tolkien himself
than about his works.
C．Tolkien was quite familiar with Old
English.
D．Tolkien knew very well about different
kinds of local languages in Africa.
57．Which of the following helped most in making “The Hobbit”
published?
A．One of Tolkien’s students.
B．Stanley Unwin’s son.
C．Allen & Unwin.
D．Bilbo Baggins.
58．What is mainly discussed in the text?
A．“The Lord of the Rings” and its
writer.
B．A completely new masterwork in the new
millennium.
C．A famous professor at Oxford
University.
D．The power of the magic ring.
59．Which of the following shows the right order of Mr.
J.R.R.Tolkien’s life experience?
a．He had his “The Hobbit” published.
b．He became a member of the Inklings.
c．He served in World WarⅠ
d．He became an undergraduate at
Oxford.
e．His work “The Lord of the Rings” came to
the world.
f．He moved to England to live with his
aunt.
A．f-d-b-c-a-e
B．f-d-c-b-a-e
C．f-c-d-b-e-a
D．d-f-c-a-b-e
B.
The 12-year-old CE0(首席执行官)of a Web sitedesign company will
be one of 300 business and political leaders accompanying Canadian
Prime Minister Jean Chretien on a trade visit to China in
March．
Keith Peiris，who founded Cyberteks Design in June 1999 and
now has 25 clients(客户)in North America，insisted in an interview
that he is “ just like any other kid.”
He and his father will spend nine days on the Team Canada
trip to Beijing，shanghai and Hong Kong，where Chretien aims to
showcase the best of Canadian business in the most populous country
in the world．
A glance at the complex，elegant animations(动画)on his
www.cybertecks.com site
shows the extent of Peiris’talent．“He doesn’t want to be No.2,”his
father Deepal said proudly．
His father，who is now vice president of operations at
Cyberteks，said，“I am teaching my son what I know．We make decisions
together．I haven’t done anything my son disagreed with．He makes the
final decision．”
The company has seven offices in the United States and five
part-time employees who，like the Peiris family，work from their
London homes．
Keith Peiris admitted some potential clients change their
minds when they learn his age，but the well-in-formed
not-yet-teenager tries to ignore them．
“Suddenly，I’ve been called a whiz kid or geek，which I am
not too happy about．A few people have asked if they should call me
‘mister’，but I stay casual, I am still a kid.
60．That Keith Peiris insisted that he is” just like any other kid”
shows he is
．
A．proud
B．modest
C．honest
D．excited
61．Who makes the final decision on operations at Cyberteks
Design?
A．Keith Peiris
B．Deepal Peiris
C．Jean Chretien
D．Both A and B．
62．According to the information in the passage，w hich is the best
and fastest way to know more about the Web giant?
A．We can go to Canada to pay him a
visit．
B．We can make an international telephone
call to him．
C．We’d better visit his web site-w w
w．cyberteks．com．
D．We can write to his father for the kid’s
information．
63．Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE?
A．Keith Peiris is a Canadian boy．
B．All the employees of the child’s company
work at home．
C．The Canadian Prime．Minister means to show
off Keith’s success during his stay in China．
D．Keith always tries his best to be the
best in the field of web site designing．
C.
“I have a regular film camera but I just don’t use it much，”
said Ms Lowery，23，a computer programmer．“When I got married last
year，I had all these pictures that didn’t come out right．With
digital cameras，you aren’t spending money on film for wasted
pictures，”she said．
There are plenty of models from which to choose：from simple
$200 point and shoot snappers to $1,000 wonder with all the
qualities that any advanced amateur(业余爱好者)could want．The wide
selection is a sure sign that in may buyers’ minds，digital cameras
have risen from mere gadgets to must-have items．
Digital cameras 0ffer more than just the instant previewing
0f pictures on small color screens．They can store dozens，sometimes
hundreds，of pictures that can be printed easily“ at home or sent by
e-mail．Although there are extra costs-the cost of memory cards for
storage and the special paper for printing---many buyers have been
willing to make the switch．
Although about 90 percent of American househo1ds still use
film cameras，digital cameras are capturing a growing share of the
market．And the number of digital camera households，now at about 10
percent，is certain to grow，as producers introduce more and more
camera．, whose quality is as good as film cameras．Soon，even
professionals will use them．
Salesmen expect digital cameras to be popular gifts this
holiday season．“They are very hot this year，”said Yossi Fogel at
B&H Photo in New York．“The prices have come down and the
quality has gone up．Who wants to travel with 30 rolls 0f film? With
a large memory card to store pictures，you can shoot and shoot and
never have to worry about changing a roll．How many times have you
missed a picture because you failed to reload the film?”
64．Which of the following is N0T the advantage of the digital
camera over the film camera?
A．The user has to spend additional money
for it．
B．It comes in many models for the
customer．
C．It saves money from unwanted pictures．
D．Its pictures can be sent by e-mail．
65．According to this passage，the American household using digital
cameras will increased
．
A．their producers spend more money
B．their operation becomes simpler
C．their salesmen are more friendly
D．their quality keeps improving
66．Which of the following is NOT TRUE about film camera?
A．Their pictures can be printed at a photo
shop．
B．Their pictures can be enlarged as
desired．
C．Their pictures can be seen before they
are printed．
D．Their pictures can be stored for a 1ong
time．
67．According to this article，digital cameras nowadays are used
mainly by
．
A．professionals
B．amateurs
C．housewives
D．students
D.
Email has brought the art of letter writing back to life,
but some experts think the resulting spread of bad English does
more harm than good.
Email is a form of communication that is changing, for the
worse, the way we write and use language, say some communication
researchers. It is also changing the way we interact(交流) and build
relationship. These are a few of the recently recognized features
of email, say experts, which should cause individuals and
organizations to rethink the way they use email.
“Email has increased the spread of careless writing
habits,” says Naomi Baron, a professor of linguistics(语言学) at an
American university. She says the poor spelling, grammar,
punctuation and sentence structure of emails reflect(反映) a growing
unconcern about the way we write.
Baron argues that we shouldn’t forgive and forget the poor
writing often shown in email. “The more we use email and its
tasteless writing, the more it becomes the normal way of writing,”
the professor says.
Others say that despite its poor writing, email has
finished what several generations of English teachers couldn’t: it
has made writing fashionable again.
“Email is a critical new communication technology.” says
Ian Lancashire, a professor of English at Toronto University. “It
fills the gap between spoken language and the formal methods of
writing that existed before email. It is the purest form of written
speech.”
Lancashire says email has the mysterious ability to get
people who are usually scared by writing to get their thoughts
flowing easily onto a blank screen. He says this is because of
email’s close similarity to speech. “It’s like a circle of four or
five people around a campfire,” he says. Still, he accepts that
this new-found freedom to express themselves often gets people into
trouble. Emails sent in a day almost exceed(超过) the number of
letters mailed in a year. But more people are recognizing the
content of a typical email message is not often exact.
68. From what Baron says in the third paragraph we can see that
________.
A. careless people use email more than
careful people
B. email requires people to change their
native language
C. professors in universities don’t need to
use email
D. people communicate by email full of
mistakes
69. What does the underlined word “it”(in Paragraph 4) refer
to?
A. The poor writing.
B. Email.
C. The
good writing.
D. A new communication
technology.
70. In Lancashire’s opinion, email is a wonderful technology
because _______.
A. it can be useful all over the
world
B. it is the fastest way to
communicate
C. we can express ourselves in a free
way
D. we can save a lot of paper
71. This passage mainly shows us that ______.
A. people should stop using email to
communicate
B. experts hold different opinions about
email writing
C. Americans only use email to
communicate
D. email makes people lose interest in
English
E.
Some people believe that international sport creates good
will between the nations and that if countries play games together
they will learn to live together．0thers say that the opposite is
true：that international competitions encourage false national pride
and lead to misunderstanding and hatred．There is probably some
truth in both arguments，but in recent years the 0lympic Games have
done little to support the view that sport encourages international
brotherhood．Not only was there the tragic incident including the
murder of athletes，but the Games were also ruined by incidents
caused mainly by smaller national contests．
0ne country received its second—place medals with visible
anger after the hockey(曲棍球)final．There had been noisy scenes the
end of the hockey match， the losers objecting to the final
decisions．
They were sure that
one of their goals
should not have been disallowed and that their opponents’ victory
was unfair．Their manager was in great anger when he said：“This
wasn’t hockey．Hockey and the International Hockey Federation are
finished．”The president of the Federation said later that such
behavior could result in the suspension of the team for at least
three years．
Incidents of this kind will continue as long as sport is
played competitively rather than for the love of the game The
suggestion that athletes should compete as individuals，or in
non—national teams，might be too much to hope for．But in the present
organization of the Olympics there is far too much that encourages
aggressive patriotism(爱国主义)．
72．According to the author，recent the Olympic Games have
．
A．created goodwill between the
nations
B．brought about only false national
pride
C．hardly showed any international
friendship
D．1ed to more and more misunderstanding and
hatred
73．What did the manager mean by saying，“Hockey and the
International Hockey Federation are finished”?
A．His team would no longer take part in
international games．
B．Hockey and the Federation are both ruined
by the unfair decisions．
C．There should be no more Hockey matches
organized by the Federation．
D．The Federation should break up．
74．The author gives the example in paragraph 2 to show
．
A．how false national pride led to
undesirable incidents in international games
B．that sportsmen have been more obedient
than they used to be
C．that competitiveness in the games
discourage international friendship
D．that unfair decisions are common in the
Olympic games
75．What conclusion can be drawn from the passage?
A．The organization of the 0lympic Games
must be improved．
B．Athletes should compete as individuals in
the Olympic’ Games．
C．Sport should be played competitively
rather than for the love of the game．
D．More and more athletes will compete for
their own honor．
