With the rapid spread of the internet eye where in the world, and the (1) number of users, one of the most exciting developments on the internet is E-commerce -- (2) commerce. E-commerce has two forms, (3) business-to-business, or B-to-B, and business-to-consumer, or B-to-C.
B-to-C was the first of these developments. It grew (4) from the first days when people started to buy things from their homes without going to a shop. First came "catalogue shopping" (5) you choose what you want from a catalogue (6) pictures and other details of everything that is (7) sale. You then send an order with a check by (8) and the things you have chosen sent to your home. Then (9) "television shopping", where (10) a catalogue, the items for sale are shown or (11) on television to attract the customer. (12) , the customer sends a check and the item is delivered to his or her home. B-to-C is the (13) development, where the "catalogue" is (14) on the internet, combining the advantages of both the book catalogue and tile television and indeed adding more (15) The customer makes his choice but rather than sending an order and a (16) through the post, he places the order and pays for it using his credit card, all using the (17)
Many people worry about giving (18) of their credit card over the internet and the danger that it may be deceitfully used. (19) , the general view is that with modern systems of secure measures the dangers of the misuse of credit cards is (20) greater in a shop, garage or restaurant than in using it for shopping on the internet.

Read the following text. Choose the best word (s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on Answer Sheet 1. 8（）

A:details B:segments C:episodes D:descriptions

Text 3
Health in general terms includes many non-medical areas, such as housing and employment. As far as individual is concerned, welfare benefits come in two main categories -- fiat rate and supplementary. Flat rate benefits are those a person has an automatic right to (provided he or she has made a certain number of contributions to the Department of Health and Social Security ). Unemployment benefit is one of these. Supplementary benefits are based on a means test. In other words, they are benefits given, regardless of contributions made, where the government decides that an individual has. insufficient resources for a minimum standard of living. These benefits can be in the form of allowances for rent and rates, special diet, heating and clothing. Such benefits have to be claimed and the individual has to give full details of all his or her capital assets and sources of income. Unclaimed benefits amount to approximately $100 million each year.
The originators of the Welfare State idea were concerned to alleviate or remove what they saw as the evils of their time. Their efforts resulted in a great improvement in the standard of living and life expectancy in Britain. This progress in itself has simulated the increasing cost of maintaining the Welfare State. Over 45 percent of the health authority expenditure on hospitals
and community services is spent on care of the elderly. Yet there are indications that Beveridge
calculated that less would need to be spent on people once they retired. Advances in medical knowledge have involved the use of expensive drugs and hospital procedures. Drug and alcohol abuse make increasing demands on the medical services.
The present government is planning a new approach to the social security system, whichaccounts for nearly one-third of public expenditure. Changes in the movement’s pension scheme to encourage private schemes will start from April this year. Different ways of assessing need are planned. To enable closer monitoring and control, the DHSS has begun the biggestcomputerization program in Europe. Suggestions have been made by opposition politicians that the present movement intends to say "farewell" to the Welfare State. Although all the major parties in Britain say they are committed’ to a caring society. There’s a considerable difference in the means each would wish to use to achieve it. As the old saying goes, "Only time will tell".

To get flat rate benefits one needs（）

A:to claim B:details of his capital assets and source of income C:certain number of contribution D:nothing

With the rapid spread of the internet eye where in the world, and the (1) number of users, one of the most exciting developments on the internet is E-commerce -- (2) commerce. E-commerce has two forms, (3) business-to-business, or B-to-B, and business-to-consumer, or B-to-C.
B-to-C was the first of these developments. It grew (4) from the first days when people started to buy things from their homes without going to a shop. First came "catalogue shopping" (5) you choose what you want from a catalogue (6) pictures and other details of everything that is (7) sale. You then send an order with a check by (8) and the things you have chosen sent to your home. Then (9) "television shopping", where (10) a catalogue, the items for sale are shown or (11) on television to attract the customer. (12) , the customer sends a check and the item is delivered to his or her home. B-to-C is the (13) development, where the "catalogue" is (14) on the internet, combining the advantages of both the book catalogue and tile television and indeed adding more (15) The customer makes his choice but rather than sending an order and a (16) through the post, he places the order and pays for it using his credit card, all using the (17)
Many people worry about giving (18) of their credit card over the internet and the danger that it may be deceitfully used. (19) , the general view is that with modern systems of secure measures the dangers of the misuse of credit cards is (20) greater in a shop, garage or restaurant than in using it for shopping on the internet.

Read the following text. Choose the best word (s) for each numbered blank and mark [A], [B], [C] or [D] on ANSWER SHEET 1.1（）

A:details B:segments C:episodes D:descriptions

Section Ⅰ Use of English Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 Points) With the rapid spread of the internet eye where in the world, and the (1) number of users, one of the most exciting developments on the internet is E-commerce -- (2) commerce. E-commerce has two forms, (3) business-to-business, or B-to-B, and business-to-consumer, or B-to-C. B-to-C was the first of these developments. It grew (4) from the first days when people started to buy things from their homes without going to a shop. First came "catalogue shopping" (5) you choose what you want from a catalogue (6) pictures and other details of everything that is (7) sale. You then send an order with a check by (8) and the things you have chosen sent to your home. Then (9) "television shopping", where (10) a catalogue, the items for sale are shown or (11) on television to attract the customer. (12) , the customer sends a check and the item is delivered to his or her home. B-to-C is the (13) development, where the "catalogue" is (14) on the internet, combining the advantages of both the book catalogue and tile television and indeed adding more (15) The customer makes his choice but rather than sending an order and a (16) through the post, he places the order and pays for it using his credit card, all using the (17) Many people worry about giving (18) of their credit card over the internet and the danger that it may be deceitfully used. (19) , the general view is that with modern systems of secure measures the dangers of the misuse of credit cards is (20) greater in a shop, garage or restaurant than in using it for shopping on the internet.

Read the following text. Choose the best word (s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1.5（）

A:details B:segments C:episodes D:descriptions

Artificial flowers are used for scientific as well as for decorative purposes. They are made from a variety of materials, such as wax and glass, so skillfully that they can scarcely be distinguished from natural flowers. In making such models, painstaking skill and artistry are called for, as well as thorough knowledge of plant structure. The collection of glass flowers in the Botanical Museum of Harvard University is the most famous in North America and is widely known throughout the scientific world. In all, there are several thousand models in colored glass, the work of two artists-naturalists, Leopold Blaschka and his son Rudolph.
The intention was to have the collection represent at least one member of each flower family native to the United States. Although it was never completed, it contains more than seven hundred species representing 164 families of flowering plants, a group of fruits showing the effect of fungus diseases, and thousands of flower parts and magnified details. Every detail of these is accurately reproduced in color and structure. The models ate kept in locked cases, as they are too valuable and fragile for classroom use.
Which of the following is NOT included in the display at the Botanical Museum of Harvard University

A:Models of 164 families of flowering plants. B:Magnified details of flower parts. C:Several species of native birds. D:A group of diseased fruits.

Passage One
Stories don’t just happen ; they are created. There are no stories in the everyday course of events; there are only the ingredients for stories. A dozen people may watch a man standing on the fifth-floor ledge or a small child crying. There is no story involved in either case unless one of the dozen chooses to make one up—to surround the isolated event with a beginning and an end, thereby giving what we call a meaning to human action. In other words, there has to be a story-maker--a story-teller--if there is to be a story.
You as the story-maker or writer are in complete control of all of the details of your story. You have control over who the characters are, what they do, and why they do it. You also have control over how the story is to be told and who is going to tell it. You can adopt one of a number of points of view, each of which will give a quite different total story.
Broadly speaking, there are two major approaches a writer can take: (1) you can present the story as if told by someone who is completely outside it, or (2) you can present the story as if told by one of its characters. In either case, the teller’s role is an assumed role.
The author of this passage uses ingredients to mean ______.

A:creative features B:unimportant details C:misleading facts D:raw materials

If you enjoy looking through travel books by such familiar authors as Arthur Former or Eugene Fodor, it will not surprise you to lean that travel writing has a long and venerable history. Almost from the earliest annals of recorded time individuals have found ready audiences for their accounts of journeys to strange and exotic locales.
One of the earliest travel writers, a Greek geographer and historian named Strabo, lived around the time of Christ. Though Strabo is known to have traveled from east of the Black Sea west to Italy and as far south as Ethiopia, he also used details gleaned from other writers to extend and enliven his accounts. His multivolumed work Geography provides the only surviving account of the cities, peoples, customs, and geographical peculiarities of the whole known world of his time.
Two other classic travel writers, the Italian Marco Polo and the Moroccan Ibn Battutah, lived in roughly the same time period. Marco Polo traveled to China with his father and uncle in about A. D. 1275 and remained there 16 or 17 years, visiting several other countries during his travels. When Marco returned to Italy he dictated his memoirs, including stories he had heard from others, to a scribe, with the resulting book The million being an instant success. Though difficult to attest to the accuracy of all he says, Marco’s book impelled Europeans to begin their great voyages of exploration.
Ibn Battutah’s interest in travel began on his required Muslim journey to Mecca in 1325, and during his lifetime he journeyed through all the countries where Islam held sway. His travel book the Rihlah is a personalized account of desert journeys, court intrigues, and even the effect of the Black Death in the various lands he visited. In almost 30 years of traveling it is estimated that Ibn Battutah covered more than 75,000 miles.

The overall organization of this passage is through （　）.

A:chronological order B:spatial description C:travel writers’ personal narratives D:persuasive details

If you enjoy looking through travel books by such familiar authors as Arthur Frommer or Eugene Fodor, it will not surprise you to learn that travel writing has a long and venerable history. Almost from the earliest annals of recorded time individuals have found ready audiences for their accounts of journeys to strange and exotic locales.
One of the earliest travel writers, a Greek geographer and historian named Strabo, lived around the time of Christ. Though Strabo is known to have traveled from east of the Black Seawest to Italy and as far south as Ethiopia, he also used details gleaned from other writers to extend and enliven his accounts. His multivolumed work Geography provides the only surviving account of the cities, peoples, customs, and geographical peculiarities of the whole known world of his time.
Two other classic travel writers, the Italian Marco Polo and the Moroccan Ibn Battutah, lived in roughly the same time period. Marco Polo traveled to China with his father and uncle in about A. D. 1275 and remained there 16 or 17 years, visiting several other countries during his travels. When Marco returned to Italy he dictated his memoirs, including stories he had heard from others, to a scribe, with the resulting book [[ millione being an instant success. Though difficult to attest to the accuracy of all he says, Marco’s book impelled Europeans to begin their great voyages of exploration.
Ibn Battutah’s interest in travel began on his required Muslim journey to Mecca in 1325, and during his lifetime he journeyed through all the countries where Islam held sway. His travel book the Rihlah is a personalized account of desert journeys, court intrigues, and even the effect of the Black Death in the various lands he visited. In almost 30 years of traveling it is estimated that Ibn Battutah covered more than 75,000 miles.
The overall organization of this passage is through______

A:travel writers’ personal narratives B:persuasive details C:spatial description D:chronological order

(二)

Artificial flowers are used for scientific as well as for decorative purposes. They are made from a variety of materials, such as wax and glass, so skillfully that they can scarcely be distinguished from natural flowers. In making such models, painstaking and artistry are called for, as well as thorough knowledge of plant structure. The collection of glass flowers in the Botanical Museum of Harvard University is the most famous in North America and is widely known throughout the scientific world. In all, there are several thousand models in colored glass, the work of two artist-naturalists, Leopold Blaschka and his son Rudolph.
The intention was to have the collection represent at least one member of each flower family native to the United States. Although it was never completed. It contains more than seven hundred species representing 164 families of flowering plants, a group of fruits showing the effect of fungus diseases, and thousands of flower parts and magnified details. Every detail of these is accurately reproduced in color and structure. The models are kept in locked cases as they are too valuable and fragile for classroom use.

Which of the following is NOT included in the display at the Botanical Museum of Harvard University（）

A:Models of 164 families of flowering plants. B:Magnified details of flower parts. C:Several species of native birds. D:A group of diseased fruits.