We can begin our discussion of"population as global issue"with what most persons mean when they discuss"the populationproblem":too many people on earth and a too rapid increase in the number added each year.The facts are not in dispute,It wasquite right to employ the analogy that likened demographic growth to"a long,thin powder fuse that burns steadily and haltinglyuntil it finally reaches the charge and explodes."To understand the current situation,which is characterized by rapid increases in population,it is necessary to understand thehistory of population trends.Rapid growth is a comparatively recent phenomenon.Looking back at the 8,000 years ofdemographic history,we find that populations have been virtually stable or growing very slightly for most of human history.For most of our ancestors,life was hard,often nasty,and very short.There was high fertility in most places,but this wasusually balanced by high mortality.For most of human history,it was seldom the case that one in ten persons would live pastforty,while infancy and childhood were especially risky periods.Often,societies were in clear danger of extinction becausedeath rates could exceed their birthrates.Thus,the population problem throughout most of history was how to preventextinction of the human race.This pattern is important to notice.Not only does it put the current problems of demographic growth into a historicalperspective,but it suggests that the cause of rapid increase in population in recent years is not a sudden enthusiasm for morechildren,but an improvement in the conditions that traditionally have caused high mortality.Demographic history can be divided into two major periods:a time of long,slow growth which extended from about 8,000BC.till approximately AD.1650.In the first period of some 9600 years,the population increased from some 8 million to 500million in 1650.Between 1650 and the present,the population has increased from 500 million to more than 4 billion.And it isestimated that by theyear 2000 there will be 6.2 billion people throughout the world.One way to appreciate this dramatic difference in such abstractnumbers is to reduce the time frame to something that is more manageable.Between 8000BC and 1650,an average of only50,000 persons was being added annually to the world's population each year.At present,this number is added every six hours.The increase is about 80,000,000 persons annually.1.Which of the following demographic growth pattern isB.About 50,000 babies are born every six hours at present.most suitable for the long thin powder fuse analogy?C.Between 8000 BC and the present,the population increaseA.A virtually stable or slightly decreasing period and then ais about 80,000,000 persons each year.sudden explosion of population.D.The population increased faster between 8000BC andB.A slow growth for a long time and then a period of rapid,1650 than between 1650 and the present.dramatic increase.C.Too many people on earth and a few rapid increase in the4.The author of the passage intends tonumber added each year.A.warn people against the population explosion in the nearD.A long period when death rates exceeds birthrates and thenfuture.a short period with higher fertility and lower mortality.B.compare the demographic growth pattern in the past withthat after 1650.2.During the first period of demographic history,societiesC.find out the cause for rapid increase in population in recentwere often in danger of extinction becauseyears.A.only one in ten persons could live past 40.D.present us a clear and complete picture of the demographicB.there was higher mortality than fertility in most places.growth.C.it was too dangerous to have babies due to the poorconditions.5.The word"demographic"in the first paragraph meansD.our ancestors had little enthusiasm for more children.A.statistics of human.B.surroundings study3.Which statement is true about population increase?C.accumulation of human.A.There might be an increase of 2.2 billion persons fromD.development of human.now to the year 2000.答案：ABADA2Most of us are taught to pay attention to what is said-the words.Words do provide us with some information,but meaningsare derived from so many other sources that it would hinder our effectiveness as a partner to a relationship to rely too heavilyon words alone.Words are used to describe only a small part of the many ideas we associate with any given message.Sometimes we can gain insight into some of those associations if we listen for more than words.We don't always say what wemean or mean what we say.Sometimes our words don't mean anything except"I'm letting off some steam.I don't really wantyou to pay close attention to what I'm saying.Just pay attention to what I'm feeling."Mostly we mean several things at once.Aperson wanting to purchase a house says to the current owner,"This step has to be fixed before I'll buy."The owner says,"It'sbeen like that for years."Actually,the step hasn't been like that for years,but the unspoken message is:"I don't want to fix it.We put up with it.Why can't you?"The search for a more expansive view of meaning can be developed of examining amessage in terms of who said it,when it occurred,the related conditions or situation,and how it was said.When a message occurs can also reveal associated meaning.Let us assume two couples do exactly the same amount ofkissing and arguing.But one couple always kisses after an argument and the other couple always argues after a kiss.Theordering of the behaviors may mean a great deal more than the frequency of the behavior.A friend's unusually docile behaviormay only be understood by noting that it was preceded by situations that required an abnormal amount of assertiveness.Someresponses may be directly linked to a developing pattern of responses and defy logic.For example,a person who says"No!"toa serials of charges like"You're dumb,""You're lazy,"and"You're dishonest,"may also say"No!"and try to justify his or herresponse if the next statement is"And you're good looking."We would do well to listen for how messages are presented.The words,"If sure has been nice to have you over,"can be saidwith emphasis and excitement or ritualistically.The phrase can be said once or repeated several times.And the meanings weassociate with the phrase will change accordingly.Sometimes if we say something infrequently it assumes more importance;sometimes the more we say something the less importance it assumes.1.Effective communication is rendered possible betweenC.the condition of the step is only a minor fault.two conversing partners,ifD.the cost involved in the fixing should be shared.A.they use proper words to carry their ideas.B.they both speak truly of their own feelings.4.Some responses and behaviors may appear very illogical,C.they try to understand each other's ideas beyond words.but are justifiable ifD.they are capable of associating meaning with their words.A.linked to an abnormal amount of assertiveness.B.seen as one's habitual pattern of behavior.2."I'm letting off some steam"in paragraph I means_C.taken as part of an ordering sequence.A.I'm just calling your attention.D.expressed to a series of charges.B.I'm just kidding.C.I'm just saying the opposite.5.The word "ritualistically"in the last paragraph equalsD.I'm just giving off some sound.something doneA.without true intention3.The house-owner's example shows that he actuallyB.light-heartedly.means_C.in a way of ceremony.A.the step has been like that for years.D.with less emphasis.B.he doesn't think it necessary to fix the step.答案：DBABC3A controversy erupted in the scientific community in early 1998 over the use of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid )fingerprintingin criminal investigations.DNA fingerprinting was introduced in 1987 as a method to identify individuals based on a patternseen in their DNA,the molecule of which genes are made.DNA is present in every cell of the body except red blood cells.DNA fingerprinting has been used successfully in various ways,such as to determine paternity where it is not clear who thefather of a particular child is.However,it is in the area of criminal investigations that DNA fingerprinting has potentiallypowerful and controversial uses.DNA fingerprinting and other DNA analysis techniques have revolutionized criminal investigations by giving investigatorspowerful new tools in the attempt to trove guilt,not just establish innocence.When used in criminal investigations,a DNAfingerprint pattern from a suspect is compared with a DNA fingerprint pattern obtained from such material as hairs or bloodfound at the scene of a crime.A match between the two DNA samples can be used as evidence to convict a suspect.The controversy in 1998 stemmed form a report published in December 1991 by population geneticists Richard C.Lewontin of Harvard University in Cambridge,Mass.,and Daniel L.Hartl called into question the methods to calculate howlikely it is that a match between two DNA fingerprints might occur by chance alone.In particular,they argued that the currentmethod cannot properly determine the likelihood that two DNA samples will match because they came from the sameindividual rather than simply from two different individuals who are members of the same ethnic group.Lewontin and Hartlcalled for better surveys of DNA patterns methods are adequate.In response to their criticisms,population geneticists Ranajit Chakraborty of the University of Texas in Dallas and KennethK.Kidd of Yale University in New Haven,Conn.,argued that enough data are already available to show that the methodscurrently being used are adequate.In January 1998,however,the federal Bureau of Investigation and laboratories that conductDNA tests announced that they would collect additional DNA samples form various ethnic groups in an attempt to resolvesome of these questions.And,in April,a National Academy of Sciences called for strict standards and system of accreditationfor DNA testing laboratories.1.Before DNA fingerprinting is used,suspects_A.would have to leave their fingerprints for further2.DNA fingerprinting can be unreliable wheninvestigationsA.the methods used for blood-cell calculation are notB.would have to submit evidence for their innocenceaccurateC.could easily escape conviction of guiltB.two different individuals of the same ethnic group mayD.cold be convicted of guilt as wellhave the same DNA fingerprinting patternC.a match is by chance left with fingerprints that happen tocoming from two individual membersbelong to two different individualsB.enough data of DNA samples should be collected toD.two different individuals leave two DNA samples.confirm that only DNA samples form the same person canmatch3.To geneticists like Lewontin and Hartl,the currentC.enough data are yet to be collected from various ethnicmethodgroups to determine the likelihood of two different DNAA.is not so convincing as to exclude the likelihood that twosamples coming form the same personDNA samples can never come from two individualsD.additional samples from various ethnic groups should beB.is arguable because two individuals of the same ethniccollected to determine that two DNA samples are unlikely togroup are likely to have the same DNA pattern.come from the same personC.Is not based on adequate scientific theory of geneticsD.Is theoretically contradictory to what they have been5.National Academy of Sciences holds the stance thatstudyingA.DNA testing should be systematizedB.Only authorized laboratories can conduct DNA testing4.The attitude of the Federal Bereau of Investigation showsC.The academy only is authorized to work out standards forthattestingA.enough data are yet to be collected form various ethnicD.The academy has the right to accredit laboratories forgroups to confirm the unlikelihood of two DNA samplesDNA testing答案：CBABBRacket,din clamor,noise,whatever you want to call it,unwanted sound is America's most widespread nuisance.But noise ismore than just a nuisance.It constitutes a real and present danger to people's health.Day and night,at home,at work,and atplay,noise can produce serious physical and psychological stress.No one is immune to this stress.Though we seem to adjust tonoise by ignoring it,the ear,in fact,never closes and the body still responds-sometimes with extreme tension,as to a strangesound in the night.The annoyance we feel when faced with noise is the most common outward symptom of the stress building up inside us.Indeed,because irritability is so apparent,legislators have made public annoyance the basis of many noise abatement programs.The more subtle and more serious health hazards associated with stress caused by noise traditionally have been given much lessattention.Nevertheless,when we are annoyed or made irritable by noise,we should consider these symptoms fair warning thatother thing may be happening to us,some of which may be damaging to our health.Of many health hazards to noise,hearing loss is the most clearly observable and measurable by health professionals.Theother hazards are harder to pin down.For many of us,there may be a risk that exposure to the stress of noise increasessusceptibility to disease and infection.The more susceptible among us may experience noise as a complicating factor in heartproblems and other diseases.Noise that causes annoyance and irritability in health persons may have serious consequences forthese already ill in mind or body.Noise affects us throughout our lives.For example,there are indications of effects on the unborn child when mothers areexposed to industrial and environmental noise.During infancy and childhood,youngsters exposed to high noise levels mayhave trouble falling asleep and obtaining necessary amounts of rest.Why,then,is there not greater alarm about these dangers?Perhaps it is because the link between noise and many disabilitiesor diseases has not yet been conclusively demonstrated.Perhaps it is because we tend to dismiss annoyance as a price to pay forliving in the modern world.It may also be because we still think of hearing loss as only an occupational hazard.1.In Paragraph 1,the phrase "immune to"are used toB.Although noise can be annoying,it is not a major problem.meanC.Noise is a major problem and has not yet been recognizedA.unaffected byas such.B.hurt byD.Noise is a major problem about which nothing can be done.C.unlikely to be seen byD.unknown by4.The author condemns noise essentially because itA.is against the law2.The author's attitude toward noise would best be describedB.can make some people irritableas_C.is a nuisanceA.unrealisticD.in a ganger to people's healthB.traditionalC.concerned5.The author would probably consider research about theD.hystericaleffects noise has on people to be_A.unimportant3.Which of the following best states the main idea of theB.impossible.passage?C.a waste of moneyA.Noise is a major problem;most people recognize itsD.essentialimportance.答案：ACCDDIs language,like food,like food,a basic human need without which a child at a critical period of life can be starved anddamaged?Judging from the drastic experiment of Frederick I in the thirteenth century,it may be hoping to discover whatlanguage a child would speak if he heard no mother tongue,he told the nurses to keep silent.All the infants died before the first year.But clearly there was more than lack of language here.What was missing was goodmothering.Without good mothering,in the first year of life especially,the capacity to survive is seriously affected.Today no such severe lack exists as that ordered by Frederick.Nevertheless,some children are still backward in speaking.Most often the reason for this is that the mother is insensitive to the signals of the infant,whose brain is programmed to learnlanguage rapidly.If these sensitive periods are neglected,the ideal time for acquiring skills passes and they might never belearned so easily again.A bird learns to sing and to fly rapidly at right time,but the process is slow and hard once the criticalstage has passed.Experts suggest that speech stages are reached in a fixed sequence and at a constant age,but there are cases where speech hasstarted late in a child who eventually turns out to be of high IQ.At twelve weeks a baby smiles and makes bowel-like sounds:at twelve months he can speak simple words and understand simple commands;at eighteen months he has a vocabulary of threeto fifty words.At three he knows about 1,000 words which he can put into sentences,and at four his language differs from thatof his parents in born with the capacity to speak.What is special about man's brain,compared with that of the monkey,is thecomplex system which enables a child to commect the sight and feel of,say,a toy-bear with the sound pattern "toy-bear".And even more incredible is the young brain's ability to pick out an order in language from the mixture of sound around him,toanalyse,to combine and recombine the parts of a language in new ways.But speech has to be induced,and this depends on interaction between the mother and the child,where the mother recognizesthe signals in the child's babbling,grasping and smiling,and responds to them.Insensitivity of the mother to these signals dullsthe interaction because the child gets discouraged and sends out only the obvious signals,.Sensitivity to the child's non-verbalsignals is essential to the growth and development of language.1.The purpose of Frederick I's experiment was.3.What is particularly remarkable about a child is thatA.to prove that children are born with ability to speakA.he is born with the capacity to speakB.to discover what language a child would speak withoutB.he has a brain more complex than an animal'shearing any human speakC.he can produce his own sentencesC.to find out what role careful nursing would play inD.he owes his speech ability to good nursingteaching a child to speakD.to prove that a child could be damaged without learning a4.Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?languageA.The faculty of speech is inborn in man.B.The child's brain is highly selective.2.The reason that some children are backward in speaking isC.Most children learn their language in definite stages.most likely thatD.All the aboveA.they are incapable of learning language rapidlyB.they are exposed to too much language at once5.If a child starts to speak later than others,he willinC.their mothers respond inadequately to their attempts tofuture.speakA.have a high IQB.be less intelligentD.their mothers are not intelligent enough to help themC.be insensitive to verbal signalsD.not necessarily be backward答案：BCCDD6Everyone has a moment in history,which belongs particularly to him.It is the moment when his emotions achieve their mostpowerful sway over him,and afterward when you say to this person"the world today"or"life"or"reality"he will assume thatyou mean this moment,even if it is fifty years past.The world,through his unleashed (emotions,imprinted itself uponhim,and he carries the stamp of that passing moment forever.For me,this moment-four years in a moment in history-was the war.The war was and is reality for me.I still instinctivelylive and think in its atmosphere.These are some of its characteristics:Franklin Delano Roosevelt is the president of the UnitedStates,and he always has been.The other two eternal world leaders are Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin.America is not,never has been,and never will be what the song and poems call it,a land of plenty.Nylon,meat,gasoline,and steel are rare.There are too many jobs and not enough workers.Money is very easy to earn but rather hard to spend,because there isn't verymuch to buy.Trains are always late and always crowded with "service men".The war will always be fought very far fromAmerica,and it will never end.Nothing in America stands still for very long,including the people who are always eitherleaving or on leave.People in America cry often.Sixteen is the key and crucial and natural age for a human being to be,andpeople of all other ages are ranged in an orderly manner ahead of and behind you as a harmonious setting for thesixteen-year-olds of the world.When you are sixteen,adults are slightly impressed and almost intimidated by you.This is apuzzle finally solved by the realization that they foresee your military future:fighting for them.You do not foresee it.To wasteanything in America is immoral.String and tinfoil are treasures.Newspapers are always crowed with strange maps and namesof towns,and every few months the earth seems to lurch from its path when you see something in the newspaperssuch as the time Mussolini,who almost seemed one of the eternal leaders,is photographed hanging upside down on a meathook.1.Which statement best depicts the main idea of the firstB.It was real for him because he was a soldier at that time.paragraph?C.It was very unreal to him.A.Reality is what you make of it.D.The war was very disruptive to the people at home.B.Time is like a river.C.Emotions are powerful.4.Why does the author think that adults are impressed withD.Every person has a special moment.sixteen-year-olds?A.Adults would like to be young.2.Why does the author still clearly remember the war?B.Sixteen-year-olds do not waste things.A.Franklin Delano Roosevelt was President.C.Sixteen-year-olds read newspapers.B.It was his personal reality and part of his life.D.They will be fighting soon for adults.C.There was not much to buy.D.The war would never end.5.Why does the author say that string and tinfoil are treasures?3.Which statement best describes the author's feelings aboutB.They are useful to sixteen-year-olds.the war?C.He liked them when he was sixteen.A.It was ever real for him,yet he was not actively involved.D.People are very wasteful.答案：DBADAIn general,,our society is becoming one of giant enterprises directed by a bureaucratic(官僚主义的)management in whichman becomes a small,well-oiled cog in the machinery.The oiling is done with higher wages,Nell-ventilated factories andpiped music,and by psychologists and "human-relations"experts;yet all this oiling does not alter the fact that man hasbecome powerless,that he is bored with it.In fact,the blue and the white-collar workers have become economic puppets whodance to the tune of automated machines and bureaucratic management.The worker and employee are anxious,not only because they might find themselves out of a job;they are anxious alsobecause they are unable to acquire any real satisfaction of interesting life.They live an die without ever having confronted thefundamental realities of human existence as emotionally and intellectually independent and productive human beings.Those higher up on the social ladder are no less anxious.Their lives are no less empty than those of their subordinates.Theyare even more insecure in some respects.They are in a highly competitive race.To be promoted or to fall behind is not a matterof salary but even more a matter of self-respect.When they apply for their first job,they are tested for intelligence as well as forthe right mixture of submissiveness and independence.From the moment on they are tested again and again -by thepsychologists,for whom testing is a big business,and by their superiors,who judge their behavior,sociability,capacity to getalong,etc.This constant need to prove that one is as good as or better than one's fellow-competitor creates constant anxietyand stress,the very causes of unhappiness and illness.Am I suggesting that we should return to the preidustrial mode of production or to nineteenth-century "free enterprise"capitalism?Certainly not.Problems are never solved by returning to a stage which one has already outgrown.I suggesttransforming our social system form a bureaucratically managed industrialism in which maximal production and consumptionare ends in themselves into a humanist industrialism in which man and full development of his potentialities-those of all loveand of reason-are the aims of social arrangements.Production and consumption should serve only as means to this end,andshould be prevented from ruling man.1.By"a well-oiled cog in the machinery "the author intendsD.they are deprived of their individuality and independenceto deliver the idea that man isA.a necessary part of the society though each individual's3.From the passage we can conclude that real happiness offunction is negligiblelife belongs to those.B.working in complete harmony with the rest of the societyA.who are at the bottom of the societyC.an unimportant part in comparison with the rest of theB.who are higher up in their social statussocietyC.who prove better than their fellow-competitorsD.a humble component of the society,especially whenD.who could dip far away from this competitive worldworking smoothly4.To solve the present social problems the author puts2.The real cause of the anxiety of the workers and employeesforuard a suggestion that we shouldis thatA.resort to the production mode of our ancestorsA.they are likely to lose their hobsB.offer higher wages to the workers and employeesB.they have no genuine satisfaction or interest in lifeC.enable man to fully develop his potentialitiesC.they are faced with the fundamental realities of humanD.take the fundamental realities for grantedexistence