B. this was the only cloth he had
C. miners wanted pants which could stand rough work
D. cowboys liked their pants to fit tightly
5. Which of the following sentences is NOT true?
A. It was Levi who started the business of making blue jeans.
B. It was one tailor who started making blue jeans.
C. It was in California that blue jeans first became popular.
D. It was in California that gold was discovered.
Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage or dialog.
Rote-learning (死记硬背), spoon-fed education, produces a brand of kids that don't know what to do when entering university. They are disciplined into following, not leading. Yet the future depends on creativity and imagination. The world needs creators, makers and shakers of the new centuries, not the followers of the past centuries. As the numbers increase at college and university level, more students from the lower ends are likely to be thrown into a process designed to choose only learners that have proved excellent in listening to teachers.
There are three ways to learn: looking, listening and doing.
Students and teachers today are a product of learning by listening. The computer may not be liked by traditional teachers, who use rote-learning to put information, which will be out of date in a few years, into the heads of the students. With computer learning you learn by looking, listening and doing; you use three methods of learning, not just one. Therefore, you can learn faster.
The changing speed of information is frightening. What we learn now will be out of date in the near future. So what students are learning now at school may be replaced by the time they finish university. We have to learn by choice what to forget. Rote-learning for exams is one thing, but wouldn't it be better to learn how to learn? The students at university today could possibly be doing a job in the not too distant future which has not yet been invented. 6.
According to the author, the future doesn't need ____________. A. creativity
B. imagination
C. creators
D. followers
7. In the author's view, how can students learn well? A. Carefully listen to the teacher in class.
B. Take down every single word said by the teacher.
C. Learn all the notes by heart.
D. Combine listening with looking and doing.
8. What does the author mean by \A. We don't have enough time to adjust ourselves to the speed of information.
B. What we learned today may not be useful tomorrow.
C. The pace of life is too fast.
D. The world is changing every minute.
9. What does the last sentence of the passage tell us? A. Rote-learning is completely harmful.
B. Students may have to do jobs which are not yet in existence.
C. It's better to learn how to learn than learn what to forget.
D. Students must imagine the future.
10. The author's attitude towards rote-learning is _________. A. approving
B. disapproving
C. confident
D. opposite to what the words say
Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage or dialog.
Since the late 1960s a growing number of women have expressed a strong dissatisfaction with any marriage arrangement in which the husband and his career are the most important considerations in the marriage. By the end of the 1970s, for example, considerably less than half of the women in the United States still believed that they would put their husbands and children ahead of their own careers.
More and more American women have come to believe that they should be equal partners in their marriages. This stage of marriage, although still unusual in most American marriages at present, will grow most rapidly in the future. In an equal marriage, the wife gets a full-time job or career which has equal importance to her husband's. The long-standing division of labor between husband and wife comes to an end. The husband is no longer the main provider of family income, and the wife no longer has the main responsibilities for household duties and raising children. Husband and wife share all these duties equally. Power over family decisions is also shared equally.
The rapid change in women's attitudes toward marriage in the 1970s reflected the rapid changes in the larger society. The Women's Liberation Movement appeared in the late 1960s, demanding an end to all forms of prejudice against females. An Equal Rights Amendment (修正案) to the US Constitution was proposed which would make any form of prejudice on the basis of sex illegal, and though it has failed to be confirmed, it continues to have millions of supporters. 11.
Since the late 1960s more women have been dissatisfied with the marriage in which __________________. A. they are unhappy
B. they are in a lower position
C. only the husband earns money
D. the wife only takes care of the household
12. What is the long-standing division of labor between husband and wife in America? A. Husband―provider, wife―domestic duties.
B. Husband and wife share the housework.
C. Husband and wife have equal responsibility.
D. Husband plays a higher role than the wife
13. Which statement is NOT true about the new type of marriage?
A. Husband and wife share all their duties equally.
B. Wife can also make the decisions in the family.
C. Wife earns their living while husband does the housework.
D. Husband is also responsible for raising children.
14. Women's attitudes toward marriage involve ____________________. A. the Women's Liberation Movement
B. forbidding any form of prejudice against women
C. the changing roles of husband and wife in the marriage
D. all of the above
15. Which of the following describes the general idea for this passage? A. The Changing Patterns of Americans' Marriage.
B. An Ideal Marriage.
C. The Women's Liberation Movement.
D. The need for Equal Rights between Husband and Wife.
Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage or dialog.
If the population of the Earth goes on increasing at its present rate, there will eventually not be enough resources left to support life on the planet. One possible solution to the problem has recently been suggested by an American scientist, Professor Carl Sagan: he believes that before the Earth's resources are completely used up it will be possible to change the atmosphere (大气圈) of Venus (金星) and so create a new world almost as large as the Earth itself. The difficulty is that Venus is much hotter than the Earth and has only a tiny amount of water.
Sagan suggests that algae (藻类), plant life that can live in extremely hot or cold atmospheres and at the same time produce oxygen, should be produced in conditions similar to those on Venus. The algae will be placed in small rockets. Spaceships will then fly to Venus and fire the rockets into the atmosphere. In a fairly short time, the algae will break down the gasses in the atmosphere and change them into oxygen that people can breathe. But before man can set foot on Venus, it will be necessary for the oxygen to produce rain to cool the planet, so that after a few years conditions like those on Earth will be produced.
