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Section II Vocabulary and Structure ( 10 points)
Directions: There are 20 incomplete sentences in this section. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence. Then blacken 'the corresponding Letter on the ANSWER SHEET I with wa pencil.
21. This is not a good plant for your garden________its seeds are poisonous.
A. like that B. in that
C. so that D. now that
22. It is politely requested by the hotel management that 'radios__________after ll o'clock at night.
A. were not played B. not be played
C. not to play D. did not play
23. That he__________speak to you like that is quite astonishing.
A. shall B. should
C. would D. could
24. Had I remembered __ the windows, the bag would not have been taken away.
A. to close B. closing
C. to have closed D. having closed
25. Helen was much kinder to her younger child than she was to the others,__________, of course,made the others jealous.
A. with B. that
C. what D. which
26. He insisted on the windows_________open while he was sleeping.
A. left B. being left
C. leaving D. be left
27. Romeo and Juliet is a story told by many writers before Shakespeare but never__________in this play.
A. good enough as B. as good as
C. hardly good as D. as well as
28. Cancer is second only__________ heart disease as a cause of death.
A. of B. to
C. with D. from
29. I felt somewhat disappointed and was about to leave__________ something occurred which attracted my attention.
A. unless B. until
C. when D. while ,
30. Only under special circumstances___________to take make-up tests.
A. are freshmen permitted B. permitted are freshmen C. freshmen are permitted D. are permitted freshmen
31. The price of beer__________ from 50 cents to $4 per liter during the summer season.
A. ranged B. differed
C. altered D. separated
32. When he realized the police had spotted him, the man__________the exit as quickly as possible.
A. made off B. made for
C. made out D. made up.
33. These goods are___________for export, though a few of them may be sold on the home market.
A. essentially B. completely
C. necessarily D. remarkably
34. The war was just over, so throughout the country clothing was the_______of greatest complaint, housing followed, and food was last.
A. resource B. source
C. cause D. problem
35. Each year in this factory tons of wastes materials have to be____________of, which causes pollution of the land, sea and air.
A. thrown away B. deserted
C. disposed D. detached
36. I was_________on my way home last night, and all the money was taken away.
A. held on ' B. held up
C. held off D. held back
37. The two companies are trying to__________the serious problems created by the economic crisis.
A. put up with B. submit to
C. yield to D. cope with
38. The headmaster asked his secretary to__________a hundred copies of this article on the duplicating machine.
A. run down B. run into
C. run over D. mn off
39. By producing an excess amount of some household articles, a New England colonial family could__________with other families.
A. barter B. share
C. sell D. purchase
40. More responsibility and higher salaries are________for on-the-job training.
A. implicitness B. incentives
C. privileges D. application

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Section III Cloze (5 points)

　　Directions: For each numbered blank in the following passage, there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET 1.

　　One week you're writing up memos, the next you're packing up your desk. What clues might tell you you're on the firing line? Check out these situations for pink-slip potential:

　　Your company is being acquired.___41____corporate pronouncements of" a combination of equals," if your company is being bought, it's not an equal partner -- and employees of the acquiree tend to get the shaft (轻信) . Hint: Ifthe new deal changes your company's name or your title, but the new corporation is slow to issue you___42___business cards, start reviewing your r6 sum6.

　　You're under new management and the person who's become your boss hasn't made an effort to elicit your ideas. New_____43_____often make a clean sweep of old staff. You may be dust if your supervisor is supercritical of everything you do --____44____ worse, if she completely ignores you.

　　You____45____out of the loop. Are you no longer being invited to_____46_____ meetings or getting important memos? Does your supervisor hem and how____47___ you ask for long4erm assignments?Is your performance review delayed indefinitely? If you____48___that something's not right, it probably isn't.

　　The economy has gotten the better of your department. View your business the way management does.

　　Look at the revenue breakdowns in the company's quarterly____49___statement.If your division's profit outlook is bleak,____50___ may be your future with the company.

41. A. Even B. Despite C. Though D. in case

42. A. its B. new C. some D. certain

43. A. leaders B. bosses C. brooms D. employees

44. A. if B. or C. but D. more

45. A. feel B. find C. put D. run

46. A. attend' B. those C. crucial D. other

47. A. after B. before C. while D. when

48. A. judge B. hope C. sense D. wish

49. A. monthly B. financial C. economical D. economic

50. A. and ' B. then C. so D. as Section IV Reading Comprehension (40 points)

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Part A

　　Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A , B, C, and D, you should decide on the best choice and blacken the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET I with a pencil.

Questions 51 to 54'are based on the following passage:

　　It is a fact 'that young men are more romantic than young women. Young men fall in love at the drop of a hat.' Young women, on the other hand, are much more pragmatic when it comes to choosing mamage partners. Men consider that being with their parmers is sufficient to express their love. Whereas women consider a man romantic only ifthe word love is always on his lips.

　　Men attach more importance to marriage than women do, and there are fewer male celibates (独身者). Moreover, men find more satisfaction in marriage. A survey found that 87% of the men questioned said that if they married again they would choose the same partners, whereas 76% of the women questioned said the same.

　　Men feel pain, but they handle it in a different way from women. It is true that after divorce they will not lose control of themselves by crying bitterly, but they suffer more from stomach disorders, plunge into alcoholism and cause traffic accidents. Another survey found that divorced men can only overcome their emotional pain by means of physical exercise.

　　Men generally dislike admitting that they need other people. They regard admitting loneliness as weakness, as ridiculous and as an expression of a lack of manliness. The fact that men do not like to talk about loneliness does not mean that they never feel lonely. And men do have a good reason for avoiding the topic of loneliness, because they fear that others will usually look down on them. However, if a woman confides in someone that she is lonely, far from looking down on her, people will be very willing to help her.

　　Ninety-four percent of men wish to change their image. A study found that a man's self-esteem is often directly connected with his outward appearance. Thin and small men often regard themselves as punny and easily sink into depression.

　　Men generally think of themselves as decision-makers, and not as shoulders to cry on. So when a person pours out his or her troubles to a man, the latter hastens to give advice. It would be better if he simply lent a sympathetic ear.

51. Which of the following is a proper title of the passage?
A. Do You Really Understand Men? B. The difference between men and women
C. Do you want to change your gender? D. Men versus women

52. According to the passage,_______
A. men are more romantic than women
B. men are more likely to be satisfied with marriage than women
C. men do not like handling things in a different way from women
D. men are more likely to divorce than women

53. Usually a man thinks that admitting loneliness may_______
A. make him become more lonely B. show that he is not manly
C. make others look down upon themselves D. lead to the help from others

54. According to the author, men________when a person talks with them about his or her worries.
A. always like to give some advices B. simply listen carefully
C. will never be a listener D. are policy makers

Questions 55 to 58 are based on the following passage:

　　Do people who choose to go on exotic, far-flung holidays deserve free health advice before they travel? And even if they pay, who ensures that they get good, up-to-date information? Who,for that matter, should collect that information in the first place? For a variety of reasons, travel medicine in Britain is a responsibility nobody wants. As a result, many travelers go abroad ill prepared to avoid serious disease.

　　Why is travel medicine so unloved? Partly there's an identity problem. Because it takes an interest in anything that impinges on the health of travelers, this emerging medical specialism invariably cuts across the traditional disciplines. It delves into everything from seasickness, jet lag and the hazards of camels to malaria and plague. But travel medicine has a more serious obstacle to overcome. Travel clinics are meant to tell people how. to avoid ending up dead or in a tropical diseases hospital when they come home. But it is notoriously difficult to get anybody to pay out money for keeping people healthy.

　　Travel medicine has also been colonized by commercial interests -- the vast majority of travel clinics in Britain are run by airlines or travel companies, And while travel concerns are happy to sell profitable injections, they may be less keen to spread bad news about travelers' diarrhea in Turkey, or to take the time to spell out preventive measures travelers could take. "The NHS finds it difficult :to define travelers' health," says Ron Behrens, the only NHS consultant in travel and tropical medicine and director of the travel clinic of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in London. "Should it come within the NHS or should it be paid for? It's a gray area, and opinion is split. No one seems to have any responsibility for defining its role," he says.

　　To compound its low status in the medical hierarchy, travel medicine has to rely on statistics that are patchy at best. In most cases we just don't know how many Britons contract diseases when abroad. And even if a disease is linked to travel there is rarely any information about where those afflicted went, what they ate, how they behaved, or which vaccinations they had. This shortage of hard facts and figures makes it difficult to give detailed advice to people, information that might even save their lives.

　　A recent leader in the British Medical Journal argued: "Travel medicine will emerge as a credible discipline only if the risks encountered by travelers and the relative benefits of public health interventions are well defined in terms of their relative occurrence, distribution and control." Exactly how much money is wasted by poor travel advice? The real figure is anybody's guess, but it could easily run into millions. Behrens gives one example. Britain spends more than ~ 1 million each year just on cholera vaccines that often don't work and so give people a false sense of security: "Information on the prevention and treatment of all forms of diarrhea would be a better priority," he says.

55. According to the passage, travel medicine in Britain is_______
A. not something that anyone wants to manage. B. the responsibility of the government.
C. administered by private doctors. D. handled adequately by travel agents.

56. The main purpose of travel companies' dealing with travel medicine is to_______
A. prevent people from falling iii. B. make money out of it.
C. give advice on specific countries. D. get the government to pay for itl

57. In Behren's opinion the question of who should run travel medicine________
A. is for the government to decide. B. should be left to specialist hospitals.
C. can be left to travel compames. D. has no clear and simple answer.

58. People may think better of travel medicine if_______
A. it is given more resources by the government.
B. more accurate information on its value is available.
C. the government takes over responsibility from the NHS.
D. travelers pay more attention to the advice they get.

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Questions 59 to 62 are based on the following passage:

　　In a recent survey, 25 percent of Americans said they believed that NASA (US National Aeronautics and Space Administration) had faked landingon the moon and humans had yet to walk upon its surface. Why do so many people believe such a foolish idea and is there any real evidence to support it?

Perhaps the most persuasive evidence that the Apollo missions were faked comes from inconsistencies in the photographs and films taken on the moon. Shadows in many of the pictures are cast not in straight parallel lines as from the Sun but as if they were from a nearby floodlight.

The list Of Apollo inconsistencies goes on and on, and so does NASA's explanations for them.As with most conspiracy theories, it's just a case of who you want to believe. So is there any unquestionable evidence that the Apollo missions really took place, that the most momentous landmark event in human history actually happened? Luckily the answer is in the rocks.

The Apollo missions returned 382 kilograms of rock and there is one thing that is absolutely clear: They are not from Earth. The oldest Apollo rocks, for example, are 4.44billion years old and thus formed some 640 million years before the oldest rocks found on Earth. The great age of the lunar rocks is because the moon, unlike our planet, is geologically dead. There would be no way to fake these rocks. Perhaps then the Apollo samples really aren't Earth rocks at all but some rare meteorite cleverly usedby NASA? However, the oxygen they contain is very different from known meteorites (except those from the moon) and similar to that of the Earth.

59. The word "fake"can be replaced by __
A. fate B. counterfeit C. taken D. supported

60. Why is it sure that the Apollo rocks are not from Earth?
A. They are too heavy. B. They are too huge.
C. They are older than the oldest rocks on Earth.
D. They are NASA samples.

61. Which of the following adjectives may best describe the author's view about the faking of the Apollo landings?
A. Negative. B. Subjective.
C. Objective. D. Confirmative.

62. Which of the following best summarizes the main idea of the passage?
A. Apollo missions were faked.
B. Moon rocks offer proof of landings of Apollo.
C. Apollo inconsistencies offer proof of landings.
D. A is not favored by common people.

Questions 63 to 65 are based on the following passage:

　　Social change is more likely to occur in heterogeneous societies than in homogeneous ones,simply because there are more diverse points of view available in the former. There are more ideas,more conflicts of interest, and more groups and organizations of different persuasions. In addition,there is usually a greater worldly interest and tolerance in heterogeneous societies. All these factors tend to promote social change by opening more areas of life to decision rather than subjecting them to authority. In a quite homogeneous society, there are fewer occasions for people to perceive the need or the opportunity for change, because everything seems to be the same and, if not satisfactory, at least customary and undisputed.
　
　　Within a society, social change is also likely to occur more frequently and more readily in the material aspects of the culture than in the non-material, for example, in technology rather than in values; in what has been learned later in life rather than what was learned early; in the less basic, less emotional, or less sacred aspects of society than in their opposites, like religion or a system of prestige; in the simple elements rather than in the complex ones; in form rather than in substance; and in elements congenial to the culture rather than in strange elements.

　　Furthermore, social change is easier if it is gradual. For example, it comes more readily in human relations on a continuous scale rather than one with sharp dichotomies. This is one reason why change has not come more quickly to Black Americans as compared to other American minorities, because of the sharp difference in appearance between them and their white counterparts.

63. According to the passage, the main difference between a homogeneous society and a heterogeneous one lies in_________
A. the number of opportunities offered B. the nature of conflicts of interest
C. the awareness of the need for change D. the role of social organizations

64. The author would most probably agree that changes are more likely to be successful in_______
A. production methods B. ideological concepts
C. religious beliefs D. social behaviour

65. The passage is mainly about_______
A. the nature of social changes
B. certain factors that determine social changes
C. certain factors that facilitate social changes
D. the difference between different social groups

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Part. B

　　Directions: Read the following passage carefully and then give short answers to the five questions.

　　Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET 2.

　　The construction of extremely bright sources of x-rays has been one of the great – and infrequently told--success stories of science and technology over the past few decades. These facilities, based on evacuated (抽成真空的) , circular tubes several hundred meters in diameter, carry electrons at nearly the speed of light, giving off brilliant bursts of radiation that enable experimenters to examine matter on a scale measured in atoms. Using this extraordinary light, scientists have gained invaluable insights into diverse objects and phenomena, including the structure of molecules, advanced semiconductors and magnetic materials, and the details of complex chemical reactions.

　　Such scientific achievements have been made possible by equally impressive engineering ,advances. Using the brightness of these x-ray sources as a yardstick (测量的尺度) , their rate of improvement since the early 1960s is matched by few other technologies. For example, the increase in computational speed available with the highest-performance computers is often mentioned as an example of the rapid pace of information-age progress. Yet the increase in brightness of the x-ray sources over the same period has occurred far faster.

　　The latest devices, examples of which have come on line over the past five years in various countries, are nearly 100 times brighter than anything built in the previous generation. In fact, these new sources are producing radiation a billion times brighter than that from the sun. Eight of these facilities are now operating, and another two are to begin operating in the near future.

　　Fueling this surge (高潮) in construction of new sources, despite price tags in the range of $100 million to $1 billion per site, is the promise of the most intimate look yet at the structure, composition and chemical bonding of crystals and molecules, in materials ranging from semiconductors to proteins.

　　The astonishing brightness of these devices means that their x-rays come from a source with an extremely small cross-sectional area and that they shine in a very narrow cone ( 圆锥体 ) . The x-rays come from electrons travelling in a bunch with a diameter about the same as that of a human hair.

66. The extremely bright sources of x-rays are based on_________

67. What has this extraordinary light helped scientists do?

68. The new sources of x-rays are producing radiation_________ than that from the sun.

69. All together, there are about_________ new sources operating or to begin operating around the world.

70. What is the size of the bunch of electrons -- the source of X-rays?

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Section V Translation ( 10 points)

　　Directions: In this section there is a passage in English. Translate the five sentences underlined　into Chinese and write your translation on the ANSWER SHEET 2.

Historical developments of the past half century andthe invention of, modern telecommunication and　transportation technologies have created a world economy: 71. Effectively the American economy has died and been replaced by a world economy.

　　In the future there is no such thing as being an American manager. Even someone who spends an entire management career in Kansas City is in international management. He or she will compete with foreign firms, buy from foreign firms, sell to foreign firms, or acquire financing from foreign banks.

72. The globalization of the world's capital markets that has occurred in the past l 0 years will be replicated right across the economy in the next decade. An international perspective has become central to management. Without it managers are operating in ignorance and cannot understand what is happening to them and their firms.

73. Partly because of globalization and partly because of demography, the work forces of the next century_ are going to be very different from those of the last century. Most firms will be employing more foreign nationals. More likely than not, you and your boss will not be of the same nationality. Demography and changing social mores mean that white males will become a smaller fraction of the work force as women and minorities grow in importance, All of these factors will require changes in the traditional methods of managing the work force.

74. In addition, the need to produce goods and services at quality levels previously thought impossible to obtain in mass production and the spreading use of participatory management techniques will require a work force with much higher levels of education and skills. Production workers must be able to do statistical quality control; production workers must be able to do just-in-time inventories. Managers are increasingly shifting from a ,don't think, do what you are told' to "think, I am not going to tell you what to do" style of management.

75. This shift is occurring not because today's managers are more enlightened than yesterday's managers but because the evidence is rapidly mounting that the second style of management is more productive than the first style of management But this means that problems of training motivating the work force both become more central and require different modes of behavior.

　　To be on top of this situation, tomorrow's managers will have to have a strong background in organizational psychology, human relations, and labor economics. The MIT Sloan School of Management attempts to advance our understating in these areas through research and then quickly bring the fruits of this new research to our students so that they can be leading-edge managers when it comes to the human side of the equation.

　　The first three decades after World War II were unusual in that the United States had a huge technological lead over all of the rest in the world. In a very real sense the world was not technologically competitive. American firms did not have to worry about their technological competitiveness because they were superior.

　　But that world has disappeared. Today we live in a world where American firms no longer have automatic technological superiority. In some areas they are still ahead, in some areas they are average, and in some areas they are behind, but on average they are average.

　　What this means is that American mangers have to understand the forces of technical change in ways that were not necessary in the past. Conversely, managers from the rest of the world know that it is now possible for them to dominate their American competitors if they understand the forces of technical change better than their American competitors do.

Section VI Writing ( 15 points)

　　Directions: In this section, you are asked to write a composition entitled Harmful Effect of Pirated Software on the Society. Your composition shouM be based on the following outline:

1.盗版软件已对社会产生了不良影响

2.盗版软件泛滥的原因

3.如何制止盗版软件

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答案与解析：

Section II Vocabulary and Stracture(10 points)

21．B 22B 23．B 24．A 25．D 26．B 27．D 28．B 29．C 30．A 31．A 32．B 33．A 34．B 35．C 36．B 37．D 38．D 39．A 40．B

Section III Cloze(5 points)

41．B 42．B 43．C 44．B 45．A 46．C 47．D 48．C 49．B 50．C

Section IV Reading Comprehension(40 points)

Part A

51．A 52．B 53．B 54．A 55．A 56．B 57．D 58．B 59．B 60．C
61．A 62．B 63．C 64．A 65．C

Part B

66．evacuated，circular tubes several hundred meters in diameter

67．With it scientists have gained invaluable insights into diverse objects and phenomena．

68．a billion times brighter

69．10

70．It has a diameter about the same as that of a human hair．

Section V Translation(10 points)

71．实际上，美国式经济已经消亡，取而代之的是世界性的经济。

72．在过去的10年里，世界资本市场出现全球化，而在未来的10年里，这种全球化的态势将继续重现。

73．与上一个世纪相比较，在下一个世纪，劳动力的构成将有很大的变化，其原因部分是由于经济全球化，部分是由于人口分布的变化。

74．另外，生产和提供高质量产品和服务的需求(过去人们曾认为大批量生产不可能达到这样的水准)，加之参与型管理技巧的推广，都要求劳动力有更高的教育和技术水平。

75．这种转变的发生，不是因为现在的管理者比过去的管理者更开明，而是因为越来越多的证据表明后一种管理方式比前一种更有效。

Section VI Writing(15 points)

With more and more people having computers，CDs，VCDs or even DVDs have become common things in our life．As some software programs have begun to enter a big market，some people tried to make pirated software for profits and he pirated software has affected the market already．

The reasons why pirated software has run wild are as follows．First，there is a huge profit behind it.Each pirated disc will produce 200％ net profit．Second，there is no strict law to control the production and distribution Ofpirated software．That last reason is that education Orpublicity has fallen behind．People are not aware of the harm which pirated software would bring to the market and thus they would like to become the purchaser of such kind of software。

In my opinion，our government should take strong action．To begin with，a law has to be worked out，and those who produce or sell pirated software should be severely punished．Only in this way，will the matter be brought under control．(172w)

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44．B
45．A.动词辨析。
46．C．to是介词，后面接动名词。注意and后面的也是动名词。
47．D.根据上下文，此处需要状语从句，由when来引导。
48。C．此题所填词汇，相当于汉语的“觉得”，比较抽象模糊的感觉，并非具体的希望或愿望。
49，B．财政报表。
50。C．此处考查倒装，该句翻译：如果你所在部门的利润前景惨淡，那么你在公司的前景也不会乐观。
51．A.该题考查主旨大意。考生可能会选B和D，请注意文章中并非每一段都在讲男女的区别。但每一段都有男人这一个词。
52．B．该题考查细节。从第一段可知：是年轻的男人比年轻的女人更浪漫；而不是所有的男人；从第二段最后两句可知：一项调查表明，87％的男人都认为，如果再结婚的话仍找自己现在的妻子，而只有76％的妇女有同样的认识。从第三段可知：男人对付痛苦的方式与妇女不同；D答案在文中没有提到。
53．B．该题考查细节。根据第四段，对男人来说，承认孤独是软弱可笑的、缺乏男人气概的表现。男人们不喜欢谈论孤独，但这并不意味着他们从来没有孤独。男人们也的确有理由不去谈论孤独，因为他们害怕人们通常会看不起他们；相反如果一个女人向别人谈论自己的孤独，人们却很愿意去帮助她，而不会产生看不起她的想法。
54．A.该题考查细节判断。见最后一段，男人们往往把自己看作是事物的决策者，而不是苦恼者的倾诉对象。所以他们一听到有人，无论是男是女，向他们诉苦，就急于提出建议。其实他们只要支着耳朵同情地倾听就行了。
55．A.考查细节。答案可以从第一段倒数第二句：没有人想管旅游保健这件事。这同A选项的意义接近。B说是政府的职责，文章中没有提及。C说是由私人医生管理的，不符合事实。D说旅游部门管理得很好，这同整个文章的内容相悖。
56．B．细节判断。见第三段中的 “while travel concerns are happy to sell profitable injections”已明确告诉我们他们主要是为了赚钱。
57．D．这题问Behren认为该由谁来从事旅游保健业务。第三段末尾Behren的几句话：“Should it come within the NHS or should it be paid for?It's a grey area，and opinion is split．No one seems to have any responsibility for defming its role”，对这个问题目前还存在分歧，谁也说不清。因此D是正确的。
58．B．细节判断与推断题。A说政府应提供更多的资源，这在文中没有提到。C说政府应从NHS手中接过
这项业务，似乎也没有根据。D说旅游者应该更重视给他们的建议，也不正确。最后一段提到有时旅游部门所给的建议不准确，应打防痢疾的预防针，却给了防霍乱的药。因此，要改变人们心目中的旅游保健形象，首先要保证所给建议的准确性。故此，是正确答案。
59．B．文章中多次出现该词，特别是第二段第一句：认为阿波罗计划是个骗局的最强有力的证据可能是关于登月行动的照片和影片中的反常之处。
60．C．根据第四段第二句：这些岩石中最古老的已有44．4亿年历史，比地球上最古老的岩石老6．4亿年。
61。A.根据文章第一段最后一句：为什么有如此之多的人相信这种荒谬的观点，有没有确切的证据支持这种观点呢?可见作者并不认同这一观点。
62．B．该题是主旨大意题。文章是提出疑问，然后引出登月行动的证据——月亮岩石。
63．C．选项A、B、D的内容都是导致由不同人员构成的社会易于改革的因素，正如第一段中的All these factors tend to promote social change...而另一句In a quite homogeneous society,there are fewer occasions for people to perceive the need or the opportunity for change从反面告诉我们，由不同人员构成的社会更加有意识进行社会变革。因此该题答案为C。
64．A.从第二段我们能了解作者在社会变革方面的观点，主要的是他认为：社会变革在物资方面，相对简单的方面和熟悉的方面，要比非物质、复杂抽象和陌生方面要来的更频繁和容易。ideological concepts，religious beliefs，social behaviour都是一些抽象的、意识形态方面的东西。而production methods是属于technology一类的具体东西，作者认为social change is also likely to occur more frequently and more readily(1)in the material aspects of the culture than in the non-material，for example，in technology rather than in values，所以答案应选A。
65．C此题考查主旨大意。注意每一段的第一句，可以清晰看出文章是讲述使社会变化更容易发生的诸多因素。
66题：答案见第一段第二句：这些亮度极强的X射线源以直径为好几百米长的抽成真空且呈圆形的管道为基础。
67题：答案见第一段最后一句：使用这种不同凡响的光，科学家对各种不同的物体和现象的研究获得了极有价值的发现。
68题：答案见第三段第二句：这种新X射线源的辐射强度比太阳的强一万亿倍。
69题：答案见第三段最后一句：八个已经运行，还有两个即将运行。
70题：答案见最后一段最后一句：以电子束形式运行的电子，其直径大约等于人的头发的直径。

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Passage 1精读与翻译

　　实际上年轻的男人比年轻的女人更浪漫，他们可以轻易地坠入爱河。相反，年轻的女性却很善于从务实的角度选择婚姻伴侣。男人们认为只要和自己的配偶呆在一起就已经表现出自己对她的情感了，而女性认为男人只有把爱情挂在嘴边才是浪漫的。

　　男人们更重视结婚。男性独身主义者比女性独身主义者更少。甚至他们结婚后，男人们也更容易对自己的婚姻满足。一项调查表明，87％的男人都认为，如果再结婚的话，仍要找自己现在的妻子，而只有76％的妇女有同样的意见。

　　男人们也会感到痛苦，但他们对付痛苦的方式与妇女不同。他们倒是不会在离异后痛哭失态，但他们更容易患肠胃功能紊乱，也容易酗酒和发生交通事故。还有一项调查表明，男人在离异后往往只能通过参加体育活动来转移自己的痛苦心情。

　　男人们一般讨厌承认自己需要别人。对他们来说，承认孤独是软弱可笑的、缺乏男人气概的表现。男人们不喜欢谈论孤独，但这并不意味着他们从来没有孤独。男人们也的确有理由不去谈论孤独，因为他们害怕人们通常会看不起他们；相反，如果一个女人向别人谈论自己的孤独，人们却很愿意去帮助她，而不会产生看不起她的想法。

　　94％的男人都愿意改变自己的形象。一项研究发现，男人们的自尊心往往与他的外表有直接联系，那些瘦小的男人更容易感到自己是弱小的，更容易陷入沮丧的心情之中。

　　男人们往往把自己看作是事物的决策者，而不是苦恼者的倾诉对象。所以他们一听到有人，无论是男是女，向他们诉苦，就急于提出建议。其实他们只要支着耳朵同情地倾听就行了。

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