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SECTION Ⅲ Reading Comprehension
(40 minutes)
Part A
Directions:
Read the following three texts. Answer the questions on each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWERSHEET 1.
Text 1
Karenand Ken Mullin, a young professional couple in Cleveland, own fifty cookbooks and two fully equipped kitchens in their house. Yet they rarely cook their own meals; instead, on their way home from work they usually stop at a supermarket and choose two portions of meat loaf and a container of ready-to-serve potatoes. “My job,” says Karen, “is to pour the salad from the bag.”
A half-century after the first TV dinner was born, the food industry is approaching its long-sought dream of relieving people like the Mullins of unpaid labor in the final, and arguably most profitable, step by which a cow gets turned into meat loaf. Increasingly, tables in America’s kitchens are used not for cutting or peeling but for putting takeout food onto plates. For those who even bother with plates. According to Harry Balzar, an influential food-industry researcher, American dinners that came from a takeout counter increased by 24 percent in the past decade. “We thought the microwave would bea cooking device,” says Harry Balzer, “but we find it reheating takeout pizza.”
A cross the United States, entire business models are being transformed. Supermarket takeout counters, formerly a place where unsold chickens were coated with sauce, increasingly resemble high-end corporate cafeterias, with sushi bars andstir-fry stations.
One psychologist thinks the trend toward healthier eating is responsible; Americans have finally gotten the message that it’s bad to eat fried chicken, so they’redoing it at home where no one can see them.
Of course, there are people you wouldn’t expect to cook at home, like SteveTraxler, an unmarried Chicago theater producer, whose refrigerator containslittle more than orange juice, wine and leftovers.
Well,somebody must be using those cookbooks, right? “People don’t have time to cook;I think they’re reading them in bed,” says Rozanne Gold, author of a cookbook.
It’s not entirely a question of time. The takeout fashion is fueled, in part, by thepopularity of foods like sushi, which even adventuresome American cooks areunlikely to try to make at home. And takeout fills another need as well, forthe atmosphere of the home-cooked dinner.
46. From thetext we can learn that the Mullins ____.
[A] are experienced in cooking
[B] are expert at food shopping
[C] often go dining out at a restaurant
[D] often eat ready-made food at home
47. The food industry is approaching its final goal of _____.
[A] freeing people of cooking at home
[B] turning cows into meat loaf for people
[C] relieving itself of unpaid labor for people
[D] providing people with delicious TV dinners
48. We can inferfrom the text that some Americans ____.
[A] are too busy to cut or peel
[B] are too busy to use their tables
[C] do not even use their plates
[D] do not even use the microwave
49. Supermarkettakeout counters ___.
[A] have sushi bars and stir-fry stations now
[B] used to process the left-over food for sale
[C] cooperate with high-end corporation cafeterias
[D] used to coat chickens of inferior quality with sauce
50. Takeout food is not only convenient but also enables Americans to ____.
[A] avoid taking unhealthy food
[B] follow the trend of eating out
[C] enjoy eating together at home
[D] have time to improve their cooking.
Text 2
I switched on the TV and there they were again—the next crop of Miss World/MissUniverse candidates. The same practiced smiles, the same waving hands, the samehosts with their unreal crossbreed accents—the same.
Yes,the show goes on. No time to enjoy the glory of the last set of titles. It’s time to prepare for the next. Our Assembly Line is in place. It takes a whole year to prepare for the Miss World/ Miss Universe contest. And the young hopefuls give it their disciplined best almost as if they were preparing themselves for an HT entrance test or the Civil Services exam.
So what’s wrong with that? If one set of kids can further their genetically gifted intellect, why can’t another set further a similarly gifted set of physical attributes? If brainy kids go to coaching classes, why can’t the pretty ones go to physical trainers? If cosmetic surgery, dental cares, balanced diets andworkout sessions produce a happier, healthier and more self-confident woman whocan take the world in her stride, perhaps that’s the way to go.
Yes,we had just begun to accept it all. We had just begun to create the slots forthe brainy ones and the beauties. And then, suddenly we got a Mrs. World Aditi Gowatrikar with her dreamy green eyes. Brainy, beautiful and a wonderful wifeand mother to boot. The mother of a two-year-old who is also a doctor and asuper model.
Yes,Aditi has shown us that it is possible to do it all. But can she really be a symbol of Indian womanhood as some carried-away journalists and event manager shave suggested? Is she the modem day Mother India? The one who can inspire the thousands of mothers and wives to break out of the petty confines of the roles theyare forced to play? Will she find an echo among all those working-women dealing with families, bosses and unsupportive husbands? To most women, the world ofAditi Gowatrikar would seem like a different planet.
51. The repeated scene of beauty contests on TV makes the writer ____.
[A] thoughtful [B]refreshed [C] doubtful [D] excited
52. As the author sees it, the young candidates prepare for thecontest ____.
[A] anxiously [B]seriously [C]casually [D] steadily
53. For most people, both brainy kids and young beauties are justified to ____.
[A] improve their self-confidence [B] possess certain acquired images
[C] make use of their natural qualifies [D] take advantage of their intelligence
54. In the author’s opinion, for most Indian mothers and wives,Aditi is____.
[A] far from reality [B] an example to follow
[C] typical of Indian women [D] an inspiration for success
55. In the text, the writer comments on the beauty contest with atone of____.
[A] despair [B] tolerance [C] admiration [D] reservation
Text 3
The first rule stepping up your luck is to look for variety. More variety willresult in a richer life with more opportunities. The more varied life is, themore likely that unexpected combinations of events will occur, giving us the chance to improve our situation. Being able to change is the best way tosurvive in changing, unpredictable times.
When we are searching for something, like a pair of lost eyeglasses, it isn’t a good idea to always follow the same pattern of search. Searching for happiness islike that as well. Be flexible. Learn from your mistakes. Try lots of differentpossibilities.
Variety is necessary for happiness. No matter how rich our lives may seem, if they consist only of expected events and repetition, boredom steps in. We find pleasure in the unexpected and the surprising. Saying yes to uncertainty adds pleasure to life and contributes to our luck. Sometimes it seems easier,however, to use our strength to build walls to try to protect ourselves from uncertainty. We buy life insurance, household insurance, car insurance. We workhard and put money aside. But all this planning can’t guarantee safety. We need to find the courage to welcome uncertainty.
Each of us should find one action that will increase variety: subscribe to a new magazine, take a different route to work, sign up for a night-school course.Then focus on its positive results. This positive reinforcement, together with the pleasure of sensing the power in doing what we want to, should give us the courage for the next act.
Accepting ourselves exactly as we are at this present moment provides the courage to move forward. Believing that all our choices in the past were the best we could have made at the time frees us from regret and reinforces our belief that we are asgood as we can be at this moment. The best preparation for the future isself-acceptance in the present. Self-acceptance and trust in people are the foundations of confidence and courage.
Self-acceptance,courage and action don’t guarantee good luck, but they do guarantee a richer and fuller life.
56. From the text we learn that ____.
[A] variety guarantees happiness
[B] varied life relies on good luck
[C] opportunities go before variety
[D] adaptability is the key to survival
57. According to the text, to make life colorful we must ____.
[A] accept and try the unexpected
[B] tolerate boredom and repetition
[C] follow the same searching pattern
[D] make ourselves financially secure
58. According to the text, pleasure can be brought into life by ____.
[A] finding what we are searching for
[B] improving our situation with a bit luck
[C] strengthening ourselves to face uncertainty
[D] having insurance policies to protect our life
59. To gather courage to move forward, the writer thinks that we should ____.
[A] regret our past choices
[B] forget our past mistakes
[C] reinforce our past actions
[D] believe in our past decisions
60. The best title of the text would be ____.
[A] Stepping Up Your Luck
[B] Life Is Full of Uncertainties
[C] Variety Leads to Opportunities
[D] Learning from Your Mistakes
Part B
Directions:
Read the texts from a magazine in whichfive people voice their different opinions in response to an article on theissue of praising. For questions 61 to 65, match the name of each person (61 to 65) to one of the statements (A to G) given below. Mark your answers on ANSWERSHEET 1.
Helen Smith:
What better way to start off my senior year in high school than by reading something I am entirely familiar with? I couldn’t have described this online revolutionany better. The expansion of and its continuing success make me more interested in the world of computers and web design and the career choices they offer. Thanks, Mark Zuckerberg, for “poking” me into .
KevinStuart:
Rather than seeing as the hottest connection tool, I think it’s more like the latest way to make an already impersonal world even more impersonal. How sad that our society is so isolated that we need a computer to “connect” withothers. No, thanks! I’m going to continue hanging out on the street comer, and hope someone builds a village square someday—now, there’s a radical idea!
RobertMeyer:
Isn’t it a contradiction that so many Americans criticize the government measures fornational security purposes as an invasion of privacy when many of these same people feel free to lay bare their private lives to public exposure on ? Perhaps it reveals shallow minds or shallow lives. Or worse, does it reveal a lack of concern about the security of our country? Sad indeed.
James Brown:
Ieagerly returned from vacation so I could see my nieces who were home from college, only to find them with their “faces” in almost all day. They no longer communicate much with others face to face. No more hanging out at someone’s home. I wonder what effect this societal isolation will have on all of us. I hope this isn’t a trend, I remember all the fun face-to-face contact used tobe.
Laura Lee:
I love email. I live and die by Google, but I will never understand the appeal of and its vast community of friends. In fact, I’m rather shocked. There are thousands out there who would like to be your friend and demand your time:they’re called books. Pick one up. Life is short. Save your few real friendships for coffee over at Starbucks or invest yourself in a local cause that will form meaningful, lifelong relationships.
Now match the name of each person (61 to 65) to the appropriate statement.
Note: there are two extra statements.
Statements
61. Helen Smith [A] has built up my confidence in my study.
62. Kevin Stuart [B] raises individual awareness of privacy protection
63. Robert Meyer [C] serves as an eve opener for my future work pursuit.
64. James Brown [D] worsens; instead of bettering, interpersonal relations.
65. Laura Lee [E] I miss the good old days when people met and talked to each other in person.
[F] Mind your own behavior online before you blame others for privacy interference.
[G] Don’t waste your time on when you can do something more significant.