09-10-07 Passage Four Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage. When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results, Calvin Coolidge once observed. As the U. S. economy crumbles, Coolidge?s silly maxim might appear to be as ap...

09-10-07 Passage Three Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage. Polls can provide important guidance for politicians, but there are times when it is foolish and dangerous to rely on a temporarily misinformed public for a political compass. The...

09-10-07 Passage Two Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage. Would George W. Bush have been reelected president if the public understood how much responsibility his administration bears for allowing the 9/11 attacks to succeed? The answer is un...

09-10-07 Part ⅡReading Comprehension (35 minutes) Passage One Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage. In a few weeks, high school students face the prospect of taking the much-publicized new SAT Reasoning Test, which for the first time will r...

09-10-07 Passage Four Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage: Efforts to educate people about the risks of substance abuse（毒品滥用）seem to deter some people from using dangerous substances, if such efforts are realistic about what is genuin...

09-10-07 Passage Three Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage: For about three centuries we have been doing science, trying science out, using science for the construction of what we call modern civilization. Every dispensable item of contempo...

09-10-07 Passage Two Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage: An important new industry, oil refining, grew after the Civil War. Crude oil, or petroleuma dark, thick ooze（渗出物，分泌物）from the earthhad been known for hundreds of years. But...

09-10-07 Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(35 minutes) Passage One Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage: Every profession or trade, every art, and every science has its technical vocabulary. Different occupations, however, differ widely in the c...

09-10-07 Passage Two Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage. The civilization(文化) of the Renaissance was the creation of prosperous cities and of rulers who drew substantial income from their urban subjects in the Italian city states and the...

09-10-07 Passage Two Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage. The civilization(文化) of the Renaissance was the creation of prosperous cities and of rulers who drew substantial income from their urban subjects in the Italian city states and the...