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B. his work at the supermarket was dull
C. being at work was much better than going to school D. the store manager wanted to get rid of him
34. Why did Ron leave the supermarket? C A. He knew he would find work in Bournemouth. B. He took a job as a lorry driver.
C. He gave up the job because he felt unwell. D. He wanted to work at the seaside.
35. Ron was able to take over the shoe shop because _______. B A. he got on well with the manager there.
B. he knew how to keep the accounts of business C. he had had experience of selling books D. he was young and strong
Passage 8
Ask three people to look out of the same window at a busy street corner and tell you what they see. Chances are you will receive three different answers. Each person sees the same scene, but each perceives something different about it.
Perceiving goes on in our minds. Of the three people who look out of the window, one may say that he sees a policeman giving a motorist a ticket. Another may say that he sees a rush-hour traffic jam at the intersection. The third may tell you that he sees a woman trying to cross the street with four children in a tow. For perception is the mind's interpretation of what the senses---- in this case our eyes ---- tell us.
Many psychologists today are working to try to determine just how a person experiences or perceives the world around him. Using a scientific approach, these psychologists set up experiments in which they can control all of the factors. By measuring and charting the results of many experiments, they are trying to find out what makes different people perceive totally different things about the same scene.
36. Seeing and perceiving are _______. D A. the same action B. two separate actions
C. two actions carried on entirely by the eyes
D. several actions that take place at different times
37. Perceiving is an action that takes place _______. D A. in our eyes
B. only when we think very hard about something C. only under the direction of a psychologist D. in every person's mind
38. Perception involves what _______. D A. our senses tell us B. our minds interpret
C. we see with our eyes only D. both A and B
39. People perceive different things about the same scene because ________. D A. they see different things B. they cannot agree about things
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C. some have better eyesight D. none of these
40. Implied but not stated: A
A. Psychologists do not yet know how people see.
B. The best experiments are those in which all factors are controlled. C. The study of perception is going on now.
D. Perception does not involve psychological factors.
Passage 9
At sixteen Ron Mackie might have stayed at school, but the future called to him excitedly. \found a place for him in a supermarket. \these days, there's a dozen without.\
For a year he spent his days filling shelves with tins of food. By the end of the time he was looking back on his school-days as a time of great variety and satisfaction. He searched for an interest in his work, with little success.
One fine day instead of going to work Ron got a lift on a lorry going south. With nine pounds in his pocket, a full heart and a great longing for the sea, he set out to make a better way of himself. That evening, in Bournemouth, he had a sandwich and a drink in a cafe run by an elderly man and his wife. Before he had finished the sandwich, the woman had taken him on for the rest of the summer, at twenty pounds a week, a room upstairs and three meals a day. The ease and speed of it rather took Ron's breath away. At quiet times Ron had to check the old man's arithmetic in the records of the business.
At the end of the season, he stayed on the coast. He was again surprised how straightforward it was for a boy of seventeen to make a living. He worked in shops mostly, but once he took a job in a hotel for three weeks. Late in October he was taken on by the sick manager of a shoe shop. Ron soon found himself in charge there; he was the only person who could keep the books.
41. Why did Ron leave school at sixteen? D A. His father made him leave.
B. He had reached the age when he had to leave. C. He left because he was worried about the future. D. He left because he wanted to start work.
42. What did Ron's father think about his leaving school? A A. He thought his son was doing the right thing.
B. He advised him to stay at school to complete his education. C. He did not like the idea, but he helped Ron to find work. D. He knew there was a job for every boy who wanted one. 43. It took about a year for Ron to realize that _______. B A. he worked well because he was interested in the job B. his work at the supermarket was dull
C. being at work was much better than going to school D. the store manager wanted to get rid of him
44. Why did Ron leave the supermarket? C
A. He knew he would find work in Bournemouth. B. He took a job as a lorry driver.
C. He gave up the job because he felt unwell.
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D. He wanted to work at the seaside.
45. Ron was able to take over the shoe shop because _______. B A. he got on well with the manager there.
B. he knew how to keep the accounts of business C. he had had experience of selling books D. he was young and strong
Passage 10
At sixteen Ron Mackie might have stayed at school, but the future called to him excitedly. \found a place for him in a supermarket. \these days, there's a dozen without.\
For a year he spent his days filling shelves with tins of food. By the end of the time he was looking back on his school-days as a time of great variety and satisfaction. He searched for an interest in his work, with little success.
One fine day instead of going to work Ron got a lift on a lorry going south. With nine pounds in his pocket, a full heart and a great longing for the sea, he set out to make a better way of himself. That evening, in Bournemouth, he had a sandwich and a drink in a cafe run by an elderly man and his wife. Before he had finished the sandwich, the woman had taken him on for the rest of the summer, at twenty pounds a week, a room upstairs and three meals a day. The ease and speed of it rather took Ron's breath away. At quiet times Ron had to check the old man's arithmetic in the records of the business.
At the end of the season, he stayed on the coast. He was again surprised how straightforward it was for a boy of seventeen to make a living. He worked in shops mostly, but once he took a job in a hotel for three weeks. Late in October he was taken on by the sick manager of a shoe shop. Ron soon found himself in charge there; he was the only person who could keep the books.
46. Why did Ron leave school at sixteen? D A. His father made him leave.
B. He had reached the age when he had to leave. C. He left because he was worried about the future. D. He left because he wanted to start work.
47. What did Ron's father think about his leaving school? A A. He thought his son was doing the right thing.
B. He advised him to stay at school to complete his education. C. He did not like the idea, but he helped Ron to find work. D. He knew there was a job for every boy who wanted one. 48. It took about a year for Ron to realize that _______. B A. he worked well because he was interested in the job B. his work at the supermarket was dull
C. being at work was much better than going to school D. the store manager wanted to get rid of him
49. Why did Ron leave the supermarket? C
A. He knew he would find work in Bournemouth. B. He took a job as a lorry driver.
C. He gave up the job because he felt unwell.
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D. He wanted to work at the seaside.
50. Ron was able to take over the shoe shop because _______. B A. he got on well with the manager there.
B. he knew how to keep the accounts of business C. he had had experience of selling books D. he was young and strong
Part III. Cloze Test
Passage 1
When my wife, who is Spanish, spent her first winter in London a few years ago, she used to ask me time and again: \is the fog?\Almost all foreigners ____1___ to find the city wreathed in yellow-gray mist for most of the year. Dickens, who was ____2____ responsible for painting this ____3____ in people's minds, certainly wasn't exaggerating in those days. People ____4___ in the 19th century that when someone ____5_____ suicide by jumping into the Thames he was choked by the fog and poisoned by the terrible ___6___ of the river before he had time to drown himself. In fact, the situation ___7___ in recent years. When I was a boy in London thirty years ago I was often unable to see ___8___ of the road when I left home on winter mornings.
The decisive steps that have turned London into one of the ___9____ cities in the world ___10___ taken at the end of the 1950s. But Londoners still ____11___ that fog ____12___ returns. The change took place as a result of two main improvements. Factories were compelled to install clean air equipment ___13____ close down, and private householders were not allowed to ____14___ coal unless it was smoke-free. But the ____15____ ecological miracle in London occurred ___16____ 1964 onwards when the Thames water Authority began to pump vast ____17___ of dissolved oxygen into the river. ____18___, all the species of fish that had gradually disappeared from the Thames ___19____ 1800 have returned. Some are even caught by fishermen ___20__ the House of Parliament.
1. A. look forward B. manage C. wish D. expect
2. A. first of all B. above all C. after all D. all the more 3. A. picture B. image C. photo D. portrait 4. A. were used to saying B. used to saying C. were used to say D. used to say 5. A. made B. committed C. did D. was committed 6. A. fume B. smell C. smoke D. gas
7. A. only has changed B. only changes C. has only hanged D. changed only 8. A. other side B. another side C. the other side D. another side 9. A. clean B. cleaner C. cleanest D. more clean 10. A. was B. were C. have been D. had been
11. A. find it strange B. find out strange C. find strange D. find out strange 12. A. hardly B. barely C. scarcely D. seldom 13. A. and B. but C. to D. or 14. A. use B. make C. produce D. burn 15. A. true B. truly C. real D. really 16. A. in B. from C. on D. through 17. A. numbers B. number C. amount D. quantities 18. A. Therefore B. Nevertheless C. However D. as a result 19. A. before B. since C. after D. in 20. A. outside B. in the front of C. inside D. beside
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