Jeans today are available in many colors and designs. Young people like to mix and match colors and sizes to create different looks. Faded and torn jeans are especially fashionable. Some washed denim clothes giving the effect of dark and light color patches are most popular. Many wearers decorate their jeans and jean jackets. Colorful patches, zippers, chains and tassels are all part of the personal touch. People in America, Japan and Hong Kong decorate their jean jackets in a very artistic way.
Apart from the decoration the most important part of the jeans is the label. From the label alone one can tell the quality and the price of the product and whether it is imported or homemade. Classic labels such as the Levi’s, Jordache and Calvin Klein demand a fair price. Jive, Lawman and the Apple jeans also have much appeal. Local brands in many countries and areas have an uphill battle to gain support. Fake brand name jeans are a big business in many places.
51. Jeans were created in
A) North America.
B) Asia.
C) Europe.
D) an unknown country.
52. Jeans are popular nowadays because __________.
A) they are cheap
B) anyone can wear them
C) they come in many designs and colors
D) they are fashionable
53. Apart from meeting local demands, Asian jeans makers export their jeans to
A) Oceania.
B) Africa.
C) everywhere except America and Europe.
D) not mentioned.
54. If your jeans have a hole or even lose their original color, maybe
A) others will advise you to throw it away and buy a new one.
B) others will criticize you for your messy appearance.
C) others, especially youths, will appreciate your particular style.
D) others will look down upon you for your untidy clothes.
Passage D
The well-known Rushmore National monument in the United States is erected on the Rushmore Peak, 1829 meters above the sea level, of the black hills in the southwest of South Dakota. It is a group of huge stone statues of four American presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. President Washington is the founding father of the country; the 3rd President Jefferson drafted the U.S. Declaration of Independence; the 16th president Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation and the 26th president Roosevelt protected the average people's right to compete fairly with trusts. All the four presidents made outstanding achievements for their country. They were pioneers of U.S. history.
The stone statues of the presidents were built at the suggestion of an historian in the state of Dakota, with a view to carrying forward the U.S. pioneering spirit in eternity The famed artist Gutzon Borglum, a naturalized Danish-American, made the design and was in charge of the project of historic significance. It was the 30th president Calvin Coolidge who announced in 1927 the start of the project. Before the work done, the sculptor passed away at 73 years old. He was then succeeded by his son, and it was not until 1941 that the national monument was finished.
As the stone statues were rather enormous, directional blasting was used. Explosives were used to blow up the peak into models first, and then the stonemasons carved them into statues with tools. The broken stones weighed about 450,000 tons in total. This project was the fruit of arduous work done by a contingent of 360 masons over 14 years. A sum of one million dollars was spent.
55. Only the 1st, 3rd, 16th and 26th presidents were carved on the stone, because
A) after they had been finished, they were no more room for others.
B) they all had a good reputation.
C) they were very lucky enough to be selected by chance.
D) they had all contributed much to the country.
56. What’s the purpose of the erection of stone statues?
A) To show that they are honored by the living.
B) To show the statue art with the help of the fame of presidents.
C) To open a new scenery spot for money.
D) To compliment U.S. pioneering spirit and make it permanent.
57. Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A) Rushmore Peak is 1829 meters high.
B) Except for the 1st, 3rd, 16th and 26th presidents, other presidents did nothing brilliant and important.
C) Gutzon Borglum was not American in origin.
D) The stone statues were mainly made by masons' carving.
Passage E
Lew Archer, the detective hero created by Ross McDonald in The Moving Target (1949), is more literary in his tastes than Mike Hammer, and so more apt to muse on fate and the past than to create a political philosophy out of the individualist fantasies of the present. In part, Archer owed his special sensitivity to the fact that his creator placed him in the hastily thrown up world of California and West Coast rather than in the grimy eastern cities of Spillane and Hammer. Attuned to history as much as to action, Archer is more fascinated by the past patterns of relationships that erupt into the present than by the immediacies of violence and personal confrontation. Like other American naturalists, both Archer and Hammer pride themselves on their ability to know all the parts of town and country. But McDonald explores what Spillane essentially disregards the intricacies of family and the gradation of social class. Thus Spillane’s hero seems to spring from Hammett and Hemingway, while McDonald’s Archer owes his lineage to Chandler and Faulkner.
58. What is the author’s main purpose in the passage?
A) To explain the plot of The Moving Target
B) To show the importance of setting in the detective novel
C) To prove that Archer and Hammer are literary heroes
D) To compare two characters in detective fiction
59. In the second sentence of the passage the word ‘creator’ refers to a __________.
A) fantasist
B) naturalist
C) writer
D) philosopher
60. Which of the following is LEAST likely to be characteristic of an Archer story?
A) A violent argument
B) A California setting
C) A concern with social class
D) A study of family relationships
Part III Cloze (0.5×20=10 )
Directions: Decide which the choices below would correctly complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks. Mark the correct choices for each blank on your answer sheet.
Journalists and TV people, we know, are 61 to record what goes on: but in trying to get the best 62 they can, they may sometimes seem amazingly cold-blooded. In the massacre that followed the British quitting India, 63 was a photographer who made a sorrowing Indian family bury and rebury 64 dead several times 65 he got a perfect shot. A BBC sound man held up a Nigerian execution for half an hour while he adjusted his sound equipment; you could say it didn’t 66 any difference to the final outcome, but it doesn’t make you feel especially warm towards the man 67 .
Should journalists and photographers join in, 68 just stand back and watch while people kill 69 another? It’s a tricky question, not just a 70 of how brave anyone is feeling at the time, 71 without authentic pictures, how will the world know, how should the world believe 72 crimes are committed? One dead photographer does not do much for the cause he cares about, even 73 he did feel forced to join in and take sides.
To stay out of the fight, to write 74 what’s going on, to treat 75 with both sides, as a doctor will cure soldiers in 76 uniform or a lawyer argue for either side —that is supposed to be our code, and when it 77 to the crutch, we probably do better trying to stick 78 that, than rushing off on individual impulse. But is there not a point in any profession 79 you are forced back against the wall 80 a human being? I think there is, and I was.
61. A) ready B) supposed C) responsible D) eager
62. A) record B) report C) essay D) article
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