Passage Three

　　Barbara Sanders is a wife and the mother of two children, ages 2 and 4. Her husband, Tom, isan engineer and makes an excellent salary. (23) Before Barbara had children, she worked as anarchitect for the government, designing government housing. She quit her job when shebecame pregnant, but is now interested in re-turning to work. She's been offered an excellentjob with the government her husband feels it's unnecessary for her to work since the familydoes not need the added income. He also thinks that a woman should stay home with herchildren. (24) If Barbara feels the need to do socially important work, he thinks that she shoulddo volunteer work one or two days a week. Barbara, on the other hand, has missed theexcitement of her profession and does not fed she would be satisfied doing volunteer work. Shewould also like to have her own income, so she does not have to ask her husband for moneywhenever she wants to buy something. She does not think it's necessary to stay home everyday with the childrenand she knows a very reliable baby-sitter who's willing to come to herhouse. (25) Tom does not think a baby-sitter can replace a mother and thinks it's a bad ideafor the children to spend so much time with someone who's not part of the family.

　　預(yù)覽三道題各選項(xiàng)，第23題涉及不同職業(yè),第24題涉及具體的工作形式,第25題提到了 baby-sitter -詞,由此推斷短文可能是關(guān)于工作與照看孩子的問題。

　　23. What was Barbara's profession before she had children?

　　B)。詳解：短文一開始提到，芭芭拉.桑德斯現(xiàn)在是兩個(gè)孩子的母親，在有孩子之前，她曾是政府部門的建筑設(shè)計(jì)師,設(shè)計(jì)政府大樓，故答案為B)。

　　24. What does Barbara's husband suggest she do if she wants to work?

　　A)。詳解：短文中間部分提到,芭芭拉o桑德斯的丈夫不希望她重新工作，而是希望她照顧孩子,如果她想做有社會(huì)意義的工作，他建議她每周做一兩天的志愿者工作,故答案為A)。

　　25. What does Tom think about hiring a baby-sitter?

　　C)。詳解：短文末尾部分提到，芭芭拉o桑德斯想請一位靠得住的保姆照看孩子,湯姆認(rèn)為,保姆無法取代母親,孩子長時(shí)間與非家庭成員接觸并非好事，故答案為C)。

　　26 curious。詳解：此處應(yīng)該填一個(gè)形容詞與more共同構(gòu)成比較級結(jié)構(gòu)。curious意為"好奇的，求知的"。

　　27 figuring things out詳解：此處應(yīng)該填一個(gè)動(dòng)名詞短語，與finding構(gòu)成并列結(jié)構(gòu)。figure things out 意為"把事情弄明白"。

　　28. independent。詳解：此處應(yīng)該填一個(gè)形容詞,與前面的形容詞confident，resourceful,persistent構(gòu)成并列結(jié)構(gòu)。independent意為"獨(dú)立的，不受約束的"。

　　29. interacting with ,詳:解此處應(yīng)該填一個(gè)動(dòng)名詞短語，與paying dose attention to構(gòu)成并列結(jié)構(gòu)。interact with意為"交流，交往'

　　30. abstract。詳解：此處應(yīng)該填一個(gè)形容詞,與difficult, complicated并列構(gòu)成比較級結(jié)構(gòu)。abstract意為"抽象的"。

　　31 mystery詳解：由冠詞the可知此處應(yīng)該填一個(gè)名同D mystery意為"秘密,奧秘"

　　32. appropriately詳解：此處應(yīng)該填入一個(gè)副同，修飾前面的use。Appropriately意為"適當(dāng)?shù)?合適地"

　　33 trying it out詳解：此處應(yīng)該填一個(gè)動(dòng)名詞短語，作前面介詞by的賓語，并與空格后面的seeing... 并列。Trysth. out意為"試驗(yàn)，檢驗(yàn)"。

　　34. refining。詳解：此處應(yīng)該填一個(gè)動(dòng)名詞,與空格前面的changing并列。refine意為"改進(jìn)，完善"。

　　35. concepts ?詳解此處應(yīng)該填一個(gè)名同的復(fù)數(shù)形式,被后面that引導(dǎo)的定語從句所修飾。concept意為"觀念,想法"。

　　Part III Reading Comprehension

　　Section A

　　36-45：NEFLJ MIGKO

　　Section B

　　46-55：HCALN FHMDJ

　　Section C

　　56-65：ACBCB DBCDA

　　Part IV Translation

　　In order to promote education equity, China has invested 36 billion to improve ruraleducational facilities and strengthen the rural compulsory education in the central and westernregions. The funds were used to better school facilities, buy books, which benefited more than160,000 primary and secondary schools. They were also spent to purchase music andpainting apparatus. Nowadays children in rural and mountainous areas can have music andart classes the same as those children in coastal cities. Some students who transfer to citiesfor better education return to the local rural schools again.