1996 Passage 5 Rumor has it that more than 20 books on creationism/evolution are in the publisher''s pipelines. A few have already appeared. The goal ...

1996 Passage 2 With the start of BBC World Service Television, millions of viewers in Asia and America can now watch the Corporation''s news coverage,...

1996 Passage 1 Tight-lipped elders used to say, "It''s not what you want in this world, but what you get." Psychology teaches that you do get what yo...

1997 Passage 4 No company likes to be told it is contributing to the moral decline of a nation. "Is this what you intended to accomplish with your car...

1997 Passage 3 Technically, any substance other than food that alters our bodily or mental functioning is a drug. Many people mistakenly believe the t...

1996 Passage 4 What accounts for the great outburst of major inventions in early America - breakthroughs such as the telegraph, the steamboat and the ...

1996 Passage 3 In the last half of the nineteenth century "capital" and "labour" were enlarging and perfecting their rival organisations on modern lin...

1997 Passage 2 A report consistently brought back by visitors to the US is how friendly, courteous, and helpful most Americans were to them. To be fai...

1998 Passage 5 Scattered around the globe are more than 100 small regions of isolated volcanic activity known to geologists as hot spots. Unlike m...

1997 Passage 1 It was 3:45 in the morning when the vote was finally taken. After six months of arguing and final 16 hours of hot parliamentary debates...

1998 Passage 2 Well, no gain without pain, they say. But what about pain without gain? Everywhere you go in America, you hear tales of...

1998 Passage 3 Science has long had an uneasy relationship with other aspects of culture. Think of Galileo''s 17th-century trial for his rebelling bel...

1998 Passage 1 Few creations of big technology capture the imagination like giant dams. Perhaps it is humankind''s long suffering at the mercy o...

1999 Passage 5 Science, in practice, depends far less on the experiments it prepares than on the preparedness of the minds of the men wh...

1999 Passage 4 When a Scottish research team startled the world by revealing 3 months ago that it had cloned an adult sheep, President Clinton mov...

1999 Passage 3 An invisible border divides those arguing for computers in the classroom on the behalf of students'' career prospects and those arguing...

1999 Passage 2 In the first year or so of Web business, most of the action has revolved around efforts to tap the consumer market. More recently, ...

1999 Passage 1 It''s a rough world out there. Step outside and you could break a leg slipping on your doormat. Light up the stove and you could b...

2000 Passage 5 If ambition is to be well regarded, the rewards of ambition - wealth, distinction, control over one''s destiny - must be deemed wor...

2004年大纲样题 Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. ...