A. you are expected to take a gift               B. you should take flowers

   C. you are not expected to take a gift           D. take a souvenir from your country

49. If you are invited for a meal at an Indian home, __________.

A. you should offer to pay for your food         B. you will offend your hosts if you take anything

C. it is fashionable to take flowers or sweets     D. it is traditional to take a dish

50. Indians love interesting discussions but they________.

    A. only talk about family matters             B. avoid religion and politics

C. don't like talking about themselves        D. don' t appreciate polite conversation

51. The sentence "Some things are just not available" in the first paragraph means

     A. You can buy these things in India        B. They don't make these things in India

     C. They have never seen these things      D. You can't get these things in India

D

      Mary Cochran was out of the rooms where she lived with her father, Doctor Lester Cochran, at

seven o'clock on a Sunday evening. It was June of the year nineteen hundred and eight, and Mary was eighteen years old. She walked along Tremont to Main Street and across the railroad tracks to Upper Main, lined with small shops and shabby houses, a rather quiet cheerless place on Sundays when there were few people about. She had told her father she was going to church but did not intend anything of the kind. She didn't know what she wanted to do. "I'll get off by myself and think", she told herself as she walked slowly along. The night, she thought, promised to be fine to be spent sitting in a church and hearing a man talk of things that had clearly nothing to do with her own problem. Her own affairs were approaching(almost reaching) a crisis(危机), and it was time for her to begin thinking seriously of her future.

     The thoughtful serious state of mind which Mary found herself had been made arise in her by a

conversation she had with her father on the evening before. Without any preliminary (有准备的 ) talk

and quite suddenly he had told her that he was suffering from heart disease and might die at any

moment. He had made the announcement as they stood together in his office, behind which were the

rooms in which the father and the daughter lived.

52. What did Mary Cochran want to do that night? She decided__________.

    A. to walk slowly                               B. not to think about the problem

    C. to talk over the problem with her father         D. not to go to church

53. What was the cause of Mary's serious state of mind?

    A. Concern about her future.               B. Her talk with his father.

    C. Worry about her sudden heart attack.    D. The thought of going to church.

54. Where did Mary live?

    A. In the same building as her father's office.     

B. In a shabby house near her father's office.

    C. Near the church along the main street.        

D. In a small shop across the railroad tracks.

55. What was Dr Cochran's condition?

A. He had a serious heartbreak.           B. He had suffered from her affairs.

C. He had a deadly heart disease.         D. He had made an announcement.

56. According to the passage, Which of the following statement is true?

   A. Mary lived along with her father.     B. Mary believed in the future.

   C. Mary's father wanted her to go to church.

  D. Mary's father didn't like his daughter.

E

      It's not only rocket scientists and journalists who are following the course of "Shenzhou

V", or "Divine ship/ vessel V". There are also lexicographers(字典编纂者 ), or dictionary compilers.

The flight of the spacecraft recently might help put .some new words into orbit.

     One of them is a western media coinage used to refer to the Chinese astronauts. It is a combination of the Chinese pinyin "taikong", meaning space, and the English "astronaut", from classical Greek: "star sailor/navigator", for people who was going into space as a career.

In the Reuters and AP reports of October 15, "taikonaut" was used as a proper noun. For

example:

    The long March 2F rocket carrying "taikonaut" Yang Liwei lifted off into a clear blue sky over the

Gobi desert at 9 a.m. and entered its orbit 10 minutes later.

    A Long March 2F rocket called the Shenzhou V—"divine ship" in Chinese --carried a single

"taikonaut" named Yang Liwei, 38, following Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and American Alan Shepard in 1961.

    The word "taikonaut" is not a newly coined term. It first emerged in November, 1999, when China

launched its first unmanned "Shenzhou 1" spacecraft.

    At that time, .some English news media predicted(推测) that China would soon launch a manned space flight and created the word "taikonaut" for the Chinese astronauts. It was then borrowed by the German media.

    But it was left out of mainstream dictionaries, such as the Merriam-Webster Dictionary and

Cambridge Advanced English Learner's Dictionary.

    However, the launch of the "Shenzhou V" will most likely help boost its status since there is

already a word referring specifically to Russian astronauts in the dictionary entry.

     An astronaut of Russian(or the former Soviet Union) is called a "cosmonaut", from the Russian

"kosmonaut". The word was derived from classical Greek. "kosmonaut" (universal) and "nautes".

One might argue that "cosmonaut" is a Russian variation on the earlier word astronaut .

     On March 14, 1995, US astronaut Norman Thagard became the first American to ride into space

on-board, a Russian launch vehicle, arguably making him the first American cosmonaut.

     And if this trend of coinage continues, more English variations for astronaut will appear as more

countries are able to send their own astronauts into outer space, what would Western journalists call

an astronaut from India or Africa? We' 11 have to wait to see.

57. Which of the following best suits the passage as a title?

     A. Why to Create the Word "Astronaut"?

     B. Why to Make a Lot of Variations for "Taikonaut"?

     C. How to Tell a “Taikonaut “ from an Astronaut?

     D. How to Call Astronauts from Different Countries?

58. Which is the right statement in the following sentence?

     A. The word "taikonaut" was born with the launch of "Shenzhou V" spacecraft.

     B. Yang Liwei, Yuri Gagarin and Alan Shepard are all excellent taikonauts.

     C. The American newspapers such as Reuters coined the word "taikonaut".

D. Some new words have widely been put into use with the launch of the "Shenzhou V"

spacecraft.

59  From the writer's point of view', __________ .

A. lexicographers or dictionary compilers have aim done a lot of things to help launch Shenzhou V"

     B. the American astronaut Norman Thagard is not a cosmonaut

     C. the words coined or to be coined for astronauts of different countries usually have something to do with the name(s) of their countries

     D. the reason why there will be more variations for the word astronauts is that more and more countries will be able to send their own astronauts into space

60. What does the underlined word "coinage" mean in the passage?

     A. System of coins in use.                  B. Invention of word.

     C. New meaning of a word.                 D. Discovery of an old word.

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