2006英语一真题【无水印】分享(1).pdf

Section I Use of EnglishDirections:Read the following text.Choose the best word(s)for each numbered blank andmark A,B,C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1.(10 points)The homeless make up a growing percentage of Americas population.1,homelessness has reached such proportions that local governments cant possibly2.To help homeless people 3 independence,the federal governmentmust support job training programs,4 the minimum wage,and fund morelow-cost housing.5 everyone agrees on the number of Americans who are homeless.Estimates 6 anywhere from 600,000 to 3 million.7 the figure may vary,analysts do agree on another matter:that the number of the homeless is 8.Oneof the federal governments studies 9 that the number of the homeless willreach nearly 19 million by the end of this decade.Finding ways to 10 this growing homeless population has becomeincreasingly difficult.11 when homeless individuals manage to find a 12that will give them three meals a day and a place to sleep at night,a good numberstill spend the bulk of each day 13 the street.Part of the problem is that manyhomeless adults are addicted to alcohol or drugs.And a significant number of thehomeless have serious mental disorders.Many others,14 not addicted ormentally ill,simply lack the everyday 15 skills needed to turn their lives 16.Boston Globe reporter Chris Reidy notes that the situation will improve only whenthere are 17 programs that address the many needs of the homeless.18Edward Zlotkowski,director of community service at Bentley College inMassachusetts,19 it,There has to be 20 of programs.Whats neededis a package deal.”英语（一)试题.1，（共14页）Text 1In spite of endless talk of difference,American society is an amazingmachine for homogenizing people.There is the democratizing uniformity ofdress and discourse,and the casualness and absence of deferencecharacteristicof popular culture.People are absorbed into a culture of consumptionlaunchedby the 19th-century department stores that offered vast arrays of goods in anelegant atmosphere.Instead of intimate shops catering to a knowledgeable elitethese were stores anyone could enter,regardless of class or background.Thisturned shopping into a public and democratic act.The mass media,advertisingand sports are other forces for homogenization.Immigrants are quickly fitting into this common culture,which may not bealtogether elevating but is hardly poisonous.Writing for the National ImmigrationForum,Gregory Rodriguez reports that todays immigration is neither atunprecedented levels nor resistant to assimilation.In 1998 immigrants were 9.8percent of the population;in 1900,13.6 percent.In the 10 years prior to 1990,3.1 immigrants arrived for every 1,000 residents;in the 10 years prior to 1890,9.2 for every 1,000.Now,consider three indices of assimilation-language,home ownership and intermarriage.The 1990 Census revealed that a majority of immigrants from each of thefifteen most common countries of origin spoke English wellor very wellafterten years of residence.The children of immigrants tend to be bilingual andproficient in English.By the third generation,the original language is lost inthe majority of immigrant families.Hence the description of America as agraveyardfor languages.By 1996 foreign-born immigrants who had arrivedbefore 1970 had a home ownership rate of 75.6 percent,higher than the 69.8percent rate among native-born Americans.Foreign-born Asians and Hispanics have higher rates of intermarriage thando U.S.-born whites and blacks.By the third generation,one third of Hispanicwomen are married to non-Hispanics,and 41 percent of Asian-American womenare married to non-Asians.Rodriguez notes that children in remote villages around the world are fans ofsuperstars like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Garth Brooks,yet some Americansfear that immigrants living within the United States remain somehow immune tothe nations assimilative power.Are there divisive issues and pockets of seething anger in America?Indeed.It is big enough to have a bit of everything.But particularly when viewed againstAmericas turbulent past,todays social indices hardly suggest a dark anddeteriorating social environment.英语（一)试题.3.（共14页)Text 2Stratford-on-Avon,as we all know,has only one industry-WilliamShakespeare-but there are two distinctly separate and increasingly hostilebranches.There is the Royal Shakespeare Company(RSC),which presentssuperb productions of the plays at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre on theAvon.And there are the townsfolk who largely live off the tourists who come,not to see the plays,but to look at Anne Hathaways Cottage,Shakespearesbirthplace and the other sights.The worthy residents of Stratford doubt that the theatre adds a penny to theirrevenue.They frankly dislike the RSCs actors,them with their long hair andbeards and sandals and noisiness.Its all deliciously ironic when you consider thatShakespeare,who earns their living,was himself an actor with a beard)and didhis share of noise-making.The tourist streams are not entirely separate.The sightseers who come bybus-and often take in Warwick Castle and Blenheim Palace on the side-dontusually see the plays,and some of them are even surprised to find a theatre inStratford.However,the playgoers do manage a little sight-seeing along with theirplaygoing.It is the playgoers,the RSC contends,who bring in much of thetowns revenue because they spend the night some of them four or five nights)pouring cash into the hotels and restaurants.The sightseers can take in everythingand get out of town by nightfall.The townsfolk dont see it this way and the local council does not contributedirectly to the subsidy of the Royal Shakespeare Company.Stratford cries poortraditionally.Nevertheless every hotel in town seems to be adding a new wing orcocktail lounge.Hilton is building its own hotel there,which you may be surewill be decorated with Hamlet Hamburger Bars,the Lear Lounge,the BanquoBanqueting Room,and so forth,and will be very expensive.Anyway,the townsfolk cant understand why the Royal ShakespeareCompany needs a subsidy.(The theatre has broken attendance records for threeyears in a row.Last year its 1,431 seats were 94 per cent occupied all year longand this year theyll do better.)The reason,of course,is that costs haverocketed and ticket prices have stayed low.It would be a shame to raise prices too much because it would drive away theyoung people who are Stratfords most attractive clientele.They come entirely forthe plays,not the sights.They all seem to look alike though they come from allover)-lean,pointed,dedicated faces,wearing jeans and sandals,eating theirbuns and bedding down for the night on the flagstones outside the theatre to buythe 20 seats and 80 standing-room tickets held for the sleepers and sold to themwhen the box office opens at 10:30 a.m.英语（一）试题.5.（共14页)