2005年河南专升本公共英语考试真题

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Passage Two

 Newspapers , along with reporting the news, instruct, entertain, and give opinions. An important way for reading a large, big-city newspaper is knowing how to take it apart. Can you find these sepa- rate sections: world news, national and local news, sports, business , entertainment, opinions, classi fied ads? Does your paper have other sections?

 News stories give facts , not the author' s opinions. Editorials do the opposite , vou can expect an editorial to take sides. Some newspaper editorials have a bv-line with the author' s name, but many newspapers have unsigned editorials. These refleet the opinions of the publisher or editor.

 You can be a better reader if vou know what to expect in a newspaper. For example, you can expect headlines to omit unnecessary words. You canl expeet to find the most imporlant facts in the lead paragraph (the firsl paragraph) of a news slory. You can expect important news items to be on the front page. You can expect less imporlant ilems to be on the inside pages.

 Most of all,the more vou know aloout the current news,the more you will understand what is in the newspaper; imporlant stories are generally presented one day and followed up on following days. So, an important way for reading newspapers is reading one frequently

51. This passage is mainly concerned with A. the greenhouse effect

 B. the potential effect of air pollution C. the burning of fossil fuels

 D. the probability of a new ice age

assage Four

 Mountain climbers around the world dream about going up Mountain Everest(珠穆朗玛峰). It is the highest mountain in the world. Bul many people who have climbed the mountain have left Waste material that is harming the environment.

 A team of Americans is planning the largest clean-up effort ever on Mountain Everesl. They will make the risky trip up the mountain next month

 The team of eight Americans will be guided by more than twenly Sherpas of Nepal(尼泊儿夏尔 巴人). Their goal is to remove all the trash they see. They will spend two months cleaning up the mountain by gathering oxygen bottles, fuel containers, batleries, drink cans, human waste and other kinds of trash. They are expected to remove at least three tons of trash in large bags

 Team leader Robert Hoffman is making his fourth trip up the mountain. He says he hopes to bring Everest to the condition it was in before the first successful climb fifty years ago. He says he hopes the effort will influence other people to clean up the environment closer home.

 Human waste on Everest is a major concern. So the clean-up team will take along newly develop-

 ment equipment to collect and treat human waste. Over the years , the wasle articles have polluted the

 mountain. In the warm season when the ice melts, the polluted water flows to Nepali villages below. The problem has gotten worse in recent years because climbing Everest has become more popular.