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about the people who lived even 200 years ago in central Africa because they had not learned to write.
Sometimes, of course, even if the people cannot write, they may know something of the past. They have heard about it from older people and often songs and dances and stories have been made about the most important happenings, and these have been sung and acted and told for many generations, for most people are proud to tell what their fathers did in the past. This we may call ?remembered history”. Some of it has now been written down. It is not so exact or so valuable to us as written history is, because words are much more easily changed when used again and again in speech than when copied in writing. But if there are no written records, such spoken stories are often very helpful.
11. Which of the following is NOT suggested in the passage? .
A. Written history is more reliable.
B. Written records play an important role in learning about history. C. A written account of our daily activities helps to answer many questions. D. Where there are no written records, there is no history.
12. Little is known about the central Africa 200 years ago because ______.
A. there was nothing worth writing down at that time B. people there ignored the importance of keeping a record C. people there did not know how to write
D. the written records were perhaps destroyed by a fire
13. “Remembered history” refers to ______.
A. history based on a person’s imagination
B. stories of important happenings passed down from mouth to mouth C. songs and dances about the most important events. D. both B and C
14. “Remembered history” is regarded as valuable only when ______.
A. it is written down C. it proves to be timely
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B. No written account is available D. People are interested in it
15. It is suggested that we could have learned more about our past if ancient people had ______.
A. kept a written record of every past event B. burnt their written records in wars
C. told exact stories of the most important happenings D. made more songs and dances
Passage Four
Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage.
NOT all memories are sweet. Some people spend all their lives trying to forget bad experiences. Violence and traffic accidents can leave people with terrible physical and emotional scars. Often they relive experiences in nightmares. Now American researchers are developing a pill which will help people forget bad memories. The pill is designed to be taken immediately after a frightening experience. They hope it might reduce, or possibly erase the effect of painful memories.
In November, experts tested a drug on people in the US and France. The drug stops the body releasing chemicals that fix memories in the brain. So far the research has suggested that only the emotional effects of memories may be reduced, not that the memories are erased.
The research has caused a great deal of argument. Some think it is a bad idea, while others support it. Supporters say it could lead to pills that prevent or treat soldiers' troubling memories after war. They say that there are many people who suffer from terrible memories.
“Some memories can ruin people's lives. They come back to you when you don't want to have them in a daydream or nightmare. They usually come with very painful emotions,” said Roger Pitman, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. “This could relieve a lot of that suffering.”
But those who are against the research say that changing memories is very dangerous because memories give us our identity. They also help us avoid the mistakes of the past.
“All of us can think of bad events in our lives that were horrible at the time but they can make us who we are. I'm not sure we want to wipe those memories out,” said Rebecca Dresser ,a medical ethicist.
16. The drug tested on people can ______.
A. help cure brain damage
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B. stop people remembering bad experiences C. stop the body producing certain chemicals D. wipe out the emotional effects of memories
17. According to the supporters of the pills, ______.
A. the pills might relieve people of troubling memories B. the pills could help people avoid mistakes C. taking the pill will do harm to people’s health D. the pills should be produced in American soon
18. The word “they” (Para.6) refers to ______.
A. the researchers C. memories
B. the people on test D. mistakes
19. Which of the following does Rebecca Dresser agree with?
A. Some memories can ruin people’s lives. B. People want to get rid of bad memories.
C. Experiencing bad events makes us different from others. D. The pill will reduce people’s sufferings from bad memories.
20. The passage is mainly about ______.
A. an argument about the research on the pill B. a new research on the pill C. a way of deleting painful memories D. a new medical invention
Part II Vocabulary and Structure （共40小题，每小题1分，共40分）
Directions: There are 40 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are 4 choices
marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
21. The patient was warned ______ oily food after the operation, but he wouldn’t listen.
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A. to eat not C. not to eat
B. eating not D. not eating
22. Feeling something wrong with our car, we pulled over. Not until then ______ it had been
badly damaged.
A. did we find C. we found
B. found we D. we did find
23. The girl was so ______ at her father’s decision about her marriage that she had a bitter quarrel
with him.
A. disappointing C. delighted
B. disappointed D. exciting
24. I don’t think you can work out the maths problem ____the teacher’s help.
A. without C. because
B. unless D. since
25. If you are unable to attend the meeting, for ______ reason, you should inform us in advance.
A. whatever C. however
B. wherever D. whoever
26. ______he will enter the speech contest has not been decided yet.
A. If C. Whether
B. That D. Which
27. --- I must apologize for ______ the meeting ahead of time. --- That’s all right.
A. letting you not know C. letting you know not
B. not letting you know D. letting not you know
28. My son seemed not to have understood what I meant, ______really upset me.
A. that C. what
B. it D. which
29. We came early and had to wait for one hour before the wedding ceremony began. We ______.
A. should not hurry C. must not have hurried
B. need not have hurried D. need not hurry
30. There ______ no money left for our project, we had to change our plan.
A. being C. were
B. had D. are
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