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　　Test 4

　　D. H. Lawrence was the fourth child of Arthur Lawrence and Lydia Beardsall, and their first to have been bom in Eastwood. Ever since their marriage in 1875, the couple had been on the move: Arthur s job as a miner had taken them where the best-paid work had been during the boom years of the 1870s, and they had lived in a succession of small and recently built grimy colliery villages all over Nottinghamshire. But when they moved to Eastwood in 1883, it was to a place where they would remain for the rest of their lives; the move seems to have marked a watershed in their early history. For one thing, they were settling down: Arthur lawrence would work at Brinsley colliery until he retired in 1909. For another, they now had three small children and Lydia may have wanted to give them the kind of continuity in schooling they had never previously had. It was also the case that, when they came to Eastwood, they took a house with a shop window, and Lydia ran a small clothes shop: presumably to supplement their income, but also perhaps because she felt she could do it in addition to raising their children. It seems possible that, getting on badly with her husband as she did, she imagined that further children were out of the question. Taking on the shop may have marked her own bid for independence. Arthurs parents lived less than a mile away, down in Brinsley, while his youngest brother Walter lived only 100 yards away from them in another company house, in Princes Street. When the family moved to Eastwood, Arthur lawrence was coming back to his own family s center: one of the reasons, for sure, why they stayed there. Lydia lawrence probably felt, on the other hand, more as if she were digging in for a siege. Eastwood may have been home to Arthur Lawrence, but to Lydia it was just another grimy colliery village which she never liked very much and where she never felt either much at home or properly accepted. Her Kent accent doubtless made Midlands people feel that she put on airs.

　　36. This passage is mainly about the introduction of ___________.

　　A. D. H. Lawrence B. D. H. Lawrences parents

　　C. D. H. Lawrences residence D. D. H. Lawrences family background and education

　　37. Which of the following is NOT the reason for D. H. Lawrence s family settling down in Eastwood?

　　A. Children in the family needed consistent education.

　　B. D. H. Lawrences father could be near to his family members.

　　C. D, H. Lawrences mother could seek for her independence.

　　D. D. H. Lawrence could accumulate enough materials to write about in his novels.

　　38. Which of the following might be an image of D. H. Lawrence s mother in other people s mind?

　　A. A mother who was quite amiable. B. A wife who was considerate.

　　C. An arrogant woman. D. A faithful wife.

　　39. The family had been on the move, because __________.

　　A. they had to stay with the father who had to go everywhere to find a job in depression

　　B. the father could find better-paid jobs in the prosperity of economy

　　C. the father wanted to be near with his own home

　　D. the mother always wanted to change the location of their house

　　40. Which of the following statement is NOT true?

　　A. The relationship between D.H. Lawrences parents may not be so good.

　　B. D. H. Lawrence s mother was a woman of strong will.

　　C. D. H. Lawrences mother did not like her home at Eastwood.

　　D. D. H. Lawrence was the first child in the family.

　　Part B Directions: The following paragraphs are given in a wrong order. For Questions 41-45, you are required to reorganize these paragraphs into a coherent article by choosing from the list A-E to fill in each numbered box. The first and the last paragraphs have been placed for you in Boxed. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)

　　[A]Although there are highly professional criminals involved in car theft, almost 90 percent of car crime is committed by the opportunist. Amateur thieves are aided by our carelessness. When the Automobile Association (AA) engineers surveyed one town centre car park last year, 10 percent of cars checked were unlocked, a figure backed up by a Home Office national survey that found 12 percent of drivers sometimes left their cars unlocked.

　　[B]The AA recommends locking up whenever you leave the car— and for however short a period. A partially open sunroof or window is a further come-on to thieves.

　　[C]The vehicles are sitting in petrol stations while drivers pay for their fuel. The AA has discovered that cars are left unattended for an average of three minutes — and sometimes much longer —as drivers buy drinks, cigarettes and other consumer items—and then pay at the counter. With payment by credit card more and more common, it is not unusual for a driver to be out of his car for as long as six minutes providing the car thief with a golden opportunity.

　　[D]In an exclusive AA survey, carried out at a busy garage on a main road out of London, 300 motorists were questioned over three days of the holiday period. 24 percent admitted that they "always" or "sometimes" leave the keys in the car. This means that nationwide, a million cars daily become easy targets for the opportunist thief.

　　[E]Leaving valuables in view is an invitation to the criminal. A Manchester probationary (假释期) service research project, which interviewed almost 100 car thieves last year, found many would investigate a coat thrown on a seat. Never leave any documents showing your home address in the car. If you have a garage, use it and lock it — a garaged car is at substantially less risk.

　　[F]For more than 10 years there has been a bigger rise in car crime than in most other types of crime. An average of more than two cars a minute are broken into, vandalized (破坏) or stolen in the UK. Car crime accounts for almost a third of all reported offences with no signs that the trend is slowing down.

　　[G]There are many other traps to avoid. The Home Office has found little awareness among drivers about safe parking. Most motorists questioned made no efforts to avoid parking in quiet spots away from street lights— just the places thieves love. The AA advises drivers to park in places with people around— thieves do not like audiences.

　　Order: F→41.( )→42.( )→43.( )→44.( )→45.( )→G

　　Part C Directions: Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2.(10 points)

　　The first fifty years of the new millennium will be critical for the worlds population.(46)By 2050 population growth should have leveled off, but by then well have 10 billion people two-thirds as many again as we have today. The rate of population growth is something we can choose right now, though: its not something that just happens, but a matter of human choice. Peoples fertility behavior changes as things around them change—particularly the position of women. (47)The choice is a complicated one, with many variables, but it remains a choice. If we want to prevent a population explosion, we should take action now—or assist the poorer countries to do so. They need better governments, better institutions, better labor and capital markets, better schools. Anything that increases the value of women’s time and adds to the cost of caring for a child makes a woman less likely to have that child. (48) Since big families are often seen as safety nets for illness and old age, improving poor people’s access to insurance, pensions and welfare institutions also has a major impact. This can be as simple as rural credit, providing a means of saving. Finally, there is education—both for women and, perhaps even more important, for the next generation of children. (49) These steps are there to be taken, but there appear to be two groups of countries that are not seriously trying at the moment. The first is in sub-Saharan Africa, Where both markets and governments work so badly that such policies can’t find a foothold. The second are those countries, like some in the Middle East, which feel threatened by their neighbors or have a dictator at the helm. You need democratic government for effective development, and if we cannot achieve that we will certainly not control population. That said, I don’t feel pessimistic that we are going to run out of resources; we are becoming more efficient at producing food faster than the rate at which population is increasing. These is, however, a risk that we will wreck the environment so effectively that the world will no longer be an attractive place to live. That really would be a dismal outcome: to reach world population equilibrium only to find wed destroyed the natural environment in the process. But when I look at the Third World and think "What can I do to solve this?", my reaction isn’t to say "Lets bring population down immediately". (50) Population growth is an intermediate variable; it is not the real cause of the problems—that lies with the institutions that channel peoples choices. And even if we succeed in controlling population growth, we will still have huge environmental problems to deal with.