Ⅲ. Cloze ( 30 points)(Directions:For each blank in the following passage, there are four choices marked A,B,C and D. Choose the one that is most suitable and mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.)
1.One of the political issues we hear a lot about lately is campaign finance reform. The people who are calling for (21)____ usually want the government to pay for campaigns and/or limit the amount of money that candidates and their supporters can spend. One reason that reform is (22)____ for is that it costs so much to run for political office. Candidates have to spend a great deal of time and effort (23)____ money. The incumbents (those already in office) have (24)____ time to do their jobs since they must attend so many fund raising events. Another (25)____ is the fear that candidates will be owned or controlled by the "special interest groups" that contribute to their campaigns. Sometimes this certainly seems to be the (26)____ . On the (27)____ side are those who caution that just because you call something "reform," doesn't mean it's really (28)____ . They (29)____ that our fight to freedom of speech is meaningless if the government can limit anyone's ability to get his or her message out to the people. If one person or a group of people want to tell the (30)____ what they think about an issue or candidate, they have to (31)____ advertising on TV, radio, and in newspapers and magazines. They might want to display billboards along highways and banners on heavily trafficked Web sites. All this (32)____ a lot of money. Opponents of laws that regulate or limit spending say that you don't really have freedom of speech or freedom of the press if you can't get your message out. They say that in a democracy, the government should never be able to regulate political discussion or the means to distribute ideas. They believe that this is most important when the voters are about to make (33)____ . What do you think about this issue Listen to what the (34)____ for national office have to say. Which candidates make the most (35)_____ to you.
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1. Choosing a college requires that you ask yourself many questions. Who do you want to be? What do you want to do? Where do you want to go in life? How do you get there? Perhaps thebest way to find those answers is to look at our college on Long Island. Think about it .Private colleges on Long Island charge an average of $25, 000 a year onoverall costs, an average total of $100, 000 over four years, our college ’s cost is just over $000, or about $53, 000 over four years. That means, because of the investment of the State of NewYork in our public college, you pay nearly half what students at those private colleges pay. Thatthe money you can use later for graduate school, travel, or whatever you choose. LOCATION: With a wooded 604-acre cam pus centrally located on Long Island, the nation ’s16 th largest population center. Our college offers the best of both worlds, a quiet atmospherededicated to learning yet just 20 miles from the heart of New York City. STUDENTS: 3, 200 students from across the United States and more than 20 foreigncountries, among the most culturally diverse students population in the Northeast. FACULTY: 120 full-time, of whom 80% hold a terminal degree in their field. A 17: 1students-to-faculty ratio. CURRICULUN (课程): Comprehensive, with 45 undergraduate majors and 16 minors inboth liberal arts and professional field. One graduate program currently available. DEGREES: Undergraduate : Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of ProfessionalStudies. Graduate: M.S. in Accounting. STUDENT LIFE: Active and diverse with more than 50 students organizations, including astudent -run newspaper and television station, academic organizations and community servicegroups. FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE: 60% of students receive either need-based aid or merit-basedscholarships. ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS: Applications considered on a rolling basis. About 55% offreshman applicants are accepted. Transfer students earning more than 24 credit hours of collegework will be evaluated based on that work.than 24 credit hours of college work will be evaluated based on that work.
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Space is a dangerous place, not only because of meteors but also because of rays from the sun and other stars. The atmosphere again acts as our protective blanket on earth. Light gets through, and this is necessary for plants to make the food that we eat. Heat, too, makes our environment endurable. Various kinds of rays come through the air from outer space, but enormous quantities of radiation from the sun are screened off. As soon as men leave the atmosphere they are exposed to this radiation but their spacesuits or the walls of their spacecraft, if they are inside, do prevent a lot of radiation damage.
Radiation is the greatest known danger to explorers in space, The unit of radiation is called “rem” Scientists have reason to think that a man can put up with far more radiation than 0.1rem without being damaged; the figure of 60 rems has been agreed on. The trouble is that it is extremely difficult to be sure about radiation damage. A person may feel perfectly well, but the cells of his or her sex organs may be damaged, and this will not be discovered until the birth of deformed(畸形的) children or even grandchildren. Missions of the Apollo flights have had to cross belts of high radiation and , during the outward and return journeys, the Apollo crew accumulated a large amount of rems. So far, no dangerous amounts of radiation have been reported, but the Apollo missions have been quite short. We simply do not know yet how men are going to get on when they spend weeks and months outside the protection of the atmosphere, working in a space laboratory. Drugs might help to decrease the damage done by radiation, but no really effective ones have been found so far.
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