英语与精读一(国贸本)期末A卷.doc

英语精读 第 1 学期 Words:10% 混合物 听众 领导者 宗教 个别的  Vocabulary and structure 10% shock glance Grope response schedule abstract Property offer compass crash Make up for Rule out The parents were ________ by the child’s dangerous act. During the meal he kept ________ at the door, obviously expecting someone to walk in. She ______ for her glasses on the bedside table The car ____________into a tree and burst into flames. The construction was completed three weeks ahead of __________________. We drove as fast as we could, trying to __________ lost time. The manager’s _______________ to our plan was encouraging. We can’t ________ the possibility that she was murdered by her husband. Professor Brown’s books are very ________ and are hard to read. Sailors use an ____________ to know in which direction their ship is headed. Reading comprehension 40% Passage one As supplier of most of the food we eat and of raw material for many industrial processes, agriculture is clearly an important area of the economy. But the productive performance of agriculture is even more important than this, because in nations where the productivity of farmers is low, most of the working population is needed to raise food and few people are available for production of industrial goods or of other activities required for economic growth. Indeed, one of the factors related most closely to the per capita income of a nation is the number of its population engaged in farming. In the poorest nations of the world, more than half of the population lives on farms. This compares sharply with less than 10 percent in Western Europe and less than 4 percent in the United States. In short, the course of economic development in general depends in a fundamental way on the productive performance of farmers. This performance, in turn, depends on how agriculture is organized and on the economic environment, or market structure, within which it works. In the following pages the performance of American agriculture is examin