1、 Mr. Bright _ down the stairs, trying not to disturb his roommates, but a creaking floorboard woke up his best friend, Tom. A. tiptoed B. limped C. trudged D. strutted 26. Betty liked to have her clothes made to _ but I preferred ready-made clothes. A. medium B. measurement C. standard D. measure 27
2、. The whole area of national and local governments was subjected to a thorough financial_ , and inefficiency and waste were attacked. A. survey B. search C. research D. scrutiny28. In my younger and more _ years my father gave me some advice that Ive been turning over in my mind ever since. A. frail
3、 B. pregnable C. assailable D. vulnerable29. Formulated in 1823, the Monroe Doctrine_ that the Americas were no longer open to European colonization. A. argued B. asserted C. entreated D. accentuated30. As we all know, houses are _ to be at rest with respect to the earth but the earth itself is not
4、motionless . A. resumed B. consumed C. assumed D. presumedPart II Reading Comprehension ( 40 points )Section A: In this section, there are three passages. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should dec
5、ide on the BEST choices and then write the appropriate answer on the ANSWER SHEET. ( 30 points，2 for each )Passage 1 According to a recent publication of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, at the present rate of progress, it will take forty-three years to end job discrimination-hardly a re
6、asonable timetable.If our goal is educational and economic equity and parity, it is then we need affirmative action to catch up. We are behind as a result of discrimination and denial of opportunity. There is one white attorney for every 680 whites, but only one black attorney for every 4,000 blacks
7、; one white physician for every 659 whites, but only one black physician for every 5,000 blacks; and one white dentist for every 1,900 whites, but only one black dentist for every 8,400 blacks. Less than 1 percent of all engineers or of all practicing chemists is black. Cruel and uncompassionate inj
8、ustice created gaps like these. We need creative justice and compassion to help us close them.Actually, in the U.S. context, “reverse discrimination” is illogical and a contradiction in terms. Never in the history of mankind has a majority, with power, engaged in programs and written laws that discr
9、iminate against itself. The only thing whites are giving up because of affirmative action is unfair advantage, something that was unnecessary in the first place.Blacks are not making progress at the expense of whites, as news accounts make it seem. There are 49 percent more whites in medical school
10、today and 64 percent more whites in law school than there were when affirmative action programs began some eighteen years ago.In a recent column, William Raspberry raised an interesting question. Commenting on the Bakke case, he asked, “What if, instead of setting aside 16 of 100 slots, we added 16 slots to the 100.” That, he suggested,
