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5. In the history of the Peace Corps, the number of its volunteers reached the highest point in ________________. A. 1961 B. 1966 C. 1967 D. 1971
6.
Nigerian students accused the Peace Corps volunteers of being spies of the US government because ________________.
A. a volunteer wrote rude remarks about Nigeria in her postcard
B. the international press reported the poor living conditions in Nigeria
C. the US administration questioned the future of the Peace Corps in Nigeria
D. American volunteers held a hunger strike at the University College at Ibadan 7.
What types of projects did the Peace Corps traditionally concern? ________________
A. Education- and agriculture-related projects.
B. Business- and agriculture-related projects.
C. Education- and business-related projects.
D. Political and social conditions in the United States. 8.
The number of volunteers dropped to its lowest level in the early 1980s because of 9.
President George W. Bush pledged to double the size of the Peace Corps after the September 11, 2001 attacks as a part
funding cuts. of the War on Terrorsim. 10. According to Joseph Kennedy, the need for the Peace Corps became especially urgent as the American reputation had taken a hit. Part 6 Skimming and Scanning (Multiple Choice + Blank Filling) (每小题: 1 分; 满分：10 分) (In the case of True/False type of questions, A stands for True and B for False, or A for Y, B for N and C for NG.) 小得对学生答案 Correct 题 分 错 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. C C B C B A A funding cuts the War on Terrorsim taken a hit Subtotal: 7 Part 7 Reading Comprehension (Banked Cloze) (每小题：1 分) Directions: Fill in the blanks in the following passage by selecting suitable words from the Word Bank. You may not use any of the words more than once. Questions 1 to 10 are based on the following passage. When you look at my friend John you cannot tell that he is disabled at all. John has a job and a family and seems to thrive in everything he does. This is not the 1. portraitthat most people think of when they think of someone with a disability. People usually think of someone in a 2. wheelchairor who is blind walking with a cane. John's disability isn't 3. referredfrom the outside though, and when you first meet him you would never know. John has a common disability that affects his ability to read and write and it has a 4. influentialimpact on his ability to perform at serieswork. When he looks at a 5. of numbers or reads sentences, the order of the numbers and words get confused. His second grade teacher first 6. alertedJohn and his mother to this fact. She John to a colleague of hers who 7. attributedwas a specialist in this area. With a lot of 8. assistance, John was able to graduate from high school. Though his disability is not physical, it is still protected by a 9. provisionof the Federal Disabilities Act. This is a law that states that it is illegal to not hire or fire someone disabled if reasonable 10. apparentcan be made to assist that person. John is now a famous chef who has cooked for ambassadors and senators. Part 7 Reading Comprehension (Banked Cloze) (每小题: 1 分; 满分：10 分) (In the case of True/False type of questions, A stands for True and B for False, or A for Y, B for N and C for NG.) 小得对学生答案 Correct 题 分 错 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. portrait wheelchair referred influential series alerted attributed assistance 9. 10. provision apparent Subtotal: 5 Click ONCE on the speaker icon to start listening! 放音结束前请不要离开本页。否则就听不成啦! Part 8 Reading Comprehension (Multiple Choice) (每小题：1 分) Directions: Read the following passages carefully and choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. Questions 1 to 5 are based on the same passage or dialog. During the long vacation I was accepted as a trainee bus conductor. I found the job fiercely demanding even on a short route with a total of about two dozen passengers. I pulled the wrong tickets, forgot the change and wrote up my log (行程记录) at the end of each trip in a way that drew hollow laughter from the inspectors. The inspectors were likely to check at any time. A conductor with twenty years' service could be dismissed if an inspector caught him accepting money without pulling a ticket. It was hot that summer: 100° Fahrenheit (华氏) every day. Inside the bus it was 30° hotter still. It was so jammed inside that my feet weren't touching the floor. I couldn't blink (眨眼睛) the sweat out of my eyes. There was no hope of collecting any fares. In these circumstances I was scarcely to blame. I didn't even know where we were, but I guessed we were at the top just before Market Street. I pressed the bell, the doors closed, and the bus surged forward. There were shouts and yells from down the back, but I thought they were the angry cries of passengers who had not got on. Too late I realized that they were coming from within the bus. The automatic doors at the back of the bus had closed around an old lady's neck as she was getting on. Her head was inside the bus. The rest of her, carrying a shopping bag was outside. I knew none of this at the time. When I at last signaled the driver to stop, he crashed to a halt and opened the automatic doors. The woman dropped to the road. Unfortunately, the car behind turned out to be full of inspectors. Since it would have made headlines if a university student had almost half-killed a woman of an advanced age, I was given the