session-care quick to intellectualize (高谈阔论)，slow to open up and connect. ―You are forbidden to say ?one feels,‘ or ?people think‘,‖Lehane told them. ―Say ?I think,‘ ?Think me‘.‖
A café society where no intellectualizing is allowed? It couldn‘t seem more un-French. But Lehanne‘s psychology café is about more than knowing oneself: It‘s trying to help the city‘s troubled neighborhood cafes. Over the years, Parisian cafes have fallen victim to changes in the French lifestyle-longer working hours, a fast food boom and a younger generation‘s desire to spend more time at home. Dozens of new theme cafes appear to change the situation. Cafes focused around psychology, history, and engineering are catching on, filling tables well into the evening.
46.What are people encouraged to do at the cafe La Chope? A. Express their true feelings. B. Keep in touch with friends. C. Show off their knowledge. D. Learn a new subject
47. How are cafes affected by French lifestyle changes? A. They have bigger night crowds. B. They are less frequently visited. C. They stay open for longer hours. D. They start to serve fast food. 48. What are theme cafes expected to do? A. Serve the neighborhood. B. Supply better drinks. C. Create more jobs. D. Save the cafe business.
49. Why are psychology cafes becoming popular in Paris? A. They give people spiritual support. B. They bring people true friendship. C. They help people realize their dreams. D. They offer a platform for business links.
B
Freedom and Responsibility
Freedom‘s challenge in the Digital Age is a serious topic. We are facing today a strange new world and we are all wondering what we are going to do with it.
Some 2,500 years ago Greece discovered freedom. Before that there was no freedom. There were great civilizations, splendid empires, but no freedom anywhere. Egypt and Babylon were both tyrannies, one very powerful man ruling over helpless masses. In Greece, in Athens (雅典), a little city in a little country, there were no helpless masses. And Athenians willingly obeyed the written laws which they themselves passed, and the unwritten, which must be obeyed if free men live together. They must show each other kindness and pity and the many qualities without which life would be very painful unless one chose to live alone in the desert.The Athenians never thought that a man was free if he could do what he wanted. A man was free if he was self-controlled. To make yourself obey what you approved was freedom. They were saved from looking at their lives as their own private affair. Each one felt responsible for the welfare of Athens, not because it was forced on him from the outside, but because the city was his pride and his safety. The essential belief of the first free government in the world was liberty for all men who could control themselves and would take responsibility for the state.
But discovering freedom is not like discovering computers. It cannot be discovered once for all. If people do not prize it, and work for it, it will go. Constant watch is its price. Athens changed. It was a change that took place without being noticed though it was of the extreme importance, a spiritual change which affected the whole state. It had been the Athenian爷s pride and joy to give to their city. That they could get material benefits from her never entered their minds. There had to be a complete change of attitude before they could look at the city as an employer who paid her citizens for doing her work. Now instead of men giving to the state, the state was to give to them.What the people wanted was a government which would provide a comfortable life for them; and with this as the primary object, ideas of freedom and self-reliance and responsibility were neglected to the point of disappearing. Athens was more and more looked on as a cooperative business possessed of great wealth in which all citizens had a right to share. Athens reached the point when the freedom she really wanted was freedom from responsibility.There could be only one result. If men insisted on being free from the burden of self-dependence and responsibility for the common good, they would cease to be free.
Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom. It is to be had on no other terms. Athens, the Athens of Ancient Greece, refused responsibility; she reached the end of freedom and was never to have it again.
But, ―the excellent becomes the permanent‖, Aristotle said. Athens lost freedom forever, but freedom was not lost forever for the world. A great American, James Madison, referred to: ―The capacity (能力) of mankind for self-government.‖ No doubt he had not an idea that he was speaking Greek. Athens was not in the farthest background of his mind, but once man has a great and good idea, it is never completely lost. The Digital Age cannot destroy it. Somehow in this or that man‘s thought such an idea lives though unconsidered by the world of action. One can never be sure that it is not on the point of breaking out into action only sure that it will do so sometime. 50. What does the underlined word ―tyrannies‖ in Paragraph 2 refer to?
A. Countries where their people need help. B. Powerful states with higher civilization. C.Governments ruled with absolute power. D. Splendid empires where people enjoy freedom. 51. People believing in freedom are those who __________.
A. behave within the laws and value systems B. seek gains as their primary object C. regard their life as their own business D. treat others with kindness and pity 52.What change in attitude took place in Athens?
A. The Athenians looked on the government as a business. B. The Athenians no longer took pride in the city.
C. The Athenians benefited spiritually from the government. D. The Athenians refused to take their responsibility.
53. What does the sentence ―There could be only one result.‖ in Paragraph 5 mean? A. Athens would continue to be free. B. Athens would cease to have freedom. C. Freedom would come from responsibility. D. Freedom would stop Athens from self-dependence. 54. Why does the author refer to Aristotle and Madison? A. The author is cautious about self-government. B. The author is hopeful about freedom. C. The author is skeptical of Greek civilization. D. The author is proud of man‘s capacity.
55.What is the author‘s understanding of freedom? A. Freedom needs to be guaranteed by responsibility. B. Freedom may come to an end in the digital age. C. Freedom should have priority over responsibility. D. Freedom can be more popular in the digital age. 第二部分 非选择题部分
第一节：汉译英（10分）
56．批准一项计划 57．禁止某人做某事
58．对……感到羞愧 59．从长远角度看
60．免受惩罚 61．迫不及待做某事 62．运动，锻炼 63．赢得某人的尊敬 64．培养某方面的兴趣 65.当提到/说到……的时候 第二节：选词填空（10分）
keep sb. informed of sth in charge of be hard on mix up go on a diet make preparations for look back on like crazy be supposed to above all 66.You ate only fruit for supper. Are you ?
67.The engineer will be directing the building of the subway. 68. You‘ll have to work to get this finished.
69. I‘d like to buy a house—modern, comfortable, and ______ in a quiet neighborhood. 70.Don‘t so your son. After all, he is only ten. 71.I can‘t believe it! Someone has all the documents! 72.You haven‘t finished your homework, so you stay inside.
73.Since we have not the meeting, we would like to put it off till next week. 74.Please how our business is going when I‘m away on business.
75.Only when we the past can we appreciate the great advances made during this century.
第三节：任务型阅读（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
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