2024年4月23日发(作者：禚暮)
Quiz One
Part I. Choose the best one whose meaning is similar to underlined part.
1. The community, however, refused to budge in Brussels last month during failed
final session of GATT trade talks.
A. change opinion
B. agree
C. move
D. back
2. The question then is whether society now deems a fairy-tale marriage essential to
the monarchy’s survival.
A. irrelevant
B. vital
C. unimportant
D. interesting
3. Every night, prime-time television assails children with mindless sitcoms and soap
operas.
A. attracts
B. interests
C. attacks
D. influences
4. The brass bands, speeches and ticker tape are a far cry from the shame and silence
that Vietnam veterans met.
A. similar to
B. far away from
C. familiar with
D. different from
5. France’s intelligence service has been most brazen about economic espionage.
A. shameless
B. ashamed
C. brave
D. familiar
6. A bipartisan drive is under way to raise or repeal the earnings limit, offsetting the
potential costs with new payroll taxes on state and local government workers.
A. agreement
B. party
C. talk
D. effort
7. People do not kill their wives in such a premeditated, ingenious and theatrical way.
A. cruel
B. illegal
C. shameful
D. clever
8. The nation’s thrift industry has been going bust for a decade.
A. broke
B. better
C. fast
D. forward
9. The plastics industry scrambled to support recycling mostly out of fear that its
ubiquitous products will otherwise be banned.
A. slow
B. hurry
C. is sure
D. is sorry
10. In February the number of women aged 18-49 watching television during the day
was a catastrophic 14%.
A. sad
B. terrible
C. disastrous
D. weak
11. History has repeatedly shown that even superior conventional forces cannot be
relied upon to deter an aggressor from chancing an attack.
A. discourage
B. defend
C. deserve
D. develop
12. Would the British really relish a workday monarchy like Denmark’s?
A. realize B. enjoy
C. regret D. hate
13. These scandals capped a Spring and Summer of monarchial discontent.
A. content B. satisfaction
C. unhappiness D. love
14. The busybody and the crybaby are getting to be the most conspicuous on the
American playground.
A. controversial B. contradictory
C. ordinary D. obvious
15. The increase has been so alarming that both the CIA and the FBI have beefed up
their economic counterintelligence programs.
A. strengthened B. weakened
C. stopped D. began
Part II. Reading: Choose the best answer according to the passages.
From Anarchy To Islamic Rule in Afghanistan
U.S. officials say the militia may be the key to stability
By Michael Dobbs
Washington Post Staff Writer
The stunning capture of Kabul by the radical Taliban militia organization
represents the best chance in years of ending the anarchy that has wracked
Afghanistan since the Soviet invasion in 1979,but it also could be the prelude to the
construction of a particularly strict Islamic state, according to U.S. officials and
experts.
Reports from the Afghan capital suggested that the Islamic rebel group had
consolidated control over the city after driving out the leaders of the Iranian-backed
coalition government and executing former Afghan president Najibullah, the country’s
last Communist ruler
[ 1 ]
. By U.S. estimates, the Taliban now
controls the southern two-thirds of the country, with the remainder
in the hands of Uzbek and Tajik ethnic groups.
The lightning offensive against Kabul is the culmination of a
two-year campaign by the Taliban, a secretive organization that began as a group of
seminary students in Pakistan, to reunify the country on the basis of Islamic
ideology
[ 2 ]
. Widespread war-weariness and disgust with the ineffectiveness and
corruption of the previous regime enabled the Taliban to enter Kabul just two weeks
after seizing the city of Jalalabad.
In Washington, State Department spokesman Glyn Davies called on the new
authorities in Kabul to “move quickly to restore order”and form a “representative
interim government”to begin the process of reconciliation. He said that the United
States could see“nothing objectionable”to the steps so far taken by the Taliban
movement to impose Islamic law in the areas that it controls.
From the U.S. point of view, a Taliban-dominated government represents a
preferable alternative in some ways to the faction-ridden coalition headed by
President Baharunuddin Rabbani, which was unable to impose its authority on the
entire country
[ 3 ]
. American analysts describe the Taliban as“anti-modern”rather
than“anti-Western,”and note that it seems bent on restoring a traditional society in
Afghanistan, rather than exporting an Islamic revolution.
At the same time, however, U.S. officials acknowledge that their knowledge of the
Taliban is extremely limited. Practically nothing is known about the top Taliban leader,
Mohammed Omar, a mullah who served as a low-level commander in the war against
the Soviet occupiers of Afghanistan before attending religious
school in Pakistan. Taliban officials refused to take part in a
hearing on Afghanistan in July organized by Republican Sen.
Hank Brown of Colorado and attended by representatives of all
the other Afghan factions.
“These fellows are deeply religious and strongly anti-Soviet,”says Brown, who has
visited areas of Afghanistan controlled by the Taliban and talked to lower-level
Taliban leaders
[ 4 ]
.“The good part of what has happened is that one of the factions at
last seems capable of developing a government in Afghanistan. The worrisome part is
that we don’t know a lot about their policies. We don’t know what direction they will
take the country.”
A senior State Department official welcomed reports that the new authorities in
Kabul have announced their intention of inviting the former Afghan monarch, King
Zahir Shah, back to Afghanistan as a“unifying figure.”The official says that the
United States would attempt to send an emissary to Kabul“as soon as the dust has
settled”to make contact with Taliban leaders.
The U.S. Embassy in Kabul was closed down for security reasons following the
withdrawal of Soviet troops in 1989,which was followed by years of bitter factional
fighting.
U.S. officials have kept sporadic contact with the different Afghan factions. Last
April, the assistant secretary of State for Asian affairs, Robin , traveled to the
Taliban strong-hold of Kandahar for talks with aides to Mullah Omar.
As a geopolitical issue, Afghanistan has virtually dropped off the Washington radar
screen since the withdrawal of Soviet troops. Once an important buffer between
pro-Western Pakistan and the Soviet Union, the country has lost much of its strategic
importance since the collapse of communism
[ 5 ]
. But it has remained a potent source
of political instability in Central Asia.
“There will be no stability in Central Asia or even in the Middle East if
Afghanistan turns into a base for terrorism and narcotics trafficking,”says
Rohrabacher of California, one of a handful of lawmakers who has remained
interested in Afghanistan.“The continued chaos in Afghanistan meant that it was well
on the way to becoming the Lebanon of this decade
[ 6 ]
.”
Rohrabacher notes that recent bombings in Saudi Arabia and New York have been
traced back to Mujahedin groups active in Afghanistan during the war against Soviet
occupation
[ 7 ]
. Like other American analysts, he expresses hope that Taliban would
succeed in putting an end to the anarchy that prevailed after the collapse of the
Najibullah government in 1992.
The Taliban moved swiftly to impose Islamic law in Kabul. It issued orders to
women to wear the veil, and not to report for work in offices. Public executions have
been another feature of Taliban rule.
Tom Gouttiere, director of the Center of Afghan Studies at the university of
Nebraska, says that the military successes of the Taliban appeared to be a setback for
Iran, which had been supportive of the previous government. The Taliban movement
represents the Sunni branch of Islam, rather than the Shiite strand practiced in Iran
[ 8 ]
.
Bernard Rubin, an Afghanistan expert with the Council for Foreign Relations, says
that the political platform of the Taliban could be reduced to“one slogan: enforcing
Islamic law.”He predicts that a Taliban-dominated government would be likely to
enforce a more rigid Islamic society than any other country in the world, including
Saudi Arabia and Sudan
10
.
“The most important thing is that we try to ensure that the opportunity for the
reunification of Afghanistan is not lost.”Rubin say.
(From The Washington Post National
eekly Edition, October 7-13,1996
）
16． Who is the first Communist ruler of Afghanistan?
A. Davies
B. Rabbani
C. Omar
D. Najibullah
Taliban began as a group of ____.
A. radical politicians
B. seminary students
C. Afghan soldiers
D. foreign students
18. What law does the Taliban impose in the controlled areas?
A. Islamic law
B. Christian law
C. Buddhist law
D. Others
19. American analysts describe the Taliban as_____.
A. anti-Western
B. anti-Eastern
C. anti-modern
D. anti-American
20. Why do the American think that a Taliban-dominated government
represents a preferable alternative?
A. It is better than the faction-ridden coalition in all aspects
B. They think it seems bent on restoring a traditional society in Afghanistan,
rather than exporting an Islamic revolution.
C. They can completely end the Anarchy in Afghanistan.
D. None of the above.
测试一
答案模版
1-5 C B C D A 6-10 D D A B C
11-15 A B C D A 16-20 D B A C B
2024年4月23日发(作者：禚暮)
Quiz One
Part I. Choose the best one whose meaning is similar to underlined part.
1. The community, however, refused to budge in Brussels last month during failed
final session of GATT trade talks.
A. change opinion
B. agree
C. move
D. back
2. The question then is whether society now deems a fairy-tale marriage essential to
the monarchy’s survival.
A. irrelevant
B. vital
C. unimportant
D. interesting
3. Every night, prime-time television assails children with mindless sitcoms and soap
operas.
A. attracts
B. interests
C. attacks
D. influences
4. The brass bands, speeches and ticker tape are a far cry from the shame and silence
that Vietnam veterans met.
A. similar to
B. far away from
C. familiar with
D. different from
5. France’s intelligence service has been most brazen about economic espionage.
A. shameless
B. ashamed
C. brave
D. familiar
6. A bipartisan drive is under way to raise or repeal the earnings limit, offsetting the
potential costs with new payroll taxes on state and local government workers.
A. agreement
B. party
C. talk
D. effort
7. People do not kill their wives in such a premeditated, ingenious and theatrical way.
A. cruel
B. illegal
C. shameful
D. clever
8. The nation’s thrift industry has been going bust for a decade.
A. broke
B. better
C. fast
D. forward
9. The plastics industry scrambled to support recycling mostly out of fear that its
ubiquitous products will otherwise be banned.
A. slow
B. hurry
C. is sure
D. is sorry
10. In February the number of women aged 18-49 watching television during the day
was a catastrophic 14%.
A. sad
B. terrible
C. disastrous
D. weak
11. History has repeatedly shown that even superior conventional forces cannot be
relied upon to deter an aggressor from chancing an attack.
A. discourage
B. defend
C. deserve
D. develop
12. Would the British really relish a workday monarchy like Denmark’s?
A. realize B. enjoy
C. regret D. hate
13. These scandals capped a Spring and Summer of monarchial discontent.
A. content B. satisfaction
C. unhappiness D. love
14. The busybody and the crybaby are getting to be the most conspicuous on the
American playground.
A. controversial B. contradictory
C. ordinary D. obvious
15. The increase has been so alarming that both the CIA and the FBI have beefed up
their economic counterintelligence programs.
A. strengthened B. weakened
C. stopped D. began
Part II. Reading: Choose the best answer according to the passages.
From Anarchy To Islamic Rule in Afghanistan
U.S. officials say the militia may be the key to stability
By Michael Dobbs
Washington Post Staff Writer
The stunning capture of Kabul by the radical Taliban militia organization
represents the best chance in years of ending the anarchy that has wracked
Afghanistan since the Soviet invasion in 1979,but it also could be the prelude to the
construction of a particularly strict Islamic state, according to U.S. officials and
experts.
Reports from the Afghan capital suggested that the Islamic rebel group had
consolidated control over the city after driving out the leaders of the Iranian-backed
coalition government and executing former Afghan president Najibullah, the country’s
last Communist ruler
[ 1 ]
. By U.S. estimates, the Taliban now
controls the southern two-thirds of the country, with the remainder
in the hands of Uzbek and Tajik ethnic groups.
The lightning offensive against Kabul is the culmination of a
two-year campaign by the Taliban, a secretive organization that began as a group of
seminary students in Pakistan, to reunify the country on the basis of Islamic
ideology
[ 2 ]
. Widespread war-weariness and disgust with the ineffectiveness and
corruption of the previous regime enabled the Taliban to enter Kabul just two weeks
after seizing the city of Jalalabad.
In Washington, State Department spokesman Glyn Davies called on the new
authorities in Kabul to “move quickly to restore order”and form a “representative
interim government”to begin the process of reconciliation. He said that the United
States could see“nothing objectionable”to the steps so far taken by the Taliban
movement to impose Islamic law in the areas that it controls.
From the U.S. point of view, a Taliban-dominated government represents a
preferable alternative in some ways to the faction-ridden coalition headed by
President Baharunuddin Rabbani, which was unable to impose its authority on the
entire country
[ 3 ]
. American analysts describe the Taliban as“anti-modern”rather
than“anti-Western,”and note that it seems bent on restoring a traditional society in
Afghanistan, rather than exporting an Islamic revolution.
At the same time, however, U.S. officials acknowledge that their knowledge of the
Taliban is extremely limited. Practically nothing is known about the top Taliban leader,
Mohammed Omar, a mullah who served as a low-level commander in the war against
the Soviet occupiers of Afghanistan before attending religious
school in Pakistan. Taliban officials refused to take part in a
hearing on Afghanistan in July organized by Republican Sen.
Hank Brown of Colorado and attended by representatives of all
the other Afghan factions.
“These fellows are deeply religious and strongly anti-Soviet,”says Brown, who has
visited areas of Afghanistan controlled by the Taliban and talked to lower-level
Taliban leaders
[ 4 ]
.“The good part of what has happened is that one of the factions at
last seems capable of developing a government in Afghanistan. The worrisome part is
that we don’t know a lot about their policies. We don’t know what direction they will
take the country.”
A senior State Department official welcomed reports that the new authorities in
Kabul have announced their intention of inviting the former Afghan monarch, King
Zahir Shah, back to Afghanistan as a“unifying figure.”The official says that the
United States would attempt to send an emissary to Kabul“as soon as the dust has
settled”to make contact with Taliban leaders.
The U.S. Embassy in Kabul was closed down for security reasons following the
withdrawal of Soviet troops in 1989,which was followed by years of bitter factional
fighting.
U.S. officials have kept sporadic contact with the different Afghan factions. Last
April, the assistant secretary of State for Asian affairs, Robin , traveled to the
Taliban strong-hold of Kandahar for talks with aides to Mullah Omar.
As a geopolitical issue, Afghanistan has virtually dropped off the Washington radar
screen since the withdrawal of Soviet troops. Once an important buffer between
pro-Western Pakistan and the Soviet Union, the country has lost much of its strategic
importance since the collapse of communism
[ 5 ]
. But it has remained a potent source
of political instability in Central Asia.
“There will be no stability in Central Asia or even in the Middle East if
Afghanistan turns into a base for terrorism and narcotics trafficking,”says
Rohrabacher of California, one of a handful of lawmakers who has remained
interested in Afghanistan.“The continued chaos in Afghanistan meant that it was well
on the way to becoming the Lebanon of this decade
[ 6 ]
.”
Rohrabacher notes that recent bombings in Saudi Arabia and New York have been
traced back to Mujahedin groups active in Afghanistan during the war against Soviet
occupation
[ 7 ]
. Like other American analysts, he expresses hope that Taliban would
succeed in putting an end to the anarchy that prevailed after the collapse of the
Najibullah government in 1992.
The Taliban moved swiftly to impose Islamic law in Kabul. It issued orders to
women to wear the veil, and not to report for work in offices. Public executions have
been another feature of Taliban rule.
Tom Gouttiere, director of the Center of Afghan Studies at the university of
Nebraska, says that the military successes of the Taliban appeared to be a setback for
Iran, which had been supportive of the previous government. The Taliban movement
represents the Sunni branch of Islam, rather than the Shiite strand practiced in Iran
[ 8 ]
.
Bernard Rubin, an Afghanistan expert with the Council for Foreign Relations, says
that the political platform of the Taliban could be reduced to“one slogan: enforcing
Islamic law.”He predicts that a Taliban-dominated government would be likely to
enforce a more rigid Islamic society than any other country in the world, including
Saudi Arabia and Sudan
10
.
“The most important thing is that we try to ensure that the opportunity for the
reunification of Afghanistan is not lost.”Rubin say.
(From The Washington Post National
eekly Edition, October 7-13,1996
）
16． Who is the first Communist ruler of Afghanistan?
A. Davies
B. Rabbani
C. Omar
D. Najibullah
Taliban began as a group of ____.
A. radical politicians
B. seminary students
C. Afghan soldiers
D. foreign students
18. What law does the Taliban impose in the controlled areas?
A. Islamic law
B. Christian law
C. Buddhist law
D. Others
19. American analysts describe the Taliban as_____.
A. anti-Western
B. anti-Eastern
C. anti-modern
D. anti-American
20. Why do the American think that a Taliban-dominated government
represents a preferable alternative?
A. It is better than the faction-ridden coalition in all aspects
B. They think it seems bent on restoring a traditional society in Afghanistan,
rather than exporting an Islamic revolution.
C. They can completely end the Anarchy in Afghanistan.
D. None of the above.
测试一
答案模版
1-5 C B C D A 6-10 D D A B C
11-15 A B C D A 16-20 D B A C B