The Millers have a barbecue in their garden. They want to introduce Ling to some of their neighbors.

In Millers view, the effect of swarm sensibility in groupthink is______.

A．profound

B．desirable

C．questionable

D．adverse

听力原文： Arthur Miller(1915-2005)is universally recognised as one of the greatest dramatists of the 20th century. Millers father had moved to the USA from Austria Hungary, drawn like so many others by the "Great American Dream". However, he experienced severe financial hardship when his family business was ruined in the Great Depression of the early 1930s. Millerss most famous play, Death of a Salesman, is a powerful attack on the American system, with its aggressive way of doing business and its insistence on money and social status as indicators of worth. In Willy Loman, the hero of the play, we see a man who has got into trouble with his worth. Willy is "burnt out" and in the cruel world of business there is no room for sentiment: if he cant do the work, then he is no good to his employer, the Wagner Company, and he must go. Willy is painfully aware of this, and at loss as to what to do with his lack of success. He refuses to face the fact that he has failed and kills himself in the end. When it was first staged in 1949, the play was greeted with enthusiastic reviews, and it won the Tony Award for Best Play, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for a Drama. It was the first play to win all three of these major awards. Miller died of heart failure at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut, on the evening of February 10, 2005, the 56th anniversary of the first performance of Death of a Salesman on Broadway. Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard. 22. Why did Arthur Millers father move to the USA？ 23. What does the speaker say about the play Death of a Salesman？ 24. What do we learn about Death of a Salesman after it was first staged？ 25. What is the passage mainly about？23．

A．It focuses on the skills in doing business.

B．It talks about the business career of Arthur Miller.

C．It discusses the ways to get promoted in a company.

D．It exposes the cruelty of the American business world.

A.It focuses on the skills in doing business.

B.It talks about the business career of Arthur Miller.

C.It discusses the ways to get promoted in a company.

D.It exposes the cruelty of the American business world.

Which of the following is true of Earl Millers research？

A．It discovers neuroplasticity.

B．It is the first study of this kind.

C．It studies one environmental feedback.

D．It attests to one cause of neuroplasticity.

According to Millers study, failure as an environmental feedback

A．has a great impact on our neuro-system.

B．can cause gray matter to become plastic.

C．plays a more important role in learning than success.

D．provides less benefits than success.

What is true about Earl Millers research？

A．It discovers neuroplasticity.

B．It is the first study of this kind.

C．It studies one environmental feedback.

D．It attests to one cause of neuroplasticity.

s Death of a Salesman are the three greatest American plays.

A．The Glass Menagerie

B．The Streetcar Named Desire

C．The Hairy Ape

D．All My Sons

way into Matt Millers Washington Post column last week. Mr Miller asks why rising inequality has not【C1】______Americas least-favored classes to agitate for a【C2】______He agrees with my verdict: that access to【C3】______goods among the least well-off has ensured that material inequality is not as【C4】______as income inequality. 【C5】______modem conveniences have taken some of the【C6】______out of a relatively small income. This in turn has【C7】______the drive to seek causes of and cures for【C8】______s discomfort. So the gap between rich and poor is sometimes less【C9】______, even if it is great and growing. Day-to-day experience is mostly a matter of our【C10】______circumstances, and if those are【C11】______enough, a widening gap in income, consumption or wealth is【C12】______to come often to our attention. Even if the abstract fact of rising inequality does come across our radar, it may【C13】______our sense of justice only if weve become convinced that inequality itself is【C14】______, or if we face related catastrophes. When I wrote the paper, official measures of income inequality had increased a good deal over the past few decades【C15】______consumption inequality seemed to have remained【C16】______New research suggests that consumption inequality has been increasing with income inequality【C17】______This may be true, but it seems【C18】______to the question of why Americas poor arent storming the barriers. The consumption data concerns how much we【C19】______, not how we experience what we buy, and thats the real issue. Even if we could agree that inequality in real standards of living is rising, this is not something we actually experience unless we are hungry, or【C20】______with the entertainments of our leisure.

【C1】

A．excited

B．irritated

C．encouraged

D．provoked

ike this, its hard not to imagine the worst-case【B1】______. What if the worlds air-conditioners just stopped working？ What would we do then？ Air-conditioning has【B2】______the polarity of summer: it has us fleeing inside during hot weather,【B3】______we used to flee outside, which might have been more fun, and was certainly more【B4】______. Arthur Millers "Before Air-Conditioning"(1998)—probably the definitive New Yorker essay on this subject—describes the way New Yorkers would【B5】______together out-of-doors. During his childhood, Miller writes, in the twenties, "There were still elevated trains... Desperate people, unable to【B6】______their apartments, would【B7】______pay a nickel and ride around aimlessly for a couple of hours to cool off." At night, Central Park "was full of hundreds of people who slept on the grass. Babies cried in the darkness, mens deep voices【B8】______, and a woman let out a(n) 【B9】______high laugh beside the lake." It was still hot in the park, and it was crowded, but the【B10】______of the space made the heat easier to【B11】______. The【B12】______and spread of air-conditioning, meanwhile, put【B13】______relief the habits of the pre-air-con-ditioning【B14】______. In a comment from July 4, 1959, A. J. Iiebling【B15】______how "the dodges for coping with the heat that New Yorkers learned in three centuries of summer have become【B16】______, and in some cases hazardous." New York buildings, Iiebling complained, were now "twenty degrees colder in summer than in winter, when they are【B17】______to the needs of a woman who is going to shed a mink coat the【B18】______she gets inside, and is wearing nothing much underneath it." Nowadays, air-conditioners are cheap and【B19】______. And yet there are still summer days like these— days when its【B20】______hot that the heat is almost all you can think about.

【B1】

A．event

B．critique

C．argument

D．scenario

.("Paraphrase" means "to explain the meaning in your own English".)(75%) America Loses a Great Public Thinker Arthur Millers death last week meant more than the loss of an outstanding playwright. It was the loss of a great public thinker who believed strongly that the essence of America—its greatness was in its promises.【P1】Miller knew what ignorance and fear and the madness of crowds, especially when exploited by sinister leadership, could do to those promises.【P2】His greatest concerns, "were with the moral corruption brought on by bending ones ideals to societys dictates, buying into the values of a group when they conflict with the voice of personal conscience."【P3】The individual in Millers view, had an abiding moral responsibility for his or her own behavior, and for the behavior. of society as a whole. He said that "I felt that as improbable as it might seem, there were moments when an individual conscience was all that could keep a world from falling." Miller saw some of the differences in two sharply defined eras: the Depression-wracked 1930s and the prosperous postwar 1950s. It was perhaps around 1936, people who used to mind no polities began thinking for the first time of common action as a way out of their impossible conditions.【P4】By the early 50s the agony of the Depression was gone. McCarthvism was in flower. After the 50s, however, Americans became more practical and pragmatic. The dean of the University of Michigan was complaining that his students highest goal was to fit in with corporate America rather than to separate truth from falsehood.【P5】"They become experts at grade-getting, but theres less speculating about the wrongs of the world and ideal solutions something no employer was interested in." Now Miller is gone, and if we are not wise enough to pay attention, his uncomfortable truths will die with him.

【P1】