Section B
Passage One

26.
[A]  Rent a grave. 
[B] Burn the body. 
[C] Bury the dead near a church. 
[D] Buy a piece of land for a grave.
 
27.
[A]  To solve the problem of lack of land.   沪江四六级 http://cet.hjenglish.com
[B] To see whether they have decayed. 
[C] To follow the Greek religious practice. 
[D] To move them to a multi-storey graveyard. 

28.
[A]  They should be buried lying down. 
[B] They should be buried standing up. 
[C] They should be buried after being washed. 
[D] They should be buried when partially decayed. 

29.
[A]  Burning dead bodies to ashes.
[B] Storing dead bodies in a remote place. 
[C]Placing dead bodies in a bone room. 
[D] Digging up dead bodies after three years.

In Greece, only rich people will rest in peace for ever when they die. Most of the population, however, will be undisturbed for only three years, then they will be dug up, washed, compressed into a small tin box, and placed in a bone room. If the body has only partially decayed, it is reburied in a smaller cheaper grave, but not for long, the body will be dug up again some time later when it has fully decayed. Buying a piece of land for a grave is the only way to avoid this process. The cost of the grave is so great that most people choose to rent a grave for three years and even after being dug up, lasting peace is still not guaranteed. If no one pays for renting space in the bone room, the skeleton is removed and stored in a building in a poor part of the town. Lack of space in Amphons is the main reason why the dead are dug up after three years. The city is so overcrowded that sometimes dead bodies are kept in hospitals for over a week until a grave is found. Amphons city council wants to introduce cremation that is burning the dead bodies as a means of dealing with the problem. But the Greek Church resists this practice, they believe the only place where people burn is a hell, so burning dead bodies is against the Greek concept of life after death. To save space, the church suggested burying the bodies standing up instead of lying down. Some people proposed building multi-storey underground grave yards.

预览四道题各选项，由反复出现的bury, body, grave等词可推测本文与尸体在墓地的安藏有关。 沪江四六级 http://cet.hjenglish.com

26. What must Greeks do to keep the dead resting in ever-lasting peace?

【解析】选项均为动词原形表明本题为考查“行为活动”类型。四个选项均与埋藏尸体有关，[B]项概念太泛，其他三项都较具体，故[B]不大可能为答案。 [A]表示“租”墓地，而[D]表示“买”墓地，二者中很可能有一个为答案，听音时应重点关注。ever-lasting意为“持久的”。根据首句中only rich people…就可基本确定答案为 [D]（没有钱就买不起墓地）。

27. Why are most dead bodies in Amphons dug up after three years?

【解析】选项均为不定式表明本题很可能是考查做某事的目的或原因。根据短文主题及选项中decayed, move等词可推测， [B]中的they和 [C]中them应该是代指“bodies”。根据 [B]、[D]选项内容可推测本题很可能是与移动尸体的目的或原因有关。听音时应留意表示因果关系的连接词。一般这类询问目的或原因的题目往往是在问题上做句型的转换，也就是对原文的同义转述，答案则经常是原文的细节辨认，因此听音时应重点留意以下要点：lack of land；if decayed； religion； multi-storey graveyard。 沪江四六级 http://cet.hjenglish.com

28. What suggestions does the church give about the burying of the dead bodies?

【解析】选项表明本题很可能是关于尸体埋藏的方式。由选项中的should可推测本题很可能与建议或意见有关。故听音时应重点留意表达建议或意见的词句。[D]是说在尸体部分腐烂的时候将尸体下藏，不太符合逻辑，可初步排除。[A]是说埋藏时将尸体躺着放，[B]则是说埋藏时将尸体立着放，二者正好相反，故很可能有一个为答案。本题的选择可结合27题，如考生能确定27答案为[A]，便可基本确定本题答案为[B]（buried standing up→save land→solve the problem of lack of land）。

29. What practice does the Greek church object to?

【解析】选项均为动名词表明本题为考查“行为活动”类型。四个选项均表示处理尸体的方式，故本题很可能是关于除埋藏以外的其他处理尸体的方式。[D]是说三年后将尸体挖出，仍然与埋藏尸体有关，且不属于尸体的安置方式，与其他三项内容明显不同，故可初步排除。听音时应留意以下要点：burn；store in remote place；place in bone room。本题只要抓住burn一词便不难选出答案。

30.
[A] Many foreign tourists visit the United States every year. 
[B]Americans enjoy eating out with their friends. 
[C] The United States is a country of immigrants. 
[D] Americans prefer foreign foods to their own food.
 
31. 
[A] They can make friends with people from other countries. 
[B] They can get to know people of other cultures and their lifestyles. 
[C] They can practice speaking foreign languages there. 
[D] They can meet with businessmen from all over the world. 

32. 
[A] The couple cook the dishes and the children help them. 
[B] The husband does the cooking and the wife serves as the waitress.
[C] The mother does the cooking while the father and children wait on the guests.
[D]A hired cook prepares the dishes and the family members serve the guests.

If you visit a big city anywhere in the world, you will probably find a restaurant would serve the food of your own native country. Most large cities in the United States offer international sample of foods. Many people enjoy eating the food of other nations. This is probably one reason why there are so many different kinds of restaurants in the United States. A second reason is that many Americans come from other parts of the world. They enjoy tasting the foods of their native lands. In the city of Detroit, for example, there are many people from western Europe, Greece, Latin America, and the Far East. There are many restaurants in Detroit which serve the foods of these areas. There are many other international restaurants too. Americans enjoy the foods in these restaurants as well as the opportunity to better understand the people and their way of life. One of the most common international restaurants to be found in the United States is the Italian restaurant. The restaurant may be a small business run by a single family. The mother of the family cooks all of the dishes, and the father and children serve the people who come to eat there. Or it may be a large restaurant owned by several different people who worked together in the business. Many Italian dishes that Americans enjoy are made with meats, tomatoes and cheese. They are very delicious and tasty.
Questions 30 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard.

预览三道题各选项，由选项中immigrants, other countries, other cultures以及eating out, foreign foods, cooking等词可推测本文与美国的移民及美国人的饮食习惯有关。

30. Why are there so many international restaurants in the United States? 沪江四六级 http://cet.hjenglish.com

【解析】选项中的foreign, immigrants表明本题很可能与美国对外来食物的喜好有关。[A]、[C]、[D]三项均与“外来食物”有关，[B]是说美国人喜欢和朋友“外出吃饭”，与外来食物无关，故[可初步排除。[D]是说美国人更偏爱外来食物而不大喜欢自己国家的食物，说法过于绝对（这应该只是一部分美国人的喜好），故也可初步排除。因此本题的关键就是在“tourists（游客）”和“immigrants（移民）”之间选择。

31. Why do Americans like to go to international restaurants apart from enjoying the foods there?

【解析】选项中都含有can表明本题很可能与做某事能够达到的目的有关。由选项中的other countries, other cultures, foreign等可推测本题很可能涉及到与其他国家人民的接触。根据对主题的分析可知本文主要与饮食有关，而[C]、[D]分别是从语言和商业角度来说，与主题不太相关，且从其他各题选项中均找不到与这两方面相关的线索，故二者均不大可能为答案。故本题主要应在[A]（make friends）和[B]（know other cultures）之间选择。而根据常识，饮食应该与文化和生活方式联系比较紧密，因此答案为[B]的可能性更大。 沪江四六级 http://cet.hjenglish.com

32. How is it typical Italian family restaurant run in the United States?

【解析】选项中waitress, serve, guests以及husband, mother, children等表明本题很可能与家庭经营的餐馆中各个家庭成员如何分工有关。四个选项中负责cooking的人均不同，分别是couple, husband, mother和hired cook。故听音时只要辨别出由谁来cooking即可确定答案。wait on sb. 意为“照料或侍侯某人（尤指进餐时）”。

Passage Three

33.
[A] He took them to watch a basketball game. 
[B] He trained them to play European football. 
[C] He let them compete in getting balls out of a basket.   沪江四六级 http://cet.hjenglish.com
[D] He taught them to play an exciting new game. 

34.
[A]The players found the basket too high to reach. 
[B]The players had trouble getting the ball out of the basket. 
[C] The players had difficulty understanding the complex rules. 
[D]The players soon found the game boring.

35.
[A] By removing the bottom of the basket. 
[B] By lowering the position of the basket. 
[C]By simplifying the complex rules. 
[D] By altering the size of the basket.

One winter day in 1891, a class of training school in Massachusetts, U. S. A, went into the gym for their daily exercises. Since the football season had ended, most of young men felt they were in for a boring time. But their teacher, Janes Nasmith had other ideas. He had been working for a long time on the new game that would have the excitement of American football. Nasmith showed the men a basket he had hung at the each end of the gym, and explained that they were going to use a round European football, at first everybody tried to throw the ball into the basket no matter where he was standing. “Pass! Pass!” Nasmith kept shouting, blowing his whistle to stop the excited players. Slowly, they began to understand what was wanted of them. The problem with the new game, which was soon called “basketball”, was getting the ball out of the basket. They used ordinary food baskets with bottoms, and the ball, of course, stayed inside. At first, someone had to climb up every time a basket was scored. It was several years before someone came up with the idea of removing the bottom of the basket and letting the ball fall through. There have been many changes in the rules since then, and basketball has become one of the world’s most popular sports. 沪江四六级 http://cet.hjenglish.com

预览三道题各选项，由选项中basketball game, basket, rules等可推测本文与篮球比赛和比赛规则有关。

33. What did Nasmith do to entertain his students one winter day?

【解析】选项中train, let, taught表明he很可能是代指“教练”。本题很可能是问教练带领或教队员们做什么。[A]是说“观看”篮球比赛，而从本题其他选项及34题各选项可知队员们应该是亲自在“参与”比赛，故[A]可初步排除。[B]是说踢欧洲足球（football），而本题及其他题各选项中涉及的均是篮球（basketball），故[B]也可初步排除。根据34题[C]和35题[C]中的rules可推测本文很可能介绍的是一种新型比赛项目（new game），故本题的答案最有可能为[D]。 沪江四六级 http://cet.hjenglish.com

34. According to the speaker, what was the problem with the new game?

【解析】选项中trouble, difficulty表明本题很可能与比赛中的问题或困难有关。[D]不是比赛过程中具体的问题，与其他三项内容明显不同，故可初步排除。因此听音时应重点关注以下要点：问题－basket too high, ball out of basket, complex rules。

35. How was the problem with the new game solved?

【解析】选项表明本题是关于做某事的方式。而前面分析可知，34题是关于比赛中的问题或困难，故本题很可能是关于如何解决该问题或困难。因此本题答案的选择可联系34题。而稍加分析便不难发现，本题中[A]、[B]、[C]分别是针对34题[B]、[A]、[C]三种问题的解决办法，因此只要抓住问题或解决办法中的任何一方面，便可确定两道题的答案。remove意为“去除，去掉”。 沪江四六级 http://cet.hjenglish.com