Japan's post-World War II value system of diligence, cooperation, and hard work is changing. Recent surveys show that Japanese youth have become a "Me Generation" that rejects traditional values.
"Many Japanese, especially young people, abandoned the values of economic success and began searching for new sets of values to bring them happiness," writes sociologist Yasuhiro Yoshizaki in Comparative Civilizations Review. Japanese youth are placing more importance on the individual's pursuit of happiness and less on the values of work, family, and society. Japanese students seem to be losing patience with work, unlike their counterparts in the United States and Korea. In a recent survey of college students in the three countries, only 10% of the Japanese regarded work as a primary value, compared with 47% of their Korean counterparts and 27% of American students. A greater proportion of Japanese aged 18 to 24 also preferred easy jobs without heavy responsibility.
Concern for family values is waning among younger Japanese as they pursue an inner world of private satisfaction. Data collected by the Japanese government in 2005 shows that only 23% of Japanese youth are thinking about supporting their aged parents, in contrast to 63% of young Americans. It appears that many younger-generation Japanese are losing both respect for their parents and a sense of responsibility to the family. Author Yoshizaki attributes the change to Japanese parents' over-indulgence of their children, material affluence, and growing concern for private matters.
The shift toward individualism among Japanese is most pronounced among the very young. According to 2003 data from the Seimei Hoken Bunka Center of Japan, 75% of Japanese youth aged 16 to 19 can be labeled "self-centered", compared with 53% among those aged 25 to 29. To earn the self-centered label, the young people responded positively to such ideas as "I would like to make decisions without considering traditional values" and "I don't want to do anything I can't enjoy doing".
Diminishing social responsibility, according to Yoshizaki, is tied to the growing interest in pleasure and personal satisfaction. Yoshizaki concludes that the entire value system of Japanese youth is undergoing major transformation, but the younger generation has not yet found a new organized value system to replace the old.
1. What’s the meaning of the underlined word “waning” in paragraph 3?
A. becoming less B. increasing C. missing D. becoming popular
2. What is Yoshizaki’s attitude towards most Japanese parents’ way of parenting?
A. Supportive B. Negative C. Satisfied D. Worried
3. What might be one of the possible reasons of Japanese young people’s change?
A. World War II leaves such a heavy impact on them that they have lost the interest of work.
B. Most of them are the only child at home so they don’t need to work hard.
C. Japanese younger generation place too much emphasis on personal satisfaction and interest now.
D. Most of the younger generation lose the confidence in their own country so they don’t work hard.
4. Why do we say that Japanese youth have become a “Me Generation”?
a. Because they don’t regard a better education a pride.
b. Because a greater proportion of Japanese young people prefer easy jobs without heavy responsibility.
c. Because most of the teenagers become self-centered according to the 2003 survey.
d. Because only 10% of the Japanese young people regard work as a primary value.
A. a B. a, b C. b, d D. b, c, d
5. According to the survey, which country’s young people work harder?
A. Japanese B. Korean C. American D. Chinese
III 阅读（共两节，满分40分）
第一节 阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Advertising in America offers some great advantages to consumers. For example, in order to keep prices low through mass production, companies must have a mass market for their products. Mass advertising creates mass markets. Producers cannot afford to develop new products, put them on the market and wait for customers to discover them. This would take too long. Demand for some products must be created. This is done through advertising.
But advertising sometimes makes it difficult for consumers to make wise decisions. The fact is that when people are constantly flooded with messages through the mass media persuading them to buy particular products, many respond by buying them.
Advertising is designed to influence an individual to buy a product. Sellers often study human behavior to discover what will convince consumers to buy a certain item. This reason for buying is called a buying motive.
Buying motives are usually broken down into two categories: rational and emotional. Rational buying motives include the desire to save money, the desire for comfort, or the desire for good workmanship. Emotional buying motives include buying out of fear, wanting to be liked, and wanting to have something better than your friends have.
Emotional appeals are found in most consumer advertising today. Certain cars promise to make the driver feel "younger" and " freer". Shoes promise to make the buyer's whole life "springier". Life insurance policies promise to take the "care out of living".
Most consumers believe that they are not easily influenced by emotional appeals. However, corporations that sell consumer products obviously think differently. They spend many millions of dollars every day on radio, television, newspaper and magazine ads that use these appeals.
1. It can be inferred from the passage that one of the advantages of advertising for consumers is that ________.
A. it can create a big demand for consumer goods
B. the mass market created by it leads to low prices
C. producers can introduce new products to consumers
D. it helps consumers discover new products
2. Consumers sometimes find it difficult to make a sensible decision when buying a particular product because __________ .
A. many advertisements are too difficult for them to understand
B. they are afraid to be taken in by dishonest advertisements
C. mass advertising offers them a range of good and cheap products
D. they are confused by the quantity of advertisements promoting it
3. According to the passage, a toothpaste ad promising that people who use the product will make a lot of friends is an example of an ad that appeals to __________ .
A. rational buying motives B. the consumer's commonsense
C. emotional buying motives D. the desire for a good product
4. The reason why companies spend enormous amounts of money on advertising is that ________ .
A. they believe people can be influenced to buy a certain produce
B. it takes a lot of advertising to convince people to buy a certain product
C. most consumers are not easily influenced by emotional appeals
D. advertising based on emotional appeals are very effective
5. The best title for this passage would be ________ .
A. Advertising can create demand B. The advantages of advertising
C. What effective advertising can do D. The role of advertising in selling products
第二节语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卷标号为31-40的相应位置上。
A man in a black coat opened fire Wednesday at a downtown Montreal College, killing a young woman 31 wounding at least 19 other people before police shot and killed him, witnesses and authorities said.
Police dismissed suggestions that terrorism played 32 role in the lunch-hour attack at Dawson College, 33 scores of panicked students 34 (flee) into the streets after the shooting began. Some had colthes 35 (stain) with blood; others cried and held tightly to each other. Witnesses said the 36 (attack) started firing outside the college before walking in the front door. Much of the shooting was in the second-floor restaurant, where students dropped to the floor and lay 37 terror. Police rushed to the scene, hiding behind a wall as 38 exchanged fire with the gunman. The officers proceeded 39 (cautious) because many students were trapped around the gunman, who yelled, “Get back! Get back!” every time an officer tried to move 40 (close).
Eventually, the gunman fell to the ground after a number of gunfire.
II 语言知识及应用（共两节，满分35分）
完形填空（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意；然后从21-30各题所给的A、B、C和D选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I take the firm position that parents do not owe their children college education．If they can __21__ it, they can certainly send them to the best universities．But they must not feel guilty if they can’t．If the children really want to go, they’ll find a __22__．There are plenty of loans and scholarships for the bright and eager ones who can’t afford to pay．
When children grow up and want to __23__, their parents do not owe them a down payment on a house．They do not have the duty to baby-sit their grandchildren．If they want to do it, it must be considered a __24__ not an obligation．
Do parents owe their children anything? Yes, they owe them a great deal．
One of their obligations is to give their children a personal __25__．A child who is constantly made to feel stupid and unworthy, constantly compared to brighter brothers, sisters, or cousins will become so __26__, so afraid of failing that he (or she) won’t try at all．Of course they should be __27__ corrected when they do wrong, but it’s often better to let children learn their mistakes by themselves __28__．All our parents should do is to trust them, respect them, tolerate them and give them chances to try and fail．They must learn to stand __29__．When criticisms are really needed, they should be __30__ with praises, with a smile and a kiss．That is the way children learn．
21．A．find B．get C．afford D．receive
22．A．supply B．help C．hand D．way
23．A．get married B．get a job C．go abroad D．live alone
24．A．pleasure B．favor C．habit D．service
25．A．worth B．affair C．belief D．respect
26．A．unknown B．unusual C．unsure D．unfair
27．A．properly B．gently C．nearly D．possibly
28．A．now and then B．in time C．at once D．right now
29．A．failure B．honor C．progress D．test
30．A．mixed B．satisfied C．shared D．balanced
第六部分：完成句子或句型转换 ( 共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)
71. 学生应该把他们在学校学到的知识和实际相结合。
Students________ ________ what they have learned at school ______ real practice.
72. 一场可怕的疾病发生在这村庄了。
A terrible disease _________ _________ in this village
73. 这或许能解释他的懒惰。
This might ___________ ________ his laziness.
74. 地上很湿；昨夜一定下雨了。
The ground is wet, so it last night.
75. 在我们办公室不允许吸烟。
We don’t ___________ ___________in the office.
76. 当你回答学生问题是别失去耐心。
Don’t when you answer the students’ questions.
77. 你认识那个衣衫褴褛的人吗？
Do you know the person who ?
78. 我们看到远处有灯光。
We saw a light .
79. His discovery has not been proved yet.
he has not been proved yet.
80. We must do something to prevent people from polluting the river.
Something must to prevent the river from .
81. Tom’s sister is a successful doctor, and she is good at dealing with patients.
Tom’s sister has working with sick persons.
82. We live in such a warm climate and the trees here are very tall.
It is wet here the trees are extremely tall.
83. He lay on the ground and at the same time stared at the sky.
He lay on the ground the sky.
84. The prisoner tried to escape from the jail and he succeeded at last.
The prisoner escape from the jail.
85. We are not certain whether there is life on the Mars.
It is life on the Mars.
第五部分：单词拼写 (共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)
根据句意和所给单词的首字母（或汉语提示）填空。
61. The b_______ of Dr Sun Yet sen is in Zhongshan, not far away from Guangzhou.
62. The girl only eats vegetables and fruit in order to keep s_______.
63. Do you know when India gained______________ (独立) from Britain?
64. Yao Ming is a very strong and_______________（精力充沛的） basketball player.
65. Children are always （好奇的）about everything.
66. My vocabulary is so ________( 有限 ) that I can’t explain the word.
67. She has _________( 原谅 ) me for what I said to her yesterday.
68. The store has more _________( 顾客 ) than it can take care of.
69. Last week a typhoon hit the area __________( 猛烈地 ), causing great damage.
70. Wood _________ ( 漂浮 ) on water, but a stone will sink.
