[单项选择]Why does fashion change according to the passage


A. Because people prefer variety in life.
B. Because some people want to create new business.
C. Because old things are always replaced by new things.
D. Because some persons promote fashion change to make more money.

[单项选择]As far as we can tell from the passage, why does the Government bother to maintain game re serves


A. To prevent the people from using the land.
B. To reserve the land for building development.
C. To obtain income from tourism.
D. To stop tourists from making a nuisance(令人讨厌)of themselves.

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Passage Two
Does a bee know what is going on in its mind when it navigates its way to distant food sources and back to the hive (蜂房), using polarized sunlight and the tiny magnet it carries as a navigational aid Or is the bee just a machine, unable to do its mathematics and dance its language in any other way To use Donald GrifTm’s term, does a bee have awareness, or to use a phrase I like better, can a bee think and imagine
There is an experiment for this, or at least an observation, make long ago by Karl Von Frisch and more recently confirmed by James Gould at Princeton, Biologists who wish to study such things as bee navigation, language, and behavior in general have to train their bees to fly from the hive to one or another special place. To do this, they begin by placing a source of sugar very close to the hive so that the bees (considered by their trainers to be very dumb beasts) can learn what the game is about. Then, at regular intervals, the
A. The bees are not likely to sting the scientists in the experiment.
B. Bees are unable to navigate 100 feet beyond their hive.
C. Experimenting on bees is too dangerous to be successful.
D. Bees are able to perform limited reasoning tasks.

[单项选择]Why does the passage mention the brand names such as McDonald's, GM in the first paragraph


A. To show that a good brand name is significant for a company.
B. To tell readers that they are important and popular terms.
C. To introduce some well-known brand names to readers.
D. To explain why those companies are successful.

[单项选择]According to this passage, why the farming activities can affect the animals


A. By forcing them farming.
B. By affecting the quality of soils.
C. By adding chemicals and pollute the waterways.
D. By affecting the environments they live in.

[单项选择]Where in the passage does the author compare the energy consumption of skyscrapers with that of a city


A. Para. 2
B. Para. 4
C. Para. 3
D. Para. 5

[单项选择]According to the passage, why are some people possibly reluctant to hire an interior designer

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Passage Four
Why is there no risk to the customer when a bank prints the customer’s name to his cheques
When anyone opens a current account at a bank, he is lending the bank money, repayment of which he may demand at any time, either in cash or by drawing a check in favor of another person. Primarily, the bank-customer relationship is that of debtor and creditor who is which depending on whether the customer’s account is in credit or overdrawn. But, in addition to that basically simple concept, the bank and its customer owe a large number of obligations to one another. Many of these obligations can give rise to problems and complications but a bank customer, unlike, say, a buyer of goods, cannot complain that the law is loaded against him.
The bank must obey its customer’s instructions, and not those of anyone else. When, for example, a customer first opens an account, he instructs the bank to debit (把……记入借方)
A. Banks always lose money when they print customer's names on cheques.
B. Banks never print the names of customers on cheques.
C. It's easy to forge a signature on a cheque which prints a customer's name.
D. It doesn't matter to a customer if the bank prints customer's names on cheques.

[单项选择]According to the passage, what does the burning torch symbolize


A. The link with the games in ancient Greece.
B. The link with the god, Zeus.
C. The link with Baron Pierre de Goubertin.
D. The link with the five colors.

[单项选择]What does the passage imply

[单项选择]What does the passage mainly discuss


A. Western migration after the Civil War
B. The climate of the western United States
C. The raising of cattle
D. A type of wild vegetation