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[单项选择]Questions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage.
The sight of eight long black legs moving over the floor makes some people scream and run—and women are four times more likely to take fright than men. Now a study suggests that females are genetically prone to develop fears for potentially dangerous animals.
David Rakison, a developmental psychologist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, found that baby girls only 11 months old rapidly start to associate pictures of spiders with fear. Baby boys remain merrily indifferent to this connection.
In an initial training phase Rakison showed to baby girls and boys a picture of a spider together with a fearful face. In the following test phase he let them watch the image of a spider paired with a happy face, and the image of a flower paired with a fearful face.
Despite the spider’s happy companion, the girls looked significantly longer at it than at the flower. The researchers took t
A. instinctive behaviour
B. childish reaction
C. predictive phenomena
D. primitive response
[填空题]Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
If our society ever needed a reading renaissance(复兴), it’s now.The National Endowment for the Arts released "Reading at Risk" last year, a study showing that adult reading 47 have dropped 10 percentage points in the past decade, with the steepest drop among those 18 to 24. “Only one half of young people read a book of any kind in 2002. We set the bar almost on the ground. If you read one short story in a teenager magazine, that would have 48 , ”laments a director of research and analysis. He 49 the loss of readers to the booming world of technology, which attracts would-be leisure readers to E-mail, IM chats, and video games and leaves them with no time to cope with a novel.
“These new forms of media undoubtedly have some benefits,” says Steven Johnson, author of Everything Bad Is Good for You. Video games 50 problem solving skills; TV shows promote mental gymna
[单项选择]Questions 14 to 17 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions.
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Where did Gabriela Mistral start her teaching career
A. At a country school in Mexico.
B. In a mountain valley of Spain.
C. At a small American college.
D. In a small village in Chil
[单项选择]Questions 15 to 17 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.
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During his senior year, no graduate school would accept Rod because of
A. the unfinished questions in his exams.
B. his slowness in answering questions.
C. his slowness and his low marks.
D. his stupidity.
[单项选择] Questions 11 to 14 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions.
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What Is the base of film today
A. Salt.
B. Silver Salt.
C. Metal.
D. Plasti
[单项选择]Questions 18 to 20 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.
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The pyramids were built
A. before the Egyptians developed a sophisticated technology.
B. after the Egyptians developed a sophisticated technology.
C. to house the tombs of all ancient Egyptian kings and nobles.
D. to keep mummies safe forever.
[单项选择]Questions 11 to 13 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.
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What is the main topic of the passage
A. The mechanics of rain.
B. The climate of North America.
C. How gravity affects air current.
D. Types of clouds.
[单项选择]Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
Within fifteen years Britain and other nations should be well on with the building of huge industrial architectures for the recycling of waste. The word rubbish could lose its meaning because everything which goes into the dumps would be made into something useful. Even the most dangerous and unpleasant wastes would provide energy if nothing else.
The latest project is to take a city of around half a million residents and discover exactly what raw materials go into it and what go out. The aim is to find out how much of these raw materials could be provided if a plant for recycling waste were built just outside the city. This plant would recycle not only metal such as steel, lead and copper, but also paper and rubber as well.
Another new project is being set up to discover the best ways of sorting and separating the rubbish. When this project is completed, the rubbish will be processed l
A. The issue of rubbish-dealing can not be completely solved.
B. Recycling plants will be in great need in rural areas.
C. The plants can process a wide variety of materials.
D. Effective ways of sorting out rubbish have long been in existence.
[单项选择]Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.
How old is "old" The answer has changed over the years. Two hundred years ago, you were old at 35. That was the average life expectancy then. At the turn of the 19th century, as medical knowledge advanced, the average life expectancy increased to 45. In 1950, 70-year-olds were really old. Today, a healthy 70-year-old is looking forward to many more active years.
So, how old is old The answer is one you’ve heard many times, from all sorts of people. "You are as old ( or young) as you feel. " The calendar simply tells you how many years you have lived. Your body tells you how well you’ve lived.
"Youth", wrote an unknown author, "is not a time of life--it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by living a number of years; people grow old by deserting (抛弃) their ideals. "
Old is a point of view. Alice Brophy, when she was with the New York City Commission for the Aging, said, "It annoys m
A. The concepts of "old" vary in different cultures.
B. The progress in medical knowledge has contributed a lot to longer lives of us.
C. Nobody can be physically healthy without proper exercise.
D. Older people are unavoidably more unhealthy than younger ones.
