Part Reading Comprehension

Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each of the passages is followed by 5 questions or unfin-ished statements. For each of them there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the centre.

Passage 1

A lawyer friend of mine has devoted herself to the service of humanity. Her special area is called "public interest law".

Many other lawyers represent only clients who can pay high fees. All lawyers have had expen-sive and highly specialized training, and they work long, difficult hours for the money they earn.

But what happens to people who need legal help and cannot afford to pay these lawyers' fees?

Public interest lawyers fall this need. Lisa, like other public interest lawyers, earns a salary much below what some lawyers can earn. Because she is willing to take less money, her clients need the help, even if they can pay nothing at all.

Some clients need legal help because stores have cheated them with faulty merchandise.

Others are in unsafe apartments, or are threatened with eviction (驱逐，赶出 ) and have no place to go to. Their cases are called "civil" cases. Still others are accused of criminal acts, and seeking those public interest lawyers who handle "criminal" cases. These are just a few of the many situations in which men and women who are public interest lawyers serve to extend justice throughout our society.

16. A person who needs and uses legal help is called a__________.

A. lawyer

B. client

C. tenant

D. case worker

17. Public interest lawyers serve__________.

A. only stores and landlords

B. criminals only

C. people who can pay high fees

D. people who can pay little or nothing

18. If only the rich could be helped by lawyers, the justice system would be__________.

A. undemocratic

B. fair and reasonable

C. modem

D. in need of no changes

19. Public interest law includes__________.

A. civil cases only

B. criminal cases only

C. criminal and civil cases

D. wealthy clients' cases

20. Which of the following is not a matter for civil case?

A. A tenant is faced with eviction.

B. A landlord refuses to fix a dangerous staircase.

C. A burglar is arrested.

D. A store sells a faulty radio.

Passage 2

No one knows how man learned to make words. Perhaps he began by making sounds like

those made by animals. Perhaps he granted like a pig when he lifted something heavy. Perhaps he made sounds like those he heard all round him water splashing, bees humming, a stone falling to the ground. Somehow he learned to make words. As the centuries went by, he made more and more new words. This is what we mean by language.

People living in different countries made different kinds of words. Today there are about fif-teen hundred different languages in the world. Each contains many thousands of words. A very large English dictionary, for example, contains four or five hundred thousand words. But we do not need all these. Only a few thousand words are used in everyday life.

The words you know are called your vocabulary. You should try to make your vocabulary big-ger. Read as many books as you can. There are plenty of books written in easy English for you toread. You will enjoy them. When you meet a new word, find it in your dictionary. Your dictiona-ry is your most useful book.

21. From this passage, we know that__________.

A. man never made sounds

B. man made animal sounds

C. man used to be like animals to make sounds

D. man learned from the animals to make sounds

22. The number of different languages spoken is about__________.

A. 150

B. 1,500

C. 5,000

D. 4.,000

23. People from different countries__________.

A. made same words

B. made different kinds of words

C. had a same language

D. used some sounds

24. Man __________ to make sounds.

A. used words

B. followed many things in nature

C. lifted heavy things

D. grunted like a pig

25. You can enlarge your vocabulary by

A. reading more books

B. finding new words in dictionaries

C. writing more

D. using the words in everyday life

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