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.

根据下面资料，回答{TSE}题

The faces of elderly, happily-married people sometimes resemble each other. Dr. Aiken stud-ied a number of couples who had been married for at least twenty-five years. Each couple provided four photographs--one photo of each partner at the time of their marriage and another photo of each partner twenty-five or more years later. All background was cut from the photos to remove any clues. The photos were then displayed in groups: a random grouping of the persons at the time of their marriage and another random grouping of the same persons who took photographs later. Some testees were asked to pick out the partners. They failed totally with the first group. Their judgments were no better than chance. But with the photos taken twenty-five or more years after the marriage,the testees were quite successful in deciding who was married to whom. They were particularly suc-cessful with the most happily-married couples.

Dr. Alken believes .there are several reasons why couples grow alike. One reason has some-thing to do with imitation. One person tends to copy or do the same as someone else without know-ing it. He says human begins to imitate the expressions of the faces of their loved ones. Another possible reason, he says, is the common experience of the couples. There is a tendency for people who have the same life experience to change their faces in similar ways. For example, if a couple suffered from a lot of sad experiences, their faces are likely to change in a similar way.

第21题 The main purpose of the passage is to____________.

A.tell how couples like each other

B.show the life experience of husband and wife

C.explain why couples grow alike

D.describe the study on a number of married people

第22题 In the testing, Dr. Aiken cut the background from those photos for the purpose of____________.

A.grouping those couples again

B.leaving no trace for the testees

C.imitating those couples' life

D.loving the. testees more chances

第23题 The testees failed to____________.

A.tell couples by looking at their photos taken when they got married

B.distinguish happily-married couples from sadly-married couples

C.discover the difference of each partne .understand Dr. Aiken' s study thoroughly

第24题 It can be inferred from the study that____________.

A.life experiences tend to change one' s expression

B.shared experiences may leave good impressions

C.couples may learn from each other in sharing experiences

D.couples tend to love and hate the same thing in life

第25题 From the passage we can draw a conclusion that____________.

A.happily-married couples are often richer than other couples

B.couples who look alike can live longer

C.the influence between couples can be quite strong

D.all couples have been proved to' grow alike

根据下面资料，回答{TSE}题

The vitamins necessary for a healthy body are normally supplied by a good mixed diet ( 饮食), including a variety of fruits and green vegetables. It is only when people try to live on a very restricted diet that it is necessary to make special provision to supply the missing vitamins.

An example of the dangers of a restricted diet may be seen in the disease known as "beri-beri". It used to distress large numbers of Eastern peoples who lived mainly on flee. In the early years of this century, a scientist named Eijkman was trying to discover the cause of "beri-beri". At first he thought it was caused by a germ. He was working in a Japanese hospital, where the pa-tients were fed on polished rice which had the outer husk(外壳) removed from the grain. It was thought this would be easier for weak and sick people to digest.

Eijkman thought his germ theory was confirmed when he noticed the chickens in the hospital yard, which were fed on leftovers(剩饭) from the patients' plates, were also showing signs of the disease. He then tried to isolate the germ, but his experiments were interrupted by a hospital offi-cial, who declared that the polished rice, even though left over by the patients, was too good for chickens. It should be recooked for the patients, and the chickens should be fed on cheap rice with the outer layer still on the grain.

Eijkman noticed that the chickens began to recover on the new diet. He began to consider the possibility that eating unpolished rice somehow prevented or cured "beri-beri" --even that a lack of some element in the husk might be the cause of the disease. Indeed this was the case. The ele-ment needed to prevent "beri-beri" was shortly afterwards isolated from rice husks and is now known as vitamin

B. Nowadays, this terrible disease is much less common thanks to our knowl-

edge of vitamins.

第26题 A good mixed diet __________.

A.normally contains enough vitamins

B.still needs special provision of vitamins

C.is suitable for losing weight

D.is composed of fruits and vegetables

第27题 The disease "beri-beri" __________.

A.kills large numbers of Eastern peoples

B.is a vitamin deficiency (缺乏) disease

C.is caused by diseased rice

D.can be caught from diseased chickens

第28题 The chickens Eijkman noticed in the hospital yard __________.

A.couldn' t digest the polished rice

B.proved "beri-beri" is caused by germs

C.were later cooked for the patients' food

D.were suffering from "beri-beri"

第29题 According to Eijkman, polished rice __________.

A.was cheaper than unpolished rice

B.was less nourishing(有营养的) than unpolished rice

C.was more nourishing than unpolished rice

D.cured "beri-beri"

第30题 The chemical substance missing from polished rice __________.

A.was vitamin

B.did not affect the chickens

C.was named the Eijkman vitamin

D.has never been accurately identified

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