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36、根据以下资料，回答36-55题。 　　Many people use wood stoves and fireplaces to heat their homes．Scientists have become worried about the smoke that they give off．Harmful chemicals are in the smoke．The smoke is causing air pollution．The pieces of pollution, called soot, are floating in the air．They are too tiny to see．Scientists must use a microscope to see them.
　　Small amounts of soot are safe, but large amounts can be dangerous．The govenment wants to limit this kind of pollution．It may stop people from using their fireplaces.
　　The air is tested every day．When soot levels are high, more than 65 micrograms of soot per cubic meter, factories must stop making smoke．The government thinks that limit should be much lower.
Factories produce the most smoke and soot．But the government thinks that all types of burning should be limited．The soot levels from factories and homes could be limited．Home owners may have to install new wood stoves that they comply with the new law．Or, they may not be able to bum on days when the air quality is bad.
　　Residents of some towns are fined if they violate the burning ban．Scientists hope these new regulations will make the air cleaner and less harmful to breathe.
Why is it dangerous to burn too much wood?
A． The fire could burn yo
B． It's not healthy to be too war
C． Harmful chemicals are released in the soo
D． The smoke is filled with unseeable tiny piece

37、 What could home owners do to comply with the new regulation?
A． Write a lette
B． Ask for permissio
C． Use more electricit
D． Install new low-soot fireplace

38、 What happens to some residents who bum too much wood?
A． They could lose their home
B． They pay for the punishmen
C． They get sick from the smok
D． The fire could get out of contro

39、 Why is the air quality tested every day?
A． Just in case someone ask
B． Scientists like to take test
C． Scientists are not very bus
D． To keep track of pollution level

40、根据以下资料，回答40-59题。 　　Children for whom school has no point
　　Many children do not go to school either because their parents want them at home as carers for siblings, or simply because their parents cannot be bothered to send them．Thousands more are not registered at any school at all, because of their families' unstable lives.
　　Underlying this dreadful situation there are two central truths．First of all, the problem of children not going to school often has more to do with their parents than with the children themselves．Secondly, once children go to school, we need to make sure that the experience is a positive one so that they want to keep on going.
　　In Britain, the Ministry of Education has introduced a complex package of sticks and carrots to persuade Schools to bring truants' and excluded children back into the classroom．It is paying grants so that a thousand schools can set up special units to help these children．Schools receive the grant if they bring a target number of children back to school; if they do not meet the target, the grant is withdrawn.
　　Parents are the subject of this campaign, too: the Home Office has introduced fines for parents who fail to send their children to school, and has given the police power to pick up truants on the streets.
　　Truant=a child who does not go to school when he or she should. According to the text, there are thousands of children who __.
A． run away from school
B． live in stable families
C． are not registered at any school
D． stay at home doing the housework

41、 Part of the problem is __.
A．that people feel very emotional
B． that parents worry their children at school
C． that these children think education is a waste of time
D． that there are not enough police to pick up truants on the streets

42、 The Ministry of Education will take away a school's grant if__.
A．they do not reach their objectives
B． they do not contact parents
C． children escape from school
D． they meet their targets

43、 The Home Office __.
A．has given powers to the police to pick up parents
B． will give money to parents to send children to school
C． will go to the family and persuade parents and their children
D． will punish parents who fail to send their children to school

44、根据以下资料，回答44-63题。 　　If you are like most people, your intelligence varies from season to season．You are probably a lot sharper in the spring than you are at any other time of the year．A noted scientist, Ellsworth Huntington (1876-1947), concluded from other men's work and his own among peoples in different climates that climate and temperature have a definite effect on our mental abilities.
　　He found that cool weather is much more favorable for creative thinking than is summer heat．This does not mean that all people are less intelligent in the summer than they are during the rest of the year．It does mean, however, that the mental abilities of large numbers of people tend to be lowest in the summer.
　　Spring appears to be the best period of the year for thinking．One reason may be that in the spring man's mental abilities are affected by the same factors that bring about great changes in all nature.
　　Fall is the next-best season, then winter．As for summer, it seems to be a good time to take a long vacation from thinking! Ellsworth Huntington decided that climate and temperature have __.
A． a great effect on everyone's intelligence
B． same effect on most persons' intelligence
C． some effect on a few persons' intelligence
D． no effect on most persons' intelligence

45、 It seems that the cold winter __.
A． increases the ability to think
B． is the best time for thinking
C． is better for thinking than is very warm weather
D． decreases the ability to think