Passage Three
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!
44. 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
参考答案：B
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
参考答案：C
46. One possible reason why spring is the best season for thinking is that __.
A. all nature, including man, is growing then
B. it lasts longer than the other seasons
C. it is not too warm and not too cold
D. both B and C
参考答案：A
47. According to the passage, any vacations from thinking should be taken __.
A. several times throughout the year
B. during spring and fall
C. during the summer
D. as seldom as possible
参考答案： C
Passage Four
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.
48. 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
参考答案：C
49. 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
参考答案： C
50. 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
参考答案：A
51. 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
参考答案：D
Passage Five
The year 2000 will bring big changes in communication. Cell phones will be small enough to carry in your pocket. Videophones will let you see the person you are talking to on the phone. Tiny hand size computers will know your favorite subjects. The Internet and email will be everywhere. Technologists believe 2000 will be the year of video messaging. You will be able to see whom you're talking to.
Also in the near future small wireless boxes will pick up information from satellites. In 5 years, computers won't need to be connected through wires.
All of this will be good for rural areas and countries that don't have cable or telephone now.
In 20 years you may only need to think about something and the computer will do it.
Constance Hale is the author of Sin and Syntax, "I believe that email has been an incredible boon to communication. People are writing today where they would have been telephoning yesterday. So people are engaging with words more than they have for the last couple generations."
If people use email and the Internet more, it could make people better readers and writers. Some people think the most important part of communication is to make people understand each other better. Will technology make that easier?
The translator also comes in handy in medical emergencies. Tam Dinh says, "Where people are injured it's always important to get as much information as quickly as possible."
Bob Parks is an Associate Editor of Wired Magazine, "Bob's morning begins at about 6:45 am. and Bob is kind of mad, because Bob usually gets up at around 7:15 and likes to cut it close with his morning commute, but I look at my radio and it says that there's a traffic jam on 101 South and I'm gonna need an extra 1/2 hour. And so my radio has got a net connection, wireless net connection as well as a good old power cord to the wall and it has received notice that there's a traffic jam and it has calculated an extra 1/2 hour commute time."
Some day everything may be connected to the Internet. Your refrigerator will add milk to your Internet grocery list when the date on the carton has passed. Light bulbs will be ordered before they burn out.
It's fun to try to guess the future. Usually the predictions are wrong. The one thing we know for sure is that we can't imagine how technology will change.
52. How will wireless computers and Internet services help rural areas?
A. One of the biggest barriers to Internet use is getting wires into rural areas. B. The wireless computers will be cheaper.
C. People in rural areas don't have anything else to do.
D. People in rural areas already have wireless boxes on their roofs.
参考答案：A
53. Constance Hale says "email has been an incredible boon to communication". What
Does she mean by this?
A. People want to see the person they are talking to on the phone.
B. email is easier than talking on the phone.
C. People are using writing and reading more with email.
D. email is not private enough.
参考答案：C
54. In which case mentioned in the passage would an automatic language translator be helpful?
A. A medical emergency.
B. Police action.
C. Traveling.
D. All of the above.
参考答案：A
55. Why did Bob Parks radio wake him up 1/2 hour earlier than usual?
A. The electricity had gone off during the night.
B. Bob had set the alarm wrong.
C. Bob did not want to be late.
D. The Internet had informed the radio of a traffic jam.
参考答案：D
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