Passage Three
People joke that no one in Los Angeles reads;everyone watches TV, rents videos，or goes to the movies.The most popular reading material is comic books，movie magazines，and TV guide s.City libraries have only 10 percent of the traffic that car washes have.But how do you explain this? An annual book festival in west Los Angeles is flourishing year after year.People wait half an hour for a parking space to become available.
This outdoor festival，sponsored by a newspaper，occurs every April for one weekend. This year’ s attendance was estimated at 70，000 on Saturday and 75，000 on Sunday.The festival consisted of 280 exhibitors.There were about 90 talks given by authors，with an audience question-and-answer period foilowing each talk.Autograph(亲笔签名)seekers sought out more than 150 authors.A food court sold all kinds of popular food and diverse foreign foods，from American hamburgers to Hawaiian shave ice drinks.Except for a $7 parking fee，the festival was free.Even so，some people avoided the food court prices by staying away and having their own sandwiches and drinks.
People came from all over Californi
A.One couple drove down from San Francisco.“This is our sixth year here now.We love it，”said the husban
D.“It’s just fantastic to be in the great outdoors，to be mnong so many books and authors，and to get some very good deals，too.”
The idea for the festival occurred years ago，but nobody knew if it would succee
D.Although book festivals were already popular in other US cities，would Los Angeles residents welcome one?“The citizens of the city are very unpredictable，”said one of the festival founders.
第44题单选 The underlined sentence in the first paragraph implies that____.
A.city libraries have a very limited number of readers
B.only a small proportion of the readers go to libraries by car
C.city libraries provide fewer places for Car washes
D.city libraries have fewer parking places
参考答案：A
参考解析：第一段第三行谈到去图书馆借书的车辆仅占全部交通的10%，此句暗示图书馆的读者非常有限。故A正确。
第45题单选 The outdoor book festival attracts____.
A.autograph seekers and authors only
B.people with different interests
C.people who love Los Angeles
D.people who like cooking
参考答案：B
参考解析：第二段谈到本次购书节吸引了众多的读书爱好者，星期六达到了70，000 ，星期天达到了75，000，以词可推断出B正确。
第46题单选 At the very beginning，people were____ about the idea for the book festival in Los Angeles.
A.confident
B.pessimistic
C.uncertain
D.indifferent
参考答案：C
参考解析：文章最后一段谈到，but nobody knew if it would succeed“The citizens of the city are very unpredictable，(unpredictable 捉摸不透的，不确定的，和uncertain 同义)，故C正确。
第47题单选 The success of Los Angeles book festival shows that____.
A.book reading is still popular in Los Angeles
B.Los Angeles people prefer library to book festival
C.people attend the book festivals for fun not for reading
D.libraries should have food courts to attract more readers
参考答案：A
参考解析：尽管刚开始对于购书节的发展该有不确定的因数，但后来的情况说明读书在洛杉矶很受欢迎。故选A。
Passage Four
Have you ever been afraid to talk back when you were treated unfairly? Have you ever bought something just because the salesman talked you into it? Are you afraid to ask someone for a date?
Many people are afraid to assert themselves(坚持己见).Dr.Robert Alberti，author of Stand Up, Speak Out，and Talk Back, thinks it’s because of their lack of confidence.“Our structure of organization tends to make people distrust themselves.”says Alberti.“There’s always a‘superior’around-a parent，a teacher，a boss-who‘knows better’.These‘superiors’often gain when they keep breaking at your self-image.”
But Alberti and other scientists are doing something to help people assert themselves.They offer“assertiveness training”courses-AT for short.In the AT course people learn that they have a right to be themselves.They learn to speak out and feel good about doing so.They learn to be aggressive without hurting people.
In one way, learning to speak out is to overcome fear.A group taking an AT course will help the shy person to lose his fear.But AT uses an even stronger motive-the need to share.The shy person speaks out in the group because he wants to tell how he feels.
Whether or not you speak up for yourself depends on your self-image.If someone you face is more“important”than you，you may feel less of a person.You start to doubt your own good sense.You go by the other person’ s label.But，why should you?AT says you can get to feel good about yourself.And once you do，you can learn to speak out.
第48题单选 People are reluctant to talk back because____.
A.they have a poor self-image
B.they have not received AT courses
C.they have not grasped communication skills
D.they are not generous enough to share things
参考答案：A
参考解析：文章最后一段第一句Whether or not you speak up for yourself depends on your self-image，说明一个人是否愿意把自己的想法大胆的说出来取决于一个人的自我形象。故A正确
第49题单选 According to Dr.Alberti， our organization is constructed to____.
A.get people to trust their own solutions to problems
B.keep people as knowledgeable as their“superiors”
C.train people’ s capacity to speak up for their rights
D.make things more favorable for“superiors”
参考答案：D
参考解析：“There’s always a‘superior’around-a parent，a teacher，a boss-who‘knows better’.These‘superiors’often gain when they keep breaking at your self-image.”
上句说明此机构的目的是帮助人们找回自信。答案：D
第50题单选 One of the objectives of AT courses is to____.
A.train people to trust others
B.encourage people to share their thoughts
C.tell people of their right to be“superiors”
D.help people overcome their fear of asserting themselves
参考答案：D
参考解析：49题已经讲过，此机购的目的是帮助人们克服恐惧，找回自信。
第51题单选 Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A.Protect Yourself
B.Try to Speak Out
C.Share Your Opinion
D.Face Your Superior
参考答案：B
参考解析：本篇文章的目的是希望人们大胆的说出自己的想法，克服恐惧的心理，故B正确。
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