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C. It has changed international airports’ reputation. D. It has encouraged the catering industry in airports.
6. What should passengers pay close attention to at Helsinki Airport? A. Their boarding time. C. The shop’s opening hours.
B. Finland’s tourism slogan. D. The “you are here” display.
7. Why is Munich Airport mentioned in the text? A. To show its popularity. C. To prove Heikki Koski’s words. 8. What is the best title for the text? A. Silence, please. This is an airport. B. Can airports be as quiet as temples? C. Silent airports all around the world.
D. Technology helps airports become interactive.
Passage 3
September 8, 2017, was an exciting date for Katey Walter Anthony. On this cool, windless evening she first visited Alaska’s Lake Esieh. Few people visit this remote area of wilderness, covered by frozen ground with spruce trees. Thousands of lakes dot the region. But Walter Anthony quickly realized that this lake was strange. As her boat moved across it, she came to a place where the water seemed to be boiling.
The water wasn’t warm. Bubbles of all sizes streamed up, popping at the surface. One bubble, as large as a softball, gave off a loud sound as it burst. The bubbles, which rose with such force that they slowly pushed her boat to the side, covered a part of the lake larger than a football field.
Walter Anthony leaned over the edge of the boat and collected some bubbles in a bottle. Then she struck a match and opened the bottle to release the gas she had just collected. The gas caught fire!
The fire dancing over the bottle confirmed her belief. It showed that the lake was flowing out a gas called methane(甲烷). Each molecule(CH4) contains one atom of carbon bonded to four atoms of hydrogen. As a strong greenhouse gas, it can absorb radiation from the sun, warming the atmosphere. Methane, along with carbon dioxide, is a major source of global warming.
Scientists believe that the Arctic could release large amounts of methane over the next 100 years. Some of them worry that this methane will cause the world to warm more quickly than they had predicted.
B. To introduce Infogate kiosks. D. To be compared with Helsinki Airport.
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Walter Anthony has spent nearly 20 years trying to understand this threat. She is trying to measure how much methane is coming out of warming Arctic lakes. And to her, Lake Esieh could be a warning. If other lakes respond the same way, the Arctic could be poised to flow out far more methane than anyone had expected. “We don’t even know how much gas is down there,” she says. “It’s a wild card.”
9. Why is Lake Esieh considered strange? A. The water there is boiling. B. It is located in a remote area. C. Bubbles there give off a loud sound. D. It is flowing out a gas that can catch fire.
10. What effect does the gas from the lake have on the environment? A. It warms the water of the Arctic lakes. B. It pollutes the fresh air in the Arctic.
C. It takes in the sunlight and holds the Arctic ice. D. It absorbs carbon dioxide and gives off oxygen. 11. How does Walter Anthony feel about the gas methane? A. It is amusing. B. It is beneficial. 12. Where might this text come from? A. A science fiction. C. A science report.
B. A tourist brochure. D. A geography textbook. Passage 4
When men and women take personality tests, some of the old Mars-Venus stereotypes(定式) keep reappearing. On average, women are more cooperative, kind, cautious and emotionally enthusiastic. Men tend to be more competitive, confident, rude and emotionally flat. Clear differences appear in early childhood and never disappear.
What’s not clear is the origin of these differences. Evolutionary psychologists think that these are natural features from ancient hunters and gatherers. Another school of psychologists argues that both sexes’ personalities have been shaped by traditional social roles, and that personality differences will shrink as women spend less time taking care of children and more time in jobs outside the home.
To test these hypotheses(假设), a series of research teams have repeatedly analyzed personality tests taken by men and women in more than 60 countries around the world. For evolutionary psychologists, the bad news is that the
C. It is a blessing.
D. It is a threat.
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size of the gender gap in personality varies among cultures. For social-role psychologists, the bad news is that the change is going in the wrong direction. It looks as if personality differences between men and women are smaller in traditional cultures like India’s or Zimbabwe’s than in the Netherlands or the United States. A husband and a stay-at-home wife in a patriarchal(男权的) Botswanan clan(部族) seem to be more alike than a working couple in Denmark or France. The more Venus and Mars have equal rights and similar jobs, the more their personalities seem to separate.
These findings are so unbelievable that some researchers have argued they must be due to cross-cultural problems with the personality tests. But according to new data from 40.000 men and women on six continents, David P. Schmitt and his colleagues conclude that the trends are real. Dr. Schmitt, a psychologist at Bradley University in Illinois and the director of the International Sexuality Description Project, suggests that as wealthy modern societies level(使平等) the barriers between women and men, some ancient internal differences are being developed.
The biggest changes recorded by the researchers involve the personalities of men, not women.
Men in traditional agricultural societies and poorer countries seem more cautious and anxious, less confident and less competitive than men in the most progressive and rich countries of Europe and North America.
To explain these differences, Dr. Schmitt and his partners from Austria and Estonia point to the hardships of life in poorer countries. They note that in some other species, environmental stress tends to extremely affect the larger sex. And, they say, there are examples of stress decreasing biological sex differences in humans.
13. According to personality tests, the differences between men and women begin to exist________. A. occasionally and temporarily C. regularly and constantly
B. randomly and forever D. early and permanently
14. What is stated in Paragraph 2 is to indicate________. A. psychologists have no way to know the origin of the differences B. experts fight against one another
C. the explanation for the differences is open to tests
D. women will solve the problem of the personality differences
15. Now researchers tend to believe that the differences between men and women________. A. originate from ancient hunters and gatherers B. are shaped by traditional social roles they play C. are affected by traditional cultures D. vary from one culture to another
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16. What can be inferred about Dr. Schmitt? A. He doesn’t recognize the findings above.
B. He thinks social environment contributes to some internal differences. C. He believes wealthy women and men are equal. D. He has no examples to explain the differences at all.
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