C. let the person know we are concerned and always ready tohelp D. help him or her relax and make everything inorder
54. Which of the following statement is true?
A.If we follow the suggestions offered in this article, we will know how to behave in every difficultsituation.
B.Acting politely is always the right way torespond.
C.The article offers us the common senses and courses of how to act properly when our friend is introuble.
D.If we don't talk the sensitive subject, we can avoid hurting our friends.
Passage Two
Major companies are already in pursuit of commercial applications of the new biology.
They dream of placing enzymes in the. automobile to monitor exhaust and send data on pollution to a microprocessor that will then adjust the engine. They speak of what the New York Times calls\-hungry microbes that might be used to mine valuable trace metals from ocean water\They have already demanded and won the right to patent new lifeforms.
Nervous
critics,
including
many
scientists,
worry
that
there
is
corporate,
national,
international,andinter-scientific rivalry in the entire biotechnological field. They create images not of oil spills,but of microbe spills\extremely poisonous microbes, however, is only one cause for alarm.Completely rational and respectable scientists are talking about possibilities that stagger theimagination.
Should we breed people with cow-like stomachs so they can digest grass and hay, thereby relieving the food problem by modifying us to eat lower down on the food chain? hould we biologically alter workers to fit the job requirement, for example, creating pilots with faster reaction times or assembly-line workers designed to do our monotonous work for us?. Should we attempt to eliminate inferior\
this, but without the genetic weaponry that may soon issue from our laboratories.) Should we produce soldiers to do our fighting?Should we use genetic forecasting to pre- eliminate unfit babies? Should we grow reserve organs for ourselves,each of us having, as it were,asavingsbank\
Wild as these notions may sound every one has its advocates (and opposers) in the scientific community as well as its striking commercialapplication.As two critics of genetic engineering,Jeremy Rifkin and Ted Howard, stale in their book Who Should Play God?, \scale genetic engineering will probably be introduced to America much the same way asassemblylines,automobiles, vaccines,computers and all the other technologies. A8 each new genetic advance becomes commercially practical, a new consumer need will be exploited and a market for the new technology will becreated.\
55. According to the passage, the exhaust from a car engine could probably be checkedby
A. using metal-hungrymicrobes C. adjustingtheengine
B. making use ofenzymes
D. patenting new lifeforms
56. According to the passage, which of the following would worry the critics themost?
A. The unanticipated explosion of population. B. The creation of biological solar cells C. The accidental spill ofoil.
D. The unexpected release of destructivemicrobes 57. Which of the following notions is NOTmentioned?
A. Developing a \ B. Breeding soldiers for awar.
C. Producing people with cow-likestomachs. D. Using genetic forecasting to curediseases 58. According to the passage, Hitlerattemptedto .
A. change the pilots biologically to win thewar B. develop genetic farming for foodsupply
C. kill the people he thought of asinferior
D. encourage the development of genetic weapons for the war
Passage Three
There was a time in the early history of man when the days had no names! The reason was quite simple: Men had not invented the week.
In those days, the only division of times was the month, and there were too many days in the month for each of them to have a separate name. But when men began to build cities they wantedto have ,a special day on which 10 trade, a market day.Sometimes these market days were fixed at every tenth day,sometimes every seventh or every fifth day. The Babylonians decided that it should be every seventh day.On this daythey didn't work, but met for trade and religious festivals
The Jews followed their example, but kept every seventh day for religious purposes, In this way,the week came into existence. It was the space between market days. The Jews gave each of the seven days a name, but it was really a number after the Sabbath day (which was Saturday), Forexample, Wednesday was called the fourth day (four days after Saturday,When the Egyptians adopted the seven-day week,they named the days after five planets thesun and the moon. The Romans used the Egyptian names for their days of the week: the day of the sun, of the moon, of the planet Mars, of Mercury, of Jupiter, of Venus, and of Saturn.
While we get our names for the days not from the Romans but from the Anglo-Saxons, who called most of the days after their own gods, which were roughly the same as the gods of the Romans, A day, by the way, used to be counted as the space between sunrise and sunset. The Romans counted it as from midnight, and most modern nations use this method.
59. In the early times there were no names for the days,becausemen \
A. had not yet created the idea of grouping seven days in aweek B. did not know how to spell\ C. considered unnecessary to have the names
D. did not believe it was the time to invent the week 60. Which of the following is true for those earlier times?
A. It became necessary for each day to have a separate name when men began to buildcities.
B. name.
There were so many days in the month that it was impossible for each day to have its own
C. At that time the day that got a name was called a marketday. D. The Babylonians decided people must work on a marketday.
61. In this context, the wordweek\ A. any market day B. the SabbathDay
C. the days between those for religious purposes D. the day for trade and religiousfestivals 62. Our present names for the days of theweekare .
A. quite different from the oldtimes
B. mostly named after the gods of theAnglo-Saxons
C. more or less the same us those the Egyptians areusing D. used to count the number of days in a week
Section B Sentence Understanding and Matching
Directions: Match the Chinese sentences in the left column with the English in the right column and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. Part 1
63. 那些想离开的人现在可以离开。 64. 他赢得那场比赛的消息令人振奋。 65. 他在公司的职位比其他人都高。 A. He is senior to everyone else in the company. B. That man's temper is not s0 bad as youhave described. C. Such people as wish to leave may do sonow .
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