Passage Ⅱ Questions 45-50 are based on the following
passage.
Jim lost three teeth in an accident. His dentist
replaced them with false ones. Jim's new teeth look and
fit almost like real teeth. And he has no trouble
chewing with them. But if Jim had lived in the 1700s,
he couldn't have been so lucky. In those days many
people who lost their teeth or had them pulled just had
to champ their way through the rest of their lives with
what they had left. Only the rich could afford false
teeth. And even the most costly dentures of the time
were not satisfactory.
False teeth were often carved from ivory. Many
teeth might be shaped from a single piece of ivory. The
row of teeth was the tied with gold or silk thread to
the real teeth left in the wearer's mouth.
The early false teeth were torn mostly for the sake
of the wearer's looks. Eaiing with them wasn't much
fun. They made a loud clatter when their wearer tried
to chew tough meat. If he ate sticky foods, the teeth
might come right out of his mouth. It was easier to eat
without them. And one could always use a device called
a "masticator". This crude, jagged pincer chewed the
food right on the plate. The masticator worked with a
side-to-side action. "The instrument," said the
directions, "is best worked when held horizontally with
both hands. To avoid chilling the food. Dip the blades
into hot water from time to time."
46. This passage is primarily about__________.
A) trouble caused by false teeth B) false teeth in
the 1700s
C) teeth carved from ivory D) the history of
dentistry
47. The writer told about Jim to show that__________ .
A) teeth can be lost in different ways
B) false teeth are made of ivory
C) modern denture are better that those of the past
D) poor people in the past received no dental care
48. Early false teeth were worn to________.
A) make their wearers look better B) keep the gums
from shrinking
C) help their wearers chew tough food D) show their
wearers are well-off
49. Carved dentures were hard to eat with because
they________.
A) were too sticky B) came out easily C) worked
with horizontally D) were too sharp
50. The word "instrument" in the last paracaaraph
refers to_________.
A) sticky food B) false teeth wearer C) side-to-
side action D) masticator
Passage Ⅲ Questions 51-55 are based on the following
passage.
It is possible to stop most drug addiction in the
United States within a short time. Simply make all
drugs available and sell them at cost. Label each drug
with a precise description of what effect - good and
bad - the drug will have on the taker. This will
require heroic honesty.
For the record, I have tried - once -almost every
drug and like none, disproving the popular theory that
taking a single smoke of opium will enslave the mind.
Nevertheless many drugs are bad for certain people to
take and they should be told why in a sensible way.
Along with advice and warning, it might be good for
our citizens to recall that the United States was a
nation in which people believed that each man has the
right to do what he wants with his own life as long as
he does not interfere with his neighbor's pursuit of
happiness.
Now one can hear the warning: If everyone is
allowed to take drugs, everyone will, and the gross
national product will decrease and we shall end up a
race of fools. Alarming thought. Yet it seems most
unlikely that any reasonably healthy-minded person will
become a drug addict if he knows in advance what
addiction is going to be like.
Is everyone reasonably sensible? No. Some people
will always become drug addicts just as some people
will always become drunken, and it is just too bad.
Every man, however, has the power to kill himself if he
chooses. But since most men don't, they won't be the
majority, either. Nevertheless, forbidding people
things they like or think they might enjoy only makes
them want those things all the more. This psychological
insight is, for some mysterious reason, denied our
governors.
51. The author's solution to the drug problem
is____________.
A) to make all drugs extremely costly
B) to put honest warnings on all drug labels.
C) to make the buying and selling of all drugs
illegal
D) to tell People the dangerous effects of drugs on
health
52. Many people believe that___________.
A) taking drugs once in a while will not be harmful
B) a single smoke of opium will make you an addict
to it.
C) the authorities are honest in dealing with the
drug problem
D) it is a heroic activity to destroy all the drugs
available
53. According to the author, forbidding people to take
drugs is__________.
A) unacceptable to the majority of people
B) not an effective way to stop drug addiction
C) in the interest of the people and the governors
D) in agreement with the basic rights of citizens
54. Which of the following can be inferred from the
passage?
A) Few people will take drugs if they are allowed
to.
B) The United States will be easily defeated if its
citizens are allowed to take drugs.
C) It is a general practice to forbid drugs in
different countries.
D) A majority of people will become addictive to
drugs if they are allowed to take them.
55. Which of the following might best describe the
author's arguments in the passage?
A) Alarming B) Unusual C) Mysterious D) Traditional.
Passage Ⅳ: Questions 56-60 are based on the following
passage.
It is well known that when an individual joins a
group he tends to accept the group's standards of
behavior ana thinking. Many illustrations could be
given of this from everyday life, but what is of
particular interest to psychologists is the extent to
which people's judgments and opinions can be changed as
a result of group pressure.Asch and others noticed that
people in a group will agree to statements that are
contrary to the evidence of their senses. It would be a
mistake to think that only particular docile people are
chosen to take part in experiments of this type.
Usually highly intelligent and independent people are
used.
In a typical experiment, this is what may happen.
The experimenter asks for volunteers to join a group
which is investigating visual perception. The victims
are not, therefore, aware of the real purpose of the
experiment. Each volunteer is taken to a room where he
finds a group of about seven people who are
collaborating with the experimenter. The group is shown
a standard card which contains a single line. The are
then asked to look at a second card. This has three
lines on it. One is obviously longer than the line on
the first card, one is shorter and one the same length.
They have to say which line on the second card is the
same length as the line on the standard card. The other
members of the group answer firsi but what the
volunteer does not know is that they have been told to
pick one of the wrong lines. When his turn comes he is
faced with the unanimous opinion of the rest of the
group -- all the other have chosen line A but he quite
clearly sees line B as correct. What will he do?
According to Asch, more than half of the victims chosen
will change their opinion. What equally surprising is
that, when interviewed about their answers, most
explained that they know the group choice was incorrect
but that they yield to the pressure of the group
because they thought they must be suffering from an
optical illusion, or because they were afraid of being
different.
56. The psychologists are particularly interested
in__________.
A) the changes in the attitudes of the people.
B) the degree of changes of people's opinion
C) the result of the experiment
D) the difference in people's characters
57. People who are usually chosen to take part in the
experiments are____________.
A) stubborn and independent B) tractable
C) ignorant and docile D) capable of reasoning
58. Which of the following statements is true?
A) The experimenter and all the members of the
group except the victim know the purpose of the
experiment.
B) All of them know the purpose of the experiment.
C) Only the experimenter knows the purpose of the
experiment.
D) Only the victim knows the purpose of the
experiment.
59. More than half of the victims changed their opinion
because____________.
A) someone in the group changed their opinion
B) they thought their eyes must be deceived
C) they thought the group choice was correct
D) they had been told about the answer
60. The purpose of the author in writing this passage
is to___________.
A) illustrate the influence of the group's pressure
on individual's behavior
B) invite more volunteers to join Asch's experiment
C) tell the audience how to perform psychological
experiment
D) encourage people to act against the group's
opinion
Passage Ⅴ Questions 61-65 are based on the following
passage.
Your passport is your official identification as an
America citizen. In America most people never consider
obtaining a passport unless they are planning a trip
out of the country. In Europe, where travel from one
country to another is much more common, almost everyone
carries a passport. A passport is final proof of
identity in almost every county in the world.
In 1979 almost 15 million American held passports.
Most of these passports were obtained to travel outside
the country because, except for a few Western nations,
passports are required to enter every country. And if
you travel abroad, you must have a valid passport to
reenter the country.
When traveling abroad, you will need a passport for
identification when exchanging dollars for francs or
marks or other foreign currency. You may also need your
passport to use a credit card, buy an airplane ticket
or check into a hotel. As a passport is an official
U.S. document, it is valuable as identification in any
emergency overseas,such as floods,fires or war.
Don't confuse passports and visas. Whereas a
passport is issued by a country to its citizens, a visa
is officiai permission to visit a country granted by
the government of that country.For some years, many
countries were dropping their visa requirements, but
that trend has reversed. They may be obtained from the
embassy of the country you wish to visit.
Passport applications are available at passport
agency offices in large cities like Boston, New York,
or Chicago. In smaller cities, applications are
available at post offices and at federal courts. To get
your first passport, you must submit the application in
person, along with a birth certificate and two pictures.
61. The main purpose of this passage is to___________.
A) discuss traveling in other countries
B) distinguish between passports and visas
C) discuss the financial uses of a passport
D) provide information about passports
62. Passports are beneficial for___________.
A) exchanging currency B) using a credit card C)
checking into hotels D) all of the above
63. We can conclude from the passage that_________.
A) passports are more important than visas
B) visas and passports are the same thing
C) foreign government issue visas instead of
passports
D) visas are required to obtain passports
64. The passage suggests that_________.
A) Most people don't realize how important
passports are
B) passports aren't important once you are in the
country you've chosen to visit
C) passports are simple to obtain through the mail
D) passports are obtained at the embassy once you
enter a country .
65. As used in this passage, the word "valid" in the
second paragraph means__________.
A) foreign B) legal C) monetary D) illegal
Passage Ⅵ: Questions 66-70 are based on the following
passage.
I'm afraid to grow old - we're all afraid. In facL
the fear of growing old is so great that every aged
person is an insult and a threat to the society. They
remind us of our own death, that our body won't always
remain smooth and responsive, but will someday betray
us by aging. The ideal way to age would be to grow
slowly invisible, gradually disappearing, without
causing worry or discomfort to the young. In some ways
that does happen. Sitting in a small park across from a
nursing home one day, I noticed that the young mothers
and their children gathered on one side, and the old
people from the home on the other. Whenever a youngster
would run over to the "wrong" side, chasing a ball or
just trying to cover all the available space, the old
people would lean forward and smile. But before any
communication could be established, the mother would
come over, murmuring embarrassed apologies, and take
her child back to the "young" side.
Now,it seemed to me that the children didn't feel
any particular fear and the old people didn't seem to
be threatened by the children. The division of space
was drawn by the mothers. And the mothers never looked
at the old people who lined the other side of the park.
These well- dressed young women had a way of sliding
their eyes over, around, through the old people; they
never looked at them directly. The old people may as
well have been invisible; they offend the aesthetic eye
of the mothers.
My early experiences were somewhat different; since
I grew up in a small town, my childhood had more of a
nineteenth-century flavor. I knew a lot of old people,
and considered some ofthem friends.
66. People are afraid of growing old because it is
usually associated with ___________.
A) insult B) threat C) death D) betrayed
67. In the author's opinion, it is a perfect way
to__________.
A) grow old slowly and then die unnoticed
B) grow old suddenly and then die
C) shut oneself up from others when growing old
D) remain young all one's life and then die suddenly
68. It can be inferred that young mothers would try to
keep their children away from the old
because___________.
A) they feared their children might hurt the old
B) they didn't like their children to take up the
space belonging to the old
C) they felt it was wrong to play balls near where
the old stayed
D) they didn't want their children to have anything
to do with the old
69. The author believes the division between the old
and the young is__________.
A) made by people B) understandable C) formed
naturally D) traditional
70. From the passage, we learn that the
author__________.
A) used to have the same experience as the young
have today
B) has never been afraid of getting old
C) was quite free to know and befriend old people
in his childhood
D) both B and C
Answer:
0l-20: B C B C A A B A A B A C C D A D D B A C
21-40: B D C C A A B D B A C D B D A A C A D B
4l-60: D A B D D B C A B D B B B C B B D C B A
61-70: D D A A B C A D A
