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　　34. What does the author say about crying?

　　A) It is a pointless physiological response to the environment.

　　B) It must have a role to play in man's survival.

　　C) It is meant to get attention and assistance.

　　D) It usually produces the desired effect.

　　開放性題目，如多項細節(jié)題，往往要多次快速定位。

　　Passage III.

　　As machines go, the car is not terribly noisy, nor terribly polluting, nor terribly dangerous; and on all those dimensions it has become better as the century has grown older. The main problem is its prevalence, and the social costs that ensue from the use by everyone of something that would be fairly harmless if, say, only the rich were to use it. It is a price we pay for equality.

　　Before becoming too gloomy, it is worth recalling why the car has been arguably the most successful and popular product of the whole of the past 100 years-and remains so. The story begins with the environmental improvement it brought in the 1900s. In New York city in 1900, according to the Car Culture, a 1975 book by J. Flink, a historian, horses deposited 2.5 million pounds of manure(糞)and 60,000 gallons of urine (尿) every day. Every year, the city authorities had to remove an average of 15,000 dead horses from the streets. It made cars smell of roses.

　　......省去三段。

　　26. As is given in the first paragraph, the reason why the car has become a problem is that　________. (定位后深入挖掘，難點為長句分析) 抓主干; 順藤摸瓜; 理清亂麻。

　　A) poor people can't afford it

　　B) it is too expensive to maintain

　　C) too many people are using it

　　D) it causes too many road accidents

　　27. According to the passage, the car started to gain popularity because ________. 段落歸納

　　A) it didn't break down as easily as a horse 無中生有，雖然符合邏輯常識，常識錯位

　　B) it had a comparatively pleasant odor 比喻用法的字面意思通常是干擾項

　　C) it caused less pollution than horses

　　D) it brightened up the gloomy streets 借用原文原詞考驗細心程度

　　Passage IV

　　Our culture has caused most Americans to assume not only that our language is universal but that the gestures we use are understood by everyone. We do not realize that waving good-bye is the way to summon a person from the Philippines to one's side, or that in Italy and some Latin-American countries, curling the finger to oneself is a sign of farewell.

　　Those private citizens who sent packages to our troops occupying Germany after World War II and marked them GIFT to escape duty payments did not bother to find out that "Gift" means poison in German. Moreover, we like to think of ourselves as friendly, yet we prefer to be at least 3 feet or an arm's length away from others. Latins and Middle Easterners like to come closer and touch, which makes Americans uncomfortable.

　　Our linguistic (語言上的) and cultural blindness and the casualness with which we take notice of the developed tastes, gestures, customs and languages of other countries, are losing us friends, business and respect in the world.

　　Even here in the United States, we make few concessions to the needs of foreign visitors. There are no information signs in four languages on our public buildings or monuments; we do not have multilingual (多語言的)guided tours. Very few restaurant menus have translations, and multilingual waiters, bank clerks and policemen are rare. Our transportation systems have maps in English only and often we ourselves have difficulty understanding them.

　　When we go abroad, we tend to cluster in hotels and restaurants where English is spoken. The attitudes and information we pick up are conditioned by those natives - usually the richer - who speak English. Our business dealings, as well as the nation's diplomacy, are conducted through interpreters.

　　For many years, America and Americans could get by with cultural blindness and linguistic ignorance.After all ,America was the most powerful country of the free world, the distributor of needed funds and goods.

　　But all that is past. American dollars no longer buy all good things, and we are slowly beginning to realize that our proper role in the world is changing. A 1979 Harris poll reported that 55 percent of Americans want this country to play a more significant role in world affairs; we want to have a hand in the important decisions of the next century, even though it may not always be the upper hand.

　　21.It can be inferred that Americans being approached too closely by Middle Easterners would most probably .

　　A) stand still B) jump aside C) step forward D) draw back

　　22.The author gives many examples to criticize Americans for their .

　　A) cultural self-centeredness 　 B) casual manners

　　C) indifference towards foreign visitors D) arrogance towards other cultures

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