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Section B
Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.
( A )
1. Exercise
Studies show that 30 minutes of mild exercise a day will increase your life span. This doesn’t mean you have to run three miles or start jumping. Simple activities such as walking, gardening or taking exercise classes will work.
2. Enjoy people
Contacts with family and friends help fight life-sapping depression and stress. Studies show that people socialize regularly live longer than loners. Interact daily with family members and friends. If you are isolated, make a point of joining social clubs or church groups so you can laugh and share life’s joys.
3. Stay mentally active
This is very important—use it or lose it! People who allow their mental faculties to decline run the risk of shortening their lives through falls and other injuries, and not being able to take care of themselves. Read the newspaper, visit the public library, balance your checkbook without a calculator, and exercise your brain by doing crossword puzzle.
4. Diet
The key words are “ high-fiber, low-fat”. Cut back on red meat, salt, white flour, white sugar, alcohol and coffee. Start eating a balanced diet including lots of fruit, grains, raw vegetables and nuts.
5. Positive attitude
By approaching life with a positive outlook you increase your chances of living longer. Stay optimistic—always search for the silver lining. Studies show people who see life as an enjoyable challenge, rather than a constant trial, cope better and prolong their life spans.
6. medication mix
As we age, we are more likely to take medications. Sometimes this leads to over-medication, which can be disabling and even deadly. Ask your doctor if the drugs you take are really necessary. Make sure there is no danger of a bad drug interaction from your medication. Used correctly, medicines can help you live longer and more comfortably.
7. Volunteer
Helping others increases your self-esteem and makes you feel like a valuable contributor.
66. Which of the following does NOT increase your life span?
A. Staying happy about life B. Exercising as much as possible
C. Exercising your brain frequently D. Enjoying your social life
67. People who do not stay mentally active are more likely to _________.
A. become ignorant B. lose their minds
C. shorten their lives D. become slow in movement
68. The underlined phrase silver lining can be replaced with __________.
A. something made of silver B. new information
C. good aspects D. long life span
69. Which of the following is correct about medication ?
A. Appropriate medication is necessary.
B. Medication is always helpful to you.
C. Doctors suggest taking expensive medicines.
D. Drugs are unnecessary because of side-effects.
( B )
“We are going to have to get rid of Bay this year,” Meg’s dad said. “That horse can’t work another winter.”
It was October, and snow was falling lightly over their part of Montana. Meg knew the ranch needed strong, steady horses to bring the sheep back from pasture. Still, she could hardly take in the enormity of her father’s words.
“I know Bay’s old,” Meg told her dad, “but he is my horse. Won’t you let me keep him? I’d feed him. He won’t be a problem.”
“We use horses for labor,” her dad said, “We don’t keep them as pets.”
Meg understood. She thought about Casey, a dog she had once loved. He became lost when he chased a wandering sheep and never came home. Meg had been sad for weeks. She knew that on a ranch, animals come and go. You couldn’t grow attached to them. Bay was different, though. The horse had a personality all his own.
She went to the stable and stroked the old brown horse’s head. As Bay nuzzled her hand, Meg tried to imagine what the ranch would be like without her favorite horse.
The snow was falling faster, and dark gray clouds were settling over the peaks. Meg had an idea. She saddled Bay, put her foot in the stirrup, and swung up. “Let’s go !” she cried, and nudged him with heels.
They galloped over the meadow, onto a steep and narrow trail, and up a wooded slope. “We’ll round up the sheep now, before the snow gets too thick,” Meg said. “We will show Dad how well you work.”.
The sheep stood in a high pasture, bleating at the storm clouds. Meg heard a lone bleat from above. She looked for the lost sheep but couldn’t see it. “It must be stuck in the bush above the rock wall,” she thought.
She got off her horse and began to climb up the steep wall. She was almost at the top when the heel of her foot slipped into a crack. She lost her balance and fell onto a rock. She tried to stand, but her foot hurt too much.
Then Bay got into position under the rock. He was telling Meg to crawl onto his back!
Painfully, Meg got her feet into the stirrups. Slowly and carefully, Bay carried her down the snow trail.
On the way down, they met Dad riding his gray horse. “What happened ?” he asked anxiously.
“Bay saved me.” Meg told him what happened.
Dad’s voice shook when he said, “ I wouldn’t get rid of that horse for anything.”
70. Meg’s dad intended to ______________.
A. trade Bay for sheep B. let Meg keep Bay as a pet.
C. sell or kill Bay D. keep Bay working for another winter.
71. Meg hoped to keep Bay because______________.
A. Bay was a good sheep-keeper.
B. Bay was like a good friend.
C. Bay was strong and beautiful.
D. Bay was the only animal she loved.
72. Meg rode Bay to the pasture to ___________.
A. look for a lost sheep. B. round up the sheep.
C. climb over the meadow. D. meet her father.
73. Why does Dad change his mind about Bay?
A. Bay found the lost sheep and Meg.
B. Bay was such a good friend to Meg.
C. Bay proved his importance by rescuing Meg.
D. Bay proved that he had a personality all his own.
( C )
One picture in the Wonder Book of knowledge I had as a little boy showed a man reading a book while floating in the Dead Sea. What a miracle! How would it feel to lie back in water so thick with salt that it was impossible to sink?
Fed by the Jordan River and smaller streams, the Dead Sea is the lowest point on the earth’s surface, and its water is ten times saltier than the Mediterranean. With evaporation its only outlet, salt and other minerals become super-concentrated.
Earlier this year, I drove down the long, steep hill to realize my dream. The shoreline was a broad area of bare salt-mud, but the water edge was far out of sight. Had somebody pulled the Dead Sea’s plug? I wondered. Eli Dior, an Israeli official, explained the problem: “ The Dead Sea is drying up. Every year, the surface drops about one meter, and as the water level falls, shadow areas are left high and dry.”
Over the last half-century, the five neighboring countries have collectively diverted nearly all the water flowing into the Dead Sea to meet human and agriculture needs. Result: the Dead Sea is being emptied.
With population in the region set to double at least in the next 50 years, there is little hope of restoring the water being diverted for human consumption. No country has a drop to spare for the Dead Sea, where they know it will just evaporate. To dream of opening the dams and restoring natural balance is plainly unrealistic.
Yet one ambitious high-tech dream may turn out to be not only the salvation of the Dead Sea but also a ticket to peace around its shores. The “ Red-Dead” is a proposed $5 billion project to bring sea water some 240 kilometers by pipeline and canal from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea. The Red-Dead may be the only solution, but even if the project is carried out successfully, the Dead Sea will be 10 to 20 meters lower than now and two thirds of its current size.
Whatever the future holds, the Dead Sea’s magical mix of sun, mud, sea and salt will surely survive. Many might complain that the Dead Sea is half empty—but for me the Dead sea will always be half full.
74. What’s the passage mainly about ?
A. Dead Sea—miracle of the world.
B. Save the environment of the Dead Sea.
C. Slow shrinking of the Dead Sea.
D. Why is the Dead Sea so salty.
75. The shrinking of the Dead Sea is mainly caused by _________ according to the passage.
A. a severe reduction of the water flowing into the sea.
B. rapid evaporation of the water in the Dead Sea area.
C. the increasing quantity of water drawn from the sea.
D. very low annual rainfall in the Dead Sea Area.
76. Which of the following is right according to the passage?
A. With no outlet to any ocean, the Dead Sea has become by evaporation the saltiest on earth.
B. Though burdened with the growing population, the neighboring countries haven’t cut off the sources of the Dead Sea.
C. All the countries in the area will consider diverting less water from the Jordan River.
D. The Red-Dead Project has not only brought water to the Dead Sea, but peace to the area as well.
77. Which of the following statements will the author approve of ?
A. If the Dead Sea dried up, great natural disasters would happen in the region.
B. The Dead Sea will not survive no matter what people do to save it.
C. The five neighboring countries should stop diverting water from the Jordan River.
D. Though the Dead Sea is shrinking gradually, it will not die.
