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　　III. Reading Comprehension

　　Section A: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some true-false questions. Decide whether each of them is true (T) or false (F).

　　Passage 1

　　First of all, watching TV is a good relaxation. After a day of hard work, we look forward to a good relaxation. Watching TV can meet our requirements by easing our minds and comforting our physical bodies because the pleasant music and pictures can keep us away from tension and fatigue.

　　Besides, watching TV is entertaining. There are so many kinds of entertainment, such as sports activities, performances, plays and movies in the world. Of course, it is impossible for us to be on every spot, even with the best means of transportation of our time. However, TV can bring them right in front of us and with them our life is full of joys.

　　Above all, watching TV is educational. Education TV service offers teaching programs on all subjects for people of different professions as well as for students, children and aged people. No doubt, it provides the widest education and has the largest audience. Every one of us, more or less, is benefited from watching TV. In a word, TV has great influence on people’s life, work and study.

　　T51. The writer of the passage thinks watching TV can do us good.

　　F52. Our life is full of joy because of TV.

　　F53. Only very few audience can be benefited from watching TV.

　　F54. Students cannot learn any subjects at home.

　　F55. TV is a means of entertainment; thus it cannot provide any education for us.

　　Passage 2

　　In the old days, divers used to go down into the sea looking for ships that had sunk, because they hoped to find gold and jewels. Now divers still search for valuable things in sunken ships, but they also try to bring to the surface the ships themselves, or parts of them. The value of different kinds of metals has increased greatly over the last twenty or thirty years and even though a ship has been under the sea for many years, it may be worth a great deal.

　　One famous sunken ship is the "Lusitania", which sank off the southern coast of Ireland in 1915 with a loss of nearly 1500 lives. It has four huge propellers made of an expensive metal. Today each of those propellers is worth $300,000 or more. The ship, lying on the sea-bed has been bought by a man called John Light. He paid about $1,200,000 for the whole ship. He hopes to bring up those propellers and sell them. He also hopes to sell other parts of the ship, when he has brought them to the surface, for about $ 600,000.

　　T56. Divers try to bring up metals because some kinds of them are worth a lot of money.

　　T57. Now divers still search for valuable things and try to bring to the earth surface the ships themselves.

　　F58. John Light hopes he may be able to sell the whole ship of “Lusitania” for more than $1.5 million.

　　F59. The ship “Lusitania” sank off the southwestern coast of Ireland with a lot of people drowned. F60. In the past, divers hoped to bring up everything of a sunken ship except metals.