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　　Part II Reading Comprehension (40 points)

　　Directions: There are four passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.

　　Passage 1

　　How often one hears children wishing they were grown up, and old people wishing they were young again. Each age has its pleasures and its pains, and the happiest person is the one who enjoys what each age gives him without wasting his time in useless regrets.

　　Childhood is a time when there are few responsibilities to make life difficult. If a child has good parents, he is fed, looked after and loved, whatever he may do. It is impossible that he will ever again in his life be given so much without having to do anything in return. In addition, life is always presenting new things to the child — things that have lost their interest for older people because they are too well-known. But a child has his pains: he is not so free to do what he wishes to do; he is continually being told not to do things, or being punished for what he has done wrong.

　　When the young man starts to earn his own living, he can no longer expect others to pay for his food, his clothes, and his room, but has to work if he wants to live comfortably. If he spends most of his time playing about in the way that he used to as a child, he will go hungry. And if he breaks the laws of society as he used to break the laws of his parents, he may go to prison. If, however, he works hard, keeps out of trouble and has good health, he can have the great happiness of building up for himself his own position in society.

　　21. According to Paragraph 2, the writer thinks that _______.

　　A. life for a child is comparatively easy B. a child is always loved whatever he does

　　C. if much is given to a child, he must do something in return

　　D. only children are interested in life

　　22. After a child grows up, he_____.

　　A. will have little time playing 　　B. has to be successful in finding a job

　　C. can still ask for help in time of trouble　　D. should be able to take care of himself

　　23. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?

　　A. People are often satisfied with their life.　　B. Life is less interesting for old people.

　　C. Adults are freer to do what they want to do.　D. Adults should no longer rely on others.

　　24. The main idea of the passage is that ______.

　　A. life is not enjoyable since each age has some pains

　　B. young men can have the greatest happiness if they work hard

　　C. childhood is the most enjoyable time in one’s life

　　D. one is the happiest if he can make good use of each age in his life

　　25. The paragraph following the passage will most probably discuss ______.

　　A. examples of successful young men　　B. how to build up one’s position in society

　　C. joys and pains of old people　　 D. what to do when one has problems in life

　　Passage 2

　　Every country tends to accept its own way of life as being the normal one and to praise or criticize others as they are similar to or different from it. And unfortunately, our picture of the people and the way of life of other countries is often a distorted (曲解) one.

　　Here is a great argument in favor of foreign travel and learning foreign languages. It is only by traveling in, or living in a county and getting to know its inhabitants and their language that one can find out what a country and its people are really like. And how different the knowledge one gains this way frequently turns out to be true from the second-hand information gathered from other sources! How often we find that the foreigners whom we thought to be such different people from ourselves are not very different after all!

　　Differences between peoples do of course, exist and, one hopes, will always continue to do so. The world will be a dull place indeed when all the different nationalities behave exactly alike, and some people might say that we are rapidly approaching this state of affairs. With the much greater rapidity and ease of travel, there might seem to be some truth in this at least as far as Europe is concerned. However this may be, at least the greater ease of travel today has revealed to more people than ever before that the Englishman or Frenchman or German is not some different kind of animal from themselves.

　　26. Every country criticizes ways of life in other countries because they are _______.

　　A. distorted B. normal C. similar to each other D. different from its own

　　27. One who travels in a foreign country and learns its language will ______.

　　A. find out what its people are like B. argue in favor of this country and the language

　　C. know the country and its people better　　D. like its inhabitants and their language

　　28. The knowledge one gains by traveling in a foreign county is often _______.

　　A. from second-hand information B. gathered from other sources than from its inhabitants

　　C. gained from the arguments about the countryD. different from what one had before the travel

　　29. Differences between peoples ________.

　　A. will gradually disappear because of ease of travel

　　B. do exist even though different nationalities behave exactly alike

　　C. will always continue to exist and the world will be a dull place

　　D. will not exist as one hopes

　　30. The underlined word “However” most probably means _________.

　　A. somewhat B. by whatever means C. anyhow D. no matter what