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Part I••Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)

Directions: There are 10 passages in this section. 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 centre.

Passage One

Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage.

My formula for staying young is simple: concentrate on the part of you that’s young and growing your brain. Keep your mind awake and you’ll stay young all over. These are exciting times. Take an interest in the world around you, and make a point of learning at least one new thing every day.

Regardless of your age, it’s not too late to make your life more interesting. I know a housewife wi th no previous knowledge who made herself into an outstanding industrial designer; I know a retired electrical engineer who has become a highly paid ceramic artist.

Get over the notion that you are ever too old to go back to school. I know a man who entered medical college at 70. He got his degree with honors and became an eminent physician. Another man went to law school at 71 and is now an active lawyer.

In spite of years, staying young is easy for those who live in the future. You can do it if you care enough to try. Keep your mind awake and active; that’s the only youth elixir (万灵药) guaranteed to work.

1. The statement that our brain remains young and growing regardless of age is ________.

A) an impossibility C) a supposition

B) a scientific fact D) a ridiculous conclusion

2. It is wrong to ________.

A) think oneself too old to go back to school

B) keep one’s mind awake

C) try to stay young

D) get one’s degree with honors

3. The passage states that a man who entered college at 70 became ________.

A) an active lawyer C) a distinguished doctor

B) an electric engineer D) a highly paid ceramic artist

4. The only youth elixir is to ________.

A) go back to school C) keep in touch with young people

B) forget one’s own age D) keep one’s mind awake and active

5. All of the following statements are true EXCEPT that ________.

A) human brain never gets old with age

B) every person should take up a new occupation when he becomes old

C) staying young is not difficult if one is willing to try

D) there is always something to learn if you have an interest in what’s going on around you

Passage Two

Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage.

All the useful energy at the surface of the earth comes from the activity of the sun. The sun heats and feeds mankind. Each year it provides men with two hundred million tons of grain and nearly ten million tons of wood.

Coal, oil, natural gas, and all other fuels are stored-up energy from the sun. Some was collected by this season’s plants as carbon compounds. Some was stored by plants and trees ages ago.