【正文】 ime of their marriage and another random grouping of the same persons who took photographs later. Some testees were asked to pick out the partners. They failed totally with the first group. Their judgements were no better than chance. But with the photos taken twentyfive or more years after the marriage, the testees were quite successful with the most happilymarried couples.Dr. Aiken believes there are several reasons why couples grow alike. One reason has something to do with imitation. One person tends to copy or do the same as someone else without knowing it. He says human begins to imitate the expressions of the faces of their loved ones. “Another possible reason,” he says, “is the mon experience of the couples.” There is a tendency for people who have the same life experience to change their faces in similar ways. For example, if a couple have suffered from a lot of sad experiences, their faces are likely to change in a similar way.21. Dr. Aiken cut the background from the photos for the purpose of __________.A. imitating the couples’ life B. grouping the couples againC. leaving no trace for the testees D. giving the testees more chances22. The underlined sentence “Their judgements were no better than chance” implies that the testees __________.A. did a good job in making their choices.B. had difficulty in picking out the partnersC. had no chance to make the right judgementsD. did better with the first group than with the second23. The underlined word “imitate” (in Para. 2) has a similar meaning to __________.A. copy B. change C. know D. suffer24. From the passage we can draw the conclusion that ___________.A. couples who look alike can live longerB. most partners have been proved to grow alikeC. the influence between partners can be quite strongD. happilymarried couples are often richer than others25. The main purpose of the passage is to ___________.A. explain why couples grow alike B. tell how couples like each otherC. discuss the function of marriage D. describe the life of happily married couplesPassage ThreeThe three biggest lies in America are: (1) “The check is in the mail”, (2) “Of course I’ll respect you in the morning”, and (3) “It was a puter error.”O(jiān)f these three little white lies, the worst is the third. It’s the only one that can never be true. Today, if a bank statement cheats you out of $ 900 that way, you know what the clerk is sure to say,” It was a puter error.” Nonsense. The puter is reporting nothing more than what the clerk typed into it.The most annoying case of all is when the puterized cashier in the grocery store shows that an item costs more than it actually does. If the innocent buyer points out the mistake, the checker, bagger, and manager all e together and offer the familiar explanation: “It was a pute error.”It wasn’t, of course that puterized cashier is really nothing more than an electric event. The eye reads the Universal Product Code—chat bar of black and white lines in a corner of the package—and then checks the code against a price list stored in memory. If the price list is right, you’ll be charged accurately.Grocery stores update the price list each day—that is, somebody sits at a keyboard and types in the prices. If the price they type in is too high, there are only two explanations: carelessness or dishonesty. But somehow “a puter error” is supposed to excuse everything.One reason we let people hide behind a puter is the mon misperception that huge, modern puters are electric brain with “artificial intelligence.” At some point there might be a machine with intelligence but none exists today. The smartest puter on Earth right now is no more intelligent than your average pen. At this point in the development of puters, the only thing any machine can do is what a human has instructed it to do.26. Of the three lies, the one about puter is the worst because the puter itself __________.A. says nonsense B. cheats customersC. cannot make the error D. does not admit its error27. According to the author, a puterized cashier is really just ___________.A. a machine to count money B. a machine to receive moneyC. an instrument to print codes D. an instrument to read codes28. Grocery store price lists are updated by ____________.A. a puter B. a keyboard C.