【正文】 Part A Directions: 中國最大的管 理 資料下載中心 (收集 \整理 . 大量免費資源共享 ) 第 18 頁 共 35 頁 Read the following three texts. Answer the questions on each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET by drawing a thick line across the corresponding letter in the brackets. Text I The automobile has many advantages. Above all, it offers people freedom to go wherever and whenever they want to go. The basic purpose of a motor vehicle is to get from point A to point B as cheaply, quickly, and safely as possible. However, to most people, cars are also personal fantasy machines that serve as symbols of power, success, speed, excitement, and adventure. In addition, much of the world 39。 s cities. In the United States, they produce at least 50% of the country39。 s economy [ B ] are being less dangerous [ C ] will produce less air pollution in the future [ D ] are killing more people in recent years than in the past 50. The title that suits the passage best is _________. 中國最大的管 理 資料下載中心 (收集 \整理 . 大量免費資源共享 ) 第 22 頁 共 35 頁 [ A ] Automobile and Economy [B] Automobile and the Environment [ C ] The Problems with the Automobile [D] Advantages and Disadvantages of the Automobile Text 2 I don39。 s Elegy , and all the rest of it. I heard it all as a child。s life in 1926 is that _________. [A] he was unmarried [B] he was miserable about having his plays rejected 中國最大的管 理 資料下載中心 (收集 \整理 . 大量免費資源共享 ) 第 26 頁 共 35 頁 [C] he lived in a house like all the other houses around him [D] he started his first novel Text 3 Greek mythology is largely made up of stories about gods and goddesses, but it must not be read as a kind of Greek Bible, an account of the Greek religion. According to the most modern idea, a real myth has nothing to do with religion. It is an explanation of something in nature。 it has no conceivable connection with any event in nature. Neither has the Quest of the Golden Fleece (尋找金羊毛 ) , nor Orpheus (奧菲士，豎琴圣手 ) and Eurydice, nor many another. This fact is now generally accepted。s a great shame people don39。t know what two and two is without a calculator. I think it39。s all these modern methods that 中國最大的管 理 資料下載中心 (收集 \整理 . 大量免費資源共享 ) 第 32 頁 共 35 頁 is the problem. In the old days you sat in rows at desks and you did as you were told. You knew that you had to do and you did it－ and you kept quiet. Nowadays, my god, the noise in most schools is deafening especially primary schools. The children wander around－ do more or less what they want to as far as I can see. The teacher just sits there or wanders around with them, talking to them. Informal teaching they call it. Discovery methods. Sounds more like a recipe for discovering disaster to me. Symons Many people talk about how to improve education and a lot suggest raising the salaries of teachers and professors. Of course, this is very important to education. However, increasing the salary of teachers is just one way to improve education. It will not work without the cooperation of the other determinants, such as student 39。t interested in anything. No wonder they don 39。t read properly, can39。 s life a sun myth. The stories are early literature as well as early science. But religion is there, too. In the background, to be sure, but nevertheless plain to see. From Homer through the tragedians and even later, there is a deepening realization of what human beings need and what they must have in their gods. 56. The author believes that myths __________. 中國最大的管 理 資料下載中心 (收集 \整理 . 大量免費資源共享 ) 第 28 頁 共 35 頁 [ A ] have nothing to do with religion [ B ] contain very modern ideas [ C ] are pure entertainment with no religious content [ D ] have to do with science, religion and entertainment 57. In every myth, _________. [ A ] there is a connection with some natural event [ B ] there is not necessarily an attempt to explain an event in nature [ C ] there are angry gods and goddesses [ D ] there exists some religious teaching 58. According to the passage, the story of Pygmalion and Galatea _________. 中國最大的管 理 資料下載中心 (收集 \整理 . 大量免費資源共享 ) 第 29 頁 共 35 頁 [A] has something to do with the explanation of nature [B] is pure entertainment [ C ] has something to do with science [D] is closely related to religion 59. Myths are early science because they __________. [ A ] explain the natural events [ B ] teach about the history [ C ] have nothing to do with religion [ D ] reflect people 39。 s first trying to explain what they saw around them. But there are many socalled myths which explain nothing at all. These tales are pure entertainment, the sort of thing people would tell each other on a long winter39。s development as a writer, that his father _________. 中國最大的管 理 資料下載中心