【正文】 ish appealing amongst his friends and______of their criticism or censure．　　A．running short B．running out 　　C．running the gauntlet D．running ahead Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension　　Directions: Each of the passages below is followed by some questions. For each question four answers are given. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question. Put your choice in the ANSWER SHEET. (15%)Passage 1　　It was a normal day in the life of the American Red Cross in Greater New York. First, part of a building on West 140th Street, in Harlem, fell down. Beds tumbled through the air, people slid out of their apartments and onto the ground, three people died, and the Red Cross was there, helping shocked residents find temporary shelter, and food and clothing. Then it was back downtown for that evening39。t been standing in the rain in Harlem。 previous award winners have included Alice Tully, Princess Yasmin Asa Khan,．．． and, most recently, Brooke Astor. Not exactly a sequence at the end of which you would expect to find Elizabeth Dole, but award givers are famous for having political instincts as well as philanthropic ones．　　Surrounded by the deepblue swags and golden draperies of the ballroom were more than thirtyfive dinner tables set with groupings of candles and floral centerpieces and Royal Doulton china. American Express was there. So were BristolMyers Squibb。 Chemical Bank。t look so bad because______．　　A．he was wearing a handsome tuxedo 　　B．he was wearing tulips on his suit 　　C．he was seen among flowers 　　D．he was sitting near flowers and in very soft light 　　29．Elizabeth Dole was______．　　A．the president of the American Red Cross and acted at the Dinner as a North Carolina hostess 　　B．a(chǎn) republican and wife of the president of the American Red Cross 　　C．the president of the American Red Cross and its main representative at the Annual Dinner Dance 　　D．born in North Carolina, became an airhostess and later married Senator Robert Dole　　30．The presence of an actress at the Dinner made the fund raising______．　　A．less impersonal B．a(chǎn) typical fundraising event 　　C．less personal D．more businesslike Passage 2　　For laymen ethnology is probably the most interesting of the biological sciences for the very reason that it concerns animals in their normal activities and therefore, if we wish, we can assess the possible dangers and advantages in our own behavioral roots. Ethnology also is interesting methodologically because it bines in new ways very scrupulous field observations with experimentation in laboratories．　　The field workers have had some handicaps in winning respect for themselves. For a long time they were considered as little better than amateur animalwatchers certainly not scientists, since their facts were not gained by experimental procedures: they could not conform to the hardandfast rule that a problem set up and solved by one scientist must be tested by other scientists, under identical conditions and reaching identical results. Of course many situations in the lives of animals simply cannot be rehearsed and controlled in this way. The fall flocking of wild free birds can39。s behavior.” In abridged dictionaries ethnology is sometimes defined simply as “the objective study of animal behavior,” and ethnologists do emphasize their wish to eliminate myths．　　31．In the first sentence, the word “l(fā)aymen” means 　　A．people who stand aside 　　B．people who are not trained as biologists 　　C．people who are amateur biologists 　　D．people who love animals 　　32．According to the passage, ethnology is 　　A．a(chǎn) new branch of biology 　　B．a(chǎn)n old Greek science 　　C．a(chǎn) pseudoscience 　　D．a(chǎn) science for amateurs 　　33．“The field workers have handicaps in winning respect for themselves.” This sentence means 　　A．ethnologists when working in the field are handicapped 　　B．ethnologists have problems in winning recognition as scientists 　　C．ethnologists are looked down upon when they work in the field 　　D．ethnologists meet with lots of difficulties when doing field work 　　34．According to the explanation of the scientific rule of experiment in the passage, “hardandfast”means experiment procedures 　　A．a(chǎn)re difficult and quick to follow 　　B．must be carried out in a strict and quick way 　　C．must be followed strictly to avoid false and loose results 　　D．hard and unreasonable for scientists to observe 　　35．The meaning of the underlined words in “the details of spontaneous family relationships” can be expressed as 　　A．natural family relationships 　　B．quickly occurring family relationships 　　C．a(chǎn)nimals acting like a natural family 　　D．a(chǎn)nimal family behavior that cannot be preplanned or controlled Passage 3　　The single greatest shift in the history of massmunication technology occurred in the 15th century and was well described by Victor Hugo in a famous chapter of “NotreDame de Paris”. It was a cathedral. On all parts of the giant building, statuary and stone representations of every kind, bined with huge windows of stained glass, told the stories of the Bible and the saints, displayed the intricacies of Christian theology, adverted to the existence of highly unpleasant demonic winged creatures, referred diplomatically to the majesties of political power, and, in addition, by means of bells in bell towers, told time for the benefit of all of Paris and much of France. It was an awesome engine of munication．　　Then came the transition to something still more awesome. The new technology of mass munication was portable, could sit on your table, and was easily replicable, and yet, paradoxically, contained more information, more systematically presented, than even the largest of cathedrals. It was the printed book. Though it provided no bells and could not tell time, the overall superiority of the new invention was unmistakable．　　In the l