【正文】 s usual sense is not tested by the strain of daily, yearlong cohabitation. Couples need to take up separate interests (and friendship) as well as mutually shared ones, if they are not to get used to the more attractive elements of each other’s personalities. Married couples are likely to exert themselves for guests being amusing,discussing with passion and point — and then to fall into dull exhausted silence when the guests have gone. As in all friendship, a husband and wife must try to interest each other, and to spend sufficient time sharing absorbing activities to give them continuing mon interests. But at the same time they must spend enough time on separateinterests with separate people to preserve and develop their separate personalities and keep their relationship fresh. For too many highly intelligent working women, home represents chore obligations, because the husband only tolerates her work and does not participate in household chores. For too many highly intelligent working men, home represents dullness and plaints from an overdependent wife who will not gather courageto make her own life. In such an atmosphere, the partners grow further and further apart, both love and liking disappearing. For too many couples with children, the children are allowed to mand all time and attention, allowing the couple no time to develop liking and friendship, as well as love, allotting them exclusive parental roles. A. Friendship in marriage means daily, yearlong cohabitation. D. Friendship in marriage is based on developing separate interest. 76. The passage su 77. The passage seems to indicate at the end that children___. A. help couples reinforce Sending a child to school in England is a step which many parents do not find easy to take. In theory, at least, the problem is that there are very many choices to make. Let us try to list some of the alternatives between which parents are forced to decide. To begin with, they may ask themselves whether they would like their child to go to a singlesex school or a coeducational school. They may also consider whether he should go to a school 中國最大的管理資料下載中心 (收集 \整理 . 部分版權(quán)歸原作者所有 ) 第 9 頁 共 29 頁 which is connected to a particular church or religious group, or whether the school should have no such connections. Another decision is Whether the school should be one of the vast majority financed by the State or one of the very small but influential minority of private schools, though this choice is, of course, only available to the small number of those who can pay. Also connected with the question of money is whether the child should go to a boarding school or live at home. Then there is the question of what the child should do at school. Should it be a school whose curriculum lays emphasis, for instance, on necessary skills, such as reading, writing and mathematics, or one which pays more attention to developing the child’s personality, morally, emotionally and socially. Finally, with dissatisfaction with conventional education as great as it is in some circles in England and certainly in the USA, the question might even arise in the parents’ minds as to whether the child should be pelled to go to school at all. Although in practice, some parents may not think twice about any of these choices and send their child to the only school available in the immediate neighbourhood, any parent who is interested enough can insist that as many choices as possible be made open to him, and the system is theoretically supposed to provide them. 78. Parents find choosing a school hard because___. A. there i 79. According to the passage, some parents, if allowed, might let their children stay at home because they___. 80. What is implied at the very end of the passage ? A. Most parents are unconcerned about the choices available to them. C. The educational system may not provide as many choices as expected. D. Most parents usually send their children to the schools nearby. 閱讀 B SECTION B SKIMMING AND SCANNING ［ 5 MIN.］ In this section there are seven passages with a total of ten multiplechoice questions. Skim or scan them as required and then mark your answers. TEXT E First read the following question. 81. The main purpose of the passage is to___. A. warn people of pickpockets. B. tell people what to wear. Now, go through TEXT E quickly and answer question 81. Pickpockets operate in crowded places in the hope of getting easy pickings. Don’t make it easy for them. Keep wallets, purses and other valuables out of sight. If wearing a jacket, an inside pocket is the best place to use. If not, your possessions are safest in a pocket with a buttondown flap. Please cooperate with the police by reporting any crime or suspicious activity immediately, either by dialling 110 or calling at your nearest police station. TEXT F First read the following question. 82. The main topic of the passage is ___. 中國最大的管理資料下載中心 (收集 \整理 . 部分版權(quán)歸原作者所有 ) 第 10 頁 共 29 頁 A. agricultural products B. irrigation methods Now, go through TEXT F quickly and answer question 82. It is widely accepted that China is a country faced with severe water shortages. Insufficient water resources have slowed agricultural development. And to make matters worse, some of the traditional Chinese irrigation methods have wasted an astonishing amount of water. In China today, the utilization efficiency of farming water is about 3040 per cent. This figure stands in sharp contrast to developed countries’ utilization average of 7080 per cent. The low utilization efficiency has resulted from the adoption of some traditional Chinese irrigation methods. Only by using modern irrigation methods can we reduce