【正文】 ifficulties due to __________. A) the lack of official support B) its high cost C) the lack of financial support D) its failure to help increase production 30. Infrared scanning technology may be brought back into operation because of __________. A) the desire of farmers to improve the quality of their produce B) growing concern about the excessive use of pesticides on crops C) the forceful promotion by the Department of Agriculture D) full support from agricultural experts Part III Vocabulary and Structure (20 minutes) 31. The medicine is on sale everywhere. You can get it at chemist39。s vibrations. When the ground shakes and the building tips forward, the puter would force the building to shift in the opposite direction. The new smart structures could be very expensive to build. However, they would save many lives and would be less likely to be damaged during earthquakes. 21. One reason why the loss of lives in the Los Angeles earthquake was paratively low is that __________. A) new puters had been installed in the buildings B) it occurred in the residential areas rather. than on the highways C) large numbers of Los Angeles residents had gone for a holiday D) improvements had been made in the construction of buildings and highways 22. The function of the puter mentioned in the passage is to _________. A) counterbalance an earthquake39。s home in the 1950s D) the fridge was in its early stage of development in the 1950s 12. Why does the author say that nothing was wasted before the invention of fridges? A) People would not buy more food than was necessary. B) Food was delivered to people two or three times a week. C) Food was sold fresh and did not get rotten easily. D) People had effective ways to preserve their food. 13. Who benefited the least from fridges according to the author? A) Inventors B) Consumers C) Manufacturers D) traveling salesmen 14. Which of the following phrases in the fifth paragraph indicates the fridge39。 other days are so busy that there is no time to eat. I think I can (S4)________ police work in one word: (S5)________. Sometimes it39。 but the other four ran away. Another day, I helped a woman who was going to have a baby. (S9)_____________________ ___________. I put her in my police car to get her there faster. I thought she was going to have the baby right there in my car. But fortunately, ( S10) __________________________________________________________________. Part II Reading Comprehension (3S minutes) Passage One Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage: The fridge is considered a necessity. It has been so since the 1960s when packaged food first appeared with the label: store in the refrigerator. [11] In my fridge less Fifties childhood, I was fed well and healthily. [12] The milkman came daily, the grocer, the butcher (肉商 ), the baker, and the icecream man delivered two or three times a week. The Sunday meat would last until Wednesday and surplus (剩余 ) bread and milk became all kinds of cakes. Nothing was wasted, and we were never troubled by rotten food. Thirty years on, food deliveries have ceased, fresh vegetables are almost unobtainable in the country. [13] The invention of the fridge contributed paratively little to the art of food preservation. A vast way of welltried techniques already existed natural cooling, drying, smoking, salting, sugaring, bottling. 買茶葉，就到 許三多 1991 第 1 頁 202225 What refrigeration did promote was marketing marketing hardware and electricity, marketing soft minks, marketing dead bodies of animals around the globe in search of a good price. Consequently, most of the world39。s long control. And we will no longer be able to claim ourselves to be the finest intelligence in the known universe. As the intelligence of robots increases to match that of humans and as their cost declines through economies of scale we may use them to expand our frontiers, first on earth through their ability to withstand environments, harmful to ourselves. Thus, deserts may bloom and the ocean beds be mined. Further ahead, by a bination of the great wealth this new age will bring and the technology it will provide, the construction of a vast, mancreated world in space, home to thousands or millions of people, will be within our power. 16. In what way can we make a machine intelligent? A) By making it work in such environments as deserts, oceans or space. B) By working hard for 10 or 20 years. C) By either properly programming it or changing its structure. D) By reproducing it. 17. What does the writer think about machines with humanlike ability? A) He believes they will be useful to human beings. B) He believes that they will control us in the future. C) He is not quite sure in what way they may influence us. D) He doesn39。s main purpose in writing the passage is to __________. A) pare the consequences of the earthquakes that occurred in the U. S. B) encourage civil engineers to make more extensive use of puters C) outline the history of the development of quakeresistant building materials D) report new developments in constructing quake resistant buildings Passage Four Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage: Even plants can run a fever, especially when they39。s watching TV? He39。s hearing he is 68 to copy this procedure. Take it 69 granted that he likes everything and he probably 70 . Nothing healthful should be omitted from the meal because of a 71 dislike. At meal times it is a good 72 to give a child a small portion and let him 73 back for a second helping rather than give him as 74 as he is likely to eat all at once. Do not talk too much to the child 75 meal times, but let him get on with his food。 not what we think __________. A) ought to be said B) must say