【正文】 st say I did not much enjoy the experience: perhaps seafish which don?t live in the mud are less tasteless. After eating my fish, I lay back and dreamed of such things as fried chicken and rice, and ice cream. In the neverending heat of the jungle, ice cream was a particularly frequent dream. As for water, there was a choice. We could drink the muddy river water, or die of thirst. We drank the water. Men who have just escaped what had appeared to certain death lose all worries about such small things as diseases caused by dirty water. In fact, none of us suffered from any illness as a result. One day we passed another village, but fortunately nobody saw us. We did not wish to risk being taken prisoners a second time: we might not be so lucky as to escape in a stolen boat again. 75. The only thing that they could see in the boat was _______. A. chains of hills B. high walls C. vast land D. tall trees 76. They were prevented from landing because they could not _______. A. find the place marked on the map B. go through the thick forest C. go across the soft mud D. see the plains 77. This passage is mainly about ______. A. the problem of landing B. a terrible experience C. walls of forest D. the fishermen?s worries 78. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage? A. The author and his partners were trapped during scientific exploration. B. They were floating on a small boat in the jungle without help. C. The dirty water they drank didn?t threaten their lives. D. They had no food or drinking water prepared. C Millions of Americans run to the bank or visit ATM when they need cash. They use credit cards when they want to buy clothes, VCRs, or television sets. But there is an underclass — people with low ines and no credit history —who visit their neighborhood pawnshops (當(dāng)鋪 ) when they need cash or a loan. About 20 percent of the US population has no bank account. More than half of this group don?t have credit cards and cannot get bank loans. “These people are borrowing an average of $50,” said John P. Caskey of Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. “If you add up in terms of how much dollar value pawnshops provide, they don?t look very important. If you add up how much of the population they serve or the number of loans they make, they are important.” Because they make loans, pawnshops are a type of bank, often calling themselves “the bank of the little people.” Caskey and Swarthmore student Brian Zidmund in 1989 looked at the importance of pawnshops in the US economy—the first serious study of the subject since the 1930s. Their conclusion: pawnshops are the consumer?s lender of last resort (最后貸款人 ). Pawnshop customers typically cannot get credit at banks. They have poor credit records, low and unstable ines, or cannot maintain positive bank account balances. Typically, pawnshop customers borrow relatively small amounts that traditional lenders are unwilling or unable to provide on a secured basis. “If you look at total consumer credit, the amounts provided by pawnshops remain small,” Caskey said. “They are lending mainly to lowine people. In terms of the population they serve, they?re really important.” In 1988, there were about 6,900 pawnshops in the United States — one for every two mercial banks. They made about 35 million loans, providing 1 percent of the nation?s consumer credit. 79. The best title for the passage would be ________. A. Credit Cards for the Poor B. Banks for the Poor C. Pawnshops vs. Banks D. Commercial Banks 80. What do the underclass people do when they need cash? A. They go to local banks for help. B. They apply for credit cards. C. They ask for a loan from large banks. D. They apply for a loan in pawnshops. 81. What can we learn about pawnshops? A. Poor people e to pawnshops as their last resort. B. Most people prefer pawnshops for their need of cash. C. Pawnshops are an important part of the state economy. D. Pawnshops are not important because they make up only 1 percent of the nation?s consumer credit. 82. According to John P. Caskey, pawnshops are important because ________. A. they provide great dollar value to the poor B. they make big loans to a lot of people C. they are serving the majority of the population D. they make a large number of loans to the poor D Memory, they say, is a matter of practice and exercise. If you have the wish and really make a conscious effort, then you can quite easily improve your ability to remember things. But even if you are successful, there are times when your memory seems to play tricks on you. Sometimes you remember things that really did not happen. One morning last week, for example, I got up and found that I had left the front door unlocked all night, yet I clearly remember locking it carefully