【正文】 ost students’ families a lot of money. B. Studying abroad will make it easy for students to learn well. C. Studying abroad will help students to improve language skills. D. Studying abroad will bring students a lot of difficulties in their life. 52. This passage is mainly about . A. the problems of studying abroad B. the dream of studying abroad C. the choice of studying abroad D. the story of studying abroad C Do you know that you can use your watch as a pass(指南針 ) on a sunny day? Take a watch and point(指向 ) the hourhand in the direction of the sun. Imagine a line which runs from the center of the watch through a point halfway between the hourhand and number one. This line will surely point south. If you know astronomy a little, you will understand why this works. In the northern half of the earth, the Sun is in the south at noon. In Russia the real noon is one o’clock. If at that time we point the hourhand at the Sun, the hourhand and number one will point south. That is why you must imagine a line which will run from the center of the watch through a point halfway between the hourhand and number one. It will point south. If you are in the southern part of our pla, you must point number 12 at the Sun. The line which you can imagine between number 12 and the hourhand will then show north. 53. When we do this experiment in the northern part of the earth, we should point ____________at the Sun. A. number 12 B. the minutehand C. the hourhand D. number one 54. What does the underlined word “astronomy” mean in the passage? 55. The passage tells us that we can use a watch on a sunny day. A. to study the weather B. to show direction C. to enjoy ourselves D. to keep good time 56. If you are in Australia, which of the following is right way to show north? D What will you be doing when you are 26 years old? Studying at university or working for a living? Take a look at what Albert Einstein was doing at the age of 26. 100 years ago, Einstein was working in Switzerland. His hobby was physics. Without much money or help, he wrote five papers(論文 ) for a physics magazine. Three of these greatly changed the study of physics and our understanding of space, time, light and matter(物質 ). His most famous work is on the Theory of Relativity(相對論 ). Einstein was given the Nobel Prize for his discoveries. Although he also did many other things later, the years 1905 has been called Einstein’s “Year of Wonders”. It has been 100 years since then. Because of this, the UN has named 05 the World Year of Physics. Today, over fifty years after Einstein’s death, a question is asked, “ Will there ever be another Einstein?” It may take a long time. After all, Einstein was born more than 200 years after Sir Isaac Newton, another great scientist. Besides, physics is a different field now, and education is different, too. Even if you can’t be the next great scientist, it is still helpful to remember some of the things that made Einstein great. He thought independently(獨立地 ) and read widely. He left with us a formula(公式 ) for life: If A is a success in life, then A=X+Y+Z. X is work, Y is play, and Z is keeping your mouth shut. 57. The year 1905 is known as Einstein’s “Year of Wonders” because . A. Einstein was working in Switzerland in 1905 B. Einstein was 26 years old in 1905 C. Einstein made some very important discoveries in 1905 D. Einstein studied physics in 1905 58. Why hasn’t there been another scientist as great as Einstein? A. Because the study of physics is not enough. B. Because it is hard to make important discoveries as Einstein did. C. Because people don’t work hard any more. D. Because physics is getting more and