【正文】 dustry had withdrawn to its domestic market [B] semiconductor industry had been taken over by foreign enterprises [C] machinetool industry had collapsed after suicidal actions [D] auto industry had lost part of its domestic market 3. What can be inferred from the passage? [A] It is human nature to shift between selfdoubt and blind pride. [B] Intense petition may contribute to economic progress. [C] The revival of the economy depends on international cooperation. [D] A long history of success may pave the way for further development. 4. The author seems to believe the revival of the . economy in the 1990s can be attributed to the ________. [A] turning of the business cycle [B] restructuring of industry [C] improved business management [D] success in education 答案： C D B A 考研英語閱讀解題思路：時間安排 1 : 1，解題步驟四步走 If you intend using humor in your talk to make people smile, you must know how to identify shared experiences and problems. Your humor must be relevant to the audience and should help to show them that you are one of them or that you understand their situation and are in sympathy with their point of view. Depending on whom you are addressing, the problems will be different. If you are talking to a group of managers, you may refer to the disanized methods of their secretaries。s LG Electronics in July.) Foreign made cars and textiles were sweeping into the domestic market. America39。ll be appropriate for you to make a passing remark about the inedible canteen food or the chairman39。t call those deaths homicides because the doctors didn39。s medication is no longer justified by his intentions. 58. According to the NAS39。t realize that familiar substances such as alcohol and tobacco are also drugs. This is why the more neutral term substance is now used by many physicians and psychologists. The phrase substance abuse is often used instead of drug abuse to make clear that substances such as alcohol and tobacco can be just as harmfully misused as heroin and cocaine. We live in a society in which the medicinal and social use of substances (drugs) is pervasive: an aspirin to quiet a headache, some wine to be sociable, coffee to get going in the morning, a 新東方在線 [] 網(wǎng)絡(luò)課堂 電子教材系列 9 cigarette for the nerves. When do these socially acceptable and apparently constructive uses of a substance bee misuses? First of all, most substances taken in excess will produce negative effects such as poisoning or intense perceptual distortions. Repeated use of a substance can also lead to physical addiction or substance dependence. Dependence is marked first by an increased tolerance, with more and more of the substance required to produce the desired effect, and then by the appearance of unpleasant withdrawal symptoms when the substance is discontinued. Drugs (substances) that affect the central nervous system and alter perception, mood, and behavior are known as psychoactive substances. Psychoactive substances are monly grouped according to whether they are stimulants, depressants, or hallucinogens. Stimulants initially speed up or activate the central nervous system, whereas depressants slow it down. Hallucinogens have their primary effect on perception, distorting and altering it in a variety of ways including producing, hallucinations. These are the substances often called psychedelic (from the Greek word meaning mindmanifesting) because they seemed to radically alter one39。s remark is one of [A] strong disapproval. [B] reserved consent. [C] slight contempt. [D] enthusiastic support. 59. In contrast to the ., Japan and Sweden are funding their medical care [A] more flexibly. [B] more extravagantly. [C] more cautiously. [D] more reasonably. 60. The text intends to express the idea that [A] medicine will further prolong people39。 life expectancy has nearly doubled over the past century. Failing hips can be replaced, clinical depression controlled, cataracts removed in a 30minuts surgical procedure. Such advances offer the aging population a quality of life that was unimaginable when I entered medicine 50 years ago. But not even a great healthcare system can cure deathand our failure to confront that reality now threatens this greatness of ours. Death is normal。 the biological Utopia has arrived. Strangely, it has involved little physical change. No other species fills so many places in nature. But in the past 100,000 year — even the past 100 years — our lives have been transformed but our bodies have not. We did not evolve, because machines and society did it for us. Darwin had a phrase to describe those ignorant of evolution: they look at an anic being as a savage looks at a ship, as at something wholly beyond his prehension. No doubt we will remember a 20th century way of life beyond prehension for its ugliness. But however amazed our descendants may be at how far from Utopia we were, they will look just like us. 5. What used to be the danger in being a man according to the first paragraph? [A] A lack of mates. 新東方在線 [] 網(wǎng)絡(luò)課堂電子教材系列 6 [B] A fierce petition. [C] A lower survival rate. [D] A defective gene. 6. What does the example of India illustrate? [A] Wealthy people tend to have fewer children than poor people. [B] Natural selection hardly works among the rich and the poor. 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 6 頁 共 56 頁 [C] The middle class population is 80% smaller than that of the tribes. [D] India is one of the countries with a very high birth rate. 7. The author argues that our bodies have stopped evolving because ________. [A] life has been improved by technological advance [B] the number of female babies has been declining [C] our species has reached the highest stage of evolution [D] the difference betwee