【正文】 worthy information [C] they have difficulty obtaining the needed information readily [D] they can hardly carry out casual munications with an extended family. 21 . From the passage we can infer that____. [A] electronic mail will soon play a dominant role in transmitting messages [B] it will bee more difficult for people to keep secrets in an information era [C] people will spend less time holding meetings or conferences [D] events will be reported on the spot mainly through satellites 22. We can learn from the last paragraph that ____. [A] it is necessary to obtain as much [B] people should make the best use of the information [C] we should realize the importance of accumulating information . [D] it is of vital importance to acquire needed information efficiently Passage 4 Personality is to a large extent inherent—Atype parents usually bring about Atype offspring. But the environment must also have a profound effect, since if petition is important to the parents。 there are always new ways to experience the world, new ideas to try, new challenges to accept. In order to grow, to travel new roads, people need to have a willingness to take risks, to confront the unknown, and to accept the possibility that they may “fail” at first. How we see ourselves as we try a new way of being is essential to our ability to grow. Do we perceive ourselves as quick and curious? If so, then we tend to take more chances and to be more open to unfamiliar experiences. Do we think we39。 for example, learned behaviour that might have been correct a decade ago may no longer be. Cases are recorded of people who (by ordinary standards) fot so little that their everyday activities were full of confusion. This fetting seems to serve that survival of the individual and the species. Another line of thought assumes a memory storage system of limited capacity that provides adaptive flexibility specifically through fetting. In this view, continual adjustments are made between learning or memory storage (input) and fetting (output). Indeed, there is evidence that the rate at which individuals fet is directly related to how much they have learned. Such data offers gross support of contemporary models of memory that assume an inputoutput balance. 27. From the evolutionary point of view, ____. [A] fetting for lack of practice tends to be obviously inadaptive. [B] if a person gets very fetful all of a sudden he must be very adaptive [C] the gradual process of fetting is an indication of an individual39。 moral standard and measure their success by sporting achievements. The current passion for making children pete against their classmates or against the clock produces a twolayer system , in which petitive A types seem in some way better than their Btype fellows. Being too keen to win can have dangerous consequences: remember that Pheidippides, the first marathon runner, dropped dead seconds after saying: “Rejoice, we conquer!” By far the worst form of petition in schools is the disproportionate emphasis on examinations. It is a rare school that allows pupils to concentrate on those things they do well. The merits of petition by examination are somewhat questionable, but petition in the certain knowledge of failure is positively harmful. Obviously, it is neither practical nor desirable that all A youngsters change into B?s. The world needs types, and schools have an important duty to try to fit a child?s personality to his possible future employment. It is top management. If the preoccupation of schools with academic work was lessened, more time might be spent teaching children surer values. Perhaps selection for the caring professions, especially medicine, could be made less by good grades in chemistry and more by such considerations as sensitivity and sympathy. It is surely a mistake to choose our doctors exclusively from A type stock. B?s are important and should be encouraged. 23. According to the passage, Atype individuals are usually____. [A] impatient [B] considerate [C] aggressive [D] agreeable 24. The author is strongly opposed to the practice of examinations at schools because____. [A] the pressure is too great on the students [B] some students are bound to fail [C] failure rates are too high [D] the results of exanimations are doubtful 25. The selection of medical professionals are currently based on____. [A] candidates? sensitivity [B] academic achievements [C] petitive spirit [D] surer values 26. From the passage we can draw the conclusion that____. [A] the personality of a child is well established at birth [B] family influence dominates the shaping of one39。1995 年 英語 試題 Section Ⅰ Use of English Sleep is divided into periods of socalled REM sleep, characterized by rapid eye movements and dreaming, and longer periods of nonREM sleep. 1 kind of sleep is at all wellunderstood, but REM sleep is 2 to serve some restorative function of the brain. The purpose of nonREM sleep is even more 3 . The new experiments, such as these 4 for the first time at a recent meeting of the Society for Sleep Research in Minneapolis, suggest fascinating explanations 5 of nonREM sleep. For example, it has long been known that total sleep 6 is 100 percent fatal to rats, yet, 7 examinations of the dead bodies, the animals look pletely normal. A researcher has now 8 the mystery of why the animals die. The rats 9 bacterial infections of the blood, 10 their immune systems—the selfprotecting mechanisrn against disease—had crashed. 1. [A] Either [B] Neither [C] Each [D] Any 2. [A] intended [B] required [C] assumed [D] inferred 3. [A] subtle [B] obvious [C] mysterious [D] doubtful 4. [A] maintained [B] described [C] settled [D] afforded 5. [A] in the light [B] by virtue [C] with the exceptio