【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 aid they would be becalmed(停滯不前) here. Sometimes they were.Today the Atlantic is a great highway. It is not, however, always a smooth and safe one. Storms sweep across it and pile up great waves. Icebergs float down from the Far North across the paths of ships.We now have such fast ways of traveling that this big ocean seems to have grown smaller. Columbus sailed for more than two months to cross it. A fast modern steamship can make the trip in less than four days. Airplanes fly from New York to London in only eight hours and from South America to Africa in four!56. Which world is the Old World?A. Africa B. Europe C. Asia D. All of above57. What caused people to be unwilling to explore the Atlantic?A. There are no ships big enough to get across the Ocean.B. Sailors were afraid of being lost in the Ocean.C. The Atlantic Ocean was very unusual because it has few islands and the saltiest water.D. Many incorrect ideas such as “the edge of the world”, “the equator with boiling hot water”, made people think the Ocean was full of danger.58. What is the topic of the fifth paragraph?A. How deep the water isB. How to measure the water in the Atlantic OceanC. How much water the Ocean holds.D. How rain affects the Ocean water.59. We can learn from the text that ______.A. the Atlantic is the largest ocean on earthB. one of the longest mountain ranges lies in the AtlanticC. the Atlantic has a lot of islands in itD. sailing on the Atlantic Ocean is always quiet, smooth and safeBMoney spent on advertising is money spent as well as any I know of. It serves directly to assist a rapid distribution of goods at reasonable prices, thereby establishing a firm home market and so making it possible to provide for export at petitive prices. By drawing attention to new ideas it helps enormously to raise standards of living. By helping to increase demand it ensures an increased need for labor, and is therefore an effective way to fight unemployment. It lowers the costs of many services: without advertisements your daily newspaper would cost four times as much, the price of your television license would need to be doubled, and travel by bus or tube would cost 20 per cent more. And perhaps most important of all, advertising provides a guarantee of reasonable value in the products and services you buy. Apart from the fact that twentyseven Acts of Parliament govern the terms of advertising, no regular advertiser dare promote a product that fails to live up to the promise of his advertisements. He might fool some people for a little while through misleading advertising. He will not do so for long, for mercifully the public has the good sense not to buy the inferior article more than once. If you see an article consistently advertised, it is the surest proof I know that the article does what is claimed for it, and that it represents good value.60. By the first sentence of the passage, the author means that______. A. he is fairly familiar with the cost of advertisingB. everybody knows well that advertising is money consumingC. advertising costs money like everything elseD. it is worthwhile to spend money on advertising61. In the passage, which of the following is not included in the advantage of advertising? A. Securing greater fame. B. Providing more jobs.C. Improving living standards. D. Reducing newspaper cost.62. According to the author, _____. A. the consumers are often fooled by misleading advertising.B. no advertiser dare promote a product that can39。t live up to the promise of his advertisement.C. if an article is consistently advertised, it probably has good value.D. with advertisements, you have to pay more for the goods or services you need.63. From the passage, we can draw a conclusion that____. A. the most importance of advertisements is to lower the cost of many servicesB. the twentyseven Acts of Parliament made misleading advertisements unable to existC. advertising assists a rapid distribution of goods, thereby do good to the import at good pricesD. advertising does a lot for the material benefit of the munityCLast year, my boyfriend suggested that I should run the London marathon, and I laughed. He laughed too, but he laughed too long and too loud. That made me think. I realized that he didn’t believe that I could do it. That made me angry, and determined. Now he knows that I can! Training wasn’t easy, but I kept going. I didn’t need special training but I did need to buy very good shoes. Each day, I went a little further. By the end of three months, I was running five days a week. Sometimes in the evenings I ran 10 km。 on Sunday mornings, I sometimes ran about 30 km. I used to e home, have a shower and eat my breakfast. I felt wonderful!On the day of the race in London, I lined up with about 30,000 other runners. The faster runners were at the front, while slower runners like me were placed further back. In that way, the professional runners and club runners were not slowed down by the amateurs. At first, there were so many runners close together that we were almost falling over each other. We could only run very slowly but that was a good thing because it meant that we didn’t rush off too quickly. Gradually the runners spread out and there was more space. There were thousands of people watching us along the route and they cheered and clapped everyone, even the slowest runner. It was wonderful! For the first 10 km I felt very happy and my legs felt very