【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 ve the lottery because it is a stock market.43．In just one hour in the last few days, the Pennsylvania lottery sold tickets totaling ______.A. $ million B. $ millionC. $ million D. $87 million44．People who are addicted to playing lotteries should ______.A. join a support group B. kick the habitC. win the lottery D. save every cent[答案]成千上萬的人從美國的其他州涌入賓夕法尼亞州購買彩票。雖然彩票的中獎(jiǎng)將機(jī)率極小，可是人們還是把發(fā)財(cái)?shù)南Ｍ耐性诓势鄙稀?1．C。主旨大意題。本文的話題是成千上萬的美國人到賓夕法尼亞州購買彩票，文章由此展開，談到了中獎(jiǎng)的機(jī)率、購買彩票的目的和批評者對此事的態(tài)度和建議。C項(xiàng)的陳述概括了文章要義。42．C。細(xì)節(jié)判斷題。文章的第四段陳述了反對者對購買彩票一事的看法。“Some critics note that most people who play are poor and may not be able to afford the tickets. There are also many addicts who take the game seriously.”表明C與原文的意思一致。43．A。細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)首段第三句中“$ each”及文章第二段的最后一句話“In the last few days before the drawing, tickets were selling at the unbelievable rate of 500 per second.”可計(jì)算出，在出售彩票的最后幾天中，賓夕法尼亞州彩票機(jī)構(gòu)在1小時(shí)內(nèi)賣彩票的收入總額是：(美元)6060500＝1,620,000美元。44．B。推理判斷題。根據(jù)第四段中反對者們的分析“有些人購買彩票成癮，他們可能把終生的積蓄都花在購買彩票上”可知，他們應(yīng)該拋棄這種壞習(xí)慣，選B。kick the habit“戒除嗜好，改掉壞習(xí)慣”。B(2009江南十校)Before discussing different kinds of emotions, let us briefly talk about how researchers measure bodily processes and action or behavior, and how this relates to what we do in our daily lives when we observe emotions in others.Bodily processes can be directly measured by means of a polygraph. When a polygrap is skillfully used to pare how we react bodily with what we are saying, it is called a “l(fā)ie detector”. Bodily processes can also be measured indirectly. This is what we do when we observe someone blushing (臉紅). However, we are not always aware of what bodily processes respond to.Measuring action or behavior is the other way researchers assess the emotions. For example, one measure of fear of snakes is how close a person will go to the snake. Another procedure is to have a person tell how afraid he is, or how he feels. In this way, researchers have developed the so－called “fear thermometer” to assess a person’s fear. In our everyday living, we do very much the same thing. Only not too systematically, we react to what a person does, what he says, how he says it, and how he looks. Is he smiling? Is his voice trembling? We put all this observations together to infer what a person is feeling.However, we do not always act as we feel. Sometimes we do things that we don’t feel like doing. Sometimes we say we feel one way and then we act another. Actors, for example, successfully learn to “make believe” emotions, or learn to hide them. Thus we cannot always tell what a person is feeling by what he says or by what he does.45．Which of the following statements is NOT true?A. We can never tell what a person is feeling.B. The “fear thermometer” is a way to measure how fearful a person is.C. Researchers can assess the emotions in some ways.D. People do not always know what bodily processes they respond to.46．The underlined word “assess” in the 3rd paragraph is close in meaning to ______.A. make B. measureC. discuss D. develop47．The writer uses the example of actors in order to argue that ______.A. it is rather easy to bee successful actorsB. people do not always act as they feelC. we can never believe what other people sayD. actors are always telling lies48．The passage is mainly about ______.A. the way of assessing the emotionB. the usefulness of a “l(fā)ie detector”C. the functioning of different emotionsD. the development of the “fear thermometer”[答案]文章介紹了衡量情感的方法。45．A。細(xì)節(jié)判斷題。由文章第二、三段可知C項(xiàng)正確，由文章第二段最后一句可知D項(xiàng)正確，由文章第三段的內(nèi)容可得出B項(xiàng)正確。46．B。猜測詞義題。由文章第三段首句中“Measuring action or behavior is the other way researchers assess the emotions.”以及其后的內(nèi)容可以猜出詞義。47．B。寫作意圖題。由文章最后一段中主題句“we do not always act as we feel”可得出答案。48．A。主旨大意題。根據(jù)文章內(nèi)容可知，文章介紹了衡量情感的方法。C(2009福建)Foreign drivers will have to pay on－the－spot fines of up to ￡900 for breaking the traffic law to be carried out next month.If they do not have enough cash or a working credit card, their vehicles will be clamped(扣留) until they pay—and they will face an additional fee of ￡80 for getting back their vehicles.The law will also apply to British citizens. The fines will be described officially as “deposits” when the traffic law takes effect, because the money would be returned if the driver went to court and was found not guilty. In practice, very few foreign drivers are likely to return to Britain to deal with their cases.Foreign drivers are rarely charged because police cannot take action against them if they fail to appear in court. Instead, officers often merely give warnings.Three million foreign－registered vehicles enter Britain each year. Polish vehicles make up 36 percent, French vehicles 10 percent and German vehicles 9 percent.Foreign vehicles are 30 percent more likely to be in a crash than British－registered vehicles. The number of crashes caused by foreign vehicles rose by 47 percent between 2003 and 2008. There were almost 400 deaths and serious injuries and 3,000 slight injuries from accidents caused by foreign vehicles in 2008.The new law is partly intended to settle the problem of foreign lorry drivers ignoring limits on weight and hours at the wheel. Foreign lorries are three times more likely to be in a crash than British lorries. Recent spot checks found that three quarters of lorries that failed safety tests were registered overseas.The standard deposit for a careless driving offence—such as driving too close to the vehicle in front or reading a map at the wheel—w