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9 percent。 by men, 15 percent。 and machine work only took up 6 percent.Today all that has changed. On many modern farms machines now will do 96 percent of the work, while man does 3 percent. As for horses, they do 1 percent of the whole work. The children go to school by bus every morning, the parents work on the farm or in the house and other people’s help is hardly needed. Their work has been replaced (取代) by a whole army of farm machines.61. Today on an American farm machines do ________ times more work than in the past. A. 17 B. 16 C. 15 D. 1462. Today farmers do ________ as much work as they did in the past. A. 10% B. 20% C. 30% D. 40%63. Which part of the farm work has changed most greatly? A. Horses. B. Machine. C. Farm family. D. Outside help.64. What has changed the farmer’s work? A. The horses. B. The pigs. C. The cows. D. The machines.65. How many things are pared (比較) in the passage? A. Two. B. Three. C. Four. D. Five.CEveryone talks about the “five” senses of man. And it is true that we get our information (信息) about the outside from our sense of sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste. Researchers tell us that the sense of sight – our visual sense –gives us up to 80% of what we know about the world outside our bodies。 while the other senses, the auditory (hearing), the olfactory (smell), the tactile (touch), and the gustatory (taste) bring into our brains information about the other 20% of what is happening. But there are two other senses that we cannot get along without, though they are little noticed. These are the senses of balance (平衡), without which we would act like a drunk after a heavy drink, and the kinesthetic sense(動(dòng)覺(jué)), which gives us our ideas about our own motion (運(yùn)動(dòng)).66. Which is the best title for this passage?A. The Five Senses of Man. B. The Senses of Man.C. Senses and Information. D. Important Senses.67. The senses of hearing, smell, touch and taste supply us with ________.A. about half of our information about the worldB. about 20% of our information about the worldC. about 80% of our information about the worldD. all the needed our information about the world68. The other senses besides the “five” senses of man that the passage mentions (提到) are ________.A. the tactile and the gustatory sensesB. the senses of balance and touchC. the senses of kinesthesia and balanceD. the olfactory and the auditory senses 69. According to the passage, one misses most about the world when one ________.A. is blind B. is deaf C. has no sense of taste and touch D. has no sense of balance and motion DI lived in a big city. It’s noisy and dirty and I got very tried. At the weekends I like to leave the city and get some fresh air and a good rest. A few weekends ago I decided to see my parents. I was really looking forward to it. My parents live a long way away. I went to see them with James, a friend, and we drove down on Friday night. In the middle of the trip it began to rain. The roa