【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 gineers. But women bee just as skilled as men at shooting a rifle or driving a car task that involve visualspatial skills. They also do equally well at programming a puter, which is neither visual nor spatial. Women do, however, seem less likely to fall in love with the objects themselves. We all know men for whom machines seem to be extensions of their identity. （82）A woman is more likely to see her car, rifle or puter as a useful tool but not in itself fascinating. 46. According to the passage, women are usually good at_____. A. body language B. logical reasoning C. tasks demanding for the use of words D. both A and B 47. The word accepted” in the last sentence of the first paragraph, roughly means_____. A. believed B. assumed C. received D. reconciled 48. In the author’s opinion, visual and spatial abilities are good for______. A. achieving one’s objects. B. mind and body. C. programming talents into the brain. D. imagination and munication. 49. All the following tasks involve visualspatial abilities EXCEPT____. A. imagining and handling objects. B. providing a puter with a set of instructions C. shooting a gun and driving an automobile D. planning and making things as an engineer does 50. Why do women seem less likely to fall in love with the objects themselves? A. Because they have no visualspatial skills. B. Because they are only good at 1anguage and verbal reasoning. C. Because they are less likely to see their charming or interesting aspects. D. Because they rarely use machines such as cars, rifles, puters, etc. Questions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage:Passage Three The US. government has recently helped people learn more about the dangers of earthquakes by publishing a map. This map shows the chances of an earthquake in each part of the country. （83）The areas of the map where earthquakes are most likely to occur are called earthquake “belt”. The government is, spending a great deal money and is working hard to help discover the answer to these two questions: l. Can we predict earthquake? 2. Can we control earthquakes? To answer the first question, scientists are looking very closely at the most active fault(斷層)systems in the country such as the San Andreas fault in California, a fault is break between two sections of the earth’s surface. These breaks between sections are the place where earthquake occurs. Scientists look at the faults for changes that might show that an earthquake was about to occurs. But it will probably be many years before we can predict earthquakes accurately. And the control of earthquakes is even farther away. Nevertheless, there have been some interesting developments in the field of controlling earthquakes. The most interesting development concerns the Rocky Mountain Arsenal earthquakes. Here water was put into a layer of rocks 4000 meters below surface of the ground. Shortly after this injection of water, there were a small number of earthquakes. Scientists have decided that the water which was injected into rocks works like oil on each other. When the water“oiled”the fault, the fault became slippery and the energy of an earthquake was released. Scientists are still experimenting at the site of these earthquakes. They have realized that there is a connection between injection of the water and the earthquake activity. They have suggested that might be possible to use this knowledge to prevent very big destructive earthquakes, that is, scientists could inject some kind of fluid like water into faults and change one big earthquake into a number of small, harmless earthquakes. 51. Earthquake belts are . A. maps that show where earthquakes are likely to occur B. zones with a high probability of earthquakes C. breaks between two sections of the earth’s surface D. the two layers of earth along a fault 52. The San Andreas’ fault is . A. an active fault system B. a place where earthquakes have been predicted accurately C. a place where earthquake have been controlled D. the location of the Rocky Mountain 53. What did scientists learn about earthquakes at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal？ A. They occur at bout 4000 meters below ground level B. The injection of water into earthquake faults prevents earthquakes from occurring. C. They are usually caused by the oil in the faults. D. Harmful earthquakes can be possibly prevented by causing small harmless earthquake. 54. What can be said about the experiments at Rocky Mountain Arsenal? A. They have no practical value in earthquake prevention. B. They may have practical value in earthquake prevention. C. They are certain to have practical value in earthquake prevention. D. he article does not say anything about their practical value in earthquake prevention. 55. What is the most appropriate title for the passage? A. Dangers of Earthquake B. Earthquake Belts and Prediction C. Earthquake Prediction and Control D. Earthquake Engineering in California Questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage:Passage Four Sporting activities are essentially modified forms of hunting behavior. Viewed biologically, the modern footballer is in reality a member of a hunting group. His killing weapon has turned into a harmless football and his prey into a goalmouth. If his aim is accurate and he scores a goal, he enjoys the hunter’s triumph of killing his prey. To understand how this transformation has taken place we must briefly look back at our forefathers. They spent over a million years evolving(進化) as Cooperative hunters. Their very survival depended on success in the hunting field. （84）Under this pressure their whole way of life, even their bodies, became greatly changed：They became chasers, runners, jumpers, ai