【正文】 ver, is the continued internal decay of our societies. 66. Striking feature of the UN Conference on Drug Abuse is that________A. two documents were signedB. the delegates were unprecedentedly unanimous in their attempt to control drug abuseC. the conference touched upon many issues in the worldD. it was held by many countries正確答案：B注釋:文中第一段最后一句表明，所有代表都愿放棄個(gè)人的主張和分歧來共同面對(duì)毒品的威脅，這是前所未有的。67. Many countries are shocked to find that ______.A. drug problem has bee more serious than everB. consuming countries are confronting a serious drug problemC. drug trafficking gangs are often allied with terroristsD. drug abuse is undermining their government正確答案：A注釋:從文中第二段得知，過去10多年只有consuming countries有嚴(yán)重的毒品問題，但今天許多 producing countries也變成consuming countries。68. According to the passage the drug problem for the developing countries is the most serious because ____.A. they are not efficient in their attempt to bat drug abuseB. they have not enlisted support from developed countriesC. they lack necessary funding to curb drug abuseD. they are both producing and consuming countries of drugs正確答案：D注釋:根據(jù)文中第二段倒數(shù)第二句，發(fā)展中國(guó)家不但種植毒品，而且其國(guó)內(nèi)亦有許多癮君子。69. The delegates seemed to lack confidence in _________.A. persuading people not to take drugsB. destroying the process of distributionC. curbing the demand for dangerous drugsD. establishing system for collecting information about drug abuse正確答案：B注釋:文章第五段中，在談了代表們的諸多要求之后，最后指出他們要求應(yīng)嚴(yán)謹(jǐn)?shù)貓?zhí)行國(guó)際協(xié)約來控制毒品的供應(yīng)。言外之意，代表們?cè)诖輾Ф酒返姆稚⑶郎先狈π判摹?0. According to the passage President Reagan ________.A. suggested that if drug abuse is not curbed, world civilization will degenerateB. expressed his doubt about the possibility of international agreementC. pointed out that the effort to bat drug abuse was inestimableD. said that the conference was encouraging and important because international cooperation is necessar正確答案：A注釋:里根總統(tǒng)講的大意是，我們應(yīng)利用這個(gè)大好的機(jī)會(huì)進(jìn)行世界性的合作，制訂有效的策略來打擊毒品貿(mào)易，否則未來局面將是全球性的衰落。 Americans today don39。t place a very high value on intellect. Our heroes are athletes, entertainers, and entrepreneurs, not scholars. Even our schools are where we send our children to get a practical education not to pursue knowledge for the sake of knowledge. Symptoms of pervasive antiintellectualism in our schools aren39。t difficult to find. Schools have always been in a society where practical is more important than intellectual, says education writer Diane Ravitch. Schools could be a counterbalance. Razitch39。s latest bock, Left Back A Century of Failed School Reforms, traces the roots of antiintellectualism in our schools, concluding they are anything but a counterbalance to the American distaste for intellectual pursuits. But they could and should be. Encouraging kids to reject the life of the mind leaves them vulnerable to exploitation and control. Without the ability to think critically, to defend their ideas and understand the ideas of others, they cannot fully participate in our democracy. Continuing along this path, says writer Earl Shorris, We will bee a secondrate country. We will have a less civil society. Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege, writes historian and professor Richard Hofstadter in AntiIntellectualism in American life, a Pulitzer Prize winning book on the roots of antiintellectualism in US politics, religion, and education. From the beginning of our history, says Hofstadter, our democratic and populist urges have driven us to reject anything that smells of elitism. Practicality, mon sense, and native intelligence have been considered more noble qualities than anything you could learn from a book. Ralph Waldo Emerson and other Transcendentalist philosophers thought schooling and rigorous book learning put unnatural restraints on children. We are shut up in schools and college recitations rooms for 10 or 15 years and e out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing. Mark Twain39。s Huckleberry Finn exemplified American ant intellectualism. Its hero avoids being civilized going to school and learning to read – so he can preserve his innate goodness. Intellect, according to Hofstadter, is different from native intelligence, a quality we reluctantly admire. Intellect is the critical, creative, and contemplative side of the mind. Intelligence seeks to grasp, manipulate, reorder, and adjust, while intellect examines, ponders, wonders, theorizes, criticizes and imagines. School remains a place where intellect is mistrusted. Hofstadter says our country39。s educational system is in the grips of people who joyfully and militantly proclaim their hostility to intellect and their eagerness to identify with children who show the least intellectual promise. 71. What do American parents expect their children to acquire in school?A. Profound knowledge of the world.B. The habit of thinking independently.C. Practical abilities for future career.D. The confidence in intellectual pursuits.正確答案：C注釋:根據(jù)第一段第三句可知，美國(guó)父母期望孩子到學(xué)校學(xué)會(huì)些實(shí)用的技能。72. We can learn from the text that Americans have a history of ______A. favoring intellectualism.B. undervaluing intellect.C. supporting school reform.D. suppressing native intelligence.正確答案：B注釋:依據(jù)第二段中“…concluding。they are anything but a counterbalance to the American distaste for intellectual pursuits”可知，美國(guó)人厭惡學(xué)識(shí)追求。73. The views of Raviteh and Emerson on schooling are _____A. identicalB. similarC. plementaryD. opposite正確答案：D注釋:對(duì)比第二段和第五段可知，這兩人的觀點(diǎn)正好相反。74. Emerson, according to the text, is probably ________.A. a scholar in favor of intellect.B. a pioneer of education reform.C. an opponent of intellectualism.D. an advocate of regular schooling.正確答案：C注釋:根據(jù)第五段中Emerson對(duì)學(xué)校的批評(píng)可知，他是學(xué)識(shí)的反對(duì)者。 Every human being, no matter what he is doing, gives off body heat. The usual problem is how to dispose of it. But the designers of the Johnstown campus of the University of Pittsburg set themselves the opposite problem