【正文】 ps they had been using C．e near to the river from a different directionD．get down to the river without much difficulty.69．The travelers wanted to get to the river because .A．it would lead them to the waterfallB．it would show them which way to goC．it was the only possible way out of the mountainsD．it was a quicker way than going over the mountains70．One reason why the travelers took so long to get to the river was that .A．it was too hot to move quickly B．there was no proper pathC．they all tried to go different ways D．they could not follow the animal tracks71．To get past the waterfall the guide had to .A．use a fallen tree as a kind of bridge B．cross the river above the waterfallC．slide down a steep river bank D．swing across the river from a high branch*E*Anxiety is the appropriate emotion when the immediate personal terror—of a volcano, an arrow, a stab（刺傷）in the back and other disasters, all directed against one’s selfdisappears.The kind of world that produces anxiety is actually a world of relative safety, a world in which no one feels that he himself is facing sudden death. The anxiety exists as an uneasy state of mind, in which one has a feeling that something unspecified and indeterminable may go wrong. If the world seems to be going well, this produces anxiety—for good times may end. If the world is going badly—it may get worse. Anxiety tends to be without focus。 the anxious person doesn’ t know whether to blame himself or other people. He isn’t sure whether it is the current year of the administration or a change in climate or the atom bomb that is to blame for this undefined sense of unease.It is clear that we have developed a society which depends on having the right amount of anxiety to make it work…While we agree that too much anxiety is harmful to mental health, we have e to rely on anxiety to push us into seeing a doctor about a symptom which may indicate cancer, into checking up on that old lifeinsurance policy which may have outofdate provisions in it, into having a conference with Billy’s teacher even though his report card looks all right.People who are anxious enough keep their car insurance up, have the brakes checked, don’t take a second drink when they have to drive. People who are too anxious either refuse to go into cars at all—and so plicate the ordinary course of life—or drive so tensely and carefully that they help cause accidents. People who aren’t anxious enough take chance after chance, which increases the terrible accidents of the roads. 72．According to the author, anxiety is the emotion when .A．one is filled with a sudden sense of uneasiness B．one sees no immediate dangerC．one has a vague sense about his lifeD．one feels that the world may go badly73．The author holds that .A．a(chǎn)nxiety is a good thing B．a(chǎn)nxiety is a symptom of mental illnessC．some anxiety can lead to changes for the better D．no anxiety is bad for society74．According to the author, accidents of the road tend to be caused by.A．a(chǎn)ll those who are too anxiousB．a(chǎn)ll those who have anxietyC．those who have no anxietyD．those who are not anxious enough75．The best title for the passage would be.A．One Man’s Thought about AnxietyB．The Right Amount of AnxietyC．Anxiety versus SafetyD．Different Attitudes to Anxiety答案5660CCDCB 6165 ADAAC 6670DBDCB 7175ABCDA閱讀理解訓(xùn)練題（三）AThe total area of land on earth is about 149 million square kilometers, or about 39 percent of the total area of the earth.The average height of the land is about 750 metres above the sea level .The Eurasian land mass is the largest with an area of 54,527,600 square kilometers .The smallest continent is the Australian mainland, with an area of about 7,614,600 square kilometers, which together with Tasmania, New Zealand, New Guinea and the Pacific Islands, is described as Oceania .The total area of Oceania is about 8,935,500 square kilometres, including West Iran which is political in Asia .The world’s largest peninsula（半島）is Arabia ,with an area of about 3,327,500 square kilometres .The largest island in the world is Greenland, with an area of about 2,175,600 square kilometres. The largest island surrounded by fresh water is the Ilha de Marajo (4,022 square kilometres) in the mouth of the Amazon River, Brazil .The largest island in a lake is Manitoulin Island (2,766 square kilometres) in the Canadian section of Lake Huron. This island itself has on it a lake of 106 square kilometres called Manitou lake, in which there are several islands.56．The area of Tasmania, of New Zealand, of New Guinea and of the Pacific Islands add up to about square kilometres .,935,320,614,550,10057．Oceania is made up of .(Suppose I: Australia 。II: Tasmania and New Zealand 。 III: New Guinea and the Pacific Islands) and II and and ,II and III58．Which of the following diagrams （圖解）shows the correct relationship between Manitoulin Island(MI), Lake Huron (LH), Manitou Lake (ML) and the “several islands” (SI) mentioned at the end of the passage ?59．The largest island surrounded by fresh water is in. river lake sea oceanBTea drinking was mon in China for nearly one thousand years before anyone in Europe had ever heard about tea . People in Britain were much slower in finding out what tea was like , mainly because tea was very expensive . It could not be bought in shops and even those people who could afford to have it sent from Holland did so only because it was a fashionable curiosity . Some of them were not sure how to use it . They thought it was a vegetable and tried cooking the leaves . Then they served them mixed with butter and salt . They soon discovered their mistake but many people used to spread the used tea leaves on bread and give them to their children as sandwiches . Tea remained scarce and very expensive in England until the ships of the East India Company began to bring it direct from China early in the seventeenth century . During the next fe