【正文】 sensitivity [B] academic achievements [C] petitive spirit [D] surer values 66. From the passage we can draw the conclusion that ________. [A] the personality of a chil。s personality to his possible future 14 employment. It is top management. If the preoccupation of schools with academic work was lessened, more time might be spent teaching children surer values. Perhaps selection for the caring professions, especially medicine, could be made less by good grades in chemistry and more by such considerations as sensitivity and sympathy. It is surely a mistake to choose our doctors exclusively from Atype stock. B39。 moral standard and measure their success by sporting achievements. The current passion for making children pete against their classmates or against the clock produces a twolayer system, in which petitive Atypes seem in some way better than their B type fellows. Being too keen to win can have dangerous consequences: remember that Pheidippides, the first marathon runner, dropped dead seconds after saying: Rejoice, we conquer! By far the worst form of petition in schools is the disproportionate emphasis on examinations. It is a rare school that allows pupils to concentrate on those things they do well. The merits of petition by examination are somewhat questionable, but petition in the certain knowledge of failure is positively harmful. Obviously, it is neither practical nor desirable that all A youngsters change into B39。s problems which were solved by asking family members, friends or colleagues are beyond the capability of the extended family to resolve. Where to turn for expert information and how to determine which expert advice to accept are questions facing many people today. 12 In addition to this, there is the growing mobility of people since World War II. As families move away from their stable munity, their friends of many years, their extended family relationships, the informal flow of information is cut off, and with it the confidence that information will be available when needed and will be trustworthy and reliable. The almost unconscious flow of information about the simplest aspects of living can be cut off. Thus, things once learned subconsciously through the casual munications of the extended family must be consciously learned. Adding to societal changes today is an enormous stockpile of information. The individual now has more information available than any generation, and the task of finding that one piece of information relevant to his or her specific problem is plicated, timeconsuming and sometimes even overwhelming. Coupled with the growing quantity of information is the development of technologies which enable the storage and delivery of more information with greater speed to more locations than has ever been possible before. Computer technology makes it possible to store vast amounts of data in machinereadable files, and to program puters to locate specific information. Telemunications developments enable the sending of messages via television, radio, and very shortly, electronic mail to bombard people with multitudes of messages. Satellites have extended the power of munications to report events at the instant of occurrence. Expertise can be shared world wide through teleconferencing, and problems in dispute can be settled without the participants leaving their homes and/or jobs to travel to a distant conference site. Technology has facilitated the sharing of information and the storage and delivery of information, thus making more information available to more people. In this world of change and plexity, the need for information is of greatest importance. Those people who have accurate, reliable uptodate information to solve the daytoday problems, the critical problems of their business, social and family life, will survive and succeed, Knowledge is power may well be the truest saying and access to information may be the most critical requirement of all people. 59. The word it (Line 4, ) most probably refers to ________. [A] the lack of stable munities [B] the breakdown of informal information channels [C] the increased mobility of families [D] the growing number of people moving from place to place 13 60. The main problem people may encounter today arises from the fact that ________. [A] they have to learn new things consciously [B] they lack the confidence of securing reliable and trustworthy information [C] they have difficulty obtaining the needed information readily [D] they can hardly carry out casual munications with an extended family 61. From the passage we can infer that ________. [A] electronic mail will soon play a dominant role in transmitting messages [B] it will bee more difficult for people to keep secrets in an information era [C] people will spend less time holding meetings or conferences [D] events will be reported on the spot mainly through satellites 62. We can learn from the last paragraph that ________. [A] it is necessary to obtain as much knowledge as possible [B] people should make the best use of the information accessible [C] we should realize the importance of accumulating information [D] it is of vital importance to acquire needed information efficiently Passage 4 Personality is to large extent inherent — Atypeparents usually bring about A type offspring. But the environment must also have a profound effect, since if petition is important to the parents, it is likely to bee a major factor in the lives of their children. One place where children soak up Acharacteristics is school, which is, by its very nature, a highly petitive institution. Too many schools adopt the 39。re not smart enough to cope with a new challenge