【正文】 generally, the more selective a school, the less likely it is to do so. Harvard and Princeton, for example, offer generous needbased packages, but many families who don’t meet need eligibility(資格)have been willing to pay whatever they must for a bigname school.　　For small regional colleges that struggle just to fill seats, merit aid can be an important revenuebuilder because many recipients still pay enough tuition dollars over and above the scholarship amount to keep the institution running.　　But for rankingsconscious schools in between, merit aid has served primarily as a tool to recruit top students and to improve their academic profits. “They’re trying to buy students,” says Skidmore College economist Sandy Baum.　　Studies show merit aid also tends to benefit disproportionately students who could afford to enroll without it.　　“As we look to the future, we see a more pressing need to invest in needbased aid,” says Monica Inzer, dean of admission and financial aid at Hamilton, which has offered merit scholarships for 10 years. During that time, it rose in US News amp。re just underlining his faults (Line 4, Para. 3)?　　A) You are not taking his mistakes seriously enough.　　B) You are pointing out the errors he has mitted.　　C) You are emphasizing the fact that he is not intelligent.　　D) You are trying to make him feel better about his faults.　　65. What do we learn from the experiment of Wood, Lee and Perunovic?　　A) It is important for people to continually boost their selfesteem.　　B) Selfaffirmation can bring a positive change to one39。t feel better after the forced selfaffirmation. In fact, their moods turned significantly darker than those of members of the control group, who weren39。re just underlining his faults. In one 1990s experiment, a team including psychologist Joel Cooper of Princeton asked participants to write essays opposing funding for the disabled. When the essayists were later praised for their sympathy, they felt even worse about what they had written.　　In this experiment, Wood, Lee and Perunovic measured 68 students39。t provide the needed data.　　60. Why did the Federal Aviation Authority require the black boxes be painted orange or yellow?　　A) To distinguish them from the colour of the plane.　　B) To caution people to handle them with care.　　C) To make them easily identifiable.　　D) To conform to international standards.　　61. What do we know about the black boxes from Air France Flight 447?　　A) There is still a good chance of their being recovered.　　B) There is an urgent need for them to be reconstructed.　　C) They have stopped sending homing signals.　　D) They were destroyed somewhere near Brazil.Passage Two　　Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.　　The $11 billion selfhelp industry is built on the idea that you should turn negative thoughts like I never do anything right into positive ones like I can succeed. But was positive thinking advocate Norman Vincent Peale right? Is there power in positive thinking?　　Researchers in Canada just published a study in the journal Psychological Science that says trying to get people to think more positively can actually have the opposite effect: it can simply highlight how unhappy they are.　　The study39。re still likely to turn up. In the approximately 20 deepsea crashes over the past 30 years, only one plane39。s final moments. Placed in an insulated (隔絕的) case and surrounded by a quarterinchthick panels of stainless steel, the boxes can withstand massive force and temperatures up to 2,000℉. When submerged, they39。s homing signal five days later, the discovery marked a huge step toward determining the cause of a tragedy in which 152 passengers were killed.　　In 1958, Australian scientist David Warren developed a flightmemory recorder that would track basic information like altitude and direction. That was the first mode for a black box, which became a requirement on all . mercial flights by 1960. Early models often failed to withstand crashes, however, so in 1965 the device was pletely redesigned and moved to the rear of the plane – the area least subject to impact – from its original position in the landing wells (起落架艙). The same year, the Federal Aviation Authority required that the boxes, which were never actually black, be painted orange or yellow to aid visibility.　　Modern airplanes have two black boxes: a voice recorder, which tracks pilots39。re traveling and whether everything on your airplane is functioning normally. Their ability to withstand almost any disaster makes them seem like something out of a ic 39。 they can help __56__ property owners from rising power costs.　　 A) acmodations B) clumsy C) doubtful D) exceptions E) expand F) historic G) incredibly H) powering I) protect J) reduced K) replace L) sense M) shifted N) supplying O) vastSection B　　Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.　　Passage One　　Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.　　You never see him, but they39。t deal with climate change without dealing with existing buildings, says Richard Moe, the president of the National Trust.　　With some __52__, the oldest homes tend to be the least energyefficient. Houses built before 1939 use about 50% more energy per square foot than those built after 2000, mainly due to the tiny cracks and gaps that __53__ over time and let in more outside air.　　Fortunately, there are a __54__ number of relatively simple changes that can green older homes, from __55__ ones like Lincoln39。t afford to seek ______.　　10. Now that she39。s repeated plaints.　　B) Fatigue resulting from lack of sleep.　　C) The poorly managed