【正文】 a careless driving offence—such as driving too close to the vehicle in front or reading a map at the wheel—will be ￡300. Deposits for speeding offences and using mobile phones will be ￡60. Foreign drivers will not get points as punishment added to their licenses, while British drivers will.49．The first paragraph serves as a(n) ______.A. explanation　　　　　 B. introductionC. ment D. background50．The foreign drivers who break the traffic law and do not pay on the spot are likely to be fined up to ______.A. ￡60 B. ￡300C. ￡900 D. ￡98051．We can learn from the passage that ______.A. many foreign drivers have been fined by British policeB. 300,000 German vehicles enter Britain every yearC. 25 percent of foreign vehicles entering Britain have failed safety testsD. British drivers will be punished with points and fines for breaking the traffic law52．The new traffic law is mainly intended to ______.A. limit the number of foreign vehicles entering BritainB. increase the British government’s additional ineC. lower the rate of traffic accidents and injuriesD. get foreign drivers to appear in court[答案]這是一篇新聞報道：英國為了解決國外車輛導(dǎo)致的交通事故高發(fā)的問題，從下月起要實施一項措施：對違反交通規(guī)則的外國司機處以高達900英鎊的現(xiàn)場罰款，如果當(dāng)場不交，還要額外收取80英鎊的(車輛)保管費。根據(jù)文章內(nèi)容可知，文章介紹了衡量情感的方法。48．A。寫作意圖題。由文章第三段首句中“Measuring action or behavior is the other way researchers assess the emotions.”以及其后的內(nèi)容可以猜出詞義。46．B。細節(jié)判斷題。江南十校)Before discussing different kinds of emotions, let us briefly talk about how researchers measure bodily processes and action or behavior, and how this relates to what we do in our daily lives when we observe emotions in others.Bodily processes can be directly measured by means of a polygraph. When a polygrap is skillfully used to pare how we react bodily with what we are saying, it is called a “l(fā)ie detector”. Bodily processes can also be measured indirectly. This is what we do when we observe someone blushing (臉紅). However, we are not always aware of what bodily processes respond to.Measuring action or behavior is the other way researchers assess the emotions. For example, one measure of fear of snakes is how close a person will go to the snake. Another procedure is to have a person tell how afraid he is, or how he feels. In this way, researchers have developed the so－called “fear thermometer” to assess a person’s fear. In our everyday living, we do very much the same thing. Only not too systematically, we react to what a person does, what he says, how he says it, and how he looks. Is he smiling? Is his voice trembling? We put all this observations together to infer what a person is feeling.However, we do not always act as we feel. Sometimes we do things that we don’t feel like doing. Sometimes we say we feel one way and then we act another. Actors, for example, successfully learn to “make believe” emotions, or learn to hide them. Thus we cannot always tell what a person is feeling by what he says or by what he does.45．Which of the following statements is NOT true?A. We can never tell what a person is feeling.B. The “fear thermometer” is a way to measure how fearful a person is.C. Researchers can assess the emotions in some ways.D. People do not always know what bodily processes they respond to.46．The underlined word “assess” in the 3rd paragraph is close in meaning to ______.A. make B. measureC. discuss D. develop47．The writer uses the example of actors in order to argue that ______.A. it is rather easy to bee successful actorsB. people do not always act as they feelC. we can never believe what other people sayD. actors are always telling lies48．The passage is mainly about ______.A. the way of assessing the emotionB. the usefulness of a “l(fā)ie detector”C. the functioning of different emotionsD. the development of the “fear thermometer”[答案]文章介紹了衡量情感的方法。kick the habit“戒除嗜好，改掉壞習(xí)慣”。推理判斷題。根據(jù)首段第三句中“$ each”及文章第二段的最后一句話“In the last few days before the drawing, tickets were selling at the unbelievable rate of 500 per second.”可計算出，在出售彩票的最后幾天中，賓夕法尼亞州彩票機構(gòu)在1小時內(nèi)賣彩票的收入總額是：(美元)6060500＝1,620,000美元。43．A。文章的第四段陳述了反對者對購買彩票一事的看法。42．C。本文的話題是成千上萬的美國人到賓夕法尼亞州購買彩票，文章由此展開，談到了中獎的機率、購買彩票的目的和批評者對此事的態(tài)度和建議。41．C。南昌高三調(diào)研)Thousands of people began pouring into Pennsylvania from other states. They wanted to buy lottery tickets(彩票). The tickets cost only $ each. But that small spending could bring them a reward of $90 million. That was the second largest lottery jackpot(積累獎金) in history.More than 87 million tickets were bought for the Pennsylvania lottery drawing. Those who bought tickets had to choose seven numbers from 1 to 80. The chance of winning was one in million, but that little chance certainly didn’t affect ticket sales. In the last few days before the drawing, tickets were selling at the unbelievable rate of 500 per second.Experts say many people buy lottery tickets because they just want to have a piece of the action. Others say the lottery is a stock market for poor people. It allows them to dream about wealth they’ll probably never have.But many people believe lotteries are no better than legalized(合法化的) gambling. Some critics note that most people who play are poor and may not be able to afford the tickets. There are also many addicts who take the game seriously. They may pour their life savings into lottery tickets. Some clubs have been formed to help them kick the habit.Politicians like lotteries because they provide money that would otherwise have to e from new taxes. The