【正文】 t be overlooked. B) Don39。t, we should drop them and move to something else. Garfield pares this process to his work as a puter scientist at NASA. The Apollo II moon launch was slightly offcourse 90 percent of the time, says Garfield. But a successful landing was still likely because we knew the exact coordinates of our goal. This allowed us to make adjustments as necessary. Knowing where we want to go helps us judge the importance of every task we undertake. Too often we believe what accounts for others39。s name correctly. Once I see a mistake, I eliminate the candidate, Crossley concludes. If they cannot take care of these details, why should we trust them with a job? Can we pay too much attention to details? Absolutely. Perfectionists struggle over little things at the cost of something larger they work toward. To keep from losing the forest for the trees, says Charles Garfield, associate professor at the University of Califomia, San Francisco, we must constantly ask ourselves how the details we39。s (簡歷 ) arrive with stains. Some candidates don39。s internal puter C) doublecheck on puters D) plete dependence on puters for decisionmaking Passage 6 Attention to detail is something everyone can and should do especially in a tight job market. Bob Crossley, a humanresources expert notices this in the job applications that e cross his desk every day. “It’s amazing how many candidates eliminate themselves,” he says. “R233。? A) Malthus39。 5 figure. In order to keep pace with this increase in mankind the farmers of the world would have to step up their production of food by at least two percent every year. Such a rate of increase has never been maintained in any country by conventional methods of agriculture, despite modern mechanization and the widespread use of fertilizer. There are no large worthwhile reserves of potential farmland remaining, and good fertile land is continually being diverted to industrial use. Moreover, erosion of the soil takes a constant toll. Intensive research, carried out over many years in all manners of climatic conditions, has produced a revolutionary method of growing crops without using any soil at all. Hydroponics, as this technique is called, may well be the answer to all our food worries. Already it has acplished wonders in producing huge crops. Hydroponics was once a plicatied and expensive business。t succeeded in overing language barriers mainly because . A) they are designed but not shaped in use. B) they lack incentives to learners. C) they will be mixed with national dialects. D) they have no literature of their own. 5. According to the passage, the author39。 from the start. This makes it likely that existing language barriers will remain with us for a very long time. 1. What would be the best title for this passage? A) Language Barriers In Communication B) Latin, A Dead But Ideal Language C) Artificial Language, A Solution to Language Barrier D) Problems With Artificial Languages 2. According to the passage, which of the following statements is not true? A) Although it is easy to travel around the world now, real contact is impossible as a result of our inability to municate. B) To overe the language barrier, people all over the world wele one of the major languages to be universal. C) People are afraid of losing their own languages as a result of the domination of major foreign languages. D) There are numerous misunderstandings in people39。 an artificial one is 39。dead39。national39。 there is no assurance that the learner will have any adequate return for his toil. When people today undertake to learn a foreign language, they are not interested only in speaking it. Mastery of a language makes available to the learner a great deal of worthwhile literature and many current publications. This is the biggest stumblingblock of all for the artificiallyconstructed tongue. Having no literature of its own, all it can offer is a limited of translations, which are valueless in themselves. Nor can it acquire any literature。t need just because they are cheap. They want to believe that they are helping their budgets, but they are really playing an exciting game. When they can buy something for less than other people, they feel that they are winning. Most people, experts claim, have two reasons for their behavior: a good reason for the things that they do and the real reason. It is not only scientists, of course, who understand the psychology of spending habits, but also businesspeople. Stores, panies, and advertisers use psychology to increase business: They consider people39。 癮 ) are pulsive (難以抑制的 ) 。Passage 1 Researchers have established that when people are mentally engaged, biochemical changes occur in the brain that allow it to act more effectively in cognitive（認知的 ） areas such as attention and memory. This is true regardless of age. People will be alert (警覺的 ) and receptive (接受能力強的 ) if they are faced with information that gets them to think about things they are interested in. And someone with a history of doing more rather than less will go into old age more cognitively sound than someone who has not had an active mind. Many experts are so convinced of the benefits of challenging the brain that they are putting the theory to work in their own lives. “The idea is not necessarily to learn to memorize enormous amounts of information,” says James Fozard, associate director of the National Institute on Aging. “Most of us don39。t need that kind of skill. Such specific training is of less interest than being able to maintain mental alertness.” Fozard and others say they challenge their brains with different mental skills, both because they enjoy them and because they are sure that their range of activities will help the way their brains work. Gene Cohen, act