【正文】 her quiet dinner with her husband would be ruined B. something interesting was going to happen over dinner C. they were wrong to have chosen this restaurant for dinner D. she and her husband were going to have a pleasant surprise 4 44. What does the author think of the two teenage boys? A. They are typical of teenagers who wear illfitting clothes and dye their hair. B. They may bee nice people if they are willing to change their lifestyle. C. They are fine young men despite their loose jeans and multicolored hair. D. They will respect you if you respect them. 45. What is the main idea of the last paragraph? A. There is nothing wrong with teenagers admiring pop singers and sport stars. B. Pop singers and sport stars should not be heroes of our children. C. If our children admire pop singers and sports stars, it is the parents who are to blame. D. Parents should set a good example for their children to follow. Passage Two More and more, the operations of our businesses, governments, and financial institutions are controlled by information that exists only inside puter memories. Anyone clever enough to modify this information for his own purposes can reap big reward. Even worse, a number of people who have done this and been caught at it have managed to get away without punishment. It’s easy for puter crimes to go undetected if no one checks up on what the puter is doing. But even if the crime is detected, the criminal may walk away not only unpunished but with a glowing remendation from his former employers. Of course, we have no statistics on crimes that go undetected. But it’s disturbing to note how many of the crimes we do know about were detected by accident, not by systematic inspections or other security procedures. The puter criminals who have been caught may have been the victims of unmonly bad luck. Unlike other lawbreakers, who must leave the country, mit suicide, or go to jail, puter criminals sometimes escape punishment, demanding not only that they not be charged but that they be given good remendations and perhaps other benefits. All too often, their demands have been met. Why? Because pany executives are afraid of the bad publicity that would result if the public found out that their puter had been misused. They hesitate at the thought of a criminal boasting in open court of how he juggled (篡改 ) the most confidential (保密 ) records right under the noses of the pany’s executives, accountants, and security staff. And so another puter criminal departs with just the remendations he needs to continue his crimes elsewhere. 5 46. It can be concluded from the passage that ______. A. it is still impossible to detect puter crimes today B. people mit puter crimes at the request of their pany C. puter criminals escape punishment because they can’t be detected D. puter crimes are the most serious problem in the operation of financial institutions 47. It is implied in the third paragraph that ______. A. most puter criminals who are caught blame their bad luck B. the rapid increase of puter crimes is a troublesome problem C. most puter criminals are smart enough to cover up their crimes D. many more puter crimes, which are discovered, go undetected 48. Which of the following statements is mentioned in the passage? A. A strict law against puter crimes must be enforced. B. Companies usually hesitate to uncover puter crimes to protect their reputation. C. Companies will guard against puter crimes to protect their reputation. D. Companies need to impose restrictions on confidential information. 49. What may happen to puter criminals once they are caught? A. With a bad reputation they can hardly find another job. B. They may walk away and easily find another job. C. They will be denied access to confidential records. D. They must leave the country to go to jail. 50. The passage is mainly about ______. A. why puter criminals are often able to escape punishment B. why puter crimes are difficult to be detected by systematic inspections C. how puter criminals mange to get good remendations from their former employersD. why puter crimes can’t be eliminated Passage Three Another cultural aspect of nonverbal munication is one that you might not think about: space. Every person perceives himself to have a sort of invisible shield surrounding his physical body. When someone es too close, he feels unfortable. When he bumps onto someone, he feels obligated to apologize. But the size of a person’s ―fort zone‖ depends on his cultural ethnic origin. For example, in casual conversation, many Americans stand about four feet apart. In other words, they like to keep each other ―at arm’s length‖, people in Latin or Arab cultures, in contrast, stand very close to each other, and touch each other often. If someone from one of those cultures stands too close to an American while in conversation, the American may feel unfortable and back away. 6 When Americans are talking, they expect others to respond to what they are saying. To Americans, polite conversationalists empathize by displaying expressions of excitement or disgust, shock or sadness. People with a ―poker face‖, whose emotions are hidden by a deadpan expression, are looked upon with suspicion. Americans also indicate their attentiveness in a conversation by raising their eyebrows, nodding, smiling politely and maintaining good eye contact. Whereas some cultures view direct eye contact as impolite or threatening, Americans see it as a sign of genuineness and honesty. If a person doesn’t look you in the eye, American might say, you should question his motives—or assume that he doesn’t like you. Yet with all the concern for eye contact, Americans still consider staring—especially at strangers—to be rude. 51. What the author discussed in the previous section is most probably about____