【正文】 few years oceanography was under way. In 1872 Thomson led a scientific expedition, which lasted for four years and brought home thousands of samples from the sea. Their classification and analysis occupied scientists for years and led to a fivevolume report, the last volume being published in 1895.6. The proposal to lay a telegraph cable from Europe to America made oceanographic studies take on_____. academic aspect B. a military aspect C. a business aspect D. an international aspect7. It was _____ that asked Maury for help in oceanographic studies.A. the American Navy B. some early 。 otherwise, it can control them. Students should leave college knowing how to allocate their money for living expenses, insurance, savings, and so forth in order to avoid the “Oh, no! I’m flat broke and I don’t get paid again for two weeks!” anxiety syndrome.Along with learning about credit and personal financial planning, graduating college students should be trained as consumers. The consumer market today is flooded with a variety of products and services of varying quality and prices. A young person entering the “real world” is suddenly faced with difficult decisions about which product to buy or whose services to engage. He is usually unaware of such things as return policies, guarantees, or repair procedures. Information of this sort is vital knowledge to everyday living.For a newly graduated college student, the “real world” can be a scary place to be when he or she is faced with such issues as handling credit, planning a budget, or knowing what to look for when making a purchase and whom to purchase it from. Entering this “real world” could be made less painful if person were educated in dealing with these areas of daily life. What better place to acplish this than in college?11. According to the writer, graduating students____________.A. will find it hard to get a job with only knowledge gained from collegeB. have insufficient skills and knowledge and do not deserve a college diplomaC. will not be able to earn enough money to support themselves.D. do not have the necessary knowledge and skills to deal with the realities of life.12. The writer points out that many young people_____.A. fall into debt due to illadvised use of credit cardsB. have to depend on credit to purchase some material necessitiesC. do not know the power of credit and easily run into serious financial debtD. start buying too much on credit before they get a paid job13. Students suffer from an anxiety syndrome because____________.A. they do not have their parents’ financial supportB. they are worried that they don’t get paid on timeC. they run out of money and can’t cover their living expensesD. they can’t afford to buy insurance for themselves14. To “train students as consumers” means to enable them to______.A. handle their credit with cautionB. plan their spending carefully so that they don’t go brokeC. make wise purchasing decisions and be informed about consumer servicesD. cope with serious financial problems15. By asking “What better place to acplish this than in college?” the writer means that _______. A. the best place to train students to deal with personal financial issues is in college B. students should be trained to enter the real world after they graduate from college C. students can best be trained in business and economics in college D. students should be taught to cope with the difficult problems they will be facing after graduationPART THREEPassage 1 There are many ways of putting out a fire. You may have seen people put out burning cigarettes by stepping on them. Stepping on a burning cigarette shuts off the air and puts out the fire.Many fires are put out with water. Water cools the material that is burning. It helps smother a fire, too. Some of the water is changed into steam when it strikes the hot fire. The stem shuts off air from the fire and helps put it out.Some fires cannot be put out with water. They have to be smothered with sand or with chemicals of some kind, such as those used in some fire extinguishers. Suppose a tank full of gasoline is on fire. Gasoline is lighter than water. If you poured water into the tank of gasoline, the water would sink to the bottom of the tank. The gasoline would float on top of the water and would probably keep on burning. If you keep on putting water on the fire, the gasoline would flow over the edge of the tank. Then the fire would spread.1. What are the major ways of putting out fires as mentioned in the passage? A. With water and with sand and chemicals. B. With water and with sand and steam. C. With water and with steam D. With water and materials and chemicals.2. Water can put out a fire because _______________. A. water is cold and cool. B. water is the only way to put out a fire. C. water cools the material on fire and the steam shuts off air. D. water can be changed into steam.3. Gasoline fires cannot be put out with ________________. A. sand B water C. chemicals D. extinguishers4. If you put water into the tank of gasoline, ______. A. gasoline would sink to the bottom of the tank. B. gasoline would be mixed with water C. water would float on the top of gasoline. D. water would not be mixed with gasoline.5. The best title of the passage would be______________. A. Water, Sand and Chemicals B. How to Put Out a Fire with WaterC. How to Put Out a Fire. D. Don’t Use Water to Put Gasoline Fires.Passage 2 It is not necessary to write in order to send messages. In the old days, people who could not write used to send messages to one another in many different ways.The Indians used smoke to send signals. They made a fire and p