【正文】 ce of considerable pride for America’s society of southpaws. In fact, the Microsoft titan and philanthropist(巨頭兼慈善家) is one of a surprising number of . business moguls(巨頭) to be lefthanded, including Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller and former IBM head Lou Gerstner. But the club seems to be a guysonly organization — research suggests that while lefthanded men tend to earn more than their righthanded colleagues（同事）, there is no similar advantage for women. A study by the National Bureau of Economic Research raised the idea that lefthanded men favor divergent thinking, a form of creativity in which the brain moves from conventional(常規(guī)的) knowledge into unexplored association. Maybe that’s what it takes to develop a net worth valued at $ 57 billion.Oprah WinfreyThe talkshow queen doesn’t need much more to set her apart from the rest — what with her valued $ billion fortune and a magic ability to sell books just by glancing at them — but she also has the distinction(名譽) of being a member of the lefthanded club. Since men are more likely to be lefthanded than women, that makes Oprah doubly impressive. She’s in good pany: Other showbusiness ladies of the left – handed persuasion include Whoopi Goldberg, Julia Roberts and Angelina JolieMarie CurieNot only was atomic scientist Marie Curie lefthanded, but she was the matriarch（女家長） of a whole family of acplished, southpaw scientists. Curie, who discovered the principles of radioactivity and won two Nobel Prizes, was married to fellow lefty Pierre Curie, who was instrumental（有幫助的） in helping Marie’s atomic research and shared one of her Nobel awards. Historians believe their daughter, Irene, was also lefthanded. Irene went on to win a Nobel Prize of her own with her husband — who, you guessed it, was also lefthanded.64．The underlined word “southpaws” in the last sentence of Paragraph 1 means_______. A．people ing from the south B．powerful presidents C．people who use their left hand D．forceful speakers65．What makes it so easy for lefties to be elected as presidents according to the passage? A．Their great gift for foreign language. B．Their great language skills to make speeches. C．The need of left – hinders in the political office. D．Teachers stopping to force them to use their right hand.66．It can be implied that Bill Gates, Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller and Lou Gerstne_______. A．have creative thinking B．have formed a special club. C．earn more money than their wives D．a(chǎn)re wealthy philanthropists67．The underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 “She is in good pany” means “_______”. A．she works in a very good pany B．she has many good friends C．she has got on well with others D．she is among many female lefties DVampires (吸血鬼), creatures of myth, have been around in one form or another for centuries. Terrifying but also attractive, they are as popular in the early 21 st century as ever, as the current popularity of Twilight series, and its hero Edward Cullen, show. Vampires first appeared in fiction in the 1700s in 1895 Irish novelist Bram Stoker published Dracula, introducing the world’s most famous vampire.But just what is it about these drinkers of human blood that continues to fascinate us? Speaking to Eric Lewis of the Times and Transcript website, academic Deborah Wells said that vampires are “culturally adaptive”. “We create very different vampires to fit different times. Edward Cullen is not the same as Count Dracula,” she said.Different as they are, Wells believes vampires are “the perfect containers into which we can pour our current cultural anxieties”, Bram Stoker’s Dracula is powerful, yet old and physically ugly. Stoker’s book dealt with fear of the fall of the British Empire, real fears in the day in which it was written.According to the website Bookrags, today’s vampires have all our cultural desires, money, power and sexual attraction. Represented by Cullen, they are noble, handsome young men whom women find irresistible. What’s more, vampires challenge traditional ideas about death, science and parental authority（權(quán)威）. This may be why teenagers are drawn to vampire tales.“In many ways, the vampire story shows up teenage concerns,” said wells. “The emotional intensity (強度) of the relationship with the vampire matches the intensity of how it feels to have your first real love affairs. Your first real love, it really feels like life and death.”68．The best title for this passage should be_______. A．Vampires may continue to drink our blood B．Vampires have been around us for long C．Why Twilight is so popular nowadays D．We still like the story about vampires69．What is the image of the vampire in Bram Stoker’s book? A．Anxious but perfect. B．Powerful, old and ugly. C．Terrifying but also attractive. D．Afraid of the fall of the British Empire.70．According to the website Bookrages, today’s vampires_______. A．desire money, power and sexual attraction B．may not think highly of parental authority C．dare