【正文】 age and another random grouping of the same persons who took photographs judges were asked to pick out the failed totally with the first judgements were no better than with the photos taken twentyfive or more years after the marriage,the judges were quite successful at deciding who was married to were particularly successful with the most happilymarried couples. believes there are several reasons why couples grow reason has something to do with person tends to copy or do the same as someone else without knowing says human begins imitate the expressions of the faces of their loved possible reason,he says,is the mon experience of the is a tendency for people who have the same life experience to change their faces in similar example,if a couple suffered from a lot of sad experiences,their faces are likely to change in a similar way.
21. Dr. Aiken cut the background from the photos for the purpose of __________.
A. imitating the couplesˇ life
B. grouping the couples again
C. leaving no trace for the testees
D. giving the testees more chances
22. The underlined sentence 168。imitate〃 (in Para. 2) has a similar meaning to __________.
A. copy B. change C. know D. suffer
24. From the passage we can draw the conclusion that ___________.
A. couples who look alike can live longer
B. most partners have been proved to grow alike
C. the influence between partners can be quite strong
D. happilymarried couples are often richer than others
25. The main purpose of the passage is to ___________.
A. explain why couples grow alike
B. tell how couples like each other
C. discuss the function of marriage
D. describe the life of happily married couples
The three biggest lies in America are: ( 1 ) “ The check is in the mail ” ( 2) “ Of course I’ll respect you in the morning .” ( 3 ) “ It was a puter error . ” Of these three little white, the worst of the lot by far is the third. It’s the only one that can never be true. Today , if a bank statement cheats you out of ＄900 that way , you know what the clerk is sure to say: “ It was a puter error . ” Nonsense. The puter is reporting nothing more than what the clerk typed into it. The most annoying case of all is when the puterized cash register in the grocery store shows that an item costs more than it actually does. If the innocent buyer points out the mistake, the checker , bagger and manager all e together and offer the familiar explanation: “ It was a puter error . ” It wasn’t, of course . That hightech cash register is really nothing more than an electric eye. The eye reads the Universal Product Code—that ribbon of black and white lines on the package—and then checks the code against a price list stored in memory . If the price list is right, you’ll be charged accurately. Grocery stores update the price list each day—that is , somebody sits at a keyboard and types in the prices . If the price they type in is too high, there are only two explanations: carelessness or dishonesty. But somehow “a puter error is supposed to excuse everything”. One reason we let people hide behind a puter is the mon misunderstanding that huge, modern puters are “electric brains” with “artificial intelligence.” At some point there might be a machine with intelligence, but none exists today. The smartest puter on earth right now is no more “ intelligent ” than your average screwdriver (螺絲刀) . At this point in the development of puters, the only thing any machine can do is what a human has instructed it to so .
26. Of the three lies, the one about puter is the worst because the puter itself __________.
A. says nonsense B. cheats customers
C. cannot make the error D. does not admit its error
27. According to the author, a puterized cashier is really just ___________.
A. a machine to count money
B. a machine to receive money
C. an instrument to print codes
D. an instrument to read codes
28. Grocery store price lists are updated by ____________.
A. a puter B. a keyboard C. an employee D. an electric brain
29. The last paragraph of the passage implies that puters ____________.
A. are very clever B. never make mistakes
C. have a good memory D. are controlled by men
30. Which of the following describes the main idea of the passage?
A. Computers are stupid and inefficient.
B. Computer errors are due to its dishonesty.
C. Computers help stores update the price list.
D. Computer errors are actually human errors.
Passage Four
I came across an old country guidebook the other day. It listed all the tradesmen in each village, and it was impressive to see the past variety of services which were available on oneˇs own doorstep in the late Victorian countryside.
Nowadays a traveler in rural England might conclude that the only village tradesmen still flourishing wereeither selling frozen food to the villagers or selling antiques to visitors. Nevertheless, this would really be a false impression. On the surface, there has been a decline of village merce, but its power is still remarkable.
Our local grocerˇs shop, for example, is actually expanding in spite of the petition from supermarkets in the nearest town. Women sensibly prefer to go there and exchan