【正文】 f individual conscience and belief. One is that murder is murder and that the state has no more right to take a life than the individual. The other is that Christianity advises forgiveness, not revenge. 36. The passage is mainly about _______. A) the argument in favor of the death penalty B) the argument against the death penalty C) the argument about the reintroduction of the death penalty D) the argument about the abolition of the death penalty 37. All of the following death penalty methods are mentioned in the passage EXCEPT_______. A) the electric chair B)the lethal injection C) the poisonous gas D)the shooting 38. According to the first four paragraphs, which of the following statements if NOT correct? A) The death penalty may help the potential murderers to arouse moral awareness. b) Ruth Ellis was shot by his lover, which was regarded as a crime of passion. C) The intentional murderer should eat his own bitter fruit. D) According to the religious doctrine, punishment should be as severe as the injury suffered. paragraph 3, deterrence means _______. A) proclamation B) protest C) protection D) prevention can learn from the last paragraph that _______. A) neither the state nor the individual has the right to take a life B) the state has the right to take a life but the individual does not C) the death penalty has noting to do with individual consequence and belief D) the deterrence figures have added up and the execution rate has fallen. Questions 41to 45 are based on the following passage. Do you forget to turn off the lights and heaters when you go out of a room? In 2040 it will not matter. They will turn themselves off and on again when you return. You will choose the temperatures for each room. The lighting and the humidity. A sensor will detect the presence of a human (and, with luck, ignore the dog!) and turn the systems on and when the humans leave it will turn them off again. The sensors will work through the central home puter. and they will do much more than just turn the fires and lights on and off for you . They will detect faulty electrical appliances, plugs or switches. isolate them so that they cannot harm anyone, and then warn you they need repair. They will detect fire and if you are out of the house the puter will call the fire brigade. it will also call the police should the sensors detect an intruder This will not be too difficult because the locks on the outside doors will be electronic. You will open them using your personal card the one you use for shoppingmaybe using a number known only to you. Ii will be impossible to lose the key and. a housebreaker will have to tamper(撥弄) with the lock or with a window. It is not very difficult to make such tampering send a signal to the puter. The puter will be more than a firemanpolicemanservant. It will be an entertainer, and most of your entertainment will e right into your home. It does now, of course, but by 2040 entertainment. will mean much more. For one thing, you will be able to take part actively rather than just watching. . . 41. The author intends to tell us that _______. A) in 2040 we will live without the lights and heaters B) in 2040 we will use much more lights and heaters C) in 2040 there will be no switches of lights and heaters D) in 2040 lights and heaters will be on and off automatically 42. Which of the following statements is NOT true? A) The sensor is multifunctional. B) Which of a puter, the sensor can not do much. C) The sensor will detect fire and make an emergency call. D) You can be taken for an intruder it you tamper With the lock or with a window. 43. According to the author, in 2040, new technology _______. A) will free us from the keys we use today B) will turn everything into sensors C) will make the locks out of date D) will eliminate all crimes 44. Thanks to puters, in 2040 people _______. A) will have no entertainment outside B) will replace TV with puters C) will be controlled by puters D) will have more fun at home 45. The best title for the passage might be _______. A) Sensors and Computers B) Life at Home in the Year 2040 C) The Development of Science and Technology D) Lights and Heaters in the Year 2040 Questions 46 to 50 are based on the following Passage. With the Switzerlandbased Wrorl4 Wildlife Fund (WWF), China I Wildlife Fund (WWF), China is making a concerted and dedicated effort to save the end angered pandas. The results, officials here in Chengdu indicate, are mixed bur encouraging. A clear disappointment is the failure to breed 1,andas in captivity, necessary if their decreasing numbers are to be replaced. Another failure has been the incapability to find a natural, readily available food to replace the arrow bamboo. Despite these failures, success has e on two fronts. One achievement has been the physical rescue effort. Some pandas have been kept alive by, salting( 空投 ) the mountains with ions of cooked meat, which pandas well eat as a substitute for bamboo, and by the planting of new bamboo in isolated areas. Animals in some Sichuan areas have been rescued by local peasants and by even emergency treatment by animal doctors. A second achievement is a massive fundraising effort. Publicity about the panda39。s ambitious goal of agricultural and industrial modernization . Wolong is but one example of this difficulty. This 494,000aore preserve was declared a protected area in 1975. Yet 1800people ,mostly Tibetans, still live in the preserve, logging, trucks still roll down the narrow mountain roads , and blasting work still goes on at the site of a new 160000kilowatthydroelectric plant Just six miles away. The means that the pandas39。 survival in the Wolo