【正文】 atile, 41 percent said it was economical and 46 percent said it was low in fat.46. Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?A. Prominent American FoodsB. History of the Chicken SoupC. Chicken Soup RecipesD. Chicken Soup, a Universal Cureall47. Since ancient times, the value of chicken soup ________.A. has been overestimatedB. has been widely acknowledgedC. has been appreciated only by philosophersD. has been known only to mother.48. Which of the following statements is not true?A. Chicken soup has a very long history.B. Since ancient times, chicken soup has been a home remedy.C. Poultry usually stands higher than fourlegged animal.D. Fourlegged animals were said to be created on the sixth day.49. Chicken soup has curative powers mainly for _____according to Sheraton.A. its color B. its taste C. its flavor D. its recipe50. It can be said from the survey that chicken is ______.A. a main dish B. a popular food C. cheaper than any other food D. All of the abovePassage FourThroughout history man has changed his physical environment in order to improve his way of life.With the tools of technology he has altered many physical features of the earth. He has transformed woodlands into farmland, and made lakes and reservoirs out of rivers for irrigation purposes or hydroelectric power. Man has also modified the face of the earth by draining marshes and cutting through mountains to build roads and railways.However, man’s changes to physical environment have not always had beneficial results. Today, pollution of the air and water is an increasing danger to the health of the planet. Each day thousands of tons of gases e out of the exhausts of motor vehicles。 cereals often e in brown packets (like wheat fields), but cosmetics never e in brown jars (dirty!).Where do these ideas e from? Maxi Luscher from the University of Geneva believes that in the beginning life was dictated by two factors beyond our control: night and day. Night brought passivity, and a general slowing down of metabolism (新陳代謝)。 selfpreservation by its plement green.56. In Luscher’s view, the association of colors with feeling and attitudes can be traced back to the association of ________.A. day and night with passivity and action in ancient timeB. black with funerals in western Europe C. white with purity in some countriesD. red with joy in China57. Which of the following is not true?A. Dark blue brings tragedy.B. Dark blue means tradition.C. Dark blue represents night.D. Dark blue indicates quietness.58. Soap powders e in white and light blue packets to _____.A. resemble iceB. show qualityC. suggest purityD. attract customers59. In Luscher’s view, which of the following colors is associated with defense?A. Red B. Blue C. Dark D. Green60. According to the passage, what kind of people would probably favor yellow?A. People who are passive and conservative.B. People who are creative and aggressive.C. People who are hopeful and active.D. People who are ideal and dreamy.Passage Six More surprising, perhaps, than the current difficulties of traditional marriage is the fact that marriage itself is alive and thriving. As Skolnick notes, Americans are a marrying people: relative to Europeans, more of us marry and we marry at a younger age. Moreover, after a decline in the early 1970s, the rate of marriage in the United States is now increasing. Ever the divorce rate needs to be taken in this promarriage context: some 80 percent of divorced individuals remarry. Thus, marriage remains, by far, the preferred way of life for the vast majority of people in our society. What has changed more than marriage is the nuclear family. Twentyfive years ago, the typical American family consisted of a husband, a wife, and two or three children. Now, there are many marriages in which couples have decided not to have any children. And there are many marriages where at least some of the children are form the wife’s previous marriage, or the husband’s, or both. Sometimes these children spend all of their time with one parent from the former marriage。 marriages with children from only the present marriage。 most Americans spend most of their adult lives married.61. By calling Americans marrying people the author means that ______.A. Americans are more traditional than EuropeansB. Americans expert more out of marriage than EuropeansC. there are more married couples in . A than in EuropeD. more of Americans, as pared with Europeans, prefer marriage and they accept it at a younger age62. Divorced Americans _______.A. will most likely remarryB. prefer the way they liveC. have lost faith in marriageD. are the vast majority of people in the society63. Which of the following can be presented as the picture of today’s American families?A. A typical American family consists of only a husband and a wife.B. Many types of family arrangements have bee socially acceptable.C. Americans prefer to have more kids than before.D. There are no nuclear families any more.64. “Parttime” children ________.A. spend some of their time with their halfbrothers and some of their time with their halfsistersB. spend all of their time with one parent from the previous marriageC. are shared between the tow former spousesD. cannot stay with “fulltime” children