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【正文】 in that .A) a personal and emotional view of history is presented through it3. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?D) In the Middle East even today you can hardly find any human and animal figures on palaces or other buildings.4. The passage mainly discusses .A) the difference between general history and art history5. It may be concluded from this passage that .A) Islamic artists have had to create architectural decoration with images of flowers or geometric formsUnit 4 Passage one There is much discussion today about whether economic growth is desirable. At an earlier period, our desire for material wealth may have been justified. Now, however, this desire for more than we need is causing serious problems. Even though we have good intentions, we may be producing too much, too fast.Those who criticize economic growth argue that we must slow down. They believe that society is approaching certain limits on growth. These include the fixed supply of natural resources, the possible negative effects of industry on the natural environment, and the continuing increase in the world’s population. As society reaches these limits, economic growth can no longer continue, and the quality of life will decrease.People who want more economic growth, on the other hand, argue that even at the present growth rate there are still many poor people in the world. These proponents of economic growth believe that only more growth can create the capital needed to improve the quality of life in the world. Furthermore, they argue that only continued growth can provide the financial resources required to protect our natural surroundings from industrialization.This debate over the desirability of continued economic growth is of vital importance to business and industry. If those who argue against economic growth are correct, the problems they mention cannot be ignored. To find a solution, economists and the business munity must pay attention to these problems and continue discussing them with one another.1. According to those who argue against economic growth, we must slow down for the following reasons EXCEPT that .D) more efforts should be made to improve the quality of our material life2. Those who want more economic growth believe that continued economic growth .A) is essential to the wellbeing of society as a whole3. We may infer from the context that “proponents” most probably means . C) people who argue for something 4. The passage is mainly about . B) the present debate on economic growth5. We may infer from the passage that .A) the author describes the case as it isPassage twoThe fact that blind people can “see” things using other parts of their bodies apart from their eyes may help us to understand our feelings about color. If they can sense color differences then perhaps we, too, are affected by color unconsciously.Manufacturers have discovered by trial and error that sugar sells badly in green wrappings, that blue foods are considered unpleasant and the cosmetics should never be packaged brown. These discoveries have grown into a whole discipline of color psychology that now finds application in everything from fashion to interior decoration. Some of our preferences are clearly psychological. Dark blue is the color of the night sky and therefore associated with passivity and calm, while yellow is a day color with associations of energy and incentive（刺激）. For primitive man, activity during the day meant hunting and attacking, while he soon saw was red, the color of blood and rage and the heat that came with effort. And green is associated with passive defense and self preservation. Experiments have shown that colors, partly because of their physiological association – als
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