【正文】 共兩節(jié)，滿分 40 分） 第一節(jié) （共 15 小題；每小題 2 分，滿分 30 分） 閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)（ ABCD）中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)。 that is, people are learning how to anize huge quantities of information so that they are able to access it at a later date. This doesn39。s attitude C． describe how to use the Inter D． explain how to store information 26． What can we learn about the first experiment? A． The Sparrow39。s research? A． We are using memory differently. B． We are being more intelligent. C． We have poorer memories than before. D． We need a better way to access information. C One of the greatest gifts one generation can give to other generations is the wisdom it has gained from experience. This idea has inspired the awardwinning photographer Andrew Zuckerman. He interviewed and took photos of fifty oversixtyfiveyearolds all over the world. His project explores various aspects of their lives. The photos and interviews are now availab le on our website. Click on the introductions to read the plete interviews. Let us now have a culture of peace. 一 Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Spain Federico Mayor Zaragoza obtained a doctorate in pharmacy (藥學(xué) ） from the Complutense Uni versity of Madrid in 1958. After many years spent in politics, he became DirectorGeneral of UNESCO in 1987. In 1999， he created the Foundation for a Culture of Peace, of which he is now the president. In addition to many scientific publications, he has published four collections of poems and several books of essays. Writing is a discovery. 一 Nadine Gordimer， South Africa Due to a weak heart, Nadine Gordimer attended school and university briefly. She read widely and began writing at an early age. She published her first short story at the age of fifteen, and has pleted a large number of works,which have been translated into forty 1991Gordimer won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Jazz is about the only form of art today. —Dave Brubeck, USA Dave Brubeck studied music at the University of the Pacific and graduated in 1942. After World War Two he was encouraged to play jazz. In 1951,he recorded his first album (專輯 ).Brubeck’s 1959 album has bee a jazz received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996. For more figures CLICK HERE. did Andrew Zuckerman choose the fifty elders for his project? their acplishments inspired him. they are physically impressive. their wisdom deserves to be passed on. they have similar experiences. to the web page, Federico Mayor Zaragoza . won many awards for his work in politics served as the president of a university devoted all his life to the field of science made achievements in different areas most probably said ―My education has been the library and books‖ in the interview when reflecting on his/her experience? A. Andrew Zuckerman. B. Federico Mayor Zaragoza. Gordimer. D. Dave Brubeck. is the main purpose of this web page? publicize Zuckerman’s project. show Zuckerman’s awards. spread the wisdom of the three people. celebrate the achievements of the three people. D As early as the mid18th century, some people began raising doubts about Marco Polo’s t ravels. In 1995,historian Frances Wood argued in her book Did Marco Polo Go to China ? that the famous explorer from Venice never made it to pass the Black Sea. She noted that his travel journal left out the Great Wall of China,chopsticks and tea drinking among other , Chinese documents from Polo’s day made no mention of the explorer and his men. Last year, a team of Italian researchers became the latest to challenge Polo’s accounts. They said that evidence didn’t suppo rt his description of Kublai Khan’s Japanese invasions (侵略 ） . Now, however, research by Hans Ulrich Vogel of Germany’s Tubingen University might help prove Marco Polo was true. In a new book Marco Polo Was in China， the professor of Chinese history tries to prove that Marco Polo spoke the truth. He suggests, for example, that Polo didn’t include the Great Wall in his book because it only achieved its great importance in the Ming Dynasty several hundred years later. Vogel further explains that Chinese records from the 13th and 14th centuries avoided setting down visits from Westerners. Historians before him have touched on these issues. But Vogel also relies on another evidence:the explorer’s very detailed descriptions of currency and salt production in the Yuan Dynasty. According to Vogel, Polo documented these aspects of Mongol Chinese culture in greater detail than any other of his time. This is a hint that Polo relied on his own powers of observation. Will we ever know whether Marco Polo traveled to China? Perhaps not, but the consequences of his real or fictional journey are still felt across the globe. One reader of The travels of Marco Polo was Christopher Columbus,who stepped upon the New World while following his idol’s footsteps. Wood doubted Marco Polo’s travel’s to China because his description .[來(lái) 源 : x .k .Co m] some important culture of China B. covered s