【正文】 sunflower seeds into the covers so far. But we are working with plant (56) to find out which flowers would perform best. Maybe we could put roses in next time, said one scientist.[A] Recently [I] experts[B] consumers [J] forms[C] chemicals [K] bury[D] environment [L] paper[E] bine [M] scholar[F] transparent [N] plastic[G] buy [O] Usually[H] panionSection BDirections: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked [A], [B], [C] and [D]. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the center.Passage One It is difficult to imagine what life would be like without memory. The meanings of thousands of everyday perceptions, the basis for the decisions we make, and the roots of our habits and skills are to be found in our past experiences, which are brought into the present by memory. Memory can be defined as the capacity to keep information available for later use. It not only includes remembering things like arithmetic or historical facts, but also involves any change in the way an animal typically behaves. Memory is involved when a rat gives up eating grain because he has sniffed (嗅出) something suspicious in the grain pile. Memory exists not only in humans and animals but also in some physical objects and machines. Computers, for example, contain devices for storing data for later use. It is interesting to pare the memory storage capacity of a puter with that of a human being. The instant access memory of a large puter may hold up to 100,000 wordsstring of alphabetic or numerical charactersready for instant use. An average . teenager probably recognizes the meaning of about 100,000 words of English. However, this is but a fraction of the total amount of information that the teenager has stored. Consider, for example, the number of faces and places that the teenager can recognize on sight. The use of words is the basis of the advanced problemsolving intelligence of human beings. A large part of a person39。s memory is in terms of words and binations of words. But while language greatly expands the number and the kind of things a person can remember, it also requires a huge memory capacity. It may well be this capacity that distinguishes humans, setting them apart from other animals.57. Which of the following is TRUE about memory? [A] It helps us perceive things happening around us every day. [B] It is based on the decisions we made in the past. [C] It is rooted in our past habits and skills. [D] It connects our past experiences with the present.58. According to the passage, memory is helpful in one39。s life in the following aspects EXCEPT that ______ . [A] it involves a change in one39。s behavior [B] it keeps information for later use [C] it warns people not to do things repeatedly [D] it enables one to remember events that happened in the past59. What is the author39。s view about puters and human beings in terms of intelligence? [A] Computers have better memory than a child does. [B] Computers are as intelligent as a teenager is. [C] Computers can understand as many as 100,000 words. [D] Human beings are far superior to puters.60. What is the major characteristic of man39。s memory capacity according to the author? [A] It can be expanded by language. [B] It can remember all the bined words. [C] It may keep all the information in the past. [D] It may change what has been stored in it.61. Human beings make themselves different from other animals by ______ . [A] having the ability to perceive danger [B] having a far greater memory capacity [C] having the ability to recognize faces and places on sight [D] having the ability to draw on past experiencesPassage Two Family is of course an elastic word. But when British people say that their society is based on family life, they are thinking of family in its narrow, peculiarly European sense of mother, father and children living together alone in their own house as an economic and social unit. Thus, every British marriage indicates the beginning of a new and independent familyhence the tremendous importance of marriage in British life. For both the man and the woman, marriage means leaving one39。s parents and starting one39。s own life. The man39。s first duty will then be to his wife, and the wife39。s to her husband. He will be entirely responsible for her financial support, and she for the running of the new home. Their children will be their mon responsibility and theirs alone. Neither the wife39。s parents nor the husband39。s, nor their brothers or sisters, aunts or uncles, have any right to interfere with themthey are their own masters. Readers of novels like Jane Austen39。s Pride and Prejudice will know that in former times marriage among wealthy families was arranged by the girl39。s parents, that is, it was the parents39。 duty to find a suitable husband for their daughter, preferably a rich. one, and by skillful encouragement to lead him eventually to ask their permission to marry her. Until that time, the girl was protected and maintained in the parents39。 home, and the financial relief of getting rid of her could be seen in their giving the newly married pair a sum of money called a dowry (嫁妝). It is very different today. Most girls of today get a job when they leave school and bee financially independent before their marriage. This has had two results: a girl chooses her own husband, and she gets no dowry.62. What does the author mean by 39。Family39。 is of course an