单选题 Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 3? In boxes 34-40 on your answer sheet, writeTRUE if the statement agrees with the informationFALSE if the statement contradicts the informationNOT GIVEN if there is no information on this
单选题 The demand for ingenuity has been growing during the past 100 years.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】解析：利用细节信息“the past 100 years”定位于原文倒数第四段第一句话“the last century’s stunning changes in our societies and technologies have not just increased our needfor ingenuity；they have also produced a huge increase in its supply”，很明显原文这里提及过去的一个世纪(对应题目“the past 100 years”)里，我们社会和技术的变化不仅增加了我们对“ingenuity”的需求(对应题目“the demand for ingenuity has beengrowing”)，同时还增加了供给。题目与原文是同意表达，所以答案为True。
单选题 The ingenuity we have may be inappropriate for solving problems at hand.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】解析：利用顺序性原则和细节信息“solving problems at hand”定位于原文倒数第三段第三行“we can’t always rely on the fight kind of ingenuity appearing when and where we needit”和最后“…makes it hard to supply the ingenuity we need to solve problems associatedwith these systems”。原文明显提及我们的“ingenuity”不一定是“the right kind”(对应题目“inappropriate”)，而且也不能够解决我们的问题。题目与原文是同意表达，所以答案为True。
单选题 There are very few who can understand the complex systems of the present world.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】解析：利用细节信息“the complex systems of the present world”定位于原文倒数第三段中间“In many cases，the complexity and speed of operation of today’s vital economic，social，and ecological systems exceed the human brain’s grasp．Very few of us have more than arudimentary understanding of how these systems work”，也就是说这些系统如此之复杂，以至于往往超出人脑的理解范围，所以很少有人能有“a rudimentary understanding”。题目与原文是同意表达，所以答案为True。
单选题 More information will help us to make better decisions.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】解析：利用细节信息“More information”和顺序性原则定位于倒数第二段最后一句话“Thecrush of information in our everyday lives is shortening our attention span，limiting the timewe have to reflect on critical matters of public policy,and making policy arguments moresuperficial”，这里明显提及过多的信息往往会带来负面效果。题目信息与原文信息正好相反，所以答案为False。
单选题 The next generation will blame the current government for their conduct.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】解析：按照顺序性原则往下找，可是根本找不到任何关于“next generation”和“the currentgovernment”之间的信息。题目信息无法在原文信息的基础上进行判断，所以答案为Not Given。
单选题 Science tends to develop faster in certain areas than others.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】解析：利用细节信息“Science tends to develop faster”定位于原文最后一段中间“And science’s rate of advance depends on the characteristic of the natural phenomena it investi-gates，simply because some phenomena are intrinsically harder to understand than others，so the production of useful new knowledge in these areas can be very slow”。原文的意思是说科学的进步速度和它研究对象的特征相关，有些现象或领域就是比其他的现象或领域难，当然进步也就更加缓慢，这也就是说某些领域的科学发展会比其余领域快一些。题目信息是原文的简单归纳与推理，所以答案为True。
单选题 Social science develops especially slowly because it is not as important as natural science.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】解析：利用细节信息“social science”和顺序性原则定位于原文最后一段最后一句话“Progressinthe social sciences is especially slow,for reasons we don’t yet understand；but we desper-ately need better social scientific knowledge to build the sophisticated institutions today’sworld demands”，原文明显提及社会科学发展缓慢的原因目前尚未明确，同时肯定了社会科学的重要性(原文“we desperately need better social scientific knowledge”)。题目信息与原文信息正好相反，所以答案为False。