阅读理解Passage 3 New technology links the world as never before

阅读理解Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. For each of them there are four choices marked A., B., C. and D. You should decide on the best choice.Passage 1A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a rule, to have it retold in identically the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as sacred texts. It is always much better to tell a story than to read it out of a book and, if a parent can produce an improvement on the printed text, so much the better.A charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or arousing his sadistic impulses. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy stories were more often guilty of cruelty than those who had not. On the whole, their symbolic verbal discharge seems to be rather a safety valve than an incitement to overt action. As to fears, there are, I think, well-authenticated cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises from the child having been told the story on only one occasion. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true, that giants, witches, two-headed dragons, magic carpets, etc. do not exist; and that, instead of indulging his fantasies in fairy tales, the child should be taught how to adapt to reality by studying history and mechanics. I find such people, I must confess, so unsympathetic and peculiar that I do not know how to argue with them. If their case were sound, the world should be full of madmen attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a broomstick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their enchanted girlfriend.No fairy story ever claimed to be a description of the external world and no sane child has ever believed that it was.

阅读理解Passage 1 Imagine a Hollywood movie with this plot: Lily Yang, a young widow, leaves Taiwan and immigrates to the United States, hoping her son Chih-Yuan will have a better life there

阅读理解Passage D Petroleum products, such as gasoline, kerosene, home heating oil, residual fuel oil, and lubricating oils, come from one sourcecrude oil found below the earths surface, as well as under large bodies of water, from a few hundred feet below the surface to as deep as 25,000 feet into the earths interior

阅读理解Passage 2 Open up most fashion magazines and you will see incredibly thin models with impossible hair and wearing unreasonably expensive, impracticably styled clothes

阅读理解She sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue

阅读理解Passage 2 People do not analyze every problem they meet

阅读理解Methodology should be based on what we know about language (what it is and how it operatesstill a matter of controversy); what we know about human beings (how they learn and how they learn language and whether these are different processes or merely different manifestations of the same process, another question still under investigation); and what we know about people in interaction (a prolific area of psychological study)

阅读理解Passage 3 A controversy erupted in the scientific community in early 1998 over the use of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) fingerprinting in criminal investigations

阅读理解Passage One Harvard thrilled middle-class patents last week by capping its tuition for families with incomes of up to $180,000 at 10 percent of their earnings

阅读理解PASSAGE THREE In the cause of equal rights, feminists have had much to complain about

阅读理解Passage 2 In bringing up children, every parent watches eagerly the childs acquisition of each new skill-the first spoken words, the first independent steps, or the beginning of reading and writing

阅读理解PASSAGE TWO Berkeley seems like a fitting place to find the godfather of the openinnovation movement basking in glory

阅读理解Without reservation, I applaud the freer patterns of today, although I believe that its been difficult for some families to handle the changes

阅读理解Passage One Computing clouds essentially digital-service factories一are the first truly global utility, accessible from all corners of the planet

阅读理解Why do we make friends? Students of animal behavior have pointed out that social attraction has an obvious adaptive function: it helps a species both to protect and to reproduce itself

阅读理解The story began on a downtown Brooklyn street corner

阅读理解Passage Two In eighteenth-century France and England, reformers rallied around egalitarian ideals, but few reformers advocated higher education for women

阅读理解I am one of the many city people who are always saying that given the choice we would prefer to live in the country away from the dirt and noise of a large city

阅读理解Passage One Sometime late last year, I noticed I was having trouble sitting down to read