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Section B
Passage One
Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.
26. [A] The degree of violence in programs is too high.
[B] There shouldn’t be any commercials on television.
[C] Watching too much television is undesirable for children.
[D] Television programs in the United States are of low quality.
27. [A] A recreational program.[B] An educational program.
[C] A program for cartoons.[D] A program for commercials.
28. [A] They will become inactive and dull.
[B] They will not go to cinemas as often.
[C] They will forget to do their homework.
[D] They will imitate what they see in the programs.
Passage Two
Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.
29. [A] Different kinds of crimes.
[B] Increasingly high crime rate in the U.S.
[C] Seasonal changes in the natural environment.
[D] The relations between changes in the season and crime patterns.
30. [A] February. [B] May. [C] July. [D] August.
31. [A] Few people get married in June.
[B] Most people read serious books in summer.
[C] More people have mental problems in June than in other months.
[D] One is most likely to make the best performance on examinations in summer.
Passage Three
Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
32. [A] It is harmful to the body only.
[B] It is good to personal relationship.
[C] It is harmful to the body and mind.
[D] It is a good change after idling for a long time.
33. [A] Personal relationships should come after one’s job.
[B] People should care more about their personal relationships and relaxation.
[C] When a job is very important, relaxation should be forgotten.
[D] Personal relationships can help people do their jobs well.
34. [A] He should relax and have a chat with friends while working.
[B] He should not relax until he finishes his work.
[C] He should play hard to fully relax himself.
[D] He should shift some of his work to his colleagues.
35. [A] Work and play are different activities.
[B] Work and play should be combined together.
[C] People should play more and work less.
[D] People should work more and play less.
Section B
Passage One
Children in the United States are exposed to many influences other than that of their families. Television is the most significant of these influences, because the habit of watching television usually begins before children start attending school. And, by the time that the average child finishes high school, he or she will have spent 18,000 hours in front of a television set as opposed to 12,000 hours in a classroom.
Parents are concerned about these figures. They are also concerned about the lack of quality in television programs for children. The degree of violence in many of these shows also worries them.
Even if it is unreal — a cartoon cat beating up a cartoon mouse with a baseball bat — this violence may have a negative effect on the young minds exposed to it. Studies indicate that, when children are exposed to violence, they may become aggressive or insecure.
Parents are also concerned about the commercials that their children see on television. Many parents would like to see fewer commercials during programs for children. And some parents feel that these shows should not have commercials at all because young minds are not mature enough to deal with the claims made by advertisers.
Educational television has no commercials and has programs for children that many parents approve of. The most famous of these is “Sesame Street”, which tries to give preschool children a head start in learning the alphabet and numbers. It also tries to teach children useful things about the world in which they live.
Even though most parents and educators give “Sesame Street” and shows like it high marks for quality, some critics argue that all television, whether educational or not, is harmful to children. These critics feel that the habit of watching hours of television a day turns children into bored and passive consumers of their world rather than encouraging them to become active explorers of it.
Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.
26. What is the main idea of the passage?
【解析】選[C]。在聽錄音之前，預覽四個選項可知本文與電視帶來的負面影響有關。至于是對哪一方面的負面影響，既要根據主題句區分，還需要根據文章內容進行辨別。
27. According to the passage, what do you think “Sesame Street” is?
【解析】選[B]。預讀選項可知此題詢問的是電視節目的類型。The most famous of these is “Sesame Street”...為答案的依據，其中的these指的就是educational programs.
28. What will be the consequence if a child forms a habit of watching hours of television every day?
【解析】選[A]。預讀選項可知此題詢問的是They將會發生什么行為或變成怎樣的狀態，需要留意對動作和狀態的描述。答案依據為：These critics feel that the habit of watching hours of television day turns children into bored and passive consumers of their world rather than encouraging them to become active explorers of it. 選項[A]中bored ≈ 原文中的dull，passive ≈ inactive。
Passage Two
Crime has its own cycles, a magazine reported some years ago. Police records show a surprising relation between changes in the season and crime patterns.
The pattern of crime has changed very little over a long period of years. Murder reaches its high during July and August, as do other violent attacks. Murder, in addition, is more than seasonal; it is a weekend crime. It is also a nighttime crime: 62 percent of murders are committed between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. One is most likely to be robbed between 6 p.m. and 2 a.m. on a Saturday night in December, January, or February. Except for one strange statistic, May is the least criminal month of all.
Apparently our intellectual season cycles are completely different from our criminal patterns. Professor Huntington made a lot of studies to discover the seasons when people read serious books, attend scientific meetings, and make the highest scores on examinations. In all examples, he found a spring peak and an autumn peak separated by a summer low. On the other hand, Professor Huntington’s studies showed that June is the peak month for suicides and for admitting patients to mental hospital. June is also a peak month for marriages!
Possibly, high temperature and humidity bring on our strange and surprising summer actions, but police officers are not so sure. “There are, of course, no proof of a relation between humidity and murder”, they say. “Why murder’s high time should come in the summer time we really don’t know”.
