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Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the center. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
Blue is the world's favorite color. It is also the color most often 47 with intellect and authority.
Most uniforms are blue. In Greek and Roman mythology, blue is the color of sky gods. In the Old Testament, God is 48 by deep blue. Blue and turquoise (青綠色)are represented by the Islamic religion. It is the 49 color in the mosques of the world.
Blue symbolizes truth, peace and cooperation. It is the color of the flag of the United Nations and of Europe. As the coolest color of the spectrum, it is the hue most likely to have a receding effect. As in the skies and water that 50 us, blue is seen as a peaceful and 51 color. Blue light has seen to 52 blood pressure by calming the nervous system hence relaxing the body and mind. Blue creates large airy spaces. It makes rooms bigger.
The wrong shade of blue can be uncomfortable. It can also be cold and sterile(枯燥的)unless 53 with warmer colors.
Light and soft blue makes us feel quiet and protected from the bustle(喧鬧)and 54 of the day. Blue bedrooms are restful. Blue bath rooms are appropriately watery. Blue 55 depth with greens and reds. Dark blue represents the night making us calm. Its apparently calming effect makes it the perfect tone for the quieter 56 of your living space.
[A] represented [I] activity
[B] engage [J] zones
[C] refreshing [K] foolish
[D] surround [L] line
[E] curved [M] acquires
[F] dominant [N] associated
[G]lower [O] rash
[H] balanced
Section B
Directions: There are 2 passages in the 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
Question 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
Most shoplifters (商店扒手)agree that the January sales offer wonderful opportunities for the hard-working thief. With the shops so crowded and the staff so busy, it does not require any extraordinary talent to help you to take one or two little things and escape unnoticed. It is known, in the business, as "hoisting".
But the hoisting game is not what it used to be. Even at the height of the sales, shoplifters today never know if they are being watched by one of those evil little balls that hang from the ceilings of so many department stores above the most desirable goods.
As if that was not trouble enough for them, they can now be filmed at work and obliged to attend a showing of their performance in court.
Selfridges was the first big London store to install closed-circuit videotape equipment to watch its sales floors. In October last year the store won its first court case for shoplifting using a evidence a videotape clearly showing a couple stealing dresses. It was an important test case which encouraged other stores to install similar equipment.
When the balls, called sputniks, first make an appearance in shops, it was widely believed that their only function was to frighten shoplifters. Their somewhat ridiculous appearances, the curious holes and red lights going on and off, certainly make the theory believable.
It did not take long, however, for serious shoplifters to start showing suitable respect. Soon after the equipment was in operation at Selfridges, store detective Brian Chadwick was sitting in the control room watching a woman secretly putting bottles of perfume into her bag.
"As she turned to go," Chadwick recalled, "she suddenly looked up at the 'sputnik' and stopped. She could not possibly have seen that the camera was trained on her because it is completely hidden, but she must have had a feeling that I was looking at her."
"For a moment she paused, but then she returned to counter and started putting everything back. When she had finished, she opened her bag towards the camera to show it was empty and hurried out of the store."
57. January is a good month for shoplifters because ________.
[A] they don't need to wait for staff to serve them
[B] they don't need any previous experience as thieves
[C] there are so many people in the store
[D] January sales offer wonderful opportunities for them
58. The sputniks hanging from the ceiling are intended ________.
[A] to watch the most desirable goods [C] to frighten shoplifters by their appearance
[B] to make films that can be used as evidence [D] to be used as evidence against shoplifters
59. The case last October was important because ________ .
[A] the store got the dresses back
[B] the equipment was able to frighten shoplifters
[C] other shops found out about the equipment
[D] the kind of evidence supplied was accepted by court
60. The woman stealing perfume ________.
[A] guessed what the sputniks were for [C] could see the camera filming her
[B] was frightened by its shape [D] knew that the detective had seen her
61. The woman's action before leaving the store shows that she ________.
[A] was sorry for what she had done
[B] was afraid she would be arrested
[C]decided she didn't want what she had picked up
[D] wanted to prove she had not intended to steal anything
Passage Two
Questions 62 to 66 are based in the following passage.
The largest shark known to us, Megalodon, is extinct. Or is it? Carcharodon Megalodon, commonly known as Megalodon, is believed to have lived between 1 million and 5 million years ago and thought to have been 52 feet long. It is (or was) a shark that had a jaw 7 or more feet wide. Fairly recently, there has been some speculation about whether it is extinct or just out of reach. But few people believe that Megalodon has found a home deep in the ocean.
There are many known "Living Fossils": Coelacanth, Sea Cucumbers, Sea Urchins, Lobsters, Sea Stars. The common ones like lobsters and sea urchins are not really looked on as anything amazing. They've been around for thousands of years or more, and are easily accessible to us. What if they weren't accessible and yet still existed? We would label them extinct. The discovery of a live Coelacanth, a fish long believed extinct, challenged some scientists' long-held beliefs on extinction. There have been recent discoveries of incredibly large squid, and deep-sea fish never before seen by scientists.
In the 1960s the U.S. Navy set up underwater microphones around the world to track Soviet submarines. The network, known as the Sound Surveillance System, still lies deep below the ocean's surface in a layer of water known as the "deep sound channel". The temperature and pressure of the channel allow sound waves to travel undisturbed. NOAA's Acoustic Monitoring Project has been using the Sound Surveillance System to listen for changes in ocean structure like ocean currents or volcanic activity. Most of the sounds recorded are common and of no concern. One sound, identified in 1977 by U.S. Navy "spy" sensors, was odd. It was obviously a marine animal but the call was more powerful than any of the calls made by any other reported sea creature. It was too big for a whale. Could it be a deep-sea monster? One possibility was a giant squid, but no one is sure. It was named "Bloop". Could it be Megalodon? If Megalodon is still alive down in the bottom of the ocean, we may some day soon discover it. Then what? Deep sea diving will never be the same, that's for sure!
62. The following is commonly known EXCEPT ________.
[A] Megalodon, the largest shark, is extinct
[B] Megalodon is not extinct but just out of reach
[C] Megalodon was 52 feet long and had a jaw 7 or more feet wide
[D] Megalodon lived between several million years ago.
63. What makes scientists doubt about the belief that Megalodon is extinct?
[A] The discovery of many "Living Fossils". [C] The discovery of a live Coelacanth.
[B] The discovery of the fossils of lobsters. [D] The discovery of the fossils of sea urchins.
64. What was special in their recorded sounds?
[A] To listen for changes in ocean structure.
[B] To listen for changes of ocean currents or volcanic activity.
[C] To Make sure whether there was a giant squid deep in the ocean.
[D] To follow the track of the Soviet warships under water.
65. What was special in their recorded sounds?
[A] A strange, powerful animal sound was heard. [C] A sea monster's sound was heard.
[B] A big whale's sound was heard. [D] A giant squid's sound was heard.
66. What can be concluded from the passage?
[A] Scientists' discoveries always change people's belief.
[B] There are too many secrets to be discovered.
[C] Megalodon may be still alive deep in the ocean.
[D] "Deep sound channel" allows sound waves to travel undisturbed.
