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mechanically. A. manually
B. automatically
C. artificially
D. synthetically
59. Most of ________ scientists know of the Sun's outer atmosphere comes from studies of solar
eclipses (日蚀). A. that B. what
C. which
D. those
60. On the day of my ________, all my friends in the city came to see me off.
A. adventure
B. absence
C. departure
D. arrival
Part 5 Reading Comprehension (Multiple Choice)
(Each item: 2)
Directions:Read the following passages carefully and choose the best answer from the
four choices marked A, B, C and D.
Questions 61 to 65 are based on the same passage or dialog.
Real policemen, both in Britain and the United States, hardly recognize any resemblance (相似)
between their lives and what they see on TV-if they are even able to watch TV.
The first difference is that in real life a policeman has been trained in criminal law. He has to know exactly what actions are crimes and what evidence can be used to prove them in court. He will spend most of his working life typing millions of words on thousands of forms about hundreds of sad, unimportant people who are guilty-or not-of stupid, petty (不重要的) crimes. Most television crime drama is about finding the criminal: as soon as he's arrested, the story is over. In real life, finding criminals is seldom much of a problem. Except in very serious cases like murders and terrorist attacks-where failure to produce results reflects on the standing of the police-little effort is spent on searching.
A third big difference is between the drama detective and the real life ones. Detectives are subject to two opposing pressures: first, as members of a police force they always have to behave with absolute legality (合法); secondly, as expensive public servants they have to get results. They can hardly ever do both. Most of the time some of them have to break the rules in small ways. If the detective has to deceive the world, the world often deceives him. Hardly anyone he meets tells him the truth. And this separation the detective feels between himself and the rest of the world is deepened by the simplemindedness-as he sees it-of citizens, social workers, doctors,
law-makers, and judges, who, instead of stamping out crime, punish the criminals less severely in the hope that this will make them reform. The result, detectives feel, is that nine-tenths of their time is spent re-catching people who should have stayed behind bars. This makes them rather cynical.
61. It is essential for a policeman to be trained in criminal law ________.
A. so that he can catch criminals in the streets
B. because many of the criminals he has to catch are dangerous
C. so that he can justify his arrests in court
D. because he has to know nearly as much about law as a professional lawyer
62. The everyday life of a policeman or detective is ________.
A. exciting and mysterious
B. full of danger
C. devoted mostly to routine matters
D. wasted on unimportant matters
63. When murders and terrorist attacks occur the police ________.
A. prefer to wait for the criminal to give himself away
B. work hard to track down the criminals
C. try to make a quick arrest in order to keep up their reputation
D. usually fail to produce results
64. The real detective lives in an unusual moral climate because ________.
A. he is an expensive public servant
B. he must always behave with absolute legality
C. he is obliged to break the law in order to preserve it
D. he feels himself to be cut off from the rest of the world
65. Detectives are rather cynical because ________.
A. nine-tenths of their work involves arresting people
B. hardly anyone tells them the truth
C. society does not punish criminals severely enough
D. D too many criminals escape from jail
Questions 66 to 70 are based on the same passage or dialog.
Silence is unnatural to man. He begins life with a cry and ends it in stillness. In the interval he does all he can to make a noise in the world, and there are few things of which he stands in more fear than of the absence of noise. Even his conversation is in great measure a desperate attempt to prevent a dreadful (可怕的) silence. He knows that ninety-nine percent of human conversation means no more than the buzzing (发出嗡嗡声) of a fly, but he longs to join the buzz and to prove that he is a man and not a waxwork figure. The object of conversation is not, for the most part, to communicate ideas. It is to keep up the buzzing sound. There are, it must be admitted, different
qualities of buzz: there is even a buzz that is as exasperating (使人恼怒的) as the continuous ping (砰声) of a mosquito. But at a dinner party one would rather be a mosquito than a mute (哑巴). Most buzzing, fortunately, is agreeable to the ear, and some of it is agreeable even to the mind. He would be a foolish man, however, who waited until he had a wise thought to take part in the buzzing with his neighbors.
Those who despise (看不起) the weather as a conversational opening seem to me to be ignorant of the reason why human beings wish to talk. Very few human beings join in a conversation in the hope of learning anything new. Some of them are content if they are merely allowed to go on making a noise into other people's ears, though they have nothing to tell them except that they have seen two or three new plays or that they have had food in a Swiss hotel. At the end of an evening during which they have said nothing at immense length, they are proud of themselves on their success as conversationalists.
66. The significance of man's speaking ability is that ________.
A. it proves his existence as a man
B. it raises his position as a man
C. it makes him enjoy meaningful conversations
D. it gets him out of trouble
67. The statement that \
buzzing of a fly\
A. most of the human conversations are inspiring and instructive
B. most of the human conversations are as irritating as the noise made by a fly
C. most of the human conversations can be dismissed as meaningless
D. most of the human conversations can be regarded as the effective activities
68. According to the passage, a man will look silly if he ________.
A. makes mistakes in the conversation
B. feels reluctant to join in the conversation