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Audit……………………………….. $ 12 Senior 65 +………………………… $ 8 Student full-time status with I. D….. $6 Children 12 & under……………….. Free 56. Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. All of the students should not pay $ 6 if they want to visit the museum. B. Using an audio guide is the only effective way to go around the museum. C. Meals can’t be enjoyed in the restaurant without reservation. D. The opening hours of the museum on weekdays are 8 hours. 57. What do we know about ceramics?
A. Ceramics in America and Europe is more advanced than that in Asia. B. Ceramics is an universal art form with the longest history.
C. Ceramics, to a large extent, is in connection with cultures in the globe. D. Ceramics is the foundation of other art forms.
B
In the North Star tattoo parlour in downtown Manhattan, Brittany shows off her ink: a Banksy-inspired pattern covering both feet. Now a student at New York University, she hopes to be a lawyer one day. “That’s why I got the tattoo on my feet,” she says. “It’s easy to hide.”
Once the preserve of prisoners, sailors and circus clowns, tattoos have now become a symbolic ritual of coming-of-age for many Americans. One in five adults has one, and two in five thirty-somethings. These days women with tattoos outnumber men. But what happens when these people look for work? Alas, not everyone is as clever as Brittany.
Though increasingly mainstream, tattoos still signal a certain rebelliousness that works against jobseekers, says Andrew Timming of the University of St Andrews in Scotland. In a forthcoming study, Mr Timming and colleagues asked participants lo assess job candidates based on their pictures, some of which were altered to add a neck tattoo. Inked candidates consistently ranked lower, despite being equally qualified. In a separate study Mr Timming found that many service-sector managers fell disgusted with apparent ink, particularly when filling jobs that involve dealing with customers.
Designs of flowers or butterflies were deemed comparatively acceptable. And some workplaces are more open-minded: a prison-services manager explained that having tattoos made it easier to bond with inmates. Firms with a younger clientele are also more tattoo-friendly. But by and large the more visible the tattoo, the more “unlikable” a candidate seemed—even if the boss had one.
Such prejudice may seem outdated, but it is not unfounded. Empirical studies have long linked tattoos with abnormal behaviour. People with inked skin are more likely to carry weapons, use illegal drugs and get arrested. The association is stronger for bigger tattoos, or when there are several, says Jerome Koch, a sociologist at Texas Tech University.
This may help explain the army’s recent decision to bring back old grooming standards. These restrict the size and number of tattoos, ban ink from the neck, head and hands, and bar body art that might be seen as racist, sexist or otherwise inappropriate. The change is intended to promote discipline and professionalism. But it is making it harder
to recruit to the army, says Major Tyler Stewart, who handles recruitment in Arizona. His battalion is turning away 50 tattooed people a week.
Some ambitious soldiers and other jobseekers are solving the problem by getting their ink removed. Tattoo-removal has rocketed 440% in the past decade, according to IBISWorld, a market-research firm. At the North Star, where Brittany’s friend is getting a question-mark inked on her wrist, the prospect of such buyer’s regret seems remote. “I don’t think it will help her job prospects,” observes Brittany, “but hopefully it won’t hurt, either.”
58. What’s the main idea of the passage?
A. The social prejudice agains, people with tattoos has been outdated in America. B. The body art of tattoo is growing more popular, but few employers are keen. C. People With tattoos have no chance of getting a satisfactory job.
D. Tattoo-removal has become increasingly popular because of employers’ preference for non-inked job-seekers.
59. The following statements are TRUE except that . A. there are more women with tattoos than men these days
B. people with bigger tattoos are strongly connected with committing abnormal behaviors C. when applying for jobs involving dealing with customers, candidates with apparent ink have the least advantage
D. the army has decided to bring back old grooming standards with the intention of eliminating racists and sexists
60. What can be inferred from Paragraph 4?
A. All of the workplaces don’t work against a candidate with tattoos nowadays. B. A prison-services manager without tattoos probably can’t bond with inmates. C. Finns with a younger clientele are more tattoo-friendly.
D. No boss will dismiss a candidate who has tattoos with designs of flowers or butterflies. 61. What’s Brittany attitude towards her friends, getting tattoos? A. Opposed. Indifferent.
C
B. Favorable.
C. Concerned.
D.
How did the zebra get his stripes? The question has been left lo zoologists. But they have let their imaginations wild. Some have suggested protective coloration. Others suggest they are a way to display an individual’s fitness. Irregular stripes would let potential mates know that someone was not up to snuff. One researcher proposed that stripes are to zebra what faces are to people, allowing them to recognise each other, since every animal has a unique stripe-print. Another even speculated that predators might get dizzy watching a herd of stripes gallop by.
There is, however, one other idea: that stripes are a sophisticated form of fly repel]enl. It was originally dreamed up in the 1980s, but never proved. Now, a team of investigators led by Gabor Horvath of Eotvos University in Budapest report in the Journal of Experimental Biology that they think they have done so.
The original suggestion was that stripes repel tsetse flies (舌蝇). These insects carry sleeping sickness, which is as much harmful for ungulates as it is for people. But tsetses are not the only enemies of zebra, since they are rarely found in the grassland of Hungary.
Dr Horvath opted for studying an almost equally obnoxious alternative: the horsefly. Horseflies, too, transmit disease. They also bile constantly, thus keeping grass-eating animals from their dinner. Indeed, previous research has shown that fly attacks on horses and cattle reduce their body fat and milk production. Such research has also shown something odd: horseflies attack black horses in preference to white ones. That fact got Dr Horvath wondering how they would react to a striped horse—in other words, a zebra.
Actual zebra are hard to experiment on. They insist on moving around and swishing their tails. The team therefore conducted their study using inanimate objects. Some were painted uniformly dark or uniformly light, and some had stripes of various widths. Some were plastic trays filled with salad oil. Some were glue-covered boards. And some were actual models of zebra. They put these objects in a field infested with horseflies and counted the number of insects they trapped. Their first discovery was that stripes attracted fewer flies than solid, uniform colours. As interestingly, though, they also found that the least attractive pattern of stripes was precisely those of the sort of width found on zebra hides.
Zebra stripes do, therefore, seem to repel horseflies. Exactly why is unclear. But Dr Horvath thinks it might be related to a horsefly’s ability to see polarised light (偏振光), which imposes a sense of horizontal and vertical on an image. Horseflies are known to prefer horizontal polarised light. Possibly, the mostly vertical stripes on a zebra confuse the fly’s tiny brain and thus stop it seeing the animal.
Another obvious question, though, is why other species have not evolved ill is elegant form of fly repellent, and what the consequences would have been if they had.
If humans, for example, were black-and-white striped, then the history of intercommunal violence the species has suffered when different races have met might not have been quite as bad. One for Kipling to have pondered, perhaps?
62. Which of the following is not true about zoologists, imagination about zebra stripes? A. The stripes can help zebras to recognize each other. B. The stripes are used to attract potential mates. C. The stripes protect zebras from being bitten by flies. D. The stripes increase zebras’ survival chances when in danger. 63. What does the underlined word “obnoxious” mean in Paragraph 4? A. Deadly. Common.
64. What can be inferred from the passage?
A. If bitten by horseflies, the horses and cattle reduce eating and producing milk. B. In the experiment, the stripes of various widths attracted the same number of horseflies.
C. If humans had involved into being black-and-white striped, there would have been less violence and suffering in human history.
D. According to Dr. Horvath, whether the zebra stripes are horizontal or vertical make a great difference.
65. Which might be the best title for the passage? A. Why zebras are striped
B. A new theory about zebra strips confirmed C. Zebra stripes and fly repellent
B. Infectious.
C. Annoying.
D.