bus-conductors, scientists and presidents of countries they have often put men to shame. And we must remember that they frequently succeed brilliantly in all these fields in addition to bearing and rearing children.
Yet men go on maintaining the fiction that there are many jobs women can‘t don Top-level political negotiation between countries, business and banking are almost entirely controlled by men ,who jealously guard their so=called ?rights‘. Even in otherwise enlightened places like Switzerland women haven‘t even been given the cote. This situation is preposterous! The arguments that men put forward to exclude women from there fields are all too familiar. Women, they say, are unreliable and irrational. They depend too little on cool reasoning and too much on intuition and instinct to arrive at decisions. They are not even capable of thinking clearly. Yet when women prove their abilities, men refuse to acknowledge them and give them their due. So much for a man‘s ability to think clearly!
The truth is that men cling to their supremacy because of their basic inferiority complex. They shun real competition. They know in their hearts that women are superior and they are afraid of being beaten at their own game. One of the most important tasks in the world is to achieve peace between the nations. You can be sure that if women were allowed to sit round the conference table, they would succeed brilliantly, as they always do, there men have failed for centuries. Some things are too important to be left to men! 5. What does the first sentence imply? A. It is not really an enlightened age. B. It is different from an enlightened age. C. It the same as an enlightened age. D. It is like an enlightened age.
6. Why do men carry on the sex war against women? A. Because of their inferiority. B. Because they shun real competition. C. Because of their claim to supremacy. D. Because they still look down upon women.
7. The word ―fiction‖ is closest in meaning to . A. Novel B. man-made idea
C. False idea D. Story
8. What is the main argument men have raised against women? A. Women are lack of cold reasoning. B. They depend on intuition too much. C. They are unreliable and irrational. D. They are too conscientious.
Passage three
Perhaps all criminals should be required to carry cards which read: Fragile: Handle with Care. It will never do, theses days, to go around referring to criminals as violent thugs. You must refer to them politely as ―social misfits‖. The professional killer who wouldn‘t think twice about using his club or knife to batter some harmless old lady to death in order to rob her of her meager life-savings must never be given a dose of his own medicine. He is in need of ―hospital treatment‖. According to his misguided defenders, society is to blame. A wicked society breeds evil – or so the argument goes. When you listen to this kind of talk, it makes you wonder why aren‘t all criminals. We have done away with the absurdly harsh laws of the nineteenth century and this is only right. But surely enough is enough. The most senseless piece of criminal legislation in Britain and a number of other countries has been the suspension of capital punishment.
The violent criminal has become a kind of hero-figure in our time. He is glorified on the screen; he is pursued by the press and paid vast sums of money for his ―memoirs‖. Newspapers which specialise in crime reporting enjoy enormous circulations and the publishers of trashy cops and robbers stories or ―murder mysteries‖ have never had it so good. When you read about the achievements of the great train robbers, it makes you wonder whether you are reading about some glorious resistance movement. The hardened criminal is cuddled and cosseted by the sociologists on the one hand and adored as a hero by the masses on the other. It‘s no wonder he is a privileged person who expects and receives VIP treatment wherever he goes.
Capital punishment used to be a major deterrent. It made the violent robber think twice before pulling the trigger. It gave the cold-blooded prisoner something to ponder about while he was shaking up or serving his arsenic cocktail. It prevented unarmed policemen from being killed
while pursuing their duty by killers armed with automatic weapons. Above all, it protected the most vulnerable members of society, young children, from brutal violence. It is horrifying to think that the criminal can literally get away with murder. We all know that ―life sentence‖ does not mean what it says. After ten years or so of good conduct, the most desperate villain is free to return to society where he will live very comfortably, thank you, on the proceeds of his crime, or he will go on committing offences until he is caught again. People are always willing to hold liberal views at the expense of others. It‘s always fashionable to pose as the defender of the under-dog, so long as you, personally, remain unaffected. Did the defenders of crime, one wonders, in their desire for fair-play, consult the victims before they suspended capital punishment? Hardly, you see, they couldn‘t, because all the victims were dead. 9. According to the passage, which of the following is the author‘s opinion? B A. All criminals should be required to carry cards which read: Fragile: Handle with Care. B. Capital punishment is the only way to deter criminals. C. Society is to blame.
D. All criminals need hospital treatment.
10. The tone taken by the author towards these defenders of crime in the passage is . A A. ironical. B. critical. C. agitated. D. controversial. 33. ―Capital punishment‖ most probably means . D A. life sentence. B. severe punishment C. fine. D. sentence of death 11. The word ―deterrent‖ in the third paragraph refers to . A. something fearsome that can prevent or discourage from acting B. an influencing or determining element or factor C. a cleansing substance
D. A catch that locks the movement of one part of a mechanism. 12. Which of the following is true according to the passage? A
A. There has been a marked trend in society towards the humane treatment of less fortunate members.
B. Everybody in society thinks it reasonable that all criminals should be punished. C. The author sympathizes with all criminals. D. Robbers usually think twice before shooting.
Passage Four
In order to combat sickness, many doctors rely heavily on prescribing medicines that are developed and aggressively advertised by pharmaceutical companies. Significantly, the world market for such drugs has skyrocketed in recent decades, from just a few billion dollars a year to hundreds of billions of dollars annually. What has been a consequence?
Medically prescribed drugs have helped many people. Yet, the health of some who take drugs has either remained unchanged or become worse. So, recently some have turned to using other methods of medical treatment.
In places where modern, conventional medicine has been the standard of care, many are now turning to what have been called alternative, or complementary, therapies. \has long divided alternative therapies from mainstream medicine appears to be crumbling.\Consumer Reports of May 2000.
The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) observed. \medical therapies such as the use of herbs, functionally defined as interventions neither taught widely in medical schools nor generally available in U. S. hospitals, have attracted increased national attention from the media, the medical community, governmental agencies, and the public, \
In the past, conventional medical practitioners have been skeptical about alternative medical practices, but 75 medical schools in the United States currently offer elective course work on alternative medicine, including Harvard. Stanford. University of Arizona, and Yale.
JAMA noted. \condition also used an alternative therapy. And outside the United States, alternative medicine is popular throughout the industrialized world. \
The trend toward integrating alternative therapies with conventional ones has long been a general practice in many countries. As JAMA concluded, \are no longer two types of medicine, conventional and complementary. There is only good medicine and bad medicine. \13. This passage suggests that pharmaceutical companies . D A. pay doctors for prescribing their drugs
B. have raised the prices of their products sharply in recent years
C. spend more money on their advertisements than on their products D. have produced some ineffective drugs
14. The sentence \ .A A. the restrictions on the practice of alternative therapies will be abolished B. there are still strict restrictions on the practice of alternative drugs C. conventional medicine and alternative therapies are incomparable
D. conventional medicine and alternative therapies are completely different remedies 15. According to the passage, alternative therapies A. B. C. D.
.C
axe widely taught in the U. S. medical schools now have been approved by U. S. government have been used by many American patients are as popular as conventional medicine
16. It is implied in the passage that .C A. we should take as little western medicine as possible B. the prices of the prescribed medicine should be reduced C. herbal medicine will be accepted by more Americans
D. without the help of alternative medicine, good health can not he guaranteed
Passage Five
Singletons, referring to those who live alone, are being comforted by well-meaning friends and family and told that not having a partner is not the end of the world. So, it would seem that they can say, yes, it is not. But no, in fact, it is the end.
A gloomy study has just been released that says that the international trend towards living alone is putting an unprecedented strain on our ecosystem.
For a number of reasons—relationship breakdown, career choice, longer life spans, smaller families—the number of individual households is growing. And this is putting intolerable pressure on natural resources, and accelerating the extinction of endangered plant and animal species. And there is worse news. Running a refrigerator, television, cooker, plumbing system just for selfish