[单项选择]Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.
If a mother pushes her small son in a swing (秋千), giving only a light force each time he returns, eventually he will be swingirg.quite high. The child can do this for himself by using his legs to increase the motion, but both the mother’s push and the child’s leg movements must occur at the proper moment, or the extent of the swing will not increase. In physics, increasing the swiag is increasing the amplitude (振幅); the length of the rope on the swing determines its natural oscillation (摆动) period. This ability of an object to move periodically or to vibrate when stimulated by a force operating in its natural period is called resonance.
Resonance is observed many times without consciously thinking about it; for example, one may find an annoying vibration or shimmy in an automobile, caused by a loose engine mount vibrating with increasing amplitude because of an out of-round tire. The bulge (凸出部分) on t
A. if the engine moves too fast
B. if the engine’s amplitude increases
C. if a tire gets out of balance
D. if damage occurs in the engine

[单项选择]Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
You’re busy filling out the application form for a position you really need. Let’s assume you once actually completed a coup e of years of college work or even that you completed your degree. Isn’t it tempting to lie just a little, to claim on the form that your diploma represents a Harvard degree Or that you finished an extra couple of years back at State University Mort and more people are turning to utter deception like this to land their job or to move ahead in their careers, for personnel officers, like most Americans, value degrees from famous schools. A job applicant may have a good education anyway, but he or she assumes that chances of being hired are better with a diploma from a well-known university.
Registrars at most well-known colleges say they deal with deceitful claims like these at the rate of about one per week. Personnel officers do check up on degrees listed on application forms
A. students attend a school only part-time
B. students never attended a school they listed on their application
C. students purchase false degrees from commercial firms
D. students attended a famous school

[单项选择]Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
Before refrigerators, homes usually had ice boxes. But (47) way to keep food cool without the need for electricity is to use an evaporative cooler. This is easy to make and does not even use (48) .
A. Cold (54) in a freezer, however, can keep foods in good condition fox months after the (55) season. Yet foods can be damaged if they are kept too cold The British development group Practical Action says the best way to prepare foods for storage is at (56) time while still in the field. Use a sharp knife to avoid damage.

• stayI) covered
• B) storageJ) under
• C) harvest
  B. K) water
• other
  C. L) cold
• growing
  D. M) air
• another
  E. N) preparation
• ice
  F. O) take
• cool

[单项选择]Questions 11 to 14 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions.
Now, listen to the passage.

When Rod Laver got behind, he would
A. play a "safe" game.
B. become nervous.
C. forget what the score was.
D. play a relaxed game.

[单项选择]Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.
Researchers have created a "beauty machine" they say can turn a woman’s photo into the likeness of a cover model with the push of a button. The goal is not just to toy with pictures. Sure, the new computer software could help editors distort magazine cover photos even more than they already do. But it could also guide plastic surgeons (整形医师) in efforts to achieve some perceived level of perfection in a patient. Or the software might even be incorporated into future digital cameras to make us all appear gorgeous, the researchers suggest.
Attractiveness—for men or women--can be objectified by a computer and boiled down to a function of mathematical distances or ratios, Cohen-Or said, admitting that the work is likely to be controversial. "Beauty can be quantified by mathematical measurements and ratios. It can be deigned as average distances between features, which a majority of people agree are the mo
A. the new computer software to create beauty
B. advantages of the new computer software
C. how to use the new computer software
D. people’s opinions about beauty

[单项选择]Questions 14 to 17 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions.
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What is the purpose of Winfred’s research
A. The components of tears.
B. Why some people cry more often than others.
C. How tears help us deal with emotional problems.
D. Whether crying really helps people reduce stress.

[单项选择]Questions 17 to 20 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions.
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At first country music was popular mainly in the ______.
A. South
B. Northeast and West
C. factories in Midwest
D. South and Northeast

[单项选择]Questions 18 to 20 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.
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When the torch relay was introduced into the Olympic Games
A. In the year of 1920.
B. In the year of 1936.
C. In the year of 1956.
D. In the year of 1965.

[单项选择]
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.
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One solution to the world’s food shortage problem could be found in ______.
A. foods from non-food materials
B. foods in plastic tubes
C. freeze-dried foods
D. eatable food packages