Money is a highly开头的阅读理解
Directions: In this ction, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to lect 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 the bank is identified by a letter. Plea mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not u any of the words in the bank more than once.
Questions 47 to 56 are bad on the following passage.
There’s no question that the Earth is getting hotter. The real questions are: How much of the warming is our fault, and are we (47) to slow the devastation by controlling our insatiable (48) for fossil fuels?
Global warming can em too (49) to worry about, or too uncertain-something projected by the same computer (50) that often can’t get next week’s weather right. On a raw winter day
you might think that a few degrees of warming wouldn’t be such a bad thing anyway. And no doubt about it: Warnings about (51) change can sound like an environmentalist scare tactic, meant to force us out of our cars and restrict our lifestyles.
Comforting thoughts, perhaps. Unfortunately, however, the Earth has some discomforting news. From Alaska to the snowy peaks of the Andes the world is heating up right now, and fast. Globally, the (52) is up 1°F over the past century, but some of the coldest, most remote spots have warmed much more. The results aren’t pretty. Ice is (53), rivers are running dry, and coasts are (54), threatening communities.
The (55)are happening largely out of sight. But they shouldn’t be out of mind, becau they are omens of what’s in store for the (56) of the planet.
A. remote B. techniques C. consisting D. rest E. willing
F. climate G. skill H. appetite I. melting J. vanishing
K. eroding L. temperature M. curiosity N. changes O. skillful
Section B
Directions: There are 2 passages in this ction. 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 centre.
Passage One
Questions 57 to 61 are bad on the following passage.
My father’s reaction to the bank building at 43rd Street and Fifth Avenue in New York city was immediate and definite: “You won’t catch me putting my money in there!” he declared, “Not in that glass box!”
Of cour, my father is a gentleman of the old school, a member of the generation to whom a good deal of modern architecture is uptting, but I am convinced that his negative respon was not so much to the architecture as to a violation of his concept of t
he nature of money. In his generation money was thought of as a real commodity(实物) that could be carried, or stolen. Conquently, to attract the custom of a nsible man, a bank had to have heavy walls, barred windows, and bronze doors, to affirm the fact, however untrue, that money would be safe inside. If a building’s design made it appear impenetrable, the institution was necessarily reliable, and the meaning of the heavy wall as an architecture symbol dwelt in the prevailing attitude toward money.
But the attitude toward money has, of cour, changed. Excepting pocket money, cash of any kind is now rarely ud; money as a tangible commodity has largely been replaced by credit. A deficit(赤字) economy, accompanied by huge expansion, has led us to think of money as product of the creative imagination. The banker no longer offers us a safe: he offers us a rvice in which the most valuable element is the creativity for the invention of large numbers. It is in no way surprising, in view of this change in attitude, that we are witnessing the disappearance of the heavy-walled bank.
Just as the older bank emphasized its strength, this bank by its architecture boasts of ima
ginative powers. From this point of view it is hard to say where architecture ends and human asrtion(人们的说法) begins.
57. The main idea of this passage is that_______.
A) money is not as valuable as it was in the past
B) changes have taken place in both the appearance and the concept of banks
C) the architectural style of the older bank is superior to that of the modern bank
D) prejudice makes the older generation think that the modern bank is unreliable
58. How do the older generation and the younger one think about money?
A) The former thinks more of money than the latter.
B) The younger generation values money more than the older generation.
C) Both generations rely on the imaginative power of bankers to make money.
D) To the former money is a real commodity but to the latter the means of producing more money.
59. The word “tangible” (Line 2, Para. 4) refers to something _______.
A) that is precious B) that is usable
C) that can be touched D) that can be reproduced
