A．the way you handle major events may causestress

B．whatshould bedoneto avoid stress

C．whatkind of event wouldcause stress

D．how to copewith suddenchanges in life


82．Thestudies on stress in the early1970's led to______．
A．widespread concernover its harmful effects

B．great panicover the mental disorderit could cause

C．intensive researchinto stress-related illnesses

D．popular avoidance of stressful jobs


83．Thescore ofthe Holmes-Rahe test shows______．
A．how much pressure you areunder

B．howpositive events can change you life

C．howstressful a major event can be

D．how you candeal with life-changing events


84．Whyis “suchsimplistic advice” (Line 10．Para. 1)impossible to follow?
A．No onecan stayon thesame job for long．

B．Noprescription is effective in relievingstress．

C．People have toget married someday．

D．Youcouldbe missing opportunities aswell．


85． According to the passage people who have experienced ups and downs may become______．
A．nervous when facedwith difficulties

B．physically andmentally strained

C．more capableof copingwith adversity

D．indifferent toward whathappens to them


Passage 6
“Most episodes of absent-mindedness-forgetting where you lift something or wondering why you just entered a room-are caused by a simple lack of attention,” says Schacter. “You are supposed to remember something but you haven't encoded deeply.” Encoding, Schacter explains, is a special way of paying attention to an event that has a major impact on recalling it later. Failure to encode properly can create annoying situations. If you put your mobile phone in a pocket, for example, and don't pay attention to what you did because you are involved in a conversation, you'll probably forget that the phone is in the jacket now hanging in your wardrobe. “Your memory itself isn't failing you,” says Schacter, “rather you didn't give your memory system the informationit needed.”
Lack of interest can also lead to absent-mindedness. “A man who can recite sports statistics from 30 years ago,” says Zelinski, “may not remember to drop a letter in the mailbox.” Women have slightly better memories than men possibly because they pay more attention to their environment and memory relies on just that. “Visual cues can help prevent absent-mindedness.” says Schacter. “But be sure the cue is clear and available,” he cautions. If you want to remember to take a medication with lunch, put the pill bottle on the kitchen table-don't leave it in the medicine chest and write yourself a note that you keep in a pocket. Another common episode of absent-mindedness like walking into a room and wondering why you're there is most likely because you were thinking about something else. “Everyone does this from time to time,” says Zelinski. The best thing to do is to return to where you were before entering the room and you will
likely remember． Questions 86to 90arebased on the passage．
86．Whydoes the authorthink that encoding properlyis very important?
A．It helpsus understand ourmemory system better．

B．It enables us to recall something from our memory．

C．It expandsour memory capacity considerably．

D．It slows downthe processof losing ourmemory．


87．Onepossible reasonwhywomen have better memories than men is that______．
A．they have a widerrange of interests

B．theyaremore reliant on the environment

C．theyhave anunusual power of focusingtheir attention

D．they aremore interested in what's happeningaroundthem


88．Anotein the pocket canhardly serve as a reminderbecause______．
A．it will easily get lost

B．it's notclear enough for you to read

C．it's outof your sight

D．it might get mixed up with other things


89．What dowe learn from the last paragraph?
A．If wefocus ourattention onone thing, we might forget another．

B．Memorydepends to a certain extent on theenvironment．

C．Repetition helpsimprove ourmemory．

D．If wekeep forgetting things, we'd better return to wherewe were．


90．What is the passage mainly about?
A．The processof gradual memory loss．

B．Thecausesof absent-mindedness．

C．Theimpact of the environment onmemory．

D．Awayof encoding andrecalling．


Passage 7
It is hard to track the blue whale, the ocean's largest creature, which has almost been killed off by commercial whaling and is now listed as an endangered species. Attaching radio devices to it is difficult and visual sightings are too unreliableto give real insight into its behavior．
So biologists were delighted early this year when with the help of the Navy they were able to track a particular blue whale for 43 days monitoring its sounds. This was possible because of the Navy's formerly top-secret system of underwater listening devices spanning the oceans. Tracking whales is but one example of a exciting new world just opening to civilian scientists after the cold war as the Navy starts to share and partly uncover its global network of underwater listening system built over the decades totrack the ships ofpotential enemies．
Earth scientists announced at a news conference recently that they had used the system for closely monitoring a deep-sea volcanic eruption for the first time and that they plan similar studies. Other scientists have proposed to use the network for tracking ocean currents and measuring changes in ocean and global temperatures. The speed of sound in water is roughly one mile a second-slower than through land but faster than through air. What is most important, different layers of ocean water can act as channels for sounds, focusing them in the same way a stethoscope (听诊器 ) does when it carries faint noises from a patient's chest to a doctor's ear. This focusing is the main reason that even relatively weak sounds in the ocean, especially low-frequency ones can oftentravel thousands of miles．
Questions 91to 95arebased on the passage．
91．Thepassage is chieflyabout ______．
A．an effortto protect anendangered marine species

B．thecivilian use of amilitary detection system

C．theexposure of aU.S. Navy top-secret weapon

D．a newway to lookinto the behavior of blue whales


92．Theunderwater listening system was originally desighned ______．
A．to trace andlocate enemy vessels

B．tomonitor deep-sea volcanic eruptions

C．tostudy the movement ofocean currents

D．to replace theglobal radio communications network


93．Thedeep-sea listening system makes use of______．
A．the sophisticated technology of focusingsoundsunderwater

B．thecapability of soundto travel at high speed

C．theuniqueproperty oflayers of oceanwater in transmitting sound


94．It canbe inferredfrom the passage that______．
A．new radio devices shouldbedeveloped for trackingthe endangered blue whales

B．bluewhales areno longer endangered with the useof the newlistening system


C． opinions differ as to whether civilian scientists should be allowed to use military technology
D．military technology hasgreat potential in civilian use
95．Which ofthe following is trueabout theU. S. Navy underwater listening network?
A．It is nowpartly accessible to civilian scientists．

B．It hasbeenreplacedby a more advancedsystem．

C．It became uselessto the military after the cold war．

D．It is indispensablein protecting endangered species．
Part Ⅳ Translation ( 10 % )



Directions: Read the following passage carefully, and then translate the underlined sentences into Chinese. Write your translation on the Answer Sheet．
(1) For me, scientific knowledge is divided into mathematical sciences, natural sciences or sciences dealing with the natural world (physical and biological sciences), and sciences dealing with mankind (psychology, sociology, all the sciences of culture achieve ments, every kind of historical knowledge).Apart from these sciences is philosophy about which we will talk shortly. In the first place, all this is pure or theoretical knowledge, sought only for the purpose of understanding, in order to fulfill the needto understand that is intrinsic andconsubstantial (一体的 ) to man. (2) What distinguishes man from animal is that he knows and needs to know if man did not know that the world existed, and that the world was of a certain kind, that he was in the world and that he himself was of a certain kind, he wouldn't be man. (3) The technical aspects of applications of knowledge are equally necessary for man and are of the greatest importance, because they also contribute to defining him to pursue a life increasingly more truly human. But even while enjoying the results of technical progress, he must defend the primacy and autonomy of pure knowledge. (4) Knowledge sought directly for its practical applications will have immediate and foreseeable success, but not the kind of important result whose revolutionary scope is in large part unforeseen, except by the imagination of the Utopians. Let me recall a well—known example. It the Greek mathematicians had not applied themselves to the investigation of conic (圆锥的 ) sections, zealously and without the least suspicion that it might someday be useful, it would not have been possible centuries later to navigate far from shore. The first men to study the mature of electricity could not imagine that their experiments, carried on because of mere intellectual curiosity, would eventually lead to modern electrical technology, without which we can scarcely conceive of contemporary life. (5) Pure knowledge is valuable for its own sake, because the human spirit cannot resign itself to ignorance. But, in addition, it is the foundation for practical results that would not have been reached if this knowledge had not been sought disinterestedly．