Part H Reading Comprehension ( 40 points)

　　Directions: in this part There are 4 passages followed by questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one you think is the best answer, then mark the corresponding letter in the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.

　　Passage 1

　　Love really is blind when it comes to physical flaws, it would seem.

　　A research conducted by Social Studies Center in University of Hawaii at Manoa suggests that when we love someone, we tend to overlook their crooked noses, big tummies or other attributes that might put others off. As a result, husbands and wives think their other halves are more attractive than they really are. No wonder Chinese has the saying that" Beauty lies in the beholder's eyes". This phenomenon could also help explain some physically mis-matched couples such as the glamorous Beyonce and Jay-Z, the striking Lara Stone and David Walliams.

　　The so-called "positive illusion" theory comes from an experiment in which researchers asked 70 couples to rate their other halves for attractiveness. Questions included how attractive their husband,wife, boyfriend or girlfriend was to the opposite sex, and how they rated compared with others of the same age. The answers were kept secret to prevent any partners being upset and distressed. Some of those taking parts also rated photos of their partners. In addition, members of the public judged the looks of all 140 men and women taking part.

　　The results revealed that couples view their other halves as being better looking than they really are.

　　Even asking them to rate pictures of their partners did not give them a reality check, the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships reports.

　　With previous studies finding that we view our loved ones as being kinder and more intelligent than they actually are, it does seem that love is blind in all sorts of ways. Those studied were young and had been together on average for just two and a half years. The researchers said that more work is needed to see if those in long marriages are still blind to their partner's physical flaws.

　　21. Which of the following is the correct interpretation of the first paragraph?

　　A. When people are in love, they are unable to see things that are obvious to others.

　　B. People in love tend to be unaware of physical weakness of their partners.

　　C. To those who are physically weak, they do not notice love.

　　D. When speaking of physical flaws, love is not reasonable.

　　22. The phrase"put.--off" in the second paragraph means__________.

　　A. postpone

　　B. lose one's interest

　　C. get off

　　D. disturb or distract

　　23. Which of the following might NOT be the question of the experiment mentioned in paragraph three?

　　A. How attractive is the one you love?

　　B. How do you rate the photo of the one you love?

　　C. How attractive is the one you love to the opposite sex?

　　D. How attractive is your husband, wife, boyfriend or girlfriend is to the opposite sex?

　　24. What does the sentence" Even asking them to rate pictures of their partners did not give them a reality check..." in paragraph four imply?

　　A. Rating the photos of their other halves did not help people to face the reality.

　　B. When asked to rate the photos of their partners, people did not check the reality.

　　C. When asked to do the photo-rating for their partners, people did not have an opportunity to see the reality.

　　D. Love clouds people's judgment that they were still unable to rate their partners' photos in a reasonable and objective way.

　　25. What is the best title for this passage?

　　A. Love and Physical Flaw

　　B. How People View Their Partners

　　C. Love is Blind

　　D. Researches on Love

　　Passage 2

　　Is there enough oil beneath the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge(保護區(qū)) (ANWR) to help secure America's energy future? PresidentObama certainly thinks so. He has argued that tapping ANWR's oil would help ease California's electricity crisis and increase the country's energy independence, thus reducing its oil reliance on other countries. But no one knows for sure how much Crude oil lies buried beneath the frozen earth.

　　The oil industry goes with the high end of the range, which could equal as much as 10% ofU. S. consumption for as long as six years. By pumping more than 1 million barrels a day from the reserve for the next two or three decades, lobbyists claim, the nation could cut back on imports equivalent to(等于)all shipments to the U.S. from Saudi Arabia. An oil increase would also mean a multibillion-dollar windfall (意外之財) in tax revenues, royalties (開采權(quán)使用費)and leasing fees for Alaska and the Federal Government. Best of all, advocates of drilling say, damage to the environment would be insignificant." We've never had a document case of oil rig chasing deer out onto the pack ice." Says Alaska State Representative Scott Ogan.

　　Not so fast, say environmentalists. The National Resources Defense Council says there may be no more than 3.2 billion barrels of oil in the coastal plain of ANWR, a drop in the bucket that would do virtually nothing to ease America's energy problems. And consumers would wait up to a decade to gain any benefits, because drilling could begin only after much bargaining. As for ANWR's impact on the California power crisis, environmentalists point out that oil is responsible for only 1% of the Golden State's electricity output and just 3% of the nation's.

　　26. What does President Obama think of tapping oil in ANWR?

　　A. It will exhaust the nation's oil reserves.

　　B. It will help secure the future of ANWR.

　　C. It will help reduce the nation's oil imports.

　　D. It will increaseAmerica's energy consumption.

　　27. We learn from the second paragraph that the American oil industry

　　A. believes that drilling for oil in ANWR will produce high yields

　　B. tends to exaggerateAmerica's reliance on foreign oil

　　C. shows little interest in tapping oil in ANWR

　　D. expects to stop oil imports from Saudi Arabia

　　28. Those against oil drilling in ANWR argue that __________.

　　A. it can cause serious damage to the environment

　　B. it can do little to solve U.S. energy problems

　　C. it will drain the oil reserves in the Alaskan region

　　D. it will not have much commercial value

　　29. What do the environmentalists mean by saying" Not so fast"in the third paragraph?

　　A. Oil exploitation takes a long time.

　　B. The oil drilling should be delayed.

　　C. Don't be too optimistic.

　　D. Don't expect fast returns.

　　30. It can be learned from the passage that oil exploitation beneath ANWR's frozen earth__________.

　　A. remains a controversial issue

　　B. is expected to get under way soon

　　C. involves a lot of technological problems

　　D. will enable the U.S. to be oil independent