There is joke that even the panda and zebra want to live a colorful life. So let’s take action to protect our colorful culture before it becomes as simple as black and white.

　　It’s not difficult. Learning some folk songs, trying on a traditional clothing and even eating local food instead of going to KFC can help. And we’re sure you will enjoy it.

　　46. The passage is written to _______.

　　A. explain cultural differences B. convince readers to maintain cultural differences

　　C. predict the future of globalization D. show some cultural phenomena(現(xiàn)象)

　　47. The author thinks that cultural differences _____.

　　A. make the world colorful B. make communication difficult

　　C. only exist in food and clothing D. will never fade away

　　48. The author starts the argument by ________.

　　A. mentioning certain cultural phenomena B. mentioning his view at the very beginning

　　C. mentioning the opposite view at the very beginning D. giving examples of cultural differences

　　49. The underlined word “shrink” probably means “_______”.

　　A. expand B. disappear C. become smaller D. grow in number

　　50. The author talks of all the following cultural phenomena except _______.

　　A. food B. clothing C. language D. architecture

　　C

　　We have known for a long time that flowers of different plants open and close at different time of day. Yet no one really understands why flowers open and close like this at particular times. It is not as simple as we might think, as new experiments have shown. In one experiment, flowers were kept in darkness. We might expect that the flowers, without any information about the time of the day, did not open as they usually do. In fact, they continued to open at their usual time. This shows that they have some mysterious way of knowing the time.

　　Their sense of time does not depend on information from the outside world; it is, so to speak, inside them, a kind of “inner clock”. This discovery may not seem to be very important. However, it was later found that not just plants but also animals including man have this “inner clock” which controls working of their bodies and their activities.

　　Human beings, then, are also controlled by this mysterious power. Whether we wish it or not, it affects such

　　things in our life as our need for sleep, our need for food. And our ability to concentrate.

　　51. One experiment was done for finding out .

　　A. when different flowers open and close

　　B. if flowers have a mysterious way of knowing the time

　　C. how flowers are used to tell the time in the darkness

　　D. why flowers open and close at particular time.

　　52 Before the experiment arrived at a conclusion, people had thought that the flowers .

　　A. would never open in darkness

　　B. would change their usual time to open

　　C. would continue to open at their usual time

　　D. would open earlier than the usual time

　　53. That flowers have the sense of time is related to .

　　A. sunlight B. weak light

　　C. the “inner clock” D. the information from the outside world

　　54. From the passage, we know that don’t have mysterious power inside.

　　A.wild animals B.human bei

　　ngs

　　C. all creatures D. lifeless things

　　55. We may know that if we make good use of the ‘inner clock’, .

　　A. we will have more strength to do our work.

　　B. clocks or watches are no longer useful to us

　　C. we will be able to live as long as we wish to

　　D. human beings will need less sleep, less food or less movement

　　第二節(jié)(共5小題，每小題1分，滿分5分)

　　閱讀下面第56-60題中五個購買者的信息，然后從A到F的六個選項中，選出符合各人要求的最佳選項，其中一項為多余選項。

　　A: “Good to the last drop.”--- Maxwell House Coffee Advertising Slogan. Relax yourself? Have a good mood? You want to drink it for the rest of your life after you drink Maxwell House Coffee once.

　　B: “Taste great, less filling.” --- Miller Lite Advertising Slogan. Drink Miller Lite beer and enjoy yourself every day.