TEXT C
The rapid, pervasive, and truly unprecedented transformation resulting from science and technology is a central fact of our lives. It calls for the strengthening of institutional capability for objective, scholarly analysis of critical issues based on a broad foundation of knowledge and experience. Colleges and universities, academies, and freestanding institutes can mobilize a wide range of talent to address the great issue of our time in a sustained, fascinating, and effective way. They can give us a better chance to get the complex facts straight and to clarify the most promising options —all this in a way that is in— credible and even intelligible to nonspecialists. Such efforts can be helpful to open-minded policy-makers, but also-and perhaps more importantly in the long run—to the education of a broadly informed public on the great issues of our time and the policy choices available to us.
Surely the problems associated with the social and economic concomitants of technological change are not insuperable. The opportunities provided by the advancing technology, if wisely utilized, suggest that it is worth a lot of trouble and hard work to find ways to make a decent social adjustment.
74. What is the best alternative of the word “address” in the firstparagraph?
A.Speak.
B.Write.
C.Explanation.
D.Talk.
75. In the second paragraph, the author tells us that ____.
A. a better explanation of the great issue of our time has some advantages
B. nonspecialists can get help from studying in colleges and universities
C. education system will benefit from the research of the great issue of our time
D. all of the above
76. We know from the passage that transformation resulting from science and technology ____.
A. has brought about many social and economic problems
B. has brought about many unsolvable social and economic problems
C. has brought about technological problems in the economic society
D. has brought about many social and economic problems for us to solve
77. What is the main idea of the passage?
A. We are living in a transformed world, so it’s necessary for us to raise the education standard.
B. The transformation calls for a better understanding of the happening of our time and an anticipation of major technological tendency.
C. The transformation calls for enlarging colleges and universities and helping policy-makers make better policies.
D. Problems resulting from transformation are so hard to solve that we must mobilize a wide range of talent to solve them.
TEXT D
The Stone Age was a period of history which began in approximately 2 million B.C. and lasted until 3000 B.C. Its name was derived from the stone tools and weapons that modern scientists found. This period was divided into the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic Ages. During the first period,(2 million to 8000 B.C.) the first hatchet and use of fire for heating and cooking were developed.
As a result of the Ice Age, which evolved about 1 million years into the Paleolithic Age, people were forced to seek shelter in caves, wear clothing, and develop new tools.
During the Mesolithic Age (8000 B.C. to 6000 B.C.) people made crude pottery and the first fish hooks, took dogs hunting, and developed a bow and a arrow, which was used until the 14th century A.D.The Neolithic Age (6000 to 3000 B.C.) saw humankind demonstrating sheep, goats, pigs, and cattle, being less nomadic than in previous eras, establishing permanent settlements, and creating governments.
78. Which of the following was developed earliest?
A.The fish hook.
B.The first hatchet.
C.The bow and arrow.
D.Pottery.
79. Which period lasted longest?
A. Paleolithic
B. Ice Age
C. Mesolithic
D. Neolithic
80. Which of the following periods saw people develop a more communal form of living ?
A. Paleolithic
B. Ice Age
C. Mesolithic
D. Neolithic
