根据短文内容，从下框的A～F选项中选出能概括每一段主题的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。选项中有一项为多余项。第二节（共5小题，每小题2分，满分10分）

Remembering names is an important social skill．Here are some ways to master it.

When you hear a person’s name and want to remember it, repeat it．Immediately say it to yourself several times without moving your lips．You could also say the name again in a way that does not sound forced or artificial.

You can let other people help you remember their names．After you’ve been introduced to someone, ask that person to spell the name and pronounce it correctly for you．Most people will be pleased by the effort you’re making to learn their names.

Admitting that you can’t remember someone’s name can actually make people relaxed．Most of them will feel sympathy if you say “I’m working to remember names better．Yours is right on the tip of my tongue．What is it again?”

    When meeting a group of people, concentrate on remembering just two or three names．Free yourself from remembering every one．Few of the people in mass introductions expect you to remember their names．Another way is to limit yourself to learning just first names．Last names can come later.

    Consider going early to conferences, parties and classes．Sometimes just a few people show up on time．There are fewer names for you to remember．And as more people arrive, you can hear them being introduced to others — an automatic review for you.

“Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him，and let him know that you trust him.” These words are from the black American educator，Booker Washington. He was saying that，“If you want people to grow up，you have to stop treating them like children.”

In America，families are close but children are encouraged to be independent，to make their own decisions，even at a very early age. It’s not unusual for a child of seven to be given an allowance  (津贴) every week. The child is encouraged to save some of the money but he or she can spend it on whatever they choose，for example，buying clothes，school supplies or CDs. Some teenagers even have their own credit cards！That’s a big responsibility since even adults are tempted to overspend when they have credit cards.

From an early age，American children are asked for their opinions and they are included in family decision­making. At the dinner table，teenagers will be listened to on any topic，from politics to buying a new family car or where the family will go on vacation. In this way，teenagers are getting practice in becoming individuals：they are learning how to stand on their own two feet.

Many Chinese young people are becoming almost as interested as American teens in searching for independence. They want to express those qualities that make them unique human beings. You can see this in the way they dress，the music they listen to and the friends they choose. “Super Girl” Li Yuchun caught the imagination of Chinese teenagers on the “Super Girl” television contest. She was not the traditional “nice，young Chinese girl”．With her short，spiky hair and boy­like clothes，she was telling everyone that she was different. She had the courage to be her own person and to stand on her own two feet...and she won!

There is an old saying，“Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him and then choose that way with all his strength.” If you do this，step by step，over a period of time，you may find that you have become the person you always wanted to be.

57．The passage is intended to encourage the youth to________.

A．save money for useful things

B．become independent

C．express their great ambitions

D．make important decisions

58．A child of seven is given an allowance so that he can______.

A．be accepted as a popular guy

B．learn to decide how to use money

C．overspend money without care

D．have school supplies of his own

59．The author implies that many Chinese children________.

A．are more independent than Americans

B．should become interested in America

C．are happy with their present situation

D．are not satisfied to be nice，quiet ones

60．The main idea of the last paragraph is________.

A．that we should do things step by step

B．why we should understand our desires

C．what we should plan for our own life

D．how we can manage to realize our dreams

Personal computers and the Internet give people new choices about how to spend their time.

Some may use this freedom to share less time with certain friends or family members, but new technology will also let them stay in closer touch with those they care most about. I know this from personal experience.

E-mail makes it easy to work at home, which is where I now spend most weekends and evenings. My working hours aren’t necessarily much shorter than they once were but I spend fewer of them at the office. This lets me share more time with my young daughter than I might have if she’d been born before electronic mail became such a practical tool.

The Internet also makes it easy to share thoughts with a group of friends. Say you do something fun see a great movie perhaps and there are four or five friends who might want to hear about it. If you call each one, you may tire of telling the story.

With E-mail, you just write one note about your experience, at your convenience, and address it to all the friends you think might be interested. They can read your message when they have time, and read only as much as they want to. They can reply at their convenience, and you can read what they have to say at your convenience.

E-mail is also an inexpensive way stay in close touch with people who live far away. More than a few parents use E-mail to keep in touch, even daily touch, with their children off at college.

We just have to keep in mind that computers and the Internet offer another way of staying in touch. They don’t take the place of any of the old ways.

54. The purpose of this passage is to ________.

A. explain how to use the Internet

B. describe the writer’s joy of keeping up with the latest technology

C. tell the merits(价值) and usefulness of the Internet

D. introduce the reader to basic knowledge about personal computers and the Internet

55. The use of E-mail has made it possible for the writer to ________.

A. spend less time working

B. have more free time with his child

C. work at home on weekends

D. work at a speed comfortable to him

56. According to the writer, E-mail has an obvious advantage over the telephone because the former helps one ________.

A. reach a group of people at one time conveniently

B. keep one’s communication as personal as possible

C. pass on much more information than the later

D. get in touch with one’s friends faster than the later

　 About ten men in every hundred suffer from color blindness in some way. Women are luckier，only about one in two hundred is affected in this matter. Perhaps, after all, it is safer to be driven by a woman.

　 There are different forms of color blindness. In some cases a man may not be able to see deep red. He may think that red, orange and yellow are all shades of green. Sometimes a person cannot tell the difference between blue and green. In rare cases an unlucky man see everything in shades of green—a strange world indeed.

　 Color blindness in human beings is a strange thing to explain. In a single eye there are millions of very small things called "cones". These help us to see in a bright and tell difference between colors. There are also millions of "rods ", but these are used for seeing when it is nearly dark. They show us shape but no color.　 Some insects have favorite colors. Mosquitoes(蚊子) like blue but do not like yellow. A red light will not attract insects, but a blue lamp will. In a similar way human being also have favorite colors. Yet we are lucky. With the aid of the cones in our eyes we can see many beautiful colors by day, and with the aid of the rods we can see shapes at night, One day we may even learn more about the invisible colors around us.

50. According to the passage, with the help of the "cones", we can　　　　

　 A. tell different colours　　　 B. see in a weak light

　 C. tell different shapes　　　　 D. tell orange from yellow

51. Why do some people say it is safer to be driven by women?

　 A. Women are more careful.

　 B. There are fewer color-blind women.

　 C. Women are fonder of driving than men.

　 D. Women are weaker but quicker in thinking.

52. Which of the statements about the color-blind is true?

　 A. Not all of them have the same problem in recognizing colors.

　 B. None of them can see deep red.

　 C. None of them can tell the difference between blue and green.

　 D. All of them see everything in shades of green.

53. We can attract and kill mosquitoes by using a .

　 A. red light　　　　　　　 B. yellow light

　 C. blue light　　　　　　 D. green light

A large number of women in Western European countries wish that they were born men. The number is said as high as 60% in West Germany.

“Women often wish that they had the same chance as men have, and believe it is still men’s world,” said Dr James Holden, one of the scientists who did the study.

Anne Harper has a very good job for an international oil company. She also believes in “Women’s Liberation”. “I don’t wish that I were a man,” she says. “And I don’t think many women do. But I do wish that people would stop looking down upon us women. At work, for example, we often do the work that men do but get paid less. There are still a lot of jobs that are usually the best ones and open only to men. If you’re a man, you have a much better chance of leading an exciting life. How many women pilots are there…or engineers or scientists?”

46. “It is still a men’s would.” Means “ 　　 ”

A. There’re more men than women in the world.

B. There’re more men scientists or engineers than women in the world.

C. Women cannot live without men.

D. Women have not been given the same chance as men.

47. Anne Harper considers that women should 　　 .

A. be really liberated

B. live a better life

C. be well paid

D. get better jobs than men

48. Anne Harper doesn’t wish that she were a man because she 　　 .

A. has got a very good job

B. believes in “Women Liberation”

C. does the work that a man can’t do

D. isn’t looked down upon by anyone

49. Which of the following is NOT true?

A. Usually the best jobs are not open to women.

B. Women are less paid than men for the same job.

C. There’re more men pilots, engineers and scientists than women.

D. Women are looked down upon because they’re the second-class citizens.

My first memories of acts of kindness are from when I was about 12 years old. I always_26_ people as soon as possible with_27_ they needed.

At that time, I noticed that many_28_ people had difficulty_29_ to the grocery store after a snowstorm. I would spend part of a_30_ Saturday knocking on my elderly neighbors’ apartment doors to ask if they_31_ anything from the store. The_32_ was down a huge hill and I would bring back a couple of bags of necessities(必需品)for them. I liked doing it and it made them so_33_.

My friends asked me what I was doing and after a while some of them_34_ in and it became a_35_ as time went by. I_31_ asked for money for the errand(差事), but sometimes the old ladies would_37_ the change into my pocket secretly. The next time I would buy a bunch of flowers or a card for them.

Later, when I was away at_38_, many of these people would_39_ my mother about me, but my mom didn’t always know who they were. It was through those_40_ between her and these people that she_41_ what I used to do for them—I had never told her.

I started_42_ others when I was 12 and it_43_ until today. Now, I’m a teacher and teaching my students the art of true_44_. I originally wrote this for my profile, but my mom said why not share it with everyone. I hope this will_45_ younger people and older alike.

26. A. provided       B. compared     C. cared          D. dealt

27. A. whenever       B. wherever      C. whatever       D. whoever

28. A. sick           B. tired         C. kind           D. old

29. A. arriving        B. going        C. jumping        D. reaching

30. A. boring         B. free          C. funny          D. busy

31. A. got            B. fetched        C. needed         D. took

32. A. store           B. factory        C. apartment       D. school

33. A. confused        B. pleased       C. interested       D. embarrassed

34. A. turned          B. looked        C. attended        D. joined

35. A. challenge       B. habit         C. tradition        D. custom

36. A. never           B. usually        C. always          D. sometimes

37. A. put             B. fill           C. save            D. keep

38. A. hospital         B. church        C. college          D. prison

39. A. thank            B. ask           C. guess            D. find

40. A. conversation      B. discussions    C. statements        D. speeches

41. A. learned from      B. thought over   C. knew about       D. reminded of

42. A. knowing         B. helping        C. speaking         D. seeing

43. A. pauses           B. remains       C. continues         D. follows

44. A. honesty          B. kindness      C. friendship        D. understanding

45. A. show            B. divide        C. deliver           D. inspire

You’d better go there by train.The train ticket is________the airplane ticket.

A．as cheap three times as             B．as three times cheap as

C．three times cheaper than        D．cheaper three times than

 On the bus, all the people except the driver ______ to talk and laugh during the journey. 

A. encouraged   B. were encouraging   C. were encouraged  D. was encouraged

 It was __________ computer games that cost the boy a lot of time he ought to have spent on his lessons．

 A. having played              B. to have played        C. playing             D. played

Ever since the Greens moved to the country a year ago, they ________ better health.

　　A. are enjoying　B. have been enjoying　C. could have enjoyed　D. had enjoyed