36. According to the first paragraph, the atmosphere is essential to man in that ____.

　 A. it protects him against the harmful rays from space

　B. it provides sufficient light for plant growth

　 C. it supplies the heat necessary for human survival

　 D. it screens off the falling meteors

35. The following passage will probably be:

　 A. How to promote using of mobile phones.

　 B. How to use technology to promote bottom-up development.

　 C. The benefits of building rural computing centers.

　 D. How to meet the need of food, health and security in poor countries.

H

　Space is a dangerous place, not only because of meteors (流星 ) but also because of rays from the sun and other stars. The atmosphere again acts as our protective blanket on earth. Light gets through, and this is essential for plants to make the food which we eat. Heat, too, makes our environment endurable(可忍受的). Various kinds of rays come through the air from outer space, but enormous quantities of radiation(辐射) from the sun are screened off. As soon as men leave the atmosphere they are exposed to this radiation but their spacesuits or the walls of their spacecraft, if they are inside, do prevent a lot of radiation damage.

　Radiation is the greatest known danger to explorers in space. The unit of radiation is called "rem". Scientists have reason to think that a man can put up with far more radiation than 0.1 rem without being damaged; the figure of 60 rems has been agreed on. The trouble is that it is extremely difficult to be sure about radiation damage - a person may feel perfectly well, but the cells of his or her sex organs may be damaged, and this will no be discovered until the birth of abnormal children or even grandchildren.

Missions of the Apollo flights have had to cross belts of high amount of rems. So far, no dangerous amounts of radiation have been reported, but the Apollo missions have been quite short. We simply do not know yet how men are going to get on when they spend weeks and months outside the protection of the atmosphere, working in a space laboratory. Drugs might help to decrease the damage done by radiation, but no really effective ones have been found so far.

34. Considering the following sentences, which one would the author most agree?

　 A. Digital technology is useless.

　 B. Digital divide will help poor countries become rich.

　 C. Poor people need more immediate concerns, such as food, health care and security.

　 D. Mobile phones should be promoted firstly.　

33. We can infer from the 2nd paragraph that_______.

　 A. people in poor countries cannot use computer because of illiteracy.

　 B. poor people cannot use computers.

　 C. there would be no magic to cause a computer to appear in every household on earth.

　 D. people in poor countries need more basic living conditions than computers.

32. What did the author mean by referring "digital divide." (Line 3, Para. 1)?

　 A. Digital technology will make the gap between rich world and poor world wider.

　 B. Digital technology will divide people into rich and poor world.

　 C. People can be divided digitally.

　 D. To divide people in digital world is wrong.

31. What is the main idea of this passage?

　 A. Plugging poor countries into the Internet will help them to become rich rapidly.

　 B. Poor countries should be given more basic devices other than advanced ones.

　 C. Rich countries should help poor ones become rich.

　 D. People in poor countries cannot afford devices such as computer.

30. Which of the following is mentioned in the passage as a reason for the absence of a single Renaissance musical style?

　 A. The musical Renaissance was defined by technique rather than style.

　 B. The musical Renaissance was too short to give rise to a new musical style.

　 C. Renaissance musicians adopted the styles of both Greek and Roman musicians.

　 D. During the Renaissance, music never remained the same for very long.

　　　　　　　　　　　　 G

In the early days of the internet, many people worried that as people in the rich world embraced new computing and communications technologies, people in the poor world would be left stranded on the wrong side of a "digital divide." Yet the debate over the digital divide is founded on a myth that plugging poor countries into the internet will help them to become rich rapidly.

This is highly unlikely, because the digital divide is not a problem in itself, but a symptom of deeper, more important divides: of income, development and literacy(识字). Fewer people in poor countries than in rich ones own computers and have access to the internet simply because they are too poor, are illiterate, or have other more immediate concerns, such as food, health care and security. So even if it were possible to wave a magic wand(棒) and cause a computer to appear in every household on earth, it would not achieve very much: a computer is not useful if you have no food or electricity and cannot read. Yet such Wand-waving - through the construction of specific local infrastructure(基础设施) projects such as rural tele-centers--is just the sort of thing for which the UN's new fund is intended.

This sort of thing is the wrong way to go about addressing the inequality in access to digital technologies: it is treating the symptoms, rather than the underlying(下面) causes. The benefits of building rural computing centers, for example, are unclear. Rather than trying to close the divide for the sake of it, the more sensible goal is to determine how best to use technology to promote bottom-up development. And the answer to that question turns out to be remarkably clear: by promoting the spread not of PCs and the Internet, but of mobile phones.

29. According to the passage, why was Bemardino Cirillo disappointed with the music of his time?

　 A. It was not complex enough to appeal to musicians.

　 B. It had little emotional impact on audiences.

　 C. It was too dependent on the art and literature of his time.

　 D. It did not contain enough religious themes.

28. It can be inferred from the passage that thinkers of the Renaissance were seeking a rebirth of__.

　 A. communication among artists across Europe

　 B. spirituality in everyday life

　 C. a cultural emphasis on human values

　 D. religious themes in art that would accompany the traditional secular themes

27. The phrase "frowned on" in line 9 is closest in meaning to

　 A. given up　　 B. forgotten about　 C. argued about　 D. disapproved of