73．The last sentence of this article means ________.

A．Fair-minded right-handed people want to change the habit of the left-handed people

B．Fair-minded right-handed people are starting to help the left-handed people

C．Fair-minded right-handed people are starting to use left hand to write and so on

D．Fair-minded right-handed people are starting to give up using their left hands

72．What does the passage lead us to believe when one writes?

A．He can only use his right hand.

B．He can only use his left hand.

C．He can use either his left hand or his right hand.

D．He can use both his left hand and his right hand.

71．Which of the following would be the best title for the text?

A．Three folding bike inventors　　　　　　　　　　 B．The making of a folding bike

C．Progress in folding bike design 　　　　　　　 D．Ways of separating a bike wheel

E

Right is right. Right? Of course. But is left wrong? Well, the Romans used to think so. They thought left-handed people were mistakes of nature. Latin, the language of the Romans, had many words that expressed this view. Some words we use today still have this meaning. The Latin word “dexter” means “right”. The English word “dexterous” comes from this word. It means “handy” (clever with hands). So, right is handy. But the Latin word for left is “sinister”. The English word “sinister” comes from this word. Sinister means “evil” (very bad). Is it fair to call right-handed people handy and left-handed people evil? Well, fair or not, many languages have words that express such beliefs. In old English, the word for left means “weak”. That isn’t much of an improvement over “evil”.

　Not very long ago, children were often forced to write with their right hands. Doctors have since found that this can be very harmful. You should use the hand you were born to use.

People who use their left hands are just starting to get better treatment. But why they get all these bad names in the first place? One reason may be that there are not as many left-handed people as there are right-handed people. There is one left-handed person for every five right-handed ones. People who are different are often thought to be wrong. But attitudes do seem to be changing. Fair-minded right-handed people are finally starting to give left-handed people a hand.

70．We can learn from the text that Fit simons's invention 　　　　.

A．kept the tire as a whole piece　　　　　　　　　 B．was made of a folding bike

C．left little room for improvement　　　　　　　 D．changed our views on bag design

69．We can learn from the text that the wheel of the Grout Portable 　　　.

A．were difficult to separate　　　　　　　　　　　　 B．could be split into 6 pieces

C．were fitted with solid tyros　　　　　　　　　　 D．were hard to carry on a train

68．We can infer from Paragraph 1 that the Brampton folding bike 　　　.

A．was portable　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B．had a folding wheel

C．could be put in a pocket　　　　　　　　　　　　 D．looked like a magic carpet

67．What is the main idea of the passage?

A．Music education deserves more attention　

B．Music should be of top education priority.

C．Music is an effective communication tool.

D．Music education makes students more imaginative

D

Andrew Ritchie, inventor of the Brampton folding bicycle, once said that the perfect portable bike would be "like a magic carpet…. You could fold it up and into your pocket or handbag ". Then he paused: "But you'll always be limited by the size of the wheels. And so far no one has invented a folding wheel."

It was a rare--indeed unique--occasion when I was able to put Ritchie right. A 19th-century inventor, William Henry James Grout, did in fact design a folding wheel. His bike, predictably named the Grout Portable, and a flame that spilt into two and a large wheel that could be separated into four pieces. All the bits fitted into Grout's Wonderful Bag, a leather case.

Grout's aim: to solve the problems of carrying a bike on a train. Now doesn't that sound familiar? Grout intended to find a way of making a bike small enough for train travel: his bike was a huge beast. And importantly, the design of early bicycle gave him an advantage: in Grout's day , tyros were soiled, which made the business of splitting a wheel into four separate parts relatively simple. You couldn't do the same with a wheel fitted with a one--piece inflated(充气的) tyro.

So, in a 21st-century context, is the idea of the folding wheel dead? It is not. A British design engineer, Duncan Fitzsimons, has developed a wheel that can be squashed into something like a slender ellipse (椭圆). Throughout, the tyro remains inflated.

Will the young Fitzsimons's folding wheel make it into production? I haven't the foggiest idea. But his inventiveness shows two things. First, people have been saying for more than a century that bike design has reached its limit, except for gradual advances. It's as silly a concept now as it was 100 years ago: there's plenty still to go to for. Second ,it is in the field of folding bike that we are the most interesting inventions. You can buy a folding bike for less than £1,000 that can be knocked down so small that it can be carried on a plane--minus wheels, of course-as hand baggage.

Folding wheels would make all manner of things possible. Have we yet got the magic carpet of Andrew Ritchie's imagination? No. But it's progress.

66．According to the passage, the arts and science 　　　　　.

A．approach the world from different angles

B．explore different phenomena of the world

C．express people's feeling in different ways

D．explain what it means to be human differently

65．In Paragraph 2, the author uses jazz as an example to 　　　.

　 A．compare it with rock music 　　　　　　　　

B．show music identifies a society

　 C．introduce American musical traditions　　

D．prove music influence people's lifestyles

64．According to Paragraph 1, students　 　　　　.

A．regard music as a way of entertainment

B．disagree with their parents on education

C．view music as on overlooked subject　　　

D．prefer the arts to science