Yesterday, our teacher asked us when people could be considered old. David said that when people got wrinkles (皱纹). However, Mary didn’t   31  . She thought people might gain wrinkles at an earlier age because of their    32   work. Then Lily said that those   33    their 60s or more could be called old people. This time, Emily expressed her doubt. She said that some old people might   34   be full of energy and working on their dreams, which made them appear  35   .The class was over and the teacher asked me to continue to  36   it after class.

The question  37    me of a saying of J.Barrymore: a man isn’t old   38   he is pursuing (追求 ) something.

My grandma is such a woman who   39    her dream even when she’s 70 now. She has kept her dream of being a painter since she was a little child.  40  , because her family was poor, she had to   41   her dream. She had to work to raise money so as to   42    her family. Although she had never forgotten her dream, she could hardly find any   43    to make it come true because of the tough work. Fortunately, a(n)    44   came when she retired from her work. She    45    taking painting lessons even though she was already old. At first, I was    46   her idea of attending school at such an old age, but after seeing her paint happily and enjoyably, I began feeling it a good   47  .She looks fine and seems   48   .

So if we have our dreams and try to   49   them, we aren’t old. If we don’t know what we want and let regrets be the   50   point of our lives, then we can be considered old.

31.    A.  answer              B.  agree                   C.  move               D.  understand

32.    A.  exciting             B.  common              C.  hard                 D.  old

33.    A.  reaching            B.  avoiding               C.  repeating          D.  confirming

34.    A.  sometimes         B.  almost                 C.  hardly              D.  still

35.    A.  attractive           B.  young                  C.  smart               D.  interesting

36.    A.  think about        B.  look for               C   refer to            D.  turn to

37.    A.  prevented          B.  spotted                C.  reminded          D.  puzzled

38.    A.  even if              B.  as if                    C.  so that             D.  as long as

39.    A.  remembers        B.  follows                C.  knows             D.  finds

40.    A.  However           B.  Also                    C.  Fortunately       D.  Approximately

41.    A.  give up              B.  search for            C.  put aside          D.  return to

42.    A.  combine            B.  protect                C.  leave                D.  support

43.    A.  way                  B.  person                 C.  place                D.  service

44.    A.  success             B.  chance                C.  excuse             D.  helper

45.    A.  stopped             B.  considered           C.  liked                D.  began

46.    A.  on                    B.  for                      C.  against             D.  with

47.    A.  choice               B.  dream                  C.  task                 D.  purpose

48.    A.  gentle                B.  energetic              C.  wealthy            D.  penniless

49.    A.  satisfy               B.  express                C.  change             D.  realize

50.    A.  tip                    B.  bottom                C.  center              D.  side

Throughout history, technology has provided artists with new tools for expression. Now, technology is increasingly becoming a fundamental force in the development of art.

I had my first experience with the internet in the early 1990s. I used our 300-baud modem, allowed it to begin its R2-D2-like hissing and whistling, and began to telnet(远程登录). A window on our Macintosh’s screen began filling with text and announced our connection to the computers at the local university. After exploring a series of text menus, I began my first download: a text document containing Plato’s The Republic, via Project Gutenberg. After what felt like a significant chapter of an hour, I was fascinated. I can distinctly remember jumping up and down, celebrating that I had this entire book on our computer using nothing but phone lines and a lot of dull beeping.

It took me almost a decade to actually get around to reading The Republic. By the time I did, the conception that I expressed wonder at such a mundane activity as downloading a text document seemed strange. In 2012, people stream movies onto their computers nightly without praising the modem gods. We have gone from the days of early web pages, with their splendid backgrounds and blinking text, to slick interactive sites with enough bells and whistles to make the entire experience smooth and multimedia based. No one thinks any longer about modems or the details of bandwidth speeds. And certainly no one uses the word baud anymore.

The changes haven’t ended there. To store data, I have used floppy disks, diskettes, zip discs, rewritable CDs, flash drives, burnable DVDs, even the Commodore Datasette. Now, I save many of my documents to storage that’s available anytime I have access to the internet: the cloud.

The technological revolution we’re currently experiencing is not a one-off, technology has been changing over the centuries. But what’s surprising is that if you look below the surface you discover that this progress is not random, it almost always follows a pattern. And understanding this pattern helps us to appreciate far more than faster download speeds or improved data storage. It helps us to understand something fundamental to our success as a species. It helps us to understand how our knowledge changes and evolves.

59. How did the author feel when he first downloaded a text document?

A. Frightened.      B. Ambitious.    C. Desperate.       D. Excited.

60. What can be indicated from the fourth paragraph?

A. Data storage has many different ways.

B. Data storage is an unavoidable method now.

C. Data storage experienced a thorough revolution.

D. Data storage develops from floppy disks to internet: the cloud.

61. What does the author mean in the last paragraph?

A. Technological revolution develops randomly.

B. Technological revolution develops with great storage.

C. Technological revolution develops far more than speed.

D. Technological revolution develops with a surprising force.

62. What is the best title for this passage?

A. My experience in internet revolution.

B. Internet revolution gives us a big surprise.

C. Internet revolution becomes a force in art.

D. My download and data storage from the internet.