Mobile phones should be banned from cars altogether, according to Dr Hole, senior lecturer in psychology, Dr Hole has emphasized the worrying combination of mobile phones and cars in his new book, The Psychology of Driving.
Mobile phones, fatigue(疲劳) , eyesight, drugs and age are among the issues considered by Dr Hole as he examines the factors that influence on driving. The book explores the role of each of these elements in increasing the chances of an accident and was inspired by the author's conversations with road safety experts across the country.
He says: “The government should have banned mobile phones in cars altogether. It has sent out the wrong message by forbidding hand-held phones because this gives the impression that hands-free phones are safe. The problem with mobile phones is not vehicular(车辆的) control and only having one hand on the wheel, but rather it is taking away attention from what is happening outside the car.”
Myths(荒诞的说法) about older people making worse drivers and claims(说法) about an improved reaction time among younger people are explored in the book. Questions about how drivers decide what to attend to while driving, the role of a driver's expectations in determining what they see and how they respond to the road are among the areas covered in the book. Satellite navigation systems and new design aimed at transforming cars into a mobile office, are among the modern developments which he says now compete for driver's attention behind the wheel.
Dr Hole says: “We need to be very careful about how we go about handling modern technology in cars, because we are opening a Pandora's Box. When anyone is driving there is a lot of information outside the car and if there is too much going on inside, then there is a danger of overloading the driver.”
1. Dr Hole’s strong belief that mobile phones should be banned from cars lies in __________.
A. the inconvenience of having only one hand on the wheel caused by mobile phones
B. the correct message of getting rid of hand-held phones sent out by the government
C. the increase of chances of accidents
D. the advice given by some road safety experts        
3. Which of the following is not included in his book?
A. Hand-free phones are safer than hand-held phones.
B. What drivers have to attend to while driving.
C. Whether older age and slower reaction is related.
D. Bad eyesight is one of the factors of causing an accident.                   
3. Which of the following is true?
A. Older people are better at preventing accidents.
B. Younger drivers’ reaction time is relatively shorter.
C. It is a myth that some old people can still drive.
D. A driver’s expectations are not covered in the book.
4. What can we know from the underlined sentence?
A. What is going on outside is of equal importance to what inside.
B. Modern developments call for drivers’ attention behind the wheel.
C. Satellite navigation systems require more cars as mobile offices.
D. Modern technology is responsible for the distraction (分心) of one’s attention while driving.

It seems that the Englishman just cannot live without sports of some kind. A famous French humourist once said that this is because the English insist on behaving like children all their lives. Wherever you go in this country you will see both children and grown-ups knocking a ball about with a stick or something, as if in Britain men shall always remain boys and women girls! Still, it can never be bad to get exercise, can it?

Taking all amateur（业余）and professional sports in Britain into consideration, there can be no doubt that football is at the top of the list. It is called soccer in the United States. The game originated in Britain and was played in the Middle Ages or even earlier, though as an organized game, or “association football”, it dates only from the beginning of the 19th century.

The next is rugby, which is called “football” in the United States. It is a kind of football played by two teams of fifteen players rather than eleven. The rugby, in which an oval-shaped ball is used can be handled as well as kicked. It is a pretty rough game.

In summer, cricket is the most popular sport. In fact, it has sometimes been called the English national game. Most foreigners find the game rather slow or even boring, but it enjoys great popularity among the British.

Tennis rates high on the list, too. It was introduced into England from France in the 15th century, but it was from England that it spread to practically every country in the world.

Table-tennis or “ping-pong” surely is not played on a great scale as it is in China or in Japan. Basketball and volleyball were introduced into Britain during the late 19th century from America and are gaining popularity. Horse-back riding, swimming, rowing and golf all attract a lot of people.

The main purpose of paragraph one is to tell us that the English_______.

   A. are all sports lovers               B. behave like children

   C. like to kick a ball around           D. can remain young all their lives

According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true about football and rugby?

   A. They differ in the shape of the ball

   B. They are played by different numbers of players

C. They both can be handled

D. They both can be kicked

From the second and the third paragraph, we know that_____.

   A. Americans love football most of all

   B. British people love rugby most of all

   C. Americans and British people may call the same thing differently

   D. football originated in Britain in the 18th century

I don’t think the competition is       failure, because it has offered us      valuable experience for the next competition.

阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从36～55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。
This was an unforgettable and wonderful experience．It happened about three years ago and it has had a  36 effect on me．I would like to show respect here for the two men I do not know  37  but whose actions gave a new  38 to the words — kind and generous.
I was walking down a busy street on a cold, windy day in early  39 , A homeless man, probably about 60 and without wearing any shoes , was  40 for change on a street corner.
A BMW car  41 on the other side of the street and an executive（主管）who was perfectly dressed stepped out of the car．He was probably about  42 years old．He was wearing a blue business suit with a deep red silk tie．He walked  43 across the street and over to the homeless man．Without saying anything, he first gave him a lot of  44  and then he sat down and took off his leather gloves（手套）, beautiful black leather shoes and his black dress socks．Then he   45 them to the homeless man．The homeless man took them and stared with a/an  46 mouth.
As he drove off, I couldn’t   47 thinking that it was probably the first time he had  48 the pedal（踏板）of that top-brand BMW car with a   49  foot! I stood there and the looks of   50 appeared on my face and the homeless man’s.
Two men of about the same age  51 very different lives had met and the one who was  52 in materials had offered  53 than his shoes．He had left this BMW car and   54 down from his high position．He lifted up the other man when he offered respect,   55 and real generosity.