30. What can we learn from the passage?

A. The first dummies book was on Chinese cooking.

B. The dummies books will continue to be popular.

C. Fifty million different dummies books have been published.

29. According to New York Times, we know that books on ______ sell best.

A. diseases and education　 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. opera and car repairing

C. technology and personal finance　　　　　　 　　　 D. cooking and world history

28. The dummies books have been popular because ______.

A. they provide just what is needed and are easy to understand

B. they provide abundant information on the concerning subject

C. people can learn to do anything with just one copy

D. people can save lots of money through self-teaching

26. Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?

A. Books for Dummies　　　　　　 　　　　　　　　　 B. The Easiest, the Best

C. Books for Stupid People　　　　 　 　　　　　 D. New Ideas Behind the Books　

website, people can ________ with the help of dummies books.

A. do some personal things　　　　 　　　　　 　　B. learn any foreign language

C. become expert in cooking　　　　　 　　　　　　 D. do anything they want

25. We can infer from the passage that __________.

A. mothers created the custom of kissing 　　　　　　　

B. kissing means differently on different occasions

C. figure dancing was usually sealed with a kiss in Russia

D. society found it hard to accept kissing in public in the sixth century

B

　 o you know about a series of books that say they are “for dummies”? These American self-help books have been translated into more than thirty-nine languages including Chinese, Arabic, Russian, French, German, Greek and Spanish.

　“Dummy” is a word for a stupid person. The dummies books are not really for stupid people. They are designed to show people how to do something they may never have tried before, like painting a house or learning a language. The books all say in a funny way that they are for dummies, such as World History for Dummies, Rabbits for Dummies, Chinese Cooking for Dummies, and Wedding Planning for Dummies. The first such book, DOS for Dummies, was published in 1991. It helped people learn how to use the DOS operating system for computers. Since then, more than one hundred fifty million dummies books have been sold.

website explains the idea behind the books. It says that they show that people can be taught to do anything. First they can make fun of ideas that are difficult to understand. Then they show how the information can be interesting and easy. The publishers say that the books do not provide more information than necessary. They give readers just enough information to do what they want. They say that the dummies books give the best and easiest way to do something. And the books use simple and easy language.

There are more than one thousand different dummies books. A report in New York Times says that the top-selling dummies books are those that explain technology and personal finance.

The publishers say that the best-selling dummies books are those providing information many people need---like information about diseases, education and cooking. People interested in opera, car repair and wine can also find dummies books to help them. And there are even more dummies books to come. The publishers say that they publish about two hundred new dummies books every year.

24. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. It was France that made the custom of kissing go to the whole world.

B. Early Africans kissed each other on the mouth or on the eyes to greet one another.

C. One Roman emperor allowed important nobles to kiss his nose.

D. Russian nobility followed the custom of kissing from the French.

23. It can be learned from the passage that ___________.

A. kissing is a widely accepted way to show love and affection

B. kissing used to be a proper way to show love on the wedding ceremony

C. kissing is a widely accepted way of greeting in the world

D. kissing from the Tsar is only sign of being accepted from the Crown