18. L. H. Gray would like to see ______.

　　 A. advertising officially forbidden from televised sport

　　 B. cigarette advertisements made illegal

　　 C. football teams wear shirts advertising certain products

　　 D. the law forbidding commercials will come into effect soon

17. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE?

　　 A. Millions of soldiers have experienced this exercise to get nothing.

　　 B. People have to pay US $75 a week to sweat in this exercise.

　　 C. This training is entirely different from the common gym exercises.

　　 D. It is a down-and-dirty training that is rather hard.

E

Sir,

　　 Last Saturday I watched the TV coverage(news report) of the latest Grand Prix motor race and could not fail to notice how much advertising there was. In particular, the leading car (and the one that eventually won) was almost constantly on the screen; it was painted to look like a packet of well-known cigarettes. Not only that, but the car was, on more than one occasion, referred to by the commentator(评论员)not by the name of the driver or the motor company, but by the name of the product. However, the football team that I support is not allowed to wear shirts advertising anything when their matches are being televised.

　　 The rule preventing sportsmen and sportswomen from carrying advertisements on television is a good one. Keep it and do it. To take one example, what is the effect, I wonder, on the young and old, of the apparent connection between cigarette smoking and an exciting sport like motor-racing?

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 　　　　　L. H. Gray, London

Sir,

　　 What a ridiculous situation our television companies find themselves in with regard to sport and advertising!

　　 I watched a televised football match in which the players did not carry any advertisements on their shirts, and yet there was advertising all around the ground. (Do the TV producers think we viewers are blind or something?) And when a well-known international player was interviewed after the match, both he and the interviewer referred by name to the make-ups firm! And as if that were not enough, the sports item that followed was the National Bank Golf Tournament.

　　 Advertising is all around us every day. Long live advertising, I say, and let the television companies recognize it and allow football players, athletes, racing drivers and others to wear sponsors'(赞助公司)advertisements. At least we would all know where we were!

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 Mrs. R. P. Laing, Bristol

16. A three-mile run down the beach is ______.

　　 A. something regularly fixed in the exercise

　　 B. to be done after the obstacle course

　　 C. done by a tough soldier wearing a serious look

　　 D. the most difficult part of the exercise

15. These people pay to sweat in order to ______.

　　 A. get the military ranks　　　　　　　 B. seek fun and joy

　　 C. build up their bodies　　　　　　　　 D. be prepared for battles

14. Before they do push-ups on the ground, participants ______.

　　 A. are ordered by a soldier who pay to crawl under camouflage netting

　　 B. order a crying officer to crawl under camouflage netting

　　 C. are given orders to crawl under camouflage netting

　　 D. are ordered to pay a screaming soldier to crawl under camouflage netting

13. We can conclude from the passage that______.

　 　A. while pushing asteroids off course, nuclear weapons would destroy the world

　　 B. asteroids racing across the night sky are likely to hit Earth in the near future

　　 C. the worry about asteroids can be left to future generations since it's unlikely to happen now

　　 D. workable solutions still have to be found to prevent such a collision of asteroids with Earth

D

　　 Why do people pay a screaming soldier to order them to crawl under camouflage(伪装)netting before dropping to the ground to do 15 pushups?

　　 It's like the basic training that every new soldier hates. These people love it so much that they pay for it. And that's the way it is: three mornings a week at Venice Beach when these exercise fans go through。military-style obstacle course with difficulty. These are middle-class citizens looking for the most painful drills, not army men fighting for the higher ranks. They arrive in expensive sports cars, not troop carriers. They are not preparing for battle but building up health.

　　 It's a routine run by a tough soldier wearing a serious look. He and three other uniformed drill instructors shout orders. Two dozen men and women absolutely follow them. They struggle through sit-ups and a three-mile run down the beach before starting the obstacle course.

　　 Participants pay US $75 a week to do; what millions of soldiers have experienced for nothing，but a down-and-dirty training that is far from fit-keeping exercises in fitness club.

　　 Members do regular health club exercises, such as kick boxing, strength training and stretching. But the long-distance beach run and the obstacle course work up their sweat. That sets this routine different from traditional fitness exercises. Along with the wall-climbing and low-crawling, the course requires jumping over obstacles, rope climbing and pull-ups. Sweat pours down the face of the trainees and sand gets stuck to their hair as they climb over the obstacle wall. But all of them are happy when the daily training is over. They pay to sweat.

12. What do people think of the suggestion of using nuclear weapons to change the course of asteroids?

　　 A. It sounds practical but it may not solve the problem.

　　 B. It may create more problems than it might solve.

　　 C. It is a waste of money because a collision of asteroids with Earth is very unlikely.

　　 D. Further research should be done before it is proved useful.

11. What do scientists mainly talk about the collision of an asteroid with Earth?

　　 A. It is very unlikely but the danger of its happening exists.

　　 B. Such a collision might occur once every 50 thousand years.

　　 C. Collisions of smaller asteroids with Earth occur more often than expected.

　 　D. It's still too early to say certainly whether such a collision might occur.

10. What does the passage say about asteroids and meteoroids?

　　 A. They are heavenly bodies different in composition.

　　 B. They are heavenly bodies similar in nature.

　　 C. There are more asteroids than meteoroids.

　　 D. Asteroids are more mysterious than meteoroids.

9. We can know from the passage that

　　 A. the reason why ageing takes a greater loss on the male heart has been found out

　　 B. scientists are on the way to finding out why the male heart loses more of the cells

　　 C. the team has done something to prevent the male from suffering the greater loss

　　 D. women over 70 could lose more heart cells than those at the age of 20

C

　　 Unless we spend money to spot and prevent asteroids(小行星)now, one might crash into Earth and destroy life as we know it, say some scientists.

　　 Asteroids are bigger versions of the meteoroids(流星)that race across the night sky. Most orbit the sun far from Earth and don't threaten us. But there are also thousands of asteroids whose orbits put them on a collision(碰撞)course with Earth.

　　 Buy $50 million worth of new telescopes right now. Then spend $10 million a year for the next 25 years to locate most the space rocks. By the time we spot a destructive one, the scientists say, we'll have a way to change its course.

　　 Some scientists favour pushing asteroids off course with nuclear weapons. But the cost wouldn't be cheap.

　　 Is it worth it? Two things experts consider when judging any risk are: (1) How likely the event is; and (2) How bad the results if the event occurs. Experts think an asteroid big enough to destroy lots of life might strike Earth once every 500，000 years. Sounds pretty rare--but if one did fall, it would be the end of the world. "If we don't take care of these asteroids, they'll take care of us.”Says one scientist, "It's that simple.”

　　 The cure, though, might be worse than the disease. Do we really want fleets of nuclear weapons sitting around on Earth?”The world has less to fear from the terrible rocks than from a great nuclear fleet set against it,” said a New York Times article.