65. What made the whirring sound that the child heard?

A. The curved string. 　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. The beetle's soft wings.

C. The beetle's six legs. 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. The beetle's body.

64. The African Goliath beetle is _______.

A. the world's largest insect

B. a toy used in many parts of the world

C. the only insect found in Africa

D. the world's smallest insect

63. Which of the following decisions is most likely NOT correct?

A. You give the money to your friend's son.

B. You give the money to your son for medical school.

C. You keep the money for your future medical care.

D. You keep the money for your friend's son.

C

The World's Largest Insect

This giant insect can be used as a toy.

A child ties one end of a string to a stick and the other end around the "neck" of an insect. Holding the stick, the child lets the insect go. With a loud whirring sound, the insect takes off, pulling the string in a large curve over the child's head. The child laughs as the stick jumps around. The child is African, and the toy is the African Goliath beetle, the largest insect in the world.

The Goliath is a true insect because it has six legs and a body that is divided into three parts. Like all beetles, it has two pairs of wings. The front pair are thick and stiff and protect the back pair, which are soft. It is these soft back wings that make the beetle fly forward. They also cause the loud whirring sound the beetle makes when it flies. To steer, the beetle twists and turns its legs the same way you steer a bike by turning its front wheel.

African children often use the Goliath beetle as a toy. Although it is over 15 centimeters long, it is quite harmless.

62. Why does the writer often ask people such a question? Because ______.

A. he wants to find the answer for a research

B. he is interested in such a question

C. he likes to make fun of people at parties

D. he wants to offer people a topic in which everyone could say something

61. What the writer often says at dinner parties is _______.

A. not a true story　　　　　　　　 B. a true story

C. a strange story　　　　　　　　 D. just a joke

60. Which of the following is TRUE to the passage?

A. Only the clever people can answer the question rightly.

B. Some people refuse to answer such a silly question.

C. Everyone at the dinner party seems to be interested in the question.

D. Most of the people have the same answer.

59. One reason that might explain Herpin's sleeplessness was _______.

A. that he hadn't got a bed

B. that he had gradually got tired of the sleeping habit

C. his mother's injury before he was born

D. his magnificent physical condition

B

Here is a question I have often asked at dinner parties:

You're on an island with only one other person, your best friend. He's dying of cancer. In his final days, he tells you, "I have 100,000 dollars in a bank back home. When I die, make sure my son goes to medical school. “Then he dies. But his son is a no-good playboy who has no interest in going to medical school and will waste that money away in a very short time. But your son is entering college, and he is willing to become a doctor. Which one do you give the money to for medical school?

I've asked this question of everyone from the president of a famous university to an ordinary young soldier, and it has never failed to get a discussion going. Everyone has an opinion, most of them different, but all of them correct. Sometimes this one topic lasts the whole evening.

58. After watching him closely, the doctors came to believe that Al Herpin _______.

A. was too old to need any sleep　　　　　　　　 B. often slept in a chair

C. needed no sleep at all　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. needed some kind of sleep

57. The doctors came to visit Herpin, expecting to _______.

A. cure him of his sleeplessness

B. find that his sleeplessness was not really true

C. find a way to free people from the need of sleeping

D. find out why some old people didn't need any asleep

56. The main idea of this passage is that _______.

A. large numbers of people do not need sleep

B. a person was found who actually didn't need any sleep

C. everyone needs some sleep to stay alive

D. people can live longer by trying not to sleep