61．Who would pay for the cost of reality TV shows according to the passage ?

　　　 A．TV producers who make reality TV shows .

　　　 B．TV actors who take part in reality TV shows .

　　　 C．TV viewers who telephone reality TV shows .

　　　 D．TV companies which broadcast reality TV shows .

60．Those who take part in reality TV shows are usually 　　　　.

　　　 A．common people

　　　 B．pop TV Stars

　　　 C．attractive people

　　　 D．famous film stars

71. Which of the following is the author’s main argument?

A. It’s cheap to self-treat your own illness.

B. It’s embarrassing to discuss your bad habits.

C. It’s reasonable to put up a medical website.

D. It’s dangerous to be your own doctor.

　 答案　 68.B　 69.C　 70.C　 71.D

Passage 85

(06·江苏B篇)

The first reality TV show in the world was called Expedition Robinson and it was shown in Sweden in 1997 . Half the population of the country watched the final event and a new kind of TV program was born . Two years later in Holland , the first series of Big Brother was filmed. Again , it was a great success and the final program was watched by 15 million people . Now more than 20 countries around the world have Big Brother or Expedition Robinson on their TV screens . The ordinary people who take part in the programs are known by millions of people in their own countries and reality TV has become big , big business .

For the TV producers , reality TV is a dream come true because many of the programs cost nothing to make . At some point , the television viewers (观众) are asked to telephone the program to vote or to apply to take part in the show . It is the cost of these telephone calls that pays for the shows . One of the most popular shows is Pop Idol. In the show, a group of attractive young people are made into pop stars. TV viewers vote for their favorite person on the show. The winner　　 makes a record and millions of copies of the record are sold . His or her pictures are published on the covers of magazines or on the front pages of newspapers , and then , they are quickly forgotten .

But not everyone is happy about reality TV. In Portugal , two TV channels got into trouble because they showed too much of the personal lives of the people in the shows . In France , reality TV is called “rubbish TV ” and the TV studios of Big Brother were attacked three times in one week . In Greece , Big Brother was described as “against human rights and civilization”.

70. According to the study of Brown Medical School, ______.

A. more than 6 million Americans distrust doctors

B. only 1/10 of medical websites aim to make a profit

C. about 1/10 of the websites surveyed are of high quality

D. 72% of health websites offer incomplete and faulty facts

69. Some Americans stay away from doctors because they _____.

A. find medical devices easy to operate

B. prefer to be diagnosed online by doctors

C. are afraid to face the truth of their health

D. are afraid to misuse their health insurance

68. According to the text, an increasing number of American _____.

A. are suffering from mental disorders

B. turn to Internet pharmacies for help

C. like to play deadly games with doctors

D. are skeptical about surfing medical websites

70．What is the most probable relationship between the two passages?

　　　 A．A public request and a newspaper report.

　　　 B．A newspaper article and a reply to it.

　　　 C．Two parts of a newspaper article.

D．Two newspaper reports.

答案　 67.D　 68.B　 69.C　 70.B

Passage 84

(06·山东D篇)

Increasingly, Americans are becoming their own doctors, by going online to diagnose their symptoms, order home health tests or medical devices, or even self-treat their illnesses with drugs from Internet pharmacies(药店). Some avoid doctors because of the high cost of medical care, especially if they lack health insurance. Or they may stay because they find it embarrassing to discuss their weight, alcohol consumption or couch potato habits. Patients may also fear what they might learn about their health, or they distrust physicians because of negative experiences in the past. But playing doctor can also be a deadly game.

Every day, more than six million Americans turn to the Internet for medical answers – most of them aren’t nearly skeptical enough of what they find. A 2002 survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 72 percent of those surveyed believe all or most of what they read on health websites. They shouldn’t. Look up “headache”, and the chances of finding reliable and complete information, free from a motivation for commercial gain, are only one in ten, reports an April 2005 Brown Medical School study. Of the 169 websites the researchers rated, only 16 scored as “high quality”. Recent studies found faulty facts about all sorts of other disorders, causing one research team to warn that a large amount of incomplete, inaccurate and even dangerous information exists on the Internet.

The problem is most people don’t know the safe way to surf the Web. “They use a search engine like Google, get 18 trillion choices and start clicking. But that’s risky, because almost anybody can put up a site that looks authoritative(权威的), so it’d hard to know if what you’re reading is reasonable or not,” says Dr. Sarah Bass from the National Cancer Institute.

69．What does the circus think of its performing animals?

　　　 A．They are as clever as human beings.

B．They struggle continuously with human beings for existence.

　　　 C．They are helpful in saving their species.

　　　 D．They have equally natural living conditions as wild animals.

68．What will the circus most probably do?

　　　 A．Take no notice of the tragedy.

　　　 B．Continue its performances.

　　　 C．Use fewer wild animals.

　　　 D．Limit its profit.

67．What is the main purpose of the first passage ?

　　　 A．To show pity for the performing animals.

　　　 B．To express worries about animal trainers’ safety .

　　　 C．To deal with the difficult situations of the circus.

D．To call for action to protect　 circus animals.