第三部分:阅读理解(共20小题,每小题2分,满分40分)   

When you buy a T-shirt, or a fur coat in a store, it often carries a label (标签),telling who made it or from which store it was bought . Indeed, some labels show the dress is famous and it is very expensive, so buyers secretly wish they might be carried forever. On the other hand, buyers who deal with the cheapest products would be pleased to do away with labels entirely.

However, there is another label more important than the one showing from which store the dress was bought. When a person buys a fur coat, or a jacket from a store, a label telling what the product is made of should be carried on it.

This label is required by law. Besides telling what the product on show is made of, the label should be in clear English and be where one can find it easily. The information on the label must be the truth.

The reason for this label is that most buyers today aren’t expert enough to know exactly what kind of fur or material they buy. The buyer must believe in the store that sells the products or in what the labels say.

56. The passage is mainly about_________.

A. some knowledge of clothing labels    

B. some advice on how to get dressed

C. some advice on buying clothes    

D. some knowledge of the quality of clothes

57. According to the passage, from a label we can know all of the following EXCEPT_________.

A. who made the clothes           B. where one bought the clothes

C. how much the clothes cost       D. what material the clothes are made of

58. The law requires that a product should carry a _________.

A. clean label    B. clear label     C. white label   D. secret label

59. The author probably thinks that_________.

A. all buyers want their clothes to wear labels forever

B. many buyers depend on labels when buying clothes

C. most stores don’t sell clothes with labels

D. most labels don’t tell buyers the truth

As a professor at a large American university, there is a phrase that I hear often from students: “I’m only a 1050. ”The unlucky students are speaking of the score on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), which is used to determine whether they will be admitted to the college or university of their choice, or even have a chance to get a higher education at all. The SAT score, whether it is 800, 1 100 or 1550, has becomes the focus at this time of their life.

It is obvious that if students value highly their test scores, then a great amount of their self-respect is put in the number. Students who perform poorly on the exam are left feeling that it is all over. The low test score, they think, will make it impossible for them to get into a good college. And without a degree from a prestigious university, they fear that many of life’s doors will remain forever closed.

According to a study done in the 1990s, the SAT is only a reliable indicator of a student’s future performance in most cases. Interestingly, it becomes much more accurate when it is set together with other indicators——like a student’s high school grades. Even if standardized tests like the SAT could show a student’s academic proficiency(学业水平),they will never be able to test things like confidence, efforts and willpower, and are unable to give us the full picture of a student’s potentialities(潜力). This is not to suggest that we should stop using SAT scores in our college admission process. The SAT is an excellent test in many ways, and the score is still a useful means of testing students. However, it should be only one of many methods used.

64.The purpose of the SAT is to test students’   .

A.strong will                   B.academic ability

C.full potentialities              D.confidence in school work

65.Students’ self-respect is influenced by their   .

       A.scores in the SAT                 B.achievements in mathematic

       C.job opportunities                      D.money spent on education

66.“A prestigious university”is most probably     .

       A.a famous university               B.a technical university

       C.a traditional university             D.an expensive university

67.This passage is mainly about  .

       A.how to prepare for the SAT         B.stress caused by the SAT

       C.American higher education         D.the SAT and its effects

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