Part III  Reading Comprehension (45 minutes, 25 points, 1 for each)

　　Directions: There are five passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your Machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.

　　Passage One

　　Very old people do raise morale problem for almost everyone who comes into contact with them. Their values—this can't be repeated too often—are not necessarily our values. Physical comfort, cleanness and order are not necessarily the most important things. The social services from time to time find themselves faced with a flat with decaying food covered with small worms, and an old person, lying alone on bed, taking no notice of the worms. Is it interfering with personal freedom to insist that they go to live with some of their relatives so that they might be taken better care of？ Some social workers are the ones who clear up the worms, think we are in danger of carrying this concept of personal freedom to the point where serious risks are be?ing taken with the health and safety of the old.

　　Indeed, the old can be easily hurt or harmed. The body is like a car: it needs more mechanical maintenance as it gets older. You can carry this comparison right through to the provision of spare parts. Never forget that such operations are painful experiences, however good the results. At what point should you cease to treat the old body? Is it morally right to try to push off death by pur?suing the development of drugs to excite the forgetful old mind and to activate the old body, knowing that it is designed to die? You cannot ask doctors or scientists to decide, because so long as they can see the technical opportunities, they will feel bound to give them a try on the principle that while there's life, there's hope.

　　When you talk to the old people, however, you are forced to the conclusion that whether age is happy or unpleasant depends less on money r on health than it does on your ability to have fun

　　31. It is implied in Paragraph 1 that ______.

　　A. very old people enjoy living with their relatives

　　B. social services have nothing to do with very old people

　　C. very old people would like to live alone so that they can have more personal freedom

　　D. very old people are able to keep their room very clean

　　32. Some social workers think that ______.

　　A. health and safety are more important than personal freedom

　　B. personal freedom is more important than health and safety

　　C. old people should keep their rooms clean

　　D. one should not take risks of dealing with old people

　　33. In the author's opinion, ____.

　　A. the human body can't be compared to a car

　　B. the older a person is, the more care he needs

　　C. too much emphasis has been put on old people's values

　　D. it is easy to provide spare parts for old people

　　34. The word it in the last paragraph refers to ____ .

　　A. the conclusion you have come to

　　B. your talk to the old people

　　C. whether age is happy or un pleasant

　　D. one's money or one's health

　　35. The author thinks that ____.

　　A. medical decisions for the old people should be left to the doctors

　　B. old people can enjoy a happy life only if they are very rich

　　C. the opinion that we should try every means possible to save old people is doubtful

　　D. it is always morally right to treat old people and push off

　　Passage Two

　　The man who brings my milk used to knock for his money for the week' s milk while I was eating breakfast on Saturday morning. Just lately he has been arriving before I get up. Staff shortages mean that four men are sharing five rounds, so he has to start earlier.

　　Delivering milk to people's homes is scarcely good business, especially when the customer may have a choice of two or three firms serving a single road. In spite of my local difficulties, however, labour troubles are not as acute as a few years ago. There are enough men prepared to make an early morning start for the sake of an open-air job with a fair measure of freedom. If they did stop calling, women would find it hard work to collect all the milk they need from self-service stores. Dairies are aware that stopping deliveries in the United States resulted in falling sales.

　　Marketing ideas have included introducing extra lines, in addition to dairy products, which the milkmen can carry to increase turnover. Already they have taken over many rounds given up by bakeries. One dairyman said: "It won't be long before the milkman delivers more bread than milk." Some milkmen deliver potatoes, and it seems as though diversification will be limited only by the size of the vans.

　　So the milkman is likely to remain a familiar figure, and the dairy products he sells are unlikely to change very much in this decade. Flavoured milk is popular on the Continent. In Britain those who like it buy plain milk and add their own flavouring. Even the returnable bottle continues to be used. As long as it has a reasonable life — 30 to 40 trips are usual — the cost of collection and cleaning is worthwhile.

　　36. The milkman now starts earlier on his delivery rounds than before because

　　A. he has to collect his money for the week' s milk

　　B. there is an increased demand for milk

　　C. dairies are short of deliverymen and each deliveryman has to do more work

　　D. he likes to enjoy the early morning air

　　37. Some men choose the job of a milkman because ___.

　　A. they like to rise early

　　B.they like working out of doors, especially early in the morning

　　C.deliverymen earn a lot of money

　　D.delivering milk is good business

　　38. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

　　A. The milkman now delivers more bread than milk. .

　　B. Some milkmen deliver potatoes in addition to dairy products.

　　C. Milkmen have taken over many rounds given up by bakeries.

　　D. One of the marketing ideas is diversification.

　　39. According to the passage, in this decade ___.

　　A. there will be little change in the dairy business

　　B. flavoured milk will become popular in Britain

　　C. people will buy milk from self-service stores

　　D.the milkman will disappear

　　40. It can be inferred from the passage that the milkman has disappeared ___.

　　A. in Britain

　　B. on the Continent

　　C. in the United States

　　D. in the Western World

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