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(81)When we can see well, we do not think about our eyes very often. It is only when we cannot see perfectly that we come to see how important our eyes are.People who are nearsighted can only see things that are very close to their eyes. Many people who do a lot of close work, such as writing, reading and sewing, become nearsighted. Then they have to wear glasses in order to see distant things clearly.People who are farsighted(近视的) suffer from just the opposite problem. They can see things that are far away, but they have difficulty reading a book unless they hold it at arms length. If they want to do much reading, they must get glasses too.Other people do not see clearly because their eyes are not exactly the right shape. This, too, can be corrected by glasses. Some peoples eyes become cloudy because of cataracts(白内障). Long ago these people often became blind. Now, however, it is possible to operate on the cataracts and remove them.When night falls, colours become fainter to the eye and finally disappear. After your eyes have grown used to the dark, you can see better if you use the sides of your eyes rather than the centers. Sometimes, after dark, you see a small thing to one side of you, which seems to disappear if you turn you head in its direction. This is because when you turn your head, you are looking at the thing too directly. Men on guard duty sometimes think they see something moving to one side of them. When they turn to look straight at it, they cannot see it any more, and they believe they were mistaken. However, this mistake happens because the center of the eye, which is very sensitive(敏感的) in daylight, is not as sensitive as the sides of the eyes after dark.1. We dont know that our eyes are of great importance until _.we think about our eyes we cannot see clearly we wear glasses we have to do much reading2.According to the passage, a _ is more likely to be nearsighted.A. tailor B. doctor C. guard D. painter3. Those who suffer from cataracts _.will become blind cannot be cured (治愈)may be cured must move to other places4. People who are farsighted _.cannot do a lot of close work without glassescan only see things that are very close to their eyeshave difficulty reading a book if they hold it at arms lengthhave the same problem as the nearsighted people5. to see a small thing at night, it is better to look _.with wide open eyes with half- shut or narrowed eyesstraight at it in a slightly different direction (82)Shanghai: Car rentals(租赁) are becoming increasingly popular as an inexpensive way of taking to the roads. Business people, foreigners and families alike are taking advantage of the growing industry.The first car rental firm opened in Shanghai in 1992 and now 12 car rental players are in the game, with more than 11,500 cars on their books.The largest player-Shanghai binshi tourism Car Rental Centre has 10,000 cars from deluxe sedans(豪华轿车) and minivans(微型车) to large passenger buses. Santana sedans are the big fetteite.Firms can attract enough customers, for 70 percent of their cars every month. This figure shoots up during holidays like National Day, Labour Day and New Years Day, with some recording 100 percent leasing(租出).The major market force tests in the growing population of expatriate(移居国外) and white-collar employers, who can afford the new service, said ZhuangYu, marketing manger of Shanghai Angel Car Rental Co.1. More and more people prefer to rent a car because _ .firms provide cheap carsthe cars people rent are better than their ownit costs less when taking to the roadsit is expensive to travel by train or bus2. From the passage we can learn that _.70% of the white-collar employers rent cars on their holidaysalmost all the cars in the firms are rented on holidaysmore and more cars are rented because the population is growingpeople can only rent Santana sedans in car rental firms3. The underlined phrase “ taking advantage of ” in the first paragraph means _.A. use B. enjoyment C. benefit D. interest (83)INSIDE*Zhu to attend Asem in LondonChinas new premier, Zhu Rongji is to attend the Second Asia-Europe Meeting(Asem) and visit Britain and France between March 31 and April 7 in his first foreign trip since taking office.Page 2*Laid-off workersBeijing will take measure to help the citys laid-off workers find new jobs this year.Page 3*Family reformChina Daily carries a commentary (评论)on family planning policy, which is crucial(关系重大) to the countrys future.Page 4*Banking reformThe Shanghai Branch of the Peoples Bank of China is preparing to initiate(开始着手) a series of reforms to improve services.Page 5*Education reformA complete reform in Chinese language teaching is called for in primary and secondary education.Page 9Healthy old manTwo Chinese World War II pilots keep healthy in their 80s through regular exercise programmes.Page 101. The above section may possibly appear on _ of China Daily.A. Page 3B. Page 1 C. Page 6 D. page102. From the headline we expect there will be _ job chances for laid-off workers in Beijing this year. A. fewerB. enough C. more D. no3. Premier Zhu will go to Europe to _.A. attend Asem in Paris B. visit Britain and France from march to AprilC. have his first foreign tripD. attend the meeting and pay an official visit to Britain and France4. We can infer that Chinese language teaching in primary and secondary schools at present _ .A. is satisfactory B. meets the demand of the society Cneeds improvement D. interests students (84)Could a CD player, a laptop computer or a hand-held video game send an airline off course?Unless you are born with feathers, flying requires faith. Passengers have to believe, once on board the plane, that a 227000kg machine moving extremely fast in the air is firmly in the pilots control. That faith was shaken last week by a report that a DC-10 plane coming into New Yorks Kennedy airport recently almost crashed(撞毁) when a passenger in the first class turned on his portable compact disc player.The story, first published in Time Magazine, set off peoples concern. Can airplanes really be made to change their courses by something as small as a battery-powered CD player? Or a video-game machine? Or any of a dozen electronic gadgets(小器具) and computers that passengers regularly carry on board?Although it may sound impossible, it cant be ruled out. Every electrical device creates a certain amount of radiation. Portable phones, remote-control toys and other radio transmitters send out signals that can carry for kilometers, and their use on planes has long been cassette players, tape recorders and laptop computers, which make far less electromagnetic(电磁的) noise.Now there is increasing proof that even these gadgets may be putting aircraft at risk. A walkman-type radio tuned to an FM station produces oscillations(振荡) that can reach 1.5m to 3.5m-far enough, in some planes, to reach the navigation(导航) equipment in and around the cockpit (驾驶员座舱).No planes have crashed and no lives have been lost-so far. But Time Magazine has got quite a few pilot reports linking a series of “anomalies”(异例) to a wide variety of electronic gadgets, from laptop computers to Nintendo Game Boys. In one striking example, a plane flying out of Chicago started going off course while its VOR dials became unclear and danced around. When the passenger in seat 9-D turned off his laptop, the report states, the “panel lights immediately brightened and all navigation aids returned to normal.” The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, pressed by pilots to punish the gadget holders on board, published an advisory late last week that Delta Airlines has already made longer its list of forbidden devices to include video playback machines and CD players.With the arrival of new “fly-by-wire” aircraft, which are heavily computerized and even more easily to be interfered with, passengers may have to go back to reading paperbacks and watching the in-flight movies.1The purpose of this article is to inform the readers of_.A. the risks connected with flying modern computerized planesB. the conditions connected with taking off and landing in modern planesC. the risks connected with using electronic devices while flying in modern planesD. the conditions connected with sitting within 3.5m off the cockpit in a modern plane2The following are four points made in the article, Which is the right order of what happened?1) Many pilots have reported incidents of interference.2) It is possible that electrical devices are dangerous.3) Delta