A
Can trees talk? Yes—but not in words. Scientists have reasons to believe that trees do communicate with each other. Not long ago, researchers learned some surprising things. First a willow tree(柳树) attacked in the woods by caterpillars(毛毛虫) changed the chemistry of its leaves and made them taste so terrible that the caterpillars got tired of the leaves and stopped eating them. The even more astonishing, the tree sent out a special vapour — a signal causing its neighbours to change the chemistry of their own leaves and make them less tasty.
Communication, of course, doesn’t need to be always in words. We can talk to each other by smiling, raising our shoulders and moving our hands. We know that birds and animals use a whole vocabulary of songs, sounds, and movements. Bees dance their signals, flying in certain patterns that tell other bees where to find nectar(花蜜) for honey. So why shouldn’t trees have ways of sending messages?
56. From the passage we know that caterpillars _______.
A. like willow trees
C. can talk to other caterpillars B. enjoy eating fallen leaves D. can send out a special vapour
57. Caterpillars will stop eating willow tree leaves which _______.
A. have a chemical change and become tasteless B. have a pleasant taste
C. are being attacked D. are communicating
58. According to the passage, bees communicate with each other by _______.
A. talking
B. making unusual sounds D. flying in certain patterns C. singing songs
AAD
B The interview had been going on for about 20 minutes and everything seems to be going well. Then，suddenly，the interviewer asks an unexpected question，“Which is more important，law or love？” Job applicants in the West increasingly find themselves asked strange questions like this. And the signs are that this is beginning to happen in China.
Employers want people skilled，enthusiastic and devoted. So these are the qualities that any reasonably intelligent job applicants will try to show no matter what his or her actual feelings are. In response，employers are increasingly using questions which try and show the applicant's true personality.
The question in the first paragraph comes from a test called the Keirsey Personality Sorter. It is an attempt to discover how people solve problems，rather than what they know. This is often called an aptitude test(能力倾向测验)．
According to Mark Baldwin many job applicants in China are finding this type of questions difficult.When a Chinese person fills out an aptitude test he or she will think there is a right answer and they may fail because they try to guess what the examiner wants to see.
This is sometimes called the prisoner's dilemma. Applicants are trying to act cleverly in their own interest. But they fail because they don't understand what the interviewer is looking for. Remember that in an aptitude test，the correct answer is always the honest answer.
59．The writer wrote the passage to ________．
A．give a piece of advice for job interviewees
B．tell you how to meet a job interviewer
C．describe the aptitude test
D．advice you how to find a job
60．Why do the interviewers ask such questions?
A．They want to discover what the interviewees know.
B．They are curious about the answers.
C．They try to discover the ability of the interviewees' solving problems.
D．They just ask questions without thinking much.
61．According to the writer，in an aptitude test，Chinese job applicants should ________．
A．not tell the truth
B．learn to tell what they really think
C．be more enthusiastic
D．try to find out what the examiner really wants to know
62．From the passage we know that ________．
A．job applicants are always asked such questions
B．more Chinese applicants fail to find a job
C．applicants should not act as reasonably as a prisoner
D．the aptitude test is becoming popular worldwide
ACBD
C
Walt Whitman was born in 1819 in New York City. During his long life，he watched America grow from a young nation to the strongest industrial power in the world. Whitman was influenced by events around him. But his poetry spoke of the inner self. He celebrated great people like President Abraham Lincoln. He also celebrated common people.
As a young man，Whitman worked as a school teacher，a printer and a newspaper reporter. He was thirty-six years old when his first book of poetry was published. He called it Leaves of Grass. It has only twelve poems. The poems are written in free verse. The lines do not follow any set form. Some lines are short and some are long. The words at the end of each line do not have a similar sound. They do not rhyme.
One of America’s greatest thinkers and writers immediately recognized the importance of Leaves of Grass. Ralph Waldo Emerson praised Whitman’s work. But most other poets and writers said nothing or denounced it.
The American Civil War began in 1861.During the war，Whitman worked without pay at army hospitals. He helped care for the wounded and dying soldiers. He sat beside these men for hours. He brought them food and wrote letters for them. After the Civil War，Whitman worked for government agencies. He watched the United States try to heal itself and increase democracy. To Walt Whitman，democracy was more than a political system or idea. It was a natural form of government for free people. Whitman believed democracy was meant to honor the rights of every person and the equality of all people.
In 1873，Walt Whitman suffered a stroke. He spent the last few years of his life in Camden，New Jersey and wrote more poems. Whitman was poor and weak during the
last few years of his life. He died in 1892.
63．Walt Whitman expressed his feelings by________.
A．singing songs
C．writing poems B．celebrating great people D．praising common people
64．Leaves of Grass was published in________.
A．1855 B．1819 C．1861 D．1873
65．It can be inferred from the fourth paragraph that Whitman was________.
A．a brave soldier
C．an honest official B．a man of devotion D．a great politician
66．Which of the following is the right order of Whitman’s life?
a．His first collection of poetry was published.
b．He taught in a school as a teacher when he was young.
c．He helped the wounded soldiers in the war.
d．He passed away in Camden，New Jersey.
e．He was born in New York City in 1819.
A．e，c，b，a，d
C．e，b，c，d，a
CABD
D
Sitting across from a German couple and a Chinese mother and her child，we were waiting at the Guilin airport for our delayed flight to Shanghai.In this last week of our travel-study tour，my husband and I were savoring this short break by reading.