Reading to dogs is an unusual way to help children improve their literacy skills（讀寫能力）. With their shining brown eyes, wagging tails, and unconditional love, dogs can provide the nonjudgmental listeners needed for a beginning reader to gain confidence（自信心）,  according to Intermountain Therapy Animals（ITA）in Salt Lake City. The group says it is the first program in the country to use dogs to help develop literacy in children, with the introduction of Reading Education Assistance Dogs （READ）.

       The Salt Lake City Public Library is sold on the idea. “Literacy specialists admit that children who read below the level of their fellow pupils are often afraid of reading aloud in a group, often have lower self-respect, and regard reading as a headache,” said Lisa Myron, manager of the children’s department.

       Last November the two groups started “Dog Day Afternoon” in the children’s department of the main library. About 25children attended each of the four Saturday-afternoon classes, reading for half an hour. Those who attended three of the four classes received a “pawgraphed” book at the last class.

       The program was so successful that the library plans to repeal it in April, according to Dana Thumpowsky, public relations manager.

59．What is mainly discussed in the text?

       A．Children’s reading difficulties.              B．Advantages of raising dogs.

       C．Service in public library.        D．A special reading program.

60．Specialists use dogs to listen to children reading because they think__________.

       A．dogs are young children’s best friends

       B．children can play with dogs while reading

       C．dogs can provide encouragement for shy children

       D．children and dogs understand each other

61．By saying “The Salt Lake City Public Library is sold on the idea”, the writer means the library ______________.

       A．uses dogs to attract children           B．a(chǎn)ccepts the idea put forward by ITA

       C．has opened a children’s department        D．has decided to train some dogs

62．A “pawgraphed” book is most probably _________.

       A．a(chǎn) book used in Saturday classes             B．a(chǎn) book written by the children

       C．a(chǎn) prize for the children                   D．a(chǎn) gift from parents

The Home of My People

    When Lewis and Clark stepped onto the Weippe Prairie in present-day Idaho in September 1805, they met the Nez Perce Indians. In the following years, the white explorers（探險(xiǎn)者）began to fight with the Indians for their land. Some Nez Perce chiefs signed agreements with the U.S. government, selling part of their lands. But the government always broke those agreements and demanded more land.

    Other chiefs refused to go along with the government’s plans. The most famous was Chief Joseph, whose people lived in the Wallowa Valley（present-day Oregon）.

    “In order to have all people understand how much land we owned,” he once explained, “my father planted poles around it and said: ‘Inside is the home of my people…It circled around the graves（墳?zāi)梗﹐f our fathers, and we will never give up these graves to any man.’”

    But in 1874, the U.S. government declared the valley open for white settlement and ordered the Nez Perce onto a reservation（保留地）. Seeing that resistance was useless, Chief Joseph agreed to move.

    Later fighting broke out between the Nez Perce and U.S. soldiers. Chief Joseph tried to lead his people to Canada, winning several battles against the soldiers during their flight. But finally, he was forced to give in.

56. Which historic site （on the map）lies in the south of today’s Nez Perce Reservation?

       A. Buffalo Eddy.              B. Dug Bar.

       C. Joseph Canyon Viewpoint.          D. Chief Looking Glass Camp.

57. What can we learn about the Nez Perce lands from the map?

       A. They were in the state of Oregon.

       B. They have become a historic site.

       C. They have become much smaller.

      D. They were limited to the Wallowa Valley.

58. From Paragraph 3, we know that the Indians wanted to ______.

       A. show off their land       B. keep their land

       C. turn their place into a graveyard      D. build their homes around the poles

    Grown-ups know that people and objects are solid. At the movies, we know that if we reach out to touch Tom Cruise, all we will feel is air. But does a baby have this understanding?

    To see whether babies know objects are solid, T. Bower designed a method for projecting an optical illusion（視覺影像）of a hanging ball. His plan was to first give babies a real ball, one they could reach out and touch, and then to show them the illusion. If they knew that objects are solid and they reached out for the illusion and found empty air, they could be expected to show surprise in their faces and movements. All the 16-to 24- week -old babies tested were surprised when they reached for the illusion and found that the ball was not there.

    Grown-ups also have a sense of object permanence. We know that if we put a box in a room and lock the door, the box will still be there when we come back. But does a baby realize that a ball that rolls under a chair does not disappear and go to never-never land?

    Experiments done by Bower suggest that babies develop a sense of object permanence when they are about 18 weeks old. In his experiments, Bower used a toy train that went behind a screen. When 16-week-old and 22-week-old babies watched the toy train disappear behind the left side of the screen, they looked to the right, expecting it to reappear. If the experimenter took the train off the table and lifted the screen, all the babies seemed surprised not to see the train. This seems to show that all the babies had a sense of object permanence. But the second part of the experiment showed that this was not really the case. The researcher substituted（替換）a ball for the train when it went behind the screen. The 22-week-old babies seemed surprised and looked back to the left side for the train. But the 16-week -old babies did not seem to notice the switch（更換）. Thus, the 16-week-old babies seemed to have a sense of “something permanence,” while the 22-week-old babies had a sense of object permanence related to a particular object.

68. The passage is mainly about _____.

      A. babies’ sense of sight                   B. effects of experiments on babies

       C. babies’ understanding of objects          D. different tests on babies’ feelings

69. In Paragraph 3, “object permanence” means that when out of sight, an object ________.

       A. still exists     B. keeps its shape         C. still stays solid        D. is beyond reach

70. What did Bower use in his experiments?

       A. A chair.         B. A screen.       C. A film.          D. A box.

71. Which of the following statements is true?

       A. The babies didn’t have a sense of direction.

      B. The older babies preferred toy trains to balls.

   C. The younger babies liked looking for missing objects.

   D. The babies couldn’t tell a ball from its optical illusion.

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72. Which of the following magazines will probably provide you with articles about music and paintings?

A. Apollo.            B. The Week.       

C. New Internationalist.       D. The Guardian Weekly.

73. It is possible that most of the readers of the four magazines are ______.

A. men       B. women     C. children     D. grown-ups

74. Which of the following would you most probably read if you want to get information from the world’s most popular newspapers?

A. Apollo & The Week.

B. Apollo & New Internationalist.

C. The Guardian Weekly & The Week.

D. The Guardian Weekly & New Internationalist.

75. The purpose of writing these four texts is to ______.

A. tell the readers the latest news

B. get more readers to subscribe （訂閱）

C. show the importance of the four magazines

D. introduce the four magazines to new readers

— ____busy  schoolwork,the children also have to take arts,music and sports

classes in their free time.

—I wonder what they will become.

     A.Rather than              B.Owing to?

     C.Except for               D.Apart from?

All people, ____they are old or young,black or white,all hold the same dream to have a peaceful world.?

      A.whether          B.however?C.no matter            D.even though?

Don’t miss the musical when it____next  month because all the actors give world class performances.?

      A.comes                   B.will come?

      C.is to come              D.is coming?

Flight 19 from New York to Washington is now arriving at ____.

A.Gate 2    B. the two gate   C. the gate two    D. second gate

As soon as the children were _____, their mother got them out of bed and into the bathroom.

   A. woke      B. waken        C. wake         D. awake

And video cameras can be used to_______people’s actions at home.

        A. keep          B. make             C. record       D. watch