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51、 The information passed on by word of mouth is important because__________.

A．it is better than that found through any other source

B．it helps you find some of the best housing never advertised

C．the final year students always offer better information

D．the landlords have little valuable information

52、 For students going to London for the first time, which of the following provides the most reliable information ?

A．University accommodation offices

B．Loot and Renting

C．Notice boards

D．Family

53、　　Stop Spam !

When I first got an e-mail account ten years ago, I received communications only from family ,friends, and colleagues. Now it seems that every time I check my e-mail, I have an endless series of advertisements and other correspondence that do not interest me at all. If we want e-mails to continue to be useful, we need specific laws that make spamming(发送垃圾) a crime.

If law makers do not do something soon to prohibit spam, the problem will certainly get much worse. Computer programs allow spammers to send hundreds of millions of e-mails almost instantly .As more and more advertisers turn to spam to sell their products, individual(个人的) e-mail boxes are often flooded with spam e-mails. World people continue to use e-mail if they had to deal with an annoying amount of spam each time?

This problem is troubling for individuals and companies as well. Many spare e-mails contain computer viruses that can shut down the entire network of a company. Companies rely on e-mails for their employees to communicate with each other. Spam frequently causes failures in their local communications networks, and their employees are thus unable to communicate effectively. Such as it nation results in a loss of productivity and requires companies to repeatedly repair their networks .These computer problems raise production costs of companies, which are, in the end, passes on to the consumer.

For these reasons, I believe that lawmakers need to legislate (立法) against spare. Spammers should be fined, and perhaps sent to prison if they continue to disturb people. E-mail is a tool which helps people all over the world to communicate conveniently, but spare is destroying this convenience.

What does the underlined word "correspondence" in the Paragraph 1 probably mean?

A．Messages

B．Ideas

C．Connections

D．Programs

54、 According to the text, what is the major cause of the flooding spam?

A．Companies rely on e-mails for communications.

B．More people in the world communicate by e-mails.

C．Many computer viruses contain spam e-mails.

D．More advertisers begin to promote sales through spam.

55、 According to Paragraph 3, who is the final victim of spare?

A．The business

B．The advertiser

C．The employee

D．The consumer

56、 What is the purpose of the text?

A．To inform

B．To educate

C．To persuade

D．To instruct

57、　　Have you winterized your horse yet? Even though global warming may have made our climate  more mild, many animals are still hibernating(冬眠). It's too bad that humans can't hibernate. In fact, as a species, we almost did.

Apparently, at times in the past, peasants in France liked a semi-state of human hibernation .So writes Graham Robb, a British scholar who has studied the sleeping habits of the French peas-ants. As soon as the weather turned cold people all over France shut themselves away and practiced the forgotten art of doing nothing at all for months on end.

In line with this, Jeff Warren, a producer at CBC Radio's The Current, tells us that the way we sleep has changed fundamentally since the invention of artificial (人造的) lighting and the electricbulb.

When historians began studying texts of the Middle Ages, they noticed something referred to as"first sleep", which was not clarified, though. Now scientists are telling us our ancestors most likely slept in separate periods. The business of eight hours' uninterrupted sleep is a modern invention.

In the past, without the artificial light of the city to bathe in, humans went to- sleep when it be-came dark and then woke themselves around midnight. The !ate night period was known as "The Watch". It was when people actually kept watch against wild animals, although many of them simply moved around or visited family and neighbours.

According to some sleep researchers, a short period of insomnia (失眠) at midnight is not a disorder. It is normal, Humans can experience another state of consciousness around their sleeping ,which occurs in the brief period before we fall asleep or wake ourselves in the morning. This period can be an extraordinarily creative time for some people. The impressive inventor, Thomas Edison ,used this state to hit upon many of his new ideas.

Playing with your sleep rhythms can be adventurous, as anxiety may set in. Medical science doesn't help much in this ease. It offers us medicines for a lull night's continuous sleep, which sounds natural; however, according to Warren's theory ,it is really the opposite of what we need.

The example of the French peasants shows the fact that __________.

A．people might become lazy as a result of too much sleep

B．there were signs of hibernation in human sleeping habits

C．people tended to sleep more peacefully in cold weather

D．winter was a season for people to sleep for months on end

58、 The late night was called "The Watch" because it was a time for people__________.

A．to set traps to catch animals

B．to wake up their family and neighbours

C．to remind others of the time

D．to guard against possible dangers

59、 What does the author advise people to do?

A．Sleep in the way animals do.

B．Consult a doctor if they can't sleep.

C．Follow their natural sleep rhythm.

D．Keep to the eight -hour sleep pattern.

60、 What is the author's purpose in writing the passage?

A．To give a prescription for insomnia.

B．To urge people to sleep less.

C．To analyze the sleep pattern of modern people.

D．To throw new light on human sleep.

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