56. We can learn from the passage that Mr. Brown was ______.

A. a conductor B. a worker C. a thief D. an umbrella maker

57. The underlined word “it” in the first paragraph refers to ______.

A. his ticket B. his bag C. his drawing D. his umbrella

58. When looking at Mr. Brown with four umbrellas, the woman thought ______.

A. Mr. Brown was an umbrella maker

B. Mr. Brown was selling his umbrellas

C. Mr. Brown had stolen the other women’s umbrellas

D. Mr. Brown had bought four umbrellas for his family.

59 How did Mr. Brown get the four umbrellas?

A. He picked them on the train.

B. He brought them from his small town.

C. He bought them in London.

D. He stole them from four women.

B

About ten men in every hundred suffer from color blindness in some way. Women are luckier; only about one in two hundred is affected in this matter. Perhaps, after all, it is safer to be driven by a woman!

There are different forms of color blindness. In some cases a man may not be able to see deep red. He may think that red, orange and yellow are all shadows of green. Sometimes a person cannot tell the difference between blue and green. In rare cases an unlucky man may see everything in shades of green - a strange world indeed.

Color blindness in human beings is a strange thing to explain. In a single eye there are millions of very small things called “cones”. These help us to see in a bright light and to tell difference between colors. There are also millions of “rods”, but these are used for seeing when it is near dark. They show us shape but no color.

Some insects have favorite colors. Mosquitoes prefer blue to yellow. A red light will not attract insects, but a blue lamp will. In a similar way human beings also have favorite colors. Yet we are lucky. With the aid of the cones in our eyes we can see many beautiful colors by day, and with the aid of the rods we can see shapes at night. One day we may even learn more about the invisible colors around us.

60. The passage is mainly about _____________.

A. color and its surprising effects.

B. women being luckier than men

C. danger caused by color blindness

D. color blindness

61. According to the passage, with the help of the “cones”, we can_______________.

A. tell different shapes B. see in a weak light

C. kill mosquitoes D. tell orange from yellow

63 Why do some people say it is safer to be driven by women?

A. Women are more careful.

B. There are fewer color-blind women

C. Women are fonder of driving than men.

D. Women are weaker but quicker in thinking.