B

After nearly a decade of planning, the Egyptian Government has announced an ambitious plan to build the world’s biggest museum devoted entirely to exhibiting the ancient relics(文物).

Called the New Egyptian Museum, it will eventually house the largest collection of Pharaonic(法老的)monuments, including the solid gold death mask of Tutankhamun.

King Nebkheperura Tutankhamun remains the most famous of all the Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt. He lived over 3,300 years ago during the period known as the New Kingdom.

The museum also will house more than120,000 antiquities(ancient arts)from the 4thmillennium(1,000 years)BC to the fall of the Roman Empire.

For the first time, the entire 3,500 items from Tutankhamun’s tomb will be displayed. Permanent exhibitions will include the royal mummies of Ramses II and III and other pharaohs and a large quantity of collection of Pharaonic jewellery.

Antiquities will be organized by theme rather than chronologically(编年地). The four main themes will be: the land of Egypt; royalty and the state; arts of life and death; and scribes(文牍)and wisdom.

With building costs estimated near US$311 million, funding for the new museum will come from corporate sponsorship and charitable(慈善的)donations. The Egyptian Government is expected to pay one third of the final bill.

60. ____ will build the world’s biggest museum devoted entirely to exhibiting the ancient relics.

A. The Egypt government B. A corporate body

C. The charitable body D. The Egypt government and a corporate body

61. When you go into one exhibiting hall of the would-be museum, you’ll see ____.

A. all the exhibits are arranged by the year

B. all the exhibits are arranged by theme

C. more than 120,000 Egyptian antiquities are on show

D. Pharaonic monuments of Tutankhamun and the royal relics

62. According to the passage, ____.

A. the most valuable relics that are to be displayed are 120,000 antiquities from the 4thmillennium

B. 3,500 items of relics have been discovered from Tutankhamun’s tomb

C. the Pharaonic monuments of Tutankhamun are the oldest relics

D. the royal mummies of Ramses II and III and other pharaohs will be displayed for the second time

63. The best title of the passage should be ____.

A. Egypt’s Ambitious Plan B. The World’s Biggest Museum for the Ancient relics

C

Geologists(地质学家)have been studying volcanoes for a long time. Though they have learned a great deal, they still have not discovered the causes of volcanic action. They know that the inside of the earth is very hot, but they are not sure exactly what causes the great heat. Some geologists have thought that the heat is caused by the great pressure of the earth’s outer layers. Or the heat may be left from the time when the earth was formed. During the last sixty years scientists have learned about radium, uranium, thorium, and other radioactive elements. These give out heat all the time as they change into other elements. Many scientists now believe that much of the heat inside the earth is produced by radioactive elements.

Whatever the cause of the heat may be, we do know that the earth gets hotter the farther down we dig. In deep mines and oil wells the temperature rises about 1℉ for each 50 feet. At this rate the temperature 40 miles below the earth’s surface would be over 4000℉ . this is much hotter than necessary to melt rook. However, the pressure of the rock above keeps most materials from melting at their usual melting points. Geologists believe that the rock deep in the earth may be plastic, or puttylike(似粘性材料). In other words, the rock yields slowly to pressure nut is not liquid. But if some change in the earth’s crust releases the pressure, the rock melts. Then the hot, liquid rock can move up toward the surface.

Where the melted rock works its way closed to the earth’s crust, a volcano may be formed. The melted rock often contains steam and other gases under great pressure. If the rock above gives way, the pressure is released. Then the sudden expansion of the gases causes explosions. These blow the melted rock into pieces of different sizes and shoot them high in the air. Here they cool and harden into volcanic ash and cinders(灰烬). Some of this material falls around the hole made in the earth’s surface. The melted rock may keep on rising and pour out as lava(岩浆). In this way, volcanic ash, cinders, and lava build up the cone-shaped(锥形的)mountains that we call volcanoes.

64. The subject of this passage is the ____.

A. formation of volcanoes B. results of volcanic action

C. interior of the earth D. causes of the earth’s internal heat

65. The cause for the heat in the interior of the earth is probably ____.

A. radioactive elements B. the great pressure of the earth

C. not determined D. the heat remaining from the formation of the earth

66. From the information given in the passage, most minerals would melt fastest ____.

A. at 4000 ℉ at sea level B. at 4000 ℉, 5000 feet below sea level

C. in the absence of oxygen D. at the exact center of the earth at 4000℉

67. If the temperature at the earth’s surface is 20℉ the temperature in a coal mine 500 feet below the surface would, in degrees, be ____.

A. 40 B. 30 C. 50 D. 120

D

Thirty-two people watched Kitty Genovese being killed right beneath their windows. She was their neighbor. Yet none of the 32 helped her. No one even called the police. Was this in gunman cruelty? Was it lack of feeling about one’s fellow man?

“Not so,” say scientists John Barley and Bib Fatane. These men went beyond the headlines to probe the reasons why people didn’t act. They found that a person has to go through two steps before he can help. First he has to notice that is an emergency.

Suppose you see a middle-aged man fall to the sidewalk. Is he having a heart attack? Is he in a coma(昏迷)from diabetes(糖尿病)? Or is he about to sleep off a drunk?

Is the smoking coming into the room from a leak in the air conditioning? Is it “steam pipes”? or is it really smoke from a fire? It’s not always easy to tell if you are facing a real emergency.

Second, and more important, the person faced with an emergency must feel personally responsible. He must feel that he must help, or the person won’t get the help he needs.

The researchers found that a lot depends on how many people are around. They had college students in to be “tested”. Some came alone. Some came with one or two others. And some came in large groups. The receptionist started them off on the “test”. Then she went into the next room. A curtain divided the “testing room” and the room into which she went. Soon the student heard a scream, the noise of file cabinets falling and a cry for help. All of this had been pre-recorded on a tape recorder.

Eight out of ten of the students taking the test alone acted to help. Of the students in pairs, only two out of ten helped. Of the students in groups, none helped.

In other words, in a group, Americans often fail to act. They feel that others will act. They, themselves, needn’t. They do not feel any direct responsibility.

Are people bothered by situations where people are in trouble? Yes. Scientists found that they people were emotional, they sweated, they had trembling hands. They felt the other person’s trouble. But they didn’t act. They were in a group. Their actions were shaped by the actions of those they were with.

68. The purpose of this passage is ____.

A. to explain why people fail to act in emergencies

B. to explain when people will act in emergencies

C. to explain what people will do in emergencies

D. to explain how people feel in emergencies

69. Which of the following is NOT true?

A. When a person tries to help others, he must be clear that there is a real emergency.

B. When a person tries to help others, he should know whether they are worth his help.

C. A person must take full responsibility for the safety of those in emergencies if he wants to help.

D. A person with a heart attack needs help the most.

70. The main reason why people fail to act when they stay together is that ____.

A. they are afraid of emergencies

B. they are reluctant to get themselves involved

C. others will act if they themselves hesitate

D. they do not have any direct responsibility for those who need help