III. Reading Comprehension

　　Section A: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some true-false questions. Decide whether each of them is true (T) or false (F)

　　Passage 1

　　AIDS, fifty years ago, didn’t exist. Fifteen years ago a few doctors and public health officials noticed the first cases. Within a few years it was clear that it has now killed almost 14 million people around the world.

　　Four years ago doctors came up with the first treatment to make a dent in the spiraling death rate. Today that treatment works for some patients, but it’s not clear how long results will last. And still there is no cure.

　　For the nearly 35 million people around the world now living with HIV, there may never be a cure. Once cells are infected with HIV, it is very difficult — perhaps impossible ―to rid them of the virus. The only sure way to stop AIDS is to prevent infection in the first place, and only a vaccine can do that.

　　Unfortunately HIV is one of the most changeable viruses known to science. After more than a dozen years, it is still rather difficult to produce effective vaccine.

　　Still the billions of dollars spent on AIDS research over the past 20 years has not been wasted. As scientists learn more about how HIV survives in the human body, they are realizing that drugs alone may not be enough. To contain the virus effectively, it may take a balance between drug treatments that can keep HIV levels low and a strengthened immune system that can then target and destroy the remaining virus. Until scientists find a vaccine, however, they may control but never cure the century’s final scourge.

　　F51. AIDS didn’t exist fifteen years ago.

　　T52. Scientists have found a vaccine which can prevent HIV infection.

　　T53. Although some treatment works for some patients with HIV, there is still no cure.

　　T54. HIV is a changeable virus so that it is very difficult to produce effective vaccine.

　　F55. We have wasted billions of dollars on AIDS research.

　　Passage 2

　　Let children learn to judge their own work. A child learning to talk does not learn by being corrected all the time: if corrected too much, he will stop talking. He notices a thousand times a day the differences between the language he uses and the language those around him use. Bit by bit, he makes the necessary changes to make his language like other people’s. In the same way, children learning to do all the other things they learn to do without being taught— to walk, run, climb, whistle, ride a bicycle— compare their own performances with those of more skilled people, and slowly make the needed changes. But in school we never give a child a chance to find out his mistakes for himself, let alone correct them. We do it all for him. We act as if we thought that he would never notice a mistake unless it was pointed out to him, or correct it unless he was made to. Soon he becomes dependent on the teacher. Let him do it himself. Let him work out, with the help of other children if he wants it, what this word says, what the answer to that problem is, whether or not this is a good way of saying or doing this or that.

　　If it is a matter of right answers, as it may be in mathematics or science, give him the answer book. Let him correct his own papers. Why should we teachers waste time on such routine work? Our job should be to help the child when he tells us that he can’ t find the way to get the right answer. Let’s end all this nonsense of grades, exams, and marks. Let us throw them all out, let the children learn what all educated persons must some day learn and how to measure their own understanding, and how to know what they know or do not know. Let them get on with this job in the way that seems most sensible to them, with our help as school teachers if they ask for it. The idea that there is a body of knowledge to be learned at school and used for the rest of one’s life is nonsense in a world as complicated and rapidly changing as ours. Anxious parents and teachers say, “But suppose they fail to learn something essential, something they will need to get on in the world?” Don’t worry! If it is essential, they will go out into the world and learn it.

　　(F)56. The best way for children to learn a language and other things is for them to make mistakes and have them corrected by themselves.

　　F57. School teaching looks as if teachers think that children would notice a mistake and have it corrected themselves.

　　T58. When it comes to a matter of right answers, teachers should give children the answer book and let them correct their own papers.

　　(F)59. The author strongly suggests that without correcting children’s mistakes, they would grown up into adults who are unable to think for themselves.

　　(F)60. The passage aims to say that it is necessary for parents to teach their children things that they will need to get on in the world.

　　IV . Translate the following sentences into Chinese.

　　61. The little hero prefers to die rather than surrender.

　　这个小英雄宁愿选择死也不愿投降。

　　62. The mystery was solved when the police discovered the murder weapon.

　　当警察发现谋杀工具时,秘密被揭开了。

　　63. We never know the value of water till the well is dry.

　　我们从来不知道水的价值直到这口井干枯了。

　　V . Translate the following sentences into English.

　　64. 办公室已把打字机换成了电脑。 (switch…to) he office has switched the typewriter to computer.

　　65. 她将去纽约,或者确切地讲,她将乘飞机去纽约。 (or rather)

　　She will go to New York, or Rather, she will fly to New York.

　　66. 他开始明白为什么计划失败了。 (set out)

　　He set out to understand why the plan failed.

　　VI. Writing

　　Directions: For this section, you are allowed 20 minutes to write a short composition on the topic SELF-STUDY . You should write your composition in about 80 words, and base it on the points suggested (given in Chinese) below.

　　你认为自学难还是不难?说出你的理由。

　　Self-study is a good way of improving our knowledge of things. Some of the great scientists and lecturer couldn't afford to go to school so they just studied at home without anybody's help. Sometimes self-study could be more affective then going to schools and listen to teachers telling you what to do, but sometimes it will be better to learn in schools to furtherly knowing whats going on.