TEXT 3

　　Even at the Vatican, not all sacred beliefs are absolute: Thou shalt not kill, but war can be just. Now, behind the quiet walls, a clash is shaping up involving two poles of near certainty: the church's long-held ban on condoms and its advocacy of human life.

　　The issue is AIDS. Church officials recently confirmed that Pope Benedict XVI had requested a report on whether it might be acceptable for Catholics to use condoms in one narrow circumstance: to protect life inside a marriage when one partner is infected with H.I.V. or is sick with AIDS.

　　Whatever the pope decides, church officials and other experts broadly agree that it is remarkable that so delicate an issue is being taken up. But they also agree that such an inquiry is logical, and particularly significant from this pope, who was Pope John Paul II's strict enforcer of church doctrine.

　　"In some ways, maybe he has got the greatest capacity to do it because there is no doubt about his orthodoxy," said the Rev. Jon Fuller, a Jesuit physician who runs an AIDS clinic at the Boston Medical Center.

　　The issue has surfaced repeatedly as one of the most complicated and delicate facing the church. For years,

　　some influential cardinals and theologians have argued for a change for couples affected by AIDS in the name of protecting life, while others have fiercely attacked the possibility as demoting the church's long advocacy of abstinence and marital fidelity to fight the disease.

　　The news broke just after Benedict celebrated his first anniversary as pope, a relatively quiet papal year. But he devoted his first encyclical to love, specifically between a man and a woman in marriage.

　　Indeed, with regard to condoms, the only change apparently being considered is in the specific case of married couples. But any change would be unpopular with conservative Catholics, some of faith than he did when he was still Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the papal adviser.

　　"It's just hard to imagine that any pope —and this pope —would change the teaching," said Austin Ruse, president of the Culture of Life Foundation, a Catholic-oriented advocacy group in Washington that opposes abortion and contraception.

　　It is too soon to know where the pope is heading. Far less contentious issues can take years to inch through the Vatican's nexus of belief and bureaucracy, prayer and politics, and Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragán, the pope's top aide on health care issues, and other officials declined requests for interviews.

　　31.By the first sentence in the first paragraph, the author actually means ________.

　　A.the war can be supported by the church

　　B.the Vatican is always telling a lie

　　C.some doctrines of the church are not so unchangeable

　　D.people may do as they like

　　32.The request from Pope Benedict XVI is particularly significant because ________.

　　A.this pope strictly executed the Catholic doctrine

　　B.this pope is powerful

　　C.this pope has been against the use of condoms all the time

　　D.This pope has been assisted the advocacy of human life

　　33.The word "demoting" (Line 3, Para. 5) ________.

　　A. degrading

　　B. opposing

　　C. supporting

　　D. changing

　　34. This issue is so complicated because ________.

　　A. the pope has no capacity to deal with it

　　B. it involve two poles of near certainty

　　C. it may affect the pope's orthodoxy

　　D. there are two parties on this issue in the church

　　35. According to the passage, the pope probably will ________.

　　A. change the doctrine about the use of condoms

　　B. give up his new ideas

　　C. still carrying out the church beliefs

　　D. None of the above

　　TEXT 4

　　Healthy soda? That may strike some as an oxymoron. But for Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, it's a marketing opportunity.

　　In coming months, both companies will introduce new carbonated drinks that are fortified with vitamins and minerals: Diet Coke Plus and Tava, which is PepsiCo's new offering. They will be promoted as "sparkling

　　beverages." The companies are not calling them soft drinks because people are turning away from traditional soda, which has been hurt in part by publicity about its link to obesity.

　　While the soda business remains a $68 billion industry in the United States, consumers are increasingly reaching for bottled water, sparkling juices and green tea drinks. In 2005, the amount of soda sold in this country dropped for the first in recent history. Even the diet soda business has slowed.

　　Coca-Cola's chief executive, E. Neville Isdell, clearly frustrated that his industry has been singled out in the obesity debate, insisted at a recent conference that his diet products should be included in the health and wellness category because, with few or no calories, they are a logical answer to expanding waistlines.

　　"Diet and light brands are actually health and wellness brands," Mr. Isdell said. He asserted that Diet Coke Plus was a way to broaden the category to attract new consumers.

　　Tom Pirko, president of Bevmark, a food and beverage consulting firm, said it was "a joke" to market artificially sweetened soft drinks as healthy, even if they were fortified with vitamins and minerals. Research by his firm and others shows that consumers think of diet soft drinks as "the antithesis of healthy," he said. These consumers "Comment on putting something synthetic and not natural into their bodies when they consume diet colas," Mr. Pirko said. "And in the midst of a health and welfare boom, that ain't good."

　　The idea of healthy soda is not entirely new. In 2004, Cadbury Schweppes caused a stir when it unveiled 7Up Plus, a low-calorie soda fortified with vitamins and minerals. Last year, Cadbury tried to extend the healthy halo over its regular 7Up brand by labeling it "100 percent natural." But the company changed the label to "100 percent natural flavor" after complaints from a nutrition group that a product containing high-fructose corn syrup should not be considered natural, and 7Up Plus has floundered.

　　The new fortified soft drinks earned grudging approval from Michael F. Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, A nutrition advocacy group and frequent critic of regular soft drinks, which it has labeled "liquid candy."

　　A survey by Morgan Stanley found that only 10 percent of consumers interviewed in 2006 considered diet colas a healthy choice, compared with 14 percent in 2003. Furthermore, 30 percent of the consumers who were interviewed last year said that they were reluctant to drink beverages with artificial sweeteners, up from 21 percent in 2004.

　　36.Coca-Cola and PepsiCo call their new drinks "sparkling beverages" instead of " soft drinks" because _______.

　　A.the new name sounds more brilliant and attracts more people

　　B.the old name reminds people that they may cause people adding weight

　　C.the new drinks are fortified with vitamins and minerals

　　D.people are turning away from traditional soda

　　37.The sentence "with few or no calories, they are a logical answer to expanding waistlines" (Para. 4) means　________.

　　A.they can give a reasonable answer to waistlines

　　B.they are the logical reason of make people expand waistlines

　　C.they will not cause obesity since they have few or no calories

　　D.it is logical that they may expand people's waistlines

　　38.Tom Pirko's attitude on promoting the soft drinks as healthy is ________.

　　A. joking B. positive C. negative D. indifferent

　　39. The word "floundered" (Line 6, Para.7) implies ________.

　　A. stumbled B. struggled C. flustered D. troubled

　　40.The data in the last paragraph implies ________.

　　A.the soft drinks will be singled out in the near future

　　B.the marketing opportunities for these companies are not successful

　　C.people are paying more and more attention to their health D. people think the soft drink is not healthy