旅游英語選讀自學考試試題(文件)

　

【正文】 find it easy to pass the time by doing the game such as “Twenty Questions”. C. Children find time fly by doing verbal games such as “Twenty Questions”. D. Game books help make the time pass quickly for young children.22. It is implied but not stated that ______. A. small children cannot be expected to be emotionally stable for long B. parents find it harassing to take care of their own children C. small children always make much noise D. few fellow passengers like traveling with children23. The italicized word “break” (Para. 3) most probably means “ ______ ”. A. accident B. mistake C. rest D. pause24. Parents cannot depend on travel attendants to take care of their children because ______. A. they are not responsible for child care B. there is a minimum age for children who travel alone C. their children are emotionally unstable and timid D. parents should always go with their children25. It can be inferred from the passage that ______. A. the author doesn’t like traveling with his children B. the author doesn’t like traveling with other passengers’ children C. the author opposes the airlines’ minimum age for unacpanied children D. the author prefers children’s unacpanied travel if they are old enough(B)With its almost six billion people, the world offers a fascinating variety of human shapes and colors. As humans spread throughout the world, their adaptations to diverse climate and other living conditions resulted in this fascinating variety of plexions, colors and shapes. Changes in the genetic structure added distinct characteristics to the peoples of the globe. In this sense the concept of race, a group with inherited physical characteristics that distinguish it from another group, is a reality. Humans do indeed e in a variety of colors and shapes.In two senses, however, race is a myth, a fabrication of the human mind. The first fabrication is the idea that any one race is superior to another. All races have their geniuses — and their idiots. Like language, no race is superior to another. Adolf Hitler’s ideas were extreme. He believed that a superior race, called the Aryans, was responsible for the cultural achievements of Europe. They possessed the genetic stuff that made them inherently superior. Even many scientists of the time — not only Germany but throughout Europe and the United States — espoused the idea of racial superiority. Not surprisingly, they considered themselves members of the supposedly superior race!In addition to the myth of racial superiority, there is a second myth — that of the existence of a “pure” race. From the perspective of contemporary biology, humans show such a mixture of physical characteristics, that the “pure” races do not exist. Instead of falling into distinct types clearly separate from one another, human characteristics flow endlessly together. These minute gradations made arbitrary any attempt to draw definite lines.Large groupings of people, however, can be classified by blood type and gene frequencies. Yet even this arrangement does not uncover “race”. Rather, such classifications are so arbitrary that biologists and anthropologists can draw up listings showing any number of “race”. Ashley Montagu, a physical anthropologist, pointed out that some scientists have classified humans into only two “races” while others have found as many as two thousand. Montagu himself classified humans into forty “racial” groups.This is not meant to imply that the idea of race is a myth. That idea is definitely very much alive. It is firmly embedded in our culture, a social reality that we confront daily. Sociologist W. I. Thomas observed that “if people define