Passage Three
People joke that no one in Los Angeles reads;everyone watches TV, rents videos，or goes to the movies.The most popular reading material is comic books，movie magazines，and TV guide s.City libraries have only 10 percent of the traffic that car washes have.But how do you explain this? An annual book festival in west Los Angeles is flourishing year after year.People wait half an hour for a parking space to become available.
This outdoor festival，sponsored by a newspaper，occurs every April for one weekend. This year’ s attendance was estimated at 70，000 on Saturday and 75，000 on Sunday.The festival consisted of 280 exhibitors.There were about 90 talks given by authors，with an audience question-and-answer period foilowing each talk.Autograph(親筆簽名)seekers sought out more than 150 authors.A food court sold all kinds of popular food and diverse foreign foods，from American hamburgers to Hawaiian shave ice drinks.Except for a $7 parking fee，the festival was free.Even so，some people avoided the food court prices by staying away and having their own sandwiches and drinks.
People came from all over Californi
A.One couple drove down from San Francisco.“This is our sixth year here now.We love it，”said the husban
D.“It’s just fantastic to be in the great outdoors，to be mnong so many books and authors，and to get some very good deals，too.”
The idea for the festival occurred years ago，but nobody knew if it would succee
D.Although book festivals were already popular in other US cities，would Los Angeles residents welcome one?“The citizens of the city are very unpredictable，”said one of the festival founders.
第44題單選 The underlined sentence in the first paragraph implies that____.
A.city libraries have a very limited number of readers
B.only a small proportion of the readers go to libraries by car
C.city libraries provide fewer places for Car washes
D.city libraries have fewer parking places
參考答案：A
參考解析：第一段第三行談到去圖書館借書的車輛僅占全部交通的10%，此句暗示圖書館的讀者非常有限。故A正確。
第45題單選 The outdoor book festival attracts____.
A.autograph seekers and authors only
B.people with different interests
C.people who love Los Angeles
D.people who like cooking
參考答案：B
參考解析：第二段談到本次購(gòu)書節(jié)吸引了眾多的讀書愛好者，星期六達(dá)到了70，000 ，星期天達(dá)到了75，000，以詞可推斷出B正確。
第46題單選 At the very beginning，people were____ about the idea for the book festival in Los Angeles.
A.confident
B.pessimistic
C.uncertain
D.indifferent
參考答案：C
參考解析：文章最后一段談到，but nobody knew if it would succeed“The citizens of the city are very unpredictable，(unpredictable 捉摸不透的，不確定的，和uncertain 同義)，故C正確。
第47題單選 The success of Los Angeles book festival shows that____.
A.book reading is still popular in Los Angeles
B.Los Angeles people prefer library to book festival
C.people attend the book festivals for fun not for reading
D.libraries should have food courts to attract more readers
參考答案：A
參考解析：盡管剛開始對(duì)于購(gòu)書節(jié)的發(fā)展該有不確定的因數(shù)，但后來(lái)的情況說(shuō)明讀書在洛杉磯很受歡迎。故選A。
Passage Four
Have you ever been afraid to talk back when you were treated unfairly? Have you ever bought something just because the salesman talked you into it? Are you afraid to ask someone for a date?
Many people are afraid to assert themselves(堅(jiān)持己見).Dr.Robert Alberti，author of Stand Up, Speak Out，and Talk Back, thinks it’s because of their lack of confidence.“Our structure of organization tends to make people distrust themselves.”says Alberti.“There’s always a‘superior’around-a parent，a teacher，a boss-who‘knows better’.These‘superiors’often gain when they keep breaking at your self-image.”
But Alberti and other scientists are doing something to help people assert themselves.They offer“assertiveness training”courses-AT for short.In the AT course people learn that they have a right to be themselves.They learn to speak out and feel good about doing so.They learn to be aggressive without hurting people.
In one way, learning to speak out is to overcome fear.A group taking an AT course will help the shy person to lose his fear.But AT uses an even stronger motive-the need to share.The shy person speaks out in the group because he wants to tell how he feels.
Whether or not you speak up for yourself depends on your self-image.If someone you face is more“important”than you，you may feel less of a person.You start to doubt your own good sense.You go by the other person’ s label.But，why should you?AT says you can get to feel good about yourself.And once you do，you can learn to speak out.
第48題單選 People are reluctant to talk back because____.
A.they have a poor self-image
B.they have not received AT courses
C.they have not grasped communication skills
D.they are not generous enough to share things
參考答案：A
參考解析：文章最后一段第一句Whether or not you speak up for yourself depends on your self-image，說(shuō)明一個(gè)人是否愿意把自己的想法大膽的說(shuō)出來(lái)取決于一個(gè)人的自我形象。故A正確
第49題單選 According to Dr.Alberti， our organization is constructed to____.
A.get people to trust their own solutions to problems
B.keep people as knowledgeable as their“superiors”
C.train people’ s capacity to speak up for their rights
D.make things more favorable for“superiors”
參考答案：D
參考解析：“There’s always a‘superior’around-a parent，a teacher，a boss-who‘knows better’.These‘superiors’often gain when they keep breaking at your self-image.”
上句說(shuō)明此機(jī)構(gòu)的目的是幫助人們找回自信。答案：D
第50題單選 One of the objectives of AT courses is to____.
A.train people to trust others
B.encourage people to share their thoughts
C.tell people of their right to be“superiors”
D.help people overcome their fear of asserting themselves
參考答案：D
參考解析：49題已經(jīng)講過，此機(jī)購(gòu)的目的是幫助人們克服恐懼，找回自信。
第51題單選 Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A.Protect Yourself
B.Try to Speak Out
C.Share Your Opinion
D.Face Your Superior
參考答案：B
參考解析：本篇文章的目的是希望人們大膽的說(shuō)出自己的想法，克服恐懼的心理，故B正確。
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