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0 Long before recorded history,
our ancestors were bathing for pleasure and
health.
The earliest records often
mention the use of rivers for bathing. And the
Hindus have
believed for centuries that
the Ganges River has the power to clean the soul,
as well as
the body.
Several thousand years ago, the inhabitants of the
island of Crete built baths with
running water. The early Jews took
ceremonial baths on certain occasions, making use
of
oils and
ointments(
油膏
). The Jews also
had a custom of bathing the feet of all strangers
that came within their gates. This
friendly custom is still practised in parts of
Palestine.
Swimming was popular
among the Greeks of ancient time. By the third
century before
Christ, almost every
Greek city of a certain size had at least one
public bath. The wealthy
classes had
private baths and pools, some of which were
beautifully decorated.
Many of the
public baths that the Romans built utilized
natural mineral springs. Since
most of
these springs were naturally warm the Romans took
advantage of this free hot
water. By
the time of the Roman Emperors, these baths were
often housed in large,
marble(
大理石
)
buildings. The baths built by the Emperor
Caracalla, in the center of
Rome,
covered about one square mile and could hold
sixteen thousand people.
1
The earliest bathing place was probably_____.
（
A
）
the
river
（
B
）
the
Nile
（
C
）
the
Ganges
（
D
）
the
River Jordan
2 According
to the passage, today, some parts of Palestine
also have the custom of_____.
< br>（
A
）
bathing in
public baths
（
B<
/p>
）
bathing for pleasure
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（
C
）
bathing
every day
（
D
）
bathing the feet of all
strangers to show friendliness
3 Which of the following statements is
true?
（
A
< br>）
Only the rich took baths in ancient
times.
（
B
）
Oil
was used by Jews in ceremonial baths.
（
C
）
The
poor could not take baths in public baths.
（
D
）
Our
ancestors took baths only for pleasure.
4 The poor in ancient
Greece_____.
（
A<
/p>
）
also had private baths
（
B
）
could only take baths in public baths
（
C
）
could take baths at baths which were
beautifully decorated
（
D
）
had
the custom of bathing in rivers
5 It can be inferred that many of the
public baths in the Roman Empire_____.
（
A
）
onl
y opened in spring
（
B
）
spent no money on
heating water
（
C
）
were very crowded
（
D
）
were built in the open
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5 The market is a concept. If you
are growing tomatoes in your backyard for sale you
are producing for the market. You might
sell some to your neighbor and some to the
manager of the local supermarket. But
in either case, you are producing for the market.
Your efforts are being directed by the
market. If people stop buying tomatoes, you will
stop producing them.
If
you take care of a sick person to earn money, you
are producing for the market. If
your
father is a steelworker or a truck driver or a
doctor or a grocer, he is producing
goods or service for the market.
When you spend your income, you are
buying things from the market. You may spend
money in stores, supermarkets, gas
stations, and restaurants. Still you are buying
from the
market. When the local grocer
hires you to drive the delivery truck, he is
buying your
labor in the labor market.
The market may seem to be something
abstract. But for each person or business who is
making and selling something, it's very
real. If nobody buys your tomatoes, it won't be
long before you get the message. The
market is telling you something. It's telling you
that
you are using energies and
resources in doing something the market doesn't
want you to
do.
6 Which of the following would be the
best title for the passage?
（
A
）
Selling and
Buying
（
B
）
What Is the Market?
（
C
）
Every
thing You Do Is Producing for the Market.
（
D
）
What the Market Can Do for You?
7 All of the following
acts are producing for the market EXCEPT_____.
（
A
）
working in a bank
（
B
）
printing a
book
（
C
）
attending a night school
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（
D
）
growing
beans for sale
8 You are
buying from the market when you_____.
（
A
）
bor
row a book from the library
（
B
）
look after
your children
（
C
）
drive to the seaside for a
holiday
（
D
）
dine at a restaurant
9 The word
（
A
）
serious
（
B
）
genuine
（
C
）
important
（
D
）
concr
ete
10 In what way is the
market very real for each person or business who
is making and
selling something?
（
A
）
It
tells you what to produce.
（
B
）
It
tells you how to grow tomatoes.
（
C
）
It
provides you with everything you need.
（
D
）
It
helps you save money.
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10 Reading is thought to be a kind
of conversation between the reader and the text.
The reader puts questions, as it were,
to the text and gets answers. In the light of
these he
puts further questions, and so
on.
For most of the lime this
times, however, we become aware of it.
This is usually when we are running into
difficulties, when mismatch is
occurring between expectations and meaning. When
successful matching is being
experienced, our questioning of the text continues
at the
unconscious level.
Different people converse with the text
differently. Some stay very close to the words
on the page; others take off
imaginatively from the words, interpreting,
criticizing,
analyzing and examining.
The former represents a kind of comprehension
which is
written in the text. The
latter represents higher levels of comprehension.
The balance
between these is important,
especially for advanced readers.
There is another conversation which from our point
of view is equally important, and
that
is to do not with what is read but with how it is
read. We call this a
conversation as
opposed to a
but with the
strategies(
策略
) we employ in
reading. If we are advanced readers our
ability to hold a content conversation
with a text is usually pretty well developed. Not
so
our ability to hold a process
conversation. It is precisely this kind of
conversation that is
of importance when
we are seeking to develop our reading ability to
meet the new
demands being placed upon
us by studying at a higher level.
11 Reading as a kind of conversation
between the reader and the text becomes conscious
only when_____.
（
A
）
the
reader's expectations agree with what is said in
the text
（
B
）
the
reader has trouble understanding what the author
says
（
C
）
the
reader asks questions and gets answers
（
D
）
the
reader understands a text very well
12 At a lower level of comprehension,
readers tend to_____.
（
A
）
read a text slowly
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