If you have ever gone through a toll booth(收费所), you know that your relationship to the person in the booth is not the most intimate you'll ever have. It is one of life's frequent affairs: You hand over some money; you might get change; you drive off.
　　Late one morning in 1984, headed for lunch in San Francisco, I drove toward a booth. I heard loud music. It sounded like a party. I looked around. No other cars with their windows open. No sound trucks. I looked at the toll booth. Inside it, the man was dancing.
　　"What are you doing?" I asked.
　　"I'm having a party," he said.
　　"What about the rest of the people?" I looked at the other toll booths.
　　He said, "What do those look like to you?" He pointed down the row of toll booths.
　　"They look like……toll booths. What do they look like to you?"
　　He said, "Vertical coffins. At 8:30 every morning, live people get in. Then they die for eight hours. At 4:30, like Lazarus from the dead, they reemerge and go home. For eight hours, brain is on hold, dead on the job. Going through the motions."
　　I was amazed. This guy had developed a philosophy, a mythology about his job. Sixteen people dead on the job, and the seventeenth, in precisely the same situation, figures out a way to live. I could not help asking the next question: "Why is it different for you? You're having a good time."
He looked at me. "I knew you were going to ask that. I don't understand why anybody would think my job is boring. I have a corner office, glass on all sides. I can see the Golden Gate, San Francisco, and the Berkeley hills. Half the Western world vacations here……and I just stroll in every day and practice dancing."
【小题1】According to the first paragraph, in most cases, how do you describe the relationship between drivers and toll booth?

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　　What are you going to do with your old computer after you buy a new one? You have paid high prices for the old computer, but how much do you think it is worth now? Few people want to buy an old computer. Unfortunately, the only thing you can do is to throw it away.

　　What do many people do when they try to sell their old computers? Foolishly, they think about its original cost and then reduce the price according to the age of the computer－rather like a secondhand car. They are wrong. They forget that new computers are becoming cheaper every day, making old computers almost worthless. In 1985, for example, a good computer cost over U－S $ 4, 000. Ten years later its owner would be lucky to get 400.

　　You must be careful about buying a secondhand computer. The microchips in a computer may last a long time, but the hard disk will not. It will probably cost more to replace the hard disk with a new one than the computer itself is worth. So saying and repairing an old computer is like building a car from spare parts. It is cheaper to buy a new car.

　　One magazine recently listed some suggestions. One suggestion was to give it to charity. The final one was to store it somewhere and hope that it would become a collector's item in fifteen or twenty years. But in fifteen or twenty years there may be so many old computers that they will all be worthless.

　　Whatever you decide to do with an old computer will not change the fact that it will be useless soon. The world of computers is quickly changing and eventually all computers will not only be integrated with video telephones and run DVD ROM disks, but also be able to perform many tasks which as yet we cannot even imagine. All these uses will require much more advanced computers today to the garbage can of the next century.

1．The author believes that it will cost far more to repair an old computer than to ________.

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A．buy a new computer

B．buy a new car

C．repair an old car

D．build a car from spare parts

2．What does the author mean by the last sentence?

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A．Most advanced computers today will eventually be out－of－date.

B．Most computers are not yet advanced enough at all.

C．In the future advanced computers will be in garbage cans.

D．There are not enough garbage cans for old computers at present.

3．Which of the following is the best title for this text?

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A．Computers in the 21st Century

B．The Development of Computers

C．Old Computers and New Computers

D．What would Happen to Old Computers

As the pace of life continues to increase, we are fast losing the art of relaxation.1you are in the habit of rushing through life, being on the go from morning till night, it is hard to 2down. But relaxation is 3for a healthy mind and body.
Stress is a 4part of everyday life and there is no way to 5it. In fact, it is not the bad thing that it is often supposed to be. A 6amount of stress is important to provide motivation and give 7to life. It is only when the stress gets out of control 8it can lead to poor performance and 9health.
The amount of stress a person can bear 10very much on the individual. Some people are not afraid of stress, and such 11are obviously chief material for managerial.(管理的) responsibilities. Other people lose heart at first 12of unusual difficulties. When exposed to stress, in 13form , we react both physically and mentally. In fact we make a choice between “14and fight”. And in more ancient days the choices made the 15between life and death. The crisis we meet today are 16to be so extreme, but however little the stress is, it requires the same response. It is when such a reaction 17 a long time, through continued exposure to stress, that health becomes 18. Such serious conditions as high blood pressure and heart disease have established links with stress. 19we cannot remove stress from our lives, we need to find ways to deal with it.
So what do you think of20? What is your way to deal with it?

1. 1.
   1. A.
      When
   2. B.
      While
   3. C.
      Once
   4. D.
      As
2. 2.
   1. A.
      slow
   2. B.
      calm
   3. C.
      get
   4. D.
      turn
3. 3.
   1. A.
      unnecessary
   2. B.
      satisfied
   3. C.
      useful
   4. D.
      necessary
4. 4.
   1. A.
      physical
   2. B.
      natural
   3. C.
      hard
   4. D.
      terrible
5. 5.
   1. A.
      tolerate
   2. B.
      solve
   3. C.
      avoid
   4. D.
      accept
6. 6.
   1. A.
      sure
   2. B.
      certain
   3. C.
      large
   4. D.
      great
7. 7.
   1. A.
      purpose
   2. B.
      resource
   3. C.
      influence
   4. D.
      instruction
8. 8.
   1. A.
      when
   2. B.
      why
   3. C.
      that
   4. D.
      how
9. 9.
   1. A.
      ill
   2. B.
      good
   3. C.
      strong
   4. D.
      weak
10. 10.
    1. A.
       insists
    2. B.
       depends
    3. C.
       calls
    4. D.
       spends
11. 11.
    1. A.
       patterns
    2. B.
       personalities
    3. C.
       situations
    4. D.
       characters
12. 12.
    1. A.
       glance
    2. B.
       view
    3. C.
       sight
    4. D.
       impression
13. 13.
    1. A.
       whichever
    2. B.
       whatever
    3. C.
       however
    4. D.
       whenever
14. 14.
    1. A.
       peace
    2. B.
       fright
    3. C.
       pressure
    4. D.
       heaviness
15. 15.
    1. A.
       decision
    2. B.
       promise
    3. C.
       difference
    4. D.
       choice
16. 16.
    1. A.
       unlikely
    2. B.
       likely
    3. C.
       necessary
    4. D.
       probable
17. 17.
    1. A.
       continues
    2. B.
       lives
    3. C.
       stands
    4. D.
       lasts
18. 18.
    1. A.
       balanced
    2. B.
       injured
    3. C.
       endangered
    4. D.
       changeable
19. 19.
    1. A.
       Unless
    2. B.
       Since
    3. C.
       Because
    4. D.
       As
20. 20.
    1. A.
       stress
    2. B.
       relaxation
    3. C.
       ways
    4. D.
       exposure

Finally, reading will and must broaden my sympathy, ________ my love for others and set it in action．

1. A.
   open
2. B.
   expand
3. C.
   break
4. D.
   share