短文题

　　Passage One

　　The University of Tennessee’s Waters Life Sciences Building is a model animal facility, spotlessly clean, careful in obtaining prior approval for experiments from Animal Care Committee. Of the 15,000-mice-house there in a typical year, most give their lives for humanity. These are good mice and as such want the protection of Animal Care Committee. At any given time, however, some mice escape and run free. These mice are pests. They can destruct environments with the bacterial organisms they carry. They are bad mice and must be captured and destroyed. Usually, this is accomplished by means of sticky traps, a kind of flight paper on which they become increasingly stuck. But the real point of this cautionary tale, says animal behaviorist Herzog, is that the labels we put on things can affect our moral responses to them. Using stick traps or the more deadly snap traps, would be deemed unacceptable for good mice. Yet the killing of bad mice requires no prior approval. Once a research animal hits the floor and becomes an escapee, says Herzog, its moral standing is instantly diminished. In Herzog’s own home, there was a more ironic example when his young son’s pet mouse, Willy, died recently, it was accorded a tearful ceremonial burial in the garden. Yet even as they mourned Willy, says Herzog, he and his wife were setting snap traps to kill the pest mice in their kitchen. With the bare change in labels from pet to pest , the kitchen mice obtained a totally different moral status。

　　26: What does the passage say about most of the mice used for experiment?

　　27: Why did the so-called bad mice have to be captured and destroyed?

　　28: When are mice killed without prior approval?

　　29: Why does the speaker say what the Herzogs did at home is more ironical?

　　Passage Two

　　There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter--- the city that is swallowed up by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. Of these three trembling cities, the greatest is the last--- the city of final destination, the city that has a goal. It is this third city that accounts for New York's high-strung disposition, its dedication to the arts, and its incomparable achievements. Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion. And whether it is a farmer arriving from Italy to set up a small grocery store in a slum, or a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbours, or a boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart, it makes no difference: each embraces New York with the intense excitement of first love, each absorbs New York with the fresh eyes of an adventurer, each generates heat and light to dwarf the Consolidated Edison Company。

　　30: What does the speaker say about the natives of New York?

　　31: What does the speaker say commuters give to New York?

　　32: What do we learn about the settlers of New York?

　　Passage 3

　　"If you ask me television is unhealthy," I said to my roomate Walter as I walked into the living room. "Why are you sitting passively in front of the TV set? Your muscles are turning to fat. Your complexion is fading and your eyesight is being ruined""sh......."Walter put his finger to his lips,"This is an intriguing murder mystery. "Really?" I replied."But you know, the brain is destroyed by TV viewing. Creativity is killed by that box and people are kept from communicating with one another. From my point of view, TV is the cause of declining interest in school and the failure of our entire educational system." "en huh, I kind of see your point, " Walter said softly." But see, the woman on the witness stand in this story is being questioned about the murder that was committed 100 years ago." Ignoring his enthusiastic description of the plot, I went on with my argument."As I see it, " I explained,"not only are most TV programmes badly written and produced, but viewers are also manipulated by the mass media. As far as I'm concerned, TV watchers are cut off from reality,from nature, from other people, from life itself!" I was confident in my ability to persuade, after a short silence, my roomate said,"Anyway I've been planning to watch the football game. I'm going to change the channel.""Don't touch that dial!" I shouted."I want to find out how the mystery turns out!" I'm not sure I got my point cross。

　　Questions 33-35 are based on the passage you have just heard。

　　33. As the speaker walked into the living room, what was shown on TV?

　　34. What does the speaker say about watching television?

　　35. What can we say about the speaker?

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