B. People will stop making robots.
C. There will be laws against using robots.
D. Robots will benefit nobody.
Questions 29 to 32 are based on the following passage:
Tests conducted at the University of Pennsylvania' s Psychological Laberatory showed that anger is one of the most difficult emotions to Find out from facialexpressions.
Professor Dallas E. Buzby confronted 716 students with pictures of extremely angry persons , and asked them to identify the emotion from the facial expression. Only two percent made correct judgments. Anger was most frequently judged as"Fleased".
And a typical reaction of a student confronted with the picture of a man who was mad was to classify his expression as either"bewildered" , "quizzical" , or simply"amazed" . Other studies showed that it is extremely difficult to tell whether a man is angry or not just by looking at his face. The investigators found further that women are better at finding out anger from facial expressions than men are. Paradoxically , they found that psychological training does not improve one's ability to judge a man' s emotions by his expressions but actually hinders it . For in the university tests ,the more courses the student had taken in psychology , the poorer judgment score he turned in .
29. The information in this passage centers around_____.
A. the relation between anger and other emotions
B. the differences between men and women with respect to emotion
C. the influence of psychology on human emotions
D. the discovery of anger from facial expressions
30 . When tested,students with psychological training_________.
A. marked less than two percent of their possible choices correctly
B. did better than the average student in the group
C. seemed less able to judge correctly than the average student
D. performed in a manner not specified in the passage
31 . To achieve the greatest success in finding out anger ftoiii facial expressions ,it would be best to__.
A. use adults rather than students as judges
B. ask women who do not study psycholsy to judge it
C. ask men rather than women to judge it
D. be satisfied with a two percent success, if such a perceotage is guaranteed
32. The last two sentences in the second paragraph show that----.
A. such training has not resulted in better scores
B. we have really achieved the anticipated results
C. the judgment is similar to what we have expected
D. we can expect such training to have the effect stated
Questions 33 to 36 are based on the following passage:
Wouldn't it be great if you could just look up at the sky and read the weather forecast right away? Well,you can. The forecast is written in clouds. If you can read that writing, you can tell something about the atmosphere. With some practice, you can become a pretty good weather forecaster. Who knows , you might even do as well as meteorologists.
Meteorologists use much more information than just the appear. ance of the clouds to make their forecast. They collect data from all over the world. Then they put it into powerful, high - speed computers.
This does give meteorologists an advantage , because they can track weather patterns as they move from west to east across the country.
But you have an advantage,too. You can look at the sky and get your data directly. A meteorologist uses a computer forecast that's several hours old to make a local forecast .
What are you seeing when you look at a cloud?" A picture of what moisture is doing in the atmosphere" says meteorologist Peter Leavit . There's moisture throughout the atmosphere. Most of the time you don't see it , because it's in the form of an invisible gas called water vapor .
Sometimes, the temperature of the air gets cold enough to cause the water vapor to change to liquid water. That's called condensation , and we see it happen all the time( for example , when humid air from the hower hits the cold glass of a mirror) . When enough water vapor condenses, droplets form in the air. These droplets scatter light. A cloud is seen.
Watching clouds over a day or two tells you a lot more than a single cloud about the weather to come. Changes in clouds show changes in the atmosphere.
You should begin to notice patterns. Certain clouds, following each other in order, can singal an approaching storm. But don't take our word for it; see for yourself.
33 . This passage mainly tells us about how__________.
A. to become a meteorologist
B. to keep an eye on the weather
C. to be an assistant to a meteorologist
D. to change water vapor to liquid water
34.Acording to the passage , an ordinary person might do as well as a meteorologist in weather forecast---.
A. with the help of the high - speed computers.
B. through a complex process of calculation
C. with some simple practice looking up at the sky
D.consulting a weather station.
35 . Meteorologists make their weather forecast---.
A. by collecting data from all over the world
B. by putting this data into powerful , high - speed computers
C. by calculating and analyzing this data
D.all above.
36 . Your advantage in weather forecasts is that---.
A. you have more powerful computers at home
B. your brain works as well as a high speed computer
C. you observe the sky and obtain your data directly
D.teorologists give their data to you as soon as they get them
Questions 37 to 40 are based on the following passage:
Security and commodity exchanges are trading posts where people meet who wish to buy or sell. The exchanges themselves do no trading,`they merely provide a place where prospective buyers and sellers can meet and conduct their business.
Wall Street , although the best known , is not the only home of ex- changes in the United States. There are cotton exchanges in New Or- leans and Chicago `, the Mercantile Exchange , which deals in many farm products , in Chicago `, and grain exchanges in many of the large cities of the Midwest . Some exchanges , like the Chicago Board of Trade , provide market services for several kinds products.These trading posts where products may be bought or sold are called commodity exchanges .
The security exchanges, on the other hand, are meeting places where stocks and bonds are traded. Like the commodity exchanges, they help serve the economic life of the country. But when their opera- tions get out of hand, they may become very dangerous. In 1929, the security exchanges, or stock market , contributed to a crash a sudden , sharp decline in the value of securities . Many people lost fortunes `, many corporations were bankrupted ,` many workers lost their jobs. The Crash of 1929 has been attributed to many causes ,among them wild and unwise speculation by many people and dishonest practices on the part of some businessmen and of some members of the exchanges.
Today , however , investing through security exchanges and trading on commodity exchanges has been made safer by regulations set up by the exchanges themselves and by regulations of the United States government. In 1922, the government instituted the Commodity Exchange Commission which operated through the Department of Agriculture `, and in 1934 , the Securities and Exchanges Commission , to protect investors and the public against dishonest practices on the exchanges .
37. Security and commodity exchanges are meeting places for buyers and sellers of---- .
A. stocks
B. grain
C.securities
D. all of these
38 . Among the reasons for the Crash of 1929 were.
A. unwise speculation by many people
B. dishonest practices by some businessmen
C. strict regulations of the Commodity Exchange Commission
D.both A and B.
39.Investing insecurities has been made safer by.----
A. the Securities and Exchange Commission
B. the Commodity Exchange Commission
C.Chicago Board of Trade
D. Chicago Mercantile Exchange
40 . Implies but not stated---- :.
A. Some exchanges provide market services for several kinds of products
B. The role of the government has been an important factor in curbing dishonest practices on the Exchanges
C. Investing in securities is unwise
D. Buying and selling securities is dishonest.