74. According to the passage, what can be inferred about poor people in the United States?
A. They are not able to find entry-level jobs.
B. They work in jobs that require little education.
C. They are service workers and manual laborers.
D. They do not try to find employment.
75. According to the passage, why has the underclass emerged?
A. Changes in the economy have caused an entire class of people to survive by welfare or crime.
B. The increase in crime has supported a new class of people who live by engaging in illegal activities.
C. The new term was necessary because the lower class enjoyed a higher lifestyle than it had previously.
D. Minimum-wage jobs no longer support a class of people at a standard level in the economic system..
Section C
Directions: Read the following passage and choose the most suitable heading from A-F for each paragraph. There is one extra heading which you do not need.
A. Use all the information in the book
B. Get background information
C. Be critical while reading
D. Enjoy and engage yourself
E. Choose the appropriate reading techniques
F. Know your reading purpose
76.
A good reader finds joy in reading. A good reader is a happy reader. If you are a good reader you will be rewarded in knowledge and a new understanding of or different perspective on life. Make the book your own. “It’s the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read mistakenly: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
77.
The way you read a book depends very much on your reasons for reading it. You should read a question in your math exam differently from an entry in an encyclopedia which you are looking at quickly to find out the date of an event. The kind of reading you do in class or for your homework is different from how you read a novel for pleasure in the summer vacation.
78.
Good books are well-organized, with titles, sub-titles, introductions, summaries or conclusions. Many books also have pictures with captions. Look at all these first before starting to read. Another aspect of good writing is that each paragraph has a topic sentence. A topic sentence is a sentence, usually the first one in a paragraph which contains the main idea of the paragraph. If you concentrate on understanding the topic sentence, this may help you to understand what comes next.
79.
One of the following methods improve your reading quality. Skimming -- this is reading a text quickly to find out what information it contains. You should skim when, for example, you want to check if a text has the information you need to answer some questions or write a project. It is often enough to look at the first (and last) sentences in each paragraph. Scanning -- this is reading quickly to find a specific piece of information. You should scan when, for example, you are looking for the answer to a question which you know is in the text.
80.
Find something out about the topic you have to read. The more relevant background information you have, the easier it will be to understand the book. You can get this relevant information background in your own language. For example, if you are studying the Italian Renaissance, you could read an encyclopedia or textbook in your own language to find out the most important details about this historical period.
Section D
Directions: Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words.
Who’s in control of your life? Who is pulling your string? For the majority of us, it’s other people—society, colleagues, friend, family or our religious community. We learned this way of operating when we were very young, of course. We were brainwashed. We discovered that feeling important and feeling accepted was a nice experience and so we learned to do everything we could to make other people like us. As Oscar Wilde puts it, “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry (模仿), their passions a quotation.”
So when people tell us how wonderful we are, it makes us feel good. We long for this good feeling like a drug—we are addicted to (沉溺于) it and seek it out wherever we can. Therefore, we are so eager for the approval of others that we live unhappy and limited lives, failing to do the things we really want to. Just as drug addicts and alcoholics live worsened lives to keep getting their fix (一剂毒品), we worsen our own existence to get our own constant fix of approval.
But just as with any drug, there is a price to pay. The price of the approval drug is freedom—the freedom to be ourselves. The truth is that we cannot control what other people think. People have their own agenda, and they come with their own baggage and, in the end, they’re more interested in themselves than in you. Furthermore, if we try to live by the opinions of others, we will build our life on sinking sand. Everyone has a different way of thinking, and people change their opinions all the time. The person who tries to please everyone will only end up getting exhausted and probably pleasing no one in the process.
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