In Britain today, is it possible to tell a person’s class just by looking at him? Physical details alone tell us about health, diet and the type of work a person does. A hundred years ago the working class often looked unhealthy, small and they were either too thin or too fat. The upper classes were often tall, sporting types who were used to a good diet and looked healthy. Today living and working conditions have improved, and such descriptions are no longer true. People are taller now than a hundred years ago. Everyone in Britain today is able to have free medicine, a good diet, acceptable working conditions and enough rest and leisure.

The clothes people choose to wear, however, do provide information about their backgrounds. Expensive clothes look expensive and show their wearer is rich. Clothes can provide other clues as well. The upper classes appear to be less interested in fashion and wear good quality clothes in non-bright colours, made of natural material like wool, leather and cotton. Lower working-class people often choose clothes in bright colours, made of man-made materials. A sociological explanation for this would be that colour and interest are missing from their lives, and therefore any opportunity to produce this is taken.

Clothes are available at a price within most people’s reach. New clothes make the wearer feel good and show some degree of wealth to the outside world. Today it is the younger people who spend most money on clothes. Fashion is no longer for the upper classes and the rich. Young people from all social classes spend a lot of money on clothes. Some new fashions are started by working―class people who want to look different and feel important. They want people to look at them.

60. In the past, a person’s appearance could not tell other people about his ________.

  A. health               B. diet                 C. occupation          D. habits

61. The clothes people choose to wear tell us about their ________.

  A. education          B. richness         C. backgrounds        D. hobby

62. A working―class person may start a new fashion because ________.

   A. she wants to draw the attention of other people

B. she wants to look different and healthy

C. she wants to show their wealth

D. she wants to show their taste

63. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

  A. Expensive clothes look expensive and show the wearer is rich.

B. Working―class people prefer clothes in bright colours because they lack colour in their lives.

C. Today, it is still the upper class people who spend most money on clothes.

D. Today, fashion is no longer for the upper classes and the rich.

There is an endless supply of stories about sleepwalkers(夢(mèng)游者). People have been said to climb on roofs, solve mathematical problems, write music, walk through windows, and do murder in their sleep.

In Revere, Masachusctts, a hundred policemen scarched for a lost boy who left his home in his sleep and woke up five hours later on a strange sofa in a strange living room, with no idea how he had got there.

At the University of Lowa, a student was reported to have the habit of getting up in the middle of the night and walking three―quarters of a mile to the lowa River. He would take a swim and then go back to his room to bed.

An American expert on sleep claims(聲稱(chēng)) that he has never seen a sleepwalker. He is said to know more about sleep than any other living man, and during the last thirty―five years he has lost a lot of sleep watching people sleep. He says, “Of course, I know that there are sleepwalkers because I have read about them in the newspapers. But none of my sleepers ever walked, and if I were to advertise for sleepwalkers for an experiment, I doubt whether I would get many takers(應(yīng)征者).”

Sleepwalking, however, is a scientific reality. It is one of those strange things that sometimes looks quite fantastic(奇特的). Doctors say that sleepwalking is much more common than is generally supposed. Many sleepwalkers do not try to find help and their sleepwalking is never recorded.

56. Generally speaking, sleepwalkers are people who __________.

    A. climb on roofs                                       B. walk through windows

C. do fantastic things during their sleep         D. walk in a half―awake state

57. It was reported that a boy ________.

    A. was found on a strange sofa, telling how he had got there

B. slept in his own room but woke up in a strange room

C. lost his way five hours after he left home

D. was searched for by policemen when he lost his way

58. There was a college student who got into the habit of ___________.

   A. getting up in the middle of the night and walking down to the river

B. walking three―quarters of a mile every day

C. swimming in the lowa River before going to bed

D. walking about before he went to bed

59. Why do people think sleepwalking is nothing but a fantastic thing which doesn’t have any explanation?

   A. It is so common that it needn’t be recorded.

B. Scientists take no interest in it.

C. Most sleepwalkers do not seek help for their problem.

D. No records about it have been made.

Seventeen-year-old Rivertown teenager, John Janson, was honoured at the Lifesaver Awards last night for carrying out lifesaving first aid on his neighbour after a shocking knife  36 .

John was presented with his award at a ceremony(儀式) which recognized the  37  of ten people who have saved the life of  38  person.

John had been studying in his room when he heard  39 . When he and his father rushed outside, they  40  that Anne Slade, mother of three, had been stabbed  41  with a knife by her ex-boyfriend. The man ran from the  42  and left Ms Slade lying in her front garden  43 very heavily. Her hands had almost been cut from her body.

It was John’s quick  44  and knowledge of first aid that saved Ms Slade’s life. He immediately asked a number of  45  people for bandages, but when nobody could put their hands on any, his father got some tea towels(毛巾) and  46  from their house. John used these to dress the most severe  47  to ms Slade’s hands. He slowed the bleeding by applying pressure to the wounds until the  48  and ambulance arrived.

“I’m  49  of what I did but I was just doing what I had been  50 ,” John said.

John had taken part in the Young Lifesaver Scheme at his high school. When  51  John. Mr Alan Southerton, Director of the Young Lifesaver Scheme said, “There is no doubt that John’s quick thinking and the first aid  52  that he learnt at school saved Ms Slade’s life. This shows that a simple knowledge of first aid can make a real  53 .”

John and nine other Life Savers also attended a  54  reception yesterday hosted by the Prime Minister before  55  their awards last night.

Companies should choose a suitable brand name that both salesman and consumers will _________ positive images.

A. put through        B. associate with         C. wind up        D. be equal to

Some 80,000 people were reported ________ in the ever recorded worst earthquake in that area last month.

  A. were killed       B. to be killed       C. to have been killed       D. being killed

In many factories computers have ___________ the work of thousands of workers.

  A. taken place       B. taking place       C. taken place of      D. taken the place of

Nowadays, scientists are working hard to find a best way of treating addictions __________ drugs.

  A. of             B. in            C. on            D. to

As a teacher you should _________ your method to ______ the needs of slower students.

  A. apply; enable      B. adjust; meet        C. increase; change      D. weigh; shape

----The boss said we had only three days to finish the task.

----No problem. We have already _________ two thirds of it.

  A. got over          B. given away      C. got through       D. made out

There is a high probability _________ you will find aspirin and penicillin in any medicine cupboard in the world.

  A. that            B. which            C. what            D. where