Most people would like to be ___ with others, but not everyone can achieve this goal.

Call the Disk Doctorl

1 Desperate computer users who 'lose' the data from their disks can get in touch with

experts who, for a fee, will recover the lost information. One of these experts is Dave Smith, who, some years ago, set up a company called fl3ve,5 Disk Doctor Service Ltd. Dave and a few of his friends work from home and give all the money they earn to charity. The fees are always the same, no matter how precious the data on the disk is. Some people, however, are so grateful that they send extra money to Dave or to the charities his company supports. One oil company offered him Li ,000 for his help and a vet sent him a blank check

2 It would be hard to put a value on the things rescued by the Disk Doctor. There have been disks containing medical research, television scripts, manuscripts of whole books, a comedlan,5joke collection, a solicitor' s papers for a court case, and even Margaret Thatcher,5itinerary for a visit to eastern Europe. For this last case, Dave was asked if he would go in person to Mrs. Thatcher's office 'for security reasons,!

3 Disks are usually sent to the Disk Doctor by post, but sometimes people are in such

a hurry that they can't wait for the post. Radio scripts have had to be rushed by taxi to

Dave's house because they were needed for broadcasting the next day, for example. When the material has been recovered, the disk is returned to the sender with a diagnosis and a prescription for avoiding the problem in future. One grateful client, an author put a 'thank you' to Dave in the front of his book.' Dave saved mc from a cardiac arrest' , he wrote 'But,,says Dave, 'most people don't take any notice ol the doctor's advice!'

Read Passage 2 and decide whether the following statements are Jrue or False. Write T for True and F for False against the number of each of the statements on your Answer Sheet

11. Computer users can get back their lost data from their disks without any payment in Dave's company

12. The company named Dave's Disk Doctor Service Ltd is set up by Dave Smith

13. Dave and his friends earn a large amount of money, but they spend none

14. According to the different value of the data on the disk, people need to pay different amount of money for saving them

15. Most people will take notice of the disk doctor' s . advice after the disk is repaired

16. hopeless _________ (paragraph 1)

17. thankful_(paragraph 1)

18. to save _________ (paragraph 2)

19. lawyer_(paragraph 2)

20. to keep from happening_(paragraph 3)

Scientists could see many things that most people would to see.

A. fell

B. fail

C. fall

D. fill

r war would be madness does not mean that it will not occur.

A) what B) which C) that D) why

They see many things which most people would fail____.

A: see

B: to see

C: seeing

D: seen

The paragraph following this one would most likely deal with ______.

A．why some people can hear better than others

B．what can be done to help the hearing impaired

C．how this new auditory test is conducted

D．which hearing problems are the most severe

A. feel

B. fail

C. fall

D. fill

Text 4

Over the last decade, demand for the most common cosmetic surgery procedures, like breast enlargements and nose jobs, has increased by more than 400 percent. According to Dr. Dai Davies, of the Plastic Surgery Partnership in Hammersmith, the majority of cosmetic surgery patients are not chasing physical perfection. Rather, they are driven to fantastic lengths to improve their appearance by a desire to look normal. “What we all crave is to look normal, and normal is what is prescribed by the advertising media and other external pressures. They give us a perception of what is physically acceptable and we feel we must look like that.”

In America, the debate is no longer about whether surgery is normal; rather, it centres on what age people should be before going under the knife. New York surgeon Dr. Gerard Imber recommends “maintenance” work for people in their thirties. “The idea of waiting until one needs a heroic transformation is silly,” he says. “By then, you’ve wasted 20 great years of your life and allowed things to get out of hand.” Dr. Imber draws the line at operating on people who are under 18, however. “It seems that someone we don’t consider old enough to order a drink shouldn’t be considering plastic surgery.”

In the UK cosmetic surgery has long been seen as the exclusive domain of the very rich and famous. But the proportionate cost of treatment has fallen substantially, bringing all but the most advanced laser technology within the reach of most people. Dr. Davies, who claims to “cater for the average person”, agrees. He says:“I treat a few of the rich and famous and an awful lot of secretaries. Of course, ￡3,000 for an operation is a lot of money. But it is also an investment for life which costs about half the price of a good family holiday.”

Dr. Davies suspects that the increasing sophistication of the fat injecting and removal techniques that allow patients to be treated with a local anaesthetic in an afternoon has also helped promote the popularity of cosmetic surgery. Yet, as one woman who recently paid ￡2,500 for liposuction to remove fat from her thighs admitted, the slope to becoming a cosmetic surgery Veteran is a deceptively gentle one. “I had my legs done because they’d been bugging me for years. But going into the clinic was so low key and effective it whetted my appetite. Now I don’t think there’s any operation that I would rule out having if I could afford it.”

第36题：1. According to the text, the reason for cosmetic surgery is to _____.

［A］ be physically healthy

［B］ look more normal

［C］ satisfy appetite

［D］ be accepted by media

Acommon

Bordinary

Cusual

Dgeneral

More sleep in old age, however, is 50.____with better health, and most older people would feel better and more 51.____if they slept for longer periods, he said.

A.Complain face-to-face to the waiter

B.Push the bad food to the side of their plate

C.Pull disgusted faces at each other

D.When the waiter asks if everything is all right they smile politely and mutter, ‘Yes, fine, thanks.’