6.What is the best title for the passage?

A. Oil refining: A historical perspective

  B. The California Gold Rush: Get Rich Quickly

  C. Private Property: Trespassers will be Prosecuted

  D. Kerosene Lamps: Alight in the Tunnel.       

7. It can be inferred from the passage that the kerosene was preferable to whale oil because whale oil was too                .

     A  expensive          B  thick       C  hot                D  polluted

8. According to the passage, many people initially thought that E.L.Drade had made a mistake by                   .

    A  going on a whaling expedition

                                                                       B  moving to Pennsylvania

                                                                       C  searching for oil

                                                                       D  retiring from his job

9. According to the passage, what is “black gold”?

      A  whale oil          B  gold ore  C stolen money     D crude oil

10. Why does the author mention the California gold rush?

                                                                       A. To explain the need for an increased supply of gold

                                                                       B. To indicate the extent of the United States’ mineral wealth.

                                                                       C. To describe the mood when oil was first discovered.

                                                                       D. To argue that gold was more valuable than oil

 

     Crime has its own cycles, a magazine reported some years ago. According to the police records that have been studied for five years from over 2400 cities and towns, a surprising link is shown between changes in the season and crime patterns. The pattern of crime has varied very little over a long period of years. Murder reaches its high during July and August. Murder, moreover, is more than seasonal: it is a weekend crime. It is also a night-time crime: 62 percent of murders are committed between 6 p. m. and 6 a. m.

     Unlike the summer high in crimes of bodily harm, robbing has a different cycle. You are most likely to be robbed between 6 p. m. and 2 a. m. on a Saturday night in December, January, or February. The month with least crimes of all? May—except for one strange fact. More dog bites are reported in this month than in any other month of the year.

     Apparently our seasonal cycles of knowledge are completely different from our tendencies for crimes. Professor Huntington made extensive studies to discover the seasons when people read serious books, attend scientific meetings and get highest results on examinations. In all cases, he found a spring high and autumn high separated by a summer low.

 

11The best title of the passage is                                                .

A. Crime Cycles

B. Summer Crimes

C. A Time for Murder

D. The Most Peaceful Month

12. According to the passage,                                                 .

A. there is a link between changes in the seasons and crime patterns

B.      crime is not linked to the cycle of the weekdays

C.      there is sure connection between murder and hot weather

D.     there is a connection between robbing and murder

13. A murder would most likely occur                                            .

A.  on a weekend night in summer

B.      on a weekend afternoon in summer

C.      on a weekend night in winter

D.     on a weekday afternoon in spring

14. The passage tells us that people are likely to get the highest results on exams          .

A.      in spring only

B.      in spring and autumn

C.      in summer

D.     in winter

 15. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A.      It is not certain whether there is a connection between humidity and murder.

B.      Murder and robbery mainly occur in summer.

C.      There is no proof that murder frequently occurs in summer.

D.     High temperature and high humidity lead to high crime rate in summer.