the interest charge of credit cards.
59. What is the main topic of the text?
A) Advantages and Disadvantages of Credit Cards. B) Economic Growth Backed up by the Use of Credit Cards. C) It can encourage great sums of consumption. D) Credit Cards Make Life Easier.
60. The author’s attitude towards credit card is . A) agreeable Passage Two
Questions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage.
Lie detectors are widely used in the United States to find out whether a person is telling the truth or not. Polygraphers, the people who operate them, claim that they can establish guilt by detecting physiological changes that accompany emotional stress. The technique adopted is to ask leading questions such as, “Did you take the money?” or “Where did you hide the money?” mixed in with neutral questions, and measure the subject’s electrical resistance in the palm or changes in his breathing and heart rate. Such apparatus has obtained widespread recognition.
Whether lie detectors will ever be adopted on a similar scale in Britain is still a matter of opinion. At first sight, it appears obvious that any simple, reliable methods of convicting guilty people is valuable, but recent research sponsored by the U.S. Office of Public Health not only raises doubts about how lie detectors should be used but also makes it questionable whether they should be employed at all.
The point is that, apart from many of the polygraphers being unqualified, the tests themselves are by no means free from error, primarily because they discount human imagination and ingenuity. Think of all those perfectly innocent people, with nothing to be afraid of, who blush and stammer when a customs officer asks them if they have anything to declare. Fear, and a consequently heightened electrical response, may not be enough to establish guilt. It depends on whether the subject is afraid of being found out or afraid of being wrongfully convicted. On the other hand, the person who is really guilty and whose... or deliberately giving exaggerated responses to neutral ones!
The success rate of up to 90% claimed for lie detectors is misleadingly attractive. If we refer such a figure to a company with 50 employees, twenty of whom are thieves, the lie detector could catch 18 of them but in doing so would place 32 innocent employees under suspicion. The
B) neutral
C) humorous
D) oppositional
problem for the management would therefore become one of deciding how much industrial unrest they are prepared to cause in order to eliminate theft. What concerns research workers even more, of course, is the fact that a certain number of innocent people are bound to be convicted of crimes they have not committed.
61. Lie detectors are widely used in the United States because . A) they can help detect people’s emotional stress B) they can help detect people’s physiological changes
C) they can help find out whether a person is telling the truth or not D) they can measure the subjects’ electrical resistance
62. According to the passage, we know that Britain . A) will adopt lie detectors widely
B) will adopt lie detectors on a smaller scale C) adopt lie detectors
D) has not decided whether to adopt lie detectors or not
63. “..., the tests themselves are by no means free from error,... ” (Line 2, Para. 3) means . A) the tests definitely have no error B) the tests sometimes make mistakes C) the polygraphers do not make mistakes
D) the polygraphers can avoid error by using some techniques
64. Which of the following is true?
A) The tests are conducted by qualified polygraphers. B) Innocent people may blush or stammer when questioned. C) Guilty people can definitely be found out by answer questions. D) Guilty people may escape by refusing to answer questions.
65. What troubles lie detector researchers most is that . A) innocent people are convicted crimes B) innocent people will learn to tell lies C) lie detectors may cause industrial unrests D) lie detectors are sometimes not dependable
Part IV Translation (30 minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English. You should write your answer on Answer Sheet 2.
剪纸（paper cutting）是中国最为流行的传统民间艺术形式之一。中国剪纸有一千五百多年的历史，在明朝和清朝时期（the Ming and Qing Dynasties）特别流行。人们常用剪纸美化居家环境。特别是在春节和婚庆期间，剪纸被用来装饰门窗和房间，以增加喜庆的气氛。剪纸最常用的颜色是红色，象征健康和兴旺。中国剪纸在世界各地很受欢迎，经常被用作馈赠外国友人的礼物。