Part Two Reading Comprehension
　　Directions:
　　In this part there are 4 passages followed by questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers. Choose the one you think is the best answer. Mark your choice on the Answer Sheet by drawing with a pencil a short bar across the corresponding letter in the brackets.

　　Questions 11-15 are based on the following passage:

　　If you are like most people, your intelligence varies from season to season. You are probably a lot sharper in the spring than you are at any other time of the year. A noted scientist, Ellsworth Huntington (1876-1937), concluded from other men’s work and his own among peoples in different climates that climate and temperature have a definite effect on our mental abilities.
　　He found that cool weather is much more favorable for creative thinking than is summer heat. This does not mean that all people are less intelligent in the summer than they are during the rest of the year. It does mean, however, that the mental abilities of large numbers of people tend to be lowest in the summer.
　　Spring appears to be the best period of the year for thinking. One reason may be that in the spring man’s mental abilities are affected by the same factors that bring about great changes in all nature.
　　Fall is the next-best season, then winter. As for summer, it seems to be a good time to take a long vacation from thinking!

11. Huntington based his conclusions on ___________.
A. records of change in his own intelligence
B. work with peoples in different climates
C. records of temperature changes
D. all of the above

12. Ellsworth Huntington decided that climate and temperature have _________.
A. a great effect on everyone’s intelligence
B. some effect on most people’s intelligence
C. effect on only a few people’s intelligence
D. no effect on people’s intelligence

13. One possible reason why spring is the best season for thinking is that ___________.
A. there are some things making all nature different from before
B. it lasts longer than the other seasons
C. it is neither too warm nor too cold
D. it is more natural for the development of mental abilities

14. The two best seasons for thinking seem to be _____________.
A. spring and fall
B. winter and summer
C. summer and spring
D. fall and winter

15. According to the selection, vacations from thinking should be taken ___________.
A. several times throughout the year
B. during spring and fall
C. during the summer
D. as seldom as possible

Questions 16-20 are based on the following passage:

　　 The potential of closed circuit television and other new electronic teaching tools is so great that it is inspiring to imagine “The school of tomorrow”. Televised lessons will be given in a central building having perhaps four or five master studios. The lessons will be carried into classrooms all over a city, or even an entire country. After a televised lesson has been given, the classroom teacher will take over for the all important “follow-up” period. The students will ask troublesome questions and difficult points will be cleared up through discussion.
　　The teacher in the class will have additional electronic tools. On the teacher’s desk, the traditional bright red apple will have been replaced by a multiple-control panel and magnetic tape players. The tape machines will run pre-recorded lessons which pupils will follow by head phones. The lessons will be specifically connected closely to the students’levels of ability. For instance, while the class as a whole studies history, each student will receive an individual history lesson directed to his particular level of ability.
　　Should questions arise, the students will be able to talk directly to the teacher on individual “intercom ” without disturbing the rest of the class. In this way, the teacher will be able to conduct as many as three classes at the same time.

16. Closed-circuit television will probably carry lesson into _______________.
A. a single classroom in the world
B. all the classrooms in the world
C. all the classrooms in a city or a country
D. a single classroom in a city or a country

17. After the televised lesson _____________.
A. the students will go to their next class
B. the classroom teacher will take over
C. the students will ask questions
D. both B and C

18. In the schools of tomorrow, the teacher’s desk will _______________.
A. contain electronic equipment
B. actually be a television set
C. no longer exist
D. look like an isolation

19. In the schools of tomorrow, students will ________________.
A. all study different subjects at the same time
B. study at different levels within a subject at the same time
C. not study
D. not have to read books

20. Electronic tools will enable the teacher to _________________.
A. teach more than one class at the same time
B. teach many different subjects at the same time
C. teach only a small number of pupils
D. rely on TV station only