44.According to the passage,which of the following statements is wrong?ª¤

   A.Modern African politicians approve of tribal divisions.ª¤

   B.A person is usually taken care of by his own tribe.ª¤

   C.Africans consider it an obligation to give a job to a fellow tribesman.ª¤

   D.Tribalism is still a powerful force in day-to-day African life.
                  

   Passage3

   When a new movement in Art attains a certain vogue,it is advisable to find out what its advocates are aiming at,for,however far-fetched and unreasonable their contents may seem today,it is possible that in years to come they may be regarded as normal.With regard to Futurist poetry,however,the case is rather difficult,for whatever Futurist poetry may be¡ªeven admitting that the theory on which it is based may be right¡ªit can hardly be classed as Literature.ª¥

This,in brief,is what the Futurist says for a century,past conditions of life have been continually speeding up,till now we live in a world of noise and violence and speed.Consequently,our feelings,thoughts and emotions have undergone a corresponding change.This speeding up of life,says the Futurist,requires a new form of expressions.We must speed up our literature too,if we want to interpret modern stress.We must pour out a cataract of essential words,unhampered by stops,or qualifying adjectives,or finite verbs.Instead of describing sounds we must make up words that imitate them;we must use many sizes of type and different colored inks on the same page,and shorten or lengthen words at will.ª¥

    Certainly their descriptions of battles are vividly chaotic.But it is a little disconcerting to read in the explanatory notes that a certain line describes a fight between a Turkish and a Bulgarian officer on a bridge off which they both fall into the river¡ª¡ªand then to find that the line consists of the noise of their falling are the weights of the officers.¡°Pluff!Pulff!A hundred and eighty five kilograms.¡±This,though it fulfills the laws and requirements of Futurist poetry can hardly be classed as Literature.All the same,no thinking man can refuse to accept their first proposition that a great change in our emotional life calls for a change of expression.The whole question is really this:how we essentially changed?ª¤

    45.The main idea of this selections is best expressed as ____.ª¤

      A.The Past versus the future

      B.Changes in modern Lifeª¤

      C.Merits of the Futurist movement

      D.An evaluation of Futurist poetry

   46.When novel ideas appear,it is desirable,according to the writer,to ____.ª¤

     A.discover the aims of their adherents

     B.ignore themª¤

     C.follow the fashion

     D.regard them as normal

   47.The Futurists claim that we must ____.ª¤

    A.increase the production of literature

    B.look to the futureª¤

    C.develop new literary forms

    D.avoid unusual words

   48.The writer believes that Futurist poetry is ____.ª¤

    A.too emotional

    B.too new in type to be acceptableª¤

    C.not literature as he knows it

    D.essential to basic change in the nature mankind

   49.The futurist poet uses all the following devices EXCEPT____.ª¤

    A.imitative words

    B.qualifying adjectivesª¤

    C.different colored inks

    D.a stream of essential wordsª¤

    Section B  Skimming and Scanning (Õ¼×Ü·ÖµÄ10%)ª¤