TEXT C It used to be -- in popular imagination, if not always in reality -- that it was the man of the house who toted the tool belt, fixing a leaky faucet here and repairing a hole in the drywall there, while overseeing home improvements, from new bookshelves to room additions. It seemed part of our evolutionary development as a tool-using species that it was men, alone, who would prow the aisles of hardware stores. But demographics change. Women account today for fully half of the U.S. 140 billion retail hardware and home improvement industry sales in the United States. They have been motivated by the do-it-yourself movement that began in the early-1980s, and by changing economic and social realities that have made women more self-reliant. Home improvement television shows, specialty magazines, teaching clinics, and even Web Sites cater to these do-it-yourself, understanding that women are the "instigators" of home improvement projects whether or not there is a man in the house. The common wisdom within the industry is that women have significant control not only over selection of products, but also over the household budget.
73. Which of the following can best sum up the passage?
A) Women now can work on home improvement all by themselves, not needing men's help.
B) Women are becoming experts at home improvement.
C) It's women, not men, who now go to hardware stores.
D) Women are bornly better at home repairs.
74. Women are taking up home repairs more and more just because ______
A) men are unwilling to do it.
B) women have been found talented at it.
C) women are affected by certain thoughts and movement.
D) women want to demonstrate that they are superior to men.
75. We can guess from context clues that the word "to tote" (para. 1) means ______
A) to repair.
B) to carry.
C) to sell.
D) to buy.
76. Which of the following statements is True?
A) Women didn't take up home improvement at all.
B) Nowadays, men don't work on home improvement any more.
C) More and more women now make efforts to become do-it-yourselfers.
D) Men can't be the instigator of home improvement.
TEXT D The year was 1959. Location: The central African city of Leopoldville, now called Kinshasa, shortly before the waves of violent rebellion that followed the liberation of the Belgian Congo. A seemingly healthy man walked into a hospital clinic to give blood for a westernbacked study of blood diseases. He walked away and was never heard from again. Doctors analyzed his sample, froze it in a test tube and forgot about it. A quarter century later, in the mid-1980s, researchers studying the growing AIDS epidemic took a second look at the blood and discovered that it contained H. I. V., the virus that causes AIDS. And not just any H. I. V.. The Leopoldville sample is the oldest specimen of the AIDS virus ever isolated and may now help solve the mystery of how and when the virus made the leap from animals (monkeys or chimpanzees) to humans, according to a report published last week in Nature. Dr. David Ho, director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York City and one of the studys authors, says a careful genetic analysis of the samples DNA pushes the putative origin of the AIDS epidemic back at least a decade, to early 50s even the 40s.
77. What's the passage about?
A) HIV virus and AIDS virus were earliest discovered in Africa.
B) The role that Leopoldvilles's sample plays.
C) Leopoldville's sample contributes to disclosing the puzzle on the origin of AIDS.
D) AIDS spread to other places besides Africa.
78. The origin of the AIDS epidemic was thought to begin in the
A) '40s.
B) '50s.
C) '60s.
D) mid-80s.
79. Which of the following statements is Not True?
A) The AIDS virus grows out of monkeys or chimpanzees.
B) The AIDS virus was earliest discovered in Kinshasa, 1959.
C) Before Leopoldville was changed into Kinshasa in name, it was a colony.
D) No other AIDS virus discovered anywhere else can be older than the one discovered in Leopoldville.
80. According to the passage, the man who carried HIV gave blood because he wanted to ______
A) infect others to take revenge on the whole society.
B) earn money to support his family.
C) make a name.
D) None of the above.
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