【材料评析】

　　本篇文章主要是讲述人们对待老鼠不同的道德态度。

　　同是一个实验室里面老鼠，如果是为了人类实验做贡献，就是人们眼中的好老鼠;而一旦老鼠从实验室里面跑出来，携带病菌危害到了人类健康，那么这些逃跑掉的老鼠就成为了人们眼中的坏老鼠。人类会使用那些捕鼠夹子来消灭坏老鼠，但是对待好老鼠的时候态度截然不同，比如作者儿子的宠物老鼠死掉了，他们家甚至给它办了一场葬礼。

　　作者的观点就是：如果我们对一样事物贴上了标签，那么在道德层面上，我们内心会根据标签的不同作出不同的反应。并不是事物本身有任何好与不好，只是人类自作主张给各个事物贴上了不同的标签。

　　Questions:

　　26 What does the passage say about most of the mice used for experiments?

　　【答案】D)They sacrifice their lives for the benefit of humans.

　　27 Why did the so-called bad mice have to be captured and destroyed?

　　【答案】C) They may affect the results of experiments.

　　28 When are mice killed without prior approval?

　　【答案】C) When they become escapees.

　　29, Why does the speaker say what the Herzau’s did at home is ironical?

　　【答案】A)While holding a burial ceremony for a pet mouse, they were killing pest mice.

　　Passage Two

　　There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter — the city that is swallowed up by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. Of these three trembling cities the greatest is the last, the city of final destination, the city that has a goal. It is this third city that accounts for New York’s high-strung disposition, its poetical deportment, its dedication to the arts, and its incomparable achievements. Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion. And whether it is a farmer arriving from Italy to set up a small grocery store in a slum, or a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors, or a boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart, it makes no difference: each embraces New York with the intense excitement of first love, each absorbs New York with the fresh eyes of an adventurer, each generates heat and light to dwarf the Consolidated Edison Company.

　　【材料评析】

　　这篇文章的主题是城市和文化。属于散文性质。

　　讲述了不同的人带给纽约不同的气息。第一种，纽约本地人，让纽约完整持续;第二种，纽约上班族，让纽约躁动不安;第三种，来纽约寻梦的人，他们让纽约充满热情。作者在内心觉得纽约正是因为有这样三种人才能如此闪耀光彩，尤其是最后一类人，为纽约做出的贡献最大。

　　本篇文章中，The Three New Yorks 具有双关含义，既可以指纽约城，也可以指纽约人。有些学生可能看到这里就没看懂。遇到这种情况应该先接着往后看，然后猜这个three New Yorks到底指什么。