According to the painters, Chinese paintings can be divided into scholar painting, court painting and folk painting.

For all their great diversity of shapes and sizes, glaciers can be divided into two essential types: valley glaciers, which flow downhill from mountains and are shaped by the constraints of topography (地貌), and ice sheets, which flow outward in all directions from dome--like centers of accumulated ice to cover vast expanse of terrain. Whatever their type, most glaciers are remnants of great shrouds of ice that covered the earth years ago. In a few of these glaciers the oldest ice is very ancient indeed; the age of parts of the Antarctic sheet may exceed 500,000 years.

Glaciers are born in rocky womb above the snow line, where there is sufficient winter snowfall and summer cold for snow to survive the annual melting. The long gestation period of a glacier begins with the accumulation and gradual transformation of snow flakes. Soon after they reach the ground, complex snowflakes are reduced to compact, roughly spherical ice crystals, and the basic components of a glacier. As new layers of snow and firm, snow that survives the melting of the previous summer, accumulate, they squeeze out most of the air bubbles trapped within and between the crystals below. This process of recrystallization continues throughout the life of the glacier.

The length of time required for the creation of glacier ice depends mainly upon the temperature and the rate of snowfall. In Iceland, where snowfall is heavy and summer temperatures are high enough to produce plenty of melt--water, glacier ice may come into being in a relatively short time--say, ten years. In parts of Antarctica, where snowfall is scant and the ice remains well below its melting temperature year round, the process may require hundreds of years.

The ice does not become a glacier until it moves under its own weight, and it cannot move significantly until it reaches a critical thickness--the point at which the weight of the piled-up layers overcomes the internal strength of the ice and the friction between the ice and the ground. This critica} thickness is about 60 feet. The fastest moving glaciers have been gauged at not much more than two and a half miles per year, and some cover less than 1/100 inch in that same amount of time. But no matter how infinitesimal the flow, movement is what distinguishes a glacier from a mere mass of ice.

Which of the following is NOT true about glaciers?

A．Glaciers are diversified in shapes and sizes.

B．Glaciers can be divided into valley glaciers and ice sheets.

C．Glaciers are remnants of great shrouds of ice that covered the earth years ago.

D．Few glaciers have a long history.

A、Boiled eggs

B、Fried eggs

C、Scrambled eggs

D、Poached eggs

Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A．The non-Chinese speaking interviewer might ask the questions which have already been asked by the Chinese and hence cause confusion.

B．It is more practicable to start an interview with a few fairly standard questions in English before switching to Chinese.

C．The best procedure of an interview would seem to be beginning in Cantonese and then testing English proficiency.

D．The Chinese interviewee often politely compliments the foreign interviewer if he or she speaks Cantonese even if it is not actually so good in the interview.

According to the passage, which of the following types of people is more likely to suffer from stress?

A．People who have cancer.

B．People who like to quarrel with others.

C．People whose living standard is low.

D．People who have more responsibilities than they can handle.

According to the passage, which people are rare?

A．Those who don't emphasize bookish excellence in their pursuit of happiness.

B．Those who are aware of difficulties in life but know how to avoid unhappiness.

C．Those who measure happiness by an absence of problems but seldom suffer from N.B.D's.

D．Those who are able to secure happiness though having to struggle against trying circumstances.

According to the passage, what is the ideal way to solve the nigh[ shift problem?

A．To select the permanent night shift workers.

B．To find out the workers who suit night shift work.

C．To raise the workers' efficiency.

D．To shorten the workers' working hours. Part B

What do you need to do after you get your Website address according to the passage?

A．You need to contact a local company for free advertising.

B．You need to surf some Websites so as to decide what will be included in your Website.

C．You need to learn the basic skills of creating a Web site.

D．You need to buy a software program called Adobe Page Mill.

The national daily newspaper in the U.K. can be divided into serious/quality papers and ________.

From the passage, we know that ______.

A．music can be divided into slow music and fast music

B．whether slow music and fast music is effective or not depends on the background

C．music are always helpful to the overall sales

D．without music people have difficulty in shopping and having dinners