(A) to write carefully
(B) to do as teachers say
(C) to use dictionaries frequently
(D) to avoid using words one is not sure of
23. Teachers encourage the use of dictionaries so that ____.
(A) students will be able to express their ideas more freely
(B) teachers will have less trouble in correcting mistakes
(C) students will have more confidence in writing
(D) students will learn to be independent of teachers
24. The writer seems to think that the teacher’s judgement on that sensitive piece of writing is ____.
(A) reasonable
(B) unfair
(C) foolish
(D) careless
25. The major point discussed in the passage is ____ .
(A) the importance of developing writing skills
(B) the complexities of spelling
(C) the correct way of making compositions
(D) the relationship between spelling and the content of a composition
Passage Two
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage:
A breakthrough (突破) in the provision of energy from the sun for the European Economic Community (EEC) could be brought froward by up to two decades, if a modest increase could be provided in the EEC’s research effort in this field, according to the senior EEC scientists engaged in experiments in solar energy at EEC’s scientific laboratories at Ispra, near Milan.
The senior West German scientist in charge of the Community’s solar energy programme, Mr. Joachim Gretz, told journalists that at present levels of research spending it was most unlikely that solar energy would provide as much as three per cent of the Community’s energy requirements even after the year 2000. But he said that with a modest increase in the present sums, devoted by the EEC to this work it was possible that the breakthrough could be achieved by the end of the next decade.
Mr. Gretz calculates that if solar energy only provided three per cent of the EEC’s needs, this could still produce a saving of about a billion pounds in the present bill for imported energy each year. And he believes that with the possibility of utilizing more advanced technology in this field it might be possible to satisfy a much bigger share of the Community’s future energy needs.
