34. What do we learn about low-income parents regarding school field trips?
A. They want their children to participate even though they don’t see much benefit.
B. They don’t want their kids to participate but find it hard to keep them from going.
C. They don’t want their kids to miss any chance to broaden their horizons despite the cost.
D. They want their children to experience adventures but they don’t want them to run risks.
33. What does the author suggest can help build community spirit?
A. Events aiming to improve community services.
B. Activities that help to fuel students’ ingenuity.
C. Events that require mutual understanding.
D. Activities involving all students on campus.
32. What does the author think about school field trips?
A. They enable students from different backgrounds to mix with each other.
B. They widen the gap between privileged and disadvantaged students.
C. They give the disadvantaged students a chance to see the world.
D. They only benefit students with rich relatives and neighbours.
Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension (50%)Section A (30%)Directions: There are three passages in this section. Each passage is followed by five questions. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Passage One Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.“The dangerous thing about lying is people don’t understand how the act changes us,” says Dan Ariely, behavioural psychologist at Duke University. Psychologists have documented children lying as early as the age of two. Some experts even consider lying a developmental milestone, like crawling and walking, because it requires sophisticated planning, attention and the ability to see a situation from someone else's perspective to manipulate them. But, for most people, lying gets limited as we develop a sense of morality and the ability to self-regulate.Harvard cognitive neuroscientist Joshua Greene says, for most of us, lying takes work. In studies, he gave subjects a chance to deceive for monetary gain while examining their brains in a functional MRI machine, which maps blood flow to active parts of the brain. Some people told the truth instantly and instinctively. But others opted to lie, and they showed increased activity in their frontal parietal (颅腔壁的) control network, which is involved in difficult or complex thinking. This suggests that they were deciding between truth and dishonesty - and ultimately opting for the latter. For a follow-up analysis, he found that people whose neural (神经的) reward centres were more active when they won money were also more likely to be among the group of liars - suggesting that lying may have to do with the inability to resist temptation.External conditions also matter in terms of when and how often we lie. We are more likely to lie, research shows, when we are able to rationalise it, when we are stressed and fatigued or see others being dishonest. And we are less likely to lie when we have moral reminders or when we think others are watching. “We as a society need to understand that, when we don’t punish lying, we increase the probability it will happen again,” Ariely says.In a 2016 study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, Ariely and colleagues showed how dishonesty alters people’s brains, making it easier to tell lies in the future. When people uttered a falsehood, the scientists noticed a burst of activity in their amygdala. The amygdala is a crucial part of the brain that produces fear, anxiety and emotional responses - including that sinking, guilty feeling you get when you lie. But when scientists had their subjects play a game in which they won money by deceiving their partner, they noticed the negative signals from the amygdala began to decrease. Not only that, but when people faced no consequences for dishonesty, their falsehoods tended to get even more sensational. This means that if you give people multiple opportunities to lie for their own benefit, they start with little lies which get bigger over time. 26. Why do some experts consider lying a milestone in a child’s development?
A. It involves the coordination of both their mental and physical abilities.
B. It indicates they have an ability more remarkable than crawling and walking.
C. It represents their ability to actively interact with people around them.
D. It shows they have the ability to view complex situations from different angles.