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目 录 Test1 2 Passage1--Volatility Kills 2 Passage2-Changes in Air 10 Passage3--The History of the Invention of Plastics 19 Test229 Passage1-Crisis! Fresh Water29 Passage2--The beginning of intelligence 45 Passage3--Implication of False Belief Experiments 2 58 Test 3 70 Passage1-The dugong: sea cow(海牛) 70 Passage2--Sunny Days For Silicon 83 Passage3-Researcher on the Tree Crown94 Test4103 Passage1-Lighting Up The Lies103 Passage2-Can Scientists tell us: What happiness is? 116 Passage3-THE GAP of INGENUITY 2127 Test1 Passage1--Volatility Kills You should spend about 20 minutes on Question 1-13 which are based on Reading Passage below. Despite gun battles in the capital of Chad, rioting in Kenya and galloping A inflation in Zimbabwe, the economics of sub-Saharan Africa arc, as a whole, in better shape than they were a few years ago. The World Bank has reported recently that this part of the continent experienced a respectable growth rate of 5.6 percent in 2006 and a higher rate from 1995 to 2005 than in previous decades. The bank has given a cautious assessment that the region may have reached a turning point. An overriding question for developmental economists remains whether the upswing will continue so Africans can grow their way out of a poverty that relegates some 40 percent of the nearly 744 million in that region to living on less than a dollar a day. The optimism, when inspected more closely, may be short-lived because of the persistence of a devastating pattern of economic volatility that has lingered for decades. “In reality, African countries grow as fast as Asian countries and o