PART IV READING COMPREHENSION
　　In this section there are five passages followed by fifteen questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answer marked A, B, C and D.    Choose the one that you think is the correct answer.
　　TEXT A Steve Courtney wrote historical novels. Not, he was quick to explain, over colorful love stories of the kind that made so much money for so many women writer, but novels set, and correctly set, in historical periods. Whatever difference he saw in his own books, his readers did not seem to notice it, and his readers were nearly all women. He had studied at university, but he had not been a particularly good student, and he had never afterwards let any academic knowledge he had gained interfere with his writing. Helen, his wife, who did not have a very high opinion of her husbands ability as a novelist, had been careful to say when she married him that she was not historically minded. Above all, Helen was doubtful whether her relationship with Steve would work at all in the village of Stretton, to which they had just moved. It was Steve who had wanted to move to the country, and she had been glad of the change, in principle, whatever doubts she was now having about Stretton as a choice. But she wondered whether Steve would not, before very long, want to live in London again, and what she would do if he did. The Stretton house was not a weekend cottage. They had moved into it and given up the London flat altogether, partly at least, she suspected, because that she Steves idea of what a successful author ought to do. However, she thought he was not going to feel like a successful author half as much in Stretton as he had in London. On the other had, she supposed he might just start dashing up to London for the day to see his agent or have lunch with his publisher, leaving her behind in Stretton, and she thought on the whole she would like that.
　　66. Which of the following is true about Steve's attitude towards women who wrote love stories?
　　A) He had a low opinion of the kind of books they wrote.
　　B) He was afraid of being compared unfavorably with them.
　　C) He would have liked to earn as much money as they did.
　　D) He did not think he could write about the same subjects.
　　67. Helen thought Steve might not be content in Stretton because _____.
　　A) his relationship with Helen was changing
　　B) he would not feel so important in Stretton
　　C) he would not be able to write so well there
　　D) he would not be lonely without all his friends
　　68. We learn from the passage that Steve's novels were _____.
　　A) popular but unimportant
　　B) serious works of literature
　　C) admired for their historical truth
　　D) written with women readers in mind
　　TEXT B When Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected President of the United States in 1932, not only the United States but also the rest of the world was in the throes of an economic depression. Following the termination of World War I, Britain and the United States at first experienced a boom in industry. Called the Roaring Twenties, the 1920s ushered in a number of things —— prosperity, greater equality for women in the work world, rising consumption, and easy credit. The outlook for American business was rosy. October 1929 was a month that had catastrophic economic reverberations worldwide. The American stock market witnessed the "Great Crash," as it is called, and the temporary boom in the American economy came to a standstill. Stock prices sank, and panic spread. The ensuing unemployment figure soared to 12 million by 1932. Germany in the postwar years suffered from burdensome compensation it was obliged to pay to the Allies. The countrys industrial capacity had been greatly diminished by the war. Inflation, political instability, and high unemployment were factors helpful to the growth of the initial Nazi party. Germans had lost confidence in their old leaders and heralded the arrival of a messiah-like figure who would lead them out of their economic wilderness. Hitler promised jobs and, once elected, kept his promise by providing employment in the party, in the newly expanded army, and in munitions factories. Roosevelt was elected because he promised a "New Deal" to lift the United States out of the doldrums of the depression. Following the principles advocated by Keynes, a British economist, Roosevelt collected the spending capacities of the federal government to provide welfare, work, and agricultural aid to the millions of down-and-out Americans. Elected President for four terms because of his innovative policies, Roosevelt succeeded in dragging the nation out of the depression before the outbreak of World War II.
　　69. Which of the following was NOT true at the time Roosevelt was elected?
　　A) Stock prices were recovering slowly.
　　B) The nation was in a deep depression.
　　C) There were 12 million unemployed workers.
　　D) The nation needed help from the federal government.
　　70. The "Great Crash" in the passage refers to _____.
　　A) the end of World War I
　　B) the Great Depression
　　C) high unemployment figures
　　D) a slump in the stock market
　　71. We can infer that the author of this passage _____.
　　A) disapproves of Roosevelt's "New Deal"
　　B) thinks the Depression could have been avoided
　　C) blames the Depression on the "Great Crash"
　　D) feels there was some similarity between Roosevelt and Hitler
　　72. The best title for the passage is _____.
　　A) The Twenties
　　B) The Great Crash
　　C) The Depression
　　D) The End of World War I