Why do people take part in such activities as these? Some psychologists suggest that it is because life in modern societies has become safe and boring. Not very long ago, diseases could not easily be cured, and life was a continuous battle for survival (生存).
Nowadays, according to many people, life offers little excitement. They live and work in comparatively safe conditions; they buy food in shops; and there are doctors and hospitals to look after them if they become ill. The answer for some of these people is to look for danger in activities such as bungee jumping.
71. People who have looked for adventures like taking dangerous sports and activities.
72. More and more people today are trying activities such as bungee jumping.
73. An immediate excitement from a risky activity sometimes lasts a few minutes.
74. In bungee jumping, you should jump as high as you can.
75. Diving into the sea from the top of high cliffs is less risky than bungee jumping.
76. People like to take part in dangerous sports because their life is probably short of excitement.
77. From the passage, we learnt that the author tried to make people not to take part in bungee jumping.
B. Choose the best answer (根据短文内容,选择最恰当的答案): ( 7分)
The law says that women should have the chance of doing the same jobs as men and earn the same as them. The reality is quite different. Women lose because, 25 years after the Equal Pay Act, many of them still get paid less than men. They lose because they do lower-paid jobs which men just wont consider. And they lose because they are the ones who interrupt a career to have children.
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