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解析：
文章第一段中提到因为议会准备为最新一轮的包括增加赋税、削减薪水和增加失业在内的紧缩措施投票，为期两天的大罢工开始了（The 48-hour strike comes as parliament prepares to vote on the latest round of austerity measures, including more tax hikes, pay cuts and job losses），由此不难得出答案，所有选B。
48.Which of the following is one of the consequences mentioned in the passage?
A) Public transportation is about to collapse.
B) Hospitals refuse to run.
C) Children stop attending schools.
D) Government officials flee to other countries.
正确答案为 A 你选对了！
解析：
文章第二段结尾部分提到空中交通的管理者们将举行12个小时的罢工。火车、公交车、出租车和货车将停止运转（Air traffic controllers will stage a 12-hour walk-out. Trains, buses, taxis and lorries will not be operating），由此可以得出，公共交通将会瘫痪，所以选A。
49.What are the Wednesday and Thursday bills mainly about? A) Re-elect government leaders. B) Increase the pension.
C) Punish the leader of the strike.
D) Postpone collective labor aggreement. 正确答案为 D 你选对了！
解析：
文章第三段中提到立法者正在给周三和周四的两个法案投票，这两个法案包括削减公共部门工作人员的薪水和养老金、增加税收和暂停集体劳动协议（Law-makers are voting on two bills on Wednesday and Thursday that include cuts to the pay and pensions of public sector workers, higher taxes and the suspension of collective
labor agreements），由此可以得出，周三和周四的法案主要包括延缓集体劳动协议，所以选D。
50.How to understand the phrase \Greek default\in the last paragraph?
A) The violation of contract of Greece. B) The devastating strike of Greece.
C) The economic disorder of Greece. D) The political structure of Greece.
正确答案为 A 你错选为 B！
解析：
文章最后一段中提到与此同时，希腊方面表示，就分期付款需要得到进一步的帮助，这个分期付款来源于去年一揽子计划中关于协助贷款达成的协议，否则将会在十一月时用所有的钱偿还债务。害怕困扰雅典的问题会影响到类似西班牙和意大利这样负债累累的欧洲国家，欧盟领导人在本周末进行会面，争取制定出一套计划来保护这些国家不受希腊违约的影响（Meanwhile, Greece says it needs further help in installment from the first package of assisting loans agreed last year or it will run out of money to pay its bills in November. With fears the problems besetting Athens might spread to other eurozone countries with heavy debts such as Spain and Italy, EU leaders meeting this weekend are struggling to forge a plan that will protect the region from a Greek default），由此可以推断出，希腊的行为违反了去年达成的协议，因此Greek default最有可能的意思是“希腊的违约行为”，只有选项A可以表示此意，所以选A。
People have wondered for a long time how their personalities and behaviours are formed. It's not easy to explain why one person is intelligent and another is not, or why one is cooperative and another is competitive.
Social scientists are, of course, extremely interested in these types of questions. They want to explain why we possess certain characteristics and exhibit certain behaviours. There are no clear answers yet, but two distinct schools of thought on the matter have developed. As one might expect, the two approaches are very different from one another, and there is a great deal of debate between proponents (辩护者) of each theory. The controversy is often conveniently referred to as \
Those who support the \and behaviour patterns are largely determined by biological and genetic factors. That our environment has little, if any, to do with our abilities, characteristics, and behaviour is central to this theory. Taken to an extreme, this theory maintains that our behaviour is predetermined to such a great degree that we are almost completely governed by our instincts.
Proponents of the \theory, or, as they are often called, behaviourists, claim that our environment is more important than our biologically based instincts in determining how we will act. A behaviourist, B. F. Skinner, sees humans as beings whose behaviour is almost completely shaped by their surroundings. The behaviourists' view of the human being is quite mechanistic; they maintain that, like machines, humans respond to environmental stimulation as the basis of their behaviour.
The social and political implications of these two theories are profound. In the United States, for example, blacks often score below whites on standardised
intelligent tests. This leads some \genetically inferior to whites. Behaviourists, in contrast, say that the differences in scores are due to the fact that blacks are often deprived of many of the educational and other environmental advantages that whites enjoy, and that, as a result, they do not develop the same responses that whites do.
Neither of these theories can yet fully explain human behaviour. In fact, it is quite likely that the key to our behaviour lies somewhere between these two extremes. That the controversy will continue for a long time is certain.
51.Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A) Nature or Nurture
B) Cooperative or Competitive
C) Intelligence: Product of Experiences D) Behaviour: Product of Instincts
正确答案为 A 你选对了！
解析：
A)。首段提出关于人的性格和行为原因的思考，接着说明对这个问题的解析存在两种流派的观点：天性论和环境论，然后举例说明两种观点各自的社会、政治意义，最后作者预测解释人类行为特征的答案可能介于两种解释之间，由此可知本文主要论述的就是针对人类性格和行为的形成原因而进行的“天性/环境”之争，所以选A)。
52.In Paragraph 2, what does the author mean by saying \schools of thought on the matter have developed?\
A) Two different schools have been established to study the matter.
B) Two different kinds of ideas about the formation of people's personalities and behaviours have formed.
C) Two different schools are debating with each other.
D) There are two approaches and debates because of the two schools.
正确答案为 B 你选对了！
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