ected to a choking atmosphere that grew damper and hotter from day to day. All human movement ceased. There was nothing to be done but to lie breathing quickly as a dog does in hot weather.
By the fourth week of July conditions in the tropics lay balanced between life and total death. Then quite suddenly rain clouds appeared over the whole globe. The temperature declined a little, due no doubt to the clouds reflecting more of the Sun's radiation back into space, But conditions could not be said to have improved. Warm rain fell everywhere, even as far north as Iceland. The insect population increased enormously, since the burning hot atmosphere was as favorable to them as it was unfavorable to Man many other animals.
81. In the British Isles the temperature .
A）stayed at eighty B）ranged from eighty to ninety
C）approached one hundred D）exceeded the hundred mark
82. Few people in the United States lost their lives because .
A）the temperature was tolerable
B）people remained indoors for weeks
C）the government had taken effective measures to reduce the hot temperature
D）people were provided with the most comfortable air-conditioners
83. Millions of people in Cairo（开罗）and the Cape of Good Hope（好望角）were subjected to a choking atmosphere because .
A）the temperature grew extremely hot
B）the temperature became damper and hotter as the humidity of the surface waters of the sea increased
C）their conditions were too dangerous
D）nothing could be done with the hot temperature
84. By the fourth week of July conditions in the tropics were such that .
A）human survival would be impossible
B）more and more people would lose their lives
C）fewer people could be saved
D）survival or death was still undecided
85. The insect population increased due to .
A）the hot air B） the tropical climate C）the rain clouds D）the damp atmosphere
Passage 18
In a family where the roles of men and women are not sharply separated and where many household tasks are shared to a greater or lesser extent, notions of male superiority are hard to maintain. The pattern of sharing in tasks and in decisions makes for equality, and this in turn leads to further sharing. In such a home, the growing boy and girl learn to accept that equality more easily than did their parents and to prepare more fully for participation in a world characterized by cooperation rather than by the battle of the sexes.
If the process goes too far and man's role is regarded as less important - and that has happened in some cases-we are as badly of as before, only in reverse.
It is time to reassess the role of the man in the American family. We are getting a little tired of
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