阅读材料，回答题。Man cannot go on increasing his number at the present rate. In the next 30

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One type of person that is common in many countries is the one who always tries to do as little as possible and to get as much in return as he can. His opposite, the man who has__51__for doing more that is strictly__52__and who is ready to accept what is offered in return, is rare every-where.

Both these types are entirely different in their behavior. The man who__ 53 __is always talking about his "fights" ; he thinks that society should __54__him a pleasant, easy life. The man(who is always doing more than share) talks of "duties" ; he feels that the__ 55__is in debt to society.

The man who tries to do as little as he can is always full of__56__. For instance, if he has__57__to do something, it was because he was__58__by bad luck. His opposite is never too busy to take on a (an) extra piece of work. So it is__59__that if you want something done in a hurry, go to the busiest man whom you have__60__in.

__________ 查看材料

A.Courage

B.Enthusiasm

C.Interest

D.sense

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Once upon a time a poor farmer taking a sack of wheat to the mill did not know what to do when it slipped from his horse and fell ___51___ the road. The sack was too heavy for him to ___52___, and his only hope was that___ 53___ some one would come riding by and lend a hand.

It was not long before a rider appeared, but the farmer’s heart sank when he ___54___ him, for it was the great man who lived in a castle nearby. The farmer ___55___ have dared to ask another farmer to help, or any poor man who might have come___56___the road, but he could not beg a favor of so great a man.___57___, as soon as the great man came up he got off his horse, saying "I see you’ve had bad luck, friend. How good it is that I’m here just at the___58___ time. "Then he took one___59___ of the sack, the farmer the other, and between them they lifted it on the horse."Sir," asked the farmer, "how can I pay you？"

"Easily enough," the great man___60___ "Whenever you see anyone else in trouble, do the same for him."

__________ 查看材料

A.on

B.in

C.off

D.onto

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Washington Irving was America’s first man of letters to beknown internationally. His works were received enthusiastically both in Englandand in the United States. He was, in fact; one of the most successful writersof his time in the country, and at the same time winning the admiration offellow writers like Scott in Britain and Poe and Hawthorne in the UnitedStates. The respect in which he was held partly owing to the man himself, withhis warm friendliness, his good sense, his urbanity, his gay spirits, hisartistic integrity, his love of both the Old World and the New. Thackeray describedIrving as "a gentleman, who, though himself born in no very high sphere, wasmost finished, polished, witty; socially the equal of the most refinedEuropeans. " In England be was granted an honorary degree from Oxford anunusual honor for a citizen of a young, uncultured nation and he received themedal of the Royal Society of Literature. America made him ambassador to Spain.

Irving’s background provides little to explain his literaryachievements. A gifted but delicate child, he had little schooling. He studiedlaw, but without zeal, and never did practice seriously. He was immune to hisslrict Presbyterian home environment, frequenting both social gatherings and thetheater.

The main point of the first paragraph is that WashingtonIrving was________ 查看材料

A.America’s first man of letters

B.a writer who had great success both in and outside his owncountry

C.a man who was able to move from literature to politics

D.a man whose personal charm enabled him to get by withbasically inferior work

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Some psychologists(心理专家) maintain that mental acts such as thinking are not performedin the brain alone, but that one&39; s muscles also participate. It may be said that we think with ourmuscles in somewhat the same way that we listen to music with our bodies.

You surely are not surprised to be told that you usually listen to music not only with your ears butwith your whole body. Few people can listen to music without moving their body or, more specifically,some part of their body. Often when one listens to a symphonic concert on the radio, he is attracted todirect the orchestra (乐队) even though he knows there is a good conductor on the job.Strange as this behavior. may be, there is a very good reason for it. One cannot derive all pos-sible enjoyment from music unless he participates, so to speak, in its performance. The listener"feels" himself into the music with more or less noticeable motions of his body. The muscles of the body actually participate in the mental process of thinking in the same

way, but this participation is less obvious because it is less noticeable.

Some psychologists think that thinking is__________ 查看材料

A.not a mental process

B.more of a physical process than a mental action

C.a process that involves our entire bodies

D.a process that involves the muscles as well as the brain

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Trees are useful to man in three important ways: they provide him with wood and other products; they give him shade; and they help to prevent droughts and floods.

Unfortunately, in many parts of the world, man has not realized that the third of these services is the most important. In his eagerness to make money from trees, he has cut them down in large numbers, only to find that without them he has lost the best friends he had. And besides, he is usually too careless to plant and look after new trees. So the forests slowly disappear.

This does not only mean that man will have fewer trees. The results are even more serious for where there are trees, their roots break up soil allowing the rain to sink in and also bind the soil, thus preventing it from being washed away easily; but where there are no trees, the rain fall son hard ground and flows away, causing floods and carrying away the rich topsoil. When all the topsoil is gone, nothing remains but worthless desert.

Two thousand years ago a rich and powerful country cut down its trees to build warships, with which to gain itself an empire. It set up the empire but, without its trees, its soil became poor and it grew weak. When the empire fell to pieces, the home country found itself faced with floods and starvation.

What is the most important service of trees to man according to the passage？ 查看材料

A.They help him make money

B.They give him wood and other products

C.They help him prevent droughts and floods

D.They give him shade

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A lawyer friend of mine has devoted herself to the service of humanity. Her special area is called "public interest law".

Many other lawyers represent only clients who can pay high fees. All lawyers have had expensive and highly specialized training, and they work long, difficult hours for the money they earn. But what happens to people who need legal help and cannot afford to pay these lawyers’ fees？

Public interest lawyers fill this need. Lisa, like older public interest lawyers, earns a salary much below what some lawyers can earn. Because she is willing to take less money, her clients need the help, even if they can pay nothing at all.

Some clients need legal help because stores have cheated them with faulty merchandise. Others are in unsafe apartments, or are threatened with eviction (驱逐，赶出) and have no place to go to. Their cases are called "civil" cases. Still others are accused of criminal acts, and seeking those public interest lawyers who handle "criminal" cases. These. are just a few of the many situations in which men and women who are public interest lawyers serve to extend justice throughout our society.

A person who needs and uses legal help is called a ________ 查看材料

A.lawyer

B.client

C.tenant

D.case worker

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Another thing an astronaut has to learn about is eating in space. Food is weightless, just as men are.

Food for space has to be packed in special ways. Some of it goes into tubes that a man can squeeze into his mouth. Bite sized cookies are packed in plastic.

There is a good reason for covering each bite. The plastic keeps pieces of food from travelling in the spaceship. On the earth very small pieces of food would simply fall to the floor. But gravity doesn’t pull them to the floor when they are out of the plastic in a spaceship. They move here and there and can get into a man’s eyes or into the spaceship’s instruments. If any of the instruments is blocked, the astronauts may have trouble getting safely home.

As astronauts travel on longer space trips, he must take time to sleep. An astronaut can fit himself to his seat with a kind of seat belt. Or, if he wants to, he can sleep in a sleeping bag which is fixed in place under his seat. But be careful he must put his hands under the belt when he goes to sleep. This is because he is really afraid that he might touch one of controls that isn’t supposed to be touched until later.

Why would astronauts cover each bite of food in space？ 查看材料

A.Because small pieces of food would fall down to the floor

B.Because weightless pieces of food might make trouble when they travel around

C.Because they haven’t enough food for longer trips

D.Because astronauts don’t want to waste food

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It was a beautiful summer day and I was taking a walk in the downtown area of Madrid.

When I turned a street ____ 51 ____ I heard the voice of a lovely Spanish singer coming from a nearby cafe. The music ____ 52 ____me, so I went to the cafe to hear it better.

I sat down at a table near the door. The waiter came over, and I ____ 53 ____ a glass of wine.

While waiting for my wine, I listened to the soft music. The singer was a young lady, a little too fat, but____ 54 ____ pretty. A black young man was playing the piano.

The waiter returned ____ 55 ____ the glass of wine and put it on the table. I started drinking the wine slowly and ____ 56 ____ the other people in the cafe. They were all men because women seldom go into the cafes in Spain.

There were three men sitting at a table near mine. I could ____ 57 ____ by their accents that one of them was an American, one an Englishman and the third man a stranger. The waiter served each of the three men a glass of beer. By chance, each glass had a ____ 58 ____ in it. The American picked up his glass, noticed the fly and poured the beer and the fly was thrown onto the floor. The Englishman looked into his glass, noticed the fly and reached for a spoon, with which he took the fly out of the beer, and drank the____ 59 ____ of it.

The stranger noticed the fly in the beer, too. He picked it up with his fingers, squeezed it carefully in order to save every drop of beer, then drank the beer____ 60 ____

__________ 查看材料

A.shop

B.sidewalk

C.comer

D.store