题目
Though it is difficult to, we can pretend that these things never existed. In this case we would not miss them today. To compare with recent inventions, let. us look at radio and television. Though we cannot think of life without them today, this is so only from comparatively recent times. There are many of us living today who had seen a time when there was no television. They will tell us that life was not that much different. The same is probably true of radio. But books are a different thing because they, or something akin to them, began thousands of years ago. In the case of music, it goes back even further—perhaps to millions of years. We may be able to imagine a world which never saw books, because books are a human invention. However, in the case' of music this does not seem possible. Pleasing sounds are all around us; like the singing of the birds and the whistling of the wind. Music just seems to be inborn in US and in the world around us.
If books did not exist, the world will be a poorer place indeed. Great philosophies like Plato's would become unknown and all the pleasures and lessons we could get from them will be lost forever. Then there is literature like the works of the great masters like Shakespeare, Dickens and Jane Austen. What a somber, miserable world it will be without the pleasures of reading. Since mere are so many other things which depend on reading-like plays, songs and movies—we can expect them to disappear also. It would be a dark and unsatisfying world where knowledge is not propagated; where there ale no books to derive pleasure from.
In the case of music: Without it the world will be bleak and cold indeed. It would be a terrible world with no cheery runes, no songs to sing and no great music to lose ourselves in. A world which does not listen to the music of the great masters like Chopin and Beethoven would be a very sorry world. There will not be so many smiles on faces anymore. When we lose music. an expression of a deep part of ourselves—from the soul—is lost. With music, connected activities like dancing will be lost too. A world without music and dancing will bring US back to the Stone Age.
Unlike radio, television, telephones and computers, reading and music ale not mere conveniences that we can live without. Reading is crucial for self-expression and for passing on records and knowledge to future generations. Music is part of our very soul. A world without these will not be the world as we know it. In fact. many of us would not want to live in such a world.
Music is part of the human psyche because ______.
A.it is part of primitive culture
B.it is something we like to listen to
C.it always strikes a chord with us
D.it has been produced since ancient times
第1题
Born in rude and abject poverty, he never had any education, except what he gave himself, till he was approaching manhood. Not even books wherewith to inform. and train his mind were within his reach. No school, no university, no legal faculty had any part in training his powers. When he became a lawyer and a politician, the years most favourable to continuous study had already passed, and the opportunities he found for reading were very scanty. He knew but few authors in general literature, though he knew those few thoroughly. He taught himself a little mathematics, but he could read no language save his own, and can have had only the faintest acquaintance with European history or with any branch of philosophy.
The want of regular education was not made up for by the persons among whom his lot was cast. Till he was a grown man, he never moved in any society from which he could learn those things with which the mind of an orator to be stored. Even after he had gained some legal practice, there was for many years no one for him to mix with except the petty practitioners of a petty town, men nearly all of whom knew little more than he did himself.
Schools gave him nothing, and society gave him nothing. But he had a powerful intellect and a resolute will. Isolation fostered not only self-reliance but the habit of reflection, and indeed, of prolonged and intense reflection. He made all that he knew a part of himself. His convictions were his own—clear and coherent. He was not positive or opinionated and he did not deny that at certain moments he pondered and hesitated long before he decided on his course. But though he could keep a policy in suspense, waiting for events to guide him, he did not waver. He paused and reconsidered, but it was never his way to go back on a decision once more or to waste time in vain regrets that all he had expected had not been attained. He took advice readily and left many things to his ministers; but he did not lean on his advisers. Without vanity or ostentation, he was always independent, self-contained, prepared to take full responsibility for his acts.
It is said in the second paragraph that Abraham Lincoln ______.
A.was illiterate
B.was never educated
C.was educated very late
D.behaved rudely when he was young
第2题
How to Find Time to Read
Do you want to know how to improve yourself all the time without having to spend more time reading because you get involved in work everyday? Does it sound too good to be true? Well, read on, please.
An Average Reader
If you are an average reader you can read an average book at the rate of 300 words a minute. You cannot maintain that average, however, unless you read regularly every day. Nor can you reach that speed with hard books in science, mathematics, agriculture, business, or any subject that is new or unfamiliar to you. The chances are that you will never attempt that speed with poetry or want to race through some passages in fiction over which you wish to linger. But for most of the novels, biographies, and books about travel, hobbies or personal interests, if you are an average reader you should have no trouble at all in absorbing meaning and pleasure out of 300 printed words every 60 seconds.
Statistics are not always practical, but consider the following: If the average reader can read 300 words a minute of average reading, then in 15 minutes he can read 4 500 words. Multiplied by 7, the days of the week, the product is 315 000. Another multiplication by 12, the months of the year, results in a grand total of 1 512 000 words. That is the total number of words of average reading an average reader can do in just 15 minutes a day for one year.
Books vary in length from 60 000 to 1 000 000 words. The average is about 75 000 words. In one year of average reading by an average reader for 15 minutes a day, 20 books will be read. That's a lot of books. It is 4 times the number of books read by public-library borrowers in America. And yet it is easily possible.
Sir William Osier
One of the greatest of all modern physicians was Sir William Osier. He taught at the Johns Hopkins Medical School He finished his teaching days at McGill University. Many of the out-standing physicians today were his students. Nearly all of the practicing doctors of today were brought up on his medical textbooks. Among his many remarkable contributions to medicine are his unpublished notes on how the people die.
His greatness is attributed by his biographers and critics not alone to his profound medical knowledge and insight but to his broad general education, for he was a very cultured man. He was very interested in what men have done and taught throughout the ages. And he knew that the only way to find out what the best experiences of the race had been was to read what people had written. But Osler's problem was the same as everyone else's, only more so. He was a busy physician, a teacher of physicians, and a medical-research specialist. There was no time in a 4-hour day that did not rightly belong to one of these three occupations, except the few hours for sleep, meals, and bodily functions.
Osler arrived at his solution early. He would read the last 15 minutes before he want to sleep. If bedtime was set for 11:00 Pm, he read from 11:00 to 11:15. If research kept him up to 2:00 AM, he read from 2:00 to 2:15. Over a very long time, Osler never broke the role once he had established it. We have evidence that after a while he simply could not fall asleep until he had done his 15 minutes of reading.
In his lifetime, Osler read a significant library of books. Just do a mental calculation for halfa century of 15-minute reading periods daily and see how many books you get. Consider what a range of interests and variety of subjects are possible in one lifetime. Osler read widely outside of medical specialty. Indeed, he developed from this 15-minute reading habit a vocational specialty to balance his vocational specialization. Among scholars in English literature, Osler is known as an authority on Sir Thomas Browne, seventeenth century English prose master, and Osler's library on Sir Thomas is considered one of t
A.Y
B.N
C.NG
第3题
A.confusion
B.disorder
C.chaos
D.desk
第4题
A.until
B.but
C.though
D.because
第5题
101 . "Frank," he said, "you should start 102 of your life in 103 of months, not years." There was an embarrassing 104 . I looked at my wife. She was 105 a sad smile that seemed to say, " 106 now you know, love."
Experts on the 107 of dying say that terminal patients go 108 stages after hearing their death 109 : denial, anger and, finally, acceptance. I skipped right to acceptance. 110 years of struggling with liver disease which had destroyed my body and confused my 111 , I still had anxiety about dying. 112 it just wasn't my style. to "rage 113 the dying of the light." I preferred to accept it with 114 , the way the heroes of my childhood 115 in books and movies. However, I never imagined that within five weeks a team of surgeons would 116 my diseased liver and 117 it with an organ that only hours before had kept 118 a healthy person whose name I'll never know. I now am learning to live again; learning to 119 life in a new way, 120 way you hold water in your hands, gently.
101.
[A] dead
[B] die
[C] died
[D] dying
102.
[A] regarding
[B] considering
[C] planning
[D] thinking
103.
[A] directions
[B] regards
[C] conditions
[D] terms
104.
[A] silence
[B] quietness
[C] peace
[D] calm
105.
[A] putting on
[B] making up
[C] wearing
[D] showing
106.
[A] Then
[B] Thus
[C] Hence
[D] So
107.
[A] skill
[B] art
[C] time
[D] experience
108.
[A] by
[B] under
[C] through
[D] beyond
109.
[A] announcements
[B] reports
[C] statements
[D] sentences
110.
[A] Before
[B] After
[C] Since
[D] Among
111.
[A] brain
[B] spirits
[C] head
[D] mind
112.
[A] But
[B] And
[C] For
[D] So
113.
[A] on
[B] about
[C] against
[D] for
114.
[A] pleasure
[B] honor
[C] doubt
[D] dignity
115.
[A] would do
[B] did
[C] had
[D] used do
116.
[A] cut out
[B] cut down
[C] cut at
[D] cut
117.
[A] place
[B] substitute
[C] displace
[D] replace
118.
[A] live
[B] living
[C] life
[D] alive
119.
[A] catch
[B] hold
[C] seize
[D] own
120.
[A] a
[B] same
[C] the
[D] as
第7题
selves. Schools, books and teachers are help, but you have to do the work. Only by persevering, industrious efforts can you become well educated
There are two objects in education: first, to develop yourself; second, to gain knowledge. To develop yourself is to strengthen and cultivate your whole being: to improve your memory and reasoning powers; to learn to think and judge correctly; in short, to have yourmind grow, so that you will be better able to do your work in life.
You develop yourself by acquiring an education, thinking about, and using it, for ducation is the food to make your mind grow. To gain knowledge is to leam tacts and methods which will be of use to you in life
There are four sources from which to derive education: from your own observation, from your experience, from the conversation of others, and from study. You can leam much without books and teachers
When you visit a manufactory, examine the machinery; try to leam how the power applied at one point moves levers and wheel until it reaches the part that dose the work Wherever work is going on, be sure to learm how it is done. Study into causes and result. The steam engine came from the boy Watt's watching a boiling teakettle, and thinking about it.
Listen to conversation, you can leam something useful from every one. Every one can teach the best-educated man something. Ask people to tell you of what they have seen and known. Never be ashamed to ask about what you do not understand. A leaned man was asked how he had acquired such a vast amount of knowledge. "By asking information of every one,he answered.
To educate yourself, you must read, study, observer, reflect, reason, and think. Keep your eyes open, and your mind at work.
1. The most appropriate title for this passage would be ().
A、Measures of Developing Oneself
B、Objects in Education
C、Self-education
D、spend time and try hard
2.According to the passage, to develop oneself is all of the following except().
A、having a better memory
B、enhance your reasoning abilities
C、improving the ability to judge correctly
D、acquiring an education
3.According to the passage, which of the following statements is true().
A、To improve yourself is to have your mind grow.
B、You can become well educated only by observing
C、You can only get information through books and teachers
4.It can be inferred from the passage that().
A、formal education is less important than self-education
B、thinking is much more important than knowledge in developing yourself
C、schools and teachers are unnecessary in developing yourself
D、in order to be well educated, you have to spend time and try hard
5.According to the author, a mature mind will enable you to ().
A、learn without books and teachers
B、gain knowledge
C、acquire an education
D、work better in your life
第8题
The main reason that people like their acquaintances in books is () .
A.they are like human friends exactly
B.they never bore us in comparison with our human friends
C.they never hurt our feelings
D.they give human beings friendship, sympathy and encouragement
第9题
Reading is their strongest subject, but I had not realized they had college reading abilities until they were tested.Both children enjoy history more, and my son likes to carry his history book to the grade school, where he attends part time.When his classmates do their grade school history, he pulls out his high school book and works independently from it.Surprisingly, this has also increased his ability to fit into his public school class.He was the youngest child in his class, has some disabilities, including speech disorders, and hadn't been in public school since first grade.He had complained that the public school class he had longed to try was boring, but after I increased his challenges at home, he seemed to adapt better at public school as well, choosing to participate more in the group activities, and making new friends.
36.According to the passage, which of the following belong to learning disability?
A.Being unable to say clearly.
B.Being unable to say anything.
C.Being unable to read anything.
D.Being unable to write anything.
37.Which statement can describe the mother's feeling when she found how excellent her son was in many of his subjects?
A.She is painful
B.She is excited
C.She is surprised
D.She is indifferent(无动于衷)
38.___is the strongest subject for the writer's son.
A .Listening
B.Speaking
C.Writing
D.Reading
39.According to the passage, which statement is NOT true?
A.My son has never been to public school.
B.My son has done well in many of his subjects.
C.It is difficult for those with learning disability to express clearly.
D.It is easy to underestimate the abilities of those with learning disability.
40.What is reason for the mother's underestimating his own son's ability?
A.Because she pays on attention to it.
B.Because the boy shows it in a wrong way.
C.Because the mother has difficulty to understand her son.
D.Because it can be so difficult for them to show what they know.
第10题
完型填空There is an old saying that husbands and wives start to look and behave like each other after a time. I don't know if this was true of my mother and father.Both of my parents had brown hair and brown eyes and low voices. My father, __1__, was eight years older than my mother andtaller and thinner. He was built as straight as an arrow. My mother was shorter and had a rounder and fuller face and she looked as soft as a pillow. My mother was quieter and talked less than my father did. She was also a much more patient person than my father. My father was more experienced in life. He was __2__ to doing everything quickly. My mother, on the other hand, worked and spoke more slowly. They were fond of nature and sports, such as walking, gardening and swimming.
They were both __3__ in reading and music, but my father preferred history books, while my mother liked to read romantic novels. In music, their types were similar, and they were never proud of listening to it.
Most of the time they were in agreement on bringing __4__ their children.They both believed in giving them love and neither one believed in punishing them physically. At times, their personalities were very much alike, but at other times, they seemed very __5__. Perhaps that is why none of their children knows which parent he looks or behaves like.
1.A:however B:interested C:up D:used E:different
2.A:however B:interested C:up D:used E:different
3.A:however B:interested C:up D:used E:different
4.A:however B:interested C:up D:used E:different
5.A:however B:interested C:up D:used E:different
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