The whole country were ______ at so many people’s death.

a cottage 【26】______ a river in the heart of the country 【27】______ the whole family was going to 【28】______ a three-week holiday. There were four of us: me, Mum and Dad, and Mum's sister, Auntie June. Oh, and I mustn't forget to 【29】______ . Spot, our little dog. I was 【30】______ to go off by myself all day, 【31】______ I promised to be careful and took Spot with me for 【32】______ .

One day I was out fishing with Spot when we heard a lot of shouting in the 【33】______ followed by a scream and splash. I was a bit 【34】______ so I called Spot and we both hid 【35】______ a bush where we could see but not be 【36】______ . After a few moments, a straw hat came drifting down the river, followed by an oar, a picnic basket and 【37】______ oar. Then came the rowing boat itself, but it was 【38】______ upside down! A few seconds later my dad and Auntie June came running 【39】______ the river bank, both wet 【40】______ . Spot started barking so I came out of hiding and said hello. My dad got really angry 【41】______ me for not trying to catch the boat as it went past. Luckily, 【42】______ , the boat and both the oars had been caught by an overhanging tree a little further downstream, but not the hat or picnic basket. So I had to let them 【43】______ my sandwiches. Dad and Auntie June both made me 【44】______ not to tell Mum what had happened 【45】______ she would be worried.

【26】

A．on

B．across

C．in

D．by

be what we now have to call—lamely, enviously—whole persons. If it did occur to the Greeks to distinguish between a person's "inside" and "outside," they still expected that inner beauty would be matched by beauty of the other kind. The well-born young Athenians who gathered around Socrates found it quite paradoxical that their hero was so intelligent, so brave, so honorable, so seductive—and so ugly. One of Socrates' main pedagogical acts was to be ugly—and teach those innocent, no doubt splendid-looking disciples of his how full of paradoxes life really was.

2 They may have resisted Socrates' lesson. We do not. Several thousand years later, we are more wary of the enchantments of beauty. We not only split off—with the greatest facility—the "inside"(character, intellect) from the "outside" (looks); but we are actually surprised when someone who is beautiful is also intelligent, talented, good.

3 It was principally the influence of Christianity that deprived beauty of the central place it had in classical ideals of human excellence. By limiting excellence (virtus in Latin) to moral virtue only, Christianity set beauty adrift—as an alienated, arbitrary, superficial enchantment. And beauty has continued to lose prestige. For close to two centuries it has become a convention to attribute beauty to only one of the two sexes, the sex which, however fair, is always Second. Associating beauty with women has put beauty even further on the defensive, morally.

4 A beautiful woman, we say in English, but a handsome man. "Handsome" is the masculine equivalent of—and refusal of—a compliment which has accumulated certain demeaning overtones, by being reserved for women only. That one can call a man "beautiful" in French and in Italian suggests that Catholic countries—unlike those countries shaped by the Protestant version of Christianity—still retain some vestiges of the pagan admiration for beauty. But the difference, if one exists, is of degree only. In every modern country that is Christian or post-Christian, women are the beautiful sex—to the detriment of the notion of beauty as well as of women.

The author means ______ by "whole persons" in Para.

A．persons of beauty

B．persons of virtue

C．persons of excellence

D．none of the above

A.Whole

B.The whole

C.The whole of

D.The ail of

ew cars have been sold in India in the last twelve months, and about twice that many used cars have been traded

The country' s 35 million motorcycles and scooters make it the world s largest two-wheel market.But because there are still big differences in people' s incomes, the roads are full of a whole variety of vehicles, lots of them not motorised

A ride with a taxi driver in New Delhi gives a flavour of a typical Indian-style. traffic jam with all kinds of vehicles held up in city streets or in long lines on narrow country lanes Cars, lorries and buses back up behind a cart pul led by or animal or another."India has everything on the roads."the taxi driver says."You have to watch out for pedestrian

bicycles, carts, cows, donkeys and even elephants.Three things were recommended to drive here, a horn, brakes and good luck Just then we were stopped by a young boy and his cow.(判断正误)

26.The number of second-hand cars traded in the last twelve months is 1, 400, 000.()

27.Because there are 35 million people in India.India is the world’ s largest two- wheeled market.()

28.Because the amount of money that people earn is so different there are so many different types of vehicles in India.()

29.Because the roads are very bad, motor vehicles often held up in India.()

30.The brakes.the horn and luck are three important things in India.()

The whole world looks upon the rapid(economy). ______ development of our country as a great wonder.

ng record ofdedicated public service.

The whole country was in __________ over the result of the elections.

A. suspension

B. suspense

C. suspending

D. suspender

A.respectful

B.respectable

C.respective

D.respecting