Dr. Wilson didn’t want to go on with being a teacher of biology, so he changed his job and became a consultant for a farm.（）

A.be

B.being

C.to be

D.with being

Mr. Wilson said that he did not want to______ any further responsibilities.

A．take on

B．get on

C．put up

D．look up

Mr. Wilson said that he did not want to ________ any further responsibilities.

A) take on

B) get on

C) put up

D) look up

A.take on

B.get on

C.putup

D.look up

the free enterprise system is the most efficient economic system. Maximum freedom means maximum productiveness; our "openness" is to be the measure of our stability. Fascination with this ideal has made Americans defy the "Old World" categories of settled possessiveness versus unsettling deprivation, a "status quo" defended or attacked.

The United States, it was believed, had no status quo ante. Our only "station" was the turning of a stationary wheel, spinning faster and faster. We did not base our system on property but opportunity—which meant we based it not on stability but on mobility. The more things changed, that is, the more rapidly the wheel turned, the steadier we would be. The conventional picture of class politics is composed of the Haves, who want a stability to keep what they have, and the Have-Nots, who want a touch of instability and change in which to scramble for the things they have not. But Americans imagined a condition in which speculators, self-makers, runners are always using the new opportunities given by our land. These economic leaders (front-runners) would thus be mainly agents of change. The nonstarters were considered the ones who wanted stability, a strong referee to give them some position in the race, a regulative hand to calm manic speculation; an authority that can call things to a halt, begin things again from compensatorily staggered "starting lines."

"Reform" in America has been sterile because it can imagine no change except through the extension of this metaphor of a race, wider inclusion of competitors, "a piece of the action," as it were, for the disenfranchised. There is no attempt to call off the race. Since our only stability is change, America seems not to honor the quiet work that achieves social interdependence and stability. There is, in our legends, no heroism of the office clerk, no stable industrial work force of the people who actually make the system work. There is no pride in being an employee (Wilson asked for a return to the time when everyone was an employer). There has been no boasting about our social workers--they are merely signs of the system's failure, of opportunity denied or not taken, of things to be eliminated. We have no pride in our growing interdependence, in the fact that our system can serve others, that we are able to help those in need; empty boasts from the past make us ashamed of our present achievements, make us try to forget or deny them, move away from them. There is no honor but in the Wonderland race we must all run, all trying to win, none winning in the end (for there is no end).

Which of the following best expresses the author's main point？

A．The absence of a status quo ante has undermined United States economic structure.

B．The free enterprise system has been only a useless concept in the United States.

C．The myth of the American free enterprise system is seriously flawed.

D．Fascination with the ideal of "openness" has made Americans a progressive people.

ystudents, 15-year-old Mikey, gave me a note from his mother. It explained his absence (缺席)from class the day before. "Dear Mr. McCort, Mikeys grandmother, who is eighty years of age, fell down the stairsfrom too much coffee and I kept Mikey at home to take care of her and his baby sister so I could goto my job. Please excuse Mikey and hell do his best in the future. P.S. His grandmother is OK. "I had seen Mikey writing the note at his desk. I said nothing. Most parental-excuse notes Ireceived were penned by my students. If I were to deal with them, Id be busy 24 hours a day. Thewriters of those notes didnt realize that honest excuse notes were usually dull: "Peter was late be-cause the alarm clock didnt go off." The students always said it was hard putting 200 words together on any subject, but when theyproduced excuse notes, they were excellent. So I decided to type out a dozen excuse notes and gavethem to my classes. I said, "Theyre supposed to be written by parents, but actually they are not.true, Mikey？" The students looked at me nervously. "Now, this will be the first class to study the art of the excuse note -the first class, ever, topractice writing them. " Everyone smiled as I went on, "Today Id like you to write An ExcuseNote from Adam to God or An Excuse Note from Eve to God. " Heads went down. Pens racedacross paper. For the first time ever I saw students so immersed (专心的) in their writing, theyhad to be asked to go to lunch by their friends. The next day everyone had excuse notes. Heated discussions followed. But suddenly I saw theheadmaster at the door. He entered the classroom and walked up and down, looking at papers, andthen said, "Id like you to see me in my office." My heart sank. When I stepped into his office, he came to shake my hand and said, "I just want to tell youthat that lesson, that task, whatever the hell you were doing, was great. Those kids were writingon the college level. Thank you." 根据材料请回答下列各 How did the author know that most parental-excuse notes were written by students themselves？

A.The excuse notes were written in dull words.

B.The notes were more like stories than facts.

C.He called their parents and found out the truth.

D.The handwriting obviously looked like childrens.

Though he works hard, but he didnt pass the exam.（改错题)