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Why so few people are left-handed ______.
A．has nothing to do with heredity
B．is not known by scientists
C．has little to do with the working of their brains
D．is that left-handers are mainly twins
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Few people experience this type of lifelong relationship or sense of community togetherness now. The American society is much more unsettled now; people often move from neighborhood to neighborhood, city to city, and coast to coast. It is rare to find people who have lived all their lives in one community. Because people move so frequently, they do not have a chance to get to know their neighbors. Perhaps this is also why Americans tend to have a more casual attitude about friendships than people from some other cultures; Americans are accustomed to leaving friends and making new friends. In such an impersonal society, people have lost the habit of saying hello to people they pass on the streets or in the hallways of their apartment buildings.
What is described in the first paragraph？
A．Entertainment in small towns.
B．Americans' adjustment to a moving society.
C．The life style. of Americans in the past.
D．Personal relations in small communities.
Why are there so many houses left untended？
A．Property market is plunging sharply.
B．They are foreclosed and banks and mortgage companies that seize properties do not intend to tend them.
C．High fees are needed in tending houses.
D．Owners do not live there temporarily.
Ⅲ. Cloze (20 points)
Directions: For each blank in the following passage, there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that is most suitable and mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the answer sheet.
Americans are proud of their variety and individuality, yet they love and respect few things more than a uniform, whether it is the (21) of an elevator operator or the uniform. of a five-star general. Why are uniforms so (22) in the United States？
Among the arguments (23) uniforms, one of the first is that in the eyes of most people they look more (24) than civilian clothes. People have become conditioned to expect (25) quality from a man who wears a uniform. The television repairman who wears a uniform (26) to inspire more trust than one who appears in (27) clothes.
Uniforms also have many practical benefits. They save on other clothes. They (28) on laundry bills.
Uniforms also give (29) to some practical problems. Though they are long lasting, often their initial expense is (30) than the cost of civilian clothes. Some uniforms are also expensive to maintain, requiring professional dry cleaning rather than the home laundering possible with many types of civilian clothes.
21. A. clothing
B. costume
C. uniform
D. cloth
To think about the question, it is important to understand why organisms-people【8】-age in the first place. People are like machines: they【9】That much is obvious. However, a machine can always be【10】A good mechanic with a stock of spare parts can keep it going【11】. Eventually, no part of the【12】may remain, but it still carries on, like Lincoln's famous axe that had three new handles and two new blade.
The question, of course, is whether the machine is worth【13】. It is here that people and nature【14】. Or, to put it slightly【15】, two bits of nature disagree with each other. From the individual's point of view,【16】is an imperative. You cannot reproduce unless you are alive. A fear of death is a sensible evolved response and, since【17】is a sure way of dying, it is no surprise that people want to stop it in its tracks. Moreover, even the appearance of ageing can be【18】. It【19】the range of potential sexual partners who find you attractive-since it is a sign that you are not going to be【20】all that long to help bring up baby-and thus, again, curbs your reproduction.
(1)
A．short
B．long
C．shorter
D．longer
Are you superstitious？ No, of course not. Do you believe in magic (魔法), and luck charms (护身符), and elves or gremlins (小精灵) ？ Certainly not, but if I should greet you with the usual How's business？" You'll answer "Oh, just so-so" although your business is profiting greatly. When you are successful in some venture you might say you were just lucky. And yet, you know it was probably due to your a bility and hard work. Why？ Sometimes you knock on wood because wood was once a tree and there is a primitive belief that protective gods inhabit trees and knocking on wood attracts their attention so they may be credited with your successes.
If I should sneeze, only the strongest of you could refrain(克制而不) from saying "God bless you". Why bless this unsanitary (不讲究卫生的) habit？ Our ancestors believed that a sneeze opened the body to invasion by devils, and invoking (召唤) the name of God made the devils get out in a hurry. You may not realize it, but you express this same "devil invasion" when you say, "Whatever can have gotten into that child？" or "I wonder what possessed me to do that？"
Although they may no longer be believed, evidences of superstitions that have had their origins in the primitive fear of the unknown still exist in modern language and gestures.
The author ______.
A．believe that most people are superstitious
B．believe that very few people are superstitious
C．believes that there are still some evidences of superstitions in what we say and what we do
D．is superstitious
A．glance
B．glimpse
C．look
D．sight
You might suppose that the more of rights you campaign for the better. Why not add pressing social and economic concerns to stuffy old political rights such as free speech and free elections？ What use is a vote if you are starving？ Are not access to jobs, housing, health care and food basic rights too？ No: few rights are truly universal, and letting them multiply weakens them.
Food, jobs and housing are certainly necessities, but there's no use to call them "rights". When a government looks someone up without a fair trial, the victim, perpetrator and remedy are pretty clear. This clarity seldom applies to social and economic "rights". Who should be educated in which subjects for how long at what cost in taxpayers' money is a political question best settled at the ballot box(投票箱). And no economic system known to man guarantees a proper job for everyone all the time.
It is hardly an accident that the countries keenest to use the language of social and economic rights tend to be those that show least respect for rights of the traditional sort. And it could not be further from the truth. For people in the poor world, as for people everywhere, the most reliable method yet invented to ensure that governments provide people with social and economic necessities are called politics. That is why the rights that make open polities possible—free speech, due process, protection from arbitrary punishment—are so precious. Insisting on their enforcement is worth more than any number of grandiloquent but unenforceable declarations demanding jobs, education and housing for all.
Many do-gooding outfits suffer from having too broad a focus and too narrow a base. Amnesty used to appeal to people of all political persuasions and none, and concentrate on a hard core of well-defined basic liberties. However, by trying in recent years to borrow moral authority from the campaigns and leaders of the past and lend it to the cause of social reform, Amnesty has succeeded only in muffling what was once its central message, at the very moment when governments in the West need to hear it again.
The human-rights organizations are no longer so influential in that ______
A．freedom has been realized in most countries.
B．they have changed their traditional goals.
C．social and economic rights are more important than political ones.
D．western governments prevent them from speaking out.
Things grow in Miggi's garden all through the year. He cuts some flowers for his sitting room table; and of course, he eats some fruits and vegetables. But he sells everything else in the market, Miggi is not a poor man.
He knows a few other gardeners; but he does not have any friends. You might ask, "What is that？ Why doesn't he have friend？" I will tell you. People do not understand him. And they do not understand his garden. "Why not？" you will ask. "It's a very good garden, isn't it？" It is a wonderful garden. Miggi plants things in spring, summer, autumn and winter. After that he does very little work. He sits in the garden with his small radio. And eve rything grows.
People ask, "How does Miggi grow these wonderful things？ He waters the plants some- times, but he doesn't do anything else. He just sits under an orange tree with his radio. He listens to music nearly all day!" and that is all quite true. People cannot understand it, and so they don't like it very much.
Miggi likes music. But what about the garden？ Who does the work？ I will tell you an- other true thing: the music does the work. All plants love music; and Miggi knows that. Do you want big vegetables and the loveliest flowers？ Well, just give your plants a lot of music.
Miggi makes a living by______.
A．selling his vegetables, fruits and flowers
B．growing trees in his garden
C．working in the market
D．helping other people grow plants
By “But to...it is not so”(Line 7) the author implies that _____.
［A］ most people are just followers of new ideas
［B］ even sound minds may commit silly errors
［C］ the popularly supported may be erroneous
［D］ nobody is immune to the influence of errors
A.A.
B.B.most
C.C.minority
D.D.majority
E.E.lot
