正确答案: C

length

题目：Most of the people who appear most often and most gloriously in the history books are great conquerors and generals and soldiers, whereas the people who really helped civilization forward are often never mentioned at all. We do not know who first set a broken leg, or launched a seaworthy boat, or calculated the【31】of the year, or manured a field; but we know【32】about the killers and destroyers. People think a great deal of them, so【33】so that on all the highest pillars in the great cities of the world you will find the figure of a conqueror or a general or a soldier. And I think most people believe that the greatest countries are【34】that have beaten in battle the greatest number of other countries and ruled over them as conquerors. It is just possible they are,【35】they are not the most civilized. Animals fight; so do savages; hence to be good at fighting is to be good in the way in【36】an animal or a savage is good, but it is not to be civilized. Even being good at getting other people to fight for you and【37】them how to do it most efficiently — this, after all, is【38】conquerors and generals have done -- is not being civilized. People fight to settle quarrels. Fighting means killing, and civilized peoples ought to be able to find some way of settling their disputes other【39】by seeing which side can kill off the greater number of other side, and then【40】that that side which has killed most has won.

解析：解析：length of the year意思为“一年的天数(时间长度)”；其他选项意思与语境不相符合。

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[单选题]We can infer by this label that ______.

the medicine could cause some people to feel nervous

解析：解析：B和C选项的内容与原文不符，属于错误信息；D选项内容也不正确，这种药为tablet意思为“药片”，本身并不是液体。A选项的内容可以由短文的最后一个句子“Reduce dosage if nervousness，restlessness，or sleeplessness occurs.”所确认。

[单选题]Jim: I have a pair of tickets for an opera Saturday night. Would you like to go? Cindy: I don't think so. ______.

I'm not too wild about opera

解析：解析：be wild about something表示“对……极为热衷”，符合题意；B．I'm not too interested about opera．介词搭配不对；C．I'm not very excited about opera．和D．I'm not very anxious about opera．语义不符。