[单选题]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.

正确答案 ：C

length

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。

[单选题]All the firemen in the city were ______to fight against the big fire.

正确答案 ：C

called up

解析：解析：called in意为“回收”；called off意为“取消”；called up 意为“召集，打电话，使人想起”；called on意为“访问(某人)”。

[单选题]Connie: Are you doing pottery? It looks like fun! Frank: ______ ? Connie: Boy, would I? Thanks.

正确答案 ：D

Would you like to try it

解析：解析：从Connie的惊喜反应到致谢，可以推断Frank可能给她机会试一试，其他选项与 Connie的反应不相符。

[单选题]At the foot of the mountain ______.

正确答案 ：A

stood a village

解析：解析：当句首状语是表示地点、处所的介词短语时，要引起全部倒装。D选项的错误在于其单词后没有加s。

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

正确答案 ：A

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。

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