[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]Which of the following statement is TRUE according to this passage?

正确答案 ：D

Not only foreigners but also native people wanted to book rooms for Games.

解析：解析：A和B选项与事实不符，属于错误答案；C选项也被否定，原因是文中说北京饭店并不接受提前这么长时间的预订，而只是记下预订人的姓名。D选项可以在文章中找到出处：“... the hotel had already received 50 to 60 such phone calls from would-be game-goers gambling on the result．Domestic callers have mainly come from the southern provinces of Guangdong and Fujian.”

[单选题]Mrs. White's husband tried to ______.

正确答案 ：C

stop her from buying unnecessary things

解析：解析：注意题干上的名词：Her husband在文章中出现的地方，从而可以很容易地找到本题地依据句“Her husband tried again and again to persuade her to give it up，but she just wouldn't listen.”本句话的主要意思为丈夫不让她为了中奖而购买不必要的东西，并不是不让她去商场。所以B选项错误；A和D选项内容在文中没有出现，属于无关信息。

[单选题]Medicine Directions

正确答案 ：G

six tablets a day

解析：解析：本题的依据句为“Do not exceed six tablets in twenty-four hours”，意思为“24小时之内(一天)不能超过6片药”，与C选项意思相符。其他选项在文章中没有出处。

[单选题]Science is still ______ of the causes of many kinds of cancer.

正确答案 ：A

ignorant

解析：解析：ignorant可以指“无学识的，愚昧的”，还指“不知道的”；unconscious意为“失去知觉的，不省人事的；无意识的”；conscious意为“有知觉的，意识到的”；informed意为“获悉，告知”。

[单选题]Guest: Oh, I hadn't realized how late it was. I'm afraid I'll have to be going. Host: Oh, not yet. I'm just going to make some coffee. Guest: ______ , though I'd really love to stay. I've got to be up by six tomorrow morning, unfortunately. Thank you for a wonderful party.

正确答案 ：A

I'm sorry, but I must

解析：解析：主人诚心挽留，客人坚持要走。由于不能接受主人的好意，客人应表示歉意，故而选择A．I'm sorry，but I must比较合理。其他选项使用场合不当。

[单选题]The passage suggests that the early shops for making tools were ______.

正确答案 ：A

not very sophisticated

解析：解析：本题的依据句是“At first，these articles were whittled with a knife，but when pioneer craftsmen set up their primitive shops most of them were fashioned on a lathe--a machine which holds an object and rotates it while it is being shaped by a tool.”在这里，A选项的not very sophisticated 意思为“并不复杂，是简单的”，对应原文中的primitive(原始的，简单的)。其他选项的内容属于无关信息。

[单选题]She got a ______ job while she was waiting to go to the university.

正确答案 ：C

temporary

解析：解析：本句的后半句话给出厂足够的信息，等待上大学之前找的工作肯定是“临时的”(temporary)。

[单选题]Mrs. White is different from her friends who were ______.

正确答案 ：B

not always hopeful

解析：解析：本题题干上的信号词为different和friends，依据句为“Unlike her friends， however，she never lost heart.”其中lose heart =lose hope。此句意为“她从来都是满怀希望，而她的朋友与她不同，并不是经常满怀希望”。

[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)”。

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