[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]What matters ______ not winning but participating.

正确答案 ：D

is

解析：解析：此句很可能考句子主语，又因出现动词matter，因此，主语极可能为一主语从句。如主语为名词性从句，谓语动词一般用单数。

[单选题]He was not as active as I had ______him to be.

正确答案 ：D

expected

解析：解析：not as... as意为“和……不像”；recognize意为“认出”；inspect意为“检察，视察”；object是：反对(做某事)”；expect意为“期望，预期”。

[单选题]What is this report mainly about?

正确答案 ：A

Phone inquires about hotel bookings for the 2008 Olympic Games.

解析：解析：这是一个典型的大意理解题，其依据句就是文章的主题句，一般位于文章的开头。本文的主题句就是第一个句子“Beijing's top hotels are fielding scores of calls from foreigners and Chinese people eager to book rooms during the 2008 Olympic Games in the Chinese capital.”与A选项内容相符和。其他的选项内容并不是本文的主题，而只是细节信息或无关信息。

[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]Tom: You are playing guitar well. Can you read music? Charles: No, I don't. I just listen to songs on the radio and then play them until they sound right. Tom: ______ Charles: No, really.

正确答案 ：D

You're kidding

解析：解析：Tom对Charles不识乐谱也能弹得一手好吉他感到难以置信，这种情况下一般说 You're kidding或You're joking，意思是：“你在开玩笑吧!”或“这不是真的!”。其他几个选项分别表示“撒谎”、“吹嘘”、“欺骗”，都不恰当。

[单选题]When the manager told her that she was the lucky customer, Mrs. White would be ______.

正确答案 ：C

rather sad

解析：解析：本题为一道推理题。由于仅仅是她忘买的茶是免费的，其价值不值一提，所以她应该感到失望。

[单选题]Beijing's top hotels are fielding scores of calls from foreigners and Chinese people eager to book rooms during the 2008 Olympic Games in the Chinese capital. The luxurious and recently-renovated Beijing Hotel said it had received nearly 100 telephone inquiries from people wanting to book rooms during the Games since Beijing won its bid to host the event. "Out of these people, foreigners make up 30 to 40 per cent, including people calling from the United States and Europe," a hotel sales manager surnamed Song said.

正确答案 ：D

The 2008 Olympic Games will be hold there.

解析：解析：本题的依据句是文章的第一个句子“Beijing's top hotels are fielding scores of calls from foreigners and Chinese people eager to book rooms during the 2008 Olympic Games in the Chinese capital.”其他个别选项尽管涉及了第一段的内容，但都是类似于举例说明的细节信息，与本题的问题没有必然的因果关系。

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

正确答案 ：A

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。

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