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1、 careful drivers give weight to care, skilled drivers give weight to skill, and those who are polite give weight to courtesy,” This way everyone ranks high on his own scale.Perhaps the most important mental habit we can learn is to be cautious （谨慎的） in drawing conclusions. The “evidence” of everyday

2、 life is sometimes misleading.21. In the first paragraph the author states that _.A） dreams cannot be said to be prophetic even though a few have come trueB） dreams are prophetic because some of them did come trueC） dreams may come true if clearly rememberedD） dreams and reality are closely related（

3、A）22. By “things like.” “happen in threes” （Para. 3, Line 2）, the author indicates that people believe _.A） personal misfortunes tend to happen every now and thenB） personal misfortunes, plane crashes, and deaths usually happen togetherC） misfortunes tend to occur according to certain patternsD） mis

4、fortunes will never occur more than three times to a person in his lifetime（C）23. Ten word “courtesy” （Para. 4, line 6） probably means _.A） good mannersB） appropriate speechC） friendly relationsD） satisfactory service（A）24. What can be inferred from the passage? _.A） Happenings that go unnoticed des

5、erve more attention.B） In a series of misfortunes the third one is usually the most serious.C） People tend to make use of evidence that supports their own beliefs.D） Believers of misfortunes happening in threes are cautious in interpreting events.（A）25. It can be concluded from the passage that _.A）

6、 there is some truth even in the wildest dreamsB） one should take notice of other peoples meritsC） there is no order or pattern in world eventsD） we should not base our conclusions on accidental evidence（D）Passage TwoQuestions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.It has been thought and said

7、that Africans are born with musical talent. Because music is so important in the lives of many Africans and because so much music is performed in Africa, we are inclined to think that Africans are musicians. The impression is strengthened when we look at ourselves and find that we have become largel

8、y a society of musical spectators （旁观）. Music is important to us, but most of us can be considered consumers rather than producers of music. We have records, television, concerts, and radio to fulfill many of our musical needs. In most situations where music is performed in our culture it is not dif

9、ficult to distinguish the audience from the performers, but such is often not the case in Africa. Alban Ayipaga, a Kasena semiprofessional musician from northern Ghana, says that when his flute （长笛） and drum ensemble （歌舞团） is performing. “Anybody can take part”. This is true, but Kasena musicians re

10、cognize that not all people are equally capable of taking part in the music. Some can sing along with the drummers, but relatively few can drum and even fewer can play the flute along with the ensemble. It is fairly common in Africa for there to be an ensemble of expert musicians surrounded by other

11、s who join in by clapping, singing, or somehow adding to the totality of musical sound. Performances often take place in an open area （that is, not on a stage） and so the lines between the performing nucleus and the additional performers, active spectators, and passive spectators may be difficult to

12、 draw from our point of view.26. The difference between us and Africans, as far as music is concerned, is that _.A） most of us are consumers while most of them are producers of musicB） we are musical performers and they are semiprofessional musiciansC） most of us are passive spectators while they ar

13、e active spectatorsD） we are the audience and they are the additional performers（C）27. The word “such” （Line 6） refers to the fact that _.A） music is performed with the participation of the audienceB） music is performed without the participation of the audienceC） people tend to distinguish the audie

14、nce from the performersD） people have records, television sets and radio to fulfill their musical needs（B）28. The author of the passage implies that _.A） all Africans are musical and therefore much music is performed in AfricaB） not all Africans are born with musical talent although music is importa

15、nt in their livesC） most Africans are capable of joining in the music by playing musical instrumentsD） most Africans perform as well as professional musicians（B）29. The word “nucleus” （Line 13） probably refers to _.A） musicians famous in AfricaB） musicians at the center of attentionC） musicians acti

16、ng as the core in a performanceD） active participants in a musical performance（D）30. The best title for this passage would be _.A） The Importance of Music to African PeopleB） Differences Between African Music and Music of Other CountriesC） The Relationship Between Musicians and Their AudienceD） A Ch

17、aracteristic Feature of African Musical Performances（D）Passage ThreeQuestions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.Most people would agree that, although our age exceeds all previous ages in knowledge, there has been no corresponding increase in wisdom. But Agreement ceases as soon as we atte

18、mpt to define “wisdom” and consider means of promoting it.There are several factors that contribute to wisdom. Of these I should put first a sense of proportion: the capacity to take account of all the important factors in a problem and to attach to each its due weight. This has become more difficul

19、t than it used to be owing to the extent and complexity of the special knowledge required of various kinds of technicians. Suppose, for example, that you are engaged in research in scientific medicine. The work is difficult and is likely to absorb the whole of your mind. You have no time to consider

20、 the effect which your discoveries or inventions may have outside the field of medicine. You succeed （let us say） as modern medicine has succeeded, in enormously lowering the infant death-rate, not only in Europe and America, but also in Asia and Africa. This has the entirely unintended result of ma

21、king the food supply inadequate and lowing the standard of life in the parts of the world that have the greatest populations. To take an even more dramatic example, which is in everybodys mind at the present time; you study the makeup of the atom from a disinterested （无利害关系的） desire for knowledge, a

22、nd by chance place in the hands of a powerful mad man the means of destroying the human race.Therefore, with every increase of knowledge and skill, wisdom becomes more necessary, for every such increase augments （增强） our capacity for realizing our purposes, and therefore augments our capacity for ev

23、il, if our purpose are unwise.31. Disagreement arises when people try to decide _.A） how much more wisdom we have now than beforeB） what wisdom is and how to develop itC） if there is a great increase of wisdom in our ageD） whether wisdom can be developed or not（B）32. According to the author, “wisdom

24、” is the ability to _.A） carefully consider the bad effects of any kind of research workB） give each important problem some careful considerationC） acquire a great deal of complex and special knowledgeD） give suitable consideration to all the possible elements in a problem（D）33. Lowering the infant

25、death-rate may _.A） prove to be helpful everywhere in the worldB） give rise to an increase in population in EuropeC） cause food shortages in Asia and AfricaD） raise the living standard of the people in Africa（C）34. The author uses the examples in the passage to illustrate his point that _.A） its ext

26、remely difficult to consider all the important elements in problemB） success in medical research has its negative effectsC） scientists may unknowingly cause destruction to the human raceD） its unwise to be totally absorbed in research in scientific medicine（A）35. What is the main idea of the passage

27、?A） It is unwise to place the results of scientific research in the hands of a powerful mad man.B） The more knowledge one has, the wiser one becomes.C） Any increase of knowledge could lead to disastrous results without the guidance of wisdom.D） Wisdom increases in proportion to ones age.（C）Passage FourQuestions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.For any given task in Britain there are more men than are needed. Strong union