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1、B. Religion is a reflection of ignorance.C. Religion is not only confined to the Christian categories.D. Religion includes all kinds of activities.2. What does the word “observance” probably convey in Para. 1?A. noticeB. watchingC. conformityD. experience3. According to the passage what people gener

2、ally consider religion to be?A. Fantastic observanceB. Spiritual practiceC. Individual observance of traditionD. A complex of activities4. Which of the following is not true?A. It is believed by some that religion should be what it ought to be.B. “The path of enlightenment” is a definition that the

3、author doesnt agree to.C. According to the author, the committed believers define religion improperly.D. The author doesnt speak in favor of the definition of “the sacred”.5. Which of the following is religion according to the passage?A. Performance of human beings.B. Buddha, monotheism and some tri

4、bal tradition.C. Practice separated from culture.D. All the above.Merchant and passenger ships are generally required to have a life preserver for every person aboard and, in many cases, a certain percentage of smaller sizes for children. According to United States Coast Guard requirements, life pre

5、servers must be simple in design, reversible, capable of being quickly adjusted to fit the uninitiated individual, and must be so designed as to support the wearer in the water in an upright or slightly backward position.Sufficient buoyancy （浮力） to support the wearer should be retained by the life p

6、reserver after 48 hour in the water, and it should be reliable even after long period of storage. Thus it should be made of materials resistant to sunlight, gasoline, and oils, and it should be not easily set on fire.The position in which the life preserver will support a person who jumps or falls i

7、nto the water is most important, as is its tendency to turn the wearer in the water from a face-down position to an upright or slightly backward position, with his face clear of the water, even when the wearer is exhausted or unconscious.The method of adjustment to the body should be simple, and sel

8、f-evident to uninitiated persons even in the dark under the confused conditions which follow a disaster. Thus, the life preserver should be reversible, so that it is nearly impossible to set it on wrong. Catches, straps, and ties should be kept to a minimum. In addition, the life preserver must be a

9、djustable to the wide variety of shapes and sizes of wearers, since this greatly affects the position of floating and the self-righting qualities. A suitable life preserver should also be comfortable to wear at all times, in and out of the water, not so heavy as to encourage to take it off on shipbo

10、ard while the ship is in danger, nor so burdensome that it hinders a person in the water while trying to swim.6.The passage is mainly about _.A） the uses of life preserversB） the design of life preserversC） the materials for life preserversD） the buoyancy of life preservers7.According to the passage

11、, a life preserver should be first of all, _.A） adjustableB） comfortableC） self-evidentD） self-righting8.United States Coast Guard does NOT require the life preserver to the made _.A） with as few strings as possibleB） capable of being worn on both sidesC） according to each wearers sizeD） comfortable

12、 and light to wear9.By “the uninitiated individual” （Para. 1, line 6） the author refers to the person _.A） who has not been instructed how to use a life preserverB） who has a little experience in using a life preserverC） who uses a life preserver without permissionD） who becomes nervous before a dis

13、aster10.What would happen if a person were supported by the life preserver in a wrong position?A） The waves would move him backwards.B） The water would choke him.C） He would immediately sink to the bottom.D） He would be exhausted or unconscious.A hundred years ago it was assumed and scientifically “

14、proved” by economists that the laws of society made it necessary to have a vast army of poor and jobless people in order to keep the economy going. Today, hardly anybody would dare to voice this principle. It is generally accepted that nobody should be excluded from the wealth Western industrialized

15、 countries, a system of insurance has been introduced which guarantees everyone a minimum of subsistence （生活维持费） in case of unemployment, sickness and old age. I would go one step further and argue that, even if these conditions are not present, everyone has the right to receive the means to subsist

16、 （维持生活）, in other words, he can claim this subsistence minimum without having to have any “reason”. I would suggest, however, that it should be limited to a definite period of time, lets say two years, so as to avoid the encouraging of an abnormal attitude which refused any kind of social obligation

17、.This may sound like a fantastic proposal, but so, I think, our insurance system would have sounded to people a hundred years ago. The main objection to such a scheme would be that if each person were entitled to receive minimum support, people would not work. This assumption rests on the fallacy of

18、 the inherent laziness in human nature, actually, aside from abnormally lazy people, there would be very few who would not want to earn more than the minimum, and who would prefer to do nothing rather than work.However, the suspicions against a system of guaranteed subsistence minimum are not ground

19、less, from the standpoint of those who want to use ownership of capital for the purpose of forcing others to accept the work conditions they offer. If nobody were forced to accept work in order not to starve, work would have to be sufficiently interesting and attractive to induce one to accept it. F

20、reedom of contract is possible only if both parties are free to accept and reject it; in the present capitalist system this is not the case.But such a system would not only be the beginning of real freedom of contract between employers and employees, its principal advantage would be the improvement

21、of freedom in inter-personal relationships in every sphere of daily life.11.People used to think that poverty and unemployment were due to _.A） the slow development of the economyB） the poor and jobless peoples own faultsC） the lack of responsibility on the part of societyD） the large number of peop

22、le who were not well-educated12.Now it is widely accepted that _.A） the present system of social insurance should be improvedB）everybody should be granted a minimum of subsistence without any “reason”C） everybody has the right to share in the wealth of the countryD） people have to change their attitude towards the poor13.The writer argues that a system of social insurance should _.A） provide benefits for the sick, old and unemployedB） encourage people to take on more social obligationsC） guarantee everyone the right to be employedD） provide every