The little man was __________ one metre fifty high

A.a few

B. few

C. little

D. a little

__ for the death of the little girl.

(A) accounting (B) guilty (C) responsible (D) obliged

tall.

(A) nearly (B) quite (C) hardly D) almost

tall.

(A) nearly (B) quite (C) hardly (D) almost

.

A) almost more than B) hardly more than

C) nearly more than D) as much as

tongue. The narrator is a woman, a p______ in a taxi whose driver is a Pakistani man e______ to learn English by asking his passengers about new words. Struggling to e______ the meanings of a proverb and an idiom, she realizes how little she really knows about the v______ of her native language and also w______ what kind of answers other, probably equally i______, native passengers might give. In the end she is left hoping that the driver has a d______ and that he will use it to teach himself rather than depend on the native speakers for e______.

find something or other to make him happy, though he may be in tears the next moment. Then look at a man: any one of us will do. You will notice that weeks and months can pass in which every day is greeted with nothing more than resignation, and endured with polite indifference. Indeed, most men are as miserable as sinners, though they are too bored to sin—perhaps their sin is their indifference. But it is true that they so seldom smile, that when they do we do not recognize their face, so distorted it is from the fixed mask we take for granted. And even then a man can not smile like a child, for a child smiles with his eyes, whereas a man smiles with his lips alone. It is not a smile, but a grin: something to do with humor, but little to do with happiness. And then, as anyone can see, there is a point(but who can define that point？)when a man becomes an old man, and then he will smile again. It would seem that happiness is something to do with simplicity, and that it is the ability to extract pleasure from the simplest things such as a peach stone, for instance.

s were received enthusiastically both in England and in the United States. He was, in fact, one of the most successful writers of his time in either country, delighting a large general public and at the same time winning the admiration of fellow writers like Scott in Britain and Poe and Hawthorne in the United States. The respect in which he was held was partly owing to the man himself, with his warm friendliness, his good sense, his politeness, his gay spirits, his artistic integrity, his love of both the Old World and the New World. Thackery described Irving as"a gentleman, who, though himself born in no very high sphere, was most finished, polished, witty; socially the equal of the most refined Europeans". In England he was granted an honorary degree from Oxford—an unusual honor for a citizen of a young, uncultured nation—and he received the medal of the Royal Society of Literature; America made him ambassador to Spain. Irving's background provides little to explain his literary achievements. A gifted but delicate child, he had little schooling. He studied law, but without zeal, and never did practice seriously. He was immune to his strict Presbyterian(长老会教徒的)home environment, frequenting both social gatherings and the theater.

What is the most proper comment on Irving？

A．His works were very popular in England and the United States.

B．He was respected by many fellow writers.

C．He gained international fame by his personality and his works.

D．He is a gentleman.

s are only【C1】______ helps which ignorance assumes in order to【C2】______ politeness, which is the result of good sense and good【C3】______ A person possessed of those qualities, though he had never seen a court, is truly【C4】______ ; and if without them, would continue a clown,【C5】______ he had been all his life a gentleman usher. He who【C6】______ airs of importance exhibits his credentials (证明)of【C7】______ . There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world to get a good name, or to 【C8】______ the want of it. Good manners are a part of good morals, and it is【C9】______ much our duty as our interest to practice in both. Good manners are the art of making those around us easy.【C10】______ makes the fewest persons【C11】______ is the best bred man in the company. Good manners should begin at home. A person【C12】______ appears so ridiculous by the qualities he has, as by those he【C13】______ to have. He gains more by being【C15】______ to be seen as he is, than by attempting to appear【C14】______ he is not. Good manners is the result of much good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial, for the【C16】______of others, and with a view to obtain the same indulgence from them. "【C17】______ make the man," says the proverb. It may be true that some men's man hers have been the making of them;【C18】______ as manners are rather the expression of the man, it would be more【C19】______ to say the man makes the manners. Social courtesies should arise from the heart; the worth of manners consists【C20】______ being the sincere expressions of feelings.

【C1】

A．artificial

B．provincial

C．controversial

D．substantial

art of it, they may cheer themselves by remembering that life need not resemble closely the life that exists on Earth. Mars looks like the only planet where life like ours could exist, and even this is doubtful. But there may be other kinds of life based on other kinds of chemistry, and they may multiply on Venus or Jupiter. At least we cannot prove at present that they do not.

Even more interesting is the possibility that life on their planets may be in a more advanced stage of evolution. Present-day man is in a peculiar and probably temporary stage. His individual units retain a strong sense of personality. They are, in fact, still capable under favorable circumstances of leading individual lives. But man's societies are already sufficiently developed to have enormously more power and effectiveness

than the individuals have.

It is not likely that this transitional situation will continue very long on the evolutionary time scale. Fifty thousand year's from now man's societies may have become so close-knit that the individuals retain no sense of separate personality. Then little distinction will remain between the organic parts of the multiple organism and the inorganic parts (machines) that have been constructed by it. A million years further on man and his machines may have merged as closely as the muscles of the human body and nerve cells that set them in motion.

The explorers of space should be prepared for some' such situation. If they arrive on a foreign planet that has reached an advanced stage (and this is by no means impossible), they may find it being inhabited by a single large organism composed of many closely cooperating units.

The units may be "secondary"-machines created millions of years ago by a previous form. of life and given the will and ability to survive and reproduce. They may be built entirely of metals and other durable materials. If this is the case, they may be much more tolerant of their environment, multiplying under conditions that would destroy immediately any organism made of carbon compounds and dependent on the familiar car bon cycle.

Such creatures might be relics of a past age, many millions of years ago, when their planet was favorable to the origin of life, or they might be immigrants from a favored planet.

Humans on Earth today are characterized by______.

A．their existence as free and separate beings

B．their capability of living under favorable conditions

C．their great power and effectiveness

D．their strong desire for living in a close-knit society