4. His life hangs on a thread.

the academic sphere. We're told that it's 【C1】______ to compel boys with no athletic 【C2】______ to spend hours of misery on the playground, when, if 【C3】______ to themselves, they would occupy their time far more usefully in some 【C4】______ hobby. The 【C5】______ to this argument, no doubt, 【C6】______ the simple assumption that every non-athlete has some good hobby. It's not true; 【C7】______ even if it were, other hobbies are no substitute for being out, exercising the muscles and having 【C8】______ with our human beings.

【C9】______ the youthful idolizing of athletes, which tends to upset a boy's 【C10】______ of values and may do 【C11】______ harm to the objects of this hero-worship, 【C12】______ a very different matter.

The schoolboy 【C13】______ may suffer through being surrounded at an early age with feint 【C14】______ of artificial light. From preparatory school to university his career is a 【C15】______ procession. Then he becomes a future legend, one of the great products of the school that is proud to call him her son although 【C16】______ may have taught him nothing except to play football. Not until he hangs up his 【C17】______ does he realize his true value--or the lack of it. It'd be better for everybody if this artificial glory were 【C18】______ from games at an early stage.

For some devotees, sport is kind of religion, the sporting spirit is the finest attitude to face life, since its possessor is very conscious of his obligation to the 【C19】______ . The truth is that games have practically no effect on character. Games afford an opportunity for showing the spirit within; they are a 【C20】______ for virtue or for vice. It's for this reason that we should value them.

【C1】

A．tyrannical

B．bossy

C．beastly

D．inhumane

which can be compared with his (4) life

A.broken

B.bad

C.good

D.continuous

perhaps forty, perhaps fifty, but he is very old. Something gray and bleak and hurtful, that has been in the world perhaps forever, is personified in him.

When Dreiser is gone, men shall write books. Many of them, in the books, shall write there will be so many of the qualities Dreiser lacks. The new, the younger man shall have a sense of humor, and everyone knows Dreiser has no sense of humor. More than that, American prose writers shall have grace, lightness of touch, a dream of beauty breaking through the husks of life.

Of those who follow him shall have many things that Dreiser does not have. That is a part of the wonder and beauty of Theodore Dreiser, the things that others shall have because of him,

Long ago, when Dreiser was an editor of the Delineator, he went one day, with a woman friend, to visit an orphan asylum. The woman once told me the story of that afternoon in the big, ugly gray building, Dreiser folding and refolding his pocket handkerchief and watching the children — all in their little uniforms, trooping in.

"The tears ran down his cheeks and he shook his head", the woman said, and that is a real picture of Theodore Dreiser. He is old in spirit and does not know what to do with life, so he tells about it as he sees it, simply and honestly. The tears run down his cheeks and he folds and refolds the pocket-handkerchief and shakes his head.

Heavy, heavy, the feet of Theodore. How easy to pick some of his books to pieces, to laugh at him for so much of his heavy prose.

The feet of Theodore are making a path, the heavy brutal feet. They are tramping through the wilderness of lies, making a path. Presently the path will be a street, with great arches overhead and delicately carved spires piercing the sky. Along the street will run children, shouting, "Look at me. See what I and my fellows of the new day have done" — forgetting the heavy feet of Dreiser.

The follows of the inkpots, the prose writers in America who follow Dreiser, will have much to do that has never done. Their road is long but, because of him, those who follow will never have to face the road through the wilderness of Puritan denial, the road that Dreiser faced alone.

Heavy, heavy, hangs over the head.

Fine, or superfine？

When Dresier went to visit an orphan asylum, ______.

A．he folded and refolded the pocket-handkerchief

B．he felt pity for the children there

C．his tears ran down

D．All of the above.

4：Farming emerged as a survival strategy because man had been obliged ______.

A.to give up his former way of life

B.to leave the coastal areas

C.to follow the ever-shifting vegetation

D.to abandon his original settlement

The author mentions his family story in paragraph 4 to show that

A．thrifty habits are necessary to make a living.

B．outside assistance is necessary for those in trouble.

C．the slackers got what they deserved in the past.

D．only the diligent people can live a decent life in hard times.

Once a person stops breathing, it means ______ .

A．you have no more than 4 minutes to bring him to life again

B．his brain is completely damaged

C．he has passed away

D．there is no way to save his life

Harvard Business School. (2) The "West Point of Capitalism" was not inundated with applicants in tile anti-business early' 70s, so Bush got in, despite mediocre grades that kept him out of his first choice of grad schools, the University of Tex- as Law School. Bush posed as a redneck rebel at Harvard, wearing his National Guard flight jacket and cowboy boots and chewing tobacco as he sat at the back of the class, spitting into a paper cup. (3) But he showed early signs of the self-discipline that would become more characteristic as time went on. He kept up with the grueling ease- work, particularly in a course called Human Organization and Behavior. Here were formal lessons in organizing and managing people that Bush had only intuited as an Andover cheerleader. He developed his basic approach to leadership at Harvard's training ground for future CEOs. The essence was to think Big Picture, don't get caught in the details, delegate and decide. (4) Bush whizzes through briefing books today, prefer- ring to listen rather than read, but his friends say he has an ability to cut to the chase. If Bush seems less substantive than a Bill Clinton--or an Al Gore--he can blame a Harvard education.

(5) Bush hardly mentions Harvard today. He loathed what he saw as the university's liberal, intellectually pretentious atmosphere. On weekends at the home of his aunt Nancy Ellis, who lived in Boston, Bush railed against the "smugness" of Cambridge. He pined to get back to Texas. While Bush's classmates headed for Wall Street, Bush went to look for a job in the oil Patch, again following his father whose portrait hangs in Midland's Petroleum Hall of Fame.

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ther party hangs up without saying anything. I've tried everything including blowing a whistle into the receiver.

W: Beginning today, we want you to keep a record of the time each call occurs. From this chart, we can get information to help us trace the calls. If necessary, the telephone company can contact the police.

Q: what does the woman suggest that the man do？

(16)

A．Disconnect his telephone.

B．Blow a whistle into the receiver.

C．Keep a record of incoming annoyance calls.

D．Report his problem to the police.

revered icon painting that hangs in his private apartment at the Vatican. The painting will be carried to Russia by a Vatican delegation next month. The BBC Rome correspondent says the Pope had hoped to return the painting in person. But the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church has made it clear that the Pope wouldn't be welcome because of persisting tensions between the two churches.

What has the Pope decided to do？

A．To present an old painting to Russia.

B．To return an old painting back to Russia.

C．To make a visit to Russia.

D．To be reconciled with the Russian Orthodox Church.