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　　What do those countries in the world have in common? People are killing each other or driving others out of their families. Why is this hap pening? Very simple, really: in each h of these places, and elsewhere in the world, one group of people believes that another group is different from them and dangerous to them. It has been thus throughout history. How different are humans from each other?

　　We come in different colors: red, blank, white, yellow and brown; we have a variety of political systems, social systems, religious views(宗教信仰) or none at all; we are different in mind, have different educational systems, different socio-economic classes. We speak different languages, and have different customs and dresses.

　　If we were to break each of these further, we would have quite a long list of qualities and characteristics that make humans appear to be different from each other. I say they appear to be different , because most of what I have listed stands for what we see or hear, not what is true of human. Man is man everywhere, which is only because where he lives. when he lives there, with whom he lives there, and all have effect on how he lives, that is, what he believes, what he wears, his customs, his gods, his language and so on. These are man-made fact that each group develops over time living together, facing the same problems, needing and desiring the same things. They are his culture. The truth is that we are much more the same than different. If you wear one type of clothing and I wear another, we both wear some kind of clothing. Our culture demands it. If you speak one language and I another, we both speak so that others will understand us. We must communicate with each other. Nothing is gained by giving too many differences, but much lost . If we understood our differences as the ones of culture, then we could make our world more peaceful.

　　Difference doesn't mean better or worse, right or wrong . It means only that differences have been made by society. Differences produce variety of thought, feeling and action, and that can be very helpful to work out human problems peacefully.

1．We've learned from the passage that ________.

[　　]

A．people are different

B．people are the same

C．people are different because of their cultures

D．people are the same in every way except their cultures

2．People in those countries fight each other for ________.

[　　]

A．they have different colors

B．they have different customs and dresses

C．they have different education systems

D．some people think that other people arc different and harmful to them

3．If we pay much attention to differences ________.

[　　]

A．we'll get something

B．we'll produce problems

C．we'll develop

D．nothing will be lost

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阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Red roses were her favorites, her name was also Rose. And every year her husband sent them, tied with pretty bows. The year he died, the roses were still 1to her door.

Each year he sent her roses, and the 2would always say, “I love you even more this year, than last year on this day.” My love for you will always 3, with every passing year. “She knew this was the last time 4the rose would appear. Her loving husband did not know that he would 5. he always liked to do things early. Then, if he got too busy, 6would work out fine.”

A year went by, and it was 7to live without her mate. Then, the very hour, as on Valentines before, the doorbell rang, and there were roses, sitting by her door. She brought the roses 8, calling the florist shop. The owner answered, and she asked him , if he would explain, why would someone do this to her, 9her such pain?

“I know your husband passed away, more than a year ago,” The owner said, “I knew you’d 10, and you would want to know. “ “ The flowers you received today, were 11in advance.” “Your husband always planned ahead, he left nothing to chance.”

She thanked him and 12the phone, her tears now flowing hard. Her fingers shaking, as she slowly reached to 13the card. Inside the card, she saw that he had written her a note. This is what he wrote: “Hello my love, I know it’s been a year 14I’ve been gone, I hope it hasn’t been too hard for you to overcome.” “I know it must be lonely, and the pain is very 15. for if it was the other way, I know how I would feel. The love we shared 16everything so beautiful in life. I loved you more than words can say.”

“You were my friend and lover, I know it’s only been a year, 17please try not to grieve. I want you to be happy, 18when you shed your tears. That is why the roses will be sent to you for years.”

“ When you get these 19, think of all the 20that we had together, and how both of us were blessed. I have always loved you and I know I always will. My love, you must go on, you have some living still.”

1.A. passed B. shown C. presented D. delivered

2.A. note B. message C. line D. information

3.A. disappear B. decrease C. grow D. keep

4.A. that B.when C. which D. what

5.A. pass by B. pass away C. pass down D. pass on

6.A. everything B. something C. nothing D. anything

7.A. happy B. meaningful C. hard D. impossible

8.A. in B. out C. along D. up

9.A. curing B. healing C.causing D. killing

10.A. ask B. wonder C. doubt D. telephone

11.A. booked B. grown C. planted D. designed

12.A. picked up B. turned up C.held up D. hung up

13.A. buy B. get C.read D. write

14.A. when B. that C. before D. since

15.strong B. weak C. true D. real

16.A made B. bad C. let D. left

17.A. so B. but C. though D. still

18.A. even B. only C. merely D. just

19.A. roses B. belongings C. congratulations D. remarks

20.A. sadness B. disappointment C. happiness D. sufferings

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In the following article, some sentences or paragraphs have been removed. For questions 1 to 5, choose the
most suitable one from the list AF to fit into each of the numbered gaps. There is ONE which does not fit in
any of the gaps.

     Most of the people who appear most often and most gloriously in the history books are great conquerors
and generals, 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 seagoing boat, or calculated the length of the year?
but we know all about the killers and destroyers. People think a great deal of them, so much 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.
     1. It is just possible they are, but 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 which an animal or a savage is good, but it is not to be civilized.
    2. People fight to settle quarrels. Fighting means killing, and civilized peoples ought to be able to find some
way of settling their disputes other than by seeing which side can kill off the greater number of the other side,
and then saying that that side which has killed most has won.
     3. That is what the story of mankind has on the whole been like. Even our own age has fought the two
greatest wars in history, in which millions of people were killed. And while today it is true that people do not
fight and kill each other in the streets, nations and countries have not learnt to do this yet, and still behave like
savages. But we must not expect too much. After all, the race of men has only just started. From the point of
view of evolution, human beings are very young children indeed, babies, in fact, of a few months old.
     4. These figures are difficult to grasp? so let us scale them down. Suppose that we reckon the whole past
of living creatures on the earth as one hundred years? then the whole past of man works out at about one
month, and during that month there have been civilizations for between seven and eight hours.
     5. Taking man' civilized past at about seven or eight hours, we may estimate his future at about one hundred
thousand years. Thus mankind is only at the beginning of its civilized life, and as I say, we must not expect
too much. The past of 8 man has been on the whole a pretty beastly business, a business of fighting and killing.
We must not expect even civilized peoples not to have done these things. All we can ask is that they will
sometimes have done something else.

     [A] Even being good at getting other people to fight for you and telling them how to do it most efficiently-
this, after all, is what conquerors and generals have done-is not being civilized.
     [B] And I think most people believe that the greatest countries are those that have beaten in battle the
greatest number of other countries and ruled over them as conquerors.
     [C] We have got to the stage of keeping the rules and behaving properly in daily life. However, every year
conflicts between countries and nations are still claiming thousands of lives.
     [D] And not only has won, but, because it has won, has been in the right. For that is what going to war
means? it means saying that might is right.
     [E] So you see there has been little time to learn in, but there will be oceans of time in which to learn better.
     [F] Scientists reckon that there has been life of some sort on the earth in the form of jellyfish and that kind
of creature for about twelve hundred million years? but there have been men for only one million years, and
there have been civilized men for about eight thousand years at the outside.
1-(     )     2-(     )    3-(     ) 4-(     )   5-(     )

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     Red roses were her favorites, her names was also Rose. And every year her husband sent them,
tied with pretty bows. The year he died, the roses were still    1   to her door.
     Each year he sent her roses, and the    2   would always say, "I love you even more this year, than
last year on this day." My love for you will always    3   , with every passing year. "She knew this was
the last time    4   the rose would appear. Her loving husband did not know that he would    5   . he
always liked to do things early. Then, if he got too busy,     6   would work out fine."
     A year went by, and it was    7   to live without her mate. Then, the very hour, as on Valentines
before, the doorbell rang, and there were roses, sitting by her door. She brought the roses    8   ,
calling the florist shop. The owner answered, and she asked him , if he would explain, why would
someone do this to her,    9   her such pain?
     "I know your husband passed away, more than a year ago," The owner said, "I knew you'd    10   ,
and you would want to know. " " The flowers you received today, were    11   in advance." "You
husband always planned ahead, he left nothing to chance."
     She thanked him and    12    the phone, her tears now flowing hard. Her fingers shaking, as she
slowly reached to   13    the card. Inside the card, she saw that he had written her a note. This is what
he wrote: "Hello my love, I know it's been a ye

ar   14   I've been gone, I hope it hasn't been too hard
for you to overcome." "I know it must be lonely, and the pain is very    15   . for if it was the other
way, I know how I would feel. The love we shared    16   everything so beautiful in life. I loved you
more than words can say."
     "You were my friend and lover, I know it's only been a year,    17   please try not to grieve. I want
you to be happy,    18   when you shed your tears. That is why the roses will be sent to you for years."
     "When you get these    19   , think of all the   20     that we had together, and how both of us were
blessed. I have always loved you and I know I always will. My love, you must go on, you have some
living still."

(     )1. A. passed
(     )2. A. note
(     )3. A. disappear
(     )4. A. that
(     )5. A. pass by
(     )6. A. everything
(     )7. A. happy
(     )8. A. in
(     )9. A. curing
(     )10. A. ask
(     )11. A. purchased
(     )12. A. picked up
(     )13. A. buy
(     )14. A. when
(     )15. strong
(     )16. A made
(     )17. A. so
(     )18. A. even
(     )19. A. roses
(     )20. A. sadness

B. shown
B. message
B. decrease
B. /
B. pass away
B. something
B. meaningful
B. out
B. healing
B. wonder
B. grown
B. turned up
B. get
B. that
B. weak
B. bad
B. but
B. only
B. belongings
B. disappointment

C. presented
C. line
C. grow
C. which
C. pass down
C. nothing
C. hard
C. along
C. causing
C. doubt
C. planted
C. held up
C. read
C. before
C. true
C. let
C. though
C. merely
C. congratulations
C. happiness

D. delivered
D. information
D. keep
D. what
D. pass on
D. anything
D. impossible
D. up
D. killing
D. telephone
D. designed
D. hung up
D. write
D. since
D. real
D. left
D. still
D. just
D. remarks
D. sufferings

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阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Red roses were her favorites, her name was also Rose. And every year her husband sent them, tied with pretty bows. The year he died, the roses were still 26 to her door.

Each year he sent her roses, and the 27 would always say, “I love you even more this year, than last year on this day.” My love for you will always 28 , with every passing year. “She knew this was the last time 29 the rose would appear. Her loving husband did not know that he would 30 . he always liked to do things early. Then, if he got too busy, 31 would work out fine.”

A year went by, and it was 32 to live without her mate. Then, the very hour, as on Valentines before, the doorbell rang, and there were roses, sitting by her door. She brought the roses 33 , calling the florist shop. The owner answered, and she asked him , if he would explain, why would someone do this to her, 34 her such pain?

“I know your husband passed away, more than a year ago,” The owner said, “I knew you’d 35 , and you would want to know. “ “ The flowers you received today, were 36 in advance.” “Your husband always planned ahead, he left nothing to chance.”

She thanked him and 37 the phone, her tears now flowing hard. Her fingers shaking, as she slowly reached to 38 the card. Inside the card, she saw that he had written her a note. This is what he wrote: “Hello my love, I know it’s been a year 39 I’ve been gone, I hope it hasn’t been too hard for you to overcome.” “I know it must be lonely, and the pain is very 40 . for if it was the other way, I know how I would feel. The love we shared 41 everything so beautiful in life. I loved you more than words can say.”

“You were my friend and lover, I know it’s only been a year, 42 please try not to grieve. I want you to be happy, 43 when you shed your tears. That is why the roses will be sent to you for years.”

“ When you get these 44 , think of all the 45 that we had together, and how both of us were blessed. I have always loved you and I know I always will. My love, you must go on, you have some living still.”

1.A. passed B. shown C. presented D. delivered

2.A. note B. message C. line D. information

3.A. disappear B. decrease C. grow D. keep

4.A. that B.when C. which D. what

5.A. pass by B. pass away C. pass down D. pass on

6.A. everything B. something C. nothing D. anything

7.A. happy B. meaningful C. hard D. impossible

8.A. in B. out C. along D. up

9. A. curing B. healing C.causing D. killing

10. A. ask B. wonder C. doubt D. telephone

11.A. booked B. grown C. planted D. designed

12.A. picked up B. turned up C.held up D. hung up

13. A. buy B. get C.read D. write

14.A. when B. that C. before D. since

15.strong B. weak C. true D. real

16.A made B. bad C. let D. left

17. A. so B. but C. though D. still

18. A. even B. only C. merely D. just

19.A. roses B. belongings C. congratulations D. remarks

20.A. sadness B. disappointment C. happiness D. sufferings

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