The subsequent conversation threw no light on the matter [the lamp burning upside down without breaking], and everyone accused Fotheringay of a silly trick.

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• 1As a scientist, she learned with sadness that little in Nature is truly beyond the "tampering reach of man."

  A.Man is unable to change much of Nature the way he wants.

  B.Man can change much of the world around him, but not everything.

  C.There is nothing in Nature that man cannot interfere with and spoil.

  D.Nothing in Nature can really escape man's iii temper and destruction.

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• 2Does it pay to make sacrifices for children、

  A.Is it worthwhile for a mother to make sacrifices for her children、

  B.Is it fight for a mother to make sacrifices for her children、

  C.Can a mother ask her children to pay for her sacrifices、

  D.Should children pay their mother for her sacrifices、

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• 3I was going to gamble on their inspection ending there before they dug deeper to my diaries.

  A.I bet that they would be satisfied with what they had found and would not continue to search my suitcases.

  B.I hoped that their inspection would be put off and they would never find my diaries in the suitcases

  C.I would depend on their being careless enough not to, dig deep enough in the garden where my diaries were hidden.

  D.I would take a risk, hoping their search would stop before they discovered my diaries.

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• 4You no longer need to make mental conversions of the country's money.

  A.You no longer have to learn the value of different bank notes by heart as you can recognize them all.

  B.You no longer have to change the money you've brought with you into that of the host country.

  C.When you change the money of your old home you no longer worry if you'll get cheate

  D.D.You don't have to figure out how much something costs in terms of your home country's money.

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• 5We are slaves to nothing but the clock.

  A.We enjoy complete freedom as long as we have time.

  B.Nothing can control us except a complicated timepiece.

  C.If the clock says that it is time to stop working or to go to bcd we will always obey.

  D.Time is the only thing that decides what we do or don't do in the time available to us.

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• 6Kaz's father ... had migrated to America in the early 1920s in the spirit ofadventure, not of need or fiight; he never intended to stay.

  A.He settled in America to live an adventurous life, neither to make more money nor to go in for sports.

  B.He settled in America because he thought life was more exciting there than here in Japan.

  C.He moved to America to experience a new way of life, not to escape hard life or persecution.

  D.He moved to America after the adventures he loved, not to seek his fortune,nor to run for his lif

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• 7In other words, love comes into an imperfect world to make it livable.

  A.Where love exists, we can tolerate imperfection.

  B.We can find love only in an imperfect world.

  C.Love changes the undesirable to the desirable.

  D.C.Love changes the undesirable to the desirabl

  E.D.Love makes the world perfect.

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• 8We [Americans] view friendship more tentatively, subject to changes in intensity as people move, change their jobs, marry, or discover new interests.

  A.Americans don't think that friendship can and should remain unchanging.

  B.Americans think that in this changing world no friendship can stay stable.

  C.Americans prefer anything new and they are constantly looking for new things including friends.

  D.Americans look upon friendship as temporary; they don't believe there can be true and lifelong friends.

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• 9But in an old man who has known human joys and sorrows and has done whatever work it was in him to do, the fear of death is somewhat ignoble.

  A.It is wrong for old people, who know what joys and sorrows mean and who have made great contributions, to fear death.

  B.Old people who have gone through all kinds of human experience and done what the5' can should not be afraid of death.

  C.Old people who have experienced both success and failure, and have done useful work for society, do not usually fear death.

  D.It is shameful for old people, who have had both joyful and painful experiences and have worked hard, to be afraid of death.

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• 10To whom did the teacher assign the class to say, "I love you"、

  A.Their father or mother whom they had once fiercely disagreed with.

  B.An elderly member of their family they hadn't spoken to for a long time.

  C.Someone they loved but had never, or for a long time expressed their love.

  D.Their nearest and dearest whom they had offended but not yet apologized to.

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