[单项选择]Some people enjoy training; for others it is only a ______ to an end.


A. way
B. tool
C. method
D. means

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Text 3
Most young people enjoy some form of physical activity. It may be walking, cycling or swimming, or in winter, skating or skiing; it may be a game of some kind: football, hockey, golf, or tennis; it may be mountaineering.
Those who have a passion for climbing high and difficult mountains are often looked upon with astonishment. Why are men and women willing to suffer cold and hardship, and to take risks on high mountains This astonishment is caused probably by the difference between mountaineering and other forms of activity to which men give their leisure.
Mountaineering is a sport and not a game. There are no man - made rules, as there are for such games as golf and football. There are, of course, rules of a different kind which it would be dangerous to ignore, but it is this freedom from man- made rules that makes mountaineering attractive to many people. Those who climb mountains are free to use their own methods.
If we compare mou
A. Mountaineers compete against each other.
B. Mountaineers compete against other teams.
C. Mountaineers compete against nature.
D. Mountaineers compete against international standard.

[单项选择]I enjoy watching some of the television programs on ______ affairs.
A. actual
B. current
C. present
D. passing

[单项选择]Two were killed, but the others were only slightly injured in the two-car （）.
A. collision
B. conflict
C. contact
D. collapse

[单项选择]But some persons who had leisure did enjoy hobbies．


A. 但某些有空闲的人确实从中得到乐趣。
B. 但某些有空闲的人过去确实从中获得乐趣。
C. 但某些人不知是谁很休闲，确实从中得到乐趣。
D. 但某些人，不知是谁很休闲，过去从中获得乐趣。

[单项选择]But what makes some figures icons and others mere celebrities In part, their lives have the quality of a story.（　）
A. ...their lives are very unusual.
B. ...their lives are lull of adventures.
C. ...they have encountered extreme difficulties.
D. ...they have experienced great joys and sorrows.

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Passage 1
Are some people born clever and others born stupid Or is intelligence developed by our environment and our experience Strangely enough, the answer to these questions is yes. To some extent our intelligence is given us at birth. On the other hand, a child who lives in boring environment will develop his intelligence less than one who lives in rich and varied surroundings. Thus the limits of a person’ s intelligence are fixed at birth, whether or not he reaches those limits will depend on his environment. This view, now held by most experts, can be supported in a number of ways.
It is easy to show that intelligence is to some extent something we are born with. The closer the blood relationship between two people, the closer they likely to be in intelligence. Thus if we take two unrelated people at random from the population, it is likely that their degree of intelligence will be completely different. If,on the other hand, we take two identical
A. at birth
B. both at birth and through education
C. through education
D. neither at birth nor through education

[单项选择]Some mushrooms are edible while others, which look almost identical, contain ______ poisons.


A. deadly
B. hasty
C. dizzy
D. gloomy

[单项选择]Some minerals are quite common, others are regionally _________, and still others are rare on the earth.


A. attributed
B. distributed
C. contributed
D. scattered