[单项选择]The writer says he turns into a "gas"______.


A. when being alone
B. when being with the guests
C. when wearing the old clothes
D. when talking with his guests

[单项选择]What does the writer actually tell us when he says, "Don' t turn down the foods you enjoy, but be sensible "

[单项选择]He says that he will （　） to me in three days.
A. return back the money
B. get the money back
C. pay back the money
D. pay for the money

[单项选择]When the speaker says that he simultaneously knew "too much, and not enough", he means that he was ______.
A. more perceptive than others who were involved at this time
B. too close to the events to see them objectively
C. unable to see any significance in current events
D. confused by the number of important events that were taking place

[单项选择]The author says that he is a naturalist rather than a scientist probably because he thinks he ______.
A. has a great deal of trouble doing mental arithmetic
B. comes up with solutions in a most natural way
C. lacks some of the qualities required of a scientist
D. just reads about other people’s observations and discoveries

[单项选择]When the speaker says that he "put that project on ice", he means that he ______.
A. put it in the refrigerator
B. gave up on it completely
C. took a rather cold attitude towards it
D. put it aside until later

[单项选择]His wife says that he was more frugal in his youth than later years.
A. listless
B. robust
C. thrifty
D. gullible

[单项选择]The writer says that primates show little hostility ______.


A. towards soldiers and other human beings
B. except towards animals such as lions, leopards, tigers or wild cats
C. unless their own particular area is invaded
D. towards other groups of the same species of monkey or ape

[单项选择]The passage says "He digs for it." It is because ______.


A. his ticket is deep in mud
B. he loses his ticket
C. he forgets where his ticket is
D. it is hard to take out his ticket

[单项选择]Everyone says that he is the very ______ of his father.


A. person
B. figure
C. image
D. likelihood

[单项选择]When the writer says leadership has become the universal vitamin C pill, he means _________.


A. leadership can cure many diseases as vitamin C does.
B. leadership is an essential part of everybody.
C. leadership can prevent one from failure.
D. leadership brings power, respect, achievement, etc.

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Writer Kenneth Davis says American history is full of adventure and surprises. The author of the book Don’t Know Much about History is slowly convincing Americans that the subject isn’t boring. Mr. Davis says he first felt the force of history as a nine-year old child when he visited Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the site of an historic 1863 battle in the American Civil War. Some 50, 000 soldiers on the Northern and Southern sides were either killed or wounded there. "Standing there in those fields in the summer heat, feeling something extraordinary had happened here, you can’t stand in that place and not feel that you’re in the midst of something extraordinary and something very deep," he says. "So for me, history was always about the humanity, the people, and not always necessarily the famous people."
He says the great social or political movements in the United States often started with ordinary people. "Whether we’re
A. George Washington cutting down a cherry tree and admitting it to his father.
B. Jefferson was a slave owner.
C. Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr were locked in a bitter feud.
D. Dick Cheney challenging[ former treasury secretary] Paul O'Neill.