Passage One
An important businessman was asked to give a twenty-minute speech in another city. He was too busy to write it himself, so he asked his secretary to put one together for him out of a large book of speeches which she had on her desk. She typed one out for him, and he picked it up just in time to rush off to his plane. But when he gave his speech, it ran on for an hour, and the audience (听众) was getting very tired of it by the end.
When the businessman got back to his office, he said to his secretary, "I told you it should be a twenty-minute speech !"
"That’s what I gave you ," she answered, "the original and two copies. The original for you to read at the meeting, and two copies for the files, after you have checked them."
Passage 3
How often one hears children wishing they were grown up, and old people wishing they were young a gain. Each age has its pleasures and its pains, and the happiest person is the one who enjoys what each age gives him without wasting his time in useless regrets.
Childhood is a time when there are few responsibilities to make life difficult. If a child has good par ents, he is fed, looked after and loved, whatever he may do. It is impossible that he will ever again in his life be given so much without having to do anything in return. In addition, life is always presenting new things to the child-things that have lost their interest for older people because they are too well-known. But a child has his pains: he is not so free to do what he wishes to do; he is continually being told not to do things, or being punished for what he has done wrong.
When the young man starts to earn his own living, he can no longer expect others to pay for his food
A. life is not enjoyable since, each age has some pains
B. young men can have the greatest happiness if they work hard
C. childhood is the most enjoyable time in one's life
D. one is the happiest if he can make good use of each age in his life
One of the most fascinating things about television is the size of the audience. A novel can be on the "best sellers" list with a sale of fewer than 100, 000 copies, but a popular TV show might have 70 million TV viewers. TV can make anything or anyone well known overnight.
This is the principle behind "quiz" or "game" shows, which put ordinary people on TV to play a game for the prize and money. A quiz show can make anyone a star, and it can give away thousands of dollars just for fun. But all of this money can create problems. For instance, in the 1950s, quiz shows were very popular in the U.S. and almost everyone watched them. Charles Van Doren, an English instructor, became rich and famous after winning money on several shows. He even had a career as a television personality. But one of the losers proved that Charles Van Doren was cheating. It turned out that the show&r
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mentioned
| One of the saddest things about the period in
which we live is the growing estrangement(疏远) between America and Europe. This
may be a surprising discovery to those who are over impressed by the speed with
which turbojets can hop from New York to Paris. But to anyone who is aware of
what America once meant to English libertarian poets and philosophers, to the
young Ibsen bitterly excoriating (痛斥) European royalty for the murder of
Lincoln, to Italian novelists and poets translating the nineteenth century
American classics as a demonstration against Fascism, there is something
particularly disquieting in the way that the European Left, historically "
pro-American" because it identified America with expansive democracy, now
punishes America with Europe’s lack of hope in the future. Although America has obviously not fulfilled the visio A. Equality of man. B. Moral rightness as American policy decisions. C. Man’s capacity to become perfect. D. The inviolability(不可侵犯) of the individual’s integrity. 我来回答: 提交
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