[简答题]This is the age of more. We have more choice, more consumption, more fun, more competition and more anxiety. We have entered a world of excess and age of over abundance.

[填空题]Many people think that we have more natural resources than we need, but this is not ______ true. (necessary)

[单项选择]Two minutes more and we would have missed the plane.
A. 再给我们两分钟，我们将不会误了这趟飞机了。
B. 再晚两分钟时间，我们就赶不上飞机了。
C. 再多两分钟，我们就会误了这趟飞机。
D. 两分钟多一点，我们就会误了这趟飞机。

[填空题]The more times we have walked a route, the longer we judge it to be, a UK researcher has confirmed. His {{U}} (36) {{/U}} could help explain why daily {{U}} (37) {{/U}} can grow to seem interminably long. Neuroscientists have long known that our brains are poor at estimating a set {{U}} (38) {{/U}} such as a kilometre. But most studies of this {{U}} (39) {{/U}} have been carried out in simple artificial {{U}} (40) {{/U}} where, for example, people walk along paths taped out in a gymnasium. Andrew Crompton at Manchester University, UK, wanted to see how good we are at {{U}} (41) {{/U}} distances in the real world. He asked 140 {{U}} (42) {{/U}} students in their first, second and third years of study to {{U}} (43) {{/U}} the distance from the university’s student-union building to familiar destinations along a straight road, {{U}} (44) {{/U}}. {{U}} (45) {{/U}}. First year students, for example, estimated a mile-long path to be around 1.24 miles on average, while

[单项选择]It often appears that we have more to gain by speaking than by listening. One big advantage of speaking is that it gives you a chance to control others’ thoughts and actions. (36) your goal — to have a boss (37) you, to (38) others to vote for the person of your (39) , or to describe the (40) you want your hair cut — the key (41) success seems to be the (42) to speak well.
(43) obvious advantage of speaking is the chance it provides to (44) the admiration, respect, or liking of others. (45) jokes, and everyone will think you’re really a wise man.
(46) advice, and they’ll be thankful for help. Tell them all you know, and they’ll be (47) by your wisdom. (48) keep quiet and it seems as if you’ll look like a (49) nobody.
Finally, talking gives you the (50) to release energy in a way that listening can’t. When you’re (51) , the chance to talk about your problems can
A. pleasure
B. course
C. duty
D. chance