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[单项选择]Few modern travel writers excite more hostility and awe than Sir Wilfred Thesiger, who died in 2003. Despising the "drab uniformity of the modern world", Sir Wilfred slogged across Africa and Asia, especially Arabia, on animals and on foot, immersing himself in tribal societies. He delighted in killing-lions in Sudan in the years before the second world war, Germans and Italians during it. He disliked "soft" living and "intrusive" women and revered murderous savages, to whom be gave guns. He thought educating the working classes a waste of good servants. He kicked his dog. His journeys were more notable as feats of masochistic endurance than as exploration. Yet his first two books, Arabian Sands, about his crossing of the Empty Quarter, and The Marsh Arabs, about southern Iraq, have a terse brilliance about them. As records of ancient cultures on the point of oblivion, they are unrivalled.
Sir Wilfred’s critics invariably sing the same chorus. They accuse him of hypocrisy, noting
A. He enjoyed killing lions, tigers, etc.
B. He loved unintrusive women.
C. He advocated educating servants.
D. He longed for primitive life.
[简答题]Modern chickens fight more because they need more food and water to lay more eggs. About 35 percent of them die because of fights. As a result, many farmers are forced to cut the beaks(鸟嘴，喙) of their chickens to prevent them from harming each others.
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Few words are more commonly used in our modern world than the word modern itself. The modernity of manufactured articles, of institutions, of attitudes, of works of art is constantly brought to our attention.
We ourselves may well be judged by whether we are modern or not; indeed, many people go to considerable lengths to make quite certain that they will be accepted as modern — modern in their dress, their behaviour, their beliefs. And yet, we may ask, must not earlier generations have felt precisely the same Surely men throughout history must have recognized themselves as modern. Surely innovators like Julius Caesar, Peter the Great or Oliver Cromwell saw themselves as breaking with the past, as establishing a new order. (Must they not also have shared our awareness of the significance of what is modern) What is modern is distinct from what belongs to the past and men in earlier times must have experienced this sense of distinctiveness. Men cannot escape, and neve
A. very vulgar
B. in frequent use
C. insufficiently precise
D. used by the common people
[填空题]Recently, air travel is becoming more and more popular and many large airports have now reached the limit of the number of aircraft movements they can (36) . The problem is made worse by the size of many major cities which prevents the (37) of existing airports. Any new airports to be built a long way from city centers will create (38) problems as in many countries there simply isn’t enough land for such developments.
Now a new (39) has been put forward which would help to (40) the congestion, as far as short flights are concerned. This (41) the use of smaller aircraft, carrying about 50 passengers, which only require a short take-off or landing area and which make (42) little noise because they are propeller-driven.
The main problem (43) is the question of noise. (44) , that any government can expect to find considerable resistance to building new airports in town, even thou
