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[单项选择]The first week of July 1776 was a busy one for Thomas Jefferson. The Declaration of Independence, which he largely wrote, was adopted on the fourth. But he chose the same week to begin keeping a record of the temperature change in a notebook. This wasn’t a single example: for eight years, as president, Jefferson made detailed notes on the seasonal availability of various vegetables in the markets of Washington, DC.
This wasn’t because he couldn’t focus, says Joshua Kendall, author of America’s Obsessives (强迫症者): The Compulsive Energy That Built a Nation. Rather, his obsessional habits were a self-soothing response to anxiety. When his wife died, he responded by cataloguing the tens of thousands of letters he’d sent or received. "A mind always employed is always happy," he liked to say. But that wasn’t a platitude (陈辞滥调): some of Jefferson’s compulsive industriousness made history, but all of it helped keep him mentally healthy.
The core of Kendall’s
A. Because he couldn’t focus on one matter.
B. Because he had sent and received too many letters.
C. Because he was industrious in order to make history.
D. Because he wanted to get relieved from the pain.
[单项选择]The club will （） new members the first week in September.
A. enroll
B. subscribe
C. adopt
D. register
[单项选择]I spent most of my money in the first week and ______ had very little to eat during the last few days of the holiday.
A. after all
B. consequently
C. otherwise
D. anyhow
[填空题]the first day of the week
[单项选择]Passage One
We are all busy talking about and using the Internet, but how many of us know the history of the Internet
Many people are surprised when they find that the Internet was set up as recently as the 1960s. At that time, computers were large and expensive. Computer networks didn’t work well. If one computer in the network broke down, then the whole network stopped. So a new network system had to be set up. It should be good enough to be used by many different computers. If part of the network was not working, information could be sent through another part. In this way the computer network system would keep on working all the time.
At first the Internet was only used by the government, but in the 1970s, universities, hospitals and banks began to use it, too. However, computers were still very expensive and the Internet was difficult to use. At the beginning of the 1990s, computers became cheaper and easier to use. And scientists developed software that made
A. 1960
B. the 1960s
C. 1970
D. the 1970s
[单项选择]One busy day, I was racing around trying to get too much done, and I exclaimed to my three kids in the car, "We can get both things done and kill two birds with one stone!" My daughter Annie quietly suggested, "You mean feed two birds with one crumb, Mom, don’t you " I stopped short, realizing how steeped my language is in the culture of war. I had used "weapon" language without even knowing it. I was embarrassed and yet felt a grace: if a child can become conscious of using a new language of peace, then there is hope.
Think about the business language: strategies, bullets, high-caliber, power point; about win-lose sports language like "decimate", "attack", "destroy the other team" , not to mention the movies and video games that simulate the most gruesome annihilations over and over. The lies of propaganda, one-sided media coverage, the alienation of others (those terrorists, the axis of evil) , all part of the " collective psychic numbing" of our times. The biggest lie of all is
A. a culture of war can be destroyed
B. a culture of war is not safe and reliable
C. a culture of war will lead to wars easily
D. a culture of war can regenerate
