B. to be masters C. to sing
D. to be charming
Four
Time spent in a bookshop can be most enjoyable, whether are a book-lover or only there to buy a book as a present. You may even have entered the shop just to find shelter from a sudden shower. Whatever the reason, you can soon become totally unaware of your surroundings. The desire to pick up a book with an attractive design is irresistible, although this method of selection ought not to be followed, as you might end up with a rather uninteresting book. You soon become lost in some book or other, and usually it is only much later that you realize you have spent far too much time there and must hurry to keep some forgotten appointment ─ without buying a book, of course.
The opportunity to escape the realities of everyday life is, I think, the main attraction of a bookshop. There are not many places where it is possible to do this. A music shop is very much like a bookshop. You can go to such places as much as you wish. If it is a good shop, no assistant will approach you with the greeting: “Can I help you, sir?” You needn’t buy anything you don’t want. In a bookshop, an assistant should remain in the background until you have finished reading. You might want to find out where a particular section is. Then, and only then, are his services necessary. But when he has led you there, the assistant should leave politely and look as if he is not interested in selling a single book.
16. The best title for this passage may be ______. A. The Attraction of Bookshops B. How To Spend Your Time
C. Bookshops and Their Assistants D. Buying Books
17. According to the author, the best way to escape the realities of everyday life is ______. A. to chat with assistants in a bookshop B. to take a walk in the streets
C. to make some appointment in a bookshop
D. to stay reading books of various kinds in a bookshop 18. In a good bookshop, ______.
A. all the books there are interesting B. you are satisfied
C. you can find shelter from a shower
D. you need to buy something you don’t want 19. An assistant in a bookshop helps you ______. A. on your entering the shop B. just before you finish reading
C. only when you want to find out where a particular section is D. when you are reading
20. According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?
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Time spent in a bookshop can be enjoyable only for book-lovers.
There are only a few places where it is possible to escape the realities of life. People go to bookshops only to buy books.
A book with an attractive design must be an interesting one.
Five
In 1801, Thomas Jefferson was the first president to take the oath of office in the nation’s permanent capital, Washington D. C. Although Washington was a new city, it was already familiar to President Jefferson. In fact, Jefferson had helped plan the capital’s streets and public buildings. Besides being a city planner and architect, the new President was a writer, a scientist, and the inventor of several tools.
Jefferson lived in the Presidential Palace. The Palace was more than a home; it contained offices for the President and some of his staff and advisors. It also included dining and reception rooms, where the President could entertain congressmen. However, President Jefferson did not give many formal parties. This was partly because there was no First Lady. Jefferson’s wife had died in 1782. But it was also because Jefferson liked to live in a simple fashion. Once, he showed up for an important meeting wearing old clothes and slippers! Neither Washington nor Adams would ever have dressed so casually.
Jefferson was different from the first two Presidents in other ways, too. He disagreed with them about how the country should be run, and about what part a President should play in running it. 21. According to the passage, the Presidential Palace was built to be ______. A. an office building and home B. a meeting place for congressmen C. a home
D. an office building
22. According to the passage, Thomas Jefferson was all of the following except ______. A. a writer
B. a city planner
C. the third president of the United States D. a carpenter
23. Thomas Jefferson did not entertain very often in Washington D. C. because ______. A. he did not have new clothes B. the food there was bad
C. he did not enjoy carefully prepared parties and there was no First Lady D. his wife did not like it
24. Which of the following statements about Washington D. C. is true? A. It was not the first capital of the United States.
B. All the American presidents took the oath of office in Washington D. C. C. There were many old streets in Washington D. C. before 1801. D. Washington D. C. was planned by Thomas Jefferson.
25. It can be inferred from the passage that George Washington and John Adams both ______.
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A. B. C. D.
lived in the Presidential Palace were rather formal gentlemen
were different from Thomas Jefferson only in how to run the country dressed casually
Six
Schools in the 1990’s will be working together with businessmen and offices, and factories will be full of schoolchildren and teachers. Since the reforms of the nineteenth century which got children out of factories, the British have disliked mixing learning with commerce. But the past ten years of high youth unemployment have encouraged most schools to create new links with employers to provide their pupils with more marketable skills. And in the next ten years, when youth labor will become scarce rather than plentiful, many employers not yet working with schools will be encouraged to do so.
26. One of Britain’s aims of the nineteenth century social reforms must have been to ______. A. provide pupils with more skills B. create new links with employers C. separate learning from commerce D. mix learning with commerce
27. In Britain, the 1990’s will see a ______. A. weak link between schools and factories B. a high youth unemployment
C. higher demand for skilled workers D. new increase in youth labor
28. In the past decade, the British schools have taken their pupils to factories because ______. A. youth labor is plentiful
B. the British think it’s good for their children to work there C. the employers encourage them to do so
D. they have had to prepare their students for employment 29. Which of the following is not mentioned in the passage?
A. In the past ten years, Britain’s youth unemployment rate is high. B. Birth rate in Britain will become lower.
C. Most British schools have been encouraged to provide their pupils with more marketable
skills.
D. In Britain youth labor will be much less than is needed in the next decade. 30. To solve the problem of labor resources in the 1990’s ______. A. employers must have better relations with schools B. teachers will have to work together with businessmen C. the British will have to send their children to factories D. the British must mix learning with working
Seven
Someday in the future we may not need to have money in your pockets. Is life easier when
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A. B. C. D.
people don’t need to carry any coins for currency at all? Is money heavy to carry? Is it safe to carry money? Maybe in the future each of us will have only one small plastic credit card. We will use it to buy all the things we now buy with money. We will not need money to pay for things.
Of course we may still have some of the same problems with cards that we now have with money. Sometimes we lose money. Maybe we will lose the cards. People steal money. Maybe someone will take the card. Someone may even make a card that looks like our card. Since we can’t buy anything without our cards, the credit card may be no better than currency.
Is there something even easier to use than credit cards? All of us have a thumbprint. No two thumbprints are the same. Maybe someday the government will keep people’s thumbprints with a number. No person will have the same thumbprint or number. When you want to buy something you will put your thumb on a machine or a computer. Each store or business will have one. Everyone’s thumbprint will be in the computers. It will be very difficult to lose our thumbprints. It will be difficult for someone to steal it or make one like it. 31. The word “currency” most probably means ______. A. plastic cards B. paper money C. coins
D. metal money
32. According to the passage, we all need ______. A. coins B. currency C. credit cards
D. some kind of money
33. Our thumbprints may be used in the future because ______. A. they will help each store
B. each store will have a computer C. every thumbprint is different D. computers need them
34. Which one of the following gives the main idea of the second paragraph? A. Credit cards are worse than currency.
B. Currency may not be more of a problem than credit cards. C. We use credit cards because people steal money. D. We have many problems with money.
35. Which of the following statements is not true?
A. There is something easier to use than credit cards. B. There are no problems with currency.
C. Every person will have a different thumbprint number. D. There are some problems with the use of credit cards.
Eight
If there is any single factor that makes for success in living, it is the ability to profit by defeat.
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Every success I know has been achieved because the person was able to analyze defeat and actually profit by it in his next undertaking. Confuse defeat with failure, and you are doomed indeed to failure, for it isn’t defeat that makes you fail: it is your own refusal to see in defeat the guide and encouragement to success.
Defeats are nothing to be ashamed of. They are routine incidents in the life of every man who achieves success. But defeat is a dead loss unless you do face it without feeling ashamed, analyze it and learn why you failed. Defeat, in other words, can help to cure its own cause. Not only does defeat prepare us for success, but nothing else can arouse within us such a compelling desire to succeed. If you let a baby grasp a rod and try to pull it away, he will cling more and more tightly until his whole weight is suspended. It is this same reaction that should give you new and greater strength every time you are defeated. If you fully use the power which defeat gives, you can accomplish with it far more than what you are capable of. 36. The author ______.
A. orders you to analyze defeat B. wants you to face defeat
C. advises you to let a baby grasp a rod
D. warns you not to confuse defeat with failure 37. Defeat is valuable ______. A. because it is a factor
B. because it isn’t defeat that makes you fail
C. because it provides the guide and encouragement to success D. because it is not a thing to be ashamed of 38. What does the author know?
A. He knows every success in life.
B. He knows the factor making for success.
C. He knows every man who is able to analyze defeat. D. He knows the life of every man.
39. The person who was able to analyze defeat is likely ______. A. to be a successor
B. to face it with feeling ashamed C. to achieve success D. to be ashamed of it
40. What does the author advise one to do with the power which defeat gives? One should ______. A. explore it B. explain it
C. let a baby grasp a rod D. learn it
Nine
If education is the transmission of civilization, we are unquestionably progressing. Civilization
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