I prefer to live in the country rather than ______ in a city.

A . character B . qualities C . advantages D . way

A．that; as B．one; as C．one; like D．that; like

A．Never I B．Not me C．No me D．None me

M: ...and be boxed in by a thousand other houses I suppose~ Surrounded by a thousand faceless neighbors. No, let' s go for the village. After all I'm the one who has to do all the traveling. Back and forth to London every day. And I would rather add a 15 minutes bus ride to the train ride than be--How does it go？--cabin' d, cribb' d confi' d. F: That' s all very well...all very well to take that romantic attitude. You know... you think you can get out of everything...wriggle out of any argument...by quoting Shakespeare. What about my preferences？ You are being selfish you know. M: Selfish？ Me？ F: Yes. Think of the children. Its seems to me that you are so carried away with the idea that your personal likes and dislikes are making you anything but practical. What's the relations between the speakers？ A．Friends. B．Colleagues. C．Husband and wife. D．Landlord and tenant.

A．the gradual approach. B．the immersion. C．English teaching first. D．the dabate over the issue.

A schoolteacher【26】his room a few minutes early and【27】a mealworm laboriously craw- ling along the floor. It had somehow been【28】. The back part of the worm was dead and dried up, but still attached to the【29】living part by just a thin thread. As the teacher【30】the strange sight of a poor worm【31】its dead half across the floor, a little girl ran in and noticed it there. Picking it up, she said," Oh, Oscar, when are you going to【32】that dead part so you can really live？" What a marvelous【33】for all of us ! When are we going to lose that dead part so we can re- ally live？ When are we going to let go of past pain so we can live【34】？ When are we going to drop the baggage of needless guilt so we can【35】life？ When are we going to let go of that past resentment so we can know peace？ Have you been dragging something that is dead and gone around with you？ Are you ready to lose that dead part so you can really live？ (32) A．entered B．left C．rushed D．slipped

A．He can use the $ 3,000 for investment for one month. B．He can be insured against loss through pound sterling devaluation or floating down during the month. C．Because the rate of these purchases is fixed whatever happens to exchange rates in the meantime. D．Both Ｂ and Ｃ.

A．they don't have to pay income tax in Ireland B．they can get away from an increasingly violent America C．the Irish leave them to get on with their own business D．they can experience the real expatriate writer ethos that Ernest Hemingway had

A．rectitude is a greater virtue than goodness B．exterior standards are more adaptive than moral codes C．goodness can"t be concretely defined D．the sin nature can hardly be removed

Cities can be frightening places. The majority of the population lives in massive tower blocks, noisy, dirty and impersonal. The sense of belonging to a community tends to disappear when you live fifteen floors up. All you can see from your window is sky, or other blocks of flats. Children become aggressive and nervous—cooped up at home all day, with nowhere to play; their mothers feel isolated from the rest of the world. Strangely enough, whereas in the past the inhabitants of one street all knew each other, nowadays people on tire same floor in tower blocks don't even say hello to each other. Country life, on the other hand, differs from this kind of isolated existence in that a sense of community generally binds the inhabitants of small villages together. People have the advantage of knowing that there is always someone to turn to when they need help. But country life has disadvantages too. While it is true that you may be among friends in a village, it is also true that you are cut off from the exciting and important events that take place in cities. There's little possibility of going to a new show or the latest movie. Shopping becomes a major problem, and for anything slightly out of the ordinary you have to go on an expedition to the nearest large town. The city-dweller who leaves for the country is often oppressed by a sense of unbearable stillness and quietness. What, then, is the answer？ The country has the advantage of peace and quiet, but suffers from the disadvantage of being cut off; the city breeds a feeling of isolation, and constant noise batters the senses. But one of its main advantages is that you are at the centre of things; and that life doesn't come to an end at half past nine at night. Some people have found(or rather bought) a compromise between the two: they have expressed their preference for the "quiet life" by leaving the suburbs and moving to villages within commuting distance of large cities. They generally have about as much sensitivity as the plastic flowers they leave behind—they are polluted with strange ideas about change and improvement which they force on to the unwilling original inhabitants of the village. What then of my dreams of leaning on a cottage gate and murmuring "morning" to the locals as they pass by？ I'm keen on the idea, but you see there's my cat, Toby. I'm not at all sure that he would take to all that fresh air and exercise in the long grass. I mean, can you see him mixing with all those hearty males down the farm？ No, he would rather have the electric imitation-coal fire any evening. One of the disadvantages of living in high-rise buildings is that ______. A．the parents may become violent and difficult to put up with B．the residents may not have a good view from their windows C．the residents may become indifferent to their neighbors D．the children may become too frustrated to be controlled

It wasn’t always like this though I used to have a really stressful job, working till late in the office every evening and often bring work home at the week end. The advertising world is very competitive. And when I look hack, I can’t imagine how I stood it. I have no private life at all, no time for the really important things in life. Because of the pressure of the job, I used to smoke and drink too much. The crisis came when my wife left me. She complained that she never saw me and I had no time for, family life. This made me realize what is really important to me. I talked things through with her and decided to get back together again and to start a new and better life together. I gave up tobacco and alcohol and searched for new hobbies. Now I am afraid of looking back since the past life seemed a horrible dream. (23) A．He was a gardener. B．He worked in an advertising agency. C．He worked on a farm. D．He ran a village shop.