But in an old man who has known human joys and sorrows and has done whatever work it was in him to do, the fear of death is somewhat ignoble.

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• 1We [Americans] view friendship more tentatively, subject to changes in intensity as people move, change their jobs, marry, or discover new interests.

  A.Americans don't think that friendship can and should remain unchanging.

  B.Americans think that in this changing world no friendship can stay stable.

  C.Americans prefer anything new and they are constantly looking for new things including friends.

  D.Americans look upon friendship as temporary; they don't believe there can be true and lifelong friends.

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• 2In other words, love comes into an imperfect world to make it livable.

  A.Where love exists, we can tolerate imperfection.

  B.We can find love only in an imperfect world.

  C.Love changes the undesirable to the desirable.

  D.C.Love changes the undesirable to the desirabl

  E.D.Love makes the world perfect.

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• 3Kaz's father ... had migrated to America in the early 1920s in the spirit ofadventure, not of need or fiight; he never intended to stay.

  A.He settled in America to live an adventurous life, neither to make more money nor to go in for sports.

  B.He settled in America because he thought life was more exciting there than here in Japan.

  C.He moved to America to experience a new way of life, not to escape hard life or persecution.

  D.He moved to America after the adventures he loved, not to seek his fortune,nor to run for his lif

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• 4The subsequent conversation threw no light on the matter [the lamp burning upside down without breaking], and everyone accused Fotheringay of a silly trick.

  A.After that people had a long conversation figuring out how to light the lamp again, but no one hit upon a solution.

  B.After that people talked about the matter, but no one was able to explain how such a thing could have occurred.

  C.Then they tried to find a way to light the lamp, but faile

  D.D.Then they talked for some time and decided to keep the light.

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• 5As a scientist, she learned with sadness that little in Nature is truly beyond the "tampering reach of man."

  A.Man is unable to change much of Nature the way he wants.

  B.Man can change much of the world around him, but not everything.

  C.There is nothing in Nature that man cannot interfere with and spoil.

  D.Nothing in Nature can really escape man's iii temper and destruction.

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• 6To whom did the teacher assign the class to say, "I love you"、

  A.Their father or mother whom they had once fiercely disagreed with.

  B.An elderly member of their family they hadn't spoken to for a long time.

  C.Someone they loved but had never, or for a long time expressed their love.

  D.Their nearest and dearest whom they had offended but not yet apologized to.

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• 7Why was the man angry with the teacher when the latter gave the class that assignment、

  A.The teacher treated adult students as if they were children.

  B.lie felt that he didn't have to say these words to anyone he knew.

  C.He thought the teacher shouldn't tell the class to do such a thing.

  D.The assignment reminded him of something he felt guilty about.

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• 8The man made up his mind to say to his father "I love you" after

  A.he thought about the assignment.

  B.class while he was driving home.

  C.his anger with the teacher died down.

  D.he talked it over with his wife at hom

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• 9"It's odd, but just making that decision seemed to lift a heavy load off my chest." The sentence means that

  A.the man was relieved of his guilty conscience because of the decision.

  B.though he didn't speak to his father the man had been worrying about him.

  C.the man had been suffering from lung diseases since he quarrelled with his father.

  D.the vicious disagreement five years before had severely affected the old man's heart.

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• 10If the man hadn't said those words to his father, he might have never had a chance to do it because

  A.shortly after that his father was taken to hospital.

  B.his father died of heart failure just two days later.

  C.his father lost consciousness and might never regain it.

  D.after a heart attack, his father couldn't recognize anyon

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