[单选题]Most of the people who appear most often and most gloriously in the history books are great conquerors and generals and soldiers, whereas the people who really helped civilization forward are often never mentioned at all. We do not know who first set a broken leg, or launched a seaworthy boat, or calculated the【31】of the year, or manured a field; but we know【32】about the killers and destroyers. People think a great deal of them, so【33】so that on all the highest pillars in the great cities of the world you will find the figure of a conqueror or a general or a soldier. And I think most people believe that the greatest countries are【34】that have beaten in battle the greatest number of other countries and ruled over them as conquerors. It is just possible they are,【35】they are not the most civilized. Animals fight; so do savages; hence to be good at fighting is to be good in the way in【36】an animal or a savage is good, but it is not to be civilized. Even being good at getting other people to fight for you and【37】them how to do it most efficiently — this, after all, is【38】conquerors and generals have done -- is not being civilized. People fight to settle quarrels. Fighting means killing, and civilized peoples ought to be able to find some way of settling their disputes other【39】by seeing which side can kill off the greater number of other side, and then【40】that that side which has killed most has won.

正确答案 ：C

length

解析：解析：length of the year意思为“一年的天数(时间长度)”；其他选项意思与语境不相符合。

[单选题]What matters ______ not winning but participating.

正确答案 ：D

is

解析：解析：此句很可能考句子主语，又因出现动词matter，因此，主语极可能为一主语从句。如主语为名词性从句，谓语动词一般用单数。

[单选题]Michael: The Johnsons are moving next week. We are going to have a going-away party for them Saturday. Tracy: I didn't realize they were moving so soon. ______ Michael: Yes, but we'll have one last chance to get together. We're planning a barbecue.

正确答案 ：C

They are really going to be missed.

解析：解析：从Michael的对话but we'll have one last chance…可以推测上面Tracy的话里有遗憾的意思，因为前者话有转折，表示遗憾的事还有些弥补机会。故此选择C．They are really going to be missed．

[单选题]When the manager told her that she was the lucky customer, Mrs. White would be ______.

正确答案 ：C

rather sad

解析：解析：本题为一道推理题。由于仅仅是她忘买的茶是免费的，其价值不值一提，所以她应该感到失望。

[单选题]All the firemen in the city were ______to fight against the big fire.

正确答案 ：C

called up

解析：解析：called in意为“回收”；called off意为“取消”；called up 意为“召集，打电话，使人想起”；called on意为“访问(某人)”。

[单选题]Connie: Are you doing pottery? It looks like fun! Frank: ______ ? Connie: Boy, would I? Thanks.

正确答案 ：D

Would you like to try it

解析：解析：从Connie的惊喜反应到致谢，可以推断Frank可能给她机会试一试，其他选项与 Connie的反应不相符。

[单选题]Which of the following objects was an important woodworking tool used by early American craftsmen?

正确答案 ：D

A chisel

解析：解析：应该在文章中找到每一个选项的单词在文中出现的地方，然后判断出其是否是工具还是木雕作品。只有D选项chisel一词与另一种工具knife作为并列关系同时出现，所以可以判定其为另外一种工具。其他选项代表的全是木雕作品。

[单选题]At the foot of the mountain ______.

正确答案 ：A

stood a village

解析：解析：当句首状语是表示地点、处所的介词短语时，要引起全部倒装。D选项的错误在于其单词后没有加s。

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