[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]He was in a hurry and left things in a real ______.

正确答案 ：C

mess

解析：解析：in a mess意为“处于混乱之中”；mixture意为“混合，混合物”；mass意为“一块”；confusion意为“混乱，混淆”。

[单选题]Which of the following can we infer from the passage?

正确答案 ：C

The supermarket might just play a trick so customers should be more cautious.

解析：解析：本题也是一个推理题，由本实例说明商场会玩一些小把戏促销，所以消费者应该对此多加小心不上当。其他的选项说法没有足够的理由在任何情况下都成立。

[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 statement is TRUE according to this passage?

正确答案 ：D

Not only foreigners but also native people wanted to book rooms for Games.

解析：解析：A和B选项与事实不符，属于错误答案；C选项也被否定，原因是文中说北京饭店并不接受提前这么长时间的预订，而只是记下预订人的姓名。D选项可以在文章中找到出处：“... the hotel had already received 50 to 60 such phone calls from would-be game-goers gambling on the result．Domestic callers have mainly come from the southern provinces of Guangdong and Fujian.”

[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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