1. Utopians are frequently characterized by excessive hatred of the present. These inspired reformers paint now as the most evil of all time and our civilization as the worst in history. They tend to idealize the past and future by accentuating            .

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□ contemporary progress	□ the worst in both	□ present faults	□ historical review

2. Indulged into excess, reading becomes a vice, a vice all the more dangerous for not being generally recognized as such. And excessive reading is the only form of self-indulgence which fails to get the blame         .

□ it obtains	□ it denies	□ it deserves	□ it recognizes

3. The minimum amount of time you should spend exercising in a day is 20 minutes. True. There are more than 400 muscles that attach to your skeleton. A good exercise routine should         all the these muscles, and this simply cannot be done with four or five exercises in five or ten minutes.

□ contract and stretch    □ harden and soften    □ contract and relax    □ contract and stretch    □ fit and unfit

4. Slavery is perhaps the most cruel act a society can inflict upon fellow human beings. It deprives them of their personhood and gives them little hope for a better tomorrow. Even after slaves become free, the degradation follows them throughout life and even affects future generations,           .

□ All of them will kill themselves in vexation	□ Now there is no slavery system in the world

□ They will be more pleased than their forefathers	□ They may hope to have the slavery system maintained

□ The cost to society from the slavery is enormous in terms of lost human potential

5. It is important aspect of all knowledge that the sum is more than the parts, that relationships are more important than incidents. Much of the intolerance and ruthlessness in the world is due to isolation of knowledge and ideas from the context in which they will be worked out, in other words, to         of relationships.

□ neglect	□ abundance	□ change	□ increase	□ benefit

6. Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation          .

□ impractical	□ unassailable	□ breathless	□ disposable	□ unfathomable

7. Dan Bloom, a 49-year-old American living in Taiwan, has been afraid to fly since the engine of the plane he was on in Alaska caught fire about 15 years ago. Nevertheless, when he fell in love with a Japanese woman, he gave himself a pep talk, swallowed four Valium tablets, and        to Tokyo.

□ traveled by sea	□ boarded a plane

□ canceled his air ticket	□ called without reservation	□ went all the way

8. Happiness and success in life do not depend on our circumstances, but on ourselves. More men have ruined themselves than have ever been destroyed by others: more houses and cities have perished        than storms or earthquakes have ever destroyed.

□ in the past, not today	□ with an elapse of time

□ at the hands of man	□ beyond any expectation	□ by irresistible force

9. I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate but        . It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must feel something about me or they couldn't possibly hate.

□ nobody knows         □ It's apathy       □ it's grudge        □ you name it        □it's interest

10. "Your daughter is going downhill fast," Dr. Richard Dickerman told Norma Ed Roberts as they sat in the doctor's office at Methodist Central Hospital in Dallas, Texas. "Without a kidney transplant soon, she will die. If you could find her natural parents and one of them is willing to donate a kidney, this would greatly          the possibility of significant organ rejection."

□ reduce	□ elevate	□ alleviate	□ aggravate

11. Unkempt and unshaven, the 68-year old teacher stepped in front of Tsar Alexander Ⅰ of Russia, who, after defeating Napoleon's army, had set up temporary headquarters in Basel. The frail Swiss educator  -  Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi  -  knew that the Tsar's troops were to convert his institute of education into a        hospital.

□ charitable	□ clinical	□ military	□ free

12. Karl Marx based his theories on a belief that men's minds are limited by their economic necessities and that there is a necessary conflict of interests in our present civilization between prosperous and employing classes of popple and the employed mass. With the advance in education necessitated by the mechanical revolution, this great employed majority will become more and more class-conscious and more and more solid in hostility to          .

□ ruling minority	□ mass population	□ aristocracy	□ wealthy people

13. young people need good teaching of science; not so much a great wealth of knowledge as a healthy understanding of the nature of science. They need an understanding of knowledge leading to a sympathy with science and a keen awareness of the way scientists  work. Given these, it is         to encourage reading and learning.

□ difficult	□ possible	□ easy	□ impossible

14. On the morning of the Queen's Coronation, in June 1953, the news came through that Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing had not only reached the top of Mt. Everest, but had stayed there for some time. The crowds who had stood in the rain to see the royal couple, and the country as a whole, were thrilled at the news. It was the best possible beginning for the Coronation Day - a day which saw the triumph         .

□ both of indecision and of tradition	□ both of determination and of injustice

□ both of indecision and of injustice	□ both of determination and of tradition

15. To live well, a nation must produce well. In recent years many observers have charged that American industry is not producing as well as it used to produce, or as well as the industries of some other nations have learned to produce. If the charges are true and if the trend cannot be reversed, then sooner or later the American standard of living must pay the        .

□ penalty	□ attention	□ capital	□profit

16. When World War II was still in progress, I had heard of a distinguished German named Konrad Adenauer, one of the few leaders in his country with the courage to oppose Hitler. After the Nazi took over he continued to        the principles of democracy sturdily and openly. Although he was imprisoned for a time, his standing among the people of Germany was such that Hitler did not dare execute him.

□ disagree	□ oppose	□ espouse	□reproach

17. The conduct of human life and organization of human society depend on our answers to such questions as what happiness consists in, what our duties are, what form of government is most just, what constitutes the common good of society, what freedom men should have, and so on. No one of these questions nor any question like them which involves right and wrong or good and bad, can be answered by          , now or ever

□ politics	□science	□ ethics	□ philosophy

18. The simple word 'art' is most usually associated with those arts which we distinguish as 'plastic' or 'visual', but properly speaking it should include the arts of literature and         . There are certain characteristics common to all the arts, and though in these notes we are concerned only with the plastic arts, a definition of what is common to all the arts is the best starting-point of our inquiry.

□sculpture	□ picture         □ cal	ligrapher      □music

19. In the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries so many people were attracted by the apparent simplicity of banking and the high profits that many mushroom banks started up and bankruptcies were frequent. Every bankruptcy meant not only the failure of the banker but hardship to the depositors and borrowers. Commercial life became very            , so that the government in 1844 passed the Bank Charter Act to regularize banking.

□ tough	□ insecure        □ unremunerated   □ sinister

20. Most of us as children tended to believe what our eyes and ears told us. We seldom looked below the surface of what we saw and heard. Most of us were too young to question tradition or the actions we witnessed. Often it was not until we grew older that we began to realize that           . All that time we may have become disillusioned or disappointed about what was revealed to us.

□ we had seen only the dark side of things	□our eyes and ears had been infected with virus

□ not all thing were as they appeared	□ what we had witnessed was all questionable

□ everything we had witnessed came up to the surface

21. My four-year-old son spotted a cheap water pistol at the supermarket and pleaded with me to buy it. I pointed out that the gun was so flimsy it was sure to break easily, finishing up my argument by suggesting that we could find a much better one elsewhere,        , he continued to beg, so I took the easy way out and bought the toy for him.

□ surprised	□ Unconvinced          □ Angered         □ Satisfied          □ Disappointed

22. As each bird flaps its wings, it creates an uplift draft for the bird following. By flying in a "V" formation, the whole flock adds a greater flying range than if one bird flew alone. Likewise people who share a common direction and sense of community can get where they're going quicker and more easily because they are traveling        .

□ trying to get ahead of anybody else	□ not knowing who is responsible for leadership

□ without being exhausted or feeling bored	□ on the strength of one another   □ without having to form a "V" formation

23. Teenagers need to understand that reckless driving not only risks their personal safety but could also cause the death of a best friend or put a girl friend in a wheelchair for the rest of her life. Teens who are held responsible for an accident may also wind up spending years behind bars. The thrill           .

□ could last a lifetime	□ should be carefully handled

□ doesn't make an expert driver	□ is simply not worth the cost         □ can't be replaced by anything

24. A period of        is critical. There's no sin in this. Tears aren't sign that you 're simply feeling sorry for yourself but are an expression of sadness or emotion that must find an outlet. And it doesn't matter if this emotion takes a while to surface, as long as I finally finds an way out.

□ praise	□grieving         □ disappointment        □ rejoicing          □ raging

25. People who are active and exercise regularly, require more calories to maintain their weight than those people who are not. Unfortunately, this is a normal process of aging. And this also explains why you could eat that cheeseburger and fries 10 years ago and not gain an ounce, but now, it           .

□ can be brought under control	□ is digestible right threat

□ is nothing to do with your weight	□ is nothing to do with your weight    □ adds those unwanted pounds

26. There is nothing which we receive          as advice. We look upon the man who gives it to us as offering an affront to our understanding, and treating us like children or idiots. We consider the instruction as an implicit censure, and the zeal which any one shows for our good on such an occasion, as a piece of presumption or impertinence.

□ without any subjective feeling	□ with almost no antipathy

□irrespective of circumstances	□ as often and unexpectedly         □ with so much reluctance

27. Until now we have said, "We will assume there is no diversity because we can't measure it; we will assume equality." We have tried systematically to get of our sense of differences based on superficial criteria such as race and color. But we're going to find very quickly that a true analysis leads us to          .

□ equality	□ criteria        □ heredity        □ fallacy                 □differences

28. Life is a one-way street. No matter how many detours you take, none of them leads back. Once you know and accept that, life becomes much         . Because then you know you must do that the best you can with what you have and what you are and what you have become.

□ more bewildering	□ looser        □ simpler         □ more complicated       □ tougher

29. Novelists, whether they admit it or not, present judgments about life that they want their readers to accept. Any author who heard a stranger praise his latest book by saying that his style was good, but the behavior and ideas of his characters were unreal, would be deeply hurt. It would mean that          .

□ the value of his book should be judged again	□ all his extreme emotions were completely removed

□ he was trying to write the truth as he was forced	□ his judgments about life were not accepted

□ he should defend himself against all those critics

30. We very well know that not only is lying becoming more frequent, but also          . One hundred years ago when a man lived his entire life in the same community where he born, it was very difficult to lie; everyone knew everybody's business. But today someone could claim to have been a star high school soccer player who dated the prom queen and nobody will go through the work to figure out how to catch him.

□ more difficult to detect	□ more burdensome to stick to     □ easier to deal with

□ more private to care about	□ simpler to confess