A good book is often the best urn （翁) of a life enshrining the best that life could think

should base your composition on the outline given in Chinese below.

1. 在市场经济中“适者生存”是非常重要的。

2．“适者生存”同样适用于现代社会中的每一个人。

3．我应该如何去适应社会的需要。

You may base your composition on the clues given below:

1. 如果有机会带外国度假两周，你会选择哪个国家?

2．请至少给出三个理由。

tegrated circuits and a professor of computer science at the California Institute of Technology, notes there are now work stations that enable engineers to design, test and produce chips right on their desks, much the way as editor creates a newsletter on a Macintosh. As the time and cost of making a chip drop to a few days and a few hundred dollars, engineers may soon be free to let their imagination soar without being penalized by expensive failures. Mead predicts that inventors will be able to perfect powerful customized chips over a weekend at the office — spawning a new generation of garage starts-ups and giving the US a jump on its foreign rivals in getting new products to market fast. "We've got more garages with smart people. " Mead observes, "We really thrive on anarchy. "

The author's purpose in writing this passage is______.

A．to urge individuals to follow traditional customs

B．to stress the strong influence of customs on an individual

C．to examine the interaction of man and social customs

D．to show man's adjustment to traditional customs

According to the passage, a person's life, from his birth to his death, ______.

A．is constantly shaping the cultural traditions of his people

B．is predominated by traditional custom

C．is continually influenced by the habits of other communities

D．is chiefly influenced by the people around him

The word "custom" in this passage most probably means______.

A．the concept of the true and the false of a society

B．the independently developed social orders

C．the adjustment of the individual to the new social environment

D．the patterns and standards of behavior. of a community

Which of the following is true according to John Dewey?

A．An individual can exercise very little influence on the cultural tradition into which he is born.

B．Custom is the direct result of the philosophical probings of a group of people.

C．An individual is strongly influenced by the cultural tradition even before he is born.

D．Custom represents the collective wisdom which benefits the individual.

The author thinks the reason why custom has been ignored in the academic world is that

A．custom reveals only the superficial nature of human behavior

B．the study of social orders can replace the study of custom

C．people are still not aware of the important role that custom plays in forming our world outlook

D．custom has little to do with our ways of thinking

What is the main topic of the passage?

A．The agricultural revolution in New Jersey.

B．Machinery that contributed to the agricultural revolution.

C．The development of safer farm machines.

D．The need for agricultural advances.

Why did farmers reject Newbold's plow?

A．They preferred lighter tools.

B．It was too heavy.

C．They thought it would ruin the land.

D．It was too expensive.