The textbook can never be adjusted as it is standardized.

The importance of soil-keeping can never be over stressed for scientists observe that it takes nature 500 years to create an inch of topsoil.

A)土壤保持的重要性从来也没过多强调， 因为科学家说了自然界要花 500年才产生一英寸表层土壤。

B)科学家对土壤保持的重要性讨论还没结束，说要保护自然 500年才能得到一英寸表层土壤。

C)土壤保持非常重要，因为科学家指出自然形成一英寸厚的表层土壤要花 500年时间。

D)土壤保持的重要性怎么强调也不过分， 因为科学家指出形成一英寸厚的表层土壤要花500年的自然时间。

E)科学家对土壤保持的重要性讨论永远不会结束， 并说500年后表层土壤将不到一英寸。

Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

A．Culture shock can never be cured.

B．Culture shock can be cured.

C．Culture shock can be avoided.

D．Culture shock is a physical ailment.

Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

A．Culture shock can never be cured.

B．Culture shock can be cured.

C．Culture shock can be avoided.

D．Culture shock is a physical ailment.

One can nevertheless smoke at home.

You can never go straight into a site without first entering a category.

A．Y

B．N

C．NG

The classic difficulty felt with democracy arises from the fact that democracy can never express the will of the whole people because there never exists any such unchanging will (at least in any society that call itself democratic). The concept of government of the whole people by the whole people must be looked on as being in the poetry rather than in the prose of democracy; the fact of prose is that real democracy means government by some kind of dominant majority.

And the ever-present danger, repeatedly realized in fact, is that this dominant majority may behave toward those who are not of the majority in such a manner as to undermine the moral basis of the right of people, because they are people, to have some important say in the setting of their own course and in the use of their own faculties. Other forms of government may similarly fail to respect human independence. But there is at least no contradiction in that; the underlying assumption of every kind of government by wisers and betters is that people on the whole are not fit to manage their own affairs, but must have someone else do it for them, and there is no paradox when such a government treats its subjects without respect, or deals With them on the basis of their having no rights that the government must take into account.

But democracy affirms that people are fit to control themselves, and it cannot live in the same air with the theory that there is no limit to the extent to which public power--even the power of a majority--can interfere with the lives of people.

Rational limitation on power is therefore not a contradiction to democracy, but is of the very essence of democracy as such. Other sorts of government may impose such limitations on themselves as an act of grace. Democracy is under the moral duty of limiting itself because such limitation is essential to the survival of that respect for humankind which is in the foundations of democracy. Respect for the freedom of all people cannot, of course, be the only guide, for there would then be no government. Delicate ongoing compromise is what must be looked for. But democracy, unless it is to deny its own moral basis, must accept the necessity for making this compromise and for giving real weight to the claims of those without the presently effective political power to make their claims prevail in elections.

By "the prose of democracy" (Paragraph 1) the author most probably means its ______.

A．popular interpretation

B．actual operation

C．ongoing compromise

D．rational limitation

One can nevertheless smoke at home.

A．Right

B．Wrong

C．Not mentioned

Look at the four squares [■] that indicate where the following sentence could be added to the passage. She nevertheless went on striving for success in new research fields. Where would the sentence best fit?

A．Square Ａ.

B．Square Ｂ.

C．Square Ｃ.

D．Square Ｄ.