13. To say is ______ thing; to do is ______.

第二节 完型填空

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。

Lately I have been noticing the great number of electrical appliances (电器) on the market. It seems to me that there are【C1】______ now than a few years ago. I' m not really【C2】______ why this is so;【C3】______ I do have a few【C4】______ . The first is that we are just too【C5】______ to do things by hand【C6】______ . For every little job we once had to do there is now a 【C7】______ . The seconds that electrical appliance companies are just trying to make【C8】______ out of people's laziness.

【C9】______ all of these electrical appliances around for us to use now, I【C10】______ how I would have lived fifty years ago.【C11】______ , how would I have cleaned my floor? I guess I could have【C12】______ one of those things called a "broom" , which I【C13】______ see now. I'm not trying to say I don't【C14】______ electrical appliances; I certainly【C15】______ . It is hard for me to imagine【C16】______ . I would do without my hair dryer!【C17】______ , I do think a lot of modem appliances are needless and【C18】______ may become even lazier by using them.【C19】______ we'll have a catastrophic (灾难的) electric failure some day and 【C20】______ just how much we really have been depending on our electrical appliances!

【C1】

A．fewer

B．too many

C．more

D．no more

第二节 完型填空

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。

Lately I have been noticing the great number of electrical appliances (电器) on the market. It seems to me that there are【C1】______ now than a few years ago. I' m not really【C2】______ why this is so;【C3】______ I do have a few【C4】______ . The first is that we are just too【C5】______ to do things by hand【C6】______ . For every little job we once had to do there is now a 【C7】______ . The seconds that electrical appliance companies are just trying to make【C8】______ out of people's laziness.

【C9】______ all of these electrical appliances around for us to use now, I【C10】______ how I would have lived fifty years ago.【C11】______ , how would I have cleaned my floor? I guess I could have【C12】______ one of those things called a "broom" , which I【C13】______ see now. I'm not trying to say I don't【C14】______ electrical appliances; I certainly【C15】______ . It is hard for me to imagine【C16】______ . I would do without my hair dryer!【C17】______ , I do think a lot of modem appliances are needless and【C18】______ may become even lazier by using them.【C19】______ we'll have a catastrophic (灾难的) electric failure some day and 【C20】______ just how much we really have been depending on our electrical appliances!

【C1】

A．fewer

B．too many

C．more

D．no more

Death Control

A very important world problem -- in fact, I am inclined to say it. is the most important of all the great world problems_______ (1) -- is the rapidly increasing pressure of population on land and on land resources.

This enormous increase of population will create immense problems. By 2010 A．D．, unless something desperate happens, there will be as many as 7,000,000,000 people on the surface of the earth！So this is a problem which you are going to see in your lifetime.

Why is this enormous increase in population taking place.9 It is really due to the spread of the knowledge and the practice of_______ (2) You have heard of Birth Control? Death Control is something rather different. Death Control recognizes the work of the doctors and the nurses and the hospitals and the health services in keeping alive people who_______ (3) , would have died of some of the incredibly serious killing diseases, as they used to do. In addition, squalid conditions, which we can remedy by an improved standard of living, caused a lot of disease and dirt.

Medical examinations at school catch diseases early and ensure healthier school children. Scientists are at work stamping out malaria and other more deadly diseases. If you are seriously ill there is an ambulance to take you to a modern hospital. Medical care helps_______ (4) We used to think seventy was a good age; now eighty, ninety, it may be, are coming to be recognized as a normal age for human beings. People are living longer because of this Death Control, and_______ (5), so the population of the world is shooting up.

A．fewer children are dying.

B．a few years ago

C．what is coming to be called Death Control

D．which face us at the present time

E．making it possible for people to live longer

F．to keep people alive longer

第 46 题

请选择（1）处的最佳答案．

I'm in heaven and the first thing to do is buy the required textbooks, cover them with the purple and white NYU book jackets so that people in the subway will look at me admiringly. (I am in heaven不能直译成“我上了天堂"，这句话应意译。)

A、“Good appetite”

B、“Enjoy your meal”

C、“Good luck”

D、nothing