John Denver, the writer and composer of“Goodbye Again”, is one of the best－known North American country music singers and song writers．His album“John Denver's Greatest Hits”was the first long－playing album in the history of RCA(The Radio Corporation of America)to sell ten million copies．
John was a country boy by birth and preferred the mountains of Colorado to the big cities he had visited on his many travels．He was born Henry John Deutschendorf in Roswell, New Mexico on December, Colorado．
Even while he was studying architecture(建筑学)at Texas Tech University, John knew that he wanted to be a singer．When he decided to leave school, he found a job as a draftsman(绘图员)in Los Angeles and sang in a coffee house at night．
When the audition(试听)was held to replace Chad Mitchell of the famous Chad Mitchell Trio, two hundred and fifty candidates(候选人)went to try．Denver was chosen and sang with the group for two and half years before he decided to try to make it himself．
John and his wife, Annie, lived in Aspen, Colorado, not far from his favorite city．John was in great demand for concerts all over the nation and the world, so he had to leave Annie, who often preferred to stay home, and take to the road．His song“Goodbye Again”express his feelings about traveling and being away from home．
(1)
John knew he was going to be a singer ________．
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A．
from the time he was a college student
B．
from the time he started working
C．
since 1943
D．
when he was a child
(2)
When John left college, he had two jobs．They were ________．
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A．
being a draftsman and a singer
B．
being an architect and working for RCA
C．
working for an airline and singing in a coffee house
D．
working for a company and for RCA
(3)
Before John made his own business, he ________．
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A．
sang with his wife
B．
sang together with the Chad Mitchell Trio
C．
played the guitar for other famous singers
D．
practising singing at home
(4)
John's“Goodbye Again”tells about ________．
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A．
his love for Colorado
B．
leaving college
C．
his travel and feelings about being away from home
In his 1930 essay “Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren “, John Keynes, acconmist, ewrote that human needs fall into two classes：absolute needs, which are indupe what other have, and relative needs, which make us feel superior to our fellows He thought alough relative needs may indeed be insatible(无止境的)this isnottrue ofabsolute
Keynes wans surely correct that only a small part of total spending id decided by the super iority He was gretly mistaken, however, in seeting this desive as the only source of demands
Decisions to spend are also driven by ideas of quality which can influnce the den almost all goods, including even basic goods like food．When a couple goes out for an anm dinner, for example, the thought of feeling superior to others probably never comes to them．The goal is to share a special meal that stands out from other meals．
There are no obvious limits to the escalation of demand for quality．For example, porsche famous car producer, has a model which was considered perhaps the best sport car on the mark Priced at over ＄120,000, it handles perfectly well and has great speen acceleration．But in 200 the producer introduced some changes which made the model slightly better in handling acceleration．People who really care about cars find these small improvemenmts exciting．To them, however, they must pay almost four times the price．
By placing the desire to be superior to other at the heart of his description of nisation demands, Keynes actually reduced such demands．However, the desire for higher quality has natural limits．
(1)
According to the passage, John Keynes Believed that ________．
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A．
desire is the root of both absolute and relative needs
B．
absolute needs come from our sense of superiority
C．
relative needs alone lead to insatiable demands
D．
absolute needs are stronger than relative needs
(2)
What do we know about the couble in Paragraph 3?
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A．
They want to show their superiority
B．
They find specialty important to meals
C．
Their demands for food are not easily satisfied．
D．
Their choice of dinner is related to ideas of quality．
(3)
What does the underlined word “escalation”in Paragraph 4 probably mean?
