Fred was born in a rich family.His father had a big company and he had four brothers.He was the strongest of them five but he did not like to use his head.Of course he could not pass the examinations.
Suddenly the war broke out.Young men were called on to join the army.His father thought for a long time and at last decided to send him to the military camp(军营).Soon after that he was sent to France where they fought with Germans.The young man hated the life in the camp.They could not be supplied with enough food and had to live in the cold and wet houses, sometimes they had to sleep on the hard ground and he was often afraid to be shot.He usually remembered the life in his country and tried to leave the camp.
Once he made an excuse in order not to the front.Another soldier whose name was Bob reported the captain about it.Fred was punished for it.He hated Bob and the captain very much.In a fight he hurt the captain and he was sent to the court(法庭)at once.
“Have you hurt the captain, Fred?” asked a judge.
“Yes, I have, sir, ”answered the young man, “but it was a fortuitous(偶然的)accident.”
“Oh?” the judge said in surprise, “Why?”
“The captain was standing just in front of Bob while I was shooting at the young soldier.So I hurt him by mistake.”
(1)
Fred could not pass the examinations because ________.
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A.
his brother did not help him
B.
he liked to have some sports
C.
he would not use his head
D.
he wanted to be a soldier
(2)
Fred was sent to the military camp because ________.
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A.
his father did not love him
B.
he was weak at his subjects
C.
he was stronger than his brothers
D.
both B and C
(3)
________, so he hated the life in the military camp.
Modcm inventions have speeded up people's lives amazingly.Motor-cars cover a bundred miles in little more than an hour.Aireraft cross the world a day, while computers operate at lightning speed.Indeed, this love of speed seems never-ending.Every ycar motor-cars are produced which go even faster each new computer boasts(吹嘘)of saving preeious seconds in handling tasks.
All this saves timc, but at a prick.When we lose or gain half a day in speeding aeross the world in an airplane, our bodies tell us so.We get the uncomfoerable feeling known as jet-lag; our bodies feel tlru they have been left bebind in anot ar nine zoors Again pending too long at compulers resul's in painti ninrts and fingers.Mobile phones also to dange according to some seientists; too much uss may thesmit h bul radiation into our brains, a we do not like to think about.
Howave, what do we do with the time we have saved?Certainly not or so it seems.We are so accustomed to constant activity that we find it difficult to sit and do nothing, or even just one thing at a time.Pcrhaps the days are long gone when we might listen quietly to a story on the radio, letting imavination take us into another world.
There was a time when some people's lives were devotcd simply to the cultivation of the land or the eare of eattle.No multi-tasking there; their lives wenl on at a much gentler pace, and in a familiar pattern.There is much that we might envy about a way of life like this.Yet before we do so, we must think of the hard tasks our ancestors faeed;:they farmed with bare hands, often lived close to hunger, and had to fashion tools from wood and stone.Modem machinery has freed peope fre that primitive existcnee.
(1)
The new rooucts opcome more and more time-saving beeause.
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A.
our lose e u speed uts never-ending
B.
mo is liwhcd
C.
shi pnces are increasingly high
D.
the manufacturers boast a lot
(2)
What does“the days”in Paragraph 3 refer to?
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A.
I maginary life
B.
Simple life in the past
C.
Times of inventions
D.
Time for constant activity
(3)
What is the author's attitude towards the modem teehnology?