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In the United States, it is not usual to telephone .someone very early in the morning. If you telephone him early ill the day, while he is shaving or having breakfast, the time of the call shows that the matter is very important and requires immediate attention. S,,o il is with the telephone calls made after 11:00 l)m. If someone receives a call during sleeping hours, he may think that it's a matter of life and death. The time chosen for the call communicates its importance.
In racial life, time plays a very important part. Ill the USA guests tend to feel they are not highly regarded if the invitation to a dinner party reaches them only three or four days before the party date. But it is not true in all countries. In other areas of the world, it may be considered foolish to make an appointment too far in advance because plans which are made for a date more than a week away tend to be forgotten. The meaning of time is not the same in different parts of the world. Thus, misunderstandings begin to exist between people from different cultures that treat time differently; being on time is valued highly in American life, for example. If people are not on time, they may be regarded as impolite or not fully responsible. In the USA no one would think of keeping a business friend for an hour; it would be too impolite. A person who is 5 minutes late is expected to make a short apology. If he is less than 5 minutes late, he will say a few words of explanation, though perhaps he will not complete the sentence.
63. A call at midnight would mean
A. the matter is less important
B. the matter is least important
C. the matter requires immediate attention
D. it is a matter of life and death
64. According to the passage, time carries meanings in all parts of the world.
A. the .same B. different C. similar D. secret
65. In the passage, the author suggests that invitation cards should be sent
A. three or four days before the party date in all cultures
B. three or four days before the party date in some cultures
C. two weeks before the party date in the USA
D. at your chosen time
66. The best title for this passage is
A. The Voices of Time B. The Saving of Time
C. The importance of an Announcement D. Time Is Money
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It is difficult for a visitor to India to avoid noticing the poverty, which surrounds him. The truth is that the land will yield only enough food to support two thirds of India's 480 million people. In a frank examination of Indian poverty, Ronald Segal in The Crisis of India observes, “Not only is the Indian economy overwhelmingly agricultural, it is less productive, land measure for land measure, than the agricultural economies of most other states too marry people struggle to wrest survival from the earth, and the earth yields far too little in return.”
“The stark consequence is that India produces only enough to feed a little less than two thirds of its population adequately. In a recent year, with a population of 438 million, food production reached 78 million tons. Together with three million tons of imported food, this permitted an average consumption of 
ounces a day, or 
ounces less than the essential minimum recommended nutritionists. If a diet necessary to sustain health was provided for as many people as possible, some 150 million people in India would have nothing whatsoever to eat. If everyone received the same food, 438 million people would eat less than two thirds of what their bodies required. As it is, a few are able to buy more food than they need, some can just afford the necessary diet, most live in constant—if manageable—want, and many ( no one knows how many, but they are numbered in tens of millions)exist in a state of starvation.”
And time is not on India's side. While production moves barely perceptibly, the population gallops along at something like 9,400,000 a year.
1．If sufficient food could be imported, how many people in India would it have to support to make up for the shortage of food?
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A．160 million people.
B．480 million people.
C．438 million people.
D．9,400,000 people.
2．According to the second paragraph, if 150 million people did not eat anything, ________.
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A．the remainder would probably die
B．they would all have 8.5 ounces less than the minimum diet
C．the rest would have 25 ounces a month
D．they would have a diet necessary to sustain their health
3．The current increase in the production of food ________.
[ ]
A．will gradually remedy the shortage
B．is not less than the rate of increase in the population
C．is a factor which will improve the situation eventually
D．is inadequate to cope with the rising population
4．The writer uses Segal's statement ________.
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A．to back up his own remarks
B．to appeal for foreign assistance
C．to stress the need for family planning
D．to refute the statement made in the last paragraph
5．The article suggests that agricultural methods in India ________ .
[ ]
A．are comparatively inefficient
B．are likely to improve in time
C．provide an average of 16.5 ounces a day for each person
D．less wasteful than those of most other countries
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36. A. joke B. curse C. decision D. impression
37. A. looked B. seen C. found D. 1ost
38. A. might B. should C. would D. could
39. A. hurry B. 1ine C. row D. moment
40. A. successful B. dead C. rich D. frustrated
41. A. choices B. fortune C. impressions D. apologies
42. A. proving B. confirming C. leaving D. telling
43. A. treated B. cured C. diagnosed D. round
44. A. on B. for C. at D. in
45. A. met B. 1ived C. did D. got
46. A. But B. However C. Therefore D. So
47. A. incurable B. fatal C. curable D. changeable
48. A. No one B. Someone C. Anyone D. Everyone
49. A. want B. avoid C. escape D. share
50. A. destination B. science C. 1ife D. disease
51. A. make up B. make way C. make our D. make for
52. A. distant B. long C. short D. away
53. A. enough B. rare C. limited D. 1ost
54. A. wasted B. cheated C. excited D. trapped
55. A. love B. voice C. direction D. confusion
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When I was 17，I read a quote that went something like：“If you live each day as if it were your last，someday you’ll most certainly be right” It made a deep 36 on me, and since then, for the past 33 years，I have 37 in the mirror every morning and asked myself：“If today were the last day of my life， 38 I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a 39 ，I know I need to change something．
Remembering that I’ll be 40 soon is the most important tool I’ve ever known to help me make the big 41 in life because almost everything falls away in the face of death， 42 only what is truly important.
About a year ago I was 43 with cancer. My doctor even advised me to go home and get my affairs 44 order，which is a doctor’s way of telling people to prepare to die．I 45 with that diagnosis all day． 46 ，at last an advanced test showed that it was a very rare cancer that is 47 with surgery．I had the surgery and I’m fine now.
48 wants to die．Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all 49 ．No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be，because death is very likely the single best invention of 50 ．It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to 51 for the new．Right now the new is you．But someday not too 52 from now，you will gradually become the old and be cleared away．Sorry to be so dramatic，but it is quite true.
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36. A. joke B. curse C. decision D. impression
37. A. looked B. seen C. found D. 1ost
38. A. might B. should C. would D. could
39. A. hurry B. 1ine C. row D. moment
40. A. successful B. dead C. rich D. frustrated
41. A. choices B. fortune C. impressions D. apologies
42. A. proving B. confirming C. leaving D. telling
43. A. treated B. cured C. diagnosed D. round
44. A. on B. for C. at D. in
45. A. met B. 1ived C. did D. got
46. A. But B. However C. Therefore D. So
47. A. incurable B. fatal C. curable D. changeable
48. A. No one B. Someone C. Anyone D. Everyone
49. A. want B. avoid C. escape D. share
50. A. destination B. science C. 1ife D. disease
51. A. make up B. make way C. make our D. make for
52. A. distant B. long C. short D. away
53. A. enough B. rare C. limited D. 1ost
54. A. wasted B. cheated C. excited D. trapped
55. A. love B. voice C. direction D. confusion
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