In modern society there is a great deal of argument about competition. Some   36    it highly, believing that it is   37   for social progress and prosperity. Others say that   38   is bad, that it sets one person against another; that it   39   unfriendly relationship between people. 

I have taught many children who held the   40   that their self-worth relied on how well they   41    at tennis and other skills. For them, playing well and winning are often life-and –death affairs.  In their single-minded   42   of success, the development of many other human qualities is   43   forgotten.  

   44   , while some seem to be lost in the desire to succeed, others take a(n)   45   attitude. In a culture valuing only the winner and   46   to the ordinary players, they strongly   47   competition. They seem to seek failure by not trying to win or   48   success.  By not trying, they always have a(n)   49  ：“I may have lost, but it doesn’t matter   50   I really didn’t try.”   51    , this belief is the same as    52   of the true competitors trying to prove themselves. Both are based on the   53   belief that one’s self-respect relies on how well one performs in    54   with others.  Both are afraid of not being valued. Only as this basic and often troublesome fear begins to dissolve（缓解）  55   a new meaning in competition.  

36．A．benefit                   B．influences             C．value                     D．impress

37．A．cheerful                 B．meaningful             C．comfortable            D．responsible

38．A．competition            B．ability                    C．knowledge             D．challenge

39．A．runs into            B．leads to                  C．comes from            D．begins with

40．A．promise              B．belief                    C．dream                    D．task

41．A．planned                 B．performed              C．delivered               D．practiced

42．A．pursuit                   B．memory                  C．behalf                    D．search

43．A．shyly                     B．cheerfully              C．sadly                     D．faithfully

44．A．Therefore               B．Meanwhile             C．However            D．Afterwards

45．A．proper                    B．suitable                   C．confident                   D．opposite

46．A．paying no attention        B．pays less attention  C．paid more attention        D．pays no attention

47．A．excuse                   B．blame                    C．charge                   D．trust

48．A．enjoy                     B．apply                   C．receive                   D．achieve

49．A．opinion                  B．explanation            C．excuse                   D．reason

50．A．unless                    B．so                          C．while                     D．because

51．A．Firmly                   B．Naturally                    C．Unfortunately       D．Clearly

52．A．that                      B．one                        C．it                           D．this

53．A．mistaken            B．different                 C．single                    D．common

54．A．consequence           B．comparison            C．connection             D．common

55．A．we can discover       B．can we discover      C．can discover            D．we discover

In our hometown, a private school was closed down as a _______ of its terribly bad management.

   A. matter           B. consequence         C. whole       D. total

In 1859, Italy and France were at war with Austria, and Henry Dunant, a young Swiss gentleman, came upon one of their battlefields. For the first time in his life, Dunant saw how heartless war would be. Around him were suffering men untended and left to die where they fell.

Henry Dunant went to work at once. Helped by several peasant women, he formed an ambulance service and set up headquarters in a little church. He treated the wounds of Frenchmen, Italians and Austrians alike. When he was asked why he did so, his answer showed a spirit of humanity that was not common in those days. “We are all brothers. A wounded enemy is an enemy no longer.” With his band of assistants, Dunant helped to save many lives. The “gentleman in white” (as Dunant was called because he wore a white suit) was looked upon by hundreds of wounded men as an angel.

    When Dunant returned to Switzerland, he could not forget the needless suffering on the battlefield. He thought of a great organization that should be planned to include many nations. It would do its work with the approval of all countries. And it must operate under a sign that all would know: its symbol would be a red cross against a white background.

He wrote a book to make the public see the need for this great organization. In the book he included a truthful account of what he had seen on the battlefield. The consequence was that readers were shocked by what he described.

After Dunant’s hard work, in Geneva on October 26, 1863, all the nations of Europe were invited to a meeting at which it was decided a relief society should be formed in each country. Then the Geneva Convention was made the following year. The nations that signed the Geneva Convention chose the red cross as the symbol for the international organization.

    Until his death in 1910, Dunant was always ready to look for a noble cause. And when the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded for the first time in 1901, the honor went to Dunant. No man has deserved it more than the founder of the Red Cross.

46. Why was Dunant looked upon as an angel by wounded men?

A. Because he really came from the heaven to help.            B. Because he wore a white suit.

C. Because he helped to save many lives.                          D. Because he was good-looking.

47. Why did Henry Dunant go to the battlefield?

A. To do business.                                                          B. To travel about the country.

C. To visit his friends.                                                     D. Not mentioned in the passage.

48. Dunant planned the organization with an intention to ______________.

A. function only in Europe                                               B. stop war

C. get the approval for relief work from every country       D. show his ability

49. In the passage, readers can’t learn ______________.

A. when Henry Dunant died

B. when nations in Asia signed the Geneva Convention

C. why Dunant deserved the Nobel Peace Prize

D. that Dunant was a determined man.

50. “We are all brothers. A wounded enemy is an enemy no longer.” The sentence showed that _______________.

A. Dunant was a good soldier                                          B. Dunant had no principle when he acted

C. Dunant wanted to stop war                                         D. Dunant had great sympathy for human beings