71.The underlined word“wreck”in the last paragraph most probably means“ ________”.

    A.operation  B.business   C.competition    D.crash

E

Do you know what it means when somebody tells you that he had “a catch-22 experience”?

The phrase “catch-22” comes from a book of the same title by the American writer Joseph Heller published in 1961.Catch-22 is a book of black humor.The author uses silly and even surreal(超现实的)events.It has a non-linear narrative structure(非线性的叙述结构)in which events follow the theme rather than the timing,to give us a very strange picture full of contradictions(矛盾).

The story takes places in a bomber base in Italy during World WarⅡ.The main character, Captain Yossarian wants to leave the war.Unfortunately, every time he completes the number of tasks to be sent home,the number is raised and he is forced to continue fighting.It seems hopeless for him to go home under the very strange rule in this Air Force-catch-22:only when a soldier goes crazy can he be allowed to go home.But he has to go to the hospital to show the doctors that he is crazy.However, if he tells them he is crazy but is obvious healthy, he cannot go home.In short,catch-22 is“heads 1 win,tails I lose.If you can you can’t;and if you can’t,you can.”Whenever you try to behave correctly in a crazy world.There’s a catch(潜在的困难).

During the Vietnam War, the phrase“catch-22”became a popular term for being caught in a no.win,circular dilemma and is now commonly used.The Oxford English Dictionary explains catch.22 as“a set of circumstances in which one requirement,etc,is dependent upon another, which is in turn dependent upon the first.”

67.The most common sign in women with heart disease is ________ ___

    A.shortness of breath  B.a sick stomach

    C.pain in the back or jaw   D.pain in the chest

D

TOKYO(AP)-An express train traveling through strong winter winds derailed(出轨)in northern Japan,killing four people and injuring more than 30,officials said Monday.

Five cars of the six-car express train derailed Sunday evening,three of them toppling(倾倒)onto their sides in Yamagata prefecture(辖区),about 1 80 miles north of Tokyo,officials said.The train was going from northern Akita to Niigata prefecture.

The injuries of the survivors did not appear to be life-threatening,Yamagata police spokesman Yoshikatsu Oe said.It was unclear how many passengers were on the train,but Oe said most of the injured were in the first two cars.

The dead included two men and two women, and rescuers planned to lift the wreckage(残骸)later in the day to see if any other passengers remained beneath,officials said.

Transport Ministry official Hiromi Mishima said it was not known what caused the derailment and officials were assessing the extent(程度)of the damage.Railway operator JR East Co.President Mutsutake Otsuka apologized for the accident at a news conference Monday morning and promised a thorough investigation(调查).

Yamagata police official Yasuhiro Sugiu said there had been high.speed wind warnings for the area.According to a train conductor,a strong gust(阵风)hit the train just before the accident.Winds in the area were about 48 mph,Kyodo News agency reported.

Authorities said they did not know how fast the train was going.Speed was believed to be a factor in an.April 25 train wreck that killed 107 people and injured more than 500 others in Amagasaki,western Japan.That accident was Japan’s worst train wreck since 1963.

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