3.　　　 Success in any scientific career requires _______

A.　　　 An unusual equipment of capacity

B.　　　　 Industry

C.　　　　 Energy

D.　　　 All of above

2.　　　 What is invaluable habit? ________

A.　　　 To do something you don’t care about.

B.　　　　 To do something you like

C.　　　　 Doing something that you don’t care about when you would much rather be doing something.

D.　　　 None of above

1.　　　 In the author’s opinion a man’s first duty is _____

A.　　　 To find a job

B.　　　　 To find a way of supporting himself

C.　　　　 To find other people of supporting him

D.　　　 To find a good habit

5.　　　 From the passage, the author wants to tell us ________

A.　　　　 How to make friends

B.　　　　 Books are our friends

C.　　　　 The great and good not die in this world

D.　　　　 How to read books

Passage 85　 Choosing an occupation

In my opinion a man’s first duty is to find a way of supporting himself,

Thereby relieving other people of the necessity of supporting him. Moreover, the learning to do work of practical value in the world, in an exact and careful manner, is of itself a very important education, the effects of which make themselves in all other pursuits. The habit of doing that which you do not care about when you would much rather be doing something else, is invaluable. It would have saved me a frightful waste of time if I had ever had it drilled into me in youth.

Success in any scientific career requires an unusual equipment of capacity, industry, and energy. If you possess that equipment, you will find leisure enough after your daily commercial work is over, to make an opening in the scientific ranks for yourself. If you do not, you had better stick to commerce. Nothing is less to be desired than the fate of a young man who, as Scotch proverb says, in “trying to make a spoon spoils a horn”, and becomes a mere hangeron in literature or in science, when he might have been a useful and a valuable member of society in other occupations.

4.　　　 Why don’t the great and good person die even in the world? _______

A.　　　　 Because they are much alive.

B.　　　　 Because they like books.

C.　　　　 Because their spirits are embalmed in books.

D.　　　　 Because they are statues

3.　　　 A man may usually be known by _________

A.　　　　 the books he reads

B.　　　　 the temples

C.　　　　 the statues

D.　　　　 time

2.　　　 Which of the following about books is true? ________

A.　　　　 Books can decay.

B.　　　　 Books are bad products.

C.　　　　 Books possess an essence of immortality.

D.　　　　 Temples survive the same as books.

1.　　　 Why is a book the best of friends? _____

A.　　　　 because it will never change.

B.　　　　 Because it is the most patient and cheerful of companions.

C.　　　　 Because it doesn’t turn its back upon us.

D.　　　　 All of above.

5.　　　 What contribute to the health and long life of all these people? _______-

A.　　　 Clean mountain air

B.　　　　 Daily hard work

C.　　　　 Good genes

D.　　　 All of above

Passage 84　 Companionship of books

　 A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps; for there is a companionship of books as well as of men; and one should always live in the best company, whether it be of books or of men.

A good book may be among the best of friends. It is the same today that it always was, and it will never change. It is the most patient and cheerful of companions. It does not turn its back upon us in times of adversity or distress. It always receives us with the same kindness, amusing and instructing us in youth, and comforting and consoling us in age.

Books possess an essence of immortality. They are by far the most lasting products of human effort. Temples and statues decay, but books survive. Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author’s minds ages ago. What was then said and thought still speaks to us as vividly as ever from the printed page. The only effect of time has been to sift out the bad products; for nothing in literature can long survive but what is really good.

Books introduce us into the best society; they bring us into the presence of the greatest minds that have ever lived. We hear what they said and did; we see them as if they were really alive; we sympathize with them, enjoy with them, grieve with them; their experience becomes ours, and we feel as if we were, in a measure, actors with them in the scenes which they describe.

The great and good do not die even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still listens. Hence we ever remain under the influence of the great men of old. The imperial intellects of the world are as much alive now as they were ages ago.

4.　　　 At elevations of 1,220 to 1,000 meters above sea level, the air ______

A.　　　 has less oxygen

B.　　　　 is pollution

C.　　　　 is pollution-free

D.　　　 both A and C