The Eskimos believed that a human being is made up of a body, a soul, and a name, and it is not ___1___ unless it has all three. This ___2___ has a great ___3___ on the Eskimos daily life and runs like a golden ___4___ through the Eskimos culture.
As for the soul of man, the Eskimos do not claim to know exactly what it is… but, who does? They see it, however, as the beginning of life, and the energy ___5___ which life cannot continue.
An Eskimo’s name is ___6___ to give life of ___7___. It has in it all the good qualities of all the persons who have been called by it. Many Eskimos believe that a newborn baby ___8___ because it wants ___9___ name and will not complete until it gets it. 
Immediately after a birth, some wise elders ___10___ to ___11___ the child. The name that is ___12___ must be ___13___ of someone who has died ___14___. When my son was born, everyone realized that ___15___ was great-grandfather, Mequsaq(who had died a few months ___16___,) who had been reborn in him. The newborn baby had a slight squint(看一眼) in ___17___ eye that old Mequsaq had ___18___ to the enemy ride in the battle. This was taken as a ___19___ from the name spirit that the baby ___20___ be called Mequsaq.
1. A. separate  B. complete    C. serious       D scientific
2. A. thought  B. idea    C. belief  D. theory
3. A. result     B. effect  C. control       D. touch
4. A. thread    B. line     C. way    D. rope
5. A. with       B. without      C. by      D. along
6. A. believed B. taken  C. held    D. regarded
7. A. his own  B. its own       C. own    D. itself
8. A. sobs       B. laughs C. weeps D. cries
9. A. it    B. his      C. her     D. its
10. A. run       B. discuss       C. gather D. appear
11. A. name    B. call     C. hold    D. dress
12. A. decided B. selected      C. elected       D. demanded
13. A. this      B. these   C. those   D. that
14. A. recently       B. long ago     C. just now     D. meanwhile
15. A. this      B. that     C. it D. who
16. A. since    B. later    C. ago     D. before
17. A. the other      B. the same     C. the different      D. other
18. A. hurt      B. wounded    C. lost     D. injured
19. A. choice  B. decision     C. notice D. sign
20. A. could    B. might  C. would D. should

The bicycle is one of the simplest yet most useful inventions in the world. What is most surprising is that it was not ___1__ earlier, although the great inventor Leonardo Da Vinci had drawn pictures for bicycles and also for flying machines and some other things. Those things were not produced___2___ long after he died.
  A person riding a bicycle uses ___3___ energy to make the bicycle move, and there is no pollution at all when you are riding. Even so, in developed ____4___, most people don’t travel to work by bicycle. It is not because the bicycles are expensive or people feel___5____ if they ride to work. It’s because __6___ cars on the roads becomes larger. It certainly becomes ___7___ to ride a bicycle. As a result, more people put their bicycles away and go to work ___8___ their cars cars, and in this way, the situation is made more serious.___9___ the best way to make riding safer and more popular is to create paths (开设通道) only for bicycles, and to make ___10___ so difficult and expensive for drivers to take their cars into the city that they will go back to use their bicycles.
【小题1】
A.invent B.inventing C.invented D.to invent
【小题2】
A.before B.when C.since D.until
【小题3】
A.much B.quite a lot of C.very little D.many
【小题4】
A.world B.countries C.land D.earth
【小题5】
A.lucky B.glad C.sorry D.tired
【小题6】
A.the number of B.a number ofC.this kind ofD.all kinds of
【小题7】
A.safer B.more dangerousC.much dangerous D.safe
【小题8】
A.by B.in C.use D.drive
【小题9】
A.Hardly B.May be C.Perhaps D.Nearly
【小题10】
A.it B.them C.us D.that

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