It was announced that only when the fire was under control ___ to return to their homes.

A. the residents would be permitted           

B. had the residents been permitted

C. would be residents be permitted     

D. the residents had been permitted

---Do you have any problems if you ___this job?

---Well, I’m thinking about the salary.

   A. offer       B. will offer     C. are offered     D. will be offered

It is __________ to spend money on preventing illnesses by promoting healthy living rather than spending on trying to make people ___________ after they are ill.

   A. good … good B. well … better       C. better … better   D. better … good

By the time he realizes he ____into a trap, it’ll be too late for him to do anything about it.

A. walks     B. walked     C. has walked    D. had walked

I don’t believe you’ve already finished reading the book — I ______it to you this morning!

A. would lend   B. was lending    C. had lent     D. lent

It’s going to rain. Xiao Feng, Will you please help me_____the clothes on the line?

    A. get off     B. get back    C. get in     D. get on

_______ in the fields on a March afternoon, he could feel the warmth of spring.

   A. To walk.        B. Walking       C. Walked          D. Having walked

“The first and best of victories is for a man to conquer himself; to be conquered by himself is, of all things, the most shameful,” says Plato. Self-control is at the root of all the advantages. Let a man give in to his impulses and feelings, and from that moment he gives up his moral freedom.

A single angry word has lost many a friend. When Socrates found in himself any temper or anger, he would check it by speaking low in order to control himself. If you are conscious of being angry, keep your mouth shut so that you can hold back rising anger. Many a person has dropped dead in great anger. Fits of anger bring fits of disease “Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.” “Keep cool,” says George Herbert, “for fierceness makes error a fault.”

To be angry with a weak man is to prove that you are not strong your self. “Anger,” says Pythagoras, “bring with folly and ends with regret.” You must measure the strength of a man by the power of the feelings he conquers, not by the power of those which conquer him.

Self-control is man’s last greatest victory.

If a man lacks self-control he seems to lack everything. Without it he can have no patience, no power to govern himself; he can have no self-confidence, for he will always be controlled by his strongest feeling. If he lacks self-control, the very backbone and nerve of character are lacking also.

5. What does the reader learn from the first paragraph ?

The greatest victory for a man is to conquer everything except himself.

One’s moral freedom is based on the control of himself.

To control oneself is the most difficult in one’s life.

If a person is too stubborn, he will feel most shameful.

6. What is the correct interpretation of “Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad”?

If the gods want to kill you, they make you crazy first.

If you always lose your temper, you will soon be finished.

If you cannot control yourself, you will become crazy.

If you are mad, you will be punished by the gods.

7. If a man lacks self-control, he lacks all of the following EXCEPT _________.

the very backbone and nerve of character

the patience and power to control himself

strong feelings

self-confidence

8. The author’s main purpose in writing this article is to ___________.

explain that self-control is the key to success

teach people how to control everything in order to make a great success

distinguish all kinds of self-control and suggest ways for keeping it

advise people not to lose temper so as to make and keep more friends

So far this year we ______ a fall in house prices by between 5 and 10 percent.

   A. saw             B. see            C. had seen             D. have seen

A man does not know the difficulty of anything_________ he does it personally.

A.although     B. if            C. because       D. Unless