[填空题]The more difficult the questions are, the (little)（）likely I am to be able to answer them.

[填空题]The more difficult the questions are, the (little)（）likely I am to be able to answer them.

[单项选择]Passage 2 One of the most difficult questions to answer is how much a job is worth. We naturally expect that a doctor’s salary will be higher than a bus conductor’s wages. But the question becomes much more difficult to answer when we compare，say，a miner with an engineer，or an unskilled man working on an oil-rig(钻油机)in the North Sea with a teacher in a secondary school. What the doctor，the engineer and the teacher have in common is that they have devoted several years of their lives to studying in order to obtain the necessary qualifications for their professions. We feel instinctively(本能地)that these skills and these years，when they were studying instead of earning money，should be rewarded. At the same time we recognize that the work of the miner and the oil-rig laborer is both hard and dangerous，and that they must be highly paid for the risks they take. Another factor we must take into consideration is how socially useful a man’s work is，regardless of the talents he may brin
A. he has spent several years learning how to do his job
B. his work involves much greater intelligence than, say, a bus conductor’s
C. he has to work much harder than most other people
D. he knows more than other people about his subject

[简答题]Finding her retirement savings were a little more than her peers, the author doubted if she was getting a wrong ______.

[单项选择]

Everyone becomes a little more forgetful as they get older, but men’s minds decline more than women’s, according to the results of a worldwide survey.
Certain differences seem to be inherent in male and female brains: Men are better at maintaining and dealing with mental images (useful in mathematical reasoning and spatial skills), while women tend to excel (擅长) at recalling information from their brain’s files ( helpful with language skills and remembering the locations of objects).
Many studies have looked for a connection between sex and the amount of mental decline (衰退) people experience as they age, but the results have been mixed.
Some studies found more age-related decline in men than in women, while others saw the opposite or even no relationship at all between sex and mental decline. Those results could be improper because the studies involved older people, and women live longer than men: The men tested are the survivors, "s
A. natural
B. great
C. obvious
D. absolute

[填空题]When asked such a difficult question, little John ______ (想不出答案案).

[单项选择]Art is considered by many people to be little more than a decorative means of giving pleasure. This is not always the case, however, at times, art may be seen to have a purely functional side as well. Such could be said of the sand paintings of the Navaho Indians of the American Southwest; these have a medicinal as well as an artistic purpose.
According to Navaho traditions, one who suffers from either a mental or physical illness has in some way disturbed or come in contact with the supernatural--perhaps a certain animal, a ghost or the dead. To counteract this evil contact, one of his relatives will employ a medicine man called a "singer" to perform a healing ceremony which will attract a powerful supernatural being. During the ceremony, which may last from 2 to 9 days, the "singer" will produce a sand-painting on the floor of the Navaho Hogan. On the last day of the ceremony, the patient will sit on this sand-painting and the "singer" will rub the ailing parts of the patient’s
A. to please supernatural powers
B. to attract supernatural powers
C. to frighten supernatural powers
D. to create a sand-painting