[单项选择]It is generally believed that ambition may be well regarded if ______.


A. its returns well compensate for the sacrifices
B. it is rewarded with money, fame and power
C. its goals are spiritual rather than material
D. it is shared by the rich and the famous

[单项选择]It is generally believed that ambition may be well regarded if ______.


A. its returns well compensate for the sacrifices
B. it is rewarded with money, fame and power
C. its goals are spiritual rather than material
D. it is shared by the rich and the famous

[单项选择]It is generally believed that African wild elephants are more difficult to ________ than Asian ones.
A. cultivated
B. tame
C. breed
D. tend

[单项选择]According to the passage, it is generally believed that ______.


A. only Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, and Pablo Picasso are creative
B. only successful people are creative
C. only a few people are creative
D. everyone can be creative

[单项选择]Why is laughter generally believed to be the best medicine


A. Because it keeps people away from falling ill.
B. Because it is an effective way to cure patients.
C. Because it increases the content of oxygen in blood.
D. Because it helps patients recover more quickly.

[单项选择]It is generally believed that swimming is one of the best ways for a person to _________ good health.


A. reserve
B. sustain
C. preserve
D. maintain

[单项选择]

If ambition is to be well regarded, the rewards of ambition—health, distinction, control over one’s destiny—must be deemed worthy of the sacrifices made on ambitions behalf. If the tradition of ambition is to have vitality, it must be widely shared; and it especially must be highly regarded by people who are themselves admired, the educated not least among them. In an odd way, however, it is the educated who have claimed to have given up on ambition as an ideal. What is odd is that they have perhaps most benefited from ambition—if not always their own but that of their parents and grandparents. There is heavy note of hypocrisy in this, a case of closing the barn door after the horses have escaped with the educated themselves riding on them.
Certainly people do not seem less interested in success and its signs now than formerly. Summer homes, European travel, BMWs. The locations, place names and name brands may change, but such items do not seem les
A. they think of it as immoral
B. their pursuits are not fame or wealth
C. ambition is not closely related to material benefits
D. they do not want to appear greedy and contemptible

[单项选择]The computer revolution may well change society as （）as did the Industrial Revolution.
A. certainly
B. insignificantly
C. fundamentally
D. comparatively