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Passage Three
We spend our leisure hours efficiently for higher production, live by the clock even when time does not matter, modernize our homes and speed the machinery of living in order that we can go to the most places and do the most things in the shortest period of time possible. We try to eat, sleep, and talk efficiently. Even on holidays and Sundays, the efficient man relaxes on timetable with one eye on the clock and the other on an appointment sheet.
To squeeze the most out of each shining hour we have shortened the opera, quickened the pace of the movie and put culture in pocket-sized packages. We make the busy bee look like a lazy creature, the ant like a sluggard. We live sixty-mile-minute and the great efficiency smiles.
We wish we could return to that pleasant day when we considered time a friend instead of an enemy; when we did things willingly and because we wanted to, rather than because our timetable called for it, But that
A. how to make the best use of leisure time
B. planning our time scientifically
C. the modern pace
D. our interest in shortened operas

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Passage Three
We spend our leisure hours efficiently for higher production, live by the clock even when time does not matter, modernize our homes and speed the machinery of living in order that we can go to the most places and do the most things in the shortest period of time possible. We try to eat, sleep, and talk efficiently. Even on holidays and Sundays, the efficient man relaxes on timetable with one eye on the clock and the other on an appointment sheet.
To squeeze the most out of each shining hour we have shortened the opera, quickened the pace of the movie and put culture in pocket-sized packages. We make the busy bee look like a lazy creature, the ant like a sluggard. We live sixty-mile-minute and the great efficiency smiles.
We wish we could return to that pleasant day when we considered time a friend instead of an enemy; when we did things willingly and because we wanted to, rather than because our timetable called for it, But that
A. Shortened opera performances.
B. Quickened paces of movies.
C. Speeded-up work efficiency.
D. Working on holidays.

[单项选择]Passage 2 We spend our leisure hours efficiently for higher production, live by the clock even when time does not matter, modernize our homes and speed the machinery of living in order that we can go to the most places and do the most things in the shortest period of time possible. We try to eat, sleep and talk efficiently. Even on holidays and Sundays, the efficient man relaxes on timetable with one eye on the clock and the other on an appointment sheet. To squeeze the most out of each shining hour we have shortened the opera, quickened the pace of movie and put culture in pocketsized package. We make the busy bee look like a lazy creature, the ant like a sluggard. We live sixty-mile-a-minute and the great Efficiency smiles. We wish we could return to that pleasant day when we considered time a friend instead of an enemy, when we did things willingly and because we wanted to, rather than because our timetable called for it. But that of course would not be effic
A. “the modern pace”
B. “our interest in shortened opera”
C. “how to make the best use of leisure time”
D. “planning our time scientifically”

[单项选择]Research findings show we spend about two hours dreaming every night, no matter what we ______ during the day.
A. must have done
B. should have done
C. would have done
D. may have done

[单项选择]According to the passage, leisure is not the time to ______.


A. seek pleasure
B. recover from the physical and mental fatigue of work
C. make preparations for the work of the next period of time
D. free ourselves from the pressure of the work

[单项选择]Our English teacher insisted that we spend more on some______reading.
A. worth
B. worthy
C. worthwhile
D. worthless

[单项选择]Our English teacher insisted that we spend more time on ______ reading.
A. worth
B. worthy
C. worthwhile
D. worthless

[单项选择]We （　） on it for many hours but we have not yet reached any conclusion.
A. work
B. have been worked
C. have been working
D. are working

[单项选择]We（）on it for many hours but we have not yet reached any concinsion.
A. work
B. have been worked
C. have been working
D. are working

[单项选择]According to paragraph three, what can we learn about the experiment


A. 30% of the patients take placebos.
B. The effect of placebo has nothing to do with the dose.
C. Patients feel still better if they are given two instead of one placebo.
D. Patients know they are taking placebos rather than real drugs.

[填空题]Now many young people spend several hours a day(talk) _____ on a mobile phone.

[单项选择]It was two hours that we spent ______ all the trees.
A. to be planted
B. planting
C. to plant
D. planted

[单项选择]After speaking for three hours, the lecturer found he could scarcely talk, as he had become ______.
A. dumb
B. inarticulate
C. hoarse
D. speechless

[单项选择]I first met Lisa three years ago when we（）at a radio station together.
A. have worked
B. had been working
C. were working
D. had worked