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[单项选择]In the modern world when we use the word "charity", we usually mean the giving of help to those who are in need, perhaps in the form of money, food, clothes or medicine, free services or some other kind of aid. However, the word "charity" carries a much more important sense as well. It was derived from the Latin "caritas", which means preciousness, dearness, high price, and in Christian theology this word was used in order to describe an unlimited loving-kindness to all others.
When we hear the words "an unlimited loving-kindness to all others" our first association is probably a religious one. Yet it need not be this—the more relevant aspect is that it is something that can become a part of our lives. And art, in its turn, is the part of our life that gives us beauty and a feeling of contact with something unreal, unapproachable, with something from another world. So it is no wonder that art is often connected to philanthropy.
Art charity auctions are held nearly every day,
A. donating money to those who are poor
B. providing free services to those who are in need
C. expressing love and kindness to others
D. doing good deeds in one’s spare time
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We do not know when man began to use salt, but we do know that it has been used in many different ways throughout history. Historical evidence shows, for example, that people who lived over 3,000 years ago ate salted fish. Thousands of years ago, salt was used to keep the dead from decaying in Egypt. Stealing salt was considered to be a major crime during some periods of history. In the 18th century, for instance, if a person was caught stealing salt, he would be put in jail. History records that about ten thousand people were put in jail during that century for stealing salt. About 150 years before, taking more than one’s share of salt was punishable as a crime. The offender’s ear was cut off. Salt was an important item on the table of a king. It was traditionally placed in front of the king when he sat down to eat. Important guests at the king’s table were seated near the salt. Less important guests sat away from it.
When did salt first begin to be used b
A. Over 3,000 years ago
B. In the 18th century
C. We don’t know
D. In the 16th century
[填空题]We use language every day and we live in a world of words. Hardly any
moment passes with someone talking, writing or reading. Indeed, 41. ______
languages is most essential to mankind. Our lives increasingly depend
on fast and successful use of language. Strangely enough, we know 42. ______
more about things around us than on ourselves. For example, language 43. ______
is species specific, that is, it is language that differs human from 44. ______
animals. However, we do not know yet how exactly we inquire language 45. ______
and how it is possible for us to perceive through language; nor we 46. ______
understand precise the relationships between language and thought, 47. ______
language and logic, or language and culture; still less, how and when
language started. One reason for this inadequate knowledge of language
is that we, like language users, take too many things
[单项选择]When the end of the world comes, we’ll know what to blame. Scientists have found compelling evidence that the Sun has a baby brother, a dark star whose eccentric orbit is responsible for periodically showering the Earth with comets and meteorites.
The dark star—named Nemesis by astronomers—is thought to be a brown dwarf that spins round the Sun in an orbit so large that it is measured in light years, the distance light travels in a year, equivalent to about 6,000 billion miles.
The research suggests that, every 26m years, the star’s eccentric orbit brings it within one light year of the solar system. There it causes havoc in the Oort Cloud, a huge region surrounding the solar system that contains billions of bits of cosmic rubble left over from the formation of planets.
Of the millions of rocks it throws out of orbit at each visit, some hurtle earthwards—and have several times nearly wiped out life on Earth.
Astronomers have long wondered if the Sun has a smaller pa
A. Brown Dwarf Orbits around the Earth
B. Sun’s Hidden Twin Stalks Earth
C. Oort Cloud and Comet Shower
D. Star, Planet and Dwarf
