[单项选择]Can the Cat be Burnt
The men of a German (德国人，德语) town bought a cat from a passing traveller. As the traveller was walking away, they called out to him, "What does it eat "
"Whatever you please," shouted the traveller.
Now the people thought (认为，考虑) he said, "Men and beasts", and were much afraid.
"When it has eaten all the mice and rats," they said, "it will eat our cattle (牲口) and ourselves (我们自己). What a pity we bought it! We must kill it."
Now as no one was brave (勇敢的) enough to kill the cat, the people set fire to the house where it was resting. The cat escaped through a window and ran into another house.
"Better burn that," said the people. So they set fire to that one, too. Again the cat escaped and climbed up on a roof.
Then someone struck at it with a long pole (柱). But the cat took hold of the pole and started to climb (攀登，上升) down.
The people were terrified, and ran to hide (躲藏，兽皮) in the woods. Meanwhile the fi
A. the cat ate men and beasts
B. the cat ate everything
C. the cat ate everything you gave

[单项选择]A. Men need not do the job. B. Men can also do the job as well as women.
C. Men should not do the job. D. Men can not do the job.

[填空题]Pope Gelasius ordered that men and women can draw pieces of paper from the box, on the paper was ______.

[填空题]The author doubts that men can find answers to the ______ in the near future.

[单项选择] That question "why women live longer than men" can be answered at two levels. An evolutionary biologist would tell you that it is because women get evolutionary bonus points from living long enough to help bring up the grandchildren. Men, by contrast, wear themselves out competing for the right to procreate in the first place. That is probably true, but not much help to the medical profession. However, a group of researchers at John Moores University has just come up with a medically useful answer. It is that while 70-year-old men have the hearts of 70-year-olds, those of their female peers resemble the hearts of 20-year-olds. David Goldspink and his colleagues looked at 250 volunteers aged between 18 and 80 over two years. All the volunteers were healthy but physically inactive. The team’’s principal finding was that the power of the male heart falls by 20-25% between the ages of 18 and 70, while that of the female heart remains undiminished. They found that between the age
A. women have to live long enough to look after grandchildren
B. women’’s hearts hardly grow old
C. women have more endurance than men
D. women are superior at evolutionary scale