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[A] How to understand generosity
[B] One way is to stick to your words
[C] The true essence of generosity
[D] Being generous needs thoughts
[E] Never use generosity as a disguise
[F] Small things reflect more
The word "gift" has got dangerously devalued of late. Salesmen use so-called free gifts as bait and publicists use them as bribes; the wealthy can make "gifts" to their children, or to charities, with no more noble motive than saving tax.
41. ________________________
We need to claim the word back this Christmas. We also need to claim back the word "generous": which too often gets used in the senses of over-large portions of food, hotel towels, the size of sheets, or women spilling out of their dresses. For generosity--the ability to make real gifts with modesty and love, expecting nothing back--is one of the things which most make us human. You do not find pigs or lions giving ,one

[填空题]

[A] How to understand generosity
[B] One way is to stick to your words
[C] The true essence of generosity
[D] Being generous needs thoughts
[E] Never use generosity as a disguise
[F] Small things reflect more
The word "gift" has got dangerously devalued of late. Salesmen use so-called free gifts as bait and publicists use them as bribes; the wealthy can make "gifts" to their children, or to charities, with no more noble motive than saving tax.
41. ________________________
We need to claim the word back this Christmas. We also need to claim back the word "generous": which too often gets used in the senses of over-large portions of food, hotel towels, the size of sheets, or women spilling out of their dresses. For generosity--the ability to make real gifts with modesty and love, expecting nothing back--is one of the things which most make us human. You do not find pigs or lions giving ,one

[简答题]{{B}} One Way to Solve the Rubbish Problem{{/B}} {{I}} You are to write in three parts. In the first part, state what your suggested way ix. In the second part, state one or two advantages of your suggestion. In the last part, bring what you have written to a natural conclusion. Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. {{/I}}

[单项选择]One sure way you can tell how quickly a new idea, for example, the idea of "privatization," is taking hold among the population is to monitor how fast the word or words expressing that particular idea are passing into common usage. Professional opinions of whether or not words can indeed be said to have passed into common usage are available from dictionary editors, who are vitally concerned with this question. The method described above for determining how quickly a new idea is taking hold relies on which one of the following assumptions
A. Dictionary editors are not professionally interested in words that are only rarely used.
B. Dictionary editors have exact numerical criteria for telling when a word has passed into common usage.
C. For a new idea to take hold, dictionary editors have to include the relevant word or words in their dictionaries.
D. As a word passes into common usage, its meaning does not undergo any severe distortions in the process.
E. (E) Words denoting new ideas tend to be used before the ideas denoted are understood.

[填空题]One way of improving one’s writing is to get into the habit of keeping a record of your observations, of storing (46) in a note-book or journal. You should make notes on your experiences and on your (47) of everyday life so that they are preserved. It is sad (48) to be able to retrieve a lost idea that seemed brilliant when it flashed across your (49) , or a forgotten fact that you need to make a point in a argument or to illustrate a conclusion. The journal habit has still (50) value. Just (51) you need to record observations--the material for writing--you need to practice putting thoughts on paper, learning to write is more like learning to ski (52) it is like studying calculus or anthropology. Practice helps you discover ways to improve. Writing down ideas for your own use forces you to examine them. Putting thoughts on paper for someone else to read (53) you to evaluate not (54) the content--what you sa