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[单项选择]TEXT C
Today we make room for a remarkably narrow range of personality styles. We are told that to be great is to be bold, to be happy is to be sociable. We see ourselves as a nation of extroverts --which means that we have lost sight of who we really are. One-third to one-half of Americans are introverts--in other words, one out of every two or three people you know. If you are not an introvert yourself, you are surely raising, managing, married to, or coupled with one.
If these statistics surprise you, that is probably because so many people pretend to be extroverts. Close introverts pass undetected on playgrounds, in high school locker rooms, and in the corridors of corporate America. Some fool even themselves, until some life event—a layoff, an empty nest, an inheritance that frees them to spend time as they like-jolts them into taking stock of their true natures. You have only to raise this subject with your friends and acquaintances to find that the most unlikely
A. what people say they can do and what they actually can
B. what people profess and what statistics show
C. what society values and what people pretend to be
D. what people profess and what they hide from others
[填空题]In paragraph 10 the phrase "fill in" is closest in meaning to"______/
[填空题]She shouted loudly so that she could make herself ______ (understand).
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Paul could not sleep last night. He woke up early and sat up, and then lay down again. He felt terrible. "I must be sick," he thought, "but I must study for that test." He got up and looked for his history notebook. He finally found it under a pile of clothes on his chair. He went over his history notes, but he couldn’t remember any of the facts in his notes. "What shall I do" he thought.
Just then the telephone rang. He put down his notebook and picked up the telephone. "Good morning," Jack’s voice said. "You must be wrong about that test." "What do you mean" Paul asked weakly. "We’re not going to have a test today." Jack said, "I wrote down the date in my notebook. The test will be next Wednesday; it isn’t today. How do you feel this morning" "Fine," said Paul, "just fine!" Suddenly he really felt fine.
When did Paul get up （）
[单项选择]I heard him （） the piano in the room last night.
A. playing
B. plays
C. played
[填空题]Our master raised his voice so that he could make himself (hear)______ by the pupils in the back of the hall.
[填空题]Even if we could make it impossible for people to commit crimes, should we Or would doing so improperly deprive people of their freedom
This may sound like a fanciful concern, but it is an increasingly real one. The new federal transportation bill, for example, authorized funding for a program that seeks to prevent the crime of drunken driving not by raising public consciousness or issuing stiffer punishments — but by making the crime practically impossible to commit. (41)______
The Dadss program is part of a trend toward what I call the "perfect prevention" of crime: depriving people of the choice to commit an offense in the first place. The federal government’s Intelligent Transportation Systems program, which is creating technology to share data among vehicles and road infrastructure like traffic lights, could make it impossible for a driver to speed or run a red light. (42)______
Such technologies force us to reconcile two important interests. On one hand is society’
