[简答题]Its somewhat ambitious title was "The Book of Life", and it attempted to show how much an observant man might learn by an accurate and systematic examination of all that came in his way.

[单项选择]American life has always had its element of change, of movement, some say of restlessness, and this is still so now.（）
A. 美国人在生活中一直喜变好动，有人说这是不安分守己，这一点至今没有改变。
B. 据有些人说，要到美国生活，就要有变化，喜爱运动，放弃休息，一直不得安宁。
C. 美国人的生活总少不了变化、迁居，如人所说，不安于现状，至今依然如此。
D. 据有些人说，在美国生活有变化，有运动，还有些不安分，直到现在仍然是这样的。
E. 美国人的生活总是具有变化、迁移，有人说不安分守己。这一点至今依然如故。

[单项选择]Food is important in our life, but its function about （　） is not mentioned by the man.
A. how clearly we think
B. how sound we sleep
C. how we deal with stress
D. how happy we are

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So far, scientists have named about 1.8 million living species (特种), and that’s just a small part of what probably exists on Earth. With so many plants, animals, and other creatures covering the planet, it can be tough to figure out what type of spider is moving up your leg or what kind of bird is flying by.
A soon-to-be-launched Web site might help. An international team of researchers has announced the creation of a Web-based Encyclopedia (百科全书) of Life (EoL). The project aims to catalog every species on Earth in a single, easy-to-use reference guide.
To get the encyclopedia started, the creators will use information from scientific databases (数据库) that already exist. And eventually, in special sections of the site, non-scientists with specialized (专门的) knowledge will get to join in. Bird-watchers, for example, will be able to input which birds they’ve seen and where. The technology for this kind of tool has o
A. animals are people’s friends.
B. there are numerous living species on Earth.
C. it is easy to see spiders and birds.
D. there are many types of spiders and birds.

[单项选择]Every country tends to accept its own way of life as being the normal one and to praise or criticize others as they are similar to or different from it. And unfortunately, our picture of the people and the way of life of other countries is often a distorted (曲解的) one.
Here is a great argument in favor of foreign travel and learning foreign languages. It is only by traveling in, or living in a country and getting to know its inhabitants and their language that one can find out what a country and its people are really like. And how different the knowledge one gains this way frequently turns out to be from the second-hand information gathered from other sources! How often we find that the foreigners whom we thought to be such different people from ourselves are not very different after all!
Differences between peoples do, of course, exist and, one hopes, will always continue to do so. The world will be a dull place indeed when all the different nationalities behave exactly alike
A. distorted
B. normal
C. similar to each other
D. different from its own

[单项选择]What will influence a new-born by and its life expectancy in older age（）
A. Seasonal differences in what mothers ate during pregnancy.
B. Infection occurring at different times of the year.
C. Its family background.
D. Both A and B.

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In a recent book entitled The Psychic Life of Insects, Professor Bouvier says that we must be careful not to credit the little winged fellows with intelligence when they behave in what seems like an intelligent manner. They may be only reacting. I would like to confront the professor with an instance of reasoning power on the part of an insect which cannot be explained away in any other manner.
During the summer of 1899, while I was at work on my doctoral thesis, we kept a female wasp at our cottage. It was more like a child of our own than a Wasp, except that it looked more like a wasp than a child of our own. That was one of the ways we told the difference.
It was still a young wasp when we got it (thirteen or fourteen years old) and for some time we could not get it to eat or drink, it was so shy. Since it was a female we decided to call it Miriam, but soon the children’s nickname for it— "Pudge" —became a fixture, and "Pudge&qu
A. is imaginary
B. is convincing
C. firmly proves his point of view
D. is valuable for insect study