Most of the people who appear most often and most gloriously in the history books are great conquerors and generals and soldiers, whereas the people who really helped civilization forward are often never mentioned at all. We do not know who first set a broken leg, or launched a seaworthy boat, or calculated the【31】of the year, or manured a field; but we know【32】about the killers and destroyers. People think a great deal of them, so【33】so that on all the highest pillars in the great cities of the world you will find the figure of a conqueror or a general or a soldier. And I think most people believe that the greatest countries are【34】that have beaten in battle the greatest number of other countries and ruled over them as conquerors. It is just possible they are,【35】they are not the most civilized. Animals fight; so do savages; hence to be good at fighting is to be good in the way in【36】an animal or a savage is good, but it is not to be civilized. Even being good at getting other people to fight for you and【37】them how to do it most efficiently — this, after all, is【38】conquerors and generals have done -- is not being civilized. People fight to settle quarrels. Fighting means killing, and civilized peoples ought to be able to find some way of settling their disputes other【39】by seeing which side can kill off the greater number of other side, and then【40】that that side which has killed most has won.

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A．number

B．length

C．depth

D．width

She got a ______ job while she was waiting to go to the university.

A．steady

B．attractive

C．temporary

D．permanent

Which of the following statement is TRUE according to this passage?

A．Beijing Hotel has just been opened recently.

B．There are too many luxurious things in Beijing Hotel.

C．Beijing Hotel will prepare rooms for those that had booked the room.

D．Not only foreigners but also native people wanted to book rooms for Games.

The passage suggests that the early shops for making tools were ______.

A．not very sophisticated

B．known for doing very quick Work

C．dependent on imported materials

D．frequented only by fashionable people

Connie: Are you doing pottery? It looks like fun! Frank: ______ ? Connie: Boy, would I? Thanks.

A．Would you please give me a hand

B．Would you please not to bother me

C．Have you ever learned how to do it

D．Would you like to try it

Maggie ran back to the kitchen, eggs ______ carefully in her hands.

A．to be held

B．held

C．were held

D．holding