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　　Some people do not like anything to be out of place; they are never late for work; they return their books on time to the library; they remember people's birthdays; and they pay their bills as soon as they arrive.Mr.Hill is such a man.

　　Mr.Hill works in a bank, and lives alone.The only family he has is in the next town: his sister lives there with her husband, and her son, Jack.Mr.Hill does not see his sister, or her family, from one year to the next, but he sends them Christmas cards, and he has not forgotten one of Jack's seventeen birthdays.

　　Last week Mr.Hill had quite a surprise.He drove home from the bank at the usual time, driving neither too slowly nor too fast; he parked his car where he always parked it, out of the way of other cars, and he went inside to make his evening meal.Just then, there was a knock at the door.He opened the door, to find a policeman standing on the door-step.

　　"What have I done wrong?" Mr.Hill asked himself."Have I driven on the wrong side of the road? Has there been some trouble at the bank? Have I forgotten to pay an important bill?"

　　"Hello, Uncle," said the policeman, "My name is Jack."

　　83[1单选题]Mr.Hill __.

　　A.works in a bank by himself

　　B.lives in a bank and works by himself

　　C.lives by himself and works in a bank

　　D.lives in a bank by himself

　　[答案]C

　　[解析]第二段首句与C意思相同。

　　84[1单选题]Mr.Hill __.

　　A.hardly sees his sister

　　B.sees his sister only at Christmas time

　　C.sees his sister on Jack's birthday

　　D.always sees his sister

　　[答案]A

　　[解析]从not...from one year to the next句中可见A正确。

　　85[1单选题]Mr.Hill __.

　　A.only remembers one of Jack's seventeenth birthdays

　　B.always sends Jack something on his birthday

　　C.has forgotten all of Jack's birthdays

　　D.has forgotten Jack's seventeenth birthday

　　[答案]B

　　[解析]文中“he has not forgotten one ofJack's seventeen birthdays”即是答案。Jack 17年的生日没有忘记一个。由此推断，Jack的每一个生日他都给他寄点什么。

　　86[1单选题]Last week Mr.Hill

　　A.was pleasant

　　B.was quite astonished

　　C.was quite disappointed

　　D.was unpleasant

　　[答案]B

　　[解析]句子“ Last week Mr.Hill had quite a surprise ”就是答案。

　　2、

　　Years ago, a cigarette commercial asked if you were smoking more, but enjoying it less.That describes the way many of us live today.We are doing more, but enjoying it less.And when that doesn't work, we get the problem.In our extremely hurried search for satisfaction, we try stuffing still more into our days, never realizing that we are taking the wrong approach.

　　The truth is simple; so simple it is hard to believe.Satisfaction lies with less, not with more.Yet, we pursue the myth that this thing, or that activity, will somehow provide the satisfaction we so desperately seek.

　　Arthur Lindman, in his very effective book, "The Harried Leisure Class," described the uselessness of pursuing more.His research focused on what people did with their leisure time.He found that as income rose, people bought more things to occupy their leisure time.But, ironically, the more things they bought, the less they valued any one of them.Carried to an extreme, he predicted massive boredom in the midst of tremendous variety.That was more than twenty years ago, and his prediction seems more accurate every year.

　　Lindman of course, is not the first to discover this.The writer of Ecclesiastes expressed the same thought thousands of years ago.It is better, he wrote, to have less, but enjoy it more.

　　If you would like to enjoy life more, I challenge you to experiment with me.How could you simplify your life? What could you drop? What could you do without? What could you stop pursuing? What few things could you concentrate on?

　　The more I learn, the more I realize that fullness of life does not depend on things.The more I give up, the more I seem to gain.But words will never convince you.You must try it for yourself.

　　87[1单选题]Arthur Lindman wrote __.

　　A.a popular novel

　　B.a research paper

　　C.Ecclesiastes

　　D.The Harried Leisure Class

　　[答案]D

　　[解析]第三段。第一句就明确点明Arthur Lindman写了一本很有影响的书，其书名是The Harried Leisure Class。

　　88[1单选题]Lindman wrote his book __.

　　A.ten years ago

　　B.twenty years ago

　　C.more than twenty years ago

　　D.thousands of years ago

　　[答案]C

　　[解析]第三段最后。Arthur Lind man预言，巨大的无聊存在于极度的丰富之中。而这还是20多年前的预言，并且，他的预言越来越准确。选项D是第四段中另一本书的时间。

　　89[1单选题]We can make our life happier if we __.

　　A.get rid of useless things

　　B.buy more things

　　C.sell things we do not need

　　D.give up more

　　[答案]D

　　[解析]通篇都在讲我们做得越多、获得的越多，我们就越不满足。所以应当学会放弃。

　　90[1单选题]The best title for the passage is __.

　　A.Simplify Your Life

　　B.Enjoy Your Life

　　C.Smoking Less

　　D.Satisfaction

　　[答案]A

　　[解析]文章通过抽烟越多享受越少为引子点明主题：获得的越多，并不意味着就越满足。 又以两位作者的书为观点支持，说明要放弃一些东西，使我们的生活简单一些，才能获得真正的满足。

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