Passage 3

　　Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage:

　　Books are for reading, but man must bring to their reading a desire to learn and a power of absorbing. Reading should be active, not passive.

　　(79)When students first go to a library, they may be at a loss as to what to read of all the different subjects. Well, Bacon tells you to "look at weak places in your armor (盔甲)", and shows you how to fill up the blanks in your knowledge. On the other hand, it is no good just trying to fill your mind with knowledge. Knowledge in itself is often useless. A mind filled with too much knowledge is like a room too full of furniture; a man cannot walk about freely in it, and look out of the windows. It is much better to concentrate on a few subjects which interest you and to deal lightly with the others than to march heavily through the whole range (范围) of learning, like a silly tourist going through a museum and not missing a single object. (80)If you try to master every subject, may become very wise, but you will be very lonely and you will probably lose all your friends. So you must learn to pick and choose, and you must also learn to look here and there in a library like a camel eating grass on the grassland. If you watch it eating, you will see that although he is supposed to be one of the most stupid animals iii the world, he has at least one of the qualities (品质) of the cultured (有修养的) man, the power to pick and choose. A student looking for mental food in a library should take the camel as his model.

　　11. The writer thinks that one must____

　　A. read as many books as he can

　　B. try to read books on all the different subjects

　　C. only read books on subjects that interest him

　　D. read and absorb a lot

　　12. A cultured man is similar to a camel because____

　　A. neither of them is interested in knowledge

　　B. the man reads books as much as ft camel eats grass

　　C. neither of them can be considered wise

　　D. both of them have the ability to select

　　13. The term "mental food"(last sentence) refers to ____ .

　　A. books B. grassland C. brain D. subjects

　　14. In the second paragraph the writer mainly discusses____

　　A. how to compare furniture with books

　　B. how to select reading materials

　　C. how to avoid missing anything interesting in the library

　　D. why books must be absorbed

　　15. The writer thinks that it is ____ to try to master every subject.

　　A. necessary B. possible C. not good D. not interesting

　　Part II Vocabulary and Structure (30%)

　　16. "Do you think ____ I should attend the lecture?" she asked me.

　　A. that B. whether C. if D. when

　　17. The man denied___ any thing at the supermarket when he was questioned by the police.

　　A. to have stolen B. to steal C. having stolen D. having been stealing

　　18. The farmer used wood to build a house __ to store grain.

　　A. with B. in which C. which D. where

　　19. Never before that night ___ the extent of my own power.

　　A. had I felt B. I had felt C. did I feel D. I did felt

　　20. Whether she will go or not is __.

　　A. uncertain B. unsure C. unable D. unexpected

　　21. She is so ____ that she doesn't even know where Beijing is.

　　A. foolish B. competent C. innocent D. ignorant

　　22. They are __ from each other by commas.

　　A. separated B. divided C. distributed D. shared

　　23. Not only __ tolerant of other people's opinions, but he is also patient.

　　A. he is B. is he C. he will be D. will he be

　　24. The island's chief was its beauty.

　　A. feature B. character C. nature D. temper

　　25. She was glad that the wicked man had decided____

　　A. not killing her B. his not killing her C. not to kill her D. to not kill her

　　26. I think the ___ are more important to us than the dead.

　　A. lively 13. alive C. living D. lives

　　27. Ann prefers hiking_ the cinema.

　　A. to going to 13. than going to C. than to go to D. to go to

　　28. The clothes a person wears may express his ___ or social position.

　　A. curiosity B. status C. determination D. significance

　　29. What she does is often contrary __ what she says.

　　A. upon B. in C. to D. for

　　30. Grace ____ tears when she beard the sad news.

　　A. broke in B. broke into C. broke off D. broke through