[单选题]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.

正确答案 ：C

length

解析：解析：length of the year意思为“一年的天数(时间长度)”；其他选项意思与语境不相符合。

[单选题]Which of the following can we infer from the passage?

正确答案 ：C

The supermarket might just play a trick so customers should be more cautious.

解析：解析：本题也是一个推理题，由本实例说明商场会玩一些小把戏促销，所以消费者应该对此多加小心不上当。其他的选项说法没有足够的理由在任何情况下都成立。

[单选题]Maggie ran back to the kitchen, eggs ______ carefully in her hands.

正确答案 ：B

held

解析：解析：该句为独立主格结构，后半部分是eggs being held 的省略形式。

[单选题]Wendy: Have you been to the new bakery on the corner? Arthur: No, how is it? Wendy: It is heaven ! ______ !

正确答案 ：C

Their cakes are to die for

解析：解析：从对话语境和供选答案看，Wendy是想说“那里的蛋糕好吃得不得了”。符合习惯的表达只能是Their cakes are to die for!(to die for something = to be eager to have something)。

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