ses.
C. I would depend on their being careless enough not to dig deep enough in the garden where my diaries were hidden.
D. I would take a risk, hoping their search would stop before they discovered my diaries.
44. Does it pay to make sacrifices for children?
A. Is it worthwhile for a mother to make sacrifices for her children?
B. Is it right for a mother to make sacrifices for her children?
C. Can a mother ask her children to pay for her sacrifices?
D. Should children pay their mother for her sacrifices?
45. As a scientist, she learned with sadness that little in Nature is truly beyond the “tampering reach of man. ”
A. Man is unable to change much of Nature the way he wants.
B. Man can change much of the world around him, but not everything.
C. There is nothing in Nature that man cannot interfere with and spoil.
D. Nothing in Nature can really escape man's ill temper and destruction.
46. The subsequent conversation threw no light on the matter ［the lamp burning upside down without breaking］, and everyone accused Fatheringy of a silly trick.
A. After that people had a long conversation figuring out how to light the lamp again, but no one hit upon a solution.
B. After that people talked about the matter, but no one was able to explain how such a thing could have occurred.
C. Then they tried to find a way to light the lamp, but failed.
D. Then they talked for some time and decided to keep the light.
47. Kaz’s father … had migrated to America in the early 1920s in the spirit of adventure, not of need or flight; he never intended to stay.
A. He settled in America to live an adventurous life, neither to make more money nor to go in for sports.
B. He settled in America because he thought life was more exciting there than here in Japan.
C. He moved to America to experience a new way of life, not to escape hard life or persecution.
D. He moved to America after the adventures he loved, not to seek his fortune, nor to run for his life.
48. In other words, love comes into an imperfect world to make it livable.
A. Where love exists, we can tolerate imperfection.
B. We can find love only in an imperfect world.
C. Love changes the undesirable to the desirable.
D. Love makes the world perfect.
49. We［Americans］ view friendship more tentatively, subject to changes in intensity as people move, change their jobs, marry, or discover new interests.
A. Americans don't think that friendship can and should remain unchanging.
B. Americans think that in this changing world no friendship can stay stable.
C. Americans prefer anything new and they are constantly looking for new things including friends.
D. Americans look upon friendship as temporary; they don's believe there can be true and lifelong friends.
50. But in an old man who has known human joys and sorrows and has done whatever work it was in him to do, the fear of death. is somewhat ignoble.
A. It is wrong |
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