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1、如果您需要使用本文档，请点击下载按钮下载!Looking back on years of living in a working-class home in the North of England, I should say that a good living room must 11 three principal things: homeliness, warmth and plenty of good food. The living-room is the warm heart of the family and 12 often slightly stuffy to a mid
2、dle-class visitor. It is not a social centre but a family center; little entertaining goes on there or in the front room, if there 13 to be one; you do not entertain in anything approaching the middle-class 14 The wifes social life outside her 15 family is found over the washing-line, at the little
3、shop on the corner, visiting relatives at a moderate 16 occasionally, and perhaps now and again a visit with her husband to his pub or club. Apart from these two places, he has just his work and his football matches. They will have, each of them, friends at all these places, who may well not know wh
4、at the inside of their house is like, having never stepped across the threshold, as the old 17 phrase has it. The family hearth is 18 for the family itself, and those who are something to us(another favorite formula) and who look in for a talk or just to sit. Much of the free time of a man and his w
5、ife will 19 be passed at that hearth. Just staying in is still one of the most common leisure-time 20 A. happensB.professionsC.senseD.neverthelessE. fashionedF.distanceG.immediateH.usuallyI. occupationsJ.preservedK.imitateL.provideM. thereforeNreserved0.contributeUnit TwoPassage 2Flying over a deser
6、t area in an airplane, two scientists looked down with trained eyes at trees and bushes. After an hours 11 one of the scientists wrote in his book, Look here for 12 metal. Scientists in another airplane, flying over a mountain region, sent a 13 to other scientists on the ground, Gold possible. Walki
7、ng across hilly ground, four scientists reported, This ground should be searched for metals. From an airplane over a hilly wasteland a scientist sent back by radio one word, Uranium. None of the scientists had X-ray eyes: they had no 14 powers for looking down below the earths surface. They were 15
8、putting to use one of the newest methods of 16 minerals in the groundusing trees and plants as 17 that certain minerals may lie beneath the ground on which the trees andplants are growing.This newest method of searching for minerals is 18 on the fact that minerals deep in the earth may 19 the kind o
9、f bushes and trees that grow on the surface.At Watson Bar Creek, a brook six thousand feet high in the mountains of British Columbia, Canada, a mineral search group gathered bags of tree seeds. Boxes were filled with small branches from the trees. Roots were dug and put into boxes. Each bag and box
10、was 20 marked. In a scientific laboratory the parts of the forest trees were burned to ashes and tested. Each small part was examined to learn whether there were minerals in it.A. signsB.sufficientlyC.locatingD.affectE. merelyF.magicG.hintsH.carefullyI. findingJ.messageK.flightL.probableM. revealing
11、N.basedO.informationUnit Three.Passage 2Americas most famous woman is the Goddess of Liberty, i. e. the Statue of Liberty. It was first thought of in 1865 by Edouard de Laboulaye and designed by another Frenchman, Frederic Bartoldi. They wanted to 11 liberty and friendship.It was hoped that the monu
12、ment would be completed by 1876 when America 12 its centennial. Fund raising and the 13 of the statue in France went slowly. It was 1885 when the 214 crates containing the statue reached New York.Americans were initially 14 for they had not raised the money to pay for the erection of the base. Fund
13、raising by popular subscription was behind如果您需要使用本文档，请点击下载按钮下载! 15 . One fund raising method used was to have popular Americans write letters which were then sold in public.The base and statue, 16 272 feet tall, were completed in 1886. From a 17 standpoint, the statue is a marvel. The inner structur
14、e was designed by the French engineer, Alexandre Eiffel. His design for the stressed copper skin of the statue anticipated many of the 18 utilized in modern aircraft.After a century, the monument began to show signs of getting worse in 19 . Just as Frenchmen had created the Statue, so it was with re
15、storation.A Frenchman noted the decay and French and American craftsmen and contributions brought about the renewal of the Statue in time for its centennial.Liberty is still 20 in France and the United States.A. completelyB.measuresC.popularD.togetherE. honorF.manufactureG.scheduleH.rewardI. celebratedJ.principlesK.embarrassedL.technicalM. voluntaryNconditions0.discouragedUnit FourPassage 2Sophy Brent came to visi
