Text As a human being you have the choice of three basic attitudes toward life. You may approach life with the philosophy of the vegetable, in which case your life will consist in being born. eating, drinking, sleeping, mating, growing old, and dying. The second basic attitude is to look at life as if it were a business. A great many so-called successful men and women believe that life is a business, and they arrange their conduct and behavior accordingly. If you believe that life is a business, your first question of life. naturally, is "What do I get out of it" and your first reaction to any new experience is. "How much is this worth to me" In a world based on this attitude. happiness becomes a matter of successful competition. The great majority of human beings today look at life as if it were a business. Their basic philosophy is one of competition and efficiency.The third attitude toward life is the approach of the artist. Here the basic philosophy is "What can I put into it", and the basic relation of the individual to his fellow-men is one of cooperation and common sense This point of view has been proved by history; for history remembers best those who have contributed most richly to the interests of their fellow-men. The more we investigate and the more we learn about living the more we become convinced that the artistic attitude is the only one which is consistent with human happiness. A. opposite B. philosophy C. experience D. different E. last F. meaningless G. competition To many successful people happiness lies in ______.
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The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is becoming mature. A man reaches the mature (1) of his reasoning powers and mental faculties (2) before the age of twenty-eight; a woman at eighteen. And then, too, in the case of woman, it is the only reason of a sort--very mean in its (3) . That is why women remain children their whole life long; never seeing (4) but what is quite close to them, (5) fast to the present moment, taking appearance for (6) , and preferring (7) to matters of the first importance. For it is (8) his reasoning faculty that man does not live in the present only, (9) the brute, but looks about him and considers the past and the future; and this is the origin of (10) , as well as that of care and anxiety which so many people (11) Both the advantages and the disadvantages, which this (12) , are (13) in by the woman to a smaller extent because of her weaker power of reasoning. She may, in fact, be described as intellectually shortsighted, (14) , while she has an immediate understanding of what lies quite close to her, her field of (15) is narrow and does not reach to what is (16) ; so that things which are absent, or past, or to come, have much less effect upon women than upon men. This is the reason why women are inclined to be (17) and sometimes carry their desire to a (18) that borders upon madness. In their hearts, women think it is men’s business to earn money and theirs to spend it--if possible during their husband’s life, (19) , at any rate, after his death. The very fact that their husband hands them (20) his earnings for purposes of housekeeping strengthens them in this belief. 17()
A. extravagant
B. extreme
C. credible
D. wretched
Text (26) Space Agency is planning to (27) a spacecraft to the planet Mars. The spacecraft will be called Mars Observer. The project was to have (28) place in 1990. But it has been postponed. The Space Agency now (29) to send the spacecraft to Mars in 1992. The Mars Observer is to (30) from an America’s space shuttle. It will then (31) around tile North and South Poles of Mars. The spacecraft will have cameras to (32) pictures of the atmosphere and surface of Mars. Its major task is to look (33) signs of life. The last voyage (34) Mars was in 1976. That was (35) the two American Viking spacecrafts land- ed on the planet. The next voyage was planned (36) 1988 by the Soviet Union. America’s Mars Observer Project will (37) about $ 25.000.000. The high cost is one reason the Space Agency postponed the project. A (38) of scientists have criticized that decision. Carl Sagan of Cornell university (39) it "a great mistake". And the head of the Planetary Society said the project should not be postponed now (40) it appears to (41) support in Congress. Congress must (42) money for it. Some scientists have proposed a solution that would save (43) time and money. They say the Mars Ob- server be launched in 1990 (44) planned, but on a traditional rocket (45) of the space shuttle.
A. passage
B. travel
C. move
D. orbit
Text (26) Space Agency is planning to (27) a spacecraft to the planet Mars. The spacecraft will be called Mars Observer. The project was to have (28) place in 1990. But it has been postponed. The Space Agency now (29) to send the spacecraft to Mars in 1992. The Mars Observer is to (30) from an America’s space shuttle. It will then (31) around tile North and South Poles of Mars. The spacecraft will have cameras to (32) pictures of the atmosphere and surface of Mars. Its major task is to look (33) signs of life. The last voyage (34) Mars was in 1976. That was (35) the two American Viking spacecrafts land- ed on the planet. The next voyage was planned (36) 1988 by the Soviet Union. America’s Mars Observer Project will (37) about $ 25.000.000. The high cost is one reason the Space Agency postponed the project. A (38) of scientists have criticized that decision. Carl Sagan of Cornell university (39) it "a great mistake". And the head of the Planetary Society said the project should not be postponed now (40) it appears to (41) support in Congress. Congress must (42) money for it. Some scientists have proposed a solution that would save (43) time and money. They say the Mars Ob- server be launched in 1990 (44) planned, but on a traditional rocket (45) of the space shuttle.
A. which
B. that
C. when
D. what
Text (26) Space Agency is planning to (27) a spacecraft to the planet Mars. The spacecraft will be called Mars Observer. The project was to have (28) place in 1990. But it has been postponed. The Space Agency now (29) to send the spacecraft to Mars in 1992. The Mars Observer is to (30) from an America’s space shuttle. It will then (31) around tile North and South Poles of Mars. The spacecraft will have cameras to (32) pictures of the atmosphere and surface of Mars. Its major task is to look (33) signs of life. The last voyage (34) Mars was in 1976. That was (35) the two American Viking spacecrafts land- ed on the planet. The next voyage was planned (36) 1988 by the Soviet Union. America’s Mars Observer Project will (37) about $ 25.000.000. The high cost is one reason the Space Agency postponed the project. A (38) of scientists have criticized that decision. Carl Sagan of Cornell university (39) it "a great mistake". And the head of the Planetary Society said the project should not be postponed now (40) it appears to (41) support in Congress. Congress must (42) money for it. Some scientists have proposed a solution that would save (43) time and money. They say the Mars Ob- server be launched in 1990 (44) planned, but on a traditional rocket (45) of the space shuttle.
A. place
B. instead
C. means
D. aid