case. The receipt did not seem to be where I had left it. I emptied the contents of the wallet, and railway tickets, money, scraps of paper, and photographs tumbled out of it; but no matter how hard I searched, the receipt was nowhere to be found.
When my turn came, I explained the situation sorrowfully to the assistant. The man looked at me suspiciously as if to say that he had heard this type of story many times and asked me to describe the case, I told him that it was an old, brown — looking object no different from the many cases I could see on the shelves. The assistant then gave me a form and told me to make a list of the chief contents of the case. If they were correct, he said, I could take the case away. I tried to remember all the articles I had hurriedly packed and wrote them down as they came to me. After I had done this, I went to look among the shelves. There were hundreds of cases there and for one dreadful moment, it occurred to me that if someone had picked the receipt up, he could have easily claimed the case already. This had not happened fortunately, for after a time, I found the case lying on its side high up in a comer. After examining the articles inside, the assistant
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was .soon satisfied that it was mine and told me I could take the case away. Again I took out my wallet: this time to pay. I pulled out a ten— shilling note and the \could not help blushing and glanced up at the assistant. He was nodding his head knowingly, as if to say that he had often seen this happen before too!
1. The writer needed the receipt ____.
A. to claim his suitcase B. to pay at the luggage office
C. to prove that he had paid at the luggage office D. to prove that he had bought the suitcase 2. The writer felt foolish because ____.
A. he couldn't find his receipt B. he hadn't really lost his receipt at all
C. he had to fill in a form D. the assistant was laughing at him
3. There weren't ______ people waiting at the luggage office. A. very much B. a lot C. lots D.
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very many
4. 'situation' means . A. incident B. event C. place D. position
5. ' wrote them down ' means ____.
A. copied them B. made a note of them C. signed them D. pointed at them
Passage 2
The word conservation has a thrifty meaning. To conserve is to save and protect, to leave what we ourselves enjoy in such good condition that others may also share the enjoyment.
Our forefathers had no idea that human population would increase faster than the supplies of raw materials: most of them, even until very recently, had the foolish idea that the treasures were \and \Most of the citizens of earlier generations knew little or nothing about the complicated and delicate system that runs all through nature, and which means that, as in a living body, an unhealthy condition of one part will sooner or later be harmful to all the others
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Fifty years ago, nature study was not part of the school work; scientific forestry was a new idea; timber was still cheap because it could be brought in any quantity from distant woodlands; soil destruction and river floods were not national problems; nobody had yet studied long— term climatic cycles in relation to proper land use; even the word \\nothing of the meaning that it has for us today.
For the sake of ourselves and those who will come after us, we must now set about repairing the mistakes of our forefathers. Conservation should, therefore, be made a part of everyone's daily life. To know about the water table (地下水位) in the ground is just as important to us as a knowledge of the basic arithmetic formulas. We need to know why all watersheds need the protection of plant life and why the running current of streams and rivers must be made to yield their full benefit to the soil before they finally escape to the sea. We need to be taught the duty of planting trees as well as of cutting them. We need to know the importance of big, mature trees, because living space for most of man's fellow creatures on this planet is figured not only in square
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measure of surface but also in cubic volume above the earth. In brief, it should be our goal to restore as much of the original beauty of nature as we can.
6. The author's altitude towards current situation in the exploitation of natural resources is A. critical B. neutral C. positive D. suspicious
7. According to the author, the greatest mistake of our forefathers was that _____
A. they had no idea about scientific forestry
B. they were not aware of the significance of nature study C. they had little or no sense of environmental protection D. they had no idea of how to make good use of raw materials 8. It can be inferred from the third paragraph that earlier generations didn't realize A. the importance of the proper use of land B. the value of the beauty of nature
C. the harmfulness of soil destruction and river floods
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