29. What did Hugh Grant and Bob Dole tell us about failure?
A. One shouldn't be ashamed of one's failure.
B. One should feel ashamed of one's failure.
C. The notion of shame in failure is up-to-date.
D. Failure is an embarrassing thing.
30. According to the author, failure _____________.
A. was predominant in 1990s
B. can also be fun
C. is less common than success
D. spread to the internet
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the same passage or dialog. Psychics (通灵的人) are people who can get information about people, places, or situations through a sixth sense-a sense that exists in addition to those of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching. They can use their psychic ability to heal people who are sick, to give advice, to give hints about the future, and to do many other things. And it's not just individuals who use psychics; sometimes companies and governments use psychics, too. One year a company called Delphi and Associates earned $120,000 on the stock market with the help of psychics.
\you don't have to pay a lot of money to a professional psychic. You can start by using your own psychic ability.
Psychic abilities are really just another sense, similar to our other five senses. The difference is that we never develop our psychic sense in the same way that we develop our other senses. We train our eyes to see the difference between a V and a U; we train our ears to hear the difference between a /ch/ and a /sh/ sound; we can feel the difference between silk and leather; we can smell and taste if milk is sour. But our sixth sense, our psychic sense, seldom
develops very much. Because most of us ignore our psychic sense for so long, it takes some time to develop it. If you have never played soccer before, you cannot expect to be a good player after three lessons. It might take years to become really good. Psychic ability works the same way.
31. People use psychics ________.
A. mainly to see the future
B. to make money
C. to see what one cannot usually see
D. for many reasons
32. ________ learn to use their psychic ability.
A. Many people
B. Many companies
C. Few people
D. Few governments
33. Psychic abilities ________.
A. are similar to other senses
B. work in the same way as other senses
C. are different from other senses
D. work together with other senses
34. Our psychic sense seldom develops very much because
________.
A. we never sense it
B. we never believe in it
C. we ignore it
D. we don't want to take time to train it
35. The attitude of the author towards psychic abilities is
________. A. positive
B. negative
C. critical
D. neutral
Questions 36 to 40 are based on the same passage or dialog. It is not often realized that women held a high place in southern European societies in the 10th and 11th centuries. As a wife, the woman was protected by the setting up of a dowry (嫁妆) or decimum. Admittedly, the purpose of this was to protect her against the risk of being abandoned, but in reality its function in the social and family life of the time was much more important. The decimum was the wife's right to receive a tenth of all her husband's property. The wife had the right to hold back consent, in all transactions (交易) the husband would make. And more than just a right: the documents show that she enjoyed a real power of decision, equal to that of her husband. In no case do the documents indicate any degree of difference in the legal status of husband and wife. The wife shared in the management of her husband's personal property, but the opposite was not always true. Women seemed perfectly prepared to defend their own inheritance against husbands who tried to exceed their rights, and on occasion they showed a fine fighting spirit. A case in point is that of Maria Vivas, a Catalan woman of Barcelona. Having agreed with her husband Miro to sell a field she had inherited, for the needs of the
household, she insisted on compensation. None being offered, she succeeded in dragging her husband to the official in charge to have a contract as expected drawn up assigning her a piece of land from Miro's personal inheritance. The unfortunate husband was obliged
to agree, as the contract says, \through the dowry or through being hot-tempered, the Catalan wife knew how to win herself, within the context of the family, a powerful economic position.
36. A decimum was ________.
A. the wife's inheritance from her father
B. a gift of money to the new husband
C. a written contract
D. the wife's right to receive one-tenth of her husband's property
37. In the society described in the passage, the legal standing of
the wife in marriage was ________. A. higher than that of her husband
B. lower than that of her husband
C. the same as that of her husband
D. higher than that of a single woman
38. What compensation did Maria Vivas get for the field?
A. Some of the land Miro had inherited.
B. A tenth of Miro's land.
C. Money for household expenses.
D. Money from Miro's inheritance.
39. Could a husband sell his wife's inheritance?
A. No, under no circumstances.
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