As a consequence of the financial crisis, many companies are not _____ new staff this year.

 As a consequence of the financial crisis, many companies are not _____ new staff this year.

  A. taking in    B. taking on    C. taking up    D. taking away

       In modern society there is a great deal of argument about competition. Some   36    it highly, believing that it is   37   for social progress and prosperity. Others say that   38   is bad, that it sets one person against another; that it   39   unfriendly relationship between people. 

I have taught many children who held the   40   that their self-worth relied on how well they   41    at tennis and other skills. For them, playing well and winning are often life-and –death affairs.  In their single-minded   42   of success, the development of many other human qualities is   43   forgotten.  

   44   , while some seem to be lost in the desire to succeed, others take a(n)   45   attitude. In a culture valuing only the winner and   46   to the ordinary players, they strongly   47   competition. They seem to seek failure by not trying to win or   48   success.  By not trying, they always have a(n)   49  ：“I may have lost, but it doesn’t matter   50   I really didn’t try.”   51    , this belief is the same as    52   of the true competitors trying to prove themselves. Both are based on the   53   belief that one’s self-respect relies on how well one performs in    54   with others.  Both are afraid of not being valued. Only as this basic and often troublesome fear begins to dissolve（缓解）  55   a new meaning in competition.  

36．A．benefit                   B．influences             C．value                     D．impress

37．A．cheerful                 B．meaningful             C．comfortable            D．responsible

38．A．competition            B．ability                    C．knowledge             D．challenge

39．A．runs into            B．leads to                  C．comes from            D．begins with

40．A．promise              B．belief                    C．dream                    D．task

41．A．planned                 B．performed              C．delivered               D．practiced

42．A．pursuit                   B．memory                  C．behalf                    D．search

43．A．shyly                     B．cheerfully              C．sadly                     D．faithfully

44．A．Therefore               B．Meanwhile             C．However            D．Afterwards

45．A．proper                    B．suitable                   C．confident                   D．opposite

46．A．paying no attention        B．pays less attention  C．paid more attention        D．pays no attention

47．A．excuse                   B．blame                    C．charge                   D．trust

48．A．enjoy                     B．apply                   C．receive                   D．achieve

49．A．opinion                  B．explanation            C．excuse                   D．reason

50．A．unless                    B．so                          C．while                     D．because

51．A．Firmly                   B．Naturally                    C．Unfortunately       D．Clearly

52．A．that                      B．one                        C．it                           D．this

53．A．mistaken            B．different                 C．single                    D．common

54．A．consequence           B．comparison            C．connection             D．common

55．A．we can discover       B．can we discover      C．can discover            D．we discover

In 1859, Italy and France were at war with Austria, and Henry Dunant, a young Swiss gentleman, came upon one of their battlefields. For the first time in his life, Dunant saw how heartless war would be. Around him were suffering men untended and left to die where they fell.

Henry Dunant went to work at once. Helped by several peasant women, he formed an ambulance service and set up headquarters in a little church. He treated the wounds of Frenchmen, Italians and Austrians alike. When he was asked why he did so, his answer showed a spirit of humanity that was not common in those days. “We are all brothers. A wounded enemy is an enemy no longer.” With his band of assistants, Dunant helped to save many lives. The “gentleman in white” (as Dunant was called because he wore a white suit) was looked upon by hundreds of wounded men as an angel.

    When Dunant returned to Switzerland, he could not forget the needless suffering on the battlefield. He thought of a great organization that should be planned to include many nations. It would do its work with the approval of all countries. And it must operate under a sign that all would know: its symbol would be a red cross against a white background.

He wrote a book to make the public see the need for this great organization. In the book he included a truthful account of what he had seen on the battlefield. The consequence was that readers were shocked by what he described.

After Dunant’s hard work, in Geneva on October 26, 1863, all the nations of Europe were invited to a meeting at which it was decided a relief society should be formed in each country. Then the Geneva Convention was made the following year. The nations that signed the Geneva Convention chose the red cross as the symbol for the international organization.

    Until his death in 1910, Dunant was always ready to look for a noble cause. And when the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded for the first time in 1901, the honor went to Dunant. No man has deserved it more than the founder of the Red Cross.

46. Why was Dunant looked upon as an angel by wounded men?

A. Because he really came from the heaven to help.            B. Because he wore a white suit.

C. Because he helped to save many lives.                          D. Because he was good-looking.

47. Why did Henry Dunant go to the battlefield?

A. To do business.                                                          B. To travel about the country.

C. To visit his friends.                                                     D. Not mentioned in the passage.

48. Dunant planned the organization with an intention to ______________.

A. function only in Europe                                               B. stop war

C. get the approval for relief work from every country       D. show his ability

49. In the passage, readers can’t learn ______________.

A. when Henry Dunant died

B. when nations in Asia signed the Geneva Convention

C. why Dunant deserved the Nobel Peace Prize

D. that Dunant was a determined man.

50. “We are all brothers. A wounded enemy is an enemy no longer.” The sentence showed that _______________.

A. Dunant was a good soldier                                          B. Dunant had no principle when he acted

C. Dunant wanted to stop war                                         D. Dunant had great sympathy for human beings

A wife’s level of education positively influences both her own and her husband’s chances of having a long life, according to a new Swedish study.
In the study, researchers from the Swedish Institute for Social Research in Stockholm found that a woman’s level of education had a stronger connection to the likelihood of her husband dying over education. What’s more, they discovered that a husband’s social class, based on his occupation,  had a greater influence on his wife’s longevity（长寿）than her own class.
“Women traditionally take more responsibility for the home than men do, and, as a consequence, women’s levels of education might be more important for determining lifestyles－for example, in terms of food choices－than those of men,” say Srs. Robert Erikson and Jenny Torssander of the Swedish Institute for Social Research in Stockholm.
The results show that a husband’s level of education does not influence his longevity, but that men with partners who had quit studying after school were 25 per cent more likely to die early than men living with women hodling university degrees. In turn, those married to women with university degrees were 13 per cent more likely to die early than those whose wives had post-graduate qualifications.
According to the researchers, a woman with a good education may not marry a man who drinks and smokes too much or who drivers carelessly, and men with such habits may not prefer highly educated woman. Drs. Erikson and Torssander also suggest that better-educated woman may be more aware of what healthy eating and good health care consist of.
The findings suggest that education has a huge impact on how long and how well people live. It also reflects social factors, since educated individuals usually have better jobs, which allow them to afford healthier diets and lifestyles, as well as better health care.
68. In this passage the author intends to_______.
A. encourage women to get higher education
B. present the results of a study.
C. analyze the relationship between education and life
D. discuss why women usually live longer than men
69. A wife’s education has more effect on a family than a husband’s because______.
A. women make more sacrifices to their families than men do
B. most women have higher degrees than their husbands
C. most men marry women with higher degrees
D. women have a leading role in the home life of most families
70. A woman with higher education is likely to_____.
A. choose a husband with a higher degree than hers.
B. marry a man without many bad habits
C. earn more money than her husband
D. teach her children well
71. We learn from the passage that_______.
A. a man with a lot of education live longer than one with little.
B. a man’s longevity depends on not only his wife’s level of education but also his own.
C. educated wives tend to choose healthy lifestyles for their families.
D. highly-educated women don’t marry uneducated men.