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    　　Olaf Stapledon wrote a book called First and Last Men, in which he looked millions of years ahead．He told of different men and of strange civilisations(文明)，broken up by long dark ages' in between．In his view, what is called the present time is no more than a moment in human history and we are just the First Men．In 2,000 million years from now there will be the Eighteenth or Last Men．

    　　However, most of our ideas about the future are really very short-sighted．Perhaps we can see some possibilities for the next fifty years．But the next hundred?The next thousand?The next million?That's much more difficult．

    　　When men and women lived by hunting 50,000 years ago, how could they even begin to picture modern life?Yet to men of 50,000 years from now, we may seem as primitive(原始的)in our ideas as the Stone-Age hunters do to us．Perhaps they will spend their days gollocking to make new spundels, or struggling with their ballalators through the cribe．These words, which I have just made up, have to stand for things and ideas that we simply can't think of．

    　　So why bother even to try imagining life far in the future?Here are two reasons．First, unless we remember how short our own lives are compared with the whole human history, we are likely to think our own interets are much more important than they really are．If we make the earth a poor place to live on becaus we are careless or greedy(贪婪)or quarrelsome, our grandchildren will not bother to think of excuses for us．

    　　Second, by trying to escape from present interests and imagine life far in the future, we may arrive at quite fresh ideas that we can use ourselves．For example, if we imagine that in the future men may give up farming, we can think of trying it now．So set your imagination free when you think about the future．

    (1)

    A particular mention made of Stapledon's book in the opening paragraph ________．

    [　　]

    A．

    serves as a description of human history

    B．

    serves as an introduction to the discussion

    C．

    shows a disagreement of views

    D．

    shows the popularity of the book

    (2)

    The text discusses men and women 50,000 years ago and 50,000 years from now in order to show that ________．

    [　　]

    A．

    human history is extremely long

    B．

    life has changed a great deal

    C．

    it is useless to plan for the next 50 years

    D．

    it is difficult to tell what will happen in the future

    (3)

    Spundels and ballalators are used in the text to refer to ________．

    [　　]

    A．

    tools used infarming

    B．

    ideas about modern life

    C．

    unknown things in the future

    D．

    hunting skills in he Stone Age

    (4)

    According to the writer of the text, imagining the future will ________．

    [　　]

    A．

    serve the interests of the present and future generations

    B．

    enable us to better understand human history

    C．

    help us to improve farming

    D．

    make life worth living

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    Even if they are on sale, these refrigerators are equal in price to, if not more expensive than, _____ at the other store.

    A. anyone    B. the others    C. that    D. the ones

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    The crazy fans ________ patiently for two hours, and they would wait till the movie star arrived．


    1. A.
      were waiting
    2. B.
      had been waiting
    3. C.
      had waited
    4. D.
      would wait

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         The report came to the British on May 21, 1941. The German battleship Bismarck, the most powerful warship in the world, was moving out into the Atlantic Ocean. Her task: to destroy the ships carrying supplies from the United States to war-torn England.

         The British had feared such a task. No warship they had could match the Bismarck in speed in firepower. The Bismarck had eight 15-inch guns and 81 smaller guns. She could move at 31 nautical miles (海里) an hour. She was believed to be unsinkable.?However, the British had to sink her. They sent out a task force headed by their best battleship Hood to hunt down the Bismarck. On May 24, the Hood found the Bismarck.?

        It was a meeting that the German commander Luetjens did not want to see. His orders were to destroy the British ships that were carrying supplies, but to stay away from a fight with British warships.?

        The battle didn't last long. The Bismarck's first torpedo (鱼雷) hit the Hood, which went down taking all but three of her 1 419 men with her.?

        But in the fight, the Bismarck was slightly damaged (损坏). Her commander decided to run for repair to France, which had at that time been taken by the Germans. The British force followed her. However, because of the Bismarck's speed and the heavy fog, they lost sight of her.?

         For two days, every British ship in the Atlantic tried to find the Bismarck, but with no success. Finally, she was sighted by a plane from Ireland. Trying to slow the Bismarck down so that their ships could catch up with her, the British fired at her from the air. The Bismarck was hit.?

        On the morning of May 27, the last battle was fought. Four British ships fired on the Bismarck, and she was finally sunk.?

    61. The Bismarck sailed into the Atlantic Ocean _______.?

    A.   to sink the Hood                                                            B. to gain control of France?

    C. to cut off American supplies to British                                D. to stop British warship reaching German

    62. Many people believed that Bismarck could not be defeated because she _______.?

    A. was fast and powerful                                                B. had more men on board?

    C. was under Luetjens' command                                     D. had biggest guns than other ships?

    63. We learn from the text that on 24 May _______.?

    A. the British won the battle against the Bismarck?

    B. the Bismarck won the battle against the British?

    C. the British gunfire damaged the Bismarck seriously?

    D. the Bismarck succeeded in keeping away from the British

    64. Luetjens tried to sail to France in order to _______.?

    A. have the ship repaired                                                B. join the other Germans?

    C. get help from the French                                            D. get away from the British?

    65. Which of the following is the immediate cause of the sinking of the Bismarck??

    A. The British air strikes.?                                             B. The damage done by the Hood.?

    C. Gunfire from four British ships.?                                D. Luetjens' decision to run for France.?

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    After a long walk, they______ pass over the mountain.

    A.  could be able to  B.can  C. would       D.were able to

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