I don't like ________ .

A. young men smoke

B. young men smoking

C. young men's smoke

D. that young men smoke

 

I don't like ________ .

A. young men smoke

B. young men smoking

C. young men's smoke

D. that young men smoke

 

F. Scott Fitzgerald, born on September 24,1896, an American novelist, was once a student of St. Paul Academy, the Newman School and attended Princeton. University for a short while. In 1917 he joined the army and was posted in Alabama, where he met his future wife Zelda Sayre. Then he had to make some money to impress her.

His life with her was full of great happiness, as he wrote in his diary : “ My own happiness in the past often approached such joy that I could share it even with the person dearest to me but had to walk it away in quiet streets and take down parts of it in my diary. ”
This side of paradise, his first novel, was published in 1920. encouraged by its success, Fitzgerald began to devote more time to his writing. Then he continued with the novel the Beautiful and Damned (1922), a collection of short stories Thales of the Jazz Age (1922), and a play The Vegetable (1923). But his greatest success was The Great Gatsby, published in 1925,which quick brought him praise from the literary world. Yet it failed to give him the needed financial security. Then, in 1926, he published another collection lf short stories All the Sad Young Men.
However, Fitzgerald’s problems with his wife Zelda affected his writing. During the 1920s he tried to reorder his life, but failed. By 1930, his wife had her first breakdown and went to a Swiss clinic. During this period he completed novels Tender Is the Night in 1934 and The love of the last Tycoon in 1940.While his wife was in hospital in the United States, he got totally addicted to alcohol. Sheila Graham, his dear friend, helped him fight his alcoholism.
【小题1】 How many novels written by Fitzgerald are mentioned in the passage ?

A．5

B．6

C．7

D．8

【小题2】Which of the following is the correct order to describe Fitzgerald’s life according to the passage?
a. He became addicted to drinking.
b. He studied at St. Paul Academy.
c. He published his first novel This Side of Paradise.
d. The Great Gatsby won high praise. 
e. He failed to reorder his life.
f. He joined the army and met Zelda.

A．f-c-e-a-b-d	B．b-e-a-f-c-d
C．f-d-e-c-b-a	D．b-f-c-d-e-a

【小题3】We can infer from the passage that Fitzgerald           .

A．had made some money when he met Zelda in Alabama.

B．was well educated and well off before he served in the army

C．would have completed more works if his wife hadn’t broken down

D．helped his friend get rid of drinking while his wife was in hospital

【小题4】The passage is probably followed by a concluding paragraph about_______  .

A．Zelda’s personal life

B．Zelda’s illness and treatment

C．Fitzgerald’s friendship with Graham

D．Fitzgerald’s contributions to the literary (文学的)world

Girls really do prefer pink and boys prefer blue, recent research shows.

The reasons could have its origins in the hunt for food on the African savannah(稀树草原) thousands of years ago. Evolution may have developed women’s preference for pink, perhaps because it helped them to find ripe fruit and healthy men with reddish faces, while both men and women have a natural desire for blue, according to scientists at Newcastle University.

“Everyone in today’s western culture, from parents to toy manufactures, seems to assume that little girls like pink.” Said Prof. Anya Hulbert, who wanted to find out whether the reason was cultural or to do with biology.

A love of salmon, fuchsia and coral does seem to be rooted into females, rather than picked up from their mothers.

The participants in the study were Chinese and British. The Chinese students showed a marked preference for red. “Culture may contribute to this natural female preference.” Said Pro. Hulbert.

In her experiments, 208 young adult men and women were asked to select, as rapidly as possible, their preferred color. Hulbert and her colleague Dr. Yazhu Ling marked the results and found that while men preferred blue, women tended to choose pink.

Hulbert said she could only infer about the preference for blue: “Here again, I would favor evolutionary arguments. Going back to our savannah’s days, we would have a natural preference for a clear blue sky, because it signaled good weather. Clear blue also signals a good water source.”

60.The passage mentions “the African savannah” to show that____.

A.the ancient Africa was a beautiful place.

B.human beings lived in African at first.

C.women and men have different color preferences.

D.Color preference has its historical origins.

61.It can be inferred that the underlined word “fuchsia”_____.

A.is probably a kind of toy

B.is probably pink in color

C.can be only found in Africa

D.hardly causes men’s interest

62.By saying “The Chinese students… for red.” in paragraph 5, the writer means______.

A.red is the Chinese student’s favorite color

B.the Chinese prefer red more than the British

C.culture influences people’s color preferences

D.the study was carried out by two nations

63.What can we know from the last paragraph?

A.Hulbert thinks evolution explains why people prefer blue

B.Hulbert has a strong desire for “savannah” days

C.Blue is a natural signal of many good things

D.While boys like blue, girls like pink.