【B15】
A. untouched
B. worried
C. moved
D. excited
(9)_____ for us, we live in a universe that has at least important parts that are knowable. Our common sense experience and our evolutionary history have (10)_____ us to understand something of the workaday world. When we go into other realms, however, common sense and ordinary intuition (11)_____ highly unreliable guides. It is stunning that as we go close to the speed of light our mass (12)_____ indefinitely, we shrink toward zero thickness (13)_____ the direction of motion, and time for us comes as near to stopping as we would like. Many people think that this is silly, and every week (14)_____ I get a letter from someone who complains to me about it. But it is virtually certain consequence not just of experiment but also of Albert Einstein's (15)_____ analysis of space and time called the Special Theory of Relativity. It does not matter that these effects seem unreasonable to us. We are not (16)_____ the habit of traveling close to the speed of light. The testimony of our common sense is suspect at high velocities.
The idea that the world places restrictions on (17)_____ humans might do is frustrating. Why shouldn't we be able to have intermediate rotational positions? Why can't we (18)_____ faster than the speed of light? But (19)_____ we can tell, this is the way the universe is constructed. Such prohibitions not only (20)_____ us toward a little humility; they also make the world more knowable.
A. just
B. very
C. just not
D. not just
听力原文:W: Please sit down. Let's see. You're Mr. Brown, is that right?
M: Right. I'll graduate from college next June.
W: Have you ever done any work in this field?
M: No, never. We did some practice work in class.
W: You seem to be doing well at college. What kind of pay do you hope to get?
M: From what I've read, it seems that the pay at the beginning would, be around $12,000 a year.
W: Here we would start at $10,500 for the first year of training. Then you would get $15,000. After that it would depend on how well you work.
M: That sounds fair enough. What about other things, like vacation?
W: Those are all explained in this paper. You can take it along and look at it at home.
M: Do you really think I can get a job here? I really hope that I can work here. But I guess I'll just have to go home and wait.
W: Well, I'm talking to three people today and four tomorrow. The company will be hiring two people. You'll hear sometime next month. Good luck and thanks for coming today.
How much does the man want to be paid a year at the beginning?
A. $15,000.
B. $12,000.
C. $10,500.
Joe liked hunting very much. Last month he came back from Africa and said that he would not go hunting any longer. He told me his experience as follows(如下).
One morning I was walking in the forest and suddenly saw a lion hidden in the grass, less than three metres away. With a terrible roar(吼叫), he leaped(跳跃)toward me. I aimed my gun at it and shot. But I had no practice in shooting at moving objects at such a short distance. I didn't hit him. Only by the grace(恩典)of God, the lion made such a long leap that he went flying over my head and landed five metres away from me. Just then another hunter came running and the lion quickly ran away from me.
I returned to the camp and began to practise shooting at moving objects at short distances. It was going well and I was anxious to find some animal as my target. What I saw later was much dreadful and made me decide to give up hunting. I looked up over the fence, and there at the edge of the forest was the same lion. The lion was practicing short jumps.
Joe came back from Africa and decided to give up hunting because ______.
A. hunting in Africa was terrible
B. he had been hunting for a long time
C. he had been hunting for a short time
D. he had had a terrible experience