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【C8】

A. show
B. afford
C. express
D. offer

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"Time", says the proverb, "is money". This means that every moment well-spent may bring out some money into our pockets. If our time is usefully【C1】______, it will either turn out some useful and important piece of work which will fetch its price in the market, or it will add to our experience and increase our capacities so as to enable us to earn money【C2】______the proper opportunity comes. There can thus be no doubt that time is convertible into money. 【C3】______, our life is nothing more than our time. To kill time is therefore a form. of suicide. We are shocked when we think of【C4】______, and we spare no pains, no trouble and no expense to preserve life. But we are too often【C5】______to the loss of an hour or of a day, forgetting that our life is the sum total of the days and of the hours we live. There is a third【C6】______which will also tend to warn us against loss of time. Our life is a brief【C7】______measuring some sixty or seventy years in all, but nearly one half of this has to be spent in sleep, some years have to be spent in making journeys on land and voyages by sea, some in merry making; some in【C8】______religious and social festivities. Now if all these years were to be deducted from the term over which our life extends we shall find about fifteen or twenty years at our【C9】______for active work. Whoever remembers this can never【C10】______waste a single moment of his life.
【C1】

A. adopted
B. utilized
C. applied
D. employed

【C9】

A. wondered
B. considered
C. doubted
D. expected

【C10】

A. fair
B. honest
C. equal
D. proper

There are far too many road accidents in this country: too many deaths and too many people【C1】______. One wonders who are most to blame: drivers or pedestrians? Some people say that the blame cannot be【C2】______fairly without considering the roads and the whole transport system. In crowded cities like London, Birmingham or Manchester, road conditions are so chaotic【C3】______both drivers and pedestrians often endanger lives through no fault of their own. Such deficiency【C4】______too many road signs, faulty lights, sudden narrowing of a street, congested parking are all a sure【C5】______of bad road conditions. On the other hand, many experts are【C6】______that the larger part of the blame for the death toll must be put on persons and persons alone: drivers who drive【C7】______fast and without any consideration for others, drivers who think they are safe at the wheel even though they have drunk too much alcohol. Pedestrians,【C8】______must share the guilt: stepping off the pavement without first looking to the left or right, crossing roads when the traffic lights are【C9】______them, jumping off a moving bus. To be【C10】______, pedestrians, drivers and road conditions are all to blame.
【C1】

A. hurt
B. injured
C. wounded
D. damaged

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