By saying "The measure of a life is often taken in the smallest units"(Para 2), the author means that ______.
A. Kennedy was most respected by the ordinary people
B. Kennedy's life can be reflected by the small deeds he has done
C. Kennedy has done many small deeds for the people around him
D. Kennedy devoted his life to serving the people from the lower class
Section B
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice.
Shortly before he died of lymphoma(淋巴瘤), the great writer and physician Lewis Thomas, whose books turned science into a way of appreciating the grandeur(伟大) of the world, told me he thought the true measure of a life was that it be useful. He wondered in those last days if his own life had been useful, and many thousands of readers assured him that it had. "Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be," cried Robert Browning's Rabbi Ben Ezra. Not always. Poetry replies to Rabbi Ben with A. E. Housman's "To an Athlete Dying Young" and comes up with no more startling(令人吃惊的) a conclusion than that a life is what one makes of it.
Celebrity is hardly a prerequisite(先决条件). Kennedy's life would have been just as valuable had he been, to use another poet's phrase, a "mute, inglorious Milton". A beloved colleague at TIME died recently who was unknown to most of the world, except the friends she cherished. The measure of a life is often taken in the smallest units. On television, a parking attendant in the garage that Kennedy used mentioned that Kennedy came over personally to wish the man a merry Christmas every year. A middle aged African American woman with whom he worked in one of the programs he supported was in tears at the recollection of continuous small acts of kindness.
The sudden garden that has developed on the front steps of Kennedy's loft building began simply with neighbors paying homage(崇敬) to a neighbor. From such fragments of evidence a whole life is constructed, or reconstructed.
When a man dies, a civilization dies with him. Everything dies but the reverberation(反响) of his works in the lives of others; and so, while an individual civilization dies, the greater one profits. We call such deaths tragedies because the force of the life has been of great magnitude(重要性); yet tragedy from the point of view of the audience is high art, and one is filled with as much admiration as grief.
Keats chose as his epitaph(墓志铬) "Here lies one whose name was writ in water." He believed that his life would be viewed as without consequence, and that he would debut(初次登台) one more transitory figure among the yearning and striving masses. Kennedy, too, I think, would have had his name writ in water, thus the appropriateness of his sea burial, because the best public servants disappear into the world, whose pain they feel. Every name is writ in water, which flows through us all.
We can infer from the first paragraph that Lewis Thomas believes that ______.
A. your life is important if it is meaningful for others
B. you can build meaning into your life if it is long
C. work while alive is the most important thing
D. usefulness of one life is hard to measure
听力原文:M: Hi, Grace. Mind if I eat lunch with you'?
W: No. Mr. Evans, not at all.
M: Thanks. I just heard that you're studying nutrition and you've got quite a bit of experience working in the cafeteria, so I wonder if you will be interested in a small project we are doing this term.
W: What's the project all about?
M: More and more students have been deciding not to buy the meal here and we want to attract them back. So I want to hear what students would like. Your job would be to find out.
W: Well, if the menus were changed, then maybe I wouldn't have to listen to so much criticism.
M: That makes you perfect for the job. Would you be interested?
W: I'm not sure. What sorts of changes are you thinking of?
M: I'd like to make some changes in the way we prepare our food. For example, just look at what we have to choose from today. You got a fried hamburger and I got fried chicken. They both contain too much fat.
W: But you'd better not get rid of them. They're everybody's favorite.
M: Well, we can certainly keep them, but we need to give the people Who are health-conscious some choices. For example, we could also prepare chicken without the fatty skin and serve it on some rice with a light sauce. Do you think that would appeal to students?
W: Well; I'd like that. You're right. You'd better find out what others think. Sorry, I've got to get back to work. I'd like to hear more though. I'll drop by your office later.
M: OK, see you then.
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A. The size of the cafeteria.
B. The food served in the cafeteria.
C. The cost of meals in the cafeteria.
D. Career opportunities in cafeterias.