Analysts have their go at humor, and I have read some of this interpretative literature, (1) without being greatly instructed. Humor can be (2) , (3) a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are (4) to any but the pure scientific mind.One of the things (5) said about humorists is that they are really very sad ’people clowns with a breaking heart. There is some truth in it, but it is badly (6) . It would be more (7) , I think, to say that there is a deep vein of melancholy running through everyone’s life and that the humorist, perhaps more (8) of it than some others, compensates for it actively and (9) Humorists fatten on troubles. They have always made trouble (10) They struggle along with a good will and endure pain (11) , knowing how well it will (12) them in the sweet by and by. You find them wrestling with foreign languages, fighting folding ironing hoards and’ swollen drainpipes, suffering the terrible (13) of tight boots. They pour out their sorrows profitably, in a (14) of what is not quite fiction nor quite fact either. Beneath the sparking surface of these dilemmas flows the strong (15) of human woe.Practically everyone is a manic depressive of sorts, with his up moments and his down moments, and you certainly don’t have to be a humorist to (16) the sadness of situation and mood. But there is often a rather fine line between laughing and crying, and if a humorous piece of writing brings a person to the point (17) his emotional responses are untrustworthy and seem likely to break over into the opposite realm, it is (18) humor, like poetry, has an extra content, it plays (19) to the big hot fire which is Truth, and sometimes the reader feels the (20) . Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C, and D on ANSWER SHEET 1.19()
A. open
B. related
C. close
D. devoted
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Pattie Kovars: Even if my whole family gets up very early, I always like to work at night. I find that’ s my best time to get work done. I like night time because everything is calm and I can just write. I feel calmer and more focused at night. There is no pressure. When I read my papers in the morning, I’ m always amazed how good they sound. Brandi Baldasano: I try to make use of all the small portions of time that I have available. I find that I can finish a lot in fifteen minutes, because I am able to concentrate for that long knowing I have only a few minutes. Those small units of time really add up over a week. Setting small goals seems to help me avoid feeling overwhelmed. I use my calendar as a guide, by putting down what school work I would like to finish each day to be caught up. Galo Arboleda: I’m the king of procrastination. I like to do everything at the last minute, and I really pay the price by being nervous and anxious. I always tell myself to stop this pattern, but then once again,I stay all night writing the paper or studying for the test. I try to deal with it by at least starting the assignment early, doing at least a quarter or even half of it, so I don’ t have to do it all the night before. Usually I do end up doing it all but I always manage to get an A or B. I guess I work well under pressure. Mark Vaught: Being a college athlete, one of my big problems was prioritizing my time and trying to balance my sport, school and friends. My big mistake was putting my sport first. In the excitement, I placed my sport as first priority, my friends and teammates second, and my studies last. Today I have plans to go on to graduate school and I am affected by my grades because I did not put a high enough emphasis on my classes. Leticia Sequra: One big problem I face in managing time is not leaving time in lily schedule for the unannounced. My days are quite full and I have others depending on me to do things at certain times, I don’ t give myself much spare time in my daily schedule and, at last, that can be quite stressful. StatementsA. As for me, it’s never too late to learn.B. Unanticipated occurrence makes my schedule tighter.C. I admit that I am a night owl.D. I taste the bitterness from my sports fever.E. I believe that haste makes waste.F. I have the ability to deal with high pressure.G. I can make efficient use of my time. Mark Vaught
TextEvery human being, (26) what he is doing, gives off body heat. The usual problem is (27) dispose of it. But the designers of the Johnstown campus of University of Pittsburgh set themselves the (28) problem how to collect body heat. They have designed a collection system which utilizes (29) body heat, but the heat given off by such objects (30) light bulbs and refrigerators as well. The system works so well (31) no conventional fuel is needed (32) the campus’s six buildings comfortable.Some parts of most modern building, theatres and offices (33) classrooms -- are more than amply heated by people and lights and sometimes must be air-conditioned and (34) in winter. The technique of (35) heat and redistributing it is (36) “heat recovery”. A few modem buildings recover (37) , but the university’s system is the first to recover heat (38) some buildings and reuse it in (39) . Along the way, Pitt has learned a great deal about some of its heat producers. The (40) a student studies, the more heat his body (41) . Male students emit more than (42) students, and the larger a student, the more heat he (43) . It is tempting to (44) that the hot test prospect for the Johnstown campus would be a (45) over weight male genius. 35()
A. saving
B. being saved
C. disposing
D. being disposed
One of the earliest changes experienced by newly modernizing countries is the reduction of infectious disease through the diffusion of public health technology. Public health technology lowers the death rate, especially among infants and children, causing rapid population growth. Since most of the people of less developed nations live in rural areas that cannot absorb the increased population, unemployment presses people off the land. They tend to migrate into urban areas where newly developing industry and commerce and modern consumer goods and services offer hope for employment and a better life. Unfortunately, the opportunities are more apparent than real; and often the transition is more painful than pleasant.In the courses of the transition from agrarian life to modern urban living, the family undergoes major changes in function, structure, relations, and style. Functionally the family changes from a production unit to a consumption unit. No longer is there need for a large multi-worker household to operate the family’s farm interests, and the extended family household changes to the one containing only a core nuclear family. In the city children become economic liabilities rather than economic assets, and eventually families have fewer of them. Wives lose their functions as producers and maintainers of the labor force and become free to pursue extra household activities.The modern economy forces work outside the home away from kinfolk. Not only the father but also the mother is forced into the marketplace or factory to obtain enough money for the family to survive in a pecuniary economy. Without the extended family household, no one remains at home to supervise children, so they are left on their own. They may be sent into the streets to earn money. Daily life becomes filled with more secondary than primary relations. There is an erosion of family control over individual members.Scarce urban housing forces overcrowding in both dwelling and neighborhood. Dense structures with common halls, stairways, and utilities cause more intensive contact with neighbors than in rural villages. Loss of rural courtyards, over rooms, and large family areas drives group activities such as cooking, eating, and sitting into small rooms or city streets. More positively, household furnishings change as families are able to acquire the high-status accoutrements of modern living such as kerosene burners for cooking ( replacing dung cakes) and beds (instead of mats). By "wives lose their functions as producers and maintainers of the labor force", the author means that()
A. many women are no longer able to join the labor force
B. many women become too weak to work
C. many women refuse to have children
D. the major job for women is no longer to give birth to and bring up children