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arch for the means of existence. In the great metropolitan areas where most Americans live, we can no longer imagine the solitary individual or the small community surviving, short of robbing for food and necessities. The majority of Americans have never grown food, caught game, raised meat, ground grain into flour. Faced with the challenge of clothing themselves or building their own homes, they would be hopelessly untrained and unprepareD. Even to make minor repairs in the machines which surround them, they must call on other members of the community whose business it is to fix cars, or to repair plumbing, or whatever. Perhaps, the richer the nation, the more apparent is this inability of its average inhabitant to survive unaided and alone.
11. Which is the best title for this passage?分析与解答
A. The Poor and the Rich.
B. The Individual and the Society.
C. The Division of Labor.
D. The Making of a Society.
12. “Left to his own devices" in Line 4, ParA. 1 most probably means .分析与解答
A. to be left alone
B. to be left to make plans
C. to be left to invent new devices
D. to be left to devil
13. It is most likely to find people like Robinson Crusoe 分析与解答
A. in great metropolitan area
B. in a large community
C. in modern America
D. near the North Pole
14. Which of the following is indicated in the passage?分析与解答
A. Modern American society is a self-contained society.
B. Division of labor improves efficiency.
C. The survival ability of a man is decided by the degree of his dependence on others.
D. A man living alone will survive longer than a man living in a small community.
15. One can NOT make a living in modern America by .分析与解答
A. buying things one need from stores
B. hiring the services of others
C. robbing others of food and necessities
D. learning to do things all by oneself
Passage 4
If women are mercilessly exploited year after year, they have only themselves to blame. Because they tremble at the thought of being seen in public in clothes that are out of fashion, they are always taken advantage of by the designers and the big stores. Clothes which have been worn only a few times have to be put aside because of the change of fashion. When you come to think of it, only a woman is capable of standing in front of a wardrobe packed full of clothes and announcing sadly that she has nothing to wear.
Changing fashions are nothing more
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