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（七）

In Mount Berry, Georgia, people find a group of schools built specially for mountain children. The schools, as well as the mountain itself, are named after Martha Berry, herself a daughter of a Georgian mountaineer.

Martha Berry was born in 1866. Luckier than most Georgian mountain children, she received an education. But she never forgot other children of the mountains whose parents couldn’t afford to send them to school. In 1902 Martha Berry started a school for these children. It was housed in a single small log cabin and was attended by only five pupils. Now eighty years later there are a score of Berry Schools in the area, with a total of over one thousand students and a waiting list of about five thousand.

Martha Berry in her later years received many medals and honors for what she had done for the poor mountain children of Georgia, and in 1931 she was named one of the twelve most important women in the United States. She never stopped working for the mountain children till her death in 1942.

1.The Berry Schools have a history of _____.

A.Half a century

B.about a quarter of a century

C.over three quarters of a century

D.more than a century

答案：C

2.How many years of her life did Martha Berry devote to working for the mountain children? ____.

A.40 years

B.36 years

C.29 years

D.76 years

答案：A

3.The Berry Schools have expanded _____.

A.20 times

B.200 times

C.1000 times

D.5000 times

答案：B

4.In Mount Berry there are now ____.

A.Enough schools for all the local children

B.still not enough schools for all the local children

C. more than enough schools for all the local children

D.schools for local children as well as children from other parts of the U.S.

答案：B

5.Martha Berry was named one of the twelve most important women in the U.S. because_____.

A.she had received many medals and honors

B.she had never stopped working till her death

C.she had helped develop one of the most backward areas in the U.S

D.she had helped set up some of the most advanced schools in the U.S.

答案：C

（八）

What is exactly a lie? Is it anything we say which we know is untrue? Or is it something more than that? For example, suppose a friend wants to borrow some money from you, you say: ‘I wish I could help you but I’m short of money myself.’ In fact, you are not short of money but your friend is in the habit of not paying his debts and you don’t want to hurt his feelings by reminding him of this. Is this really a lie?

A scientific study of lying shows women are better liars than men, particularly when telling a ‘white lie’, such as when a woman at a party tells another woman that she likes her dress when she really thinks it looks terrible. However, this is only one side of the story. Other researches show that men are more likely to tell more serious lies, such as making a promise which they have no intention of fulfilling. This is the kind of lie politicians and businessmen are supposed to be particularly skilled at: the lie from which the liar hopes to profit or gain in some way.

Research has also been done into the way people’s behavior changes in a number of small, apparently unimportant ways when they lie. It has been found that if they are sitting down at the same time, they tend to move about in their chairs more than usual. To the trained observer they are saying ‘I wish I were somewhere else now.’

1.This passage tells us that _________.

A.telling lies is often necessary in order to avoid being defeated

B.telling lies is often bad because people ought not to be dishonest

C.telling lies is sometimes necessary in order not to hurt someone else’s feelings

D.telling lies is not bad at all in most cases

答案：C

2.In Paragraph 2, the sentence “Women are better liars than men do.” Probably means “__________”.

A.women are better at telling lies than men

B.women liars are better accepted than men

C.women have a better intention when telling lies

D.women tell fewer lies than men do

答案：A

3.A ‘white lie’ means __________.

A.a lie that is completely unbelievable

B.a lie that is told with a good will

C.a lie that is always believable

D.a lie that often has an evil purpose

答案：B

4.Politicians and businessmen are supposed to be skilled at telling the kind of lies _________.

A.from which they may gain some advantages

B.that seems to be believable

C.that women are most likely to believe

D.with which they can have better relationship with others

答案：A

5.It can be concluded from the passage that _________.

A.there is a simple way of finding out if someone is lying

B.from some ways people behave we can know they are lying

C.certain emotions are proof of lying

D.in some situations women are most likely to think

答案：B

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