四、阅读理解：共15小题;每题3分，共45分。阅读下列短文，然后根据短文的内容从每小题的四个选择项中选出最佳的一项。
根据以下内容，回答试题。
Every Chinese-language textbook starts out with the standard phrases(短语)for greeting people;but as an American，I always found myself unable to speak freely when it came to seeing guests off at the door.Just a good-bye would not d0，yet that was all I had ever learned from the terrible books.So I would smile and nod，bowing(鞠躬)like a Japanese and searching madly for words that
would smooth over the visitor ’s leaving and make them feel they would be welcome to come again.In my unease，I often hid behind the skirts of my Chinese husband’S kindness.
Then finally，listening to others.I began to pick up the phrases that eased relationships and sent people off not only. Successfully but also skillfully..
Partings for the Chinese include a lot of necessary habitual practice.Although I’m not expected to observe or even know all the rules.as a foreigner.I’ve had to learn the expressions of politeness and protest(抗议，反对)at a leaving-taking.
The Chinese feel they must see a guest off to the farthest possible point-down the flight of stairs to the street below or perhaps all the way to the nearest bus stop.I’ve sometimes、waited half an hour or more for my husband to return from seeing a guest off，since he’s gone to the bus stop and waited for the next bus to arrive.
That’s very well，but when I'm the guest being seen off。my protests are always useless.My hostess or host，or both，insists on seeing me down the stairs and well on my way，with my repeating the“Don’t bother(give the trouble)to see me off”at every landin9.If I try to go fast to discourage them from following，they are simply out to the discomfort of having to run after me.Better to accept the inevitable(不可避免的).
Besides，that’s going against Chinese custom，because haste(doing things quickly)is to be avoide D.What do you say when you part from someone?“Go slowly.”Not farewell or Godspeed(祝福)，but “Go slowly”.To the Chinese it means“Take care" or“Watch your step”，or some such caution，but translated literally(照字面地)it means“Go slowly”.
第36题 It is stated clearly that the writer____.
A.is interested in the Chinese-language textbooks
B.is proud of being able to greet people at the door
C.is unsatisfied with the Chinese-language textbooks
D.is afraid of the standard phrases from the textbooks
第37题 It call be inferred that the writer____
A.speaks Chinese
B.1ires in the USA
C.dislikes her husband’s ways of seeing guests off
D.refuses to follow the Chinese custom of seeing guests off
第38题 According to me passage all of the following are necessary in the Chinese partings except____
A.seeing the guests off to the farthest point B.protesting again and again
C.running after the guests D.sayin9“Go slowly’’
第39题 The Chinese use"Go slowly”in their partings so as to____
A.slow down the guests B.ask the guests to take care
C.wish the guests a happy journey D.warn the guests of danger on their way home
根据以下内容，回答试题。
It maybe pointed out that warfare(战争)as practiced by man has no parallel in nature.This is to say that within the more highly developed animal populations of this earth，there is not now, nor has there been similar destruction within a species(物种)itself。In fact，one has to go to the lowliest forms of animal life，such as certain kinds of ants，to find anything comparable to human warfare. It is
a curious fact that mankind appears to give the killing of his own kind a good reason by imaging that it is a“law of nature".There are now a lot of wrong ideas about the laws of nature,of which this is one of the most incorrect and fateful(致命的).Political beliefs have been based upon it with results that have come near to destroying human civilization.The theory that war is a biological necessity,
that it is nature's method of controlling population and believing in the survival(生存)of the strong and the elimination of the weak，is totally wrong and insupportable. Within the last century, when wars have been common all over the world，the human population of the earth has almost doubled.
第40题 The main idea of this passage is____
A.warfare is a“law of nature”
B.warfare is not a“law of nature”
C.waare does not control human population
D.none of the lowlier animals, except ants，practice warfare upon their own species
第41题 According to Sentence 2，which of the following is true?
A.The destruction is similar to the killing of each other within human beings.
B.There is not the similar destruction now.but it occurred before.
C.There is never a time when we may see the similar destruction.
D.The destruction is now a thing of the past.
第42题 What does the“law of nature”mean?You can find the answer in the passage in____.
A.the first sentence B.the fourth sentence
C.the seventh sentence D.the final sentence
第43题 The author of this passage seems to be____the"law of nature”.
A.against B.in favor of C.uncertain of D.very much interested in
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