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36、根据以下资料，回答36-55题。 　　Key James, Secretary of Health and Human Resources in the Virginia State government, loves to turn the tables on those who don't think it's possible to be middle-class, conservative, educated and still be truly black．Once, during an abortion debate, a woman in the audience angrily told James she was so middle-class she didn't have a clue about real African American life．"If you understood what these women go through," the woman said, "you would realize that abortion is their only choice."
　　James then asked the woman to consider a poor black mother on welfare．She already has four children and an alcoholic husband who has all but abandoned the family．Now she discovers another child is on the way．"How would you counsel that woman?" asked James.
　　"Have an abortion," the woman responded．"That child would have a very poor quality of life."
　　"I have a vested interest in your answer," James said．"The woman I described was my mother．I was the fifth of six children born into poverty．And, in case you're interested, the quality of my life is just fine!" "To mm the tables" means __.
A． to move the tables
B． to carry the tables away
C． to gain courage
D． to gain an advantage after having been at a disadvantage

37、 James' father __.
A． divorced his wife
B． liked to drink
C． deserted his family
D． B and C

38、 James' mother __.
A． was educated
B． was conservative
C． was poor
D． A and B

39、 James' family led a __ life when she was born.
A． miserable
B． happy
C． well-off
D． hardly

40、 Lindman wrote his book __.
A． ten years ago
B． twenty years ago
C． more than twenty years ago
D． thousands of years ago

41、 We can make our life happier if we __.
A． get rid of useless things
B． buy more things
C． sell things we do not need
D． give up more

42、 The best title for the passage is __.
A． Simplify Your Life
B． Enjoy Your Life
C． Smoking Less
D． Satisfaction

43、根据以下资料，回答43-62题。 　　Years ago, a cigarette commercial asked if you were smoking more, but enjoying it less．That describes the way many of us live today．We are doing more, but enjoying it less．And when that doesn't work, we get the problem．In our extremely hurried search for satisfaction, we try stuffing still more into our days, never realizing that we are taking the wrong approach.
　　The truth is simple; so simple it is hard to believe．Satisfaction lies with less, not with more．Yet, we pursue the myth that this thing, or that activity, will somehow provide the satisfaction we so desperately seek.
　　Arthur Lindman, in his very effective book, "The Harried Leisure Class," described the uselessness of pursuing more．His research focused on what people did with their leisure time．He found that as income rose, people bought more things to occupy their leisure time．But, ironically, the more things they bought, the less they valued any one of them．Carried to an extreme, he predicted massive boredom in the midst of tremendous variety．That was more than twenty years ago, and his prediction seems more accurate every year.
Lindman of course, is not the first to discover this．The writer of Ecclesiastes expressed the same thought thousands of years ago．It is better, he wrote, to have less, but enjoy it more.
　　If you would like to enjoy life more, I challenge you to experiment with me．How could you simplify your life? What could you drop? What could you do without? What could you stop pursuing? What few things could you concentrate on?
　　The more I learn, the more I realize that fullness of life does not depend on things．The more I give up, the more I seem to gain．But words will never convince you．You must try it for yourself．
Arthur Lindman wrote __.
A． a popular novel
B． a research paper
C． Ecclesiastes
D． The Harried Leisure Class

44、根据以下资料，回答44-63题。 　　Some people do not like anything to be out of place; they are never late for work; they return their books on time to the library; they remember people's birthdays; and they pay their bills as soon as they arrive．Mr．Hill is such a man.
　　Mr．Hill works in a bank, and lives alone．The only family he has is in the next town: his sister lives there with her husband, and her son, Jack．Mr．Hill does not see his sister, or her family, from one year to the next, but he sends them Christmas cards, and he has not forgotten one of Jack's seventeen birthdays.
　　Last week Mr．Hill had quite a surprise．He drove home from the bank at the usual time, driving neither too slowly nor too fast; he parked his car where he always parked it, out of the way of other cars, and he went inside to make his evening meal．Just then, there was a knock at the door．He opened the door, to find a policeman standing on the door-step.
　　"What have I done wrong?" Mr．Hill asked himself．"Have I driven on the wrong side of the road? Has there been some trouble at the bank? Have I forgotten to pay an important bill?"
　　"Hello, Uncle," said the policeman, "My name is Jack." Mr．Hill __.
A． works in a bank by himself
B． lives in a bank and works by himself
C． lives by himself and works in a bank
D． lives in a bank by himself

45、 Mr．Hill __.
A． hardly sees his sister
B． sees his sister only at Christmas time
C． sees his sister on Jack's birthday
D． always sees his sister