Nature has supplied every animal except man with some covering for his body such as fur, feathers, hair, and shells as a thick hide. But man has nothing but a thin skin.

　　If someone were to ask you, "Why did human beings start to cover their bodies with clothes?" most would answer, "To keep themselves warm, of course."

　　It is only when we begin to think about it a little that we realize that clothes are worn for a great many reasons that have nothing to do with our prime need for warmth at all.

　　For example, we wear clothes to some degree in order to decorate ourselves — to make ourselves, if possible, look more dignified（尊嚴(yán)）or nicer.

　　Clothes of a special kind are often worn to show that the wearer has authority or power. The individual wearing them is treated with respect because he occupies a certain office. The judge on the Bench, for example, might look a very ordinary and unimpressive figure without his wig and gown. Clothes are an important part of ceremony, whether it is connected with belief, the law, parliament, and royalty, the fighting forces of the state. How different the Queen's Coronation ceremony（加冕儀式）would have looked without the robes, coronets and the cloth of gold.

　　Sometimes, even in some modern countries people wear some article of clothing, or some jewel, because they believe that it will bring them luck or protect them from evil or illness, or because it is connected with their beliefs.

　　None of these reasons for wearing clothes — to decorate ourselves to show our position in the world, for ceremonial purposes, for "luck", to give ourselves dignity and authority — have anything to do with our need for warmth.

1．It can be inferred that wearing clothes is man’s basic necessity to        .

       A．protect skin                                          B．show beauty      

       C．keep warm                                           D．look more dignified

2．The judge wearing special clothes on the bench        .

       A．looks nicer                                           B．looks different    

       C．shows wealth                                       D．shows power

3．Even in modern countries, sometimes people wear some article of clothing most likely because

           .

       A．of beliefs they hold                               B．it has something to do with their wealth

       C．they want to show their luck                  D．they have some kind of illness

4．The author’s purpose in writing this article is to tell us that clothes are worn       .

       A．to show people’s authority or power       B．for many reasons other than warmth

       C．to keep people impressive and nicer        D．for many other reasons apart from warmth

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Those who love nature．

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is a dangerous island

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[　　]

A．

Those who love nature．

B．

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Many more people will probably come to Kauai after reading the passage．

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Yeats founded the first Irish theater．

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Envy

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Sympathy

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Emptiness

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[　　]

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Yeats’s literary achievements

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Yeats’s historical infuluence

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Yeats’s artistic ambition

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Yeats’s national honor

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　　Mark Twain has been called the inventor of the American novel．And he surely deserves additional praise：the man who popularized the clever literary attack on racism．

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　　Again and again, in the postwar years, Twain seemed forced to deal with the challenge of race．Consider the most controversial, at least today, of Twain's novels, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn．Only a few books have been kicked off the shelves as often as Huckleberry Finn, Twain's most widely read tale．Once upon a time, people hated the book because it struck them as rude．Twain himself wrote that those who banned the book considered the novel “trash and suitable only for the slums(貧民窟)．” More recently the book has been attacked because of the character Jim, the escaped slave, and many occurences of the word nigger．(The term Nigger Jim, for which the novel is often severely criticized, never appears in it．)

　　But the attacks were and are silly-and miss the point．The novel is strongly anti-slavery．Jim's search through the slave states for the family from whom he has been forcibly parted is heroic．As J．Chadwick has pointed out, the character of Jim was a first in American fiction-a recognition that the slave had two personalities, “the voice of survival within a white slave culture and the voice of the individual：Jim, the father and the man．”

　　There is much more．Twain's mystery novel Pudd’nhead Wilson stood as a challenge to the racial beliefs of even many of the liberals of his day．Written at a time when the accepted wisdom held Negroes to be inferior(低等的)to whites, especially in intelligence, Twain's tale centered in part around two babies switched at birth．A slave gave birth to her master's baby and, for fear that the child should be sold South, switched him for the master's baby by his wife．The slave's lightskinned child was taken to be white and grew up with both the attitudes and the education of the slave-holding class．The master's wife's baby was taken for black and grew up with the attitudes and intonations of the slave．

　　The point was difficult to miss：nurture(養(yǎng)育), not nature, was the key to social status．The features of the black man that provided the stuff of prejudice－manner of speech, for example-were, to Twain, indicative of nothing other than the conditioning that slavery forced on its victims．

　　Twain's racial tone was not perfect．One is left uneasy, for example, by the lengthy passage in his autobiography(自傳)about how much he loved what were called “nigger shows” in his youth－mostly with white men performing in black-face-and his delight in getting his mother to laugh at them．Yet there is no reason to think Twain saw the shows as representing reality．His frequent attacks on slavery and prejudice suggest his keen awareness that they did not．

　　Was Twain a racist? Asking the question in the 21st century is as wise as asking the same of Lincoln．If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the “wisdom” of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error．Lincoln, who believed the black man the inferior of the white, fought and won a war to free him．And Twain, raised in a slave state, briefly a soldier, and inventor of Jim, may have done more to anger the nation over racial injustice and awaken its collective conscience than any other novelist in the past century．

(1)

How do Twain's novels on slavery differ from Stowe's?

[　　]

A．

Twain was more willing to deal with racism．

B．

Twain's attack on racism was much less open．

C．

Twain's themes seemed to agree with plots．

D．

Twain was openly concerned with racism．

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[　　]

A．

target readers at the bottom

B．

anti-slavery attitude

C．

rather impolite language

D．

frequent use of “nigger”

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[　　]

A．

Jim's search for his family was described in detail．

B．

The slave's voice was first heard in American novels．

C．

Jim grew up into a man and a father in the white culture．

D．

Twain suspected that the slaves were less intelligent．

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[　　]

A．

slaves were forced to give up their babies to their masters

B．

slaves’ babies could pick up slave-holders’ way of speaking

C．

blacks’ social position was shaped by how they were brought up

D．

blacks were born with certain features of prejudice

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[　　]

A．

The attacks．

B．

Slavery and prejudice．

C．

White men．

D．

The shows．

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What does the author mainly argue for?

[　　]

A．

Twain had done more than his contemporary writers to attack racism．

B．

Twain was an admirable figure comparable to Abraham Lincoln．

C．

Twain's works had been banned on unreasonable grounds．

D．

Twain's works should be read from a historical point of view．

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