Future history books might record that we were robbed of the use of our eyes ,In our hurry to get from one place to another, we fail to see anything on the way, Air travel gives you a bird’s –eye view of the world ---or even less if the wing of the aircraft happens to get in your way, When you travel by car or train , you are moving so quickly that you do not see the countryside clearly , Car drivers are forever thinking about going on and on; they never want to stop, Is it the great motorways ,that attract them, or what? And as for sea travel ,it hardly deserves mention ,It is perfectly summed up in the words of the old song:’I joined the navy to see the world ,and what did I see? I saw the sea’. You mention the place names in the world like EI Dorado, Kabul and someone is sure to say‘I’ve been there’meaning ,‘I drove through it at 100 miles an hour on the way to somewhere else.’

When you travel at high speeds, the present means nothing :you live mainly in the future because you spend most of your time looking forward to arriving at some other place, But actual arrival ,when it is achieved , is meaningless , You want to move on again . By traveling like this, you suspend (中止)all experience; the present stops being a reality:you might just as well be dead.

The traveler on foot, on the other hand , lives constantly in the present, For him traveling and arriving are one and the same thing: he arrives somewhere with every step he makes, He experiences, the present moment with his eyes, his ears and the whole of his body, At the end of his journey he feels a delicious physical tiredness, Satisfying sleep will be his: the just reward of all true travelers.

41、The underlined words “get in your way”in Paragraph I can be replaced, by         .

A、block your sights                                                    B、expend your range of  vision

C、prevent you from going out of the plane halfway          D、make your travel continue

42、What does the author think of the travelers mentioned in Paragraph 1?

A、They get a good view of the landscape

B、They make full use of their eyes

C、They fail to see the scenery with their heart

D、They are eager to see everything on the way.

43、Why does “the present”mean “nothing ”when we travel at high speeds?

A、Because we change our aims all the time

B、Because we are eager to go to another place

C、Because we are looking forward to the future life

D、Because we cannot enjoy the experience we have had

44、What will the author most probably advise us to do?

A、To go hiking in the mountain                    B、To travel at a high speed

C、To travel by car or train                           D、To go around the world

45、What would be the best title for the passage?

A、Different travelers                      B、The use of eyes

C、Ways of traveling                              D、True traveling

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Eddie is a handicapped child. He was functionally(官能地)blind and deaf in one ear.

   In spite of his inborn disability, Eddie seems to have a good sense of music. His mother knows that and bought him a toy piano for Christmas.

   At church that day, Eddie listened silently while the rest of the family sang along with the music. As soon as he returned home, be flung himself at the little piano. He seemed angry at it as he produced only noise, so his mother put it in the closet. Two weeks later, returning from a church service once more, Eddie uttered his first words, “Mommy, piano, piano.” This time he started to play every hymn(圣歌)he had heard in church. All his family members looked at each other in surprise. “Eddie plays the piano,” they say.

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A. has no hands                  B. has a disability

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A. sang with his family

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B. will be successful in the future

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A. has no hands                         B.has a disability

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B.When Eddie got home, he got angry because he heard nothing at church.

C.After returning home, Eddie shouted and made a lot of noise.

D.Eddie could play the music when he returned from the church the second time.

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A. will play not better in the future                B.will be successful in the future

C.must go to college for further study          D.must be given a real piano as a present

 

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