A． Find pleasure in what you are doing.

　　　B． Wake up your life.

　　　C． To give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

　　　D． No pains, no gains.

　　　12．What conclusion does the writer draw through the experience of finding a job?

　　　A． Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience.

　　　B． Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

　　　C． We can't afford to waste tears on "might- have-beens.

　　　D． Enthusiastic people can turn a boring drive into an adventure, extra work into opportunity and strangers into friends.

　　　13．Which of the following statements is WRONG according to the passage?

　　　A． No one can achieve great success without enthusiasm.

　　　B． Enthusiasm will take a person further than any amount of his experience.

　　　C． We should make great effort to do the thing that can be done instead of regretting for the past.

　　　D． Barbara McClintock was generally accepted many years before she won the Nobel Prize.

　　　14．Which of the following can replace the underlined phrase let up ?

　　　A． continue. B． make less effort.

　　　C． make great effort. D． stop.

　　　15．We can learn from the last paragraph that it is that makes our life meaningful.

　　　A． love of gardening B． love of drawing pictures with the crayon of a six-year-old child

　　　C． love of life D． love of beautiful rainbow

　　　In every British town, large and small, you will find shops that sell second-hand goods. Sometimes such shops deal mostly in furniture, sometimes in books, sometimes in ornaments（装饰） and household goods, sometimes even in clothes.

　　　The furniture may often be "antique", and it may well have changed hands many times. It may also be very valuable, although the most valuable piece will usually go to the London salerooms, where one piece might well be sold for hundreds of thousands of pounds. As you look around these shops and see the polished wood of chests and tables, you cannot help thinking of those long-dead hands which polished that wood, of those now-closed eyes which once looked at these pieces with love.

　　　The books, too, may be antique and very precious; some may be rare first printings. Often when someone dies or has to move house, his books may all be sold, so that sometimes you may find whole libraries in one shop. One the border between England and Wales, there is a town which has become a huge bookshop as well. Even the cinema and castle have been taken over, and now books have replaced sheep as the town's main trade.

　　　There are also much more humble shops, sometimes simply called "junk shops", where you can buy small household pieces very cheaply. Sometimes the profits（利润）from these shops go to charity（慈善事业）. Even these pieces, though, can make you feel sad; you think of those people who once treasured them, but who have moved on to another country or to death.

　　　Although the British do not worship（崇拜）their ancestors, they do treasure the past and the things of the past. This is true of houses as well. These days no one knocks them down; they are rebuilt until they are often better than new. In Britain, people do not buy something just because it is new. Old things are treasured for their proven worth; new things have to prove themselves before they are accepted.

　　　16．Books found in second-hand book shops may .

　　　A． be copies of the earliest printings B． be on sale for the first time

　　　C． never be worth very much D． never be rare

　　　17．What is the small town on the border between England and Wales famous for?

　　　A． Its sheep. B． Its bookshops.

　　　C． Its cinema. D． Its castle.

　　　18．Second-hand goods sometimes fill you with sadness because .

　　　A． they are too expensive for average buyers B． they remind you of the original owners

　　　C． they are now forgotten D． they are sold for charity

　　　19．The average British person .

　　　A． does not respect old things because they are not fashionable

　　　B． likes to build new houses simply because it is fashionable to do so

　　　C． likes to buy new things because they are fashionable

　　　D． does not like to buy things simply because they are fashionable

　　　20．What does the underlined word "them" (Paragraph 4) refer to?

　　　A． junk shops. B． profits from shops.

　　　C． old things. D． old houses.

　　　Shyness May Be Partly Inherited(遗传)

About 92 million Americans are shy, and according to recent research about half of them inherited the trait.