【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 n to his impulses (沖動 ) and feelings, and from that moment he gives up his moral freedom. A single angry word has lost many friends. When Socrates found in himself any temper or anger, he would check it by speaking low in order to control himself. If you are conscious of being angry, keep your mouth shut so that you can hold back rising anger. Many a person has dropped dead in great anger. Fits of anger bring fits of disease. “Whoever the gods would destroy, they first make them mad.” “Keep cool,” says Webster, “anger is not argument.” “Be calm in arguing,” says Gee Herbert, “for fierceness ( 狂怒 ) makes error a fault.” To be angry with a weak man is to prove that you are not strong yourself. “Anger,” says Pythagoras, “begins with foolishness and ends with regret.” You must measure the strength of a man by the power of the feelings he conquers, not by the power of those which conquer him. Selfcontrol is man’s last and greatest victory. If a man lacks selfcontrol he seems to lack everything. Without it he can have no patience, no power to govern himself。 he can have no selfconfidence, for he will always be controlled by his strongest feeling. If he lacks selfcontrol, the very backbone and nerve of character are lacking too. 28. What’s the main idea of the passage? A. Self control is important for a man. B. We should learn to be strong. C. A man who keeps cool won’t lose any game. D. The great heroes in history knew how to control themselves. 29. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 mean? A. If you are mad, the gods will fail you. B. If you lose your temper first, gods will fail you first. C. If you can’t control yourself, you will be crazy. D. If the gods want to fail you, they will make you mad first. 30. Which of the following is NOT true, according to passage? A. The first and best of victories for a man is to conquer himself. B. You will make a small mistake serious if you don’t keep cool. C. You must measure a man’s strength by the power of the feelings which conquer him. D. Anger begins with foolishness and ends with regret. 31. Which of the following can’t help you av oid anger, according to the passage? A. Being calm in arguing. B. Checking your temper or anger by speaking low. C. Keeping your mouth shut. D. Trying to make the other angry first. D Kong Zi , also called Confucius (551479 ) , and Socrates (469399 B. C) lived only a hundred years apart , and during their lifetimes there was no contact between China and Greece, but it is interesting to look at how the world that each of these great philosophers came from shaped their ideas , and how these ideas in turn ,shaped their societies. Neither philosopher lived in times of peace, though there were more wars in Greece than in China. The Chinese states were very large and feudal, while the Greek citystates were small and urban. The urban environment in which Socrates lived allowed him to be more radical than Confucius. Unlike Confucius, Socrates was not asked by rules how to govern effectively. Thus, Socrates was able to be more idealistic, focusing on issues like freedom, and knowledge for its own sake. Confucius, on the other hand, advised those in government service, and many of his students went out to government service. Confucius suggested the Golden Rule as a principle for the conduct of life:” Do not do to others what you would not want others to do to you.” He assumed that all men were equal at birth, though some had more potential than others, and that it was knowledge that set men apart. Socrates focused on the individual, and thought that the greatest purpose of man was to seek wisdom. He believed that the superior class should rule the inferior(下層的 )classes. For Socrates, the family was of no importance, and the munity of little concern. For Confucius, however, the family was the centre of the society, with family relations considered much more important than political relations. Both men are respected much more today than they were in their lifetimes. 32. Which of the following is TURE according to the first paragraph? A. Socrates and Confucius had much in mon, B. Confucius had much influence on Socrates’ ideas. C. The societies were influenced by the philosophers’ ideas. D. There were cultural exchanges between China and Greece. 33. Socrates shared with Confucius the idea that . A. all men were equal when they were born B. the lower classed should be ruled by the upper class C. the purpose of man was to seek freedom and wisdom D. people should not ask others to do what they did not want to 34. What made some people different from others according to Confucius? A. Family. B. Potential. C. Knowledge. D. Community. 35. This passage is anized in the pattern of , A. time and events B. parison and contrast C. cause and effect D. definition and classification 第二節(jié) (共 5 小題；每小題 2分，滿分 10 分 ) 根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，從短文后的選項(xiàng)中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)。選項(xiàng)中有兩處為多余選項(xiàng)。 Rec