【正文】 but sympathetic and understanding in their personal conferences. During his later years the spot of earth dearest to his heart was York Viliage, Maine, but after his retirement from teaching he brought his career to a rather amazing close as government secretary of the Virgin islands, He died at St. Thomas on December 23, 1938.1. To which of the following families was Herrick related?(A) The Santayanas(B) The Hawthornes(C) The Moodys(D) The Hapgoods2. In lines 34, the phrase immediate forebears could best be replaced by which of the following?(A) closest ancestors(B) wealthiest relatives(C) cleverest kinsmen(D) earliest forefathers3. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a profession of Herrick39。 his immediate forebears were lawyers, teachers, and clergymen. At Harvard, he was a contemporary of Santayana. William Vaughn Moody,Norman Hpgood, and Robert Morss Lovett。C（35 minutes） Passage 1 The novelist Robert Herrick was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April 26, 1868. His oldest American ancestor, a nephew of the author of Hesperides, had settled at Salem in 1638。 he was related to the Hales, the Mannings, the Hawthornes, and the Peabodys。 he nearly wrecked the Harvard Monthly when he sullied its chaste pages with the first English translation of lbsen39。s relatives?(A) Farmer(B) Teacher(C) Clergyman(D) Lawyer4. Herrick moved to the University of Chicago at the request of(A) the Hales(B) the Mannings(C) Robert Morss Lovett(D) William Rainey Harper5. According to the passage, Herrick39。 the twotoed and the threetoed. Of these, the threetoed is considerably the more slothful. It hangs upside down from a branch suspended by hooklike claws at the ends of its long bony arms. It feeds on only one kind of leaf, Cecropia, which happily for the sloth grows in quantity and is easily found. No predators attack the slothfew indeed can even reach itand nothing petes with it for the Cecropia. Lulled by this security, it has sunk into an existence that is only just short of plete torpor. It spends eighteen out of twentyfour hours soundly asleep. It pays such little attention to its personal hygiene that green algae grow on its coarse hair and munities of a parasitic moth live in the depths of its coat producing caterpillars which graze on its mouldy hair. Its muscles are such that it is quite incapable of moving at a speed of over a kilometer an hour even over the shortest distances and the swiftest movement it can make is a sweep of its hooked arm. It is virtually dumb and its hearing is so poor that you can let off a gun within inches of it and its only response will be to turn slowly and blink. Even its sense of smell, though it is better than ours, is very much less acute than that of most mammals. And it sleeps and feeds entirely alone.1. The purpose of the passage is to(A) pare the twotoed and the threetoed sloths(B) explain the parasitic relation of a type of moth to the sloth(C) describe the behavior of the three