A     B              C     D

54.   Human society, or in any community, may be spoken of as a social organism.

      A            B                   C       D

55.   Every man and woman should vote for the candidate of their choice.

     A                    B     C                  D

Part Ⅳ  Cloze (10%)

Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage, and for each blank there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D at the end of the passage. You should choose ONE answer that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.

    One day a farmer bought four donkeys at the market place in the village. He got   56   

The back of one of   57   and began to ride home.

58   he was riding along, he noticed that   59   were only three donkeys walking   60   him.

He expected to see four. “I   61   what happened,” he said to himself, “I bought four and paid   62   four donkeys, but now it appears that I have only   63  ”. He was forgetting, of course, to   64   the donkey he was riding.

When he got home, his wife met him in front of their house. “I see you bought   65   fine donkeys,” she said, “   66   you buy them for a good price?”

“Yes, I did,” he said. “but   67   puzzles (使惊奇) me. I bought four donkeys at the place   68   morning. And I am sure that I had all four with me when I left the village. But now it seems that I have   69   three. See?” He even counted them. “One, two, three.”

He still didn’t   70   that he climbed onto one of the donkeys in the village and was sitting on its back at that   71   moment.   72   first his wife stared   73   him; waiting for him to   74  , for she thought he was joking. Then when she noticed that he was not, she turned away and laughed. “  75   strange,” she said, “You see only three donkeys and I see five.”

56.   A. to                             B. at