单项选择题单选真题改编 · 2018
4204. 【材料】阅读下面这段文章，回答第56－60题。
Before Felix arrived in Baghdad, Miss Bohun had arranged for him to have lessons with a Mr. Posthorn of the Education Office. Mr. Posthorn was a busy man. He not only had his government job but also taught some Arab boys from a wealthy family who hoped eventually to go to an English university. He had agreed to fit Felix inin his spare time', which meant that sometimes Felix went to Mr. Posthom's office and was told to study this or that, and occasionally Mr. Posthom managed to find a spare hour when he dropped in to Miss Bohun's and gave Felix some instruction. Most of Felix's day was spent in study in his bedroom.He knew he would not get far in this way and he knew also that Mr. Posthorn would have been willing to give him more attention had he, like Miss Bohun, not been disappointed in him. Miss Bohun did not say or do anything that gave Felix any clue as to how he had failed her, but Mr.Posthorn, after testing his knowledge, said without hesitation, "What on earth have you been doing with yourself since you left England?"
Felix explained that in Cairo he had taken lessons with an old English lady, an ex-governess to a royal family, who had taught him English composition, French, drawing, geography and history. Unfortunately she had known less Greek, Latin and mathematics than he had. His mother had treated lessons there as a joke, and said: "Never mind, darling. When we retum to England, we'll make up for lost time."
"Your parents ought to have been ashamed of themselves, keeping you away from school during the most important years of your life. I can't understand it, "said Mr.Posthorn.Your father was an educated man, wasn't he? Felix explained: "it wasn't my father's fault.Mother wouldn't let me go back to England when the war started. "Father was angry, but Mother said:"If he goes I may not see him again."
Mr. Posthorn said: "You'll never make up for it, " but Felix, although he knew it to be a serious matter, could not really care.
What did Mr.Posthorn think of Felix ’s education?（ ）
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单项选择题单选真题改编 · 2018
4243. 【材料】阅读下面这段文章，回答第61－65题。
People value money desperately because they value one another desperately; thus the cause of panic in the stock-market plunge is not that people will lose their dollars but that they will lose their sense of community. For the past couple of weeks, the nation has watched itself roll toward ruin because people were losing their money in bales. If one were tasteless enough to ask a big loser what exactly he was losing, he would sputter. "What am I losing? My car! My beautiful home! My children's educations! My clothes! My dinner! My dollars!" They are all true.People have been mourning the passing of their money for all the things that money can do, and what money can do is impressive. Money can build cities, cure diseases, and win wars.The sudden acquisition of the stuff can toss our spirits into the air like a hat.
Money can do considerably more. It offers power, an almost unique form of power, not simply because it allows us to acquire and possess things but because it is we who determine its worth; we who say a ruby costs more than an apple; we who decide that a tennis court is more valuable than a book. Paradoxically, money creates a deep sense of powerlessness as well, since technically we cannot provide money for ourselves; someone or something else must do that for us-our employers or, until recently, our stocks, All that money can do: and when such essential,familiar functions are snatched from one's life, small wonder that people may grow wild, frantic,and even murderous.
What money can do, however, is not the same as what money is. Let's return for a moment to the theory: people value money because they value one another. In other words, the usefulness of money is directly related to and established by continuous mutual need.People work for money to buy things that other people make or do,things that cannot or will not make or do for themselves but that they deem necessary for some definition of self=improvement.
Abstractly,money is one of the ways,indeed a universally accepted way,by which we make connections.Cash is cold.So the connections may feel cold,but real blood flows through them.These connections constitute one of the central means by which societies cohere;by which they sustain and characterize themselves.
When the coin begins to wobble,as it has in the past weeks,a fear seizes the mind that is disorienting.The fear is not merely that of the loss of possessions but of self-possession,which in some sense is bought and sold from person to person in infinite daily bargains.To lose money is frightening.To lose touch with others is more frightening still.Losing touch may cause the panic of the times.
Under what circumstances are connections related to cash said to be cold in the passage?（ ）
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