复合题

Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET.

Text 4

Battles are like marriages. They have a certain fundamental experience they share in common; they differ infinitely, but sill they are all alike. A battle seems to me a conflict of will to the death in the same way that a marriage of love is the identification of two human beings to the end of the creation of life—as death is the reverse of life, and love of hate. Battles are commitments to cause death as marriages are commitments to create life. Whether, for any individual, either union results in death or in the creation of new life, each risks it—and in the risk commits himself.

As the servants of death, battles will always remain horrible. Those who are fascinated by them are being fascinated by death. There is no battle aim worthy of the name except that of ending all battles. Any other conception is, literally, suicidal. The fascist worship of battle is a suicidal drive; it is love of death instead of life.

In the same idiom, to triumph in battle over the forces which are fighting for death is—again literally—to triumph over death. It is a surgeon’s triumph as he cuts a body and bloodies his hands in removing a cancer in order to triumph over death that is in the body.

In these thoughts I have found my own peace, and I return to an army that fights death and cynicism in the name of life and hope. It is a good army. Believe in it. 

单选题 Although the author says that battles are horrible, he also says that ______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】作者在第二段指出， There is no battle aim worthy of the name except that of ending all battles.虽然战争很恐怖， 但是为了结束战争而战斗也是无可非议的。 因此D选项符合。
单选题 The author states that one who fights a battle toward any end other than peace is ______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】作者在第二段中论证， 任何不以结束战争为目的的战争都是不值得的。 那些崇尚战争的人实质上就是崇尚死亡， 法西斯式的战争崇拜就像是一部自杀机器。 因此B选项符合。
单选题 The article says that the individual, in battle and in marriage, must ______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】在第一段末尾， for any individual, either union results in death or in the creation of new life, each risks it—and in the risk commits himself.将两个逗号间作为修饰的插入语去掉， 即可得到C选项。
单选题 The article says that a surgeon can triumph when he ______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】根据第三段第二句， 外科医生切除肿瘤时双手沾满鲜血， 以战胜体内的死神， 这是外科医生的胜利。即如果外科医生成功地施行了一次手术， 他便取得了胜利， 因此A选项符合。
单选题 Implied by the author, but not stated: “I have found peace as I ______.”
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】文章末尾提到， 作者回到以生命与希望的名义与死亡相抗争的队伍中。 作者归根到底所追求的， 正是生命与希望。 因此作者感慨道， 当他意识到如果努力抗争生命与希望就能够取得胜利时， 他找到了真正的和平。 因此D选项符合。