On June 17,1744, the officials from
Maryland and Virginia held a talk with the Indians of the Six Nations. The
Indians were invited to send boys to William and Mary College. In a letter the
next day they refused the offers as follows: We know that you
have a {{U}}(26) {{/U}} opinion of the kind of learning taught in your
colleges, and that the {{U}}(27) {{/U}} of living of our young men,
while {{U}}(28) {{/U}} you, would be very great to you. We are
{{U}}(29) {{/U}} that you mean to do us {{U}}(30) {{/U}} by your
proposal; and we thank you {{U}}(31) {{/U}}. But you must know
{{U}}(32) {{/U}} different nations have different ways of looking at
things, and you will {{U}}(33) {{/U}} not be {{U}}(34) {{/U}} if
our ideas of this kind of education happen {{U}}(35) {{/U}} be the same
as yours. We have had some experience of it. Several of our young people were
{{U}}(36) {{/U}} brought {{U}}(37) {{/U}} at the colleges of the
northern provinces: they were taught all your sciences; but, when they came back
to us, they were bad runners, {{U}}(38) {{/U}} of every means of living
in the woods — they were totally {{U}}(39) {{/U}} for nothing. We are,
however, {{U}}(40) {{/U}}, {{U}}(41) {{/U}} by your kind
{{U}}(42) {{/U}}, though we refuse to accept it; and, to show our
grateful sense of it, if the gentlemen of Virginia will send us a {{U}}(43)
{{/U}} of their sons, we will take care of their education, teach them in
{{U}}(44) {{/U}} we know, and make {{U}}(45) {{/U}} of
them.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】此题较容易，have a high opinion of表示“对……有较高的评价”。选择B。
tall(身材)高的，大量的，过高的
a tall price高价，tall promises难以兑现的诺言，tall talk/tall story/tall tale无稽之谈。
tally不是tall的副词形式，它可以用作名词和动词，作名词的时候，意思是“账，记账单，记分卡，记数牌”。
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】同义词辨析。
the cost of doing sth．是词组。housing costs住房费用；production cost生产费用；cost of living/living expenses生活费用；expenditure(时间、金钱等的)花费，消耗，消耗额，经费； defense expenditures防务费；expense开支，花费，业务费用；running expenses/daily expenses日常的开销；holiday expenses假日花费；housing expenses住房费用；fee费(入场费，会费，手续费等)；酬金；(pl．fees)学费；在这里，有点约定俗成习惯搭配的韵味，所以选择costs即B。
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】此题较容易，由前文内容可知，讲的是the Indian young men和young men in William and Mary College一起学习，所以选择C。
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】此处说“我们相信”，所以选择A。注意区别形近词convince和convict。
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】习惯搭配题目，do somebody good或do good to somebody，所以选择D。
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】人家do you good，所以you thank人家heartily，因为来而无往非礼也!所以选择A。 heartfelt诚意的，至诚的hearty(感情)诚恳的heartless无情的heartsome振奋人心的，兴高采烈的，生气勃勃的。
【答案解析】在外面文明世界里学习后，便不知道丛林中有时带有野蛮习气的生活了，因此那些学习归来的人被习惯丛林生活的人视为bad，bad也就是good for nothing，所以我们要选择good，即A。还要注意good for nothing是一习惯搭配。
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】虽然丛林人拒绝了丛林外的人的好意，但丛林人还是显得彬彬有礼，还是要感谢丛林外的人，所以此题选B。still less也说成much less，更不用说，更何况；no less用于表示惊奇或钦佩，常含讽刺意味，“竟，居然”义；any the less用于否定句，“更少，较少”义； none the less=nonetheless=nevertheless还是，仍然。