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83-year-old Antonio Vicente has spent the last four decades of his life fighting against the trend.
As Brazilian landowners cut down rain forests to make room for profitable plantations （种植园） and cattle grounds, he struggled to bring the jungles of his childhood back to life.
"When I was a child, the peasants cut down the trees to make grasslands and charcoal, and the water dried up and did not come back," he told the reporters. "I thought： Water is valuable, no one makes water and the population will not stop growing. What is going to happen？ We are going to run out of water."
With only some donkeys and a small team of hired workers, Antonio Vicente set about bringing back the forest to his land. What started out as a weekend hobby soon became a permanent way of life, and Antonio recalls often spending whole days and nights in his young jungle, surrounded by rats and foxes, and eating banana sandwiches for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Over the last 40 years, he has planted an estimated 50，000 trees on his 31-hectare land, which now make up a small but unique area of rain forest, and a havenfor wildlife.
As the forest grew, the water returned, and Antonio says that there are now over 20 water sources on his land that were no longer there when he bought it. Then the animals started making a home there.
Today, the forest is alive with the sounds of birds and insects living there, and more species are settling in every year.
"There are toucans（巨嘴鸟），various birds,squirrels,lizards,and even the boars are returning," 83-year-old Vicente says. "If you ask me who my family are, I would say all this right here, each one of these that I planted from a seed. "



What do we know about Antonio Vicente？ ______

A. He is a Brazilian landowner.
B. He worked on his land alone.
C. He brought some jungles back to life.
D. He had no family except some animals.

What do we learn about the Brazilian peasants？ ______

A. They wasted much water on farming.
B. They focused on short-term profits.
C. They cared much about the environment.
D. They relied heavily on rain forests for a living.

What does the underlined word "haven" in Paragraph 3 probably mean？ ______

A. Trap.
B. Disaster.
C. Shelter.
D. Balance.

In the last paragraph, Antonio mainly expresses his ______ .

A. thanks for his family
B. affection for his forest
C. deep love for rare birds
D. pride as a successful farmer4

Are we just thinking with our heads？ No. The human brain is just like a telephone switchboard （总机），but not a whole system. Its function is to receive incoming signals, establish appropriate connections, and send the information to its destination. In order to provide efficient service, the body must function as a whole.
But where is the mind？ Is it in the brain？ Or the nervous system？ Can we say that the mind is in a particular place？ In fact, the mind is not a thing, not a leg, and not even a brain. Thinking is both a function and an activity. Aristotle, 2300 years ago, noted that the mind is to the body what the tool is to the worker. When the tool is not in use, there is no work. Charles Woolbert said that consciousness is what the body does.
If this activity is necessary for thought,it is also necessary for the transmission of thought from one person to another. Observe how people conduct their daily conversations. If you've never taken the trouble to do this,you'll have a surprise waiting for you,because good conversationalists are almost always in motion. Their heads nodded and nodded,sometimes so violently that you wondered how their necks could withstand the strain. Even the legs and feet are active. As for hands and arms,they rarely stay still for more than a few seconds at a time.
Remember, these people are not giving speeches. They're just people, trying to get their points of view across. They have no sense of movement. Their language has not been studied. They're just human beings in a human environment, trying to adapt to the social environment. However, their conversation is not only verbal, but also visual, involving almost every muscle in the body. Briefly, because people are really thinking, the speaker must be everywhere if he is to succeed in getting people to think.



Which of the following is the author's opinion？ ______

A. Thinking is a social phenomenon.
B. Thinking is just a brain function.
C. Thinking is the sum total of bodily activity.
D. Thinking is a function of the nervoussystem.

Tn communication, it is necessary not only to use speech, but also ______ .

A. to use various bodily movements
B. to speak directly to the other person
C. to make the other person listen
D. to observe the other person's behavior

It can be inferred from the passage that the basic function of bodily activity in speech is to ______ .

A. make the listeners deeply moved
B. appeal to the sympathy of the audience
C. make the speaker understood
D. convey the speaker's implied meaning to the listeners

The best title for the passage would be ______ .

A. Spoken Language
B. Bodily Communication
C. Spiritual Activity
D. Proper Conversation

You will find as you read this book that you just can’t keep some of these stories to ________. You will want to share them with a friend.

There are lots of examples of English idioms ________ animals are used.

She runs on average about 15 miles a day every day, ______ the circumstances.

The style of the campus is quite different from ______ of most Chinese universities where visitors were amazed by the complex architectural space and abundant building types.

The collection, sorting and         of historical materials and cultural relics of the May Fourth Movement should be strengthened, President Xi said.

A. consideration B. conservation

C. constitution D. construction

The cost of living in big cities ________ steadily for many years，and it has led some youths to drop out of the big city race.

Any information of the oral test paper are regarded as strictly ______ before it is open.

Breaking up is the business of the two lovers, ________ no other person should be involved.