文中的扳道工最突出特点是：
A．对工作认真负责。
B．分得清公与私的关系。
C．爱自己儿子的父亲。
D．一个普普通通的人。

填入横线处的几句话，排列恰当的一项是：骄傲的人既然只看到自己的长处和优点，也就必然夸大个人的主观力量，认为只要他一出现，什么问题就会迎刃而解。无数经验证明：__
A．看不到缺点，一百件工作，九十九件没有不失败的，看不到困难，因而疏忽大意。
B．看不到缺点，看不到困难，因而疏忽大意，一百件工作，九十九件没有不失败的。
C．因为疏忽大意，看不到缺点，看不到困难，一百件工作，九卜九件没有不失败的。
D．一百件工作，九十九件没有不失败的，这是因为疏忽大意，看不到缺点，看不到困难。

下列加点字的释义全都正确的一组是：
A．结（结束)业娇生惯（纵容养成不良习惯)养高谈阔（宽、广)论
B．解乏（缺乏)腹背（后面)受敌翻（爬过)山越岭
C．盛典（典礼)持（坚持)之有故饱（充分地)经沧桑
D．殊（特殊的)荣万（很多)不得已处（存，居)心积虑

Brazil has become one of the developing world's great successes at reducing population growth—but more by accident than design. While countries such as India have made joint efforts to reduce birth rates, Brazil has had better result without really trying, says George Martine at Harvard.
Brazil's population growth rate has dropped from 2.99% a year between 1951 and 1960 to 1.93% a year between 1981 and 1990, and Brazilian women now have only 2.7 children on average. Martine says this figure may have fallen still further since 1990, an achievement that makes it the envy of many other Third World countries.
Martine puts it down to, among other things, soap operas（通俗电视连续剧) and instalment（分期付款) plans introduced in the 1970s. Both played an important, although indirect, role in lowering the birth rate. Brazil is one of the world's biggest producers of soap operas. Globo, Brazil's most popular television network, shows three hours of soaps six nights a week, while three others show at least one hour a night. Most soaps are based on wealthy characters living the high life in big cities.
"Although they have never really tried to work in a message towards the problems of reproduction, they describe middle and upper class values—not many children, different attitudes towards sex, women working", says Martine. "They sent this image to all parts of Brazil and made people conscious of other patterns of behavior. and other values, which were put into a very attractive package".
Meanwhile, the instalment plans tried to encourage the poor to become consumers. "This 1ed to an enormous change in consumption patterns and consumption was in compatible（不相容的) with unlimited reproduction", says Martine.
According to the passage, Brazil has cut back its population growth ______.
A．by educating its citizens
B．by careful family planning
C．by developing TV programmes
D．by chance

【B8】
A．demonstrated
B．composed
C．hosted
D．formed

【B5】
A．origins
B．originals
C．discoveries
D．resources