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The Town of Pressure and the Town of Pleasure were neighbors but had nothing in common.
Residents built walls to  1 influence from the other town.
In Pressure,  2  struggled to be the very best. When women  3  birth, they would compete to
have the baby with the loudest cry. There was violent competition in every aspect of life. Because
  4  was the index (指数) of success, people were  5  busy making money, with no time for relaxation.
Some young people couldn't bear the intensity and resorted to drink or drugs to escape.
  6  , over in Pleasure, the motto was "As long as you like it, do it." People grew up without  7  and
could do anything  8  liked. Children played computer games day and night. At school, teachers didn't
care  9  students showed up or not.Workers might sit around the office  10  sipping coffee and doing
nothing.  11  the lack of regulations, nobody worried about losing their jobs. It was  12  that mattered.
No one had the slightest thought of moving  13  , either for themselves or for the town. The computers
they used14  old models from Pressure.
Some of the young were addicted to  15  because of the emptiness of their lives. Then, people in
the two towns began asking themselves, "What is life  16  ?" But, just before life in the two towns
completely failed, there came a saint - Mr. Reason. He went from door to door,  17  with people
and giving advice. People in Pressure learnt to be  18  with what they had, while people in Pleasure
began to make plans. They  19  the walls between them and built a road to connect the two. The
towns' people  20  to realize the truth - there is no space between Pressure and Pleasure if they
don't go to extremes.

(     ) 1. A. look out   (     ) 2. A. everyone    (     ) 3. A. gave     (     ) 4. A. health   (     ) 5. A. seldom   (     ) 6. A. Meanwhile    (     ) 7. A. pleasure   (     ) 8. A. we     (     ) 9. A. what     (     )10. A. in the morning (     )11. A. Thanks to (     )12. A. money     (     )13. A. backward   (     )14. A. was       (     )15. A. books     (     )16. A. at     (     )17  A. persuading (     )18. A. content    (     )19. A. cut down   (     )20. A. went

B. work out B. anyone   B. took   B. joy   B. always B. At that time B. pressure B. you   B. who    B. all way long B. Regardless of B. time   B. forward B. seemed   B. work   B. for   B. talking B. surprised B. put down B. returned

C. keep out C. nobody   C. offered   C. children C. hardly C. Therefore C. work   C. they   C. where C. all day long C. Owe to   C. pleasure C. downward C. appeared C. money C.in   C. advising C. patient C. pulled down C. happened

D. give out         D. somebody         D. brought         D. wealth           D. sometimes       D. once in a while D. happiness       D. it               D. whether         D. on the way       D. According to     D. pressure         D. toward           D. were             D. drugs           D. to               D. telling         D. angry           D. set up           D. came

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