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华约样题 In the following article, some sentences or paragraphs have been removed. For questions 1 to 5, choose the most suitable one from the list A-F to fit into each of the numbered gaps. There is ONE which does not fit in any of the gaps. Most of the people who appear most often and most gloriously in the history books are great conquerors and generals, whereas the people who really helped civilization forward are often never mentioned at all. We do not know who first set a broken leg, or launched a seagoing boat, or calculated the length of the year? but we know all about the killers and destroyers. People think a great deal of them, so much so that on all the highest pillars in the great cities of the world you will find the figure of a conqueror or a general. ___1____. It is just possible they are, but they are not the most civilized. Animals fight? so do savages? hence to be good at fighting is to be good in the way in which an animal or a savage is good, but it is not to be civilized. ____2____ .People fight to settle quarrels. Fighting means killing, and civilized peoples ought to be able to find some way of settling their disputes other than by seeing which side can kill off the greater number of the other side, and then saying that that side which has killed most has won 3 . That is what the story of mankind has on the whole been like. Even our own age has fought the two greatest wars in history, in which millions of people were killed. And while today it is true that people do not fight and kill each other in the streets, nations and countries have not learnt to do this yet, and still behave like savages. But we must not expect too much. After all, the race of men has only just started. From the point of view of evolution, human beings are very young children indeed, babies, in fact, of a few months old. 4 . These figures are difficult to grasp? so let us scale them down. Suppose that we reckon the w