求助 英语阅读

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Silence is unnatural to man. He begins life with a cry and ends it in stillness. In the interval he does all he can to make a noise in the world, and there are few things of which he stands in more fear than of the absence of noise. Even his conversation is in great measure a desperate attempt to prevent a dreadful silence. He knows that ninety-nine percent of human conversation means no more than the buzzing of a fly, but he longs to join the buzz and to prove that he is a man and not a waxwork figure. The object of conversation is not, for the most part, to communicate ideas. It is to keep up the buzzing sound. There are, it must be admitted, different qualities of buzz: there is even a buzz that is as exasperating as the continuous ping of a mosquito. But at a dinner party one would rather be a mosquito than a mute . Most buzzing, fortunately, is agreeable to the ear, and some of it is agreeable even to the mind. He would be a foolish man, however, who waited until he had a wise

11.A
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He knows that ninety-nine percent of human conversation means no more than the buzzing of a fly, but he longs to join the buzz and to prove that he is a man and not a waxwork figure.

12.C

13.B
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He would be a foolish man, however, who waited until he had a wise thought to take part in the buzzing with his neighbors.

14.B
此处受到D项干扰。但最后选择了B，毕竟B是阐述了一个事实，而D貌似有点以偏概全。