Passage 5
Early Tudor England was to a large extent self-sufficient. Practically all the necessities of life -- food, clothing, fuel and housing -- were produced from native resources by native effort, and it was to 61)______ these primary needs that the great mass of the population labored 62)______ its daily tasks. Production was for the most part organized in innumerable small units. In the country the farm, the hamlet and the village lived on 63)______ they could grow or make for themselves, and 64) ______ the sale of any surplus in the local market town, 65)______ in the towns craftsmen applied themselves to their one-man business, making the boots and shoes, the caps and the cloaks, the 66)______ and harness of townsmen and countrymen 67)______. Once a week town and country would meet to make 68)______ at a market which came 69) ______ realizing the medieval idea of direct contact between producer and 70) ______. This was the traditional economy, which was hardly altered for some centuries, and which set the 71) ______ of work and the standard of life of perhaps nice out of 72) ______ ten English men and women. The work was long and 73)______, and the standard of life achieved was almost 74)______ low. Most Englishmen lied by a diet which was often 75)______ and always monotonous, wore coarse and ill-fitting clothes which harbored dirt undermine, and lived in holes whose squalor would affront the modern slum dweller.
61.
A. settle
B. answer
C. satisfy
D. fill
62.
A. at
B. in
C. on
D. with
63.
A. which
B. what
C. whether
D. where
64.
A. with
B. by
C. on
D. for
65.
A. although
B. while
C. nevertheless
D. when
66.
A. machines
B. apparatus
C. equipment
D. implement
67.
A. similar
B. skin
C. like
D. alike
68.
A. exchange
B. bargain
C. dealing
D. ride
69.
A. close at
B. adjacent to
C. near to
D. near-by
70.
A. consumer
B. buyer
C. user
D. shopper
71.
A. model
B. form
C. pattern
D. method
72.
A. every
B. each
C. the
D. other
73.
A. cruel
B. hard
C. ruthless
D. severe
74.
A. unimaginatively
B. unimaginably
C. imaginarily
D. unimaginedly
75.
A. weak
B. little
C. meager
D. sparse