第二节（共五小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
“We are reading the first part of the first section of a book whose pages are never-ending.”
_71_ We can take the mysterious, unknown future and carve out of it anything that we can imagine, just like a sculptor carves a statue from a shapeless stone.
_72_ If we plant a good seed, we get in a good harvest; if our seed is poor and the field is full of weeds,we get in a useless crop; if we plant nothing at all, we get in nothing at all.
I want the future to be better than the past. We should all be concerned about the future because that is where we will spend the rest of our lives. _73_
_74_ Nothing we can do will change it.
The future is before us and dynamic. _75_ Each day will bring it with new frontiers, in our homes and in our business, if we will only recognize them. We are just at the beginning of the progress in every field of human effort.
The past is gone forever.
I don’t know who wrote those words, but I have always liked them as a reminder that the future can be anything we want to make it.
We should never forget the rapid change in the past few years.
We are all in the position of the farmer.
Everything we can do will affect it.
We are able to travel easily anywhere we want to go in the future.
We whould not let our past mistakes and errors damage it.