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Tom“s school was on the other side of the road, so he was told to watch out for cars when____
the street.
A . crossing
B . cross
C . crossed
D . to cross
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Most of the measures F.D.Roosevelt took in the first hundred days he was in the White House were to（）
A . stop bank failures
B . prevent radical actions in the United States
C . prevent the further worsening of the economic situation and lessen the personal sufferings of the people
D . prevent further worsening of the unstable political situatio
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If the employee want to work from home or other places, he/she need to have mobile telecommunications tools and the internet.
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The boy was so interested in the radio that he took it to see how it runs.
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What is John’s reaction when he is taken under control by Annie and the other girls and forced to choose?
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5 I was the ________ person to come by car; the others took the bus or walked.
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There was maritime Silk Road from ______________ and other coastal areas, starting from the Nanyang City, to the sea of Arabia, even as far as the east coast of Africa.
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If we had taken the other road, we have arrived earlier.
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Because of his long illness, Lee’s English level had dropped, but he was determined to ________ the other students by working harder.
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______llow the vegetble to go bd, he sold themt hlf price.More thnB．Other thnC．______llow the vegetble to go bd, he sold themt hlf price.More thn B．Other thn C．Rther thn D．Much thn
A．More than
B．Other than
C．Rather than
D．Much than
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People select news in expectation of a reward. This reward may be either of two kinds. One isrelated to what Freud calls the Pleasure Principle， the other to what he calls the Reality Principle.
For want of better names， we shall call these two classes immediate reward and delayed reward.
In general， the kind of news which may be expected to give immediate reward are news ofcrime and corruption， accidents and disasters， sports， social events， and human interest. Delayedreward may be expected from news of public affairs， economic matters， social problems， science，
education， and health.
News of the first kind pays its rewards at once. A reader can enjoy an indirect experiencewithout any of the dangers or stresses involved. He can tremble wildly at an axe-murder， shake his head sympathetically and safely at a hurricane， identify himself with the winning team， laughunderstandingly at a warm little story of children or dogs.
News of the second kind， however， pays its rewards later. It sometimes requires the reader totolerate unpleasantness or annoyance — as， for example， when he reads of the threatening foreignituation， the mounting national debt， rising taxes， falling market， scarce housing， and cancer. It has a kind of “threat value.” It is read so that the reader may be informed and prepared. When a reader selects delayed reward news， he pulls himself into the world of surrounding reality to which he can adapt himself only by hard work. When he selects news of the other kind， he usually withdraws from the world of threatening reality toward the dream world.
For any individual， of course， the boundaries of these two classes are not stable. For example， asociologist may read news of crime as a social problem， rather than for its immediate reward. Acoach may read a sports story for its threat value: he may have to play that team next week. Apolitician may read an account of his latest successful public meeting， not for its delayed reward， but very much as his wife reads an account of a party. In any given story of corruption or disaster， a thoughtful reader may receive not only the immediate reward of indirect experience， but also the
delayed reward of information and preparedness. Therefore， while the division of categories holds in general， an individual’s tendency may transfer any story from one kind of reading to another， or
divide the experience between the two kinds of reward.
What news stories do you read？
Division of
news stories
People expect to get （71） ▲ from reading news. News stories are roughly divided into two classes. Some news will excite their readers instantly while others won’t. （72） ▲ of
the two classes
News of immediate reward will seemingly take their readers to the very frightening scene without actual （73） ▲ . Readers will associate themselves closely with what happens in the news stories and （74） ▲ similar feelings with those involved. News of delayed reward will make readers suffer， or present a（75） ▲ to them. News of delayed reward will induce the reader to （76） ▲ for the reality while news of immediate reward will lead the reader to （77） ▲ from the reality.
Unstable boundaries
of the two classes
What readers expect from news stories are largely shaped by their
（78） ▲ .
Serious readers will both get excited over what happens in some
news stories and （79） ▲ themselves to the reality.
Thus， the division， on the whole， （80） ▲ on the reader.
__________
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Ken and I met and saw each other just three times before he left for Vietnam. He never gave me flowers or candy. There were no moonlight walks, no lingering good-byes on the front porch. Our courtship took place by mail.
I felt sorry for him, far from home in the service of his country. Writing to him seemed almost a patriotic duty. But as we got better acquainted, our letter-writing pace increased—to as many as three a day. I started driving home at lunch to collect the mail.
Then Ken came back in leave, and we surprised ourselves by getting mantled and going overseas together. Romantic？ Not really, because then he left on a three-week mission, making our honeymoon a by-mail event too.
We didn't set out to defy romantic customs; it just turned out that way, and stayed that way. We had been married seven years before we remembered our anniversary—and then only because my mother phoned to wish us a happy one. It took another ten years for us to notice Valentine's Day.
To celebrate our alertness that year, we decided to have a conventionally romantic evening; a quiet, just-the-two-of-us dinner at a nice restaurant.
When we arrived at the restaurant, we were told there would be a 40-minute wait, and so we headed for another nice, but not so romantic place. About halfway to our second choice, Ken realized that the restaurant would not honor our credit card and we were low on cash. I sighed and said, "I do have enough for a fast-food place." Clearly, we were veering far off the conventional coupe.
While Ken placed the order, I gathered napkins and straws and went to select a romantic spot in the nonsmoking area. There I found a woman methodically turning chairs up onto tables. "This section's closed," she said.
"But it's the only nonsmoking section," I protested. She pointed across the room. "You can sit over there."
"That's the smoking section," I argued.
"I know," she said. "But you don't have to smoke."
I started to protest but stopped to choke back a laugh. Maybe because she thought I was going to cry, she removed the opened chairs from a table and said, "This okay？" I thanked her and, after she had gone, sat giggling until Ken arrived with the hamburgers.
Surrounded by a forest of upside-down chair legs, we had our Valentine dinner. It wasn't exactly quiet, with grill workers yelling at each other in the kitchen past the swing door near our table. But it was just the two of us, if you didn't count the person with the mop who kept humping our chairs.
According to the context, "flowers or candy, moonlight walks, lingering good-byes" are to indicate ______.
A．some examples of conventional customs
B．an intimate friendship
C．a special relationship
D．an ordinary acquaintance
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He took the conference in Brussels as another opportunity to discuss with those who are interested in the economic future of Cyprus about how to best promote economic opp______ there.
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If George took the job in Birmingham, he would have to leave his family at Wyeford.
A．Right
B．Wrong
C．Not mentioned
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He took her（）a close friend，so he spoke to her so familiarly
A．to
B．in
C．for
D．on
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He believes that living together will provide Candice and him with an opportunity to see how well each can adjust to the other's feelings and living styles. (Passage Two)
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he one pleasure that Einstein ____ his great fame was the ability it gave him to help others.
A.resulted from
B.stirred up
C.turned out
D.derived from
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听力原文：There are two factors which determine an individual's intelligence. The first is the sort of brain he is born with. Human brains differ considerably, me being more capable than others. But no matter how good a brain he has to begin with an individual will have a low order of intelligence unless he has opportunities to learn. So the second factor is what happens to the individual — the sort of environment in which he is.
The importance of environment in determining an individual's intelligence can be demonstrated by the case history of the identical twins, Peter and Mark. Being identical, the twins had identical brains at birth, end their growth processes were the same. When the twins were three months old, their parents died, and they were placed in separate homes. Peter was reared by parents of low intelligence in an isolated community with poor educational opportunities.
Mark, on the other hand, was raised in the home of rich parents who had been to college. He was read to as a child, sent to a good school, and given every opportunity to be stimulated intellectually. This environmental difference continued until the twins were in their late teens, when they were given tests to measure their intelligence. Peter's score was 85, well below the level he might have attained if reared under average conditions. Mark' s score was 125, twenty-five points above the average and fully forty points higher than his identical brother. Given equal opportunities, the twins would have tested at roughly the same level.
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A．Children reared under average conditions possess average intelligence.
B．Lack of opportunity prevents the growth of intelligence.
C．An individual's intelligence is determined chiefly by his environment.
D．Changes of environment produce changes in the brain structure.
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For all his vaunted talents, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has never had much of a reputation as an economic forecaster. In fact, he shies away from making the precise-to-the-decimal-point predictions that many other economists thrive on. Instead, he owes his success as a monetary policymaker to his ability to sniff out threats to the economy and manipulate interest rates to dampen the dangers he perceives.
Now, those instincts are being put to the test. Many Fed watchers--and some policymakers inside the central bank itself--are beginning to wonder whether Greenspan has lost his touch. Despite rising risks to the economy from a swooning stock market and soaring oil prices that could hamper growth, the Greenspan-led Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) opted to leave interest rates unchanged on Sept.24 . But in a rare dissent, two of the Fed's 12 policymakers broke ranks and voted for a cut in rates--Dallas Fed President Robert D. McTeer Jr. and central bank Governor Edward M. Gramlich.
The move by McTeer, the Fed's self-styled "Lonesome Dove", was no surprise. But Gramlich's was. This was the first time that the monetary moderate had voted against the chairman since joining the Fed's board in 1997. And it was the first public dissent by a governor since 1995.
Despite the split vote, it's too soon to count the maestro of monetary policy out. Greenspan had good reasons for not cutting interest rates now. And by acknowledging in the statement issued after the meeting that the economy does indeed face risks, Greenspan left the door wide open to a rate reduction in 'the future. Indeed, former Fed Governor Lyle Gramley thinks chances are good that the central bank might even cut rates before its next scheduled meeting on Nov. 6, the day after congressional elections.
So why didn't the traditionally risk-averse Greenspan cut rates now as insurance against the dangers dogging growth？ For one thing, he still thinks the economy is in recovery mode. Consumer demand remains buoyant and has even been turbocharged recently by a new wave of mortgage refinancing. Economists reckon that homeowners will extract some ＄100 billion in cash from their houses in the second half of this year. And despite all the corporate gloom, business spending has shown signs of picking up, though not anywhere near as strongly as the Fed would like.
Does that mean that further rate cuts are off the table？ Hardly. Watch for Greenspan to try to time any rate reductions to when they'll have the most psychological pop on business and investor confidence. That's surely no easy feat, but it's one that Greenspan has shown himself capable of more than once in the past. Don't be surprised if he surprises everyone again.
Alan Greenspan owes his reputation much to ______.
A．his successful predictions of economy
B．his timely handling of interest rates
C．his unusual economic policies
D．his unique sense of dangers
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If George Strong took the job in Birmingham, he would have to leave his family in wyeford.
A．Right
B．Wrong
C．Not mentioned
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Randal Ice needs a loan to purchase pet food and other pet supplies for his local pet store over the next six months. He has estimated that the maximum amount of inventory he will need in the next six
A．Self-liquidating inventory loan
B．Working capital loan
C．Interim construction financing
D．Security dealer financing
E．Retailer and equipment financing
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The ship took machines and other goods back to the port__ it had set off（）
A．from which
B．to which
C．which
D．in which
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Our usual walk was to or from the subway on which he traveled to work. He went to work sick, and despite nasty weather. He would make it to the office even if others could not. It was a matter of prid
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He plays tinnis to the ________ of all other sports.
A．eradication
B． exclusion
C． extension
D． inclusion
