According to the passage, which of the following is an advantage of mixed-ability teaching?




A.Formal class teaching is the important way to give the pupils essential skills such as those to be used in the library.
B.Pupils can be hindered from an all-round development.
C.Pupils as individuals always have the opportunities to work on their own.
D.A pupil can be at the bottom of a class.

________________ (53)




A.thrown away
B.torn off
C.put aside
D.recycled

A.omission
B.advertisement
C.recommendation
D.accomplishment

_________(20)




A.because
B.when
C.since
D.while

According to the passage, why were the remains of organisms trapped in swamps better preserved for the fossil record than those that were not?




A.The swamp environment reduced the amount of bacterial decay
B.Swamp waters contained higher amounts of materials such as calcium carbonate.
C.There were fewer sediments in swamps than in other bodies of water
D.Swamp vegetation accelerated the decomposition of organisms

The best fossils are those____




A.consist of Calcite and aragonite
B.from hard parts of animals or plants
C.still in the shape of the original animal or plant
D.animals or plants common for fossilization

______ (28)




A.had better
B.may
C.have to
D.should

Somebody repaired her bicycle last week.




A.She had her bicycle repair last week.
B.She had her bicycle to repair last week.
C.She had to repair her bicycle last week.
D.She had her bicycle repaired last week.

Choose the phrase that best completes the sentence.
After seeing a movie based on a novel,




A.the book was read by many people
B.the book made many people want to read it
C.many people wanted to read the book
D.many movies were more popular than the novels people read.

Read the following passage, and mark the letter (A, B, C or D) on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer for each of the blanks.
The future of the African elephant depends on man. No (61)…………… can human beings and wild animals live in harmony throughout vast area of the continent as was possible in days gone by, (62)……… man’s needs have increased as well as his numbers. There are regions, such as the Congo forests and the equatorial Sudan, (63)…………. the old relationship may remain for a few more years or even generations, but in general it has gone. Conservation, if it is to be effective, should be a positive, constructive policy, and it is wishful thinking to imagine otherwise, (64)………. in the case of the elephant. And this is not yet true of the whole of Africa, it soon will be, for the (65)……… in the human population is almost universal. Where human beings and wild animals find themselves in competition with each other, the animals will (66)…… Even if there appears to be enough room for both, man will not (67)…… long a situation in which elephants and other (68)……….. make even occasional raids on his fields of food or economic crops. For many years this has been a major cause of (69)…… interests and one of the reasons why so many elephants have been shot to control their (70)………




A.for
B.although
C.but
D.and