From the four words or phrases (A, B, C or D), choose the one that best completes the sentence.
We can now create strains of plants which are____ to disease.




A.resistant
B.unwilling
C.unwilling
D.reluctant

Mickey Mantle was one of the greatest baseball players of all time. He played for the New York Yankees in their years of glory. From the time Mantle began to play professionally in 1951 to his last year in 1968, baseball was the most popular game in the United States. For many people, Mantle symbolized the hope, prosperity, and confidence of America at that time.
Mantle was a fast and powerful player, a “switch-hitter” who could bat both right-handed and left-handed. He won game after game, one World Series championship after another, for his team. He was a wonderful athlete, but this alone cannot explain America’s fascination with him.
Perhaps it was because he was a handsome, red-haired country boy, the son of a poor miner from Oklahoma. His career, from the lead mines of the West to the heights of success and fame, was a fairy-tale version of the American dream. Or perhaps it was because America always loves a “natural”: a person who wins without seeming to try, whose talent appears to come from an inner grace. That was Mickey Mantle.
But like many celebrities, Mickey Mantle had a private life that was full of problems. He played without complaint despite constant pain from injuries. He lived to fulfill his father’s dreams and drank to forget his father’s early death.
It was a terrible addiction that finally destroyed his body. It gave him cirrhosis of the liver and accelerated the advance of liver cancer. Even when Mickey Mantle had turned away from his old life and warned young people not to follow his example, the destructive process could not be stopped. Despite a liver transplant operation that had all those who loved and admired him hoping for a recovery, Mickey Mantle died of cancer at the age of 63.
It can be inferred from paragraph 1 that Mantle ______.




A.introduced baseball into the US
B.earned a lot of money from baseball
C.had to try hard to be a professional player
D.played for New York Yankees all his life

A.artificial
B.inhabitant
C.mausoleum
D.intergration

He ................ -estimated the cost of the holiday and ran out of money.




A.over
B.non
C.under
D.dis

According to the passage, the cattle help promote the growth of the wild grass by ________ .




A.eating only small quantities of grass.
B.continually moving from one grazing area to another.
C.naturally fertilizing the soil.
D.stepping on and pressing the seeds into the ground.

I'm sure when you've stopped looking for your keys, they'll _____________up somewhere.




A.take
B.look
C.turn
D.pull

Henry was really a silly boy when we were at high school. I still remember ____________ very stupid questions.




A.him asking
B.him to ask
C.asking him
D.his being asked

William is an authority_____________medieval tapestries.




A.on
B.with
C.about
D.in

The word “its” in line 23 refers to _________ .




A.small bands
B.earlier music
C.men
D.earlier musicians

A.evaporate
B.consulate
C.communicate
D.coordinate