At the _____to the village stands a big old banyan tree.A.entranceB.enterC.fenceD.hedge
Choose the best answer A, B, C or D to complete sentences.Making money from gambling is a great dream, but the............. is that most people lose everything.A.really B.reality C.real D.unreal
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions Two-lane highways, like the railways before them, seemed capable of making or breaking a community in the 1920s. The automobile was every American’s idea of freedom, and the construction of hard-surface roads was one of the largest items of government expenditure, often at great cost to every thing else, including education.American car registrations rose from one million in 1913 to ten million in 1923. Automobile sales in the state of Michigan outnumbered those in Great Britain and Ireland combined. By 1927, Americans were driving some twenty-six million automobiles, one car for every five people in the country.The 1920 U.S. Census revealed that for the first time in history more people lived in cities than on farms, and they were leaving the farm and reaching the city by automobile. The growth of roads and the automobile industry made cars the lifeblood of the petroleum industry and a major customer of the steel factories. Cars also caused expansions in outdoor recreation and tourism and related industries-service stations, roadside restaurants, and motels. After World War two, the automobile industry reached new heights, and new roads led out of the city to the suburbs, where two-car families transported children to shopping malls and segregated schools.In 1956 Congress passed the Interstate Highway Act, the peak of a half-century of frenzied road building at government expense and the largest public works program in history. The result was the Interstate Highway System, a network of federally subsidized highways connecting major urban centers. Two-hour commutes, traffic jams, polluted cities, and Disneyland became standard features of American life. Like almost everything else in the 1950s, the construction of interstate highways was justified as a national defense measure.The predominance of private transportation was guaranteed by the federal government. Between 1945 and 1980, 75 percent of federal funds of transportation were spent on highways, while a scant one percent went to buses, trains, or subways. Even before the Interstate Highway System was built, the American bias was clear – which is why the United States has the world’s best road system and nearly its worst public transit system.It can be inferred from paragraph 2 thatA.car registration became requited in the early 1920s.B.more cars were sold in Michigan than any other state.C.America’s passion for cars grew in the 1920s.D.most people in Ireland could not afford to buy cars.
a. The ………… from three schools took part in the English Speaking Contest. (REPRESENT)b. There was a ……………. to find the best cook. (COMPETE)c. Do you agree with the famous saying “The happiest people are those who bring ……….. to others.”? (HAPPY)d. Every one likes Kevin because he is such a ………….person. (CHEER)e. He is very ………… about the history of the Boston Marathon. (KNOW)A.B.C.D.
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the option that best completes each of the following exchanges.Ann and Peter are talking about housework.- Ann: “I think children should be paid for doing the housework.”- Peter: “________. It's their duty in the family.”A.You're exactly right B.That's what I thinkC.There's no doubt about it D.I don't think so
According to the passage, scholars were able to decipher cuneiform form with the help of _________.A.the Sumerian, Akkadian, and Babylonian languages B.Old PersianC.tablets written in Old European D.languages spoken in 18th centuryIran
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.“What would you do in my place?” “Were ___________ treated like that, I would complain to the manager.”A.I to had been B.I to be C.I have been D.to I be
___________ (2)A.planesB.busesC.carsD.bikes
Part 6: Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.The Red Cross is an international humanitarian agency dedicated to reducing the sufferings of wounded soldiers, civilians and prisoners of war.A.happiness B.lossC.sadness D.pain and sorrow
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 33 to 40.Early peoples had no need of engineering works to supply their water. Hunters and nomads camped near natural sources of fresh water, and populations were so sparse that pollution of the water supply was not a serious problem. After community life developed and agricultural villages became urban centers, the problem of supplying water became important for inhabitants of a city, as well as for irrigation of the farms surrounding the city. Irrigation works were known in prehistoric times, and before 2000 BC the rulers of Babylonia and Egypt constructed systems of dams and canals to impound the flood waters of the Euphrates and Nile rivers, controlling floods and providing irrigation water throughout the dry season. Such irrigation canals also supplied water for domestic purposes. The first people to consider the sanitation of their water supply were the ancient Romans, who constructed a vast system of aqueducts to bring the clean waters of the Apennine Mountains into the city and built basins and filters along these mains to ensure the clarity of the water. The construction of such extensive water-supply systems declined when the Roman Empire disintegrated, and for several centuries local springs and wells formed the main source of domestic and industrial water. The invention of the force pump in England in the middle of the 16th century greatly extended the possibilities of development of water-supply systems. In London, the first pumping waterworks was completed in 1562; it pumped river water to a reservoir about 37 m above the level of the River Thames and from the reservoir the water was distributed by gravity, through lead pipes, to buildings in the vicinity.Increased per-capita demand has coincided with water shortages in many countries. Southeast England, for example, receives only 14 percent of Britain's rainfall, has30 percent of its population, and has experienced declining winter rainfall since the 1980s. In recent years a great deal of interest has been shown in the conversion of seawater to fresh water to provide drinking water for very dry areas, such as the Middle East. Several different processes, including distillation, electrodialysis, reverse osmosis, and direct-freeze evaporation, have been developed for this purpose. Some of these processes have been used in large facilities in the United States. Although these processes are successful, the cost of treating seawater is much higher than that for treating fresh water.From A. Briggs’ article on culture, Microsoft® Student 2008Early peoples didn’t need water supply engineering works because _______.A.they had good ways to irrigate their farmsB.their community life had already developedC.there was almost no dry season in prehistoric timesD.natural sources of fresh water nearby were always available
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