In the last few years, the Internet and the World Wide Web have become () words; alm
A.family
B.home
C.house
D.household
A.family
B.home
C.house
D.household
How much has Shell invested in China so far?
A.1.6 billion USD
B.1.6 million USD
C.5 billion USD
D.5 million USD
The biggest increase will occur at private colleges. Public colleges, heavily subsidized by rax funds, will also【24】their tuition, but the increase will be a few percentage points【25】than their privately sponsored neighbors.
As a follow-up, the United Press international did their own study【26】Massachussetts Institute of Technology. At M. I. T. advisors recommended that students have $ 8,900【27】for one year's expenses, including $ 5,300 for tuition, $ 2,685 for room and【28】, $ 630 for personal expenses, and $ 285 for books and supplies. Ten years ago the tuition was only $ 2,150. To【29】that another way, the cost has climbed 150 percent in the last【30】.
(61)
A.published
B.declared
C.written
D.quoted
Traditionally, it was thought that it could【5】the luck they would have【6】the coming year by【7】they did or ate on the first day of the year. For that reason, it has become common for【8】to celebrate the first few minutes of a【9】new year in the【10】with the family and friends. Parties often last into the middle of the night after the ringing of a new year. It was once believed that the first visitor on New Year's Day would bring【11】good luck or bad luck to the rest of the year. It was particularly lucky if that visitor【12】to be a tall dark-haired man.
Traditional New Year's【13】are also thought to bring luck. People in many parts of the US celebrate the New Year by【14】black-eyed peas and cabbage. Black-eyed peas have been considered good luck in many cultures. Cabbage leaves are considered a【15】of prosperity, being【16】of paper currency. Other traditions of the season include the making of New Year's resolutions. That tradition also【17】back to the early Babylonians. Popular modern resolutions might include the【18】to lose weight or quit smoking.
The song, "Auld Lang Syne", is sung at the【19】of midnight in almost every English-speaking country in the world to bring in the New Year. "Auld Lang Syne" literally【20】"yearning for the old days."
(1)
A.remarked
B.commented
C.observed
D.viewed
Mary didn’t know what to send to her grandparents for Christmas. It was always hard to choose a good Christmas present for them. They didn’t need much, and it was hard for her to be creative every year.
One year, she sent them a big wooden elephant. It sat on the counter for a year, but then it disappeared, probably into a closet somewhere. Another year, she made handmade soaps with nice smells, but they probably weren’t any better than store-bought soaps. Last year, she sent lots of nice pictures of herself in frames, but grandparents’ house was small, and they couldn’t hang up very many.
This year, she decided on fruit. She lived where it was warm and there was lots of nice fruit. Her grandparents lived up north, where it colder and they couldn’t get fresh fruit all year, or at least not oranges and grapefruit. Fresh fruit was healthy for her grandparents, too.
Mary went to a fruit store and sampled the red oranges. She really liked them and bought a kilogram. Then she tried three kinds of grapefruit. The white ones were sour. The star grapefruit were interesting, but the dark red grapefruit were great. So she got a kilogram.
Mary carefully packed the fruit in a box to keep them safe and dry in case one got smashed and its juice got everywhere. Then she wrote the address on the box and mailed it from the store. She felt happy with what she bought.
A few days later, Mary got a phone call from her grandparents, thanking her for the lovely fruit. They said it was a healthy, tasty, and very thoughtful gift. Mary had never felt sogood before.
1.Mary wastroubled because she___________.
A. had no idea for a holiday gift
B. we no creative in her work
C. could notafford Christmas gifts
D. found her grandma bard to please
2.What didMary send her grandparents last year_________.
A. A wooden elephant
B. Handmade soaps
C. Her own pictures
D. A store-bought closet
3.In se1ecting the gifts, Mary was ___________.
A. excited
B. impatient
C. exhausted
D. thoughtful
4.Which ofthe following did Mary buy for her grandparents this year_________.
A. Yellow oranges
B. Dark red grapefruit
C. White grapefruit
D. Star grapefruit
5. Mary’s grandparents___________.
A. loved her gift
C. wrote her a letter
B. sent her a card
D. put her gift away
By the end of last year they _____ 1,000 machines.
A. turned out
B. had turned out
C. would turn out
D. had been turned out
— Have you ever been to Tokyo?
— _________________.
A.Tokyo is a busy city
B.No, but I hope to go there next year
C.No, I didn't go there last year
According to the passage, the "happy few" (Last Line, Para. 3) refers to ______.
A.children who had the privilege of going to school
B.civilized nations that had a lot of schools
C.those countries like Germany, France and England
D.illiterate people in primitive cultures
A.raised
B.arose
C.aroused
D.rose
Without computers, we ______ the tremendous medical advancement in the last few decades.
A.would not make
B.will not have made
C.could not make
D.couldn't have made
A.marrying
B.marriage
C.married
D.to marry