[单项选择]Passage Three
Today, more and more people are using credit cards instead of money to buy the things they need. Almost anyone who has a steady income and a continuous work record can apply for a credit card.
If you have a credit card, you can buy a car, eat a dinner, take a trip, and even get a haircut by charging the cost to your account. In this way you can pay for purchases a month or two later, without any extra charge. Or you may choose to spread out your payments over several months and pay only part of the total amount each month. If you do this, the credit card company or the bank who sponsors the credit card will add a small service charge to your total bill. This is very convenient for the customer. With the credit card in your wallet or purse, you don’t have to carry much cash. This saves your trips to the bank to cash checks or withdraw cash. Also if you carry credit cards instead of a lot of cash, you don’t have to be concerned about losing yo
A. With a credit card you can pay for purchases two months later.
B. With a credit card you can charge the cost to your account.
C. With a credit card you don’t have to be worded about a thief.
D. With the credit card you don’t have to worry about your final bill.

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Today more and more people go to websites when looking for information. Although most readers go to websites for news and e-mail, a form of person-to-person news, or in the form of chatting, they also read books on the web. It’s called electronic book (e-book).
Electronic books could revolutionize reading, but people ought to consider their far-reaching impacts as well. "The e-book promises to cause a slow tragedy on life as we know it," Jason Ohler, professor of technology assessment, university of Alaska Southeast In Juneau, warned the World Future Society, Bethesda, Md. His assessment weighed the pros and cons (赞成和反对的理由) of e-book technology’s impact on social relationships, the environment, the economy, etc. Before you curl up (蜷曲) with an e-book, consider the disadvantages.
They increase eyestrain due to poor screen r
A. They are unable to be broken down into harmless products.
B. They consume a lot of natural resources.
C. They produce harmful gases.
D. They are capable of being reused.

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[单项选择]Passage Three
Today, more and more people are using credit cards instead of money to buy the things they need. Almost anyone who has a steady income and a continuous work record can apply for a credit card.
If you have a credit card, you can buy a car, eat a dinner, take a trip, and even get a haircut by charging the cost to your account. In this way you can pay for purchases a month or two later, without any extra charge. Or you may choose to spread out your payments over several months and pay only part of the total amount each month. If you do this, the credit card company or the bank who sponsors the credit card will add a small service charge to your total bill. This is very convenient for the customer. With the credit card in your wallet or purse, you don’t have to carry much cash. This saves your trips to the bank to cash checks or withdraw cash. Also if you carry credit cards instead of a lot of cash, you don’t have to be concerned about losing yo
A. Because they are becoming richer and richer.
B. Because everyone can apply for the credit card.
C. Because it is cheap to buy goods by using a credit card.
D. Because it is convenient for them to buy goods.

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[单项选择]Passage Three

People use money to buy food, books, bicycles and hundreds of other things they need. When they work, they usually get paid in money.
Most of the money used today is made of metal or paper. But in ancient times people used to use all kinds of things as money. One of the first kinds of money was shells.
In China, cloth and knives were used as money. Elephant tusks, monkey tails and salt were used in some parts of Africa. Rice was also a kind of money used by the ancient people in some islands. Cows and other animals were used as money, too.
The first copper coins were made in China. They were round and had a square hole in the centre. Different counties had used different metals for their money. Later some countries began to make Coins of gold and silver. But gold and silver were heavy to carry when people need a lot of
A. they were too heavy
B. they would be for future use
C. they were easy to slip off
D. they were useless

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Most people would be impressed by the high quality of medicine available to most Americans. There is a lot of specialization, a great deal of attention to the individual, a vast amount of advanced technical equipment, and intense effort not to make mistakes because of the financial risk which doctors and hospitals must face in the courts if they handle things badly.
But the Americans are in a mess. The problem is the way in which health care is organized and financed. Contrary to public belief, it is not just a free competition system. To the private system has been joined a large public system, because private care was simply not looking after the less fortunate and the elderly.
But even with this huge public part of the system, which this year will eat up 84.5 billion dollars—more than 10 percent of the U.S. budget—large
A. It must be in total chaos.
B. It must be a free competition system.
C. It should cover the unemployed.
D. It should involve private care.

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