[单项选择]The article is about a couple whose married life is happier because ______.
A. they have a truly equal partnership
B. the husband enjoys staying at home
C. they earn more money
D. the wife has a fun-time job

[单项选择]The article is about a couple whose married life is happier because _______.
A. they have a truly equal partnership
B. the husband enjoys staying at home
C. they earn more money
D. the wife has a full-time job

[单项选择]Grasses and flowers in the desert whose life cycles are short shows their ability to adapt to the quick disappearance of rainwater there after it falls in spring.

[单项选择]The retired couple lived a life of ease.
A. luxury
B. misery
C. poverty
D. comfort

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Text 4 The telecity is a city whose life, direction, and functioning are largely shaped by telecommunications. In the twenty first century, cities will be based more and more on an economy that is dependent on services and intellectual property. Telecommunications and information networks will define a city’s architecture, shape, and character. Proximity in the telecity will be defined by the speed and bandwidth of networks as much as by geographical propinquity. In the age of the telecity, New York and Singapore may be closer than, say, New York and Arkadelphia, Arkansas. Telecities will supersede megacities for several reasons, including the drive toward clean air, reducing pollution, energy conservation, more jobs based on services, and coping with the high cost of urban property. Now we must add the need to cope with terrorist threats in a high-technology world. Western mind-sets were clearly jolted in the wake of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in
A. leaders and planners.
B. urban architects.
C. some corporations.
D. government administrators.

[单项选择]Alice and George like to split hairs about whose turn it is to wash the dishes.
A. start an argument
B. divide labour
C. make important differences
D. insist on their own

[单项选择]Students learning about how life began on Earth may be presented with the perplexing question, "Which came first, the chicken or the egg"
A. pressing
B. puzzling
C. patronizing
D. penetrating

[单项选择]What can be inferred about the life of working mothers in the past
A. They turned to their parents to look after their young children.
B. They had to do all the housework after returning from work.
C. They sought for jobs that required only a few working hours.
D. They were not allowed to leave for family during working hours.

[单项选择]He has fancy dreams about his life, and nothing ever quite （） his expectations.
A. matches
B. makes
C. reaches
D. realizes

[单项选择]He has fancy dreams about his life，and nothing ever quite______ his expectations.
A. matches
B. makes
C. reaches
D. realizes

[单项选择]One of the things she wrote about were life on a small farm at the beginning of the century.
A. wrote
B. about
C. were
D. beginning

[单项选择]She spoke ______ about her life spent in Sahara desert.
A. emotionless
B. emotional
C. emotionally
D. emotive

[单项选择]She spoke _________about her life spent in Sahara desert.
A. emotionless
B. emotional
C. emotionally
D. emotive

[单项选择]______is not a novel about American Negro life.

[单项选择]What about Shakespeare's life is not known to people today
A. His marriage.
B. His birthplace.
C. His education.
D. His plays.

[单项选择]The old couple has been living an _________ life. They have saved up a large sum of money.
A. economy
B. economic
C. economics
D. economical