[单项选择]Some people would rather ride bicycles as bicycle riding has ______ of the trouble of taking buses.
A. nothing
B. none
C. some
D. neither

[单项选择]American young people would rather________advice from strangers.
A. get
B. to get
C. getting
D. got

[单项选择]If more people shared a ride, there would be ______.
A. fewer cars on the road
B. higher insurance rates
C. more highway accidents
D. more cars on the road

[单项选择]Some people would even prefer the death to the running away of their spouse (配偶) because ______.
A. their spouse would feel no pain during the death
B. their spouse death would not blow their pride and confidence
C. a desertion would not bring a feeling of rejection or failure
D. their spouse death would make them feel less painful

[单项选择]Some people would like to do shopping on Sundays since they expect to pick up wonderful ______ in the market.
A. batteries
B. bargains
C. baskets
D. barrels

[单项选择]A: I'd rather have some wine, ifyou don't mind.B: ______

[单项选择]The author thinks that if more people share a ride, there would be
A. fewer cars on the road
B. a higher speed limit
C. more highway accidents
D. fewer cars to be sold

[单项选择]I'd rather you did some housework when you are free, but you ______.

[单项选择]I would rather（）with yon.
A. not to go
B. to not go
C. to go
D. not go

[单项选择]Though rather young in comparison with some others, ______ is the biggest university in England.
A. The University of Manchester
B. The University of Wales
C. The University of Edinburgh
D. The University of London

[单项选择]He said he would rather notit right now.
A. doing
B. do
C. to do
D. to be doing

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Motorists would rather pay more tax than lose the place in the corporate pecking order conferred on them by their company cars. And it is the company car — which accounts for half of all new motor sales each year — which continues to be the key method of measuring your progress up the greasy pole. Although a Roll-Royce or Bentley is the ultimate success symbol, a Jaguar is still desired by most top directors, according to the survey by top people’s pay and perks experts at the Monks Partnership.About 40 per cent of company cars are perks rather than necessities for the job, even though the average company car driver with a 1, 500cc engine is paying more than three times as much in tax compared to a decade ago. Average cash allowances for a company car rise from ￡1,500 for those whose job requires them to have four wheels, to ￡4,000 for chief executives. For company chairmen, the BMW 7 series and Jaguar’s Daimler Double Six top the list of favored cars, wit
A. discusses patterns in company car use.
B. advertises famous British company cars.
C. recommends inexpensive company cars.
D. introduces different models of cars.

[单项选择]I think most people would agree that to man love is ______.nutrition is to plants and animals.
A. as
B. that
C. what
D. like

[单项选择]From Paragraph 2, we can infer that people would attribute the author's failures to ______.
A. the very fact that she is a woman
B. her involvement in gender politics
C. her over-confidence as a female astrophysicist
D. the burden she bears in a male-dominated society

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Text 3 Most young people enjoy some form of physical activity. It may be walking, cycling or swimming, or in winter, skating or skiing; it may be a game of some kind: football, hockey, golf, or tennis; it may be mountaineering. Those who have a passion for climbing high and difficult mountains are often looked upon with astonishment. Why are men and women willing to suffer cold and hardship, and to take risks on high mountains This astonishment is caused probably by the difference between mountaineering and other forms of activity to which men give their leisure. Mountaineering is a sport and not a game. There are no man - made rules, as there are for such games as golf and football. There are, of course, rules of a different kind which it would be dangerous to ignore, but it is this freedom from man- made rules that makes mountaineering attractive to many people. Those who climb mountains are free to use their own methods. If we compare mountaineering and other more famil
A. it involves rules
B. it involves matches between teams
C. it requires mental and physical qualities
D. mountaineers depend on each other while climbing