[单项选择]His desire to ______ other people has caused trouble in his family.
A. please
B. dominate
C. force
D. urge

[单项选择]His desire to ______ other people has caused trouble in his family.
A. please
B. dominate
C. force
D. urge

[单项选择]Her desire to ______ other people has caused great trouble in her family.
A. prevail
B. promote
C. dominate
D. exemplify

[单项选择]No other newspaper columnist has managed as yet to of readership.
A. though
B. in spite of this
C. even
D. so far

[单项选择]What has sometimes caused plants to die out
A. Interference from foresters.
B. Variations in climate.
C. The absence of wooded land.
D. The introduction of new type of plants.

[单项选择]The picturesque scenery of his hometown has often______him to write poems.
A. excited
B. inspired
C. stirred
D. attracted

[单项选择]Why has growing population of young people caused the changes in museums
A. Because they are better educated.
B. Because they have less spare time.
C. Because they are stronger.
D. Because there are more young people.

[单项选择]The son brought the other pair to his father.

[单项选择]When a consumer finds that his purchase has a fault in it, the first thing he should do is to ______.
A. complain personally to the manager
B. threaten to take the matter to court
C. write a firm letter of complaint to the store of purchase
D. show some written proof of the purchase to the store

[单项选择]His father has been working hard for many years to support him at university so he did not want to ______.
A. let him out
B. let him in
C. let him down
D. let him away

[单项选择]According to the passage, Vesuvius has caused serious damage
A. six times.
B. seven times.
C. eight times.
D. nine times.

[单项选择]The HIV virus has caused more deaths in developed countries.

[单项选择]Until recently, body heat has caused problems because it ______.
A. was difficult to collect
B. came in a variety of forms
C. was difficult to get rid of
D. tended to be absorbed by physical objects

[单项选择]The result of this biochemical test has caused an uproar, and ever since its publication, researchers have been full of responses of ------- quality: whereas some deal with the test's implications in a calm manner, others sound alarms.
A. (A) choleric
B. (B) admonitory
C. (C) whimsical
D. (D) homogenous
E. (E) variable

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Our culture has caused most Americans to assume not only that our language is universal, but that the gestures we use are understood by everyone. We do not realize that waving good-bye is the way to summon a person from the Philippines to one’s side, or that in Italy and some Latin-American countries, curling the finger to oneself is a sign of farewell. Those private citizens who sent packages to our troops occupying Germany after World War II and marked them GIFT to escape duty payments did not bother to find out that "Gift" means poison in German. Moreover, we like to think of ourselves as friendly, yet we prefer to be at least 3 feet or an arm’s length away from others，Latins and Middle Easterners like to come closer and touch, which makes Americans uncomfortable.
Our linguistic (语言上的) and cultural blindness and the casualness with which we take notice of the developed tastes, gestures, customs and languages of other countries, are losing us frien
A. cultural self-centeredness
B. casual manners
C. indifference towards foreign visitors
D. arrogance towards other cultures