[单项选择]The number of vehicles has been steadily increasing. _______, more than 100 cities in the United States still have levels of carbon monoxide that exceed legally established limits.
A. Continuously
B. Consequently
C. Constantly
D. Consistently

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Text 2 The World Wide Web has been steadily creating a widespread surge in social capital through E-mail conversations, chat rooms, newsgroups, and e-zones. These ongoing connections are not an underground phenomenon, but a mainstream movement that is rapidly overwhelming traditional business models, according to the authors of another recent book, The Cluetrain Manifesto. "Our longing for the Web is rooted in the deep resentment we feel towards being managed," writes co-author David Weinberger, a columnist and commentator on the Web’s effect on business. The Cluetrain Manifesto argues that knowledge workers are finding it intolerable that their employers require them to speak in artificial "business voices". The Web has become the ideal alternative: a public place where people can converse in their "authentic voices", outside of an organization’s official communications channel. Some of the social capital generated by these indepe
A. actually can make use of the personal on-line relationships.
B. breaks the morals ill using personal on-line relationships.
C. is forced to use the on-line communication.
D. requires its employees to build on-line relationships.

[单项选择]Why has the number of camels in India been decreasing in recent years
A. Because they are dying from traveling too far .
B. Because they are short of food.
C. Because they are infected with a disease.

[单项选择]Her ability has been doubtful after a number of_________.
A. failures
B. successes
C. fails
D. losers

[单项选择]There has been a collision ______ a number of cars on the main road to town.
A. composing
B. consisting
C. involving
D. engaging

[单项选择]Absolute poverty has fallen steadily since the industrial revolution, which is why yesterday's ______ have become today's necessities.
A. refreshments
B. accommodations
C. entertainments
D. luxuries

[单项选择]The number of specialists has enormously increased mainly because of_________.
A. academic mobility
B. interdisciplinary research
C. specialization
D. modernization of transportation

[单项选择]A client who has stress incontinence has been given a pamphlet that describes Kegel exercises. Which of the following statements indicates that the client has understood the instructions in the pamphlet
A. "It will probably take a year before the exercises are effective. "
B. "I should perform these exercises every evening. "
C. "I can do these exercises sitting up, lying down, or standing. "
D. "I need to tighten my abdominal muscles to do these exercises correctly. "

[单项选择]I am afraid that his phone number has slipped my ______ for the moment.
A. head
B. brain
C. mind
D. sense

[单项选择]As has always been the case when tragedy has struck our community, the people of our town feel the obligation, and rightly so, to ------- in support of the victim and his family.
A. (A) entrench
B. (B) rally
C. (C) disseminate
D. (D) convoke
E. (E) apologize

[单项选择]The new factory that has been built next to us has ______ the value of our house.
A. demoralized
B. depreciated
C. deterred
D. derailed