[单项选择]"According to its proponents ,four tines as much paper can be produced from land using hemp rather than trees." What does "proponents" mean
A. People who are against something.
B. People who support something.
C. People in charge of something.
D. People who do research on something.

[单项选择]"According to its proponents, four times as much paper can be produced from land Using hemp rather than trees." What does "proponents" mean
A. People who are against something.
B. People who support something.
C. People in charge of something.
D. People who do research on something.

[单项选择]Now in Britain, wines take up four times as much ______ in the storehouse as both beer and spirits.
A. block
B. land
C. patch
D. space

[单项选择]How much would four pounds of tea weigh if it was taken 4,000 miles out from the surface of the earth
A. 1 pound.
B. 2 pounds.
C. 3 pounds.
D. 4 pounds.

[单项选择]Its skin color follows a regular twenty-four hours cycle that exactly matches the daily ______ of the sun.
A. rotation
B. variance
C. rhythm
D. motion

[单项选择]During its growth, how much of the water from the soil does the tree give off into the air through its leaves
A. About ninety-nine percent.
B. About one percent.
C. About nine-tenths.
D. About one -ninth.

[多项选择]Which four statements correctly describe functions that are available in SQL?（）
A. INSTR returns the numeric position of a named character.
B. NVL2 returns the first non-null expression in the expression list.
C. TRUNCATE rounds the column, expression, or value to n decimal places.
D. DECODE translates an expression after comparing it to each search value.
E. TRIM trims the heading of trailing characters (or both) from a character string.
F. NVL compares two expressions and returns null if they are equal, or the first expression of they are not equal.
G. NULLIF compares twp expressions and returns null if they are equal, or the first expression if they are not equal.

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Passage Four Television carries more national advertising than any others in the United States. The same is true in some smaller countries such as Spain and Portugal, where it is the only medium reaching a general national audience. In many countries, Sweden and Denmark, for example--the stateowned television accepts no advertising. In many other countries the amount of commercial time is extremely limited, as in France, Germany, and Italy. Soviet state-owned television began accepting a limited amount of advertising in 1988. The chief reason for the population of television among United States advertisers is that it it reaches a vast number of people at the same time. While it can cost well over 100,000 dollars, a 30- second commercial on network television can be seen and heard by as many as 25 million viewers. For manufacturers who must make prospects aware of their products and convince them of its benefits immediately, there is nothing as efficient as television adver
A. TV can make advertisers aware of their products.
B. TV is more popular than any other medium in the United States.
C. TV covers a large audience at the same time.
D. TV carries more national advertising than other media in the United States.

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Passage Four Dressing fashionably was very important in fourteenth-century Spain. This was especially true for any man who considered himself an aristocrat or dandy. Before going out, a well-dressed man would put on his finest boots, one of his embroidered caps and his favorite beard, dyed to match the color of his clothing. Believe it or not, false beards were once as popular as neckties are today. Beards had for years considered a sign of strength and manhood, and the bigger and thicker they were, the better. Those unfortunates who had little facial hair were forced by custom into wearing false beards made of horsehair. Soon, however man in the Spanish fashion world was wearing them too, while many quite substantial real beards were shaved off to make way for the false variety. By day, the fashionable dandy might wear a yellow or a crimson beard to impress his friends, but in the evening a long black beard was proper for serenading his senorita, Any color or shape of bea
A. those who have no facial hair
B. those who are unlucky
C. very young people
D. very poor people

[单项选择]Who spent four days on the moon

[单项选择]The Committee pronounced four members expelled for failure to provide information in the ______of investigations.
A. case
B. chase
C. cause
D. course

[多项选择]Which four vertical markets is IPsmartSuite focused?（）
A. manufacturing
B. legal
C. healthcare
D. financial
E. automotive
F. retail