[单项选择]During their first teacher training year, the students often visited schools for the ______ of lessons.
A. observation
B. investigation
C. inspection
D. examination

[单项选择]During their first teacher-training year, the students often visited local schools for the ______ of lessons.
A. investigation
B. observation
C. inspection
D. examination

[单项选择]During the year in question, public confidence in the economy resulted from which of the following occurrences
A. Possible peace in Vietnam and reduction in East-West tensions.
B. Possible peace in Vietnam.
C. An entente with China.
D. Reduction in East-West tensions and an entente with China.

[单项选择]He has only a two - week vacation during the year ______ that other workers get more time off.
A. besides
B. despite
C. in spite
D. despite the fact

[单项选择]Which element occurs first during the first-packet-path processing?（）
A. destination NAT
B. forwarding lookup
C. route lookup
D. SCREEN options

[单项选择]The first year of the college life is a very complex ______ period, and the more fully the freshmen prepare for it, the better.
A. transmission
B. transposition
C. transformation
D. transition

[单项选择]Her first year at school away from home, she suffered {{U}}qualms{{/U}} of homesickness.
A. quakes
B. regrets
C. lapses
D. pangs

[单项选择]In my first year at the university I learnt the ______ of journalism.
A. basics
B. basic
C. elementary
D. elements

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Passage 2 In the first year or so of Web business, most of the action has revolved around efforts to tap the consumer market. More recently, as the Web proved to be more than a fashion, companies have started to buy and sell products and services with one another. Such business-to-business sales make sense because business people typically know what product they’re looking for. Nonetheless, many companies still hesitate to use the Web because of doubts about its reliability. "Businesses need to feel they can trust the pathway between them and the supplier," says senior analyst Blanc Erwin of Forrester Research. Some companies are limiting the risk by conducting online transactions only with established business partners who are given access to the company’s private intranet. Another major shift in the model for Internet commerce concerns the technology available for marketing. Until recently, Internet marketing activities have focused on strategies to
A. has been striving to expand its market
B. intended to follow a fanciful fashion
C. tried but in vain to control the market
D. has been booming for one year or so

[单项选择]According to the first paragraph, an American student is allowed ______.
A. to live in a different university
B. to take a particular course in a different university
C. to live at home and drive to classes
D. to get two degrees from two different universities

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Weather Severe winter weather during the first three weeks of January caused hundreds of deaths in Europe. A massive dome of cold air became entrenched over northern Scandinavia and northern USSR in mid-December of 1986. It migrated westward and southward so that by January 12 much of the continent was under its influence. On that day, central England had its coldest day since 1945, with London recording 160F (—90℃). In Leningrad, USSR, temperatures dipped to —490F (—450℃), reportedly the coldest in 250 years. Coastal and river ice brought a halt to shipping in northern Europe. The cold was also accompanied by a major snowstorm that snarled rail and road transport in Western Europe on January 11 to 13. Snow fell as far south as the French Riviera．On January 14, East Berlin recorded January 11 to 13. Snow fell as far south as the French Riviera．On January 14, East Berlin recorded an all-time record low of —130F (—110℃ ), while Paris measured a snowfal
A. 40
B. 41
C. 42
D. 43

[单项选择]A priority nursing diagnosis during the first 24 hours following an MI is
A. Ineffective cardiac tissue perfusion.
B. Risk for infection.
C. Deficient fluid volume.
D. Constipation.

[单项选择]The quakes recorded during the first week of April in the area of Mount Saint Helens warned scientists of a new eruption.

[单项选择]During the first period of demographic history, societies were often in danger of extinction because_________.
A. only one in ten persons could live past 40
B. there was higher mortality than fertility in most places
C. it was too dangerous to have babies due to the poor conditions
D. our ancestors had little enthusiasm for more children

[单项选择]During her first prenatal visit, a client expresses concern about gaining weight. Which of the following would be the nurse's best action