[单项选择]There are always a lot of straw polls before the general election of the President in the Unit ed States.
A. 无效投票
B. 拉拢选票
C. 民意测验
D. 正式投票

[单项选择]There are always a lot of straw polls before the general election of the President in the United States.
A. 无效投票
B. 拉拢选票
C. 民意测验
D. 正式投票

[单项选择]The author always gets in the car before a woman because he ______

[单项选择]The author always gets in a car before a woman because he

[单项选择]It's always better to ______ a problem before it arises than to search for a solution to it afterwards.
A. evaluate
B. predict
C. anticipate
D. estimate

[单项选择]The author refers to straw embeded in fence posts in order to show ______.
A. where tornadoes occur
B. who makes reports about tornadoes
C. when tornadoes take form
D. how tornadoes affect physical objects

[单项选择]Research carried out in recent opinion polls shows that ______.
A. the present high unemployment figures are a fact of life
B. new jobs must be created in order to rectify high unemployment figures
C. available employment must be most widely distributed among the unemployment
D. available employment should be restricted to a small percentage of the population

[单项选择]Research carried out in the recent opinion polls shows that
A. available employment should be restricted to a small percentage of the population.
B. new jobs must be created in order to rectify high unemployment figures.
C. available employment must be more widely distributed among the unemployed.
D. the nowaday high unemployment figures are a truth of life.

[单项选择]According to the recent opinion polls, what will most mothers do if money is not an issue
A. They will work part-time.
B. They will take full-time jobs.
C. They will stay at home with their kids.
D. They will never go back to work again.

[单项选择]Fragile though it may seem, straw also has-------, keeping its natural gloss and pliancy for centuries.
A. resilience is extraordinary
B. some extraordinary and resilient
C. that of extraordinarily resilient
D. extraordinary resilience

[单项选择]For the Democrats, the polls to elect the final presidential candidate ______.

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Text 2 If the opinion polls are to be believed, most Americans are coming to trust their government more than they used to. The habit has not yet spread widely among American Indians, who suspect an organization which has so often patronized them, lied to them and defrauded them. But the Indians may soon win a victory in a legal battle that epitomizes those abuses. Elouise Cobell, a banker who also happens to be a member of the Blackfeet tribe in Montana, is the leading plaintiff in a massive class-action suit against the government. At issue is up to $10 billion in trust payments owed to some 500,000 Indians. The suit revolves around Individual Indian Money (IIM) accounts that are administered by the Interior Department’s Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). Back in the 1880s, the government divided more than llm acres of tribal land into parcels of 80 to 160 acres that were assigned to individual Indians. Because these parcels were rarely occupied by their new owners, t
A. its leasing land out for exploitation.
B. its distribution of money collected.
C. its supposed misconduct of abuses.
D. its reaction to a massive action.