[单项选择]I spent the next two years investigating the very questions______ by him.
A. posed
B. held
C. put
D. set

[单项选择]The next two most common reasons for training were to enable employees to move to other positions within the organization, and to multi-skill employees.
A. 培训员工的另外两个最为普遍的原因是可以调员工至忪司内部其他岗位，和使员工成为多面手。
B. 培UII员工的另外两个最为普遍的原因是允许员工到公司内部其他岗位，和使员工成为多面手。
C. 培训员工的另外两个最为普遍的原因是可以让员工到公司内部其他岗位，和使员工成为多面手。
D. 培训员工还有两个最为普遍的原因：一是使员工能够胜任公司内部其他岗位，二是使员工成为多面手。

[单项选择]After two years of bargaining, the leaders of two countries finally ______ an agreement.
A. made
B. reached
C. joined
D. came

[单项选择]Leave the next two lines （）for the tutor’s comments.
A. blank
B. to beto be blank
C. being blank
D. be blank

[单项选择]The building will be ______ within the next two months.
A. irritated
B. demolished
C. distracted
D. banished

[单项选择]Computer systems consist of two very different types of elements:Hardware, which includes all the physical things that can be touched and （71） ,which tells the hardware how to do.
A. Operating system
B. I/O devices
C. Courseware
D. Software

[单项选择]The basketball team was organized two years ago and it has yet to win a single game.
A. 这个篮球队两年前成立，还没赢过一次比赛。
B. 两年前成立的那个篮球队还打过一次比赛。
C. 两年前成立的那个篮球队想赢每一次比赛。
D. 这个篮球队两年前成立，还得赢一次比赛。

[单项选择]After two years he received the certificate of the college for ______ in chemistry.
A. proficiency
B. diversion
C. immersion
D. involvement

[单项选择]More than two hundred years ago the United States ______ from the British Empire and became an independent country.
A. got off
B. pulled down
C. broke away
D. dropped off

[单项选择]The two soldiers spent many years together, fighting ____ and sharing their victories and disappointments.
A. face to face
B. side by side
C. back to back
D. step by step

[单项选择]A: This vase is 200 years old. Be very careful in carrying it. B: ______.

[单项选择]Two years later the opportunity came for him to take a______American look at the Old World.
A. distinctly
B. distinctively
C. distinct
D. distinctive

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Passage Three
Until two years ago, Clearing, Illinois was a tranquil suburb of Chicago. But residents grew alarmed when they noticed armed teenagers on the streets, giving gang signals and shouting at passing cars. Then came a series of burglaries and graffiti messages on store- fronts. By the time local authorities realized they had a gang problem, it was too late. Last December, two 13-year-old girls were shot outside their school as they sat in a car with two members of a local gang, the Ridgeway Lords.
Nearly all 50 states have recently passed laws that allow youths aged 14-17 to be tried in court as adults. In about 25 states they have passed laws to punish parents for their children’s behavior. And in 146 of the nation’s largest cities, they have imposed curfews to reduce juvenile violence. When you look at the spectacular rise of violent crime among young people recently, it’s easy to understand the concern. Over the past decade, th
A. A policeman shot a young man.
B. Criminality decreased.
C. Two citizens were killed.
D. Two girls were killed because they were with two members of another gan