[单项选择]First launched in April this year, Net My Singapore also includes efforts that ______ training, development, and the exploration of new technologies based on.
A. obliterate
B. sequester
C. encompass
D. terminate

[单项选择]First launched in April this year, Net My Singapore also includes efforts that ______ training, development, and the exploration of new technologies based on.
A. obliterate
B. sequester
C. encompass
D. terminate

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

[单项选择]They first-year students were learning from the army in Miyun, a suburb of Beijing near ______ I lived.
A. what
B. where
C. that
D. which

[单项选择]To a first-year student, the doctoral degree is a distant______
A. aspect
B. respect
C. prospect
D. spectacle

[单项选择]The first-year students were learning from the army in Miyun, a suburb of Beijing near ______ I lived.
A. what
B. where
C. that
D. which

[单项选择]The first-year students at college normally ______ in age from 17 to 20 years old.
A. vary
B. differ
C. range
D. alternate

[单项选择]Filled with______, the first-year journalism student is something of______in the search for truth, an endeavor he will only master with time.
A. (A) ardor … a mendicant
B. (B) conscience … a seer
C. (C) incertitude … a neophyte
D. (D) mettle … an idolater
E. (E) confidence … a prelate

[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 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]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

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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. the technology is popular with many Web users
B. businesses have faith in the reliability of online transactions
C. there is a radical change in strategy.
D. it is accessible limitedly to established partners