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Passage Two I had just gone to bed after a very hard day when the phone rang. It was an eccentric(怪僻的) farmer. I had never met him before although I had heard people talk about him. He sounded quite nervous and he had been talking for a minute or so before I understood anything. Even then all I could make out was that someone called Milly had had a very bad accident. I hadn’t the slightest idea who she was but I obviously had to go. It had been snowing heavily that day and I didn’t know the way. I had been driving for at least an hour when I finally found his place. He was standing there, waiting for me. "She meant more to me than anyone... even my own wife!" he said. I could see that he had been crying. I thought something terrible had taken place, a possible scandal(丑闻). I was even more shocked when he told me he had put her in the barn(厩)"I wouldn’t leave here out in the cold!" he said. Milly had clearly been a secret lover o
A. bring Milly back to life
B. keep the whole thing a secret
C. look into the matter
D. free him from a scandal
[单项选择]According to the passage, after the average per-minute cost dropped to 11 cents this year from 56 cents in 1995, the phone companies ______.
A. attracted more and more new users and as a result, they began to flourish
B. began to suffer from a great loss
C. made traditional phones more popular
D. invested much more money in creating new phones
[单项选择]According to the passage, after Peter's marriage ______.
[单项选择]Just as no two words are truly synonymous ______ no two different expressions can mean exactly the same thing.
A. rather
B. also
C. yet
D. so
[单项选择]According to the passage, Darley found that after seven months of kindergarten, six-year-olds acquired which of the following abilities
A. They make arbitrary moral judgments.
B. They do not understand the concept of public duty.
C. They have the ability to make autonomous moral judgments.
D. They regard moral absolutism as a threat to their moral autonomy.
[单项选择]After reading this passage, you can conclude that ______.
A. mountain building is a rare occurrence
B. mountain building is going on all the time
C. many people die in earthquakes every year
D. mountain climbing is an excellent extreme activity
[单项选择]After reading the passage, one would refrain from concluding that ______.
A. Ph. D. s are not earning what they deserve in nonacademic positions
B. colleges and universities employ a substantial number of Ph. D. dropouts
C. a Ph. D. dropout, by and large, does not have what it takes to learn the degree
D. optimism reigns in regard to getting Ph. D. dropouts to return to their pursuit of the degree
[单项选择]The two psychologists had to modify the American Sign Language somewhat in order to accommodate the chimpanzees' spontaneous gestures.
A. change
B. abort
C. shorten
D. enhance
[单项选择]After reading the passage, we can learn the author intent to imply
A. in science, it is not difficult to tell fact from fiction______.
B. the meaning of science is so ambiguous that a few can catch on to its meaning and objectives
C. the fact that scientists ignored the practical side of their discoveries in theoretical research which should be introspected
D. practical-minded people can accurately explain the meaning and objectives of science as a whole
[单项选择]After reading the passage, you may conclude that ______ ．
A. the Indian system is also suitable for some small towns
B. the Indians were too simple to some small towns
C. our social system is much better than that existing Indian society
D. the Indian social system would be very difficult for our society
[单项选择]After reading the passage, what can we infer about Shakespeare
A. He received a good education in a local school.
B. He was poor and without friends throughout his life.
C. He made a wise decision in leaving his hometown.
D. He was happily married to Anne Hathaway.
[单项选择]After reading this passage, we think that the writer wrote the passage in order to ______.
A. prove to readers the importance of higher education
B. tell a story in honor of her mother
C. give a detailed description of different reading skills
D. prove the importance of fast reading
[单项选择]After reading this passage, one gets to know that the author is ______. ( )
A. praising the college education
B. helping change the college education
C. giving his advice to the college education
D. criticizing the college education
