[单项选择]In deciding to undertake dangerous pursuits, people (usually strive) for their maximum personal ability rating, (when) they (are challenged) but can be victorious, rather than merely (surmounting the mediocre).
A. usually strive
B. when
C. are challenged
D. surmounting the mediocre

[单项选择]In deciding to undertake dangerous pursuits, people (usually strive) for their maximum personal ability rating, (when) they (are challenged) but can be victorious, rather than merely (surmounting the mediocre).
A. usually strive
B. when
C. are challenged
D. surmounting the mediocre

[单项选择]Psychologists have been studying the changes people experience when they leave rural areas and move into urban environments.
A. 心理学家已经研究人们经历上的变化，特别是当他们离开农村进入城市的时候。
B. 当心理学家离开农村进入城市的时候，他们研究了人们经历上的变化。
C. 心理学家们一直在研究人们在离开农村进入到城市时所经历的变化。
D. 心理学家，从农村到城市，一直在研究人们所经历的各种变化。

[单项选择]With increasing awareness of the environment，people have realized that the way coal is used is critical and new approaches have to be sought．（）
A. 尽管环境意识提高了，人们认为使用煤炭仍然是重要的，并且已经找到了新的方法。
B. 随着环境意识的增强，人们认识到使用煤炭的方法应该受到批评，必须寻求新的途径。
C. 随着环境意识的日益增强，人们认识到如何使用煤炭至关重要，因而得寻求新的方法。
D. 尽管人们对环境越来越了解，他们也认识到使用煤炭应该受到批评，但要寻找到新的能源才行。

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Culture shock is an occupational disease for people who have been suddenly transplanted abroad. Like most illnesses, it has its Own symptoms and cure. Culture shock is caused by the anxiety that results from losing all familiar signs and symbols of social intercourse. These signs include the thousand and one ways in which we orient ourselves to the situation of daily life: when to shake hands and what to say when we meet people, when and how to give tips, how to make purchases, when to accept and refuse invitations, when to take statements seriously and when not. These signs, which may be words, gestures, facial expressions, or customs, are acquired by all of us in the course of growing up and as much a part of our culture as the language we speak or the beliefs we accept. All of us depend for our space of mind and our efficiency on hundreds of these signs, most of which we do not carry on the level of conscious awareness. Now when an individual enters a strange culture, all or m
A. they soon adapt themselves to the new culture environment
B. they try to avoid culture shock
C. they feel lost in strange surroundings
D. they become seriously ill

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The hotel manager became suspicious of those people who were loitering in the lobby.（）

A. bustling
B. chatting
C. meddling
D. loafing

[单项选择]Social etiquette in the United States allows people to ______.
A. be a few minutes late for interviews
B. be up to a half-hour late for some parties
C. keep a friend waiting for less than 30 minutes
D. come a few minutes earlier to any appointment

[单项选择]Anna Douglas understands the problems of old people ________.
A. because she likes their music
B. because she has grandchildren
C. because she watches their television programs
D. because she is old herself

[单项选择]Different ways of life exist among different peoples because of______.
A. their adaptive value
B. their distinctive value
C. lack of better technology
D. mutual isolation

[单项选择]According to the author, by interacting with people who study liberal arts, engineering students can ______.
A. broaden their horizons
B. become noble idealists
C. receive guidance in their careers
D. balance engineering and the liberal arts

[单项选择]Great efforts should be made to inform young people of the consequences of taking up smoking（）
A. 年轻人养成吸烟习惯将会对他们造成很大的影响。
B. 年轻人吸烟的严重后果应该努力去克服。
C. 使年轻人明白吸烟带来的危害应该被付出极大的努力。
D. (我们)应该尽最大努力告诫年轻人吸烟的危害性。

[单项选择]What does Williams really want to tell young people
A. There are too many rules in gangs now.
B. Most of the gang members have gone to prison.
C. Gangs are always in danger.
D. Gangs cannot change their lives.

[单项选择]The researchers found the age at which young people first fall ______ to bullies seems to determine how much it affects them.
A. sacrifice
B. short
C. witness
D. victim