[单项选择]The first American state that ended the practice of death penalty is______.
A. Pennsylvania
B. New York State
C. New Mexico
D. Arizona

[单项选择]The first American state that ended the practice of death penalty is ______.


A. Pennsylvania
B. New York State
C. New Mexico
D. Arizona

[单项选择]It is considered impolite in China to first-name one's seniors.
A. 在中国, 直呼长辈的姓被认为是不礼貌的。
B. 在中国, 给长辈起外号是不礼貌的。
C. 在中国, 直呼长辈的名字被认为是不礼貌的。
D. 在中国, 直呼领导的名字是不礼貌的。

[单项选择]It is the first of several agreements United States hopes to reach as it attempts to reduce, labor costs by $5.8 billion and ______ bankruptcy.
A. dispel
B. revert
C. transfer
D. avert

[单项选择]Which state ranks the first of all the states in America in the aspect of production
A. New York.
B. Mississippi.
C. Washington.
D. California

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Passage Two It was Ann’ s first experience of flying. She had always been afraid of heights and so was pre pared to be frightened. Only the fact that she was going to meet her son who she had not seen for three years had given her the courage to make the flight. She sat in her seat, her hands gripping its arms, her seat belt already fastened. The air hostess was talking, telling everyone what to do in case of emergency, showing them where their .life-jackets were. The plane was crowded, every seat was full. From her window seat, getting out in a hurry would be impossible, thought Ann. In any case who would want to get out of a plane in mid-air The engines began to shake--the noise increased till it was like a great rushing wind. She looked out to see the runway slip past at astonishing speed. She wanted to cry out--to stop the plane before it left the ground, but she knew she was trapped in this great roaring machine. I must scream, she told herself, and put her hand
A. she was sitting by the window
B. all the seats were in her way
C. she didn' t know where her life-jacket was
D. the other people wouldn' t want to get out

[单项选择]All of the following are the "first" in the life of Elizabeth Blackwell, except that ______.
A. she became the first female physician
B. she was the first woman surgeon
C. she founded the first hospital for women and children
D. she established the first medical school for women

[单项选择]Each individual is requested to state the ______ on which his judgments are based.
A. requirements
B. measures
C. legislations
D. criteria

[单项选择]Any person______ to leave the country must first obtain a passport.
A. who decides
B. who decide
C. who he or she decides
D. he or she decided

[单项选择]Contrasting to the first round election, the run-off election
A. experienced more violence
B. were rejected by some voters
C. went through more smoothly
D. were controlled by General Rios Montt

[单项选择]His first wife was supposed to ______ at the end of the war.
A. die
B. having died
C. dying
D. have died

[单项选择]The medical team consists of at first 10, ______ of 15 members.
A. late
B. lately
C. later
D. latter

[单项选择]Eugene O'Neil's first full length play, ______ made a great hit and won him the first Pulitzer Prize.
A. Anna Christie
B. Beyond the Horizon
C. Bound East to Cardiff
D. The long Voyage Home