[单项选择]Thick clouds {{U}}obscured{{/U}} the stars from view.
A. darkened
B. held
C. blackened
D. prevent

[单项选择]Thick clouds {{U}}obscured{{/U}} the stars from view.
A. darkened
B. held
C. blackened
D. prevent

[单项选择]It is the Party ______ has been leading us from victory to victory.
A. since
B. which
C. who
D. that

[单项选择]______ is a slightly sour thick liquid made from milk with bacteria added to it, sometimes sweetened and flavored with fruit and sometimes eaten plain.
A. Yen
B. Yankee
C. Yogurt
D. Yoga

[单项选择]It may be inferred from the meeting of Bush and Vicente Fox that ______.
A. Mexico has a negative attitude towards the new program of the U.S.
B. the two presidents met regularly in the Mexican city of Monterrey
C. Bush desires to discuss the issues of foreign workers with Fox
D. the announcement would improve the relations of two countries

[单项选择]Red giant stars do not become white dwarf stars {{U}}abruptly{{/U}}; the process takes more than fifteen hundred years.
A. suddenly
B. in unison
C. prematurely
D. accidentally

[单项选择]Mary her thick coat because it was snowing.
A. put back
B. put on
C. put away
D. put aside

[单项选择]— The water changes into thick ice covering rivers and lakes in winter in Harbin.
— ______ in Urumqi and children go skating on it then.
A. So is it
B. So it does
C. So it is
D. So does it

[单项选择]A client hospitalized with pneumonia has thick, tenacious secretions. To help liquefy these secretions, the nurse should （）.
A. turn the client every 2 hours.
B. elevate the head of the bed 30 degrees.
C. encourage increased fluid intake.
D. maintain a cool room temperature.

[单项选择]The trees in that thick forest are so close together that there is hardly any room to move ______ them.
A. between
B. in
C. among
D. across

[单项选择]They have gone through thick and thin together, and time will never cause their friendship to___________.
A. decline
B. decrease
C. diminish
D. recede

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Text 4
As thick-skinned elected officials go, FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter is right up there with Bill Clinton. The chief of the Zurich-based group that oversees World Cup soccer hasn’t been accused of groping any interns, but that’s about all he hasn’t been accused of. Vote buying, mismanagement, cronyism -- and that’s just for starters. Yet the 66- year-old Swiss shows no sign of abandoning his campaign for a second four-year term.
Blatter, a geek of dispensing FIFA’S hundreds of million in annual revenue to inspire loyalty, even stands a good chance of reelection. At least he did. Since mid-March, he has seen a credible challenger emerge in Issa Hayatou, president of the African Football Confederation. Hayatou, a 55-year-old from Cameroon, leads a group of FIFA reformers that also includes FIFA Vice-President Lennart Johansson, a Swede who lost the presidential election Blatter in 1998. These contenders’ mission: t
A. slight support.
B. high appreciation.
C. strong contempt.
D. reserved consent.

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Text 3
As thick-skinned elected officials go, FIFA President Joseph S. Blotter is right up there with Bill Clinton. The chief of the Zurich-based group that oversees World Cup Soccer hasn’t been accused of groping any interns, but that’s about all he hasn’t been accused of. Vote buying, mismanagement, cronyism-and that’s just for starters. Yet the 66-yearold Swiss shows no sign of abandoning his campaign for a second four-year term.
Blatter, a geek of dispensing FIFA’s hundreds of million in annual revenue to inspire loyalty, even stands a good chance of reelection. At least he did. Since mid-March, he has seen a credible challenger emerge in Issa Hayatou, president of the African Football Confederation. Hayatou, a 55-year-old from Cameroon, leads a group of FIFA reformers that also includes FIFA Vice-President Lennart Johansson, a Swede who lost the presidential election to Blatter in 1998. These contenders’ mission: to
A. sports scandals are inevitable for the sake of competition.
B. the rebels who put Blatter under fire will have him by throat.
C. all accusations against Blatter will end up with failures.
D. the rebels could discourage Blatter's bid for a new term