[单项选择]Many of the ships (went down) with valuable treasure; but none of them (has made) great treasure tales. (As) a good wine, treasure is improved (by age).
A. went down
B. has made
C. As
D. by age

[单项选择]Sales went down （） difficult trading conditions.
A. because
B. thanks to
C. since
D. due to

[单项选择]The author shows that cattle prices went down as the result of
A. a drop in demand for cattle
B. the mass sell-off of cattle futures
C. big commercial feedlots selling their cattle
D. people selling their cattle to cover their losses

[单项选择]Production went down______ morale was low.
A. (A) even though
B. (B) when
C. (C) but
D. (D) to

[单项选择]The car___________ speed as it went down the hill.
A. increased
B. won
C. obtained
D. gained

[单项选择]My car broke down this morning, so I went to work ______ foot.

[单项选择]The reason why many big hotels are being torn down is that ______.
A. they are losing their competition to motels
B. people need the materials to build small motels
C. it costs too much money to stay in a hotel
D. cities are usually short of land for building motels

[单项选择]Walt Whitman wrote down a great many poems to air his sorrow for the death of President ______, and one of the famous is “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’ d. ”
A. Washington
B. Lincoln
C. Franklin
D. Kennedy

[单项选择]On a Windows screen, there will roll down many more buttons when you hit the "Tools" button.
A. cast
B. caste
C. cascade
D. cataract

[单项选择]A good many houses ______ knocked down by the earthquake.
A. was
B. were
C. is
D. are

[单项选择]Which service is NOT provided on some ships
A. Fully- equipped health spa.
B. Fitness classes.
C. Rock climbing wall.
D. Sumptuous midnight buffets.

[单项选择]Scarcely had I went home ______ he went out.
A. when
B. than
C. while
D. as

[单项选择](While) some pirate ships deprived early American colonists of (many) needed supplies, (others) smuggled in goods, subverted(破坏) British taxes, and (help) in the Revolutionary War.
A. While
B. many
C. others
D. help

[单项选择]Ships traveling in the North Atlantic during the winter must be constantly watchful to avoid icebergs, large masses of ice ______ only one-ninth is visible above water.
A. so that
B. in that
C. which
D. of which

[单项选择]It was difficult to see ships in the distance because of the {{U}}fog{{/U}}.
A. sweat
B. haze
C. dew
D. frost

[单项选择]Almost 300 ships arrived in Victoria in 1852, bringing 100,000 people ______ gold to the colony at the rate of 200'0 a week.
A. in search of
B. in the search of
C. searching of
D. in search for

[单项选择]Last year, these ships transported a total of 80 million tons of cargo, a 4.4 percent increase _____ the precious year.
A. by
B. over
C. with
D. to

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Text 3 One of the oldest seafaring ships in the world has been reconstructed after seven years’ patient archaeological work. The ship, a 60- foot sailing vessel, sank off the coast of Cyprus in the days of Alexander the Great around the year 300 B.C. Its discovery and restoration have now thrown new light on the ancient trade routes and shipbuilding techniques. What makes the Cyprus ship so informative is the remarkable state of preservation--mainly due to an unusual feature of its design. The hull was sheathed on the outside with lead that was fixed to the timber with bronze tacks which helped the wooden frame survive 2000 years under the sea. The first clue to the wreck’s existence came in’ 1964 when a sponge diver from the present- day resort of Kyrenia came across a pole of amphorae (ancient storage jugs). Unfortunately his diving air supply ran out just at that moment, so that he had no time to mark the spot. It took him three years and hundreds of d
A. the oldest surviving ship it is a valuable source of information
B. it is a useful means of extending their existing knowledge
C. its discovery has changed completely their existing ideas
D. this provides the only information about early Mediterranean trading ships that has come their way