[单项选择]The_______of living has kept rising in recent years.
A. expense
B. cost
C. price
D. bill

[单项选择]The ______ of living has kept rising in recent years.
A. expense
B. cost
C. price
D. bill

[单项选择]In recent years there has been a ______ increase in the cost of living; many families have to depend on the federal aids.
A. ponderous
B. powerful
C. significant
D. violent

[单项选择]A year has______ and there is no sign of situation getting any better.
A. emerged
B. enclosed
C. elapsed
D. expended

[单项选择]In recent years, there has been a marked increase in the number of technical terms in the terminology of ______.
A. fanning
B. sports
C. government
D. fishery

[单项选择]The honest journalist has kept investigating that high rank official for a long time, and he felt very happy when that fellow's corrupt scandal ______ at last.
A. got to light
B. stood in light
C. came to light
D. looked in light

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Text 2 In recent years, Microsoft has focused on three big tasks, building robust security into its software, resolving numerous antitrust complaints against it and upgrading its Windows operating system. These three tasks are now starting to collide. On August 27th the firm said that the successor to its Windows XP operating system, code-named Longhorn, will go on sale in 2007 without one of its most impressive features: a technique to integrate elaborate search capabilities into nearly all desktop applications. (On the bright side, Longhorn will contain advances in rendering images and enabling different computing platforms to exchange data directly between applications. ) It is a big setback for Microsoft, which considers search technology a pillar of its future growth—not least as it competes against Google. The firm’s focus on security—championed by ]Bill Gates himself—took resources away from Longhorn, admits Greg Sullivan, a lead product mana
A. viruses and regulators are invariably aimed at Windows
B. Microsoft both benefits and suffers from its huge success
C. European Union's inquiry into the acquisition is ungrounded
D. punishments imposed on Windows are mostly justified

[单项选择]In recent years，China has been working hard and creatively at evolving a system that works for China at this period of its history and this stage of its development．
A. 最近几年，中国一直在进行艰苦的、创造性的努力，旨在建立一个适合中国当前历史时期和发展阶段的制度。
B. 最近几年，中国创造性的制度很难起到作用，尤其是在当前的历史时期和目前的发展阶段。
C. 最近几年，中国正在努力工作，创造性地建立了一个适合当前历史时期和发展的制度。
D. 最近几年，中国人民一直在努力工作，创造性地建立了一个适合当前历史时期和发展的制度。

[单项选择]His ______ has changed but he has kept the fine qualities of a scientific re- searcher.
A. state
B. status
C. station
D. statue