[单项选择]In the first test of the election year, ______.

[单项选择]The first-year students were learning from the army in Miyun, a suburb of Beijing near ______ I lived.
A. what
B. where
C. that
D. which

[单项选择]They first-year students were learning from the army in Miyun, a suburb of Beijing near ______ I lived.
A. what
B. where
C. that
D. which

[单项选择]To a first-year student, the doctoral degree is a distant______
A. aspect
B. respect
C. prospect
D. spectacle

[单项选择]The first-year students at college normally ______ in age from 17 to 20 years old.
A. vary
B. differ
C. range
D. alternate

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Text 2 This election year, the debate over cloning technology has become a circus—and hardly anybody has noticed the gorilla hiding in the tent. Even while President Bush has, endorsed throwing scientists in jail to stop "reckless experiments", it’s just possible the First Amendment will protect researchers who want to perform cloning research. Dr. Leon Kass, the chairman of the President’s Council on Bioethics, would like to keep that a secret. "I don’t want to encourage such thinking," he said. But the notion that the First Amendment creates a "right to research" has been around for a long time, and Kass knows it. In 1977, four eminent legal scholars—Thomas Emerson, Jerome Barton, Walter Berns and Harold P. Green—were asked to testify before the House Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space. At the time, there was alarm in the country over recombinant DNA. Some people feared clones, designer babies,
A. D．recombinant DN

[单项选择]Filled with______, the first-year journalism student is something of______in the search for truth, an endeavor he will only master with time.
A. (A) ardor … a mendicant
B. (B) conscience … a seer
C. (C) incertitude … a neophyte
D. (D) mettle … an idolater
E. (E) confidence … a prelate

[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]During their first teacher training year, the students often visited schools for the ______ of lessons.
A. observation
B. investigation
C. inspection
D. examination

[单项选择]The first year of the college life is a very complex ______ period, and the more fully the freshmen prepare for it, the better.
A. transmission
B. transposition
C. transformation
D. transition

[单项选择]Her first year at school away from home, she suffered {{U}}qualms{{/U}} of homesickness.
A. quakes
B. regrets
C. lapses
D. pangs

[单项选择]In my first year at the university I learnt the ______ of journalism.
A. basics
B. basic
C. elementary
D. elements

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Passage 2 In the first year or so of Web business, most of the action has revolved around efforts to tap the consumer market. More recently, as the Web proved to be more than a fashion, companies have started to buy and sell products and services with one another. Such business-to-business sales make sense because business people typically know what product they’re looking for. Nonetheless, many companies still hesitate to use the Web because of doubts about its reliability. "Businesses need to feel they can trust the pathway between them and the supplier," says senior analyst Blanc Erwin of Forrester Research. Some companies are limiting the risk by conducting online transactions only with established business partners who are given access to the company’s private intranet. Another major shift in the model for Internet commerce concerns the technology available for marketing. Until recently, Internet marketing activities have focused on strategies to
A. there should be no marketing messages in online culture
B. money making should be given priority to on the Web
C. the Web should be able to function as the television set
D. there should be no online commercial information without requests