[单项选择]Accidents and exhaustion may force more than half the cyclists to drop out before reaching the ______.
A. dead line
B. end line
C. finish line
D. finishing line

[单项选择]Accidents and exhaustion may force more than half the cyclists to drop out before reaching the ______.
A. dead line
B. end line
C. finish line
D. finishing line

[单项选择]After exploring for more than half a year the ecologist felt a great ______ resulting from the rare species the team had spotted at the foot of the mountain.
A. thrill
B. tremble
C. lust
D. thrift

[单项选择]The fruit （） more than half the country' s armual exports according to a recent report.
A. accounts for
B. stands for
C. provides for
D. makes for

[单项选择]—It took them more than half an hour to work out the chemistry problem. —Really It（）be an easy one.
A. can't
B. needn't
C. mustn't
D. won't

[单项选择]More than half of the men surveyed were ______.
A. farmers
B. old people
C. smokers
D. experts

[单项选择]The same one word may have more than one meaning. This is what we call ______.
A. synonymy
B. homonymy
C. polysemy
D. antonymy

[单项选择]Less than half of the original population in Bam was ______.
A. dead
B. injured
C. missing
D. left

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Humanity uses a little less than half the water available worldwide. Yet occurrences of shortages and droughts (干旱) are causing famine and distress in some areas, and industrial and agricultural by-products are polluting water supplies. Since the world’s population is expected to double in the next 50 years, many experts think we are on the edge of a widespread water crisis.
But that doesn’t have to be the outcome. Water shortages do not have to trouble the world -- if we start valuing water more than we have in the past. Just as we began to appreciate petroleum more after the 1970s oil crises, today we must start looking at water from a fresh economic perspective. We can no longer afford to consider water a virtually free resource of which we can use as much as we like in any way we want.
Instead, for all uses except the domestic demand of the poor, governments should price water to reflect its actual value. This means charging a fee for the water its
A. Only half of the world's water can be used.
B. The world population is increasing faster and faster.
C. Half of the world's water resources have been seriously polluted.
D. Humanity has not placed efficient value on water resources.

[单项选择]Expenditure may be seen as no more than an ______ of forecast profits.
A. allocation
B. appropriation
C. income
D. expanding

[单项选择]XP may contain more than just X. Phrases that are formed of more than one word usually contain head, ______and complement. ( )
A. modifier
B. determiner
C. qualifier
D. specifier

[单项选择]They ______ at the hotel in less than half an hour after their arrival at the airport.
A. checked out
B. checked on
C. checked up
D. checked in

[单项选择]Television advertisements do more than merely reflect dominant ideologies.
A. exactly
B. faithfully
C. repeatedly
D. simply

[单项选择]The Smithsonian Institution preserves more than sixty-five million items of scientific, historical, or artistic interest, _________ winning the popular title, "attic of the nation".
A. however
B. thus
C. and
D. moreover