[填空题]The book is said to have translated into many languages（）.

[单项选择]Doctors have said that as many as 50% of patients don't take medicine ______.
A. like directed
B. to be directed
C. as directed
D. so that directed

[单项选择]In many countries, a person is said to have attained his ______ on the eighteenth birthday.
A. adult
B. age
C. grown-up
D. majority

[单项选择]Though most of the contracts have many provisions in common，each is different from the others owing to the nature of the goods．
A. 尽管大多数合同有许多共同的条款，但每个合同因商品本质的不同而有所不同。
B. 尽管大多数合同都有许多共同的规定，但每个合同由于商品属性不一，合同也各不相同。
C. 尽管大多数合同的条款有不少共同之处，但由于商品的性质不同，合同也各不相同。
D. 尽管大多数合同都提供许多供应，但每个合同因商品的自然状况不同而不同。

[单项选择]The banking systems of the world have many similarities, _________ they alsp differ, sometimes in quite material respects.
A. of which
B. in spite of
C. but
D. how

[单项选择]Why have many companies gone bankrupt in recent years
A. Inability to compete.
B. Sluggish sales.
C. Fewer exports.
D. More imports.

[单项选择]US and allied officials have said they have seen no credible evidence of civilian casualties(伤亡)from the air campaign,and they say that precision weapons are used in the strikes in an effort to （）being hurt。
A. prevent civilians on
B. prevent civilians from
C. Prevent civilians to
D. Prevent civilians in

[单项选择]We have many holidays from the end of March till the beginning of April. They are the best days for ______.
A. blade
B. coincidence
C. balcony
D. entertainment

[单项选择]Some words are hard to （） because they have many different uses.
A. express
B. explain
C. define
D. describe

[单项选择]

Text 3 Success, it is often said, has many fathers—and one of the many fathers of computing, that most successful of industries, was Charles Babbage, a 19th-century British mathematician. Exasperated by errors in the mathematical tables that were widely used as calculation aids at the time, Babbage dreamed of building a mechanical engine that could produce flawless tables automatically. But his attempts to make such a machine in the 1920s failed, and the significance of his work was only rediscovered this century. Next year, at last, the first set of printed tables should emerge from a calculating "difference engine" built to Babbage’s design. Babbage will have been vindicated. But the realization of his dream will also underscore the extent to which he was a man born ahead of his time. The effort to prove that Babbage’s designs were logically and practically sound began in 1985, when a team of researchers at the Science Museum in London set out
A. disappointment
B. indifference
C. admiration
D. approval

[单项选择]All the following complaints are said to have increased among children aged 12 to 16 EXCEPT
A. painful headache.
B. indigestion,
C. loss of memory.
D. nervousness and concentration problems.

[单项选择]The invention of the computer is said to have ushered in another revolution ______ it has greatly changed people's way of living.


A. in that
B. so that
C. as that
D. since that