[单项选择]The thieves ______ the possibility of the alarm system sounding
A. overtook
B. overcame
C. overlooked
D. overworked

[单项选择]The robbers ______ the possibility of the alarm system sounding.
A. overtook
B. overflowed
C. overcame
D. overlooked

[单项选择]The thieves ________ the possibility of the alarm system sounding.
A. overtook
B. overcame
C. overlooked
D. overworked

[单项选择]In the past, people did not have security alarm systems installed in their homes, because ______.
A. security alarm systems were not safe at all
B. security alarm systems were easy to break down
C. security alarm systems were not available
D. security alarm systems required complicated wiring techniques, individualized design, and sometimes lots of carpentry

[单项选择]The body thieves contributed in their gruesome way to
A. medical advancement.
B. legal progress.
C. social stability.
D. material wealth.

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Passage Two
There Student thieves look out. Students can easily get many research papers off the Internet. A new Web site could help teachers catch copiers.
Some students research and write their term papers. Others, however, just copy them off the Internet and turn them in as their work.
Two graduate students at the University of California at Berkeley have written a program to catch the students who copy. It compares a student’s paper with every other term paper on the Web.
A hundred million Web pages on the Internet are searched. The top 20 search engines are used for the search. This service can be found at www. plagiarism, com. They also have a local data base of term papers.
Teachers who sign up can send their students’ papers to the Web site. Within 24 hours they know if the student did the work.
Every sentence that was a word-for-word match with another sentence either found on the Internet or within our d
A. they ask other teachers to read their students' papers
B. they ask their students to list their sources of information
C. they can sign up for the Internet service
D. they search the Internet and compare papers

[单项选择]The thieves fled with the local police close on their ______.
A. backs
B. necks
C. toes
D. heels

[单项选择]The two thieves took it for granted that the whole ______ was out because it was silent in the whole house.
A. household
B. inherits
C. dwellers
D. inhabitants

[单项选择]Where did one of the thieves go to do the stealing.'
A. To the village.
B. To the country.
C. To the city.
D. To the town.

[单项选择]Finding the police's coming, all the thieves ran away ______ all directions.
A. on
B. in
C. from
D. to

[单项选择]The conference explored the possibility of closer trade links.
A. rejected
B. investigated
C. proposed
D. postponed

[单项选择]The advertisement says that most thieves______.
A. prefer stealing from offices
B. like causing a lot of damage
C. will break in anywhere they want to
D. are discouraged by good security arrangements

[单项选择]The police excluded the possibility of revenge by eBay customers after ______.


A. the bodies were found
B. the gun was discovered
C. the gun was analyzed
D. Neil was found in London

[单项选择]According to Christopher McKay, the possibility of transforming Mars______.


A. could occur only in science fiction stories
B. will not begin for hundreds, even thousands, of years
C. is completely impractical
D. could be started in 40 to 50 years

[单项选择]There is the possibility that setting maximum rent may ______.
A. cause a shortage of apartments
B. worry those who rent apartments as homes
C. increase the profits of landlords
D. encourage landlords to invest in building apartment