[单项选择]The fashion designs this year show a great deal of __________, especially in the attempts to use new materials.
A. fascination
B. enlightenment
C. contention
D. originality

[单项选择]She traveled a great deal（）
A. so most of her friends did
B. as did most of her friends
C. most of her friends did so
D. most of her friends did it

[单项选择]Jane (had) a great (deal of) trouble (to concentrate on) her study (because of) the noise in the next room.
A. had
B. deal of
C. to concentrate on
D. because of

[单项选择]Advertising helps a great deal to improve the standard of living.
A. 广告在提高人们生活水平方面起了很大的作用。
B. 广告提高了人们的生活标准。
C. 生活水平改善了广告的标准。
D. 广告帮助了很多人提高了生活水平。

[单项选择]The design of this architecture shows a great deal of ______ We have never seen a building of such a type before.
A. conventionality
B. Originality
C. formulation
D. fascination

[单项选择]When a great deal of word processing is carried out, standard letters and documents can be stored at once.
A. broken
B. outdated
C. carried back
D. performed

[单项选择]The indoor swimming pool seems to be a great deal more luxurious than ______ .
A. is necessary
B. being necessary
C. to be necessary
D. it is necessary

[单项选择]She had read a great deal about Professor King and she felt very excited at the _______ of meeting him.
A. prospect
B. prediction
C. prosperity
D. permission

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Managers spend a great deal of their time in meetings. According to Henry Mintzberg, in his book, The Nature of Managerial Work, managers in large organizations spend only 22% of their time on meetings. So what are the managers doing in those meetings There have conventionally been two answers. The first is the academic version: Managers are coordinating and controlling, making decisions, solving problems and planning. This interpretation has been largely discredited because it ignores the social and political forces at work in meetings. The second version claims that meetings provide little more than strategic sites for corporate gladiators to perform before the organizational emperors. This perspective is far more attractive, and has given rise to a large, and often humorous, body of literature on gamesmanship and posturing in meetings. It is, of course, true that meeting rooms serve as shop windows for managerial talent, but this is far from the truth as a whole. The suggestio
A. They provide a clear history of the firm and its evolution.
B. They concentrate scattered memos and directives in One synthetic document.
C. They reflect decision-making and control over company life.
D. They record any individual disagreements with company decisions.

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Passage 2 A great deal of attention is being paid today to the so-called digital divide -- the division of the world into the info(information) rich and the info poor. And that divide does exist today. My wife and I lectured about this looming danger twenty years ago. What was less visible then, however, were the new, positive forces that work against the digital divide. There are reasons to be optimistic. There are technological reasons to hope the digital divide will narrow. As the Internet becomes more and mere commercialized, it is in the interest of business to universalize access -- after all, the more people online, the more potential customers there are. More and more governments, afraid their countries will be left behind, want to spread Internet access. Within the next decade or two, one to two billion people on the planet will be netted together. As a result, I now believe the digital divide will narrow rather than widen in the years ahead. And that is very good
A. providing financial support overseas
B. preventing foreign capital's control
C. building industrial infrastructure
D. accepting foreign investment