[单项选择]For over a million years, our forefathers were basically ______.
A. successful farmers
B. co-operating hunters
C. runners and jumpers
D. skillful sportsmen

[单项选择]For over a million years, our forefathers were basically ______.
A. successful farmers
B. co-operating hunters
C. runners and jumpers
D. skillful sportsmen

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Passage One
Years ago our cities were full of cars, buses and trucks. Now the streets are completely congested (拥挤的) and it is very difficult to drive a car along them. Drivers must stop at hundreds of traffic lights. What are our cities going to be like in ten or twenty years Will enormous (巨大的) motorways be built across them With big motorways cutting across them, full of noisy, dirty cars and lorries, our cities are going to be awful places. How can we solve the problem
There are some good ideas to reduce the use of private cars. In 1989, for example, the authorities in Rome began an interesting experiment: passengers on the city buses did not have to pay for their tickets.
In Stockholm there was another experiment: people paid very little for a season ticket to travel on any bus, trolley bus, train or tram in all the city.
In many cities now some streets are closed to vehicles, and pedestrians are safe there.
In London there is a
A. London.
B. Rome.
C. Paris.
D. Stockholm.

[单项选择]For many years they were able to produce and sell their goods more cheaply than other nations and this gave them a______ advantage in world trade.
A. considerate
B. considerable
C. convenient
D. conservative

[单项选择]Forty years ago people were indifferent to the health of the ocean because ______.

[单项选择]Thousands of years ago people were forced to leave their homeland because ______.
A. the earth was in an ice age
B. they found their homeland getting colder
C. huge sheets of ice were spreading over the land
D. they had to stay near the animals they hunted for food

[单项选择]Hundreds of years ago cloves were used to remedy headaches.
A. disrupt
B. diagnose
C. evaporate
D. cure

[单项选择]She often thinks that her six years in Italy were wasted, ________she________ that time learning more Italian.
A. but that; might have taken
B. for that; should have found
C. in that; could have spent
D. with that; would have used

[单项选择]While we were visiting our navy , the soldiers took us twice ______ in the open sea.
A. gliding
B. cruising
C. piloting
D. patrolling

[单项选择]Hundreds of years ago cloves were used to {{U}}remedy{{/U}} headaches.
A. disrupt
B. diagnose
C. evaporate
D. cure