[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

[单项选择]Communication orally involves more than reading or talking: gesture, posture, movements may all be ______ to it.
A. intrinsic
B. coherent
C. appealing
D. submissive

[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]Communicating orally involves more than reading or talking: gesture, posture, movements may all be ______ to it.
A. intrinsic
B. coherent
C. appealing
D. submissive

[单项选择]Victoria likes competitions more than anything else.

[单项选择]Changing fashions are nothing more than the intentional creation of waste．（）
A. 不断变换的时尚潮流只不过是在刻意地制造浪费。
B. 变化的时尚潮流不仅仅是在有意创造浪费。
C. 变化的时尚潮流更多地是在国际上鼓励浪费。
D. 不断变换的时尚潮流更多地是在有意制造浪费。

[单项选择]Changing fashions arc nothing more than the intentional creation of waste.
A. 不断变换的时尚潮流只不过是在刻意地制造浪费。
B. 变化的时尚潮流不仅仅是在有意创造浪费。
C. 变化的时尚潮流更多地是在国际上鼓励浪费。
D. 不断变换的时尚潮流更多地是在有意制造浪费。

[单项选择]More than one million Americans participated in the six-year study.

[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]Gathering of more than three persons were prohibited, supposedly in the name of______.
A. the law and the order
B. law and order
C. the order and the law
D. order and law

[单项选择]Expected noises are usually more than unexpected ones of the like magnitude.
A. vulnerable
B. controllable
C. cozy
D. tolerable

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Passage One
There are more than 100 million cars in the United States. A normal car gets less than 15 miles from each gallon of gas. It travels about 10,000 miles each year. In that time, it uses about 650 gallons of gas. In all, autos use up some 70 billion gallons of gas a year. That comes out to be four-and-a-half million barrels a day.
The importance of saving gas, then, cannot be stressed too much. Let’s say, for instance, that the fuel used by each car could be cut back just 15 percent. This could be done by making fewer trips each day. It could be done through better driving habits. If it were done, our nation’s use of fuel would fall by close to two-thirds of a million barrels per day.
We can all help save gas. One way is to ride the buses. Some of us could walk to work. We could ride mopeds(机动脚踏两用车) or bikes. Another way is to share a ride. We could join carpools (合伙使用汽车). About one-third of all cars are used for going to and fr
A. 75 miles per hour
B. 65 miles per hour
C. 55 miles per hour
D. 10 miles per hour

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Text 4
Scattered around the globe are more than 100 small regions of isolated volcanic activity known to geologists as hot spots. Unlike most of the world’ s volcanoes, they are not always found at the boundaries of the great drifting plates that make up the earth’ s surface; on the contrary, many of them lie deep in the interior of a plate. Most of the hot spots move only slowly, and in some cases the movement of the plates past them has left trails of dead volcanoes. The hot spots and their volcanic trails are milestones that mark the passage of the plates.
That the plates are moving is not beyond dispute. Africa and South America, for example, are moving away from earth other as new material is injected into the sea floor between them. The complementary coastlines and certain geological features that seem to span the ocean are reminders of where the two continents were once joined. The relative motion of the plates carrying these continents h
A. the past 30 million
B. the past 40 million
C. the past 50 million
D. the past 10 million

[单项选择]Last month more than a hundred workers were killed in the mine ______.
A. exploitation
B. explosion
C. explication
D. explosivity