[单项选择]Many people nowadays save money to ______ for their old age.
A. cater
B. supply
C. provide
D. equip

[单项选择]Many people nowadays save money to ______ for their old age.
A. cater
B. supply
C. provide
D. equip

[单项选择]Nowadays many rural people flock to the city to look for jobs on the assumption that the streets there are ________ with gold.
A. overwhelmed
B. stocked
C. paved
D. overlapped

[单项选择]Nowadays, ordinary people often think that many services are making arbitrary charges of ______.
A. fees
B. fares
C. taxes
D. duties

[单项选择]Nowadays people think that life is ______.
A. dull
B. unsafe
C. interesting
D. happy

[单项选择]Nowadays people work hard because ________.

[单项选择]Many people nowadays ______ an oath that he will never get married.
A. quote
B. swear
C. declare
D. claim

[单项选择]

Nowadays, people work longer hours than they used to, but are they really working harder than ever before Apparently, many people believe that the more time a person spends on work, (21) she or he accomplishes. However, the connection between time and (22) is not always (23) . In fact, many studies indicate that after a certain point, anyone’s productivity and creativity begin to (24) . Furthermore, it is not always easy for individuals to (25) that their performance is falling off.
Part of the problem is understandable. When (26) evaluate employees, they often consider the amount of time spent on the job (27) performance. Employees know this. Consequently, they work longer hours and (28) less vacation time than they did several years ago. Although many working people can do their job effectively during a (29) 40-hour-work week, they feel they have to spend more time on the job after normal working hours
A. regard
B. relative
C. regular
D. irregular

[单项选择]Nowadays, people rely more and more on computers to solve various kinds of problems.
A. 现在，人们越来越多地依靠计算机来解决各种难题。
B. 现在，人们更多地依赖计算机来计算出各种各样的问题。
C. 在当今时代，人们越来越多地依靠计算机来解决各种各样的问题。
D. 今天，人们依靠越来越多的计算机运算。