[单项选择]Since the most commonly accepted test is the TOEVL exam, most institutions will expect a ______ TOEFL score for admission.
A. minimal
B. maximal
C. mimimum
D. maximum

[单项选择]Since the most commonly accepted test is the TOEVL exam, most institutions will expect a ______ TOEFL score for admission.


A. minimal
B. maximal
C. mimimum
D. maximum

[单项选择]Since the most commonly accepted test is the TOEFL exam, most institutions will expect a _________ TOEFL score for admission.
A. minimal
B. maximal
C. mimimum
D. maximum

[单项选择]We know that the statement commonly accepted when the first edition of this book was printed, ______ life was altogether absent in the deepest parts of the sea, is not true.
A. in which
B. that
C. how
D. whose

[单项选择]It is commonly accepted in American society that too much sleep is______.
A. unreasonable
B. criminal
C. harmful
D. costly

[单项选择]What was the most difficult test of her ability
A. To read through glass-blindfolded.
B. To identify the colour and shape of light on a screen while securely blindfolded.
C. To carry out tasks with someone pressing on her eyeballs.
D. To work from behind a screen, blindfolded and with a card round her neck.

[单项选择]Since most, if not all, learning occurs through （）, relating one observation to another, it would be strange indeed if the study of other cultures did not also illuminate the study of our own.
A. assumptions
B. experiments
C. comparisons
D. repetitions

[单项选择]Since most doctors are ______ about effectiveness of the new medicine, they seldom recommend it to their patients.
A. anxious
B. dubious
C. cynical
D. innocent

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Passage Three The intelligence test used most often today are based on the work of a Frenchman, Alfred Bi net. In 1905, Binet was asked by the French Ministry of Education to develop a way to identify those children in French schools who were too "mentally deficient (不足的)" to benefit from ordinary schooling and who needed special education. The tests had to distinguish those who were merely be hind in school from those who were actually mentally deficient. The items that Binet and his colleague Theophile Simon included on the test were chosen on the basis of their ideas about intelligence. Binet and Simon believed intelligence includes such abilities as understanding the meaning of words; solving problems, and making commonsense judgements. Two other important assumptions also shaped Binet’ s and Simon’ s work. (1) that children with more intelligence will do better in school and (2) that older children have a greater ability than younger children. Bi
A. Intelligence includes word understanding and problem solving.
B. More intelligent children usually do better in school.
C. The French Ministry of Education was charged with the development of first intelligence tests.
D. Intelligence is related with age.

[单项选择]Since the Second World War, most urban growth in the United States has occurred ______ of existing metropolitan areas.
A. on the outskirts
B. on the outskirt
C. on outskirts
D. on outskirt