[单项选择]Hundreds of years ago, people went to visit theft friends on foot.

[单项选择]Hundreds of years ago, people went to visit theft friends on foot.


A. Right.
B. Wrong.
C. Doesn’t say.

[单项选择]It was two years ago（）she went to teach in the mountains, and we have never seen her since then.
A. when
B. before
C. that
D. after

[单项选择]It was two years ago ______ she went to teach in the mountains, and we have never seen her since then.
A. when
B. before
C. that
D. after

[单项选择]An international treaty signed several years ago bans trade in plants and animal of endangered species.
A. forbids
B. eliminates
C. promotes
D. protects

[单项选择]As the years went by, Kingsley's letters displayed him declining into a constant of aesthetic intolerance; he displayed ------- dislike of any serious contemporary literature at all.
A. (A) a bibulous
B. (B) an incipient
C. (C) a subtle
D. (D) a tasteless
E. (E) a querulous

[单项选择]Fifty years ago, wealthy people liked hunting wild animals for fun______sightseeing.
A. than to go
B. rather than to go
C. more than going
D. other than going

[单项选择]But the Swiss discovered long years ago that constant warfare brought them _________ suffering and poverty.


A. anything but
B. nothing but
C. none other that
D. no more than

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Passage Two
Some years ago industries had more freedom than they have now, and they did not need to be as careful as they must today. They did not need to worry a lot about the safety of the new products that they developed. They did not have to pay much attention to the health and safety of the people who worked for them. Often new products were dangerous for the people who used them; often conditions in the work place had very bad effects on the health of the workers.
Of course sometimes there were real disasters which attracted the attention of governments and which showed need for changes. Also scientists who were doing research into the health of workers sometimes produced information which governments could not ignore. At such times, there were inquiries into the causes of the disaster or the problems. New safety rules were often introduced as a result of these inquiries; however, the new rule; came too late to protect the people who died or who becam
A. testing new products
B. designing new products
C. controlling the sale of product
D. inspecting work places

[单项选择]Who won the Nobel Peace Prize two years ago


A. A Norwegian judge.
B. An Iranian writer.
C. An Iranian lawyer.
D. An Egyptian official.