[单项选择]Scientists, like other people, are always pleased to have their own ideas ______.
A. validating
B. to be validated
C. validated
D. being validated

[单项选择]Scientists, like other people, are always pleased to have their own ideas ______.
A. validating
B. to be validated
C. validated
D. being validated

[单项选择]People always greet each other warmly, ______ their different origins and briefs.
A. in regard to
B. in contrast with
C. with respect to
D. regardless of

[单项选择]People always greet each other warmly, _______ their different origins and beliefs.
A. in regard to
B. in contrast with
C. with respect to
D. regardless of

[单项选择]People do not like such persons who are always ______ the way of others.
A. on
B. by
C. in
D. behind

[单项选择]Wben buying racehorses, people always give priority ______ good pedigrees.
A. in
B. for
C. at
D. to

[单项选择]Common people always believe that the president excels at both______ and international matters.
A. alien
B. domestic
C. dominant
D. overseas

[单项选择]Young people always complain, more or less justly, that their parents are out of ______ with modern ways.
A. link
B. connection
C. association
D. touch

[单项选择]What do people always make when they hold the Olympic Games

[单项选择]Why do people always try and use as few words as possible when they cable Because ______.
A. more words cost more money
B. they think it unnecessary to use "little words"
C. few words can make everything clear
D. they hate to use auxiliary verbs like "do, does, are,is," and so on

[单项选择]Most people did not like impressionistic painting ______.
A. before 1920
B. between 1920 and 1930
C. between 1930 and 1950
D. after 1950

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Passage Three
Some people do not like anything to be out of place; they are never late for work; they return their books on time to the library; they remember people’s birthdays; and they pay their bills as soon as they arrive. Mr. Hill is such a man.
Mr. Hill works in a bank, and lives alone. The only family he has is in the next town: his sister lives there with her husband, and her son, Jack. Mr. Hill does not see his sister, or her family, from one year to the next, but he sends them Christmas cards, and he has not forgotten one of Jack’s seventeen birthdays.
Last week Mr. Hill had quite a surprise. He drove home from the bank at the usual time, driving neither too slowly nor too fast; he parked his car where he always parked it ,out of the way of other cars, and he went inside to make his evening meal. Just then, there was a knock at the door. He opened the door, to find a policeman standing on the door-step.
"What have
A. hardly sees his sister
B. sees his sister only at Christmas time
C. sees his sister on Jack's birthday
D. always sees his sister