[单项选择]The young inventor wants to take out a ________ on his new type of printing machine.
A. privilege
B. precaution
C. patent
D. monopoly

[单项选择]The dentist has decided to {{U}}take out{{/U}} the girl's bad tooth.
A. dig
B. draw
C. pull
D. extract

[单项选择]He inspired many young people to take up the sport


A. encouraged
B. allowed
C. called
D. advised

[单项选择]By saying that "Nobody wants to throw out the baby with the bath water" (Line 1, Paragraph 3), the author implies that
A. no terrorists can be caught if the legislation is unclear.
B. secret trials would destroy both public faith and terrorists.
C. nobody wants to offer "minor players" some immunity.
D. we should not try terrorists in secret.

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Passage 3
Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also ex plain that there’ s a big difference between "being a writer" and writing. In most cases these individuals are dreaming of wealth and fame, not the long hours alone at a typewriter. "You’ ye got to want to write," I say to them, "not want to be a writer."
The reality is that writing is a lonely, private and poor-paying affair. For every writer kissed by for tune there are thousands more whose longing is never rewarded. When ! left a 20-year career in the U. S. Coast Guard to become a freelance writer (自由撰稿人), I had no prospects at all. What I did have was a friend who found me my room in a New York apartment building. It didn’ t even matter that it was cold and had no bathroom. I immediately bought a used manual typewriter and felt like a genuine writer.
After a year or so, however, I still had
A. who think too much of the dark side of life
B. who regret giving up their career halfway
C. who think a lot without making a decision
D. who are full of imagination even upon death

[单项选择]Mr Li wants to find out what day it is the day after National Day. Please help him find it out. It is ______.
A. Friday
B. Monday
C. Saturday
D. Sunday

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Passage 3 Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also ex plain that there’ s a big difference between "being a writer" and writing. In most cases these individuals are dreaming of wealth and fame, not the long hours alone at a typewriter. "You’ ye got to want to write," I say to them, "not want to be a writer." The reality is that writing is a lonely, private and poor-paying affair. For every writer kissed by for tune there are thousands more whose longing is never rewarded. When ! left a 20-year career in the U. S. Coast Guard to become a freelance writer (自由撰稿人), I had no prospects at all. What I did have was a friend who found me my room in a New York apartment building. It didn’ t even matter that it was cold and had no bathroom. I immediately bought a used manual typewriter and felt like a genuine writer. After a year or so, however, I still hadn’ t gotten a brea
A. He wasn't able to produce a single book.
B. He hadn't seen a change for the better.
C. He wasn't able to have a rest for a whole year
D. He found his dream would never come true.