[单项选择]Your correspondence and relations with Walter are known to me; ______ connected with the disappearance of Mr. Barlow.
A. so are the circumstances
B. as well as the circumstances
C. the circumstances are as well
D. as well are the circumstances

[单项选择]According to Walter Lippmann, a university should ______.
A. be interested in partisanship and special interest
B. be independent of the government financially
C. be independent of any political control or private interests
D. be sources of judgment for our politicians

[单项选择]The customer relations manager received praise for ______ handling stubborn customer complaints.
A. generally
B. dependently
C. skillfully
D. currently

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Text 2
The physicist investigating the relationship between time and space, the chemist is exploring the properties of a new substance, the biologist probing the mysteries of the continuity of life, and the anthropologist searching for human origins share a common trait curiosity. Not that nonscientists are not curious; most people possess this characteristic. The scientist, however, uses a specific method to make researches into these enigmatic problems--the scientific method.
Unfortunately, science and its method are misunderstood. The multiplication of our knowledge in medicine and technology has led to idea that science can cure all and explain all and that only enough time, money and intelligence are needed. In truth, science can’t provide all answers. In fact, many phenomena are not even subject to scientific explanations.
On the other side of the coin, science has been attacked as a cause of most contemporary problems. It is said to be
A. Science is the cause of modem problems
B. Science itself is neither good nor bad
C. Science leads to environmental pollution
D. Science causes many antisocial acts

[单项选择]The formal diplomatic relations between China and the United States were established on
A. February 28,1972.
B. January 28,1979.
C. December 16,1978.
D. January 1,1979.

[单项选择]The advocates of realist international relations tend to think that
A. potential federation will pose a challenge to US primacy.
B. Japan is a positive example for the US to follow.
C. US will maintain its staying power in information age.
D. America can go it alone in the fight against terrorism.

[单项选择]Finnish President said Finland-China relations had progressed ______ with fruitful co-operation in new and high-tech fields.


A. peacefully
B. highly
C. quietly
D. smoothly

[单项选择]What's the relations between the speakers


A. Friends.
B. Colleagues.
C. Husband and wife.
D. Landlord and tenant.

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Relations between the United States and Colombia suffered for many years because of an incident involving the Republic of Panama. By the en& of the Spanish-American War, Americans felt that an easier and faster: way was needed to ,get ships, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. Some people in the United States first believed that a canal across Nicaragua was the answer. However, President Theodore Roosevelt decided that a canal through Panama would be a better choice, In order to build the canal, the United States had to negotiate a treaty with Colombia, which at that time controlled Panama. Roosevelt offered Colombia, $10 million plus $ 250,000 a year for 99 years for a six-miles-wide strip of land across Panama. Colombia rejected the United States’offer. This angered President Roosevelt, and negotiations with Colombia, ended. In 1903，a revolution broke out in Panama. United States ships were sent by President: Roosevelt to protect the Panamanian revolutionari
A. argumentative
B. informative
C. humorous
D. sarcastic