[单项选择]French cars are more elegantly styled than their British ______.
A. counterparts
B. equals
C. ones
D. copies

[单项选择]They were more than glad to leave their cars parked and walked ________ a change.
A. as
B. for
C. to
D. by

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Passage One
There are more than 100 million cars in the United States. A normal car gets less than 15 miles from each gallon of gas. It travels about 10,000 miles each year. In that time, it uses about 650 gallons of gas. In all, autos use up some 70 billion gallons of gas a year. That comes out to be four-and-a-half million barrels a day.
The importance of saving gas, then, cannot be stressed too much. Let’s say, for instance, that the fuel used by each car could be cut back just 15 percent. This could be done by making fewer trips each day. It could be done through better driving habits. If it were done, our nation’s use of fuel would fall by close to two-thirds of a million barrels per day.
We can all help save gas. One way is to ride the buses. Some of us could walk to work. We could ride mopeds(机动脚踏两用车) or bikes. Another way is to share a ride. We could join carpools (合伙使用汽车). About one-third of all cars are used for going to and fr
A. 75 miles per hour
B. 65 miles per hour
C. 55 miles per hour
D. 10 miles per hour

[单项选择]It is cheaper to throw the cars away than _____ them.
A. to repair
B. repair
C. repairing
D. repaired

[单项选择]Television advertisements do more than merely reflect dominant ideologies.
A. exactly
B. faithfully
C. repeatedly
D. simply

[单项选择]Communicating orally involves more than reading or talking: gesture, posture, movements may all be ______ to it.
A. intrinsic
B. coherent
C. appealing
D. submissive

[单项选择]Victoria likes competitions more than anything else.

[单项选择]Communication orally involves more than reading or talking: gesture, posture, movements may all be ______ to it.
A. intrinsic
B. coherent
C. appealing
D. submissive

[单项选择]Changing fashions are nothing more than the intentional creation of waste.（　）
A. 不断变换的时尚潮流只不过是在刻意地制造浪费。
B. 变化的时尚潮流不仅仅是在有意创造浪费。
C. 变化的时尚潮流更多地是在国际上鼓励浪费。
D. 不断变换的时尚潮流更多地是在有意制造浪费。

[单项选择]More than one million Americans participated in the six-year study.

[单项选择]Changing fashions arc nothing more than the intentional creation of waste.
A. 不断变换的时尚潮流只不过是在刻意地制造浪费。
B. 变化的时尚潮流不仅仅是在有意创造浪费。
C. 变化的时尚潮流更多地是在国际上鼓励浪费。
D. 不断变换的时尚潮流更多地是在有意制造浪费。

[单项选择]Accidents and exhaustion may force more than half the cyclists to drop out before reaching the ______.
A. dead line
B. end line
C. finish line
D. finishing line

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Text 1
More than two centuries after Benjamin Franklin used one to study lightning, a team of atmospheric scientists has found that kites are a potent research tool for studying air conditions at high altitudes.
Ben Balsley and John Briks at the University of Colorado have developed a kite and instrument package to sample the atmosphere up to 3.5 kilometers high, for up to two days at a time. The kite is cheaper and more flexible than balloons and aircraft, the traditional vehicles for atmospheric research. Within two years the team expects to fly kites up to 10 kilometers high, and Briks hopes to use these to measure carbon dioxide and methane emissions over the Brazilian rainforest and the transport of air pollutants over the Atlantic Ocean.
The kite is a 15-square-meter Para foil made of Mylar, which ’is not only strong, but unlike nylon, Joes not absorb water. The kite "string" is made of Kevlar, famous for its use in bullet-proo
A. Bullet-proof vests
B. kite" string"
C. The kite
D. Kevlar