[单项选择]The Economist is one of the most important ______ in Britain.
A. quality newspapers
B. weekly reviews
C. daily newspapers
D. Sunday newspaper

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Adolescence tends to be the most important for one's world outlook.（）

A. the growing period after childhood
B. the period of maturity
C. the period of babyhood
D. the period of old age

[单项选择]It is most important that one of the brakes on your bicycle ______ properly.
A. will work
B. had worked
C. works
D. work

[单项选择]What is the most important one among the realities listed in the passage
A. New vulnerabilities will be introduced into your environment every day.
B. The manager educates employees about properly configuring firewalls and intrusion detection systems for their PCs.
C. Managers have more responsibility than ever.
D. Security managers are asked to support increasing degrees of network availability and access.

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One important aspect of retirement for most people is deciding where to live. In the past, this was not an issue because most elderly persons remained at home where they could be close to family. In contemporary times, parents and grown children go their separate ways, staying in touch through the telephone and, more recently, through e-mail. Every year, more than 400,000 adults who are 55 or older move out of their home state and relocate.
Florida leads all states in the proportion of elderly people-19 percent over 65 years of age, most of whom relocated from other places. Thus, Florida cities have become known as retirement centers. Among those prominently mentioned are Boca Raton, Daytona Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, Naples, and Ocala where between 20 and 25 percent of the residents is over 65 years of age. Two other Florida cities, Saint Petersburg and Sarasota, have even higher proportions-25 percent and 32 percent respectively. Other cities that have gained r
A. Retirement centers.
B. Retirement sites.
C. Retirement state.
D. Retirement communities.

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One of the most important results of research into ageing has been to pinpoint the significance of short-term memory. This faculty is easily (1) as ageing advances. What seems to (2) is that in formation is received by the brain, (3) scans it for meaning in order to decode it at some future time. It looks as if the actual (4) of the short-term memory itself may not change too much (5) age. A young man and a man in his late fifties may (6) be able to remember and repeat a(n) (7) of eight numbers recited to them. But what (8) change is that when the older man is asked to re member anything (9) between the time he is first given the numbers to memorise and the time he is asked to (10) them, he will be much less likely to remember the (11) numbers than the young man. This is because the scanning stage is more easily (12) by other activities in (13) people.
In (14) living one expe
A. attainment
B. acquisition
C. learning
D. reaching