[单项选择]Though adults breathe twelve times a minute, breathing is so automatic ______ the average person hardly ever thinks about it.
A. and
B. that
C. for which
D. in fact

[单项选择]Though adults breathe twelve times a minute, breathing is so automatic （） the average person hardly ever thinks about it.
A. and
B. that
C. for which
D. in fact

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A．breathe
B．though
C．clothing
D．healthy

[单项选择]The number of times per minute that you breathe is_______.
A. fixed at twenty-two times per minute
B. influenced by your age and sex
C. dependent upon the amount of fresh air available to you at any given time
D. controlled automatically by an unspecified body mechanism

[单项选择]Twelve years after his marriage, Paul was
A. poor but not sad.
B. very sick.
C. free from debt.
D. lonely and unhappy.

[单项选择]Children under the age of twelve are not permitted to watch this program ______ guided by their parents.
A. but
B. otherwise
C. without
D. unless

[单项选择]They often compelled us to work twelve or fourteen hours a day.
A. made
B. compromise
C. smashed
D. commanded

[单项选择]One of the disadvantages of young adults returning to stay with their parents is that ______.


A. there will inevitably be inconveniences in everyday life
B. most parents find it difficult to keep a bigger family going
C. the young adults tend to be overprotected by their parents
D. public opinion is against young adults staying with their parents

[单项选择]How many adults were killed in the explosion


A. 22.
B. 9.
C. 75.
D. 13.

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Imagine being asked to spend twelve or so years of your life in a society which consisted only of members of your own sex. How would you (1) Unless there was (2) definitely wrong with you, you wouldn’t be too happy about it, to (3) the least. It is all the (4) surprising therefore that so many parents in the world choose to impose such (5) conditions (6) their children--conditions which they themselves wouldn’t put up with for one minute!
Any discussion of this topic is (7) to question the aims of education. Stuffing children’s heads full of knowledge is (8) being foremost among them. One of the chief aims of education is to (9) future citizens with all they require to (10) their place in adult society. Now adult society is made up of men and women, so how can a segregated school (11) offer the right kind of preparation for it Anyone entering adult society after years of segreg
A. Contest
B. Rivalry
C. Harmony
D. Discrimination