[单项选择]Today, the forests have almost gone. People must ______ down too many trees.

[单项选择]People today have to a great _________ lost their ability to identity with what they do.
A. point
B. ratio
C. extent
D. rate

[单项选择]Today's young people generally have more purchasing power than their parents, and they are more prepared to use it.
A. 如今年轻人的购买能力一般都超过他们父母，而且更乐意消费。
B. 总体上今天的年轻人赚的钱比父母多，而且他们时刻准备消费掉。
C. 如今年轻人在消费上大都比父母大方，而且他们更做好了花钱的准备。
D. 今天的年轻人大都认为他们需要比父母多买东西，而且时刻准备这么做。

[单项选择]Today' s young people generally have more purchasing power than their parents, and they are more prepared to use it .
A. 如今年轻人的购买能力一般都超过他们父母，而且更乐意消费。
B. 总体上今天的年轻人赚的钱比父母多，而且他们时刻准备消费掉。
C. 如今年轻人在消费上大都比父母大方，而且他们更做好了花钱的准备。
D. 今天的年轻人大都认为他们需要比父母多买东西，而且时刻准备这么做。

[单项选择]Today people have more messages to give to each other than twenty years ago.

[单项选择]In international banking today, a bank must have a deep ______ into international financial markets.
A. idea
B. understanding
C. knowledge
D. insight

[单项选择]People have ______ today.
A. more leisure
B. less leisure
C. more work
D. less work

[单项选择]Many people today, worldwide, remember exactly what they were doing when John F Kennedy was ______ in Dallas.
A. murdered
B. executed
C. assassinated
D. massacred

[单项选择]

For many people today, reading is no longer relaxation. To keep up their work they must read letters, reports, trade publications, interoffice communications, not to mention news papers and magazines: a never-ending flood of words. In (21) a job or advancing in one, the ability to read and comprehend (22) can mean the difference between success and failure. Yet the unfortunate fact is that most of us are (23) readers. Most of us develop poor reading (24) at an early age, and never get over them. The main deficiency (25) in the actual stuff of language itself--words. Taken individually, words have (26) meaning until they are strung together into phrases, sentences and paragraphs. (27) , however, the untrained reader does not read groups of words. He laboriously reads one word at a time, often regressing to (28) words or passages. Regression, the tendency to look back over (29) you have just read, is a common bad habit
A. some one
B. one
C. he
D. reader