[单项选择]The passage may have been selected from a book on ______.


A. statues and court rules
B. lawyers and judges
C. trial techniques
D. methodology

[单项选择]The passage may have been selected from a book on ______.
A. statues and court rules
B. lawyers and judges
C. trial techniques
D. methodology

[单项选择]Several complaints have been received from customers who have been sent the correcl orders with the wrong invoices and wrong orders with the correct invoices．


A. 从客户中已经收到一些投诉，他们被送到具有错误发票的正确订货和具有正确发票的错误订货。
B. 我们已收到那些正确订货和错误发票或错误订货和正确发票的客户的投诉。
C. 我们收到了不少客户的投诉说，有的人收到的订货是对的，但发票开错，有的订货有误，但发票没错。
D. 我们收到不少客户的投诉，他们中有的人收到了正确的订货和错误的发票，另一些人收到了错误的订货和正确的发票。

[单项选择]The book seems to have been ______ from various books and articles.
A. pieced together
B. taken off
C. broken away
D. pulled out

[单项选择]How many bodies have been removed from the wreckage in the western state of Gujarat


A. More than 6.000.
B. More than 15,000.
C. More than 16,000.
D. More than 60,000.

[单项选择]The book seems to have been ________ from various books and articles.
A. pieced together
B. taken off
C. broken away
D. pulled out

[单项选择]He was said to have been removed from the position of manager for a recent conflict wil an important customer.（　）
A. dismissed
B. released
C. picked
D. exposed

[单项选择]Some scientists think there may have been life on the Mars in the past because ______.
A. there is no life there now
B. there is a large amount of water at the poles
C. the Mars may be able to support life in the future
D. conditions may have been similar to those on the Earth

[单项选择]How may novels have been published during the lifetime of William Faulkner
A. 14.
B. 100.
C. 19.
D. Not mentioned.

[单项选择]How may novels have been published during, the lifetime of William Faulkner


A. 14.
B. 100.
C. 19.
D. Not mentione

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Text 4
The dot-com collapse may have been a disaster for Wall Street, but here in Silicon Valley, it was a blessing. It was the welcome end to an abnormal condition that very nearly destroyed the area in an overabundance of success. You see, the secret to the Valley’s astounding multiple decade boom is failure. Failure is what fuels and renews this place. Failure is the foundation for innovation.
The valley’s business ecology depends on failure the same way the tree-covered hills around us depend on fire it wipes out the old growth and creates space for new life. The valley has always been in danger of drowning in the unwelcome waste products of success too many people, too expensive houses, too much traffic, too little office space and too much money chasing too few startups. Failure is the safety valve, the destructive renewing force that frees up people, ideas and capital and recombines them, creating new revolutions.
Consider how the
A. usually end up with a failure.
B. are subjected to rigid supervision.
C. tend to collapse as a whole.
D. never take into account failures.