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Text 3
Asia’s real boat-rocker is a growing China, not Japan, a senior American economist observed.
There is so much noise surrounding and emanating from the world’s miracle economy that it is becoming cacophonous. In Washington, D. C., the latest idea is that China is becoming too successful, perhaps even dangerously so: while Capitol Hill resounds with complaints of trade surpluses and currency manipulation, the Pentagon and sundry think-tanks echo to a new drumbeat of analysts worrying about China’s 12.6% annual rise in military spending and about whether it might soon have the ability to take preemptive military action to force Taiwan to rejoin it. So it may be no coincidence that for
three consecutive weekends the streets of big Chinese cities have been filled with the sounds of demonstrators marching and rocks being thrown, all seeking to send a different message: that Japan is the problem in Asia, not China, because of its w
A. By words and negotiations.
B. By their navies.
C. By more violence.
D. Unclear.

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Text 3
Asia’s real boat-rocker is a growing China, not Japan, a senior American economist observed.
There is so much noise surrounding and emanating from the world’s miracle economy that it is becoming cacophonous. In Washington, D. C., the latest idea is that China is becoming too successful, perhaps even dangerously so: while Capitol Hill resounds with complaints of trade surpluses and currency manipulation, the Pentagon and sundry think-tanks echo to a new drumbeat of analysts worrying about China’s 12.6% annual rise in military spending and about whether it might soon have the ability to take preemptive military action to force Taiwan to rejoin it. So it may be no coincidence that for
three consecutive weekends the streets of big Chinese cities have been filled with the sounds of demonstrators marching and rocks being thrown, all seeking to send a different message: that Japan is the problem in Asia, not China, because of its w
A. Asia's real boat-rocker.
B. China's economic success.
C. Japan's economic success.
D. both China and Japan's economic success.

[单项选择]It is true, according to the text, real liars will ______.
A. try hard to perfect their vices with false statements
B. believe it unavoidable and reasonable for everyone to tell lies
C. argue that their habits of telling lies are intelligent rather than foolish
D. are misunderstood as being either cowardly or brave individuals

[单项选择]The goods advertised in women's magazines are really meant to
A. free housewives from housework.
B. encourage housewives to go out to work.
C. turn housewives into excellent cooks.
D. give them a false sense of fulfillment.

[单项选择]According to the text, Verdi's creative treatment of characters is performed through
A. his frequent re-writing of an opera.
B. his coherent psychological portrayal.
C. his consistent aspiration to high art.
D. his effective maneuvers of music.

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Text 2
By the 1980s, according to international but admittedly inconsistent definitions of literacy, about seven out of ten adults in the world were considered literate. The increase in literacy from ancient times to the present has not been a story of unbroken progress. The ability of people with in a given society to read and write has been influenced by a number of factors, including economic well -being, the availability of material to read, the amount of education available, and the basic matter of the usefulness of reading.
Of these factors, usefulness has probably been the most decisive. In ancient societies, as people settled into stable patterns of agriculture and trade, it became useful for some of them to read and write in order to keep records, to transact business, and to measure amounts of land, animals, goods, materials, and produce. Since all economic aspects of a society were closely tied to the operations of government, literacy became use
A. the religious reforms
B. the translation and popularization of the Bible
C. the availability of printing technology and cheap paper
D. the renovations of the teaching methods