[单项选择]People think that the pure scientist usually disregards the application of pure science to practical affairs, ________ his attention to explanation of how and why events occur.
A. refining
B. defining
C. confining
D. declining

[单项选择]A scientist usually directs his attention towards problems which he notices have no satisfactory explanation, and his curiosity makes him look for______ relationship even if the data available seem to be unconnected.
A. underlining
B. underneath
C. undergoing
D. underlying

[单项选择]What did people think about Jimmy

[单项选择]What do people think of Women in Love
A. It is the best novel written by Lawrence.
B. It is the most profound novel of Lawrence.
C. It is one of his masterpieces.
D. It is a more profoundly ordered novel and is regarded as one of his masterpieces.

[单项选择]Courageous people think quickly and act without hesitation.
A. complaint
B. consideration
C. delay
D. anxiety

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Passage Two
Some people think they have an answer to the troubles of automobile crowding and dirty air in large cities. Their answer is the bicycle, or "bike."
In a great many cities, hundreds of people ride bicycles to work every day. In New York City, some bike riders have even formed a group called Bike for a Better City. They claim that if more people rode bicycles to work there would be fewer automobiles in the downtown section of the city and therefore less dirty air from car engines.
For several years this group has been trying to get the city government to help bicycle riders: For example, they want the city to draw bicycle lanes on some of the main streets, because when bike riders must use the same lanes as cars, there are accidents. Bike for a Better City feels that if there were special lanes more people would use bikes.
But no bicycle lanes have been drawn. Not everyone thinks it is a good idea--they say it will slow t
A. Bike for a Better City members ride bicycles to work.
B. Sometimes accidents may occur when cars and bikes are on the same lines,
C. The Central Park is situated in the downtown section of New York.
D. In some cities many people use bikes as they have special lanes.

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Passage Two
Many people think a telephone is essential. But I think it is a pest and a time waster. Very often you find it impossible to escape from some idle or inquisitive chatter-box, or from somebody who wants something for nothing. If you have a telephone in your own house, you will admit that it tends to ring when you least want it to ring; when you are asleep, or in the middle of a meal or a conversation, or when you are just going out , or when you are in your bath. Are you strong-minded enough to ignore it, to say to yourself, "Ah, well it will all be the same in a hundred year’s time" You are not. You think there may be some important news or message for you. I can assure you that if a message is really important it will reach you sooner or later. Have you never rushed dripping from the bath, or chewing from the tab]e, or dazed from the bed, only to be told that you are a wrong number
But you will say, you need not have your
A. different people have different ideas about the telephone
B. high income is the precondition for the use of telephone
C. telephone is essential only to those people whose career depends on it
D. working people need a telephone

[单项选择]Many people think that English soccer star David Beckham is( )a pop star( )a player.
A. mainly; than
B. either; or
C. very much; not
D. more of; than

[单项选择]What most likely made people think about a transcontinental railroad
A. The possibility of government support for such a task.
B. The need to explore Utah.
C. The need to connect the east coast with the west.
D. The need to develop the railroad industry in the west.