[单项选择]Boarding schools are losing their popularity among pupils because ______.

[单项选择]Boarding schools are losing their popularity among pupils because ______.

[单项选择]The popularity of these schools is growing steadily ______ their high tuition fees.
A. instead of
B. in favor of
C. in spite of
D. in place of

[单项选择]What reason is suggested for running a boarding-house


A. The owners earn their living by doing this.
B. This helps to pay for the upkeep of a large house.
C. The money they make will keep them through the winter.
D. The resulting supplementary income will ensure a living for several months.

[单项选择]Vacation schools and extracurricular activities are mentioned in Para. 2 to illustrate alternatives to formal education pro- vided ______ by public schools.
A. the importance of educational changes
B. activities that competed to attract new
C. immigrants to their programs
D. the increased impact of public schools on students

[单项选择]Knowing that the slightest mistake meant losing his job, the waiter carried the expensive glasses______ from the kitchen.


A. cautiously
B. gravely
C. profoundly
D. radically

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Reaching new peaks of popularity in North America is Iceberg Water, which is harvested from icebergs off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.   
Arthur von Wiesenberger, who carries the title Water Master, is one of the few water critics in North America. As a boy, he spent time in the larger cities of Italy, France and Switzerland, where bottled water is consumed daily. Even then, he kept a water journal, noting the brands he liked best. “My dog could tell the difference between bottled and tap water,” He says.   
But is plain tap water all that bad Not at all. In fact, New York’s municipal water for more than a century was called the champagne of tap water and until recently considered among the best in the world in terms of both taste and purity. Similarly, a magazine in England found that tap water from the Thames River tasted better than several leading brands of bottled water that were 400 times more expensive.&
A. It is a kind of iced water.
B. It is just plain tap water.
C. It is a kind of bottled water.
D. It is a kind of mineral water.

[单项选择]Another distinctive quality of American schools was that ______.
A. the local government was free to organize its own educational system
B. the local government was compelled to follow the central authority
C. each community was free to decide whether to provide education or not
D. the school was controlled by the federal government

[单项选择]Hardly a year now passed without Beijing losing its traditional dominance in another field or product.
A. 现在一年过去了，但是北京在另一个领域或产品上并没有失去它传统的优势。
B. 北京几乎每年都要失去它在一个领域或一种产品上的传统优势。
C. 一年刚过去，北京在另一个领域或产品上失去了它的传统优势。
D. 北京没有一年不失去它在某个领域或一种产品上的传统优势。

[单项选择]According to the passage, newspaper is losing profits in job ads because
A. their prices are too high.
B. the employment rate is quite good.
C. Internet company provides free services.
D. competition among newspapers are tight.

[单项选择]The increasing popularity of the motorcycle as a convenience, economical form of transportation has been just short of astounding.
A. popularity
B. convenience
C. form
D. just short

[单项选择]The popularity of the film shows that the reviewers' fears were completely ______


A. unjustified
B. unjust
C. misguided
D. unaccepted