[单项选择]Despite the recent financial troubles of its government, Greece remains as popular a destination for honeymooners ______ Italy.
A. in
B. as
C. than
D. more

[单项选择]Despite a decline in its housing markets, the country's economic growth has held steady at 3.4% for the ______ three years.
A. past
B. usual
C. upcoming
D. late

[单项选择]Despite its efforts, the newspaper industry still cannot satisfy the readers owing to its ______.
A. failure to realize its real problem
B. tendency to hire annoying reporters
C. likeliness to do inaccurate reporting
D. prejudice in matters of race and gender

[单项选择]China started its space industry only in recent years, and should ______ no time in catching up.
A. delay
B. lag
C. lessen
D. lose

[单项选择]

Lincoln was a strong executive who saved the government, saved the United States. He was a President who understood people, and, when time came to make decisions, he was willing to take the responsibility and make those decisions, no matter how difficult they were. He knew how to treat people and how to make a decision stick, and that’s why he is regarded as such a great Administration.
Carl Sandburg and a lot of others have tried to make something out of Lincoln that he wasn’t. He was a decent man, a good politician, and a great President, and they’ve tried to build up things that he never even thought about. I’ll bet a dollar and a half that if you read Sandburg’s biography of Lincoln, you’ ll find things put into Lincoln’s mouth and mind that never even occurred to him. He was a good man who was in the place where he ought to have been at the time important events were taking place, but when they write about him as though he be
A. Lincoln was a decent man, a good politician, and a great President.
B. Lincoln belonged in the pantheon of the gods.
C. Lincoln was the best kind of ordinary man.
D. Lincoln was a good man.

[单项选择]The Stock exchange makes it possible for the Government, local authorities and nationalized industries ______.
A. to borrow as much money as they wish
B. to make certain everybody saves money
C. to raise money to finance new developments
D. to make certain everybody lends money to them

[单项选择]The stock exchange makes it possible for the government, local authorities and nationalized industries to __________.


A. borrow as much money as they can
B. make certain everybody saves money
C. raise money to finance new developments
D. make certain everybody lends money to them

[单项选择]The Stock Exchange makes it possible for the Government, local authorities and nationalised industries


A. to borrow as much money as they wish
B. to make certain everybody save money
C. to raise money to support new developments
D. to make certain everybody lend money to them