[单项选择]Thousands of years ago people were forced to leave their homeland because ______.
A. the earth was in an ice age
B. they found their homeland getting colder
C. huge sheets of ice were spreading over the land
D. they had to stay near the animals they hunted for food

[单项选择]Thousands of years ago people were forced to leave their homeland because ______.
A. the earth was in an ice age
B. they found their homeland getting colder
C. huge sheets of ice were spreading over the land
D. they had to stay near the animals they hunted for food

[单项选择]Forty years ago people were indifferent to the health of the ocean because ______.

[单项选择]Hundreds of years ago cloves were used to remedy headaches.
A. disrupt
B. diagnose
C. evaporate
D. cure

[单项选择]

Passage One
Years ago our cities were full of cars, buses and trucks. Now the streets are completely congested (拥挤的) and it is very difficult to drive a car along them. Drivers must stop at hundreds of traffic lights. What are our cities going to be like in ten or twenty years Will enormous (巨大的) motorways be built across them With big motorways cutting across them, full of noisy, dirty cars and lorries, our cities are going to be awful places. How can we solve the problem
There are some good ideas to reduce the use of private cars. In 1989, for example, the authorities in Rome began an interesting experiment: passengers on the city buses did not have to pay for their tickets.
In Stockholm there was another experiment: people paid very little for a season ticket to travel on any bus, trolley bus, train or tram in all the city.
In many cities now some streets are closed to vehicles, and pedestrians are safe there.
In London there is a
A. London.
B. Rome.
C. Paris.
D. Stockholm.

[多项选择]A few years ago, computers were used only in business, in medicine, and for scientific research, ______ these days they are common in almost all schools.
A. thought
B. whereas
C. so
D. therefore

[单项选择]Hundreds of years ago cloves were used to {{U}}remedy{{/U}} headaches.
A. disrupt
B. diagnose
C. evaporate
D. cure

[单项选择]

"Twenty years ago, if you were Chinese and were looking for a job in one of Hong Kong’s large business companies, you would have needed to brush up your English for the interview, because in those days you could be very sure the interview would be in English." The panel might consist of two "Expatriates" and two Chinese, but they would all use English in the interview.
Things have changed considerably these days in Hong Kong. As 1997 approaches, the day to day spoken language of business in many of the large companies is Chinese (i.e. Cantonese, the language of Hong Kong). English is used only when necessary, for instance when dealing with "foreigners" by which is meant not simply native speakers of English, American, British Canadians, Australians and others, but also businessmen and women from other Asian countries like Japan, India, Korea, Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines, and from European countries like Germany, France and H
A. C．Experts with London MB