[单项选择]_____ was founded in 1969, and began its first course in 1970.
A. Glasgow University
B. Aberdeen University
C. The Open University
D. St Andrews University

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Since USAID began its first HIV/AIDS prevention efforts eight years ago, the epidemic has changed dramatically. HIV has spread to every region of the world. Millions of people infected with HIV during the first decade of the epidemic are developing opportunistic infections and other AIDS-related illnesses, and many are dying. Women and children are among those most vulnerable to HIV infection. As HIV prevalence and AIDS mortality soar, millions of children will lose their parents.
HIV/AIDS is having a devastating impact on the health and well-being of families, communities and nations worldwide. The epidemic’s effects on the structure of societies and the productivity of their members undermine efforts to promote sustainable development around the globe. USAID’ s approach to slowing the spread of HIV/AIDS relies on strategies tested and refined over the past eight years. At the same time, the Agency is moving forward to address new challe
A. proves that the epidemic has been spreading very fast over the past eight years
B. implies that the USAID was not very successful in the past eight years
C. shows that the epidemic has spread too fast to be controlled over the past eight years
D. explains that the epidemic has been controlled

[单项选择]Australia began to assume its modem configuration by the Eocene Epoch, some 50 million years ago, when Antarctica broke away and drifted southward.
A. status
B. sphere
C. shape
D. situation

[单项选择]Australia began to assume its modern configuration by the Eocene Epoch, some 50 million years ago, when Antarctica broke away and drifted southward.
A. status
B. sphere
C. shape
D. situation

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The appeal of the world of work is first its freedom. The child is compelled to go to school: he is (21) of authority. As he grows up, he sees what it is to be free of school and to be able to choose his job and change it if he doesn’t like it. The boys and girls, (22) he has long observed, revisit school utterly changed and apparently mature. Suddenly teachers seem as out of date as his parents and the authority of school a ridiculous thing. At the moment the adult world may appear (23) the school world that the desire to enter it cannot be satisfied by exercises in school books. This may not be the (24) but it is a necessary part of growing up, for every man and woman must come sooner or later to the point of saying "Really, I’ve had enough of being taught; I must (25) ". Some young people come to this decision sooner than they ought. Yet in a way this is not a bad frame of mind to be in (26) leaving school. At wor
A. like
B. as
C. similar than
D. the same that