[单项选择]The big snow lasted five days. People trapped in the station were badly in （）of food and water.
A. hope
B. search
C. want
D. charge

[单项选择]Five people attended the meeting.

[单项选择]The people in the snow-stricken areas need much more food than ______to them by the airforce.
A. being delivered
B. have been delivered
C. delivered
D. has been delivered

[单项选择]A lot of people from big cities complain about the rapid ______ of modern life.


A. rate
B. speed
C. pace
D. step

[单项选择]Thirty-five people were arrested because they

[单项选择]The writer tries to let people know that a big goal ______.
A. can be achieved by making continuous small progresses
B. should be broken down into 12 tiny goals and achievements
C. should not be forgotten even though we feel it is too big
D. can certainly be reached when we find it is a good one

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Passage Five
The year 2000 will bring big changes in communication Cell phones will be small enough to carry in your pocket. Videophones will let you see the person you are talking to on the phone. Tiny hand size computers will know your favorite subjects. The Internet and email will be everywhere.
Technologists believe 2000 will be the year of video messaging. You will be able to see whom you’re talking to.
Also in the near future small wireless boxes will pick up information from satellites. In 5 years, computers won’t need to be connected through wires.
All of this will be good for rural areas and countries that don’t have cattle or telephone now.
In 20 years you may only need to think about something and the computer will do it.
Constance Hale is the author of Sin and Syntax, "I believe that email has been an incredible boon to communication. People are writing today where they would have been telep
A. One of the biggest barriers to Internet use is getting wires into rural areas.
B. The wireless computers will be cheaper.
C. People in rural areas don't have anything else to do.
D. People in rural areas already have wireless boxes on their roofs.