[单项选择]No one can ______ how much longer the bad weather will go on.


A. talk
B. speak
C. say

[单项选择]How much weight can one lose in two weeks on the Scarsdale diet


A. Five pounds.
B. Ten pounds.
C. Twenty pounds.
D. Forty pounds.

[单项选择]______ one has a child will one realize how great one's parents are.


A. Until
B. Not until
C. It is not until
D. Until not

[简答题]Too much tourism can be a problem. If tourism grows too quickly, people must leave other jobs to work in the tourism industry.

[单项选择]Too much information can only ______ people and they don' t know what to do with it.


A. brighten
B. glare
C. dazzle
D. glitter

[单选题] How can we finish （） much work in （）_a short time?
A.so,so
B.such,such
C.so,such D such, so

[单项选择]Eating too much fat can ______ heart disease and cause high blood pressure.
A. attribute to
B. attend to
C. devote to
D. contribute to

[单项选择]Every one can only play the games for ten minutes（）
A. at a time
B. at any time
C. at times
D. at one time

[单项选择]According to the writer, one can offer to invite a client to lunch______.

[单项选择]No one can use cell phones in any areas at the hospital where equipment might be affected by the interference from cell phones（）
A. 在医院的任何区域都不得使用手机，因为会受到设备的干扰。
B. 在医院的任何区域，手机会影响设备的使用，任何人都不得使用。
C. 医院里没有人使用手机，因此不会影响设备的使用。
D. 医院内，在可能干扰设备使用的任何区域，禁止使用手机。

[单项选择]No one can be sure if the car on display fits him or her until he or she ______ them.
A. tries
B. will try
C. are trying
D. have tried

[单项选择]What should one do when one intends to learn how to communicate with others

[单项选择]No one can avoid ______ by advertisement.


A. to be influenced
B. being influenced
C. influencing
D. having influenced

[单项选择]

Passage One
How men first learned to invent words is unknown; in other words, the origin of language is a mystery. All we really know is that men, unlike animals, somehow invented certain sounds to ex press thoughts and feelings, actions and things, so that they could communicate with each other; and that later they agreed upon certain signs, called letters, which could be combined to represent those sounds and which could be written down. Those sounds, whether spoken, or written in letters, we call words.
There power of words, then, lies in their associations the things they bring up before our minds. Words become filled with meaning for us by experience; and the longer we live, the more certain words recall to us the glad and sad events of our past; and the more we read and learn, the more the number of words that mean something to us increases.
Great writers are those who not only have great thoughts but also express these thoughts in words which
A. The more we read and learn, the more ignorant we are.
B. The more we read and learn, the more confused we are.
C. The more we read and learn, the more learned we are.
D. The more we read and learn, the more snobbish we becom