[单项选择]Only a small minority of the mentally ill are (liable) toharm themselves or others,
A. easy
B. possible
C. likely
D. difficult

[单项选择]（）is it only the ignorant and ill-educated person who has such faith in the bottle of medicine.
A. Either
B. Often
C. Nor
D. Usually

[单项选择]A small network may only connect two computers inside a home to share a single printer and Internet (69)
A. connect
B. connecting
C. connection
D. connective

[单项选择]He is ill, ______ I am only a little tired.
A. whereas
B. on the contrary
C. and
D. however

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Text 4
Perhaps only a small boy training to be a wizard at the Hogwarts school of magic could cast a spell so powerful as to create the biggest book launch ever. Wherever in the world the clock strikes midnight on June 20th, his followers will flock to get their paws on one of more than 10 million copies of "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix". Bookshops will open in the middle of the night and delivery firms are drafting in extra staff and bigger trucks. Related toys, games, DVDs and other merchandise will be everywhere. There will be no escaping Pottermania.
Yet Mr. Potter’s world is a curious one, in which things are often not what they appear. While an excitable media (hereby including The Economist, happy to support such a fine example of globalisation) is helping to hype the launch of J. K. Rowling’s fifth novel, about the most adventurous thing that the publishers (Scholastic in America and Britain’s Bloomsbury in E
A. products of Potter films have brought enormous profits to Warner
B. current Hollywood's marketing of Potter may damage its potential
C. readers could get tired of Ms. Rowling's writings sooner or later
D. Warner will maintain the same strategy with Potter in future

[单项选择]The doctor insisted that he （　） seriously ill and that he （　） operated on immediately.
A. be; should be
B. was; be
C. was; must be
D. should be; should be

[单项选择]My grandmother has been ill for two months, so her health has ______ .
A. deteriorated
B. diminished
C. dwindled
D. lessened

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Text 3
Never has a straitjacket seemed so ill-fitting or so insecure. The Euro area’s "stability and growth pact" was supposed to stop irresponsible member states running excessive budget deficits, defined as 3% of GDP or more. Chief among the restraints was the threat of large fines if member governments breached the limit for three years in a row. For some time now, no one has seriously believed those restraints would hold. In the early hours of Tuesday November 25th, the Euro’s fiscal straitjacket finally came apart at the seams.
The pact’s fate was sealed over an extended dinner meeting of the euro area’s 12 finance ministers. They chewed over the sorry fiscal record of the Euro’s two largest members, France and Germany. Both governments ran deficits of more than 3% of GDP last year and will do so again this year. Both expect to breach the limit for the third time in 2004. Earlier this year the European Commission
A. sudden alarms.
B. substantial might.
C. extra efforts.
D. sheer reluctance.

[单项选择]Because the lawyer's wife was seriously ill, the doctor ______.

[单项选择]The reason for his absence is （　） he fell ill yesterday.
A. why
B. that
C. because
D. for

[单项选择]She ______ ill for five days.


A. is
B. has been
C. was

[单项选择]Linton looked as though he（）ill for a long time.
A. were
B. was
C. has been
D. had been