[单项选择]In the sentence “Women were being taken to lifeboats and men held back at gunpoint" (paragraph 4) the phrase “hold back” has the meaning of ______.


A. keep back
B. keep up
C. keep on
D. keep to

[单项选择]The women and children were ______ from the burning building.
A. stole
B. filed
C. hide
D. rescued

[单项选择]American women were（）the right to vote until 1920.
A. ignored
B. refused
C. derived
D. denied

[单项选择]Some concrete actions were taken to improve the living conditions there but proved to be __________.


A. at a premium
B. to no avail
C. of their own accord
D. on the alert

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These circumstances were farfrom being ordinary and Smith had a （）reason for being here personally.

A. twofold
B. couple
C. bilateral
D. doubling

[单项选择]American women were ______ the right to vote until 1920.
A. ignored
B. refused
C. deprived
D. denied

[单项选择]Before 1920s, American women were deprived ______ the right to vote to a large extent.
A. of
B. to
C. from
D. with

[单项选择]All of the following Were suggested as being used by sleep researchers EXCEPT ______.


A. electrodes
B. hypnosis
C. charts
D. recorders

[单项选择]The first pictures of a war were taken by ______.


A. a French photographer in the 1840s
B. an American photographer in the 1860s
C. a German reporter in the 1880s
D. a French artist in the 1890s

[单项选择]After criminals were caught, they were accused and put to ______.


A. death
B. trial
C. torture
D. sentence

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If we were asked exactly what we were doing a year ago, we should probably have to say that we could not remember. But if we had kept a book and had written in it an account of what we did each day, we should be able to give an answer to the question. It is the same in history. Many things have been forgotten because we do not have any written account of them. Sometimes men did keep a record of the most important happenings in their country, but often it was destroyed by fire or in a war. Sometimes there was never any written record at all because the people of that time and place did not know how to write. For example, we know a good deal about the people who lived in China 4 000 years ago, because they could write and leave written records for those who lived after them. But we know almost nothing about the people who lived even 200 years ago in central Africa, because they had not learned to wrtie.
Sometimes, of course, even if the people cannot write, they may know so
A. kept a written record of every past event
B. not burnt their written records in wars
C. told exact stories of the most important happenings
D. made more songs and dances

[单项选择]Some of them were well behaved, ______ were insulting.
A. and they
B. but they
C. while others
D. as others

[单项选择]Governments have taken all of the following measures EXCEPT ______ to combat crime.


A. increasing the size of the police force
B. providing the police with better equipment
C. passing more severe crime laws
D. educating the public through TV programs

[单项选择]Who has taken steps to resolve the conflict


A. U.N. Secretary Council Envoys.
B. President Joseph Kabila.
C. Jean - David Levitte.
D. President Jose Eduardo Dos Santo.

[单项选择]The government has hardly taken measures to crack down on these crimes when new ones occurred.


A. Hardly had the government taken
B. The government had hardly taken
C. Hardly the government had taken
D. The government is hardly taking

[单项选择]This passage is most probably taken from an article entitled______.


A. the Significance of Language
B. Can Animals Talk
C. the World of Communication
D. Languages in Evolution