[单项选择]Journalists are not eager to accept computer newspapers, because ______.

[单项选择]The new technological revolution in American newspapers has brought increase ______, a wider range of publications and an expansion of newspaper jobs.
A. manipulation
B. reproduction
C. circulation
D. penetration

[单项选择]Journalists aren’t supposed to think about whether they are doing the right thing.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mentioned

[单项选择]—Let me tell you something about the journalists.
—Don't you remember ______ me the story yesterday
A. told
B. telling
C. to tell
D. to have told

[单项选择]The journalists and camera crews began to ______ in the heat as they stood waiting for the president to appear.
A. conspire
B. transpire
C. perspire
D. inspire

[单项选择]He was eager to talk with ______ customers.


A. inherent
B. temporary
C. potential
D. evident

[单项选择]The reviewer cannot accept Stuart's opinions because Stuart ______.


A. makes unreasonble complaints about the interviewees.
B. writes too positively about the interviewees.
C. has different attitudes towards different interviewees.

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Passage 2
Every country tends to accept its own way of life as being the normal one and to praise or criticize others as they are similar to or different from it. And unfortunately, our picture of the people and the way of life of other countries is often a distorted(曲解) one.
Here is a great argument in favor of foreign travel and learning foreign languages.(78) Itis only by traveling in or living in a country and getting m know its inhabitants and their language that one can find out what a country and its people are really like. And how different the knowledge one gains this way frequently turns out to be from the second-hand information gathered from other sources! How often we find that the foreigners whom we thought to be such different people from ourselves are not very different after all!
Differences between peoples do, of course, exist and, one hopes, will always continue to do so. (79) The world will be a dull place indeed when all the dif
A. somewhat
B. by whatever means
C. anyhow
D. no matter what

[单项选择]A scientist does not accept statements which are not based on the most complete evidence available. Instead, he always checks, studies and makes experiments carefully and objectively to ______ them.


A. testify
B. verify
C. affirm
D. assert

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Throughout history man has had to accept the fact that all living things must die, but people now live longer than they (36) . Yet, all living things still show the (37) of aging, which will eventually. (38) death.
Aging is not a disease, but as a person passes maturity, the cells of the body and the (39) they form do not function as well as they (40) in childhood and adolescence (青春期). The body provides less (41) against disease and is more prone (42) accident.
A number of related cause may (43) aging. Some cells of the body have a fairly long life, but they are not (44) when they die. As a person ages, (45) of brain cells and muscle cells decrease, (46) body cells die and are replaced by new cells. In an aging person the (47) cells may not be as viable (能生存的) or as capable (48) growth as those of a young person.
Another (49) in aging may be changes within th
A. to
B. for
C. against
D. in

[单项选择]Why was it difficult to get the public to accept shopping carts at first


A. Both men and women were afraid they would not look good if they used them.
B. People thought it unnecessary to use them because they never did much shopping.
C. The early shopping carts were too difficult to use.
D. Only men and women models were supposed to use such modern things.

[单项选择]We agree to accept（）they thought was the best tourist guide.
A. whatever
B. whomever
C. whichever
D. whoever

[单项选择]Susan: Do you think we should accept Johnson's research proposal
Barry: I don't know. ______