[单项选择]The Great Pyramid ______ nearly five thousand years ago is located on the west bank of the Nile River.
A. built
B. was built
C. building
D. was building

[单项选择]The Great Pyramid ______ nearly five thousand years ago is located on the west bank of the Nile River.
A. built
B. was built
C. building
D. was building

[单项选择]The criminal was sentenced to prison for five years and was______ of political rights for two years.


A. excluded
B. deprived
C. disabled
D. gripped

[单项选择]Which of the following five year bonds has the highest interest rate sensitivity

[单项选择]She ______ drawing pictures when she was five years old.
A. took to
B. came to
C. looked to
D. went to

[单项选择]Susan is nearly thirty-five. Her parents think it's time she ______ married.

[单项选择]My brother _______ for nearly five years.


A. has been in the army
B. has joined the army
C. became a soldier

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Passage Five
Every year gray whales migrate from the Bering Sea in Alaska to the Baja Peninsula in Mexico.
Eleven gray whales have died in the San Francisco Bay in the last three weeks. No one knows why the whales are dying.
Last year 270 whales died along the whales’ migration route. Many people think starvation is the cause. This year the dead whales seem to have more blubber (fat) on them.
Twenty years ago, the gray whale was listed as an endangered species.
Some scientists think that the larger number of whales makes it hard to find enough food. More whales create more pressure on the food supply, a supply that some scientists say may have dwindled as a result of the warm waters of E1 Nino.
Most of the whales have been dead for many days before they are found and studied. This makes it hard to find the reason for death.
65 whales have been seen in the San Francisco Bay Area this year compared to 17 last year
A. the whales travel such a long distance
B. there are more whales than there used to be
C. the whale bodies are too old to study by the time they are found
D. the whales are endangered

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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. Talking on giant screens.
B. Automatic language translators.
C. Computers that respond to brain waves.
D. Computers that do not need wires.