[单项选择]_______ both sides accept the agreement _______ a lasting peace be established in this region.


A. Only if, will
B. if only, would
C. Should, will
D. Unless, would

[单项选择]Both sides have virtually done nothing to maintain the lasting peace.
A. 双方均未就维持持久和平作出实质性努力。
B. 为了维持持久和平，双方实质上什么也没有做。
C. 实际上不是双方都做了维持永久和平的事情。
D. 双方均未就维持过去的和平作出实际努力。

[单项选择]The good news to both sides of the debate is that ______.

[单项选择]Which of the following statements is in agreement with the main ideas of the second paragraph


A. It is impossible to merely rely on our own effort to create a decent and humane society.
B. Problems of industrial life arise directly or indirectly from the frustrations caused by in equality at work.
C. We have little hope of creating a decent and humane society.
D. Only after we solve the problem of inequality at work first can we create a decent and humane society.

[单项选择]Attitudes on the two sides in the Revolutionary War precluded the possibility of a peaceful solution.
A. presaged
B. prejudiced
C. anticipated
D. prevented

[单项选择]The two countries signed an agreement to reduce their nuclear ______.
A. tornadoes
B. armories
C. hectares
D. heretics

[单项选择]Under the agreement, the nuclear warheads will be ______.


A. controlled by Russia
B. controlled by the Black Sea Fleet
C. disassembled in Ukraine
D. disassembled in Russia

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

[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