[单项选择]My life is more precious to me than my property.（　）
A. valuable
B. profitable
C. dear
D. noble

[单项选择]My home is no more than one mile from the school and there are many trees( ).
A. for many
B. among them
C. in between
D. from each other

[单项选择]A) other than C) more than
B) but than D) rather than


A. other than
B. but than
C. more than
D. rather than

[单项选择]More than 80 percent of US adults have a less than 10 - percent risk of developing heart disease in the next 10 years, according to a report in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Just 3 percent have a risk that exceeds 20 percent.
Only 3 percent of US adults have a more than 10 percent 10 year risk of heart disease.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mentioned

[单项选择]Communication orally involves more than reading or talking, gesture, posture, movements may all be______to it.
A. intrinsic
B. coherent
C. appealing
D. submissive

[单项选择]Television advertisements do more than merely reflect dominant ideologies（）.
A. exactly
B. faithfully
C. repeatedly
D. simply

[单项选择]My sister cooks Korean food （）than my mother
A. well    
B. better     
C. the best

[多项选择]British police forces are reviewing more than 450 unsolved crimes in a push to capitalise on dramatic advances in DNA forensic science. The advent of new ways to collect DNA from items at crime scenes, coupled with powerful analytical tools, has made it possible to obtain DNA profiles of suspects from undetected crimes or cold cases committed nearly 20 years ago, according to a Home Office spokeswoman. The operation has already identified 42 suspects.
The reviews focus on serious, often sexual offences and encompass at least 451 crimes committed between 1989 and 1995. Forensic scientists are returning to items of evidence stored at the time, from scraps of clothing to microscope slides holding just a few cells obtained from victims.
This week, scientists at the Forensic Science Service, which manages the police national DNA database, used the pioneering technique of familial searching to help convict James Lloyd, a shoe fetishist who pleaded guilty to six sexual assaults at S

[简答题]American mythology loves nothing more than the reluctant hero: the man -- it is usually a man -- whose natural talents have destined him for more than obliging obscurity. George Washington, we are told, was a leader who would have preferred to have been a farmer. Thomas Jefferson, a writer. Martin Luther King, Jr., a preacher. These men were roused from lives of perfunctory achievement, our legends have it, not because they chose their own exceptionalism, but because we, the people, chose it for them. We -- seeing greatness in them that they were too humble to observe themselves -- conferred on them uncommon paths. Historical circumstance became its own call of duty, and the logic of democracy proved itself through the answer. Neil Armstrong was a hero of this stripe: constitutionally humble, circumstantially noble. Nearly every obituary written for him has made a point of emphasizing his sense of privacy, his sense of humility, his sense of the ironic ordinary. And yet every aspect

[单项选择]第三篇 More Than Just Money When Patricia Rochester decided to go back to school after ten years as a staff nurse at Toronto Western Hospital．her employer not only cheered her on．but also Paid her tuition and gave her a day off with pay every week to study．Throughout her years at the hospital，Rochester has also taken workshops on everything from coaching peers to career development——courses that she believes have helped her advance at work．“I’m now head of the mentoring(指导)program for new hires．students and staff nurses．”she says．“There’s a lot of room for personal improvement here．” Perhaps as important，Rochester says her employer supports and values her work．‘‘If you put in overtime．”the nurse points Out．“you get your meals—they’11 order in pizza or Greek food or Chinese．”And if staffers feel stiff and stressed from too many hours on the ward．they can call for a flee 15-minute shoulder-and-neck massage(按摩)or even sign up for an eight-week evening course on medit
A. To take an eight-week evening course on meditation skills and stress-relief．
B. To call for a flee 15-minute shoulder-and-neck massage．
C. To use five family days
D. T0 ask for sick leave

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