[简答题]Now many people enjoy emails and other people prefer face-to-face conversations. The title of your composition is "Which Is Better, a Talk or an Email". You should use your own ideas, knowledge and experience to support your opinion. Write at least 200 words.

[填空题]Many Christians now reenact Last Supper to symbolize Judas Iscariot’s betrayal of Jesus.

[填空题]Many people now keep animals as (11) . Numerous people have cats and dogs in their houses. Other people like fish, caged birds, tortoises (乌龟) and even snakes, monkeys or lions. Millions of dollars and much time are spent every year on pet food, (12) , taming (驯养) and medical treatment.
Of course, there are some people who do not look after their pets properly or are even (13) to them. In contrast to the love of pets the fact is that blood sports still exist in most countries. People go hunting foxes, elephants, pandas and other animals, not because they need the meat to eat, but just for (14) .
It is strange that people love certain animals, but enjoy (15) others, in cruel ways, too.

[单项选择]Many women now take active part in sports and （）of different kinds and enjoy doing so after giving birth to their children.
A. races
B. games
C. matches
D. events

[填空题]Many people now prefer the saying "early ripe, early rich" to the saying "early ripe, early rot./

[单项选择]Woman: It seems that you enjoy doing so many things at the same time.
Man: It’s not that I like that, but that I have too many irons in the fire.
Woman: Haven’t you felt that you have bitten more than you can chew If I were you I would concentrate on finishing doing one thing before starting another.
Man: Things are not that simple. In many cases things come to you in company.
Question: What can we know from the conversation
A. The man is very capable and energetic.
B. The man doesn’t have a focus of the things he is doing.
C. The man hates doing too many things at the same time.
D. The man cannot but do more than one thing at the same tim

[单项选择]Many countries are now setting up national parks ________ animals and plants can be protected.
A. when
B. which
C. whose
D. where

[单项选择] Many now have been breathing hot flames at our industry and so I thought it would be time to say my piece this week, after all, we in the business cannot deny that it has been a rough spring for news paper editors and reporters.’’ Ethical scandals great and small have soiled newsrooms from coast to coast. Everyone knows about the profound deceits of Jayson Blair at The New York Times, and the "Writergate" controversy involving Rick Bragg, which led to the departure of the two top editors at the paper. Other misdeeds have ranged from two reporters at The Salt Lake Tribune selling information to The National Enquirer, to a food writer for The Hartford Courant fired for plagiarizing recipes. Are newspaper standards going to pot Some say ethics are worse than ever or are they The past is filled with people running photos of wrestlers in the sports section in exchange for money. In fact, ethical breaches may be less of a problem than 20 years ago. A 1,t of newspapers are cutting co
A. newsrooms are suffering from a decline in standards
B. there are too many ethical scandals going on in newspapers
C. there is a perception that newspapers should do more to correct mistakes
D. this has been a rough time for newspapers and many are wondering what is wrong

[填空题]How many people are there on earth now
Now there are about ______ of us on earth.

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[A] Many now take issue with this view. Several economists reckon that the brain-drain hypothesis fails to account for the effects of remittances, for the beneficial effects of returning migrants, and for the possibility that being able to migrate to greener pastures induces people to get more education. Some argue that once these factors are taken into account, an exodus of highly skilled people could turn out to be a net benefit to the countries they leave. Recent studies of migration from countries as far apart as Ghana, Fiji, India and Romania have found support for this "brain gain" idea.
[B] There are more subtle ways in which the departure of some skilled people may aid poorer countries. Some emigrants would have been jobless had they stayed. Studies have found that unemployment rates among young people with college degrees in countries like Morocco and Tunisia are several multiples of those among the poorly educated, perhaps because graduates are more de

[简答题]Now many countries find themselves still struggling with problems that are as old as man himself. Basic social problems such as poor or nonexistent health care, and nutrient-deficient diets continue to annoy developing countries, contributing to low life expectancy rates and hampering economic development. While it may be true that some countries have found answers to these basic problems of humanity, this does not mean that their societies are problem-free. Indeed, in the solving of age-old problems more economically, advanced societies have found themselves facing new social problems, problems that are a direct outgrowth of their economic advancement. One such problem is that of aging.