[单项选择]Much as we may pride ourselves on our good taste, we are no longer free to choose the things we want.
A. 尽管我们可以自夸自己的鉴赏力如何敏锐，但我们已经无法独立自主地选购自己所需的东西了。
B. 尽管我们以自己的鉴赏力感到很自豪，但也无法买到所需要的东西。
C. 尽管我们的品味有限，但仍然能买到所需要的东西。
D. 尽管我们自己的鉴赏力很敏锐，但我们再也不买我们不需要的东西了。

[单项选择]Much as we may pride ourselves on our good taste, we are no longer free to choose the things we want.
A. 尽管我们可以自夸自己的鉴赏力如何敏锐，但我们已经无法独立自主地选购自己所需的东西了。
B. 尽管我们以自己的鉴赏力感到很自豪，但也无法买到所需要的东西。
C. 尽管我们的品味有限，但仍然能买到所需要的东西。
D. 尽管我们自己的鉴赏力很敏锐，但我们再也不买我们不需要的东西了。

[单项选择]Much as we may pride ourselves on our taste，we are no longer free to choose the things we want because of advertising everywhere．
A. 尽管我们可以自夸自己的品位，但广告无处不在，我们已经无法独立自主地作出自 己的选择了。
B. 正如我们可以自夸自己的品位一样，我们想不再自由地选择是因为无处不在的广告。
C. 当我们可以自夸自己的品位的时候，无处不在的广告已使我们不再自由地选择了。
D. 我们可以自夸自己的品味，但到处都是广告，我们不再自由地作出自己的选择了。

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[单项选择]Rainforests may store much less carbon than we thought. It could be time to dramatically revise our estimates following the discovery that apparently similar forests hold vastly different amounts of the stuff. The finding is important because there are plans for governments worldwide to compensate tropical countries for protecting their forests as "carbon sinks" to curb global warming. If carbon cannot be counted, then dollars cannot be disbursed (支付).
Greg Asner of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Stanford, California, and colleagues say they used satellite mapping, laser probing of forest undergrowth from aircraft and local ground surveys across a large area of Peruvian rainforest to crack the problem of estimating how much carbon is locked up in forests. But the new technique has revealed a large, previously unknown variability in the density of carbon stored in apparently similar forests.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that there should be about
A. Forests can’t be used as "carbon sinks".
B. Carbon can’t be stored in rainforest.
C. Compensation can’t be distributed.
D. Global warming can’t be curbed.

[判断题]A good book may draw our attention so completely that we forget our surroundings and even our identity for the time being.

[单项选择]（） our good relations, we would not have quoted so low a price.
A. But for
B. For
C. If not
D. Except for

[简答题]One good thing about our chopsticks is that we can reach for what we’d like to eat at tables； it wouldn’t be SO convenient wim knife and fork．I understand friends from western countries do not approve of reaching over the table for things when you have dinner parties in your own country．But in China we don’t mind．Make yourselves at home，please．Help yourselves!

[判断题]Good books can decrease our contentment when we are happy and lessen our troubles when we are sad.