[单项选择]The passage doesn’t tell us the idea ______. [A] that some listeners phone the hotlines in fun [B] that some people just want to be heard by others [C] that some people who don’t care what the topic is must have realized that they appear to be silly

[单项选择]Passage ThreeWhat does the speaker tell US about the professional teams in the U.S.
A. They are supported by the local government.
B. They are named after the cities where they live.
C. Their players gathered from all over the country.
D. They play professional basketball games in November only.

[填空题]The purpose of this passage is to tell us how to take care of our laptops.

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Low-level slash-and-bum farming doesn’t harm rainforest. On the contrary, it helps farmers and improves forest soils. This is the unorthodox view of a German soil scientist who has shown that burnt clearings in the Amazon, dating back more than 1 000 years, helped create patches of rich, fertile soil that farmers still benefit from today.
Most rainforest soils are thin and poor because they lack minerals and because the heat and heavy rainfall destroy most organic matter in the soils within four years of it reaching the forest floor. This means topsoil contains few of the ingredients needed for long-term successful farming.
But Bruno Glaser, a soil scientist of the University of Bayreuth, has studied unexpected patches of fertile soils in the central Amazon. These soils contain lots of organic matter. Glaser has shown that most of this fertile organic matter comes from "black carbon"—the organic particles from camp fir
A. it does no harm to the topsoil of the rainforest
B. it destroys rainforest soils
C. it helps improve rainforest soils
D. it diminishes the organic matter in rainforest soils

[单项选择]She didn’t tell us ______.
A. how is the patient
B. how old was the patient
C. how old the patient was

[单项选择]Historians can’t tell us when or where or (1) the first food was cooked. In earliest times, people had their food (2) , and fire was only to provide (3) and light. The first primitive cooks were probably women, for preparing food and making clothing were considered women’s work. But most of the great chefs in history have been (4) .

A. who
B. which
C. how
D. what

[单项选择]Miss Green didn’t tell us ______ in 2002.


A. where did she live
B. where she lives
C. where she lived

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Sociologists tell us there is a link between private lives and social forces. An outstanding example of such a link is the contrast in life chances between people in developed and in less developed countries. A child born in, say, the United States or Switzerland is not a better or more deserving person than one born in Ethiopia or Brazil. Yet because of social forces beyond individual control, each child faces the prospect of living out a lifetime under utterly different material conditions. Why should this be What can account for the fact that some societies have become heavily industrialized and economically advanced, while others are changing so much more slowly Social scientists have offered two different explanations. One emphasizes a universal but uneven process of modernization and economic growth; the other focuses on a worldwide system of political and economic inequality.
Some social scientists

[简答题]Would you please tell us your name

[单项选择]
Sociologists tell us there is a link between private lives and social forces. An outstanding example of such a link is the contrast in life chances between people in developed and in less developed countries. A child born in, say, the United States or Switzerland is not a better or more deserving person than one born in Ethiopia or Brazil. Yet because of social forces beyond individual control, each child faces the prospect of living out a lifetime under utterly different material conditions. Why should this be What can account for the fact that some societies have become heavily industrialized and economically advanced, while others are changing so much more slowly Social scientists have offered two different explanations. One emphasizes a universal but uneven process of modernization and economic growth; the other focuses on a worldwide system of political and economic inequality.
Some social scientists view