[填空题]I once got into a dispute with an Englishman over pronunciation of a word and offered to look it up in the dictionary.

[填空题]I once got into a dispute with an Englishman over pronunciation of a word and offered to look it up in the dictionary.

[单项选择]Once he got used to eating with chopsticks, he preferred them to knife and fork. ______
A. 一旦他习惯了使用筷子，他就不再喜欢用刀又。
B. 因为使用了筷子，他就不再喜欢用刀叉。
C. 虽然使用了筷子，但还是不太习惯用筷子。
D. 虽然使用了筷子，但是他还是喜欢用刀叉。

[单项选择]I wasn’t qualified for the job really, but I got it anyhow.
A. somehow
B. anyway
C. anywhere
D. somewhere

[单项选择]B Passenger pigeons (旅鸽)once flew over much of the United States in unbelievable numbers.Written accounts from the 18th and 19th centuries described flocks (群)so large that they the sky for hours. It was calculated that when it populationzxxk reached its highest point ,they were more than 3billlionpassenger pigeons—a number equal to 24 to 40 percent of the total bird population in the United States, making it perhaps the most abundant bird in the world. Even as late as 1870 when their numbers had already become smaller, a flock believed to be 1 mile wide and 320 miles (about 515 kilometers) long was seen near Cincinnati. Sadly the abundance of passenger pigeons may have been their undoing. Where the birds were most abundant, people believed there was an ever-lasting supply and killed them by the thousands,Commercial hunters attracted them to small clearings with grain, waited until pigeons had settled to feed, then threw large nets over them, taking hundreds
A. To seek pleasure.
B. To save other birds.
C. To make money.
D. To protect crops.

[单项选择]I see this principal all over as I go through my day. I see rims on car wheels that cost upwards of $ 500, just for a little bit of decoration on a vehicle. I see people spend four or five dollars for a cup of coffee, hundreds of dollars for cell phones that they almost never use, thousands of dollars on huge television sets that they almost never watch. All around us are ads and commercials that keep us wanting to buy things that keep us dissatisfied with the way things are, and those ads and commercials are trying to convince us that if we just buy some more stuff—no matter what the cost—we’ll be happier and more content.
But somewhere along the line we have to learn to make our own decisions about value. There’s a common law of economics that states that many poor people will stay poor because of the decisions that they make about how to spend their money. How many people have you known or known of, for example, who have little money yet who buy a very expensiv
A. people are getting much richer than before
B. it’s necessary for people to accept the concept of exchanging the money for something of comparable value
C. there is a decline in product quality that people have to renew them all the time
D. commercials are making us happier and more content

[简答题]

46) Economic growth involves increases over time in the volume of a country’s per capita gross national product (GNP) of goads and services. Such continuing increases can raise average living standards substantially and provide a stronger base for other policy objectives. 47) It is only in the last two centuries that continued growth in living standards has been realized for a number of now—developed countries, and this process has broadened in the 20th century to include a number of developing countries. 48) However, the fairly steady expansion in the third quarter of the 20th century gave way to a period of slower and more erratic growth for both- high-and low-income countries, while some of the economically poorest countries were thus far unable to establish a serf-sustaining pattern of development. It also became increasingly evident that there were serious environmental problems associated with some types of growth in production. In examining