[填空题]The author suggests that couples should give first priority to ______ .

[填空题]The author suggests that couples should give first priority to______.

[填空题]People should never give up (struggle)（）for freedom.

[单项选择]In reading mathematics problems, you should first read to understand the general meaning of the problem and question to be answered. At first you need not notice the exact figures given. Look at the following problem.
James wants to buy a pair of roller skates that were priced at $6.50. One day he saw the price had been reduced to $5.25. He has $4.50. How much more money does he need to pay for the skates
The first reading of this problem might be as follows:
James wants to buy a pair of roller skates that were priced at a certain amount. One day he saw that the price had fallen. How much more money does he need to pay for the skates
From the reading you can decide that you must subtract (减去) what James has from the cost of the skates to answer the question. Then look at the problem and get the exact figures. You will notice that you do not need to know the original price of the skates.

Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage
A. In reading problems it is very important that you understand the main idea.
B. James needs 0.75 dollar more to pay for the roller skates.
C. The roller skates have been reduced 1.25 dollars.
D. Much attention should be paid to the original price before James buys the roller skates.

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Now, let me first give you a brief introduction to the American poet, Emily Dickinson. Emily Dickinson was America’s best-known female poet and one of the foremost authors in American literature. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, Dickinson was the middle child of a prominent lawyer and one-term United States congressional representative, Edward Dickinson, and his wife, Emily Norcross Dickinson. From 1840 to 1847 she attended the Amherst Academy, and from 1847 to 1848 she studied at the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College) in South Hadley, a few trips to Boston for eye treatments in the early 1860s, Dickinson remained in Amherst, living in the same house on Main Street from 1855 until her death. During her lifetime, she published only about 10 of her nearly 2,000 poems, in newspapers, Civil War journals, and a poetry anthology. The first volume of Poems of Emily Dickinson was published in 1890, after Dickinson’s death.
Although few o
A. In 1848.
B. In the early 1850s.
C. In the late 1850s.
D. In the early 1860s.

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To understand how astrology works, we should first take a quick look at the sky. Although the stars are at enormous distances, they do indeed give the impression of being affixed to the inner surface of a great hollow sphere surrounding the earth. Ancient people, in fact, literally believed in the existence of such a celestial sphere. As the earth, spins on its axis, the celestial sphere appears to turn about us each day, pivoting at points on a line with the earth’s axis of rotation. This daily turning of the sphere carries the stars around the sky, causing most of them to rise and set, but they, and constellations they define, maintains fixed patterns on the sphere, just as the continent of Australian maintains its shape on a spinning globe of the earth. Thus the stars were called fixed stars.
The motion of the sun along the ecliptic is, of course, merely a reflection of the revolution of the earth around the sun, but the ancients believed the earth was fixed and
A. The moon and the sun are moving in the same plane
B. The moon revolved along the ecliptic
C. The moon moves faster than the sun
D. The position of the moon can be found changed in an hour’s time