[单项选择]The famous ______ Gold Rush began in the U. S. in the mid-nineteen century.
A. New York State
B. California
C. Pennsylvania
D. Texas

[填空题]Hearing the news of the Klondike Gold Rush, Emery’s father and his brother - in - law decided to go to Alaska together.

[单项选择]During the Gold Rush, many were gripped by an ______ desire for wealth and migrated to the West.
A. allocating
B. evaporating
C. overwhelming D. illuminating

[单项选择]Text
…A. rush through B. rush into C. rush out D. rush away

[填空题]What is the rush hour
The rush hour is when people are going to work or ______.

[单项选择]Swift invented famous（）in his world famous Gulliver’s Travels.
A. Lilliput
B. Brobdingag
C. Celestial city
D. Morality Pool

[单项选择]Clashes began（）
A. in mid-February.
B. in early-January.
C. in mid-January.
D. in early-February.

[填空题]A
Visa Gold Card
A Visa Gold Card guarantees you’ll be welcomed at more than 10.5 million establishments in 247 countries. It gives you access to more ATMs around the world than any other cards. It assures you of unsurpassed travel, legal and medical assistance, with just one phone call, and emergency cash if you lose your card. And it offers you Visa’s unmatched range of special cardholder services, from reserved concert seats to the Visa Restaurant Club.
B
MasterCard Pocket Teller
It can now tell you how much money you have on your chip, as well as how much you spent in each of your last ten transactions and when. How With this Utile gem of new technology, the MasterCard Pocket Teller, available for the very first time in the world right here in Plymouth. It’s like having a mini Automatic Teller Machine in your pocket.
C
Smart Object
Smart Object has got all the benefits of object-oriented technology without the drawbacks. Without the tim

[单项选择]
Gold is a measure of wealth C which is recognized all over the world. For centuries it was the foundation of the international monetary system and, (19) today, it remains one of the most important components of a country’s foreign currency reserves.
What (20) gold attractive is that it has a value of its own for both industrial and ornamental purposes, (21) paper banknotes, which are worthless (22) themselves. As a result, gold is bought as an (23) in times of financial uncertainty.
Until the 1930s, several European currencies were based on the Gold Standard, which meant that the value of a (24) of currency was fixed in (25) of a stated quantity of gold. People could freely (26) any banknotes they had for gold. In 1931, worldwide financial problems (27) the Gold Standard to be dropped. Then, in 1
A. grew
B. raised
C. heightened
D. gained