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After the Summer Olympics are over, when all the athletes have gone home and the television audience has switched off, another group of ’athletes and fans will arrive at the host city, and another competition will begin. These are the Paralympics, the games for athletes with a disability. But in Beijing in 2008, for the first time, one of the greatest Paralympics will not be taking part.
She is a British athlete by the name of Tanni Grey Thormpson. Born with spine bifida (脊椎裂) which left her paralysed from the waist bone. Tanni used a wheelchair from the age of 7. At first, she was not keen on sport, apart from horse-riding, which gave her a sense of freedom. But in her teens, she started taking sports more seriously. She tried swimming, basketball and tennis. Eventually she found athletics, and never looked back.
Indeed, Tanni’s athletic career took off. In 1984, when she was 15, she pulled off a surprise victory in the 100 metres at the Junior Nation
A. Basketball.
B. Swimming.
C. Tennis.
D. Horse-riding.

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After the Summer Olympics are over, when all the athletes have gone home and the television audience has switched off, another group of ’athletes and fans will arrive at the host city, and another competition will begin. These are the Paralympics, the games for athletes with a disability. But in Beijing in 2008, for the first time, one of the greatest Paralympics will not be taking part.
She is a British athlete by the name of Tanni Grey Thormpson. Born with spine bifida (脊椎裂) which left her paralysed from the waist bone. Tanni used a wheelchair from the age of 7. At first, she was not keen on sport, apart from horse-riding, which gave her a sense of freedom. But in her teens, she started taking sports more seriously. She tried swimming, basketball and tennis. Eventually she found athletics, and never looked back.
Indeed, Tanni’s athletic career took off. In 1984, when she was 15, she pulled off a surprise victory in the 100 metres at the Junior Nation
A. In 1984.
B. In 1988.
C. In 1992.
D. In 2007.

[单项选择]Laundry is, after all, just laundry. Except when it’s not. And Procter & Gamble Co. recently realized that Tide, its segment-dominating cash cow, despite adding three share points in the past year for a total 42% of the category, was in jeopardy of slipping into mere commodity status. That’s when consumers buy on price and habit, which can spell the end of brand growth.
The problem. Tide for the past four years had only advertised mundane stain-fighting messages. Such creative indifference hardly did justice to an iconic brand so cool that Kevin Roberts, CEO of Tide agency Saatchi & Saatchi, wrote in his book, Love marks. The Future Beyond Brands. "I saw Neil Young in a recording studio wearing a sleeveless T-shirt with a Tide logo, and it just screamed possibilities."
So, in an attempt to cultivate Tide’s inner "love mark," new ads now dismiss the notion that laundry detergent is a mere commodity. Instead, they reflect P&G’s conviction that the " relationship" women—they’re
A. is no longer a dominating cash cow of P&G
B. has seen the end of brand growth
C. was in danger of becoming an ordinary commodity
D. lost its appeal to consumers buy on price and habit

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When all the people had assembled, the king, surrounded by his court, (21) a signal. Then a door beneath him opened, and the accused man stepped out into the arena. Directly opposite him were two doors, exactly (22) and side by side. It was the duty and the privilege of the person on trial to walk directly to these (23) and open one of them. He (24) open either door he pleased; he was subject to no guidance or influence but that of impartial and incorruptible chance. If he opened the one, there came out of it a hungry tiger, the fiercest and most cruel that could be found, which (25) sprang upon him and tore him to pieces as a punishment for his guilt. But, if the accused person opened the other door, out of it came a (26) lady, and to this lady he was immediately married, as a reward of his innocence. This was the (27) method of administering justice. Its perfect fairness is obvious. The criminal could (28) know out of whi
A. alike 
B. different 
C. big 
D. closed