[填空题]Recently more and more attention has been
focused to the problem of preserving the 62. ______
environment. The fact that a Government Ministry
being called the Department of the Environment has 63. ______
been created shows how unimportant the issue is 64. ______
considered to be.
Over the past thirty years or so the quality of
many people’s lives have deteriorated in some respects 65. ______
because of technological progress. Those people living
near airports are constantly attacked by the noise of
increasingly larger and more powerful jet aircraft
taken off and landing. The motor car has been 66. ______
responsible for many changes in the environment. On
the one hand it has brought mobility to millions of

[填空题]Recently more and more attention has been
focused to the problem of preserving the 62. ______
environment. The fact that a Government Ministry
being called the Department of the Environment has 63. ______
been created shows how unimportant the issue is 64. ______
considered to be.
Over the past thirty years or so the quality of
many people’s lives have deteriorated in some respects 65. ______
because of technological progress. Those people living
near airports are constantly attacked by the noise of
increasingly larger and more powerful jet aircraft
taken off and landing. The motor car has been 66. ______
responsible for many changes in the environment. On
the one hand it has brought mobility to millions of

[判断题]Since the early 1990s, more attention has been paid to reading rather than writing.

[单项选择]In recent years much more emphasis has been put （） developing the students creative skills.
A. onto
B. in
C. over
D. on

[单项选择]More has been learned since 1945 about the chemical changes in the body than in all human history before （）time.
A. in
B. that
C. which
D. the

[填空题]After the election Laura Bush has been more willing to open the White House, but after 9/11 she restricted______.

[单项选择]

The world has never been more closely and intricately connected. Our behavior (51) the environment we all share, and we are tied into a global economy and global communication system. (52) choosing to buy one garment rather than another we help determine whether someone on the other side of the world retains or (53) their job; emissions from one part of the world contribute to a hole in the ozone layer somewhere else; we can (54) with others anywhere via satellites, the Internet and the mobile phone. This interdependency, (55) "connexity", is the defining characteristic of the world today.
However, despite connexity, human beings have also (56) been, more separate. Belief in individual rights and freedoms is at the heart of the West’s world view. People nowadays insist their freedom to (57) how to live, who to love, what to consume and what to believe. In economics, the sovereignty of the consu
A. ever 
B. once 
C. never 
D. still