[单项选择]Amazon.corn’s recent announcement that sales of e-books at the online megastore had overtaken sales of hardcover books came as no surprise. It had to happen sometime. But the news did evoke quite an interesting mental image: libraries that from now on will look smaller and less crowded.
For the moment, let’s not argue with the proposition that people will read as much as they ever have. The habits of readers may not change. But if readers aren’t changing, their environments will. Rooms that once held books will--well, whatever they hold from now on, it won’t be books. Or not as many books. Theoretically, your space will be more spare, less disordered. That’s the theory, at least.
All of this has already happened big time in the music business, where downloads have gradually but surely replaced CDs. All those CDs taking up space on the wall--gone. From now on, we’ll own what might be described as the idea of stuff, since the actual physical things--records, tapes, photographs,
A. E-books would be more popular than hardcover ones.
B. Readers would eventually give up hardcover books.
C. People would be increasingly interested in reading.
D. Libraries would look smaller and less disordered.

[单项选择]Amazon.corn’s recent announcement that sales of e-books at the online megastore had overtaken sales of hardcover books came as no surprise. It had to happen sometime. But the news did evoke quite an interesting mental image: libraries that from now on will look smaller and less crowded.
For the moment, let’s not argue with the proposition that people will read as much as they ever have. The habits of readers may not change. But if readers aren’t changing, their environments will. Rooms that once held books will--well, whatever they hold from now on, it won’t be books. Or not as many books. Theoretically, your space will be more spare, less disordered. That’s the theory, at least.
All of this has already happened big time in the music business, where downloads have gradually but surely replaced CDs. All those CDs taking up space on the wall--gone. From now on, we’ll own what might be described as the idea of stuff, since the actual physical things--records, tapes, photographs,
A. Hard drives.
B. Downloaded music.
C. Music stores.
D. CDs, records and tapes.

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Sales	This Month’s	Last Month’s
Target	Sales	Sales
8,000	7,800	8,100

Our company was successful in reaching our target______.
A. this month
B. last month
C. both months

[单项选择]The announcement of John Stanton’s retirement was not well received by most of the staff members, but Leslie, his long time friend and colleague, was extremely （） to hear that Mr. Stanton will now be able to enjoy some leisure time.
A. happiest
B. happily
C. happier
D. happy

[单项选择]Throughout Japan’s recent history of earthquakes, fires and tsunamis, none have matched the combined fury of those that battered the north of the country on March 11th, killing hundreds of people and leaving at least 1,000 unaccounted for. But on March 12th the Japanese faced another danger: a nuclear accident.
Two nuclear plants near the coast in Fukushima, a prefecture northeast of Tokyo, were being handled as emergency situations following the failure of systems to cool five nuclear reactors that have overheated. If any were to release large quantities of radioactive material, it could create s whole new level of catastrophe.
At this point, it is hard to gauge the degree of risk. It is an unprecedented situation in Japan, which is one of the world’s most nuclear intensive countries. Overnight, the government extended the radius from which it evacuated people near the Fukushima First (Daiichi) plant from 3 kilometers to 10km; according to news agency reports. This encompass
A. The earthquake brought about a lot of other destructive activities.
B. The earthquake was an unmatched accident in Japanese history.
C. The earthquake killed at least more than 1000 people.
D. The earthquake was the initial cause of the nuclear danger.

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