[单项选择]A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
A. understatement
B. personification
C. cacophony
D. zeugma

[单项选择]What（）it is to travel around the world by sea.
A. a fun
B. pleasure
C. fun and a pleasure
D. a fun and a pleasure

[填空题]Marria dreams that she could travel around the world some day. Marria ______ traveling around the world some day.

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●The offer is valid for a basic twin or double room only.
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●Each voucher can only be used by the holder to book one room for one night.
●If voucher h
A. To charge extra ￡10 for bookings with no vouchers.
B. To refuse bookings for guest under the age of 18.
C. To charge at full price for stays not confirmed.
D. To request extra charges as tips.

[填空题]In the author’s opinion, a social lie can avoid causing people ______.

[单项选择]The passage states that while married couples can prepare for grieving by _______.


A. being self- reliant.
B. evading intimacy.
C. developing habits.
D. avoiding independence.

[单项选择] Listening to music while you drive can improve your reaction time and ability to avoid hazards, according to Australian psychologists. But turning your car stereo up to full volume could probably make you end up in an accident. The performance of complex tasks can be affected if people are subjected to loud noise. The experience of pulling up at traffic lights alongside cars shaking with heavy bass (低音) prompted some psychologists in the University of Sydney to investigate whether loud music interferes with driving. The psychologists recruited 60 men and women aged between 20 and 28 as subjects and tested them on simulated (模拟的) driving tasks under three noise conditions: silence, rock music played at a gentle 55 decibels, and the same music roaring out at 85 decibels. For 10 minutes the subjects sat in front of a monitor operating a steering wheel and foot pedals representing the brake and accelerator (加速器). They had to track a moving disk on screen, respond to traffic sign
A. Loud music.
B. Quiet music.
C. Silence.
D. Full volume stereo music.

[单项选择]I was half way back to the cottage where my mother lived ______ Susan caught up with me.


A. before
B. where
C. when
D. that

[填空题]While Money is just a convenient way of trading one from of wealth for another, wealth is the underlying stuff-- ______.

[单项选择]The way (which) the different kinds of rock (lie on) (one another) helps to tell the story (of long ago).
A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D

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The score is tied in the second half of the World Cup finals, and aboard a 747, passengers cheer as they watch the game on their laptops-40,000 feet above Earth. Sound futuristic
Boeing Plans to make this scenario possible with its broadband telecommunications initiative, Connexion by Boeing. This service will allow fliers to surf the Web, send and receive email, access the company internet, book dinner reservations trade the honest stock, shop-online and watch live TV from any seat in an aircraft.
Connexion is already available on private jets, and Boeing says that the two-way broadband service will be installed on domestic flights in late 2001. Global coverage is slated to arrive by 2005. Subscribers will be able to access Connexion from their seats using laptops or personal digital assistants, plus a network card and a cable provided by the airline. The cost Comparable to ground-floor cellular phone service; between $ 6 and $ 25 an hour.
One key enabler
A. Their own portable computers
B. Personal distal assistants
C. The cabled computers on the airliner
D. The cellular phone service