[单项选择]It is of the utmost importance that gasoline ______ smoothly in the engine if the engine is to function properly.
A. burns
B. burn
C. would burn
D. has burned

[单项选择]A. Accurate communication is of utmost importance.
B. Pilots should be able to speak several foreign languages.
C. Air controllers should keep a close watch on the weather.
D. Cooperation between pilots and air controllers is essential.

[填空题]The importance of microbes

[单项选择]John Edwards believes that it is of utmost importance ______.
A. for him to condemn Bush administration for its bad policy
B. for him to develop a right guideline for
C. for him to help his wife recover from illness
D. for him to be prepared for running for president in 2008

[简答题]The Importance of College Education

[单项选择]
Used in everything from lipstick and lubricants to motor oil and medications, oil is one product the world just can’t seem to get enough of. The United States especially, which consumes roughly 21 million barrels of the stuff a day, has quite an attachment to this ubiquitous(普遍存在的) product. And while oil can be refined into a variety of products, Americans seem to prefer theirs in the form of gasoline. In fact, the United States consumes more gasoline than South America, Europe, Africa and Asia combined.
So what’s with the United States and its gasoholic tendencies Is the country truly addicted to gasoline, and if so, what factors led it to get hooked
While the United States obviously has quite a fixation with the amber liquid, its fondness for gasoline probably doesn’t fit the official criteria for an addiction. Rather, the affinity is more like a bad habit spurred on by a numb
A. Medication.
B. Lipstick.
C. Lubricant.
D. Gasolin

[单项选择]If the world is to remain peaceful, the utmost effort must be made by nations to limit local ______.


A. collisions
B. combats
C. contradictions
D. conflicts

[单项选择]In speaking, the choice of words is of the utmost importance. But too often careless use of words （　） a meeting of the minds of the speaker and listener.
A. stirs
B. prevents
C. destroys
D. offers

[单项选择]Health has come to be one of the utmost concerns among the general public in China.
A. secondary
B. optimal
C. greatest
D. common

[单项选择]The utmost number of books one can borrow at a time is ______.
A. six
B. five
C. four
D. three

[单项选择]The substance can be added to gasoline to accelerate the speed of automobiles.（　）
A. quicken
B. shorten
C. loosen
D. enlarge