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1. In my mind, attending my dream university would be the only way to realize my dream of becoming a world-class writer. My parents understood how I felt. They told me that even though it would be a financial problem, I could go wherever I would be happiest. But as I was always careful with money, I wasn’t sure what to do. We can learn from the passage that the parents were ________
A. honest. B. strict C. supportive D. decisive.
2. Milly had clearly been a secret lover of his. I was about to tell him he could not expect me to cover anything up when he opened the barn door. He lifted his candle and I saw a dark figure on the ground. " She was such a good cow! My idea is that I wouldn't let anyone but a doctor touch her! " he said, and burst into tears again.
The person who told the story is probably a ____ .
A. farmer B. policeman C. country doctor D. newspaper reporter
3. In “Notes Camp”,the 1964 essay that first made her name , Susan Sontag explained what was then a little-known set of difficult understandings, through which she could not have been more famous .“Notes on Camp”, she wrote, shows “a victory of ‘form’over‘content’,‘beauty’over‘morals’”.
Susan Sontag first won her name through ___________.
A. her story of a Polish actress B. her book illness as Metaphor
C. publishing essays in magazines like partisan Review
D. her explanation of a set of difficult understandings
4. Grow-ups also have a sense of object permanence. We know that if we put a box in a room and lock the door, the box will still be there when we come back.. But does a baby realize that a ball that rolls under a chair does not disappear and go to never-never land.
“Object permanence” means that when out of sight, an object ____
A. still exists B. keeps its shape C. still stays solid D. is beyond reach
5. A recent study showed that two out of five adults now consider the environmental safety of a product before they buy it. This means that companies must now change the way they make and sell their products to make sure that they are "green," that is, friendly to the environment.
It becomes clear from the text that the driving force (动力) behind green products is ______
A. public caring for the environment B. companies desire for bigger sales
C. new ways of doing business D. rapid growth of supermarkets
6. “Having a party at home usually requires a lot of running around on the part of the parents, and often the birthday boy or girl gets lost in wild excitement. But it really doesn’t have to be that way,” said Anaclerio. Last summer, Anaclerio and her friend Jill Carlisle, a
The most important idea behind the kind of party planning described here is that______.
A. it brings parents and children closer together
B. guests play a part in the preparation of a party
C. parents are spared the trouble of sending invitations
D. it provides a subject of conversation
7. Most animals have little connection with animals of a different kind, unless they hunt them for food. Sometimes, however, two kinds of animals come together in a partnership which does good to both of them. You may have noticed some birds sitting on the backs of sheep. This is not because they want a ride, but because they find easy food in the parasites (寄生虫) on sheep. The sheep allow the birds to do so because they remove the cause of discomfort.
Some birds like to sit on a sheep because _________ ．
A．they can eat its parasites B．they enjoy travelling with the sheep
C．they depend on the sheep for existence D．they find the position most comfortable