The speaker doesn't know how to______his arguments.

A . intelligence B . insurance C . instance D . insult

A．Because they are expensive. B．Because they're not well written. C．Because the theatre is too far away.

A．Right. B．Wrong. C．Doesn't say.

A．Animals yawn for a number of reasons. B．Yawning results only from fatigue of boredom. C．Human yawns are the same as those of other animals. D．Only social animals yawn.

A．He thinks he can live without it. B．He thinks it does more harm than good. C．He thinks it should be improved. D．He thinks it is a necessary part of modern life despite its faults.

A．neutral B．positive C．critical D．compromising

A．Cool! Your dress is new. How much is it？ B．How do you like your new dress？ C．Where do you get your new dress？ D．How much did you spend on your new dress？

A．He believes in them even more than Sarah did. B．The fact that the house is haunted by ghosts makes it special. C．He does not believe in them, but the fact that Sarah did is important. D．He does not believe in them, and he thinks that Sarah did not either.

A. signs B. gestures C. efficient D. body language

A．Right. B．Wrong. C．Doesn't say.

A．Westward-running trade winds. B．Hurricanes. C．The water draining from the sink. D．Eastward-running jet streams.

W: I know he is stubborn. What do we know about Mr. Stevens？ A．He doesn't want to identify the decision. B．He doesn't want to accept the decision. C．He doesn't want to recognize the decision. D．He doesn't want to be involved in the decision.

A．The man. B．The woman. C．Either of them.

A．The literary world, the art circles, social science-economics. B．History and geography, science and technology. C．Species and animal knowledgeable sketches. D．Selected readings in newspapers and periodicals, culture and education, words and sentences, translation exercises, etc.

A．Thirty-five square metres. B．Seven metres long. C．Five metres wide.

Dr. J. Robinson found out about the phenomenon of self-controlled pain almost by accident. He was studying the effects of analgesics used to control pain during childbirth and as part of the experiment made it possible for women having their child to press a button which gave an automatic injection—instead of having all injections made by the doctor. Afterwards these women did not say that they had less pain than other women in childbirth, but they did use considerable less of the drug. J. Atkins, a dental surgeon, has observed a similar phenomenon. As part of their efforts to make dentistry painless, Atkins and researchers at Aston University in Birmingham offered patients a switch they could flip to turn off the dentist's drill whenever they chose. But, after trying the switch on 50 patients Atkins gave up; none of the patients had ever flipped the switch. Perhaps the extra endurance was because the Aston team also use other methods to make dentistry painless. Apparently few other dentists are so considerate. The end result, according to the Birmingham survey, is that British people avoid going to the dentist, with the consequence that almost 30% of people in England and Wales have lost all their teeth, and more than seven out of ten have lost at least six teeth. Less than half of the public pay regular visits to the dentist. To find out why, Atkins and psychologist Cumberbatch interviewed a sample of patients attending a dental hospital. The most common reason people gave for not having dental check-ups were fear and pain. By using a little care and taking time to explain what will happen, Atkins feels, dentists could overcome these fears. There are techniques for giving injections without pain, and a "calm unhurried approach" to drilling can make that painless, too. Sadly, few dentists seem to take much trouble with their patients. "I am not nervous when I go to the dentist, and I do not have any pronounced sympathy for those who are, " said one dentist. "I tend to take the point of view that they are being unreasonable at my expense." The passage most possibly comes from______. A．a medical textbook B．a psychology textbook C．a popular magazine D．a serious magazine

A．Because she doesn't like it. B．Because she doesn't know how to do it. C．Because she knows the answer.

There are several important families of languages in the world. For example, most of the languages of Europe are in one large family called Indo-European. The original (最初的) language of this family was spoken about 4,500 years ago. Many of the present languages of Europe and India are modern forms of the language of 4,500 yeas ago. Languages are always changing. The English of today is very different from the English of 500 years ago. Some even die out completely. About 1, 000 years ago English was a little-known relative of German spoken on one of the borders of Europe. If a language has a large number of speakers or if it is very old, there may be differences in the way it is spoken in different areas. That is, the language may have several dialects. Chinese is a good example of dialect differences. Chinese has been spoken for thousands of years by millions of speakers. Their differences between the dialects of Chinese are so great that speakers of Chinese from some parts of China cannot understand speakers from other parts. The first paragraph mainly tells us that ______. A．most people in the world speak Chinese B．there are thousands of languages in the world today C．man has much knowledge about languages D．some people know several languages