Section Ⅰ Use of English Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A,B,C or D on ANSWER SHEET I. During the 1980s, unemployment and underemployment in some countries was as high as 90 percent. Some countries did not (1) enough food; basic needs in housing and clothing were not (2) . Many of these countries looked to the industrial processes of the developed nations (3) solutions. (4) , problems cannot always be solved by copying the industrialized nations. Industry in the developed nations is highly automated and very (5) . It provides fewer jobs than labor - intensive industrial processes, and highly (6) workers are needed to (7) and repair the equipment. These workers must be trained, (8) many nations do not have the necessary training institutions. Thus, the (9) of importing industry becomes higher. Students must be sent abroad to (10) A. opaque
B. secret
C. sealed
D. hidden
At some time around 2300BC, give or take a century or two, a large number of the major civilizations of the world collapsed, in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Israel, Anatolia, and Greece, as well as in Afghanistan and China. All of them the first urban civilizations fell into rain at more or less the same time. A thousand years later, around 1200BC, many of the civilizations of the same regions again collapsed at about the same time.
The reasons for these widespread and apparently simultaneous disasters which coincided with changes to cultures and societies elsewhere, such as in Britain, have long been a fascinating mystery. Traditional explanations included warfare, famine, and more recently systems collapse, but the apparent absence of direct archaeological or written evidence for causes, as opposed to effects, has led many archaeologists and historians into a resigned assumption that no definite explanation can be found.
Over the past 15 years, however, a new type of &rs
A. matching climate change data to dates of apparent historical catastrophes.
B. looking at evidence found in the layers of the earth.
C. analyzing tree rings.
D. analyzing seismic activity in history.
Mark Twain, who wrote the story we are going to read, travelled quite a lot. often because circumstances, usually financial circumstances forced him to. He was born in Florida Missouri in 1835, and moved to Hannibal Missouri with his family when he was about four years old. Most people think he was born in Hannibal, but that wasn’t true. After his father died when he was about 12, Twain worked in Hannibal for a while and then left so that he could earn more money. He worked for a while as a type-setter on various newspapers and then got a job as a river pilot on the Mississippi. Twain loved his job and many of his books showed it. The river job didn’t last, however, because of the outbreak of the Civil War. Twain was in the Confederal Army for just two weeks and then he and his whole company went to West to get away from the war and the army. In Nevada and Califor nia, Twain prospected for silver and gold without much luck but did succeed as a writer. When that happen
A. 1865.
B. 1825.
C. 1835.
D. 1845.
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