[单项选择]It is reported that so far；foreign insurance companies have made their way into 19 cities in China．
A. 据报道，迄今为止，外国保险公司已打人中国19个城市。
B. 中国报道称，如此远的外国保险公司已扫清了道路，准备进入19个城市。
C. 到目前为止，外国保险公司进入19个中国已被报道城市。
D. 在中国，有报道称外国保险公司到目前为止已扫清了进入19个城市的道路。

[单项选择]The incomplete sentence of "So far so good" (Paragraph 10) can probably be used to mean ______.
A. It is good as long as I can do it
B. Until now things have gone well
C. Though until now things have gone well, I still hope to do it better
D. Though I am not so sure if all my answers are correct, I still feel OK

[单项选择]Our research has not shown us anything so far, so there is little ______ to continue with it.
A. impatience
B. incentive
C. impulse
D. initiative

[单项选择]Since our research so far has not produced any answers to this problem, we need adopt a different ______ to it.
A. approach
B. way
C. means
D. method

[单项选择]Jane has said little so far, responding only briefly when______.
A. spoken
B. speaking to
C. speaking
D. spoken to

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Passage 4
Sally Kemmerer has, so far, escaped Northern California’s rolling blackouts.
But up on the roof for her Oakland home, workers are tapping into, perhaps, the most reliable power source, the sun. It could mean no more worries about blackouts or power rates.
Sally Kemmerer, homeowner says, "I hope that we’ll be able to zero out, you know, our electric bill. I mean that’s definitely our goal."
Turning the sun’s rays into electricity is, of course, nothing new.
But California’s power crisis has cast a new light on the technology.
Gary Gerber, a solar power contractor, says, "I might have been getting, say three phone calls a week a couple of months age. I’m getting six a day now, it’s completely crazy."
Alternative energy is even more attractive, thanks to a state rebate program. So far this month, California’s energy commission has received 200
A. to lose a special item or treasure
B. to gain solar power
C. to pay for more reliable electrical power
D. to owe the electric utility company nothing

[单项选择]So far, the solar system most like ours that have been discovered is ______.
A. in the group of stars known as Great Bear
B. 2.5 times as big as Jupiter
C. smaller that our system
D. impossible for us to reach at present time

[单项选择]So far as the food industry is concerned, the processing of sheep and lambs is relatively ______ in the United States, accounting for only about 7 percent of meat-packing production.
A. irrelevant
B. appropriate
C. negligible
D. redundant

[单项选择]The idea to have the capital moved so far inland will have a great ____________ on the future of Brazil.
A. affect
B. defect
C. effect
D. infect

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Text 4
So far as I know, Miss Hannah Arendt was the first person to define the essential difference between work and labor. To be happy, a man must feel, firstly, free and, secondly, important. He cannot be really happy if he is compelled by society to do what he does not enjoy doing, or if what he enjoys doing is ignored by society as of no value or importance. In a society where slavery in the strict sense has been abolished, the sign that what a man does is of social value is that he is paid money to do it, but a laborer today can rightly be called a wage slave. A man is a laborer if the job society offers him is of no interest to himself but he is compelled to take it by the necessity of earning a living and supporting his family.
The antithesis to labor is play. When we play a game, we enjoy what we are doing, otherwise we should not play it, but it is a purely private activity; society could not care less whether we play it or not.
Between lab
A. he has to do what he does not enjoy doing
B. what he enjoys doing is ignored by society
C. he is compelled to take a job by the necessity of earning a living
D. he feels free and important