[单项选择]Although the two companies talked about how little ______. there is between them, they still expect to eliminate about 10000 positions from among a combined work force of 140,000 after their mergence.
A. overlap
B. combination
C. congregation
D. inundation

[单项选择]How many kinds of animals are talked about in the passage

[单项选择]His desk-mate talked happily about the teachers and lessons ______ she prefers to choose for the coming term.
A. which
B. who
C. when
D. that

[单项选择]The two friends talked about persons ______ they could remember at college.
A. who
B. that
C. what
D. which

[单项选择]What is talked about in the passage
A. Home service.
B. Modern city life.
C. Laid-off workers.
D. Social status.

[单项选择]What is mainly talked about in the passage

[单项选择]Then the speaker talked about the various factors leading to the present economic crisis. A. went after B, went for C. went into D. went on

[单项选择]What is mainly talked about in this text
A. People becoming crazy.
B. Some kinds of dangerous sports.
C. People nowadays taking part in some dangerous sports.
D. An activity of bungee jumping.

[单项选择]The generation of Americans being talked about refers to those people________.
A. who are the first of this century to mature
B. who could meet the stiffest of challenges
C. who have matured in peace and prosperity
D. who remember the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr

[单项选择]Although he knew little about amount of work done in the field, he succeeded （） other more well-informed experimenters failed.
A. as
B. unless
C. what
D. where

[单项选择]Although he knew little about the large amount of work done in the field, he succeeded ______ other more well-informed experimenters failed.
A. which
B. that
C. what
D. where

[单项选择]Author Leo once talked about his admiration for cooking expert Julia.
A. esteem
B. opinion
C. regard
D. wishes

[单项选择]Most of modem young ladies care little about the ______ formalities which they think are out of fashion.
A. trivial
B. delicate
C. minor
D. miniature

[单项选择]—How about the two of chatting online — ______ . It's much cheaper than talking on the phone.
A. No way
B. Why not
C. All right
D. No matter

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Passage Two How can a single postage stamp be worth $ 16,800 Any mistake made in the printing of a stamp raises its value to stamp collectors. A mistake on one in expensive’ postage stamp has made the stamp worth a million and a half times its original value. The mistake was made more than a hundred years ago in the British colony of Mauritius, a small is land in the Indian Ocean. In 1847 an order for stamps was sent to a London printer, and Mauritius was to become the fourth country in the world to issue stamps. Before the order was filled and delivered, a ball (舞会) was planned at Mauritius’ Government House, and stamps were needed to send out the invitations. A local printer was instructed to copy the de sign for the stamps. He accidentally inscribed the words "Post Office" instead of "Post Paid" on the sever al hundred stamps that he printed. Today there are only twenty-six of these misprinted stamps left--fourteen "One Penny Orange-
A. the One Penny Orange-Red
B. a correctly printed'1847 stamp
C. the Two Penny Blue
D. both A and C