[单项选择]The sentence "pain seems to be a chronic human condition" means pain seems to ______.
A. be very serious
B. be very difficult
C. last for a long time
D. be always happening

[单项选择]What does the word "chronic" (Sentence 3) mean
A. painful.
B. persistent.
C. minor.
D. infectious.

[单项选择]______ seems easy in theory seems difficult in practice.
A. That
B. With
C. What
D. It

[单项选择]DOS命令 "COPY CON DISP"中的CON代表（ ）。
A. 子目录
B. 磁盘文件
C. 键盘
D. 显示器

[单项选择]Since the ______ of human history, human beings have been asking questions like "What is the essence of life"
A. dusk
B. dust
C. twinkle
D. dawn

[单项选择]The following seems to be
A. letters from readers.
B. emails from computer users.
C. feedbacks from end users.
D. clippings from newspapers.

[单项选择]GIANT: HUMAN::
A. (A) bush : vine
B. (B) boulder : rock
C. (C) creek : pool
D. (D) mountain : tree
E. (E) meadow : flower

[单项选择]The author seems to indicate that
A. there are many controversial issues like the right amount of sleep.
B. among many issues the right amount of sleep is the least controversial.
C. people are now moving towards solving many controversial issues.
D. the right amount of sleep is a topic of much controversy among doctors.

[单项选择]The heaviest pain and suffering caused by accidents and illness are______.
A. colds and influenza
B. loss of time
C. financial losses
D. invalidism

[单项选择]It seems that mental activities are characteristic of______
A. all plants and animals
B. some insects
C. human beings
D. some machines

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Conventional wisdom about conflict seems pretty much cut and dried. Too little conflict breeds apathy" (冷漠) and stagnation (呆滞). Too much conflict leads to divisiveness (分裂) and hostility. Moderate levels of conflict, however, can spark creativity and motivate people in a healthy and competitive way.
Recent research by Professor Charles R. Schwenk, however, suggests that the optimal level of conflict may be more complex to determine than these simple generalizations. He studied perceptions of conflict among a sample of executives. Some of the executives worked for profit-seeking organizations and others for not-for-profit organizations.
Somewhat surprisingly, Schwenk found that opinions about conflict varied systematically as a function of the type of organization. Specifically, managers in not-for-profit organizations strongly believed that conflict was beneficial to their organizations and that it promoted higher quality decision-making than might be achiev
A. oversimplified
B. misleading
C. wrong
D. unclear

[单项选择]Who seems to have eaten too much

[单项选择]What is TRUE of human sleep
A. Most people need less sleep when grow older.
B. Most people need seven and a half hours of sleep every night.
C. On average, people in the U. S. today sleep less per night than they used to.
D. For most people, less than six hours of sleep on a typical work night is enough.