[单项选择]In this passage, "out of sight and out of mind" ( Lines 2 - 3, Para. 3 ) probably means ______.
A. being unable to think properly for lack of insight
B. being totally out of touch with business at home.
C. missing opportunities for promotion when abroad
D. leaving all care and worry behind.

[单项选择]In this passage, "out of sight and out of mind" ( Lines 2 -3,Para. 3)probably means ______.
A. being unable to think properly for lack of insight
B. being totally out of touch with business at home
C. missing opportunities for promotion when abroad
D. leaving all care and worry behind

[单项选择]In this passage, "out of sight and out of mind" (Lines 2--3, Para. 3) probably means______.
A. being unable to think properly for lack of insight
B. being totally out of touch with business at home
C. missing opportunities for promotion when abroad
D. leaving all care and worry behind

[单项选择]The passage points out that when everyone wants to be the mother or the bride, group play is often ______. ( )
A. broken up
B. spoiled
C. interrupted
D. halted for a moment

[单项选择]In this passage the author points out that bureaucracy in American schools not only discourages initiative and creativity on the part of students, but also ______.
A. deprives teachers of freedom of opinion or action
B. makes teachers passive and unimaginative
C. fosters doubts about the values of education among teachers
D. both A and B

[单项选择]We know from this passage that out at sea, when waves going in opposite directions meet, their force ______.
A. causes greater damages
B. is likely to be weakened
C. extends to the ocean floor
D. increases quite rapidly

[单项选择]From the passage we can find out that the author mainly studies ______.
A. patterns of family behavior
B. women who are initiating social change in a small region in Texas
C. migrant agricultural workers
D. how migrant farm workers lived in the past

[单项选择]This passage is probably taken out of a book on ______.
A. fish farming
B. global resources of food
C. fish consumption
D. environment protection

[单项选择]The author of the passage points out that______.
A. keeping cash is the only way to avoid risks
B. the longer you own a stock, the more you lose
C. the high rate of profit and high rate of risk coexist in stocks
D. the best way to accumulate wealth is by investing in stocks

[单项选择]According to the passage, a volcano sends out
A. boiling water.
B. boiled water.
C. melted rock.
D. melted ice.

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Passage Two
There Student thieves look out. Students can easily get many research papers off the Internet. A new Web site could help teachers catch copiers.
Some students research and write their term papers. Others, however, just copy them off the Internet and turn them in as their work.
Two graduate students at the University of California at Berkeley have written a program to catch the students who copy. It compares a student’s paper with every other term paper on the Web.
A hundred million Web pages on the Internet are searched. The top 20 search engines are used for the search. This service can be found at www. plagiarism, com. They also have a local data base of term papers.
Teachers who sign up can send their students’ papers to the Web site. Within 24 hours they know if the student did the work.
Every sentence that was a word-for-word match with another sentence either found on the Internet or within our d
A. 255 were originals
B. 45 were originals
C. 85% were fakes
D. 155 were originals