[单项选择]______, one of Britain's largest ports, rose to worldwide fame in the 1960s as the birthplace of the Beetles.
A. Birmingham
B. Liverpool
C. London
D. Edinburgh

[单项选择]__________, one of Britain's largest ports, rose to worldwide fame in the 1960s as the birthplace of the Beetles.
A. Birmingham
B. Liverpool
C. London
D. Edinburgh

[单项选择]The largest and most important museum in Britain is ______.
A. the British Museum
B. the Victoria and Albert Museum
C. the Imperial War Museum
D. the National Gallery

[单项选择]The largest lake in Britain is ______.
A. The Lough Neagh
B. Windermere Water
C. Coniston Water
D. the Lake District

[单项选择]Rose was one of the children who observe and ------- much, and now and then- their friends by a wise or confounding remark.
A. (A) prattle... amuse
B. (B) meditate ... nonplus
C. (C) praise ... displease
D. (D) meddle... surprise
E. (E) absorb... insult

[单项选择]Copenhagen is one of the ports of ______.
A. Finland
B. Denmark
C. France
D. Germany

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Passage One
Imagine a world in which children would be the rulers and could decide not only the outcome of each and every occurrence, but also dictate the very structure and form of the environment. In this world, a child’s wildest thoughts would become reality limited only by the extent of his or her imagination. While such a world might sound both fantastic and frightening, at least from a logical, adult perspective, it does exist. What’s more, it has been in existence for some time and is populated by hundreds of thousands of children who spend hours within its boundaries experimenting and learning. This world is not real, at least not in the traditional sense, but exists within a computer and is generated by an educational programming language called LOGO. Unlike other computer languages and programs that are designed to test children and provide applications that formally dispense information, LOGO allows children, even preschool children to be in
A. teachers
B. computer programmers
C. adults
D. children

[单项选择]It has been observed that one's interest in the world is never so approbated as when one is______other people's scandal and tragedy, from which we may infer that many people's purported concern is______sincerity.
A. (A) removed from … immune from
B. (B) peripheral to … confused with
C. (C) entertained by … devoid of
D. (D) protected from … imbued of
E. (E) compared with … invented for

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Text 3 One of the oldest seafaring ships in the world has been reconstructed after seven years’ patient archaeological work. The ship, a 60- foot sailing vessel, sank off the coast of Cyprus in the days of Alexander the Great around the year 300 B.C. Its discovery and restoration have now thrown new light on the ancient trade routes and shipbuilding techniques. What makes the Cyprus ship so informative is the remarkable state of preservation--mainly due to an unusual feature of its design. The hull was sheathed on the outside with lead that was fixed to the timber with bronze tacks which helped the wooden frame survive 2000 years under the sea. The first clue to the wreck’s existence came in’ 1964 when a sponge diver from the present- day resort of Kyrenia came across a pole of amphorae (ancient storage jugs). Unfortunately his diving air supply ran out just at that moment, so that he had no time to mark the spot. It took him three years and hundreds of d
A. the dates on the coins found
B. the analysis of the age of the materials from which the ship was built
C. the scientifically - determined age of some of the cargo
D. a knowledge of the date of the building of the ship together with her known age