[单项选择]Even more crucially, they are the product of an outdated political system which has consistently sacrificed the long term to the short term and abandoned principles for ______ .
A. expedition
B. expenditure
C. expediency
D. exploitation

[单项选择]Even more crucially, they are the product of an outdated political system which has consistently sacrificed the long term to the short term and abandoned principles for ______ .
A. expedition
B. expenditure
C. expediency
D. exploitation

[单项选择]The reason tourism benefits a country even more than traditional industries is that it ______
A. requires much less capital
B. has more of a cultural benefit
C. has more potential to lead to other industries
D. uses less resources which harm the environment

[单项选择]As computer systems become even more sophisticated, the methods of those who exploit the technology.
A. so too do
B. as well as
C. likewise
D. therefore

[单项选择]It is difficult ______a world record and even more difficult to ______it.
A. keeping, set
B. keep, set
C. set, keep
D. to set, keep

[单项选择]It will be even more difficult to develop a vaccine because______.
A. most women are infected by a single variant of the HIV virus
B. the virus can duplicate itself into more genetic variants
C. it is difficult to monitor the activities of the viruses
D. technologies are not advanced now

[单项选择]Those mosquito bites will itch even more if you ______ them.
A. rub
B. scratch
C. scrub
D. brush

[单项选择]Why does the author say "people were even more sexist then than they are now"
A. Because they are so covetous that they want to know all there was to know.
B. Because it is the Renaissance "Man", not Renaissance "Woman" or" Human".
C. Because no woman was formally educated at that time.
D. Because all Renaissance men were men.

[单项选择]It is difficult （）a world record and even more difficult to （）it.
A. keeping, set
B. keep, set
C. set, keep
D. to set, keep

[单项选择]

More and more residences, businesses, and even government agencies are using telephone answering machines to take messages or give information or instructions. Sometimes these machines give (1) instructions, or play messages that are difficult to understand. If you (2) telephone calls, you need to be ready to respond when you get a (3)
The most common machine is the (4) used in residence. If you call a home (5) there is a telephone answering machine (6) you will hear several rings and then a recorded message that (7) says something like this: "Hello. We can’t come to the (8) right now. If you want us to call you back, please leave your name and number after the beep." Then you will hear a "beep", (9) is a brief, high-pitched (10) . After the beep, you can say who you are, whom you want to speak to, and what number the person should call to (11) you, or you can leave a
A. place
B. phone
C. home
D. room