[单项选择]Although scientists have long ------- the human appendix as ------- organ, there is a growing body of evidence indicating that the appendix does in fact have a significant function as a part of the body's immune system.
A. (A) overestimated ... a minor
B. (B) discounted ... a vestigial
C. (C) valued ... a major
D. (D) ignored ... a pivotal
E. (E) studied ... an inaccessible

[单项选择]Although scientists have______long the human appendix as______organ, there is a growing body of evidence indicating that the appendix does in fact have a significant function as a part of the body's immune system.
A. (A) overestimated … a minor
B. (B) discounted … a vestigial
C. (C) valued … a major
D. (D) ignored … a pivotal
E. (E) studied … an inaccessible

[单项选择]Human beings have used tools for a long time, ______ they would not have been able to develop their intelligent so fast.
A. doubtlessly
B. therefore
C. otherwise
D. consequently

[单项选择]Sociologists have long recognized that social tensions are elements of group life.
A. average
B. routine
C. normal
D. standard

[单项选择]What social scientists have long felt puzzled about
A. The mortality rate can not be predicted.
B. The death toll remained stable year after year.
C. A quota for each type of death has not come into being.
D. People lost their lives every year for this or that reason.

[单项选择]The social scientists have long felt confused about the fact that______.
A. 2,500 people accidentally commit suicide every year
B. the death rates remained stable year after year
C. a quota for each type of death has not established
D. people lost their lives every year for this or that reason

[简答题]Women have long been neglected, or else they would make a lot more achievements to the country in all fields.需要修改的单词是哪个？修改为什么？

[单项选择]Experts have long pointed out that in the face of car-ownership explosion ______.
A. road users should make more sacrifice
B. drivers should be ready to yield to each other
C. drivers should have more communication among themselves
D. drivers will suffer great loss if they pay no respect to others

[单项选择]We have long speculated that if there are other warm, wet and cozy planets like ours, they might ______ carbon-based life like ours.
A. harbor
B. labor
C. monitor
D. toil

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Car makers have long used sex to sell their products. Recently, how. ever, both BMW and Renault have based their latest European marketing campaigns around the icon of modern biology.
BMW’s campaign, which launches its new 3-series sports saloon in Britain and Ireland, shows the new creation and four of its earlier versions zigzagging around a landscape made up of giant DNA sequences, with a brief explanation that DNA is the molecule responsible for the inheritance of such features as strength, power and intelligence. The Renault offering, which promotes its existing Laguna model, employs evolutionary theory even more explicitly. The company’s television commercials intersperse clips of the car with scenes from a lecture by Steve Jones, a professor of genetics at University of London.
BMW’s campaign is intended to convey the idea of development allied to heritage. The latest product, in other words, should be viewed as the n
A. BMW's emphasizes technological revolution more explicitly.
B. Renault's proves to be more successful.
C. Renault's provides more delicate messages than BMW's.
D. BMW's employs the metaphor of DNA while Renault's doesn't.