[单项选择]The Chartist movement was the first nationwide ___________ movement.
A. working class
B. lower middle class
C. upper middle class
D. upper class

[单项选择]The objective of the Chartist Movement was democratic rights for all men, and it took its name from"______"

[单项选择]The Chartist Movement took its name from ______.

[单项选择]Members of Parliament are elected at nationwide general elections held every ______ years.
A. four
B. five
C. three
D. six

[单项选择]CLUMSY : MOVEMENT::
A. (A) considerate : gesture
B. (B) disingenuous : ruse
C. (C) prophetic : messiah
D. (D) raucous : euphony
E. (E) cacophonous: sound

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Text 2
The good news made headlines nationwide: Deaths from several kinds of cancer have declined significantly in recent years. But the news has to be bittersweet for many cancer patients and their families. Every year, more than 500,000 people in the United States still die of cancer. In fact, more than half of all patients diagnosed with cancer will die of their disease within a few years. And while it’ s true survival is longer today than in the past, the quality of life for these patients is often greatly diminished. Cancer--many of the treatments used to fight it--causes pain, nausea, fatigue, and anxiety that routinely go undertreated or untreated.
In the nation’s single-minded focus on curing cancer, we have inadvertently devalued the critical need for palliative care, which focuses on alleviating physical and psychological symptoms over the course of the disease. Nothing would have a greater impact on the daily lives of cancer patients
A. it does not allow patients to seek both
B. it only covers patients whose life expectancy is less than six months
C. it deprives patients of the right to choose between two proven treatment methods
D. hospice care is only covered when it may extend a patient's life expectancy

[单项选择]The author argues that the change to a nationwide banking systems should be _______.
A. gradual, so that regional banks have a chance to compete with larger banks
B. postponed, until the consequences can be evaluated
C. immediate, because we cannot afford any more bank failures
D. accelerated, to overcome legislative fear