[单项选择]The earth is nearly ______ the moon.
A. 50 time the size of
B. 50 times the size of
C. 50 times as size as
D. 50 times as that of

[单项选择]The earth is nearly （） the moon.
A. 50 time the size of
B. 50 times the size of
C. 50 times as size as
D. 50 times as that of

[单项选择]Nearly all trees have seeds that fall to the earth, take root, and eventually __________.
A. generate new seeds
B. new seeds generated
C. generates new seeds
D. new seeds are generated

[单项选择]Nearly ______ of the earth ______ covered by se
A. a．there fourth；is
B. three fourths；is
C. three fourth；are
D. three fourths；are

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What makes Americans spend nearly half their food dollars on meals away from home
The answers lie in the way Americans live today. During the first few decades of the twentieth century, canned and other convenience foods freed the family cook from full- time duty at the kitchen range. Then, in the 1940s, work in the wartime defense plants took more women out of the home than ever before, setting the pattern of the working wife and mother.
Today about half of the country’s married women are employed outside the home. But, unless family members pitch in with food preparation, women are not fully liberated from that chore. Instead, many have become, in a sense, prisoners of the completely cooked convenience meals. It’s easier to pick up a bucket of fried chicken on the way home from work or take the family out for pizzas or burgers than to start opening cans or heating up frozen dinners after a long, hard day.
Also, the rising divorce rate means t
A. they want to make a change after eating the same food for years at home
B. the food made outside home tastes better than food cooked at home
C. many of them live alone or don't like taking trouble to cook
D. American women refuse to cook at home due to women's liberation movement

[单项选择] Attempts have been made for nearly three decades to increase the amount of precipitation from clouds by seeding them with salt or silver iodide.
A. Devices
B. Hypotheses
C. Efforts
D. Suggestions

[单项选择]Most nearly parallel, in its fundamental approach to the drip system solution described in the passage would be a machine designed to
A. (A) save electricity by converting unused sunlight into power through the use of photocells
B. (B) waste less electricity by insulating and reducing resistance in the conduits of the power grid
C. (C) increase electrical efficiency by requiring consumers to use appliances that rely on less electricity
D. (D) create a more reliable power grid by supplying electricity from a wider range of power plants
E. (E) reduce the electricity necessary to powering a city by encouraging denser population growth

[单项选择]Which condition does the author feel has nearly destroyed our cities


A. Lack of financial planning.
B. The breakup of the family.
C. Natural disasters in many regions.
D. The excessive growth of motors.

[单项选择]The house is nearly finished but the windows haven' t been ______ yet.
A. gloated
B. glared
C. glazed
D. glanced

[单项选择]It seems remarkable that nearly thirty years has ______ since there was a major museum exhibition in the city.


A. floated
B. elapsed
C. skipped
D. idled

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Passage Five
Australia is nearly as large as the United States, but most of it is too dry for people to live in. Around this dry part are large sheep and cow farms. A few of them are as large as the smallest states in America. Often the nearest neighbours are several hundred kilometers away.
The two-way radio is very important to people who live on these great Australian farms. It works much like a telephone. A person can listen to someone else talk and then give an answer. For example, people on the large farms could talk to a doctor far away. They could tell the doctor about some- one who was ill, and the doctor could let them know how to look after the sick person.
As the large farms were so far from towns, the children could not go to school. Radio schools were started for them in some places. At a certain time each day, boys and girls turn on their radios and listen to teachers in cities far away.
Families on the large farms wanted to g
A. Australian Families
B. Australian People
C. A Useful Radio
D. A Telephone Call