[单项选择]In his research, Gerald Wilde finds that technological advances and increases in safety standards have ______.
A. helped solve the problem of so high death rate
B. oddly accounted for mortality rates in the past century
C. reduced mortality rates for violent and accidental deaths
D. achieved no effect in bringing down the number of deaths

[单项选择]In his research, Gerald Wilde finds that technological development and increases in safety standards______.
A. have helped solve the problem of such high death rate
B. have oddly accounted for mortality rates in the past century
C. have reduced mortality rates for violent and accidental deaths
D. have achieved no effect in bringing down the number of deaths

[单项选择]When a consumer finds that his purchase has a fault in it, the first thing he should do is to ______.
A. complain personally to the manager
B. threaten to take the matter to court
C. write a firm letter of complaint to the store of purchase
D. show some written proof of the purchase to the store

[单项选择]He finds ___________ hard to follow his teacher in class if he isn't careful enough.


A. this
B. that
C. it

[单项选择]Gerald was absolutely certain of its veracity.
A. partially
B. supposedly
C. completely
D. moderately

[单项选择]What is the difference between Gerald and Birkin
A. Gerald establishes the inhuman mechanical system in his mining kingdom.
B. Birkin thinks highly of human warmth.
C. Gerald is a physically live but spiritually dead man.
D. All of the above are right.

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Oscar Wilde said that work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. If so, Americans are now among the world’s saddest refugees. Factory workers in the United States are working longer hours than at any time in the past half-century. America once led the rich world in cutting the average working week—from 70 hours in 1850 to less than 40 hours by the 1950s. It seemed natural that as people grew richer they would trade extra earnings for more leisure. Since the 1970s, however, the hours clocked up by American workers have risen, to an average of 42 this year in manufacturing.
Several studies suggest that something similar is happening outside manufacturing: Americans are spending more time at work than they did 20 years ago. Executives and lawyers boast of 80-hour weeks. On holiday, they seek out fax machin es and phones as eagerly as Germans bag the best sun-loungers. Yet working time in Europe and Japan continues to fall. In Germany’s engi
A. confined to the manufacturing industry.
B. a traditional practice in some sectors.
C. prevalent in all sectors of society.
D. favoured by the economists.

[单项选择]All his teachers （） his success to his diligence and perseverance.
A. owe
B. refer
C. subject
D. attribute