[单项选择]Some students are ______ and want to take only the courses for which they see immediate value.
A. theoretical
B. stupid
C. pragmatic
D. opinionated

[单项选择]Some students are ______ and want to take only the courses for which they see immediate value.
A. theoretical
B. impartial
C. pragmatic
D. idealistic
E. opinionated

[单项选择]Some people want only real flowers on their tables while others like to have ______ ones.
A. fashionable
B. synthetic
C. false
D. artificial

[单项选择]All students who want to use the library borrowing services and recreational athletic, and entertainment ______must have a valid summer identification card.
A. utilities
B. facilities
C. installations
D. fittings

[单项选择]According to the passage, some tornadoes take people unaware because they ______.
A. produce a sound similar to thunder
B. cannot be seen until it is too late
C. look so much like other clouds
D. carry so many large pieces of debris

[单项选择]In the advanced reading course students must take tests at monthly ______.
A. distance
B. length
C. periods
D. intervals

[单项选择]In the advanced course students must take performance tests at monthly _________.
A. gaps
B. intervals
C. length
D. distance

[单项选择]According to the schedule, the students will take the trip for ______ hours.


A. 6
B. 7
C. 8
D. 9

[单项选择]In the advanced course, students must take objective tests ______ monthly intervals.
A. with
B. on
C. for
D. at

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It might take only the touch of peach fuzz to make an autistic child howl in pain. The odour of the fruit could be so overpowering that he gags. For reasons that are not well understood, people with autism do not integrate all of their senses in ways that help them understand properly what they are experiencing. By the age of three, the signs of autism— infrequent eye contact, over-sensitivity or over—sensitivity to the environment, difficulty mixing with others—are in full force. There is no cure; intense behavioural therapies serve only to lessen the symptoms.
The origins of autism are obscure. But a paper in Brain, a specialist journal, casts some light. A team headed by Marcel Just, of Carnegie Mellon University, and Nancy Minshew, of the University of Pittsburgh, has found evidence of how the brains of people with autism function differently from those without the disorder.
Using a brain-scanning technique called functi
A. Efforts to examine other brain areas of autistic persons.
B. Ways to stimulate the growth of white matter wiring.
C. Other problems autistic persons may suffer from.
D. Mysteries why white matter is so important.