[单项选择]They thought it ______ question to answer.
A. too difficult
B. too difficult a
C. a too difficult
D. too a difficult

[单项选择]They thought it（）question to answer.
A. too difficult
B. too difficult a
C. a too difficult
D. too a difficult

[单项选择]The author thought of his fiend's question as a good one, because ______.
A. he also wanted to know who held such an opinion
B. it made him recall something during his childhood
C. like his friend, he also thought life was unfair
D. he learned something from the question as a youngster

[单项选择]Question 5

[单项选择]Question 6
A. apprend lire tout age.
B. position est essentielle : allong sur son lit ou sur un canap bien cal dans un fauteuil.
C. enfant doit apprendre non seulement lire, mais aussi, avec la lecture, manier une langue.
D. enfant qui, dès son plus jeune age, manipule des livres la maison et écoute des histoires, a envie de lire.

[单项选择]What principles most influenced scientific thought for two thousand years

[单项选择]All unattractive women executives were thought to have more ______ and to be more capable than the attractive female executives.
A. integrity
B. unity
C. entirety
D. intensity

[单项选择]The Minister for Community Development thought long and hard about how to ______ the social problems of the poor areas.
A. remedy
B. relieve
C. assist
D. associate

[单项选择]While mimicking the thought of his mentor Socrates, who conceived of forms as existing on an ethereal, heavenly and ------- plane, Plato also argued that forms become ------- in objects.


A. abstract... rational
B. condensed ... ratified
C. sacrilegious... profane
D. transcendent... immanent
E. (E) imaginative ... earthbound

[单项选择]The following problems are thought to be connected with the sources for knowledge of pre modem cultures EXCEPT ______.
A. partial completeness
B. restricted accessibility
C. limited quantity
D. difficulty of interpretation

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Passage Three
If Europeans thought a drought was something that happened .only in Africa, they know better now. After four years of below-normal rainfall ( in some cases only 10 percent of the annual aver age), vast areas of France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Britain and Ireland are dry and barren. Water is so low in the canals of northern France that waterway traffic is forbidden except on weekends. Oyster(牡蛎) growers in Brittany report a 30 Percent drop in production because of the loss of fresh water in local rivers necessary for oyster breeding. In southeastern England, the rolling hills of Kent have turned so brown that officials have been weighing plans to pipe in water from Wales. In Portugal, farmers in the southern Alentejo region have held prayer meetings for rain--so far, in vain.
Governments in drought-plagued countries are taking drastic measures. Authorities in hard-hit areas of France have banned washing cars and watering lawns. In Britain, wa
A. below-normal rainfall
B. difficult navigation
C. a sharp drop in oyster harvest
D. bone-dry hills