[单项选择]Some one has said that a man's history begins about one hundred and fifty years before his birth, or words ______.
A. in any case
B. to that effect
C. in a sense
D. to the contrary

[单项选择]Some one has said that a man's history begins about one hundred and fifty years before his birth, or words ______.
A. in any case
B. to that effect
C. in a sense
D. to the contrary

[单项选择]In some societies a man has more than one wife and the first one is more important than the others.

[单项选择]Whether right or wrong, he has some new ideas about how the lesson should be_________.


A. deducted
B. concluded
C. conducted
D. deduced

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Passage One
A man once said how useless it was to put advertisements in the newspapers. "Last week," said he, "my umbrella was stolen from a London Church. As it was a present, I spent twice its worth in advertising, but didn’t get it back."
"How did you write your advertisement" asked one of the listeners, a merchant.
"Here it is," said the man, taking out of his pocket a slip cut from a newspaper. The other man took it and read, "Lost from the City Church last Sunday evening, a black silk umbrella. The gentleman who finds it will receive ten shillings on leaving it at No. 10 Broad Street."
"Now," said the merchant, "I often advertise, and find that it pays me well. But the way in which an advertisement is expressed is of great importance. Let us try for your umbrella again, and if it fails, I’ll buy you a new one." The merchant then took a slip of paper out o
A. the man got his umbrella back
B. the man wasted some motley on advertising
C. nobody found the missing umbrella
D. the umbrella was found somewhere near the church

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Text 1
Whoever said that victory has many fathers and defeat is an orphan, surely had never heard of the World Trade Organization (WTO). In the case of the hapless multilateral trade body and its long suffering representatives, the total failure of the opening meeting of the socalled Millennium trade round has lots of people boasting of their role in the violent physical struggle. Well. That’s just brilliant. They are proud of being part of a movement that wants to wreck the most important engine of economic growth, prosperity and overall global rising living standards we have—the freedom of trade and movement of people and goods between nations.
The 135-member WTO is composed of sovereign governments wishing to further this goal and ease the settlement of international trade disputes. From the sounds emanating from Seattle, though, it would now seem the WTO has now replaced the Trilateral Commission and the Freemasons as candidate No. 1
A. dubiously-oriented.
B. quite transient.
C. self-contradictory.
D. fairly consequential.