[单项选择]It was ______ Saudi Arabia making its national election.


A. the first time
B. the second time
C. the third time
D. the fourth time

[单项选择]It was ______ Saudi Arabia making its national election.


A. the first time
B. the second time
C. the third time
D. the fourth time

[单项选择]Machines that use hydraulic pressure including elevators, dentist chairs, and automobile brakes（）.
A. exclude
B. excluding
C. include
D. are included

[单项选择]Countless divorced politicians would have been elected out of office years ago had they even thought of a divorce, let alone ___________ one.
A. getting
B. to get
C. gotten
D. get

[单项选择]British Prime Minister Tony Blair promised the electorate that guns would not be fired without an attempt to win a further U.N. sanction.
A. allies
B. delegates
C. voters
D. juries

[单项选择]The mechanical energy can be changed back into electrical energy by means of a generator．
A. 通过发电机这种途径可以将机械能转变为电能。
B. 利用发电机可以将机械能转变为电能。
C. 借助于发电机可以把机械能返回电能。
D. 使用发电机这个方法能将机器产生的能量还原成电。

[单项选择]What is Saudi Arabia like now
A. It is in a big boom.
B. It is in a period of reforming.
C. It is in a period of rapid change.
D. It is in fast progress.

[单项选择]

In Britain, strictly speaking, there are three elements in Parliament—the Crown, the House of Lords and the House of Commons. The House of Commons is by far the most powerful and important of the three elements in Parliament and the Prime Ministers is the leader of the majority party in the House of Commons. After a general election in Britain, the Crown appoints tile Prime Minister who must be the leader of the party that has won the majority seats in the House of Commons. It is the Prime Minister who organizes the Cabinet and presides over its meetings. He or she actually decides on who will be the other ministers and so on.
　　The work of each minister is always kept under observation by an unofficial "Shadow Cabinet" organized by the Opposition. The Prime Minister is the head of the government. He or she has the duty to report the government’s work to the King or Queen, has the right to direct all the departments, solves the issues between them an
A. the Crown in Britain
B. the appointment of the ministers
C. No. 10 Downing Street
D. things about the Prime Minister in Britain

[单项选择]We can conclude from the passage that using an electric car can ______.


A. save more money than using the regular cars in every way
B. prevent pollution and save energy in the long run
C. attract more customers to buy VSPs
D. soon lead to eliminating traditional cars