[单项选择]Over the last fifteen years, running has become a popular ______ for 30 million participants of all ages.
A. fantasy
B. pastime
C. symposium
D. penalty

[单项选择]Over the last fifteen years, running has become a popular ______ for 30 million participants of all ages.
A. fantasy
B. pastime
C. symposium
D. penalty

[单项选择]During the last few years, it has been realized that maintenance of programs is more expensive than development, so reading of programs by humans is as important as (67) them.
A. editing
B. writed
C. written
D. writing

[单项选择]Over the years jazz has changed and developed but it has essentially ______ its fundamental characteristics.
A. remained
B. retained
C. reserved
D. resumed

[单项选择]For over 30 years, Belinda Davis has demonstrated her passionate ______ to this community, and she deserves to be elected its mayor.
A. commitment
B. communication
C. committee
D. commission

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Text 3
Over the last twenty years, scholarly and popular writers have analyzed and celebrated the worlds of leisure and entertainment in the burgeoning cities of mid-nineteenth-century America, greatly expanding the literature on these subjects. They have found an enthusiastic readership by offering glimpses of modes of leisure, performance, and charlatanism that passed from the scene in the early 20th century, indicating how lively they were and how comparatively impoverished our own entertainment choices have become in an era dominated by corporate electronic media.
Many scholars have been lured into a fascination with the extinct demimonde of dime museums, exhibition hails, saloons, and industrial exhibitions. During this period entertainment relied upon artful deception, comparable in importance to such contemporary forms of amusement as minstrelsy and melodrama. The cultural activities were forms of representational play in which spectators are caused
A. melodrama.
B. double consciousness.
C. electronic media,
D. artful deception.

[单项选择]Business has been so good over the last two seasons ______ the general manager has promised to take all the staff on a trip to Europe in early July.
A. because
B. before
C. that
D. therefore

[单项选择]Over the years, more money has been put into education, but______ in certain areas little has been achieved.
A. gravely
B. regrettably
C. forcibly
D. graciously